Tie is the easy one of the three geometry subsystems -- instanced
static props, no skeleton -- so it is the right place to start.
RAC1's class header is 0x80 bytes. RAC2 agrees with it over the first
0x48 and diverges after. From 0x48 the RAC1 layout does not describe
RAC2 data: lod_info at 0x50 reads back as noise, packet_count and
texture_count are zero on every class examined, and the normals offset
at 0x0c points 117,788,434 bytes into a 16.9 MB lump.
Only the agreed-on prefix is decoded. What makes it trustworthy:
* o_class at 0x44 equals the core index's class number for all 1,864 tie
classes across all 27 levels. A field landing on the right number that
often is not a coincidence, and it pins the header base.
* The LOD distances are ordered 0 < near < mid < far for 1,784 of 1,864.
The 80 exceptions are real, unexplained, and are reported rather than
asserted away.
Level 0's first tie class has distances 12.0 / 25.0 / 40.0, a plausible
prop LOD band, and packet offsets 256, 20,592 and 26,048.
The rest is deliberately not guessed at. A field order that produces
plausible output and is wrong is the specific failure this project keeps
recording, three times now: the gameplay extent, the tfrag record
framing and the class tables were all "reasonable" and all wrong.
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