Interface File

File Extension: .swf, .fla, .as, .gfx

The in game user interface and menus are vector based animations created with Adobe Flash via Scaleform.

Files

There are several kinds flash files with very different purposes.

Movie: .swf

• These are used by the flash player after being published from a Movie Project and Actionscript.

Movie Project: .fla

• Movie projects are used in combination with Actionscript to publish playable Movie files.

Actionscript: .as

• Fallout 4 uses the the Actionscript 3.0 language version.
• This is the source code for flash animation scripting.

Tooling

• Adobe Flash
• JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler (FFDec)
• There are other software projects that provided tooling for working with flash files.

See Also

• Game Files Category
• User Interface Category