Re-scan at finer granularity: collision..moby is entirely texture
The "3 of 21 blocks not texture-like" figure from the last commit was an artifact of sampling every 256 KB and missing everything between. Re-scanned at 4 KB granularity there are about 100 such blocks, and looking at them rather than only counting them, they are smooth gradient ramps -- sky and fog texture. A noisy gradient has a high distinct byte count without being code, which is exactly the mistake the byte-count heuristic invites. So collision..moby is entirely texture data. There is no separate moby_anim region there, and two claims about this range have now been wrong: the "6.2 MB of unknown data" and the "3 unexplained blocks". Both came from sizes and counts taken without looking at what they described. moby_anim is therefore still unlocated, but it is not here. The remaining candidate is the unresolved tail after the last shrub class -- ~925 KB of real, non-zero data on level 0 that nothing accounts for. Recording the two corrections together rather than one at a time, because the mechanism is the same in both: a heuristic count is not an identification.
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@@ -86,5 +86,18 @@ The texture table's `data_offset` values only reach 5326208, which is why the
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gap looked real: mip chains extend well past the last entry's offset. A region
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sized from a table of first-level offsets understates the data it points at.
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Three of the 21 sampled blocks are not texture-like, so something is mixed in
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and is not yet identified, but it is not 6.2 MB of `moby_anim`.
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The "3 of 21 blocks not texture-like" figure in the previous revision was an
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artifact of sampling every 256 KB. Re-scanned at 4 KB granularity the whole
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range is texture data: ~100 blocks stand out, and looking at them they are
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smooth gradient ramps -- sky and fog texture, exactly what gradient texels look
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like. A noisy gradient has a high distinct byte count without being code.
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So the range between collision and moby is **entirely texture data**, and there
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is no separate `moby_anim` region there. Combined with the correction above,
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two claims made about this range have now been wrong: the "6.2 MB of unknown
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data" and the "3 unexplained blocks".
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Where `moby_anim` actually lives is therefore still open, but it is not here.
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The remaining candidate is the unresolved tail after the last shrub class,
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which on level 0 is ~925 KB of real, non-zero data that nothing yet accounts
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for.
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