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This section lists documentation pages for resources you'll find in Sonic games. You'll find information about certain file formats and other general game resources.

Rendering


Name	Info
Hedgehog Engine	Render engine first used in Sonic Unleashed
Hedgehog Engine 2	Render Engine first used in Sonic Forces

Models


Name	Info	Extension	Tools
SCA Parameters	Model and material parameters stored in SCA file headers

Shaders


Name	Info	Extension	Tools
Shader Features	Hedgehog engine 1 shader features

Set-Data


Name	Description	Extension	Tools
HSON (Hedgehog Set Object Notation)	Universal object placement representation format.	`.hson`

User Interface


Name	Description	Extension	Tools
NCP (Ninja CellSpriteDraw Project)	Describes a user interface in most Hedgehog Engine games.	`.xncp` `.yncp` `.gncp` `.sncp`	Kunai Shuriken

Animation


Name	Description	Extension	Tools
PXD Animation	Skeleton and skeletal animation format in Hedgehog Engine 2 Games	`.anm.pxd` `.skl.pxd`	Frontiers Animation Tools
PBA Skeleton	Physics Based Animation Skeleton for Hedgehog Engine 2 Games	`.pba`

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-This section contains documentation that specify how different files are set up, as well as other information that should help you mod certain Sonic games. Below you can see the games divided by the engine they use. In each engine, you can see documentation for every game using it, as well as more specific guides regarding a particular game.
+This section lists documentation pages for resources you'll find in Sonic games. You'll find information about certain file formats and other general game resources.
-== Various Engines ==
+== Rendering ==
-[[HSON Format]]
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+
+!Name
+!Info
+|-
+|[[Hedgehog Engine Rendering|Hedgehog Engine]]
+|Render engine first used in Sonic Unleashed
+|-
+|[[Hedgehog Engine 2 Rendering|Hedgehog Engine 2]]
+|Render Engine first used in Sonic Forces
+|}
-== Hedgehog Engine ==
+== Models ==
-[[Game List]]
-=== UI ===
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+
+!Name
+!Info
+!Extension
+!Tools
+|-
+|[[SCA Parameters]]
+|Model and material parameters stored in SCA file headers
+|
+|
+|}
-* [[NCP File Format]]
+== Shaders ==
-=== Sonic Generations ===
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+
+!Name
+!Info
+!Extension
+!Tools
+|-
+|[[Shader Features]]
+|Hedgehog engine 1 shader features
+|
+|
+|}
-* [[Sonic Generations Stage IDs|Stage IDs]]
+== Set-Data ==
-* [[Sonic Generations Event List|Set Object Event List]]
+{| class="wikitable"
-* [[Sonic Generations Camera Types|Camera Types]]
+|+
-* [[Unleashed-Generations Havok Collision Attributes|Havok Collision Attributes]]
+!Name
-* [[Sound File Locations]]
+!Description
+!Extension
+!Tools
+|-
+|[[HSON Format|HSON]] (Hedgehog Set Object Notation)
+|Universal object placement representation format.
+|<code>.hson</code>
+|
+|}
-=== Sonic Unleashed ===
+== User Interface ==
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+
+!Name
+!Description
+!Extension
+!Tools
+|-
+|[[NCP File Format|NCP]] (Ninja CellSpriteDraw Project)
+|Describes a user interface in most Hedgehog Engine games.
+|<span style="text-align: center">
+<p><code>.xncp</code></p>
+<p><code>.yncp</code></p>
+<p><code>.gncp</code></p>
+<p><code>.sncp</code></p>
+</span>
+|
+* [[Kunai]]
+* [[Shuriken]]
+|}
-* [[Sonic Unleashed Stage IDs|Stage IDs]]
+== Archives ==
-* [[Unleashed-Generations Havok Collision Attributes|Havok Collision Attributes]]
+{| class="wikitable"
+!Name
+!Description
+!Extension
+!Tools
+|-
+|[[NN Chunk Format|NN Chunk]]
+|Generic container format.
+|
+|
+|}
-=== Sonic Colors ===
+== Animation ==
+{| class="wikitable"
-==== File Formats ====
+|+
+!Name
-* [[Sonic Colors Light Field|Light Field]]
+!Description
-* [[Sonic Colors Set Object|Set Object]]
+!Extension
+!Tools
-=== Sonic Forces ===
+|-
+|[[PXD|PXD Animation]]
-* [[Sonic Forces Stage IDs|Stage IDs]]
+|Skeleton and skeletal animation format in Hedgehog Engine 2 Games
+|<span style="text-align: center">
-=== Sonic Frontiers ===
+<p><code>.anm.pxd</code></p>
+<p><code>.skl.pxd</code></p>
-* [[Sonic Frontiers DLCs|DLCs]]
+</span>
-* [[Sonic Frontiers Stage IDs|Stage IDs]]
+|[[Frontiers Animation Tools]]
-* [[Sonic Frontiers Enemy Internal Names|Enemy Internal Names]]
+|-
-* [[Sonic Frontiers Script Functions|Script Functions]]
+|[[PBA|PBA Skeleton]]
+|Physics Based Animation Skeleton for Hedgehog Engine 2 Games
-==== File Formats ====
+|<code>.pba</code>
+|
-* [[Sonic Frontiers RFL|RFL]]
+|}
-==== Objects ====
-* [[Sonic Frontiers Gismos|Gismos]]
-=== Shadow Generations ===
-* [[Shadow Generations Stage IDs|Stage IDs]]
-* [[Shadow Generations Event IDs|Event IDs]]
-== SEGA NN ==
-[[NN Chunk Format]]