Combat: AUTHENTIC weapon groups -- streamed per-mech button bindings + the real fire chain (task #5)

The recovered system: fire channels = LBE4ControlsManager buttonGroups
(0x40/0x45/0x46/0x47); default groups = the per-mech type-6 controls-map
resource in BTL4.RES, installed by the T0 CreateStreamedMappings the port
already called -- it needed only the TriggerState attribute (id 0x13 PINNED
to the binary value; fireImpulse@0x31C is the binary's TriggerState) and an
input feed.  Keyboard/harness now push press/release edges into the button
groups; the gBT*Trigger bypasses, per-type keyboard split and 1,0 pulse
hack are retired -- weapons sharing a button fire TOGETHER (madcat Trigger
= 4 weapons).  Myomers @4b9550/@4b95b8 misattribution corrected (they are
MechWeapon ConfigureMappables/ChooseButton).  Verified 2-node: kill through
the authentic chain (12 hits vs ~36 pre-groups).  Config-mode session
(regrouping UI) = the remaining stage, KB-scoped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

scratchpad/decode_thread_a.py

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+import struct
+
+def load(fn): return open(fn,"rb").read()
+
+def walk(d, p, end, depth, out):
+    while p+3<=end:
+        tw=struct.unpack_from("<H",d,p)[0]; p+=2
+        cid=tw&0x2fff
+        lw=4 if(tw&0x8000)else(2 if(tw&0x4000)else 1)
+        if p+lw>end:return
+        ln=d[p] if lw==1 else (struct.unpack_from("<H",d,p)[0] if lw==2 else struct.unpack_from("<I",d,p)[0])
+        p+=lw
+        if p+ln>end:return
+        out.append((depth,cid,p,ln,d[p:p+ln]))
+        # container ids
+        if cid in (0x03,0x40,0x41,0x42,0x46,0x20,0x30,0x10,0x70,0x48,0x21):
+            walk(d,p,p+ln,depth+1,out)
+        p+=ln
+        if cid==0x0005:break
+
+print("="*70)
+print("BLXSKIN.BMF materials — DIFFUSE/AMBIENT float decode")
+print("="*70)
+d=load("content/VIDEO/MAT/BLXSKIN.BMF")
+out=[]; walk(d,8,len(d),0,out)
+name=None
+for depth,cid,p,ln,body in out:
+    if cid==0x2008:
+        name=body.split(b'\x00')[0].decode(errors='replace')
+        print(f"\nMATERIAL name: {name!r}")
+    elif cid==0x23 and ln>=12:
+        f=struct.unpack_from("<3f",body,0)
+        print(f"  AMBIENT  = ({f[0]:.5f},{f[1]:.5f},{f[2]:.5f})  raw={body.hex()}")
+    elif cid==0x24 and ln>=12:
+        f=struct.unpack_from("<3f",body,0)
+        print(f"  DIFFUSE  = ({f[0]:.5f},{f[1]:.5f},{f[2]:.5f})  raw={body.hex()}")
+    elif cid==0x28:
+        print(f"  RAMP_REF = {body.split(chr(0).encode())[0].decode(errors='replace')!r}")
+    elif cid==0x26 and ln>=12:
+        f=struct.unpack_from("<3f",body,0)
+        print(f"  EMISSIVE = ({f[0]:.5f},{f[1]:.5f},{f[2]:.5f})")
+    elif cid==0x21:
+        print(f"  MAT_TEXTURE chunk present len={ln}")
+    elif cid==0x11:
+        print(f"  TEXTURE_MAP = {body.split(chr(0).encode())[0].decode(errors='replace')!r}")
+
+print()
+print("="*70)
+print("BLX_COP.BGF — vertex block tags + patch/material structure")
+print("="*70)
+d=load("content/VIDEO/GEO/BLX_COP.BGF")
+out=[]; walk(d,8,len(d),0,out)
+VTAG={0x80:"XYZ(12)",0x81:"XYZ_N(24)",0x82:"XYZ_RGBA(28)",0x88:"XYZ_UV(20)",0x89:"XYZ_N_UV(32)",0x8A:"XYZ_RGBA_UV(36)"}
+STRIDE={0x80:12,0x81:24,0x82:28,0x88:20,0x89:32,0x8A:36}
+for depth,cid,p,ln,body in out:
+    ind="  "*depth
+    if cid==0x2008:
+        print(f"{ind}NAME={body.split(chr(0).encode())[0].decode(errors=chr(39)+'replace'+chr(39)) if False else body.split(bytes([0]))[0].decode(errors='replace')!r}")
+    elif cid in (0x2030,0x2031):
+        s=body[1:].split(bytes([0]))[0].decode(errors='replace')
+        print(f"{ind}SV_{'F' if cid==0x2030 else 'B'}_MATERIAL mattype={body[0]} -> {s!r}")
+    elif cid==0x2037:
+        print(f"{ind}SV_SPECIAL {body.split(bytes([0]))[0].decode(errors='replace')!r}")
+    elif cid in VTAG:
+        cnt=ln//STRIDE[cid]
+        print(f"{ind}VERTEX {VTAG[cid]} len={ln} count={cnt}")
+    elif cid==0x0047:
+        print(f"{ind}CONNECTION_LIST(tris) len={ln} ntris={ln//12}")
+    elif cid==0x004d:
+        ppf=body[0] if ln>0 else '?'
+        print(f"{ind}PCONN_LIST ppf={ppf} len={ln}")
+    elif cid==0x40:
+        print(f"{ind}OBJECT")
+    elif cid==0x41:
+        print(f"{ind}LOD")
+    elif cid==0x42:
+        print(f"{ind}PATCH")
+    elif cid==0x46:
+        print(f"{ind}PMESH")
+    elif cid==0x2046 and ln>=8:
+        f=struct.unpack_from("<2f",body,0)
+        print(f"{ind}LOD_DISTANCE in={f[0]:.2f} out={f[1]:.2f}")