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4.3 Entity Appearance
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Section 4.3
Entity Appearance
This section specifies the 32-bit enumeration for the Entity Appearance field in the Entity State
PDU. This field is kind and domain specific, and as applicable, specific bits are designated to
common bit locations.
The following sections describe the specific bit definitions for all entity kinds. The Entity-Kind field
is found in the Entity-Type Record, as defined in IEEE 1278.1-1995. Entity-kind values are defined
in section 4.2.1 of this document.
4.3.1 Platform Kind
4.3.1.1 Platforms of the Land Domain
The bits of the Entity Appearance field for land platforms are defined as follows:
Name Bits Purpose
Paint 0 Describes the paint scheme of an entity
Scheme 0 - Uniform color
1 - Camouflage
Mobility 1 Describes characteristics of mobility kill
0 - No mobility kill
1 - Mobility kill
Fire Power 2 Describes characteristics of fire-power kill
0 - No fire-power kill
1 - Fire-power kill
Damage 3-4 Describes the damaged appearance of an entity
0 - No damage
1 - Slight damage
2 - Moderate damage
3 - Destroyed
Smoke 5-6 Describes status or location of smoke emanating from an
entity 0 - Not smoking
1 - Smoke plume rising from the entity
2 - Entity is emitting engine smoke
3 - Entity is emitting engine smoke, and smoke plume is
rising from the entity
Trailing 7-8 Describes the size of the dust cloud trailing effect for the
Effects entity 0 - None
1 - Small
2 - Medium
3 - Large