Tribes 2 Reference
Lookup material. Not meant to be read front to back.
| Page | Contains |
|---|---|
| Console functions | The engine-registered function surface, by category |
| Datablock classes | Every declarable datablock type and its validated field ranges |
| Class hierarchy | The engine object tree |
| File formats | Every extension in the install and what it is |
| Global variables | $pref::, $Host::, and the other well-known globals |
| Source tutorial index | Map of the community tutorial corpus this handbook draws on |
How this material was produced
| Page | Method |
|---|---|
| Console functions | String extraction from Tribes2.exe — the engine stores each function’s usage string in .rdata next to its registration site [binary] |
| Datablock classes | Census of datablock declarations across the 334 files in base/scripts.vl2, plus validation-message strings from the binary [script] [binary] |
| Class hierarchy | Header comments in the shipped scripts, plus RTTI recovery from the binary |
| File formats | Extension survey across all 19 .vl2 archives and the loose GameData/ tree |
| Global variables | Extraction from scripts/clientDefaults.cs and scripts/serverDefaults.cs |
| Tutorial index | Inventory of T2ModTutorialDatabase/ |
Where a page states a fact without a marker, it is a count or a listing rather than a behavioural claim.
Under the community patches
Everything catalogued here is vanilla Tribes2.exe, and neither patch modifies the executable — so
every class, datablock type, field range, file format, and vanilla console function is present and
unchanged on a patched install.
The patches add. Each page carries an “Under the community patches” section covering what:
| Page | Additions |
|---|---|
| Console functions | ~30 functions registered by IFC22.dll, plus four vanilla functions replaced by no-op stubs |
| Global variables | New $pref:: families, $Font::Substitute, per-client auth fields, and vanilla values the patch overwrites |
| File formats | .sdft fonts, RC2a’s .rb, and .ifr going inert |
| Class hierarchy | No new classes — the console surface is the extension mechanism |
| Datablock classes | No new types; EffectProfile inert on the QoL patch |
| Source tutorial index | What the 2002-era corpus could not have known |