TAE Files

Each character's anibnd file contains one or more TAE files which govern the specific events that occur during animations. A TAE file contains a list of animations, each of which contains a list of Time Action Events. These events have a type field which indicates the function to be performed at the specified time indices of the animation. Some examples:

• i-frames
• parry windows
• applying a "SpEffect" (special temporary statuses such as ring effects, poisoning, buffs, AI triggers, etc)
• allowing animation cancelling
• forcing death
• creating "SFX" (particle effects)
• playing sound effects such as footsteps, sword swooshes, etc.
• doing an attack behavior (does damage to opponent, drains stamina from player, etc all in one event)
• doing a "bullet" (projectile) behavior (fires projectile, drains stamina from player, etc all in one event)
• doing a "common" behavior (like attack behaviors but for simpler things such as falling on someone's head causing stagger)
• creating motion blur on weapon swings
• setting the opacity of a character (used for getting summoned into other worlds, teleportation, etc)
• setting attack aim tracking speed of a character
• shaking the camera (e.g. Smough's footsteps)
• playing additional animation layers (e.g. all of Gwyn's animations have events to play his clothes-blowing-in-wind animation layer)
• many more that we haven't even figured out yet!

Tools

TAE-DX –– Editor for TAE files inside DS1/DSR anibnd packages.

MegaTAE –– Editor for TAE files inside DS3/Sekiro anibnd packages.