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 {{main|AROT (MREA Section)}}
-The AROT section stores the area's octree, accelerating back-to-front rendering of contained meshes, it is also used for spacial queries such as collision.
+The AROT section stores the area's octree, accelerating back-to-front rendering of contained meshes. It is also used for spacial queries such as collision.
 === Script Layers ===
-{{todo|SCLY is definitely complicated enough to need its own article.}}
+{{todo|Format known, needs documentation written up.}}
 The SCLY section contains data for objects.
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 === Collision ===
-{{todo|Collision needs a separate article because it shares so many similarities with DCLN. How should we document the parts where the format diverges, though?}}
+{{todo|Format known, needs documentation written up.}}
-You have three guesses what the collision section is for, and the first two don't count.
 === Unknown Section ===
-This one is sandwiched between collision and lights, and usually just contains a single 32-bit "1". Purpose is unknown.
+This one is sandwiched between collision and lights, and usually just contains a single 32-bit "1". Purpose is unknown. In the Prime 3/DKCR MREA format, this section is labelled <code>LLTE</code>.
 === Lights ===
-This section is for dynamic lights, see the [[Lights_(Metroid_Prime)|Light]] article for details.
+This section is for dynamic lights. See the [[Lights_(Metroid_Prime)|Light]] article for details.
 === Visibility Tree ===
-This section is labeled "VISI". This section is sometimes not actually present in the file, labeled with a size of 0.
+This section is labeled "VISI". Some areas don't have visibility trees; in that case this section will be completely empty and listed with a size of 0.
 === Path ===
-This is the final section in the file; it's always 0x20 bytes, and its only value is a single [[PATH (File Format)|PATH]] file ID.
+This is the final section in the file; its only value is a single [[PATH (File Format)|PATH]] file ID.
-== Tools ==
-* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9MLV21H7SDvMk9PN1lrM1g3ZVE/view?usp=sharing Parax's MREA maxscript] can import MREA terrain geometry into 3DS Max.
+{| class="wikitable"
+! Offset
+! Type
+! Name
+|-
+| 0x0
+| Asset ID
+| '''Area PATH Resource'''
+|-
+| 0x4
+| colspan=2 {{unknown|End of section}}
+|}
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