Bohemia Interactive PAA PAC

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PAA, PAC

• Format Type : Image
  
• Endian Order : Little Endian
  
• Signatures : GGATCGVA / GGATCXAM / GGATSFFO
  

Format Specifications

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Notes and Comments

• This file format occurs in games from Bohemia Interactive.
• This file format supports several tag types:
  • AVGCTAGG / GGATCGVA (AVGC / CGVA) - average colour
  • MAXCTAGG / GGATCXAM (MAXC / CXAM) - color of brightest pixel in texture?
  • FLAGTAGG / GGATGALF (FLAG / GALF) - marks if texture contains transparency
  • SWIZTAGG / GGATZIWS (SWIZ / ZIWS) - optional swizzling description
  • PROCTAGG / GGATCORP (PROC / CORP) - non ASCII string
  • OFFSTAGG / GGATSFFO (OFFS / SFFO) - mipmap offset list

Games

List of games using this file format:

• Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead (*.PAA / *.PAC)

QuickBMS Script

Not written yet.

Compatible Programs

• BI Tools
  • Texture Viewer (TexView2) from BI Tools - it can convert and view PAC/PAA files
  • Texture Merger (texMerge) from BI Tools - it can merge PAC/PAA/TGA files and save them as TexMerger files (PTM files)
  • Pal2PacE from BI Tools - command line tool for texture conversion (more info here). It can convert JPG/PNG/TGA to PAA/PAC and PAA/PAC to JGP/PNG/TGA files.
• DePac
• ImageToPAA (from Arma 3 tools)

Gallery

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  Texture Viewer (from BI Tools)

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  Texture Merger (from BI Tools)

See Also

• Pal2PacE (community.bistudio.com)