Pod 3 Format Reference

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

POD3 files are simple container files housing other files like textures or models. File extension is pod.

Used in

• BloodRayne 1
• BloodRayne 2

Description

• Header only checksum covers section after checksum until end of header.
• Reverse engineer to get missing fields and variants of file format or get the CPOD C++ library source code.

Structure

288 byte header:

namespace pod3
{
struct header
{
	c8<4> ident;    /* "POD3" */
	u32<1> checksum; /* CRC-32/MPEG-2 header checksum of bytes 8 to 288 of size 280 */
	c8<80> comment; 
	u32<1> entry_count;
	u32<1> audit_count;
	u32<1> revision;
	u32<1> priority;
	c8<80> author;
	c8<80> copyright;
	u32<1> entry_offset; /* zero based */
	u32<1> pad10c;
	u32<1> audit_offset; /* (entry_offset + entry_count * sizeof(entry)) based */
	i32<1> flag0;  /* -1 / 0 probably CRC-32 xor_in */
	i32<1> flag1;  /* -1 / 0 probably CRC-32 xor_out */
	i32<1> pad11c; /* 0xFFFFFFFF 0xD4009345 0x64B5C42D 0xA1FE0F74 */
};

struct entry
{
        u32<1> path_offset;
        u32<1> size;
        u32<1> offset;
        t32<1> timestamp;
        u32<1> checksum;
};