Pod 2 Format Reference

All information here is to my best knowledge, is is not proven by any official reference manual by Terminal Reality.*

POD2 files are simple container files housing other files like textures or models. File extension is pod.

Used in

• 4x4 Evo 1
• 4x4 Evo 2
• Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr
• Nocturne

Description

Checksum algorithm used in POD2 files is CRC-CCITT32 with initial crc value of 0xFFFFFFFF

• Libcrc - Multi platform MIT licensed CRC library in C
• macutils - makecrc
• QuickBMS CRC requires setting crc type to 2.

#include <libcrc/checksum.h>

pod_number_t crc = crc_ccitt32_ffffffff(input_str, nbytes);

Structure

/* 96 bytes */
typedef struct pod_header_pod2_s {
    pod_char_t   ident[POD_IDENT_SIZE]; /* always POD2 */
    pod_number_t checksum; /* covering data starting after header->checksum */
    pod_char_t   comment[POD_COMMENT_SIZE];
    pod_number_t file_count;
    pod_number_t audit_file_count;
} pod_header_pod2_t;

typedef struct pod_entry_pod2_s {
    pod_number_t path_offset; /* relative to end of file->entries */
    pod_number_t size;
    pod_number_t offset; /* relative to start of file */
    pod_number_t timestamp;
    pod_number_t checksum;
} pod_entry_pod2_t;

enum pod_audit_entry_pod2_action = { 
    POD2_AUDIT_ACTION_ADD    = 0, /*   0 / new */
    POD2_AUDIT_ACTION_REMOVE = 1, /* old /   0 */
    POD2_AUDIT_ACTION_CHANGE = 2, /* old / new */
    POD2_AUDIT_ACTION_SIZE   = 3,
};

typedef struct pod_audit_entry_pod2_s {
   pod_char_t   user[POD_STRING_32];
   pod_time_t   timestamp;
   pod_number_t action;
   pod_char_t   path[POD_STRING_256];
   pod_time_t   old_timestamp;
   pod_number_t old_size;
   pod_time_t   new_timestamp;
   pod_number_t new_size;
} pod_audit_entry_pod2_t;

typedef struct pod_file_pod2_s {
    pod_header_pod2_t header;
    pod_entry_pod2_t entries[header.file_count];
    pod_char_t* path_data;
    pod_byte_t* entry_data;
    pod_audit_entry_pod2_t audit_trail[header.audit_file_count];
} pod_file_pod2_t;