Suffix

A theater's artwork file extension; on a country, a value the engine never uses.

Country filename extension

Specification — Country filename extension

Applies to: HouseType
File: rules.ini
Section: [<ObjectType ID>]
Value: string
When omitted: (empty)No suffix is stored.
Used by the game: No — loaded but not used

The value is cut to three characters and stored on the country. Nothing in the game reads it.

[GDI]
Suffix=GDI

Theater artwork extension

Specification — Theater artwork extension

Applies to: Theater
File: rules.ini
Section: [<ObjectType ID>]
Value: string
When omitted: Context-dependent`TEM` for TEMPERATE and `SNO` for SNOW, which keep their original settings; empty for any other theater, which then looks for artwork under no extension at all and has no unit remap palette.

Suffix is the file extension of the theater’s own artwork. A type marked Theater=yes loads <name>.<Suffix>, and so does each tile of a tile set.

The same value names five more files:

File	What it holds
`<Suffix>.MIX`	The theater’s second archive
`ISO<Suffix>.PAL`	The palette the tiles are drawn through
`UNIT<Suffix>.PAL`	The palette unit and structure color schemes are built from
`SLOP01Z.<Suffix>` through `SLOP04Z.<Suffix>`	The depth shapes for sloped ground
`VEINHOLE.<Suffix>`	The veinhole monster’s artwork

[DESERT]
Suffix=DES      ; TREE01.DES, DES.MIX, ISODES.PAL, UNITDES.PAL

A suffix may be longer than the three characters the original theaters use. The game reads up to 8 characters and cuts a longer value short.

On a theater, the value is the extension of the theater’s artwork files, written without the dot. It also names theater files such as DES.MIX, ISODES.PAL and UNITDES.PAL when the value is DES. On a country, the value is stored and never used.

See also — Prefix, Name, MMSuffix, Root, IsoRoot

History

Added0.2.0In development
Declare extra theaters in the rules — theater