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Camera layouts are stored in big endian sLL_cam.bin (or stgLL_cam.bin) files, where LL is the level number. On PC and Xbox, they are located in the /dvdroot folder. Heroes Power Plant includes a Camera Editor tools which allows you to preview and edit these files.

File layout

Each camera entry is 0x9C bytes long, and there are 512 entries in each file. Many entries are blank, however, so the stages use less cameras. The 0x9C bytes of each entry are divided into variables which occupy 4 bytes of space, for a total of 39 variables. They are either longs or floats.

Camera Entry

Number	Type	Description
1	Long	Camera Type
2	Long	Camera Speed
3	Long	Unknown
4	Long	Activation Type
5	Long	Trigger Type
6	Float	Trigger X Position
7	Float	Trigger Y Position
8	Float	Trigger Z Position
9	Long	Trigger X Rotation
10	Long	Trigger Y Rotation
11	Long	Trigger Z Rotation
12	Float	Trigger X Scale
13	Float	Trigger Y Scale
14	Float	Trigger Z Scale
15	Float	Camera X Position
16	Float	Camera Y Position
17	Float	Camera Z Position
18	Long	Camera X Rotation
19	Long	Camera Y Rotation
20	Long	Camera Z Rotation
21	Float	Point A X Position
22	Float	Point A Y Position
23	Float	Point A Z Position
24	Float	Point B X Position
25	Float	Point B Y Position
26	Float	Point B Z Position
24	Float	Point C X Position
25	Float	Point C Y Position
26	Float	Point C Z Position
30	Long	Unknown
31	Long	Force
32	Float	Offset A X Position
33	Float	Offset A Y Position
34	Float	Offset B X Position
35	Float	Offset B Y Position
36	Long	Unknown
37	Long	Unknown
38	Long	Unknown
39	Long	Unknown

Camera Type List

• 8 - Camera not fixed, looks at player from no specific position
• 11 - Camera fixed at offset A, looks through player to point A
• 12 - Camera fixed at Camera Position, looks at player
• 20 -
• 21 - Camera starts from Camera Position and moves using point A as a focus reference. Then it moves to point B, using point C as a focus reference. Looks at player
• 24 - Camera fixed at offset A, looks through player to offset B

Camera Speed List

• 2 - Camera changes instantly
• 4 - Camera changes fast
• 9 - Camera changes smoothly

Activation Type list

• 0 - Camera is active forever or until overridden by another camera or user input
• 1 - Camera is active only while player in trigger

Trigger Type list

• 1 - Plane
  • Trigger width and height is set by scale X and Y. Z should be the area of the plane (X * Y).
• 2 - Sphere
• 3 - Cube
  • Scale X, Y and Z set width, height and depth of the area.
• 4 - Cylinder

Force list

• 0 - If auto camera, allows player input to move camera from position
• 1 - If auto camera, player can't move camera until it is deactivated (if this is 1 and activation type is 0, you'll never be able to control the camera yourself again until reaching another camera)