TAE is referred to as “TimeActEditor” in the game's code. Each character's ANIBND archive contains one or more .tae files which govern the specific events that occur during animations. A .tae file contains a list of animation entries, each of which contains a list of events, or actions, which occur at specific times (hence the phrase “TimeAct”). These events have a type field which indicates the function to be performed during the specified time window in the animation. Some examples:

• i-frames
• parry windows
• applying an “SpEffect” (special temporary statuses such as ring effects, poisoning, buffs, AI triggers, etc)
• allowing animation cancelling
• forcing death
• creating “SFX” (particle effects)
• playing sound effects such as footsteps, sword swooshes, etc.
• doing an attack behavior (does damage to opponent, drains stamina from player, etc all in one event)
• doing a “bullet” (projectile) behavior (fires projectile, drains stamina from player, etc all in one event)
• doing a “common” behavior (like attack behaviors but for simpler things such as falling on someone's head causing stagger)
• creating motion blur on weapon swings
• setting the opacity of a character (used for getting summoned into other worlds, teleportation, etc)
• setting attack aim tracking speed of a character
• shaking the camera (e.g. Smough's footsteps)
• playing additional animation layers (e.g. all of Gwyn's animations have events to play his clothes-blowing-in-wind animation layer)
• many more that we haven't even figured out yet!

It's worth noting that vanilla TAE files have events placed in 30 Hz ticks across the series but they are stored as floating point seconds values rather than frame values and they can execute as precisely as the game's rendering framerate.

• DSAnimStudio: TAE editor for DS1, DSR, DS3, BB, Sekiro, and Elden Ring.
• MegaTAE: Editor for TAE files inside DS3/Sekiro ANIBND packages.–

• DS3 Alpha TAE Jumptable Names

Does various actions, specified by JumpTableID. There are also some arguments after the ID.

Executes an attack behavior.

Causes the opacity of a character to smoothly fade from one value to another over the duration of the event.

It's worth noting that as soon as the event ends, the character returns to the default opacity value. The way FromSoft holds the same fade value at the end is by placing another opacity fade event afterward which starts and ends on the same opacity value.

Sets the rotation speed of the character for the duration of the event. Once the event ends the character returns to default rotation speed.

Modifies the stamina regeneration rate of the character for the duration of the event.

Allows modifying the vertical facing angle (pitch) of a character's upper body via camera angle for the duration of the event. Values are represented in degrees.

Able to reduce how far animations actually move. Higher reduction values decrease movement more (values can be greater than 1), values less than 0 will have no effect. How values are applied is unknown.