Entity

An entity is an item that stores a collection of values (hereafter referred to as "fields") that can represent a game object/camera rail in Crash 2 and 3.

Format

Crash 2/3

Offset	Field	Size	Value
0x0	Length of this item	4 bytes	*
0x4	Unknown	4 bytes x 2	*
0xC	Field count	4 bytes	hc
0x10	Field info structures (headers)	hc * 8 bytes	*
Field Info Structure h
0x10 + (h * 0x8) + 0x0	Type	2 bytes	*
0x10 + (h * 0x8) + 0x2	Offset relative to 12 bytes at the start of the item	2 bytes	offset
0x10 + (h * 0x8) + 0x4	Flags	Byte	*
0x10 + (h * 0x8) + 0x5	Element size	Byte	es
0x10 + (h * 0x8) + 0x6	Unknown	2 bytes	*
Field Structure f
offset + 0xC + 0x0	Element count	2 bytes	ec
offset + 0xC + 0x2	Unknown	2 bytes	*
offset + 0xC + 0x4	Data	es * ec	*
offset + 0xC + 0x4 + es * ec	Unknown	? bytes	*

Type

The format and usage of the field data depends on the field type. Incomplete list.

Type	Name	Purpose	Format
0x2C	Name	String of characters for the internal name used to refer to the entity. It has no purpose so whatever you put here won't affect the game	UTF-8 charset
0x4B	Position	List of position points to be used by the entity. Multiple of these can be used to make the entity follow a path (as long as it is programmed to do so)	Int16 for each X, Y and Z coordinate
0x9F	ID	Value to uniquely identify the entity that is used to draw it, destroy it (see victims below) and other miscellaneous behaviors	Int321
0xA4	General Settings	List of values that can be used to change a certain object's behavior (i.e. flags, delay, speed)	Int32 (UInt8 + Int24)
0xA9	Type	Type of the entity	Int32
0xAA	Subtype	Variant of the entity	Int32
0x287	Victim	List of entity IDs to destroy on certain occasions (i.e. TNT is undrawn, Nitro Switch activated)	Int16

¹ - Draw lists store this as an Int16, so setting this to a value higher than that will cause severe issues.