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83478b7666 Add MW4COMPARE: .mw4 decompiler toolchain and V4H comparison harness
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
--------------
"#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>
2026-08-08 16:47:57 -05:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
prune-identical.py - delete everything from an extracted tree that we already have,
leaving only genuine differences and additions.
python3 prune-identical.py <extractedDir> [--apply]
Dry-run by default; nothing is deleted without --apply.
Why two baselines
-----------------
A .mw4 is not a zip of the source tree. Our own packer rewrites ~7,400 files on
the way in (.data .video .instance .contents .audio .damage .torso .subsystems
.engine .lights) and generates a further ~17,700 qualified records that have no
source file at all ('foo.data{gamemodel}', 'foo.contents[joint_hip]{armature}',
'bar.tga{hint}'). Comparing only against Content/ would therefore "keep" about
24,000 files we in fact already have.
So each candidate is tested, in order:
1. same package + same entry path in OUR extracted packages, identical bytes
2. same entry path anywhere in OUR extracted packages, identical bytes
3. unqualified name + same path in our Content/ source tree, identical bytes
Any hit means we have that exact asset -> delete. Rule 3 is what recognises
raw pass-through assets (.tga, .wav, .erf, scripts); rules 1-2 are what
recognise the packer-generated forms.
Afterwards _merged/ is rebuilt from the survivors and empty directories removed.
"""
import sys, os, hashlib, collections, shutil
OURS_EXTRACTED = "/home/rich/Repositories/FS_Ours_extracted"
OUR_SOURCE = "/home/rich/Repositories/firestorm/Gameleap/mw4/Content"
PRECEDENCE = {"props": 50, "core": 40, "textures": 30, "maps": 20, "missions": 10}
MERGE_EXCLUDE = ("variants/", "pilots/")
def digest(path, cache={}):
key = (path, os.path.getsize(path))
if key not in cache:
with open(path, "rb") as fh:
cache[key] = hashlib.md5(fh.read()).hexdigest()
return cache[key]
def index_paths(root, skip_top=()):
"""relative-lowercased-path -> absolute path. No hashing (lazy)."""
out = {}
for dp, dirs, fs in os.walk(root):
if dp == root:
dirs[:] = [d for d in dirs if d.lower() not in skip_top]
for f in fs:
p = os.path.join(dp, f)
out[os.path.relpath(p, root).replace("\\", "/").lower()] = p
return out
def package_of(rel):
"""Split '<pkgdir>/<entryPath>' for an extracted file.
Package directories are: core, props, textures, maps/<x>, Missions/<x>,
Variants/<x>, Pilots/Tesla/options
"""
parts = rel.split("/")
head = parts[0].lower()
if head in ("core", "props", "textures"):
return parts[0], "/".join(parts[1:])
if head in ("maps", "missions", "variants") and len(parts) > 2:
return "/".join(parts[:2]), "/".join(parts[2:])
if head == "pilots" and len(parts) > 3:
return "/".join(parts[:3]), "/".join(parts[3:])
return parts[0], "/".join(parts[1:])
def merged_precedence(pkg):
return PRECEDENCE.get(pkg.split("/")[0].lower(), 0)
def main():
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
sys.exit(__doc__)
root = sys.argv[1]
apply_ = "--apply" in sys.argv
merged_root = os.path.join(root, "_merged")
print("indexing our extracted packages ...", flush=True)
ours_pkg = index_paths(OURS_EXTRACTED, skip_top={"_merged"})
ours_by_entry = {}
for rel, p in ours_pkg.items():
if rel.startswith("_"):
continue
_pkg, entry = package_of(rel)
ours_by_entry.setdefault(entry, []).append(p)
print(f" {len(ours_pkg)} files, {len(ours_by_entry)} distinct entry paths")
print("indexing our Content source tree ...", flush=True)
src = index_paths(OUR_SOURCE)
print(f" {len(src)} files")
stats = collections.Counter()
doomed, kept = [], []
for dp, _dirs, fs in os.walk(root):
if dp == merged_root or dp.startswith(merged_root + os.sep):
continue
for f in fs:
p = os.path.join(dp, f)
rel = os.path.relpath(p, root).replace("\\", "/")
if rel.startswith("_"):
continue
pkg, entry = package_of(rel)
h = digest(p)
reason = None
cand = ours_pkg.get(rel.lower())
if cand and digest(cand) == h:
reason = "same-package"
if reason is None:
for c in ours_by_entry.get(entry.lower(), ()):
if digest(c) == h:
reason = "other-package"
break
if reason is None and "{" not in f and "[" not in f:
c = src.get(entry.lower())
if c and digest(c) == h:
reason = "our-source"
if reason:
stats["deleted:" + reason] += 1
doomed.append((rel, reason))
else:
stats["kept"] += 1
kept.append((rel, pkg, entry, h))
total = len(doomed) + len(kept)
print(f"\nexamined {total} files")
for k, v in sorted(stats.items()):
print(f" {v:7d} {k}")
print(f"\n -> would delete {len(doomed)}, keep {len(kept)}")
with open(os.path.join(root, "_survivors.tsv"), "w", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
fh.write("path\tpackage\tentry\tmd5\n")
for rel, pkg, entry, h in sorted(kept):
fh.write(f"{rel}\t{pkg}\t{entry}\t{h}\n")
if not apply_:
print(f"\nDRY RUN - nothing changed. Survivor list written to "
f"{os.path.join(root, '_survivors.tsv')}. Re-run with --apply.")
return
for rel, _reason in doomed:
os.remove(os.path.join(root, rel))
with open(os.path.join(root, "_pruned.tsv"), "w", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
fh.write("deletedPath\tmatchedVia\n")
for rel, reason in sorted(doomed):
fh.write(f"{rel}\t{reason}\n")
# rebuild _merged from survivors
shutil.rmtree(merged_root, ignore_errors=True)
best = {}
for rel, pkg, entry, h in kept:
if pkg.lower().startswith(MERGE_EXCLUDE):
continue
pr = merged_precedence(pkg)
cur = best.get(entry.lower())
if cur is None or pr > cur[0]:
best[entry.lower()] = (pr, entry, os.path.join(root, rel))
for _pr, entry, srcfile in best.values():
dest = os.path.join(merged_root, entry)
os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(dest), exist_ok=True)
os.link(srcfile, dest)
removed = 0
for dp, dirs, fs in os.walk(root, topdown=False):
if dp == root or not os.path.isdir(dp):
continue
if not os.listdir(dp):
os.rmdir(dp)
removed += 1
print(f"\ndeleted {len(doomed)} files, removed {removed} empty directories")
print(f"_merged rebuilt with {len(best)} paths")
print(f"log: {os.path.join(root, '_pruned.tsv')}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()