Datatype Reference

This page contains a set of commonly used datatypes and their definition.

Datatype	Size	Description
byte	1	A single, unsigned 8-bit integer
char	1	A single, 8-bit integer representing a string character
short	2	A single, signed 16-bit integer
ushort	2	A single, unsigned 16-bit integer
int	4	A single, signed 32-bit integer
uint	4	A single, unsigned 32-bit integer
float	4	A single, IEEE 754 floating point number
string	*	A set of Windows-1252 encoded characters of dynamic length, terminated by \0 or 0x0A (exceptions are documented)
zVEC2	8	A set of two floats describing a 2-dimensional vector of the form (x, y)
zVEC3	12	A set of three floats describing a 3-dimensional vector of the form (x, y, z)
zVEC4	16	A set of four floats describing a 4-dimensional vector or quaternion of the form (x, y, z, w)
zTBBox3D	24	A set of two zVEC3s describing a 3-dimensional bounding box of the form (min, max)
zDATE	16	A structure describing a date: struct {int year; ushort month, day, hour, minute, second; byte _padding[2];}