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METADATA Files

The METADATA folder stores all the game databases, often called TABLE or DATA.
As this is a very dense folder, it needed its own page with detailled content :

ANIMATIONS

PLAYERANIMSTABLE.MBIN : Player animation calls and controls

WEAPONANIMSTABLE.MBIN : Weapon animation calls and controls

AUDIO

BYTEBEATTEMPLATES.MBIN : Bytebeat template settings

PULSEDEMO.MBIN : Mix settings

EFFECTS

AREADAMAGETABLE.MBIN : Barrel area and damage

EXPLOSIONTABLE.MBIN : Explosions particle (debris) effects and shake settings, includes fleets warp-in and out effects

PLANETEFFECTS.MBIN : Planet particle (debris) effects and shake settings, includes blood effects

PLAYEREFFECTS.MBIN : Player laser and guns particle (debris) effects and shake settings, includes terrain editing

SCREENFILTERS.MBIN : Filter calls and fade distance

SPACEEFFECTS.MBIN : Space particle (debris) effects and shake settings, includes asteroid effects

ENGINESETTINGS

GCUSERSETTINGSDATA.MBIN : Gameplay and audio game settings plus a few more settings.

NPCANIMDETAILSETTINGS.MBIN : NPC animations LOD settings

PLAYERANIMDETAILSETTINGS.MBIN : Player animations LOD settings

TKENGINESETTINGSMAPPING.MBIN : List of graphic changes that need to restart the game plus shadows, reflections and IK settings.

TKGAMESETTINGS.MBIN : nearly void file related to key mapping

TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MBIN : Graphics game settings plus a few more

ENTITLEMENTS

GCENTITLEMENTREWARDTABLE.MBIN : PS4 pre-order bonuses

GCENTITLEMENTREWARDTABLEPC.MBIN : PC pre-order bonuses

GCENTITLEMENTREWARDTABLEXBOX.MBIN : XBOX pre-order bonuses

TKENTITLEMENTLIST.MBIN : PS4 pre-order bonuses data

TKENTITLEMENTLISTPC.MBIN : PC pre-order bonuses data

TKENTITLEMENTLISTBOX.MBIN : XBOX pre-order bonuses data

TKENTITLEMENTLISTXBOXGDK.MBIN : other XBOX pre-order bonuses data

FONTS

FONTTABLE.MBIN : List of fonts and char width setting

LANGUAGEFONTOVERRIDETABLE.MBIN : Asian redirection table

LANGUAGEFONTOVERRIDETABLEPS4.MBIN : PS4 Asian redirection table

LANGUAGEFONTOVERRIDETABLEVRPS4.MBIN : PSVR Asian redirection table

LANGUAGEFONTTABLE.MBIN : empty

TEXTPRESETTABLE.MBIN : 2 Fonts presets

GAMESTATE

MESSAGES

STATUSMESSAGEDEFINITIONS.MBIN : Automatic Chat messages settings

PLAYERDATA

BANNERCUSTOMISATIONDATA.MBIN : Banners Textures and colors settings

BOBBLEHEADCUSTOMISATIONDATA.MBIN : BobbleHeads Model calls

CHARACTERCUSTOMISATIONDESCRIPTORGROUPSDATA.MBIN : Characters variants suffixes and decals settings

CHARACTERCUSTOMISATIONPRESETCUSTOMISATIONSDATA.MBIN : Character presets

CHARACTERCUSTOMISATIONTEXTUREOPTIONDATA.MBIN : Characters Marking options

CUSTOMISATIONCOLOURPALETTES.MBIN : Preset customisation color palettes (Player, vehicle, freighter...)

PLAYERTITLEDATA.MBIN : Titles settings

THRUSTERCUSTOMISATIONDATA.MBIN : Custom Trails settings

STATS

JOURNEYMILESTONETABLE.MBIN : Main journey milestones names and settings

LEVELEDSTATSTABLE.MBIN : Details of each milestones steps

LEVELEDSTATSTABLESURVIVALMODE.MBIN : Details of each milestones steps for survival mode

STATDEFINITIONSTABLE.MBIN : Initialisation of detailed stats

STATGROUPSTABLE.MBIN : Defines groups used in STATDEFINITIONSTABLE.MBIN

INPUT

BINDINGS : Controllers bindings

DEVICES : Controller specific files

GCACTIONSETS.MBIN : unknown action sets

GCINPUTACTIONINFO.MBIN : actions labels and icons calls

GCOPENVRCONTROLLERS.MBIN : VR controllers mapping

GCVIBRATIONDATATABLE.MBIN : Devices vibration settings

INTERACTIVITY

INTERACTIVITYDATA.MBIN : Cooldowns for some events

LANGUAGE : sets available languages depending on player's country

LSYSTEMS : remnant of L-Systems test files

PROJECTILES

PROJECTILETABLE.MBIN : Main settings for every kind of possible damages

REALITY

BACKUPREALITY.MBIN : lots and lots of settings of all kind

CATALOGUE.MBIN : Catalogue categories definitions

DEFAULTREALITY.MBIN : Includes all settings from BACKUPREALITY and more

JOURNEY.MBIN : calls for journey milestones icons

WIKI.MBIN : Wiki categories definitions

COLOURSCHEMES : A few freighter paint presets

TABLES : game major tables. This google sheet lists game items and properties extracted from these tables from a previous game version.

BASEBUILDINGCOSTSTABLE.MBIN : Building parts internal engine costs

BASEBUILDINGTABLE.MBIN : Properties of every base building items

CONSUMABLEITEMTABLE.MBIN : Effects of all cooked food

COSTTABLE.MBIN : Cost of numerous actions, like salvaging ships, upgrading ships, Polo required milestones and more...

DAMAGETABLE.MBIN : Every Damage properties

DISCOVERYREWARDLOOKUPTABLE.MBIN : Possible items for each biome type

EXPEDITIONEVENTTABLE.MBIN : Fleet missions settings

EXPEDITIONREWARDTABLE.MBIN : Fleet missions rewards

FREIGHTERDUNGEONSTABLE.MBIN : Abandoned Freighters settings

FRIGATETRAITTABLE.MBIN : Frigate descriptions

GENERATEDBASETEMPLATESTABLE.MBIN : Abandoned Freighters generation rules

INVENTORYTABLE.MBIN : Inventory details for every intentories but player ones.

LEGACYBASEBUILDINGTABLE.MBIN : Old building parts descriptions (replaced by BASEBUILDINGTABLE.MBIN)

LEGACYITEMTABLE.MBIN : Old item conversion ratio for save compatibility

MAINTENANCEGROUPSTABLE.MBIN : items required for several maintenance actions like repairing or cleaning.

NMS_DIALOG_GCALIENPUZZLETABLE.MBIN : Dialog branches

NMS_DIALOG_GCALIENSPEECHTABLE.MBIN : List of teachable words

NMS_REALITY_GCPROCEDURALTECHNOLOGYTABLE.MBIN : Description of all procedural technology items

NMS_REALITY_GCPRODUCTTABLE.MBIN : Description of all craftable items

NMS_REALITY_GCRECIPETABLE.MBIN : Description of all cooking recipes

NMS_REALITY_GCSUBSTANCETABLE.MBIN : Description of all substance items

NMS_REALITY_GCTECHNOLOGYTABLE.MBIN : description of all technology items

NMS_U3REALITY_GCPRODUCTTABLE.MBIN : unused old table

NMS_U3REALITY_GCSUBSTANCETABLE.MBIN : unused old table

NMS_U3REALITY_GCTECHNOLOGYTABLE.MBIN :unused old table

PROCEDURALPRODUCTTABLE.MBIN : Description of all procedural products like buried bones

PROCEDURALTECHNOLOGYTABLE.MBIN : old table replaced by NMS_REALITY_GCPROCEDURALTECHNOLOGYTABLE.MBIN ?

PURCHASEABLEBUILDINGBLUEPRINTS.MBIN : list of purchaseable blueprints

PURCHASEABLESPECIALS.MBIN : list of quicksilver shop items

REWARDTABLE.MBIN : Miscellaenous rewards

TRADINGCLASSDATATABLE.MBIN : Planets trading stats

TRADINGCOSTTABLE.MBIN : Trading item costs

UNLOCKABLEITEMTREES.MBIN : unlockable item trees

SIMULATION : other game major tables

DEBUGSCENE.MBIN : Developper Sentinels-related debug file

AMBIENT

AMBIENTMODECAMERAS.MBIN : Unreleased ambient mode cameras configuration

ECOSYSTEM

CREATUREAUDIOTABLE.MBIN : Creatures behaviours sounds settings

CREATUREDATATABLE.MBIN : Extensive creature settings

CREATUREFILENAMETABLE.MBIN : Creatures 3D model calls

CREATUREROLEDESCRIPTIONTABLE.MBIN : Creatures presence on planets probability table

DEPRECATEDASSETSTABLE.MBIN : Calls for old plants 3D models

ROBOTDATATABLE.MBIN : Ground sentinels settings

ROLEDESCRIPTIONTABLES : Creatures herds spawn settings

ENVIRONMENT

HAZARDTABLE.MBIN - handles behaviors of environmental hazards: Extreme Cold, Extreme Heat, No Oxygen, Radiation, Toxic Gas

PLANETBUILDINGTABLE.MBIN : Buildings spawn density, generation files and rules

SELECTABLEOBJECTTABLE.MBIN : Calls for props 3D Models

FREIGHTERBASES : Arrangements of some freighters and abandoned freighters interiors ?

INTERACTIONS

SHIPSALVAGEMODELEXPLODERULES.MBIN : Ship Salvage Module 3D model explode rules

MISSIONS : All game missions scripts

NPCS

NPCANIMATIONS.MBIN : NPC gestures and behaviours probabilities

NPCCOLOURTABLE.MBIN : NPC colour scheme probabilities

NPCPRESETCUSTOMISATIONSDATA.MBIN : Appearance customizer presets ?

NPCPROPTABLE.MBIN : NPC accessories effects

NPCREACTIONS.MBIN : NPC generic reactions probabilities

NPCSPAWNTABLE.MBIN : Global NPC settings and unique characters settings

NPCWORDREACTIONS.MBIN : NPC reactions to dialogs

PLAYER

PLAYERCHARACTERSTATETABLE.MBIN : Player animations table

SCANNING

REGIONHOTSPOTSTABLE.MBIN : Hot spots generation settings

SCANEVENTTABLEMISSIONS.MBIN : unknown scans results

SCANEVENTTABLEMISSIONSCREATIVE.MBIN : Scans resulting in another player base discovery

SCANEVENTTABLENPCPLANETSITE.MBIN : Scans with NPC interactions results

SCANEVENTTABLEPLANET.MBIN : Results of ground scans

SCANEVENTTABLESPACE.MBIN : Results from ship scans above planet ground

SCANEVENTTABLETUTORIAL.MBIN : Tutorial scan results

SCANEVENTTABLEVEHICLE.MBIN : Vehicle scan results

VEHICLESCANTABLE.MBIN : Available scans for vehicles

SCENE

EXPERIENCESPAWNTABLE.MBIN : Settings for events like fly-bys, space battles and space anomalies

SOLARSYSTEM

VOXELGENERATORSETTINGS.MBIN : All terrain generation settings

ATMOSPHERE

UNDERWATERHEAVYAIRLIST.MBIN : Call for underwater effects 3d model

BIOMES

BIOMEFILENAMES.MBIN : Biomes Description files calls and biome specific item settings

BIOMELISTPERSTARTYPE.MBIN : Biomes probability depending on star color

BIOMES FOLDERS : Biomes complete description and objects and plants distribution

COLOURS

BASECOLOURPALETTES.MBIN : Colour pool for each type of object, including sky and alien ships

BASETILETYPES.MBIN : 2 sets of colours. Maybe terrain manipulator terrain texture choices

LEGACYBASECOLOURPALETTES.MBIN : very close to BASECOLOURPALETTES.MBIN. An old version ?

WATERCOLOURS.MBIN : 4 sets of water colours

TEXTURES

BIOMETEXTURES.MBIN : structure for calling planet sub biomes

BIOME SPECIFIC FILES : Global planet texture calls per biome and final brightness and contrast settings

WEATHER

WEATHERLIST.MBIN : Weather calls and some hazard min/max values

SPECIFIC WEATHER FILES : Fog, storms, weather particle, planet filter and hazard settings per weather

SKYSETTINGS

SKY COLOURS FILES : colour sets for day, dusk, night and space sky, including nebulae

SPACE

AISPACESHIPATTACKDATATABLE.MBIN : AI ships settings including health, attack and flee settings

AISPACESHIPMANAGER.MBIN : Player frigates and AI misc ships 3D model calls and role description

AISPACESHIPMANAGERXBOXCERT.MBIN : A xbox version of AISPACESHIPMANAGER.MBIN ?

TROPHIES

TKTROPHYDATA.MBIN : Handles game achievements

UI

INPUTTEST : unknown
TESTMETADATA : Different types of data