Interface File

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

The in game User Interface and Menus are vector based animations created with Adobe Flash via Scaleform. These are commonly referred to as Flash Files.

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 or .xfl

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

See Also

• Menus
• User Interface
• Game File
• Scaleform GFx