Skyrim Mod talk:Mod File Format/DOBJ

FormIDs

Scanning the entire DNAM field, every other word does indeed resolve to either 0 or a FormID. However, the record types are all over the place:

+---------+-----+
| rectype | num |
+---------+-----+
| AACT    |  68 | 
| KYWD    |  67 | 
| SNDR    |  23 | 
| MESG    |  22 | 
| SNCT    |   9 | 
| FACT    |   8 | 
| MUSC    |   7 | 
| FLST    |   7 | 
| MOVT    |   6 | 
| SOPM    |   5 | 
| STAT    |   5 | 
| EQUP    |   5 | 
| TXST    |   4 | 
| GLOB    |   4 | 
| LCRT    |   3 | 
| MISC    |   3 | 
| MATO    |   2 | 
| PACK    |   2 | 
| LCTN    |   2 | 
| NPC_    |   2 | 
| ALCH    |   2 | 
| IMAD    |   2 | 
| FSTS    |   1 | 
| IMGS    |   1 | 
| MATT    |   1 | 
| REVB    |   1 | 
| CSTY    |   1 | 
| SPEL    |   1 | 
| CELL    |   1 | 
| WTHR    |   1 | 
| ARTO    |   1 | 
+---------+-----+

It's probably worth noting that REFR and ACHR records never appear -- whereas if the value were not FormIDs but instead random values in the same range, there would almost surely be some REFR records, given that some 90% of the records are REFRs.

Individual FormIDs can occur multiple times, although there are only a handful of cases:

+-----+------------+---------+----------------------+
| num | formid     | rectype | edid                 |
+-----+------------+---------+----------------------+
| 3   | 0x0003b523 | TXST    | SkinMouth            | 
| 2   | 0x0000017c | MESG    | HelpLockpickingShort | 
| 2   | 0x00000178 | MESG    | HelpLevelingShort    | 
| 2   | 0x0003b565 | MUSC    | MUSSpecialSuccess    | 
| 2   | 0x0003580d | MOVT    | NPC_Default_MT       | 
+-----+------------+---------+----------------------+

Interestingly, the other four-byte sequence never repeats.

There aren't any other patterns popping out at me right now, but the info is now in cslist. --Nephele^Talk 04:29, 26 December 2011 (UTC)