Assets manifest

RIFT assets consist of 2 main parts, the manifest, and the asset files.

RIFT uses a FNV1 hash to hash all filenames. This hash is used in many places when referring to files.

Manifest

assets.manifest - 32 bit

assets64.manifest - 64 bit

The main identified use of the manifest is to map asset hashes with filename hashes.

However, the manifest contains much more data than that, but it is currently unknown what else it contains.

It is likely that some the other data pertains to the streaming download functionality of RIFT where assets can be streamed while playing.

Binary Format

File should be interpreted as LITTLE ENDIAN.

Header

Bytes/Offset	Content	Comment
4 bytes	TWAM	File signature
2 bytes	0x0200 - integer	Major version
2 bytes	0x0100 - integer	Minor version
4 bytes	integer	block table offset
4 bytes	integer	block table size
48 bytes	varies	3 Data Table Reference as per below, each 16 bytes long. The second table is the Entry Table as per below.

256 Block Table

This table consists of 256 bytes. It is not yet known what these are but it one possibility is some kind of RC4 substitution table.

Data Table Reference

Bytes/Offset	Content	Comment
4 bytes - integer	varies	offset from start of file
4 bytes	integer	size of the entire table in bytes
4 bytes	integer	count of entries in the table
4 bytes	integer	stride - size of each entry in the table

Note that the table itself may consist of more data than the header indicates. For example if you multiply the stride by the count and it is less than the size of the table in bytes, then extra data is appended.

Table 0

Unknown.

After the normal table data, there are "count" number of null terminated strings.

Table 1 - Entry Table

FNV hash and asset names. No extra data

Bytes/Offset	Content	Comment
8 bytes	varies	ID of the entry - corresponds to the first 8 bytes of a 16byte SHA hash of the contents of the data the entry relates to.
4 bytes	integer	The FNV1 hash of the filename

Table 2 - Unknown

Contains extra data.

Asset files

Asset files are in the assets directory of the RIFT installation and are labelled like so:

 assets.001
 assets.002
 assets64.001
 etc

The assets with 64 indicate the file should be preferred if using the 64bit manifest.

Asset files are packed files, sometimes compressed.

Header

Bytes/Offset	Content	Comment
4 bytes	TWAD	File signature
4 bytes	integer	version
4 bytes	integer	size of header block
4 bytes	integer	maximum files allowed in this file?
4 bytes	integer	number of entries in this file

Entry Table

Directly after the header is the entry table.

Bytes/Offset	Content	Comment
8 bytes		ID of the entry - corresponds to the first 8 bytes of a 20byte SHA hash of the contents of the data the entry relates to.
4 bytes		offset in bytes in the file the entry is at
4 bytes		size in bytes of the entry
4 bytes		unsure. possibly decompressed size of the entry
2 bytes		unsure. Possible an identifier of some sort
2 bytes		Entry flag. If non-zero, indicates the entry is compressed with ZLIB
20 bytes		SHA hash of the entry