PBO SREV PAA

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Format Type: Image
Extensions: paa
Platforms: unknown
Endian Order: Little Endian

Format Specifications

// The only Tag we care about is SWIZ, which means the data is swizzled in an unknown way
// This is all based on https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/PAA_File_Format

// IMAGE HEADER
  2 - Image Format (65281=DXT1, 65282=DXT2, 65283=DXT3, 65284=DXT4, 65285=DXT5, 17476=RGBA4444, 5461=RGBA5551, 34952=RGBA8888, 32896=Gray with Alpha)
  
// TAGS
  // for each tag
    4 - Tag Header (GGAT)
    4 - Tag Type String
    4 - Length of Tag Data
    X - Tag Data
    
// PALETTE
  2 - Number of Colors
  
  // for each color
    1 - Blue
    1 - Green
    1 - Red
    
// MIPMAPS
  // for each mipmap
    2 - Width
    2 - Height
    3 - Image Data Length
    X - Image Data
    
    if (ImageFormat == DXT# && width&32768 == 32768){
      // image data is LZO Compressed
      }
    else if (ImageFormat != DXT#){
      // image data is LZSS Compresed
      }
    else {
      // raw image data
      }

MultiEx BMS Script

No BMS script

Supported Programs

• Game Extractor
  

Notes

No additional notes

Games

• Argo
• ArmA
• ArmA 2
• ArmA 3