Spore:030BDEE3

copied from: http://www.customsims3.com/forum1/YaBB.pl?num=1214408105

The file Maxis calls "pollen_metadata" is extracted as a file of type *.pmet. This file also contains the creature name, user name and other data, as well as the TGI of the Creature (_CRT) XML file.

The following is a preliminary format spec on this file. The GUID field is -1 -1 unless the creature has been published, so the data must come from the Maxis servers.

// PMET File Format
// DWord    GUID_len  (BE)
// Byte     GUID[GUID_len]
// DWord    TGI_1[3] (BE)
// DWord    TGI_2[3] (BE)
// DWord    tid[2]    (BE) time?
// DWord    TGI_3[3] (BE)
// DWord    UserUChars (BE) Unicode char count
// Word     UserUStr   Unicode string User name
// DWord    CreatUChars (BE) Creature name unicode char count
// Word     CreatUStr  Unicode Creature Name string
// DWord    CommUChars (BE) Comments unicode char count
// Word     CommUStr   Unicode comments string
// DWord    TagsCount (BE)
// for each TagsCount
//     DWord Len (BE)
//     Byte  tag[Len] (ascii chars)
// DWord    TGI_4[3] (BE)