What are these files? What do they do?
Published: Jan 07 2025 by Sergey, heavily based on input by psiberx Last documented edit: Jan 08 2025 by manavortex
This page contains information about #streamingsector and #streamingblock files
If you want to learn about World Editing, please check the corresponding section.
Check Switching between sector states for more information how to do that.
You can add world data via ArchiveXL, check World Editing -> Adding Locations and Structures with ArchiveXL
The game contains only 3 streamingblocks that gather more than 26300 sectors.
We will focus on the main one and take a look at the first sector inside (exterior_-18_3_-12_0).
When creating a mod with sectors, you will need to create your own block that will list your new sectors.
This sector has 10 variants, in this case, each one is related to a quest state.
numNodeRanges indicate the number of node ranges the sector contains; it always corresponds to the number of variant + sector's default range (so here 10 variants + 1 default).
When opening a variant definition, we can find the range index (to find the right range inside the sector file). rangeIndex cannot be 0, 0 is used as sector's default range.
Variant's name is only used to identify the variant within the streamingblock.
