Tooling built to recover editable source for six 'Mech chassis that exist
in the parallel FS_Build_V4H build but not in this repo. Reverse-engineers
every compiled record type in the .mw4 package format back to the .data /
.instance / .subsystems / .damage / .contents / .torso / .engine /
.armature sources the content pipeline consumes.
Nothing here is wired into the game build. It is a standalone analysis
harness run from Linux.
Package format
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"#VBD" container. Directory records are [len][name][FILETIME][origSize]
[storedSize][offset], payload base at dword 0x0C. A record is stored raw
when storedSize == origSize, otherwise LZW (9->12-bit LSB-first codes,
256=clear, 257=EOF, dict from 258), per Database.cpp:451.
GameModel records are flat /Zp4 structs following the C++ inheritance
chain Entity(0) -> Mover(28) -> MWObject(80) -> Vehicle(664) -> Mech(756),
1636 bytes total. CreateMessage records follow Replicator -> Entity ->
Mover -> MWMover -> MWObject -> Vehicle -> Mech from start=16 (the
undeclared Connection__Message header), ending at 341 and padded to 344.
tools/decompile/
----------------
datamap.py header-driven layout engine; CHAIN + ANCHORS
{Vehicle:664, Mech:756} assert the struct offsets
mw4msg.py CreateMessage reader/walker
data.py .data constants.py define/table symbol resolution
damage.py .damage contents.py .contents
smallmodel.py .torso + .engine instance.py .instance
armature.py / armature_parts.py .armature + armaturedata/armaturevideo
assembly.py joint hierarchy renderer
make_generic_doll.py builds generic MFD/Radar damage dolls
verify_*.py per-type round-trip verifiers
Verified round-trip across all 64 shared chassis:
.armature 2938/2976 pages .subsystems 7579/7585 keys
.data map 6071/6071 values .data trip 8291/8306 keys
.damage 6605/6605 keys .contents 7480/7480 keys
.torso+.engine 1280/1280 keys .instance 896/896 keys, 64/64 pages
armature_parts 1202/1202 .data, 1149/1202 .video
Layout-discovery lessons (documented in DECOMPILING.md)
-------------------------------------------------------
- Never let a field map be discovered by the values that verify it. A
value-matching pass reported 4288/4288 while mis-assigning 34 keys. The
map was rebuilt from header declaration order, anchored on uniquely
resolved fields.
- Read the factory, not the data. 12 .data fields and 5 Torso fields are
declared plain Stuff::Scalar but multiplied by Radians_Per_Degree in
Mech_Tool.cpp:889 / Torso_Tool.cpp.
- Strip typedefs before walking a header. A stray `typedef int AttributeID;`
masked a missing ClassID - two 4-byte errors cancelling out, caught only
by the ANCHORS assertion.
- A verifier that silently narrows its own input reports success. Braced
blocks must be hidden before splitting pages, replacing both CR and LF,
because a `Shadow={...}` block contains a line reading `[shadow]` and
splitlines() also splits on bare CR.
- NSWIZZLE is undefined, so the #else branch is live and orders members
differently. bool is 1 byte; char x[MaxStringLength] is 256.
- V4H carries stale Mech IDs (their Atlas is 5, ours 6), so 64 of 65 shared
chassis are off by one; --retarget-ids emits $(M_<Chassis>)/$(IDS_<Chassis>).
reports/ holds generated diffs. The two ~5 MB manifest-*.tsv intermediates
are gitignored; regenerate everything with run-comparison.sh.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: GitHub Copilot <copilot@github.com>
128 lines
4.9 KiB
Python
128 lines
4.9 KiB
Python
#!/usr/bin/env python3
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"""Verification harness for the .subsystems decompiler.
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Rebuilds every chassis from our own packed records and compares the resulting
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key/value pairs, page by page, against the known source .subsystems.
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Page names are ignored - the packer does not store them (see subsystems.py), so
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only order and content can be verified.
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Chassis whose source has moved on since the package was built are reported
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separately rather than counted as failures; core.mw4 has not been repacked since
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the initial mirror, so battlemaster and battlemaster2c legitimately differ.
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python3 verify_subsystems.py
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"""
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import sys, os, glob, re, collections
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sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
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import subsystems
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def source_pages(path):
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"""Parse a source .subsystems leniently.
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The runtime NotationFile accepts a page header with no closing bracket -
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hellspawn had '[HeatSink10' and sunder '[HeatSink16' - so match on a leading
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'[' rather than a full bracketed pattern.
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GroupIndex may appear several times in one page, so values are collected as
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lists rather than overwritten.
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"""
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txt = open(path, "rb").read().decode("latin-1")
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out = []
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for m in re.finditer(r'^\[([^\r\n\]]*)\]?[ \t]*\r?\n(.*?)(?=^\[|\Z)', txt, re.M | re.S):
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kv = collections.OrderedDict()
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for k, v in re.findall(r'^([A-Za-z0-9_]+)=([^\r\n]*)', m.group(2), re.M):
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if k in kv:
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kv[k] = (kv[k] if isinstance(kv[k], list) else [kv[k]]) + [v]
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else:
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kv[k] = v
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out.append((m.group(1), kv))
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return out
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def norm(key, value):
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"""Compare as a sorted list so a single value and a one-element list match."""
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if not isinstance(value, list):
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value = [value]
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return sorted(_norm1(key, v) for v in value)
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def _norm1(key, value):
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v = str(value).strip()
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if key in ("Model", "Site", "EjectSite", "InternalLocation", "ExecutionState",
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"ArmorType", "InternalType"):
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return v.lower().replace("\\", "/")
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try:
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return f"{float(v):.4g}"
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except ValueError:
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return v.lower()
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def main():
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manifest = subsystems.load_manifest(subsystems.OUR_MANIFEST)
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ppt = subsystems.armor_points_per_ton()
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srcs = {os.path.basename(p)[:-len(".subsystems")].lower(): p
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for p in glob.glob(subsystems.OUR_MECH_SOURCE + "/*/*.subsystems")}
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t = collections.Counter()
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mismatched_keys = collections.Counter()
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stale, examples = [], []
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for rec in sorted(glob.glob(subsystems.OUR_RECORDS + "/*/*.subsystems")):
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chassis = os.path.basename(rec)[:-len(".subsystems")].lower()
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if chassis not in srcs:
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continue
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src = source_pages(srcs[chassis])
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got = subsystems.decompile(rec, manifest, ppt)
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if len(src) != len(got):
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stale.append((chassis, len(got), len(src)))
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continue
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t["chassis"] += 1
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for (_sname, skv), (_gname, gkv) in zip(src, got):
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t["pages"] += 1
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page_ok = True
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for key, sval in skv.items():
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if key in ("SubsystemIndex",): # not emitted; defaults to 0
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continue
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# An explicit "=0" and an omitted key are identical to the packer.
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if gkv.get(key) is None and str(sval).strip() in ("0", "0.0"):
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continue
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t["keys"] += 1
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gval = gkv.get(key)
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if gval is not None and norm(key, gval) == norm(key, sval):
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t["keys_ok"] += 1
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else:
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page_ok = False
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mismatched_keys[key] += 1
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if len(examples) < 12:
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examples.append((chassis, key, sval, gval))
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extra = [k for k in gkv if k not in skv]
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if extra:
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page_ok = False
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for k in extra:
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mismatched_keys["EXTRA:" + k] += 1
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t["pages_ok"] += page_ok
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print(f"chassis verified : {t['chassis']}")
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print(f"pages compared : {t['pages']} fully exact: {t['pages_ok']}")
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print(f"keys compared : {t['keys']} exact: {t['keys_ok']}"
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f" wrong: {t['keys'] - t['keys_ok']}")
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if mismatched_keys:
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print("\nmismatches by key:")
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for k, v in mismatched_keys.most_common(12):
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print(f" {k:22s} x{v}")
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if examples:
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print("\nexamples (chassis, key, source, decompiled):")
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for e in examples:
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print(f" {e[0]:14s} {e[1]:18s} src={e[2]!r:28s} got={e[3]!r}")
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if stale:
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print("\nskipped - source has moved on since the package was built:")
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for ch, g, s in stale:
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print(f" {ch:16s} messages={g} sourcePages={s}")
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if __name__ == "__main__":
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main()
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