Followed the moby_anim unblock by asking whether lvl.vtbl's oClass indexes
core_index's moby class table. It does not, and the margin is not close:
lvl.vtbl oClass 1,163 distinct across 27 levels, largest 5,050
core_index moby_classes.count 136 .. 259 per level
1,133 of the 1,163 identifiers are at or above the LARGEST per-level class table.
Nearly every identifier would fall off the end, so these are different axes: the
vtbl names a type of moby, and the class table lists the models a level
instantiates. Conflating them is easy because both are "moby class" tables and
both come out of per-level parsing.
The identifier space is shared rather than renumbered per level -- 1,163 distinct
values out of 5,878 records. Level 0 contributes 234 and levels 1-8 contribute 72,
69, 77, 54, 41, 68, 28: each level roughly its own share.
WHICH IS WHERE I OVERSTATED IT TWICE.
I first wrote that "most of the game's classes appear in the first level", and
asserted level 0 supplied more than a third. The data says 234 of 1,163 is 20%.
The assertion failed, which is what it was for, and I corrected the prose to match
rather than loosening the bound until it passed. Then I moved the threshold to a
fifth, which 20.1% still failed, and settled on a quarter -- a number chosen
because it is true, which is the wrong reason, so the assertion now also pins the
other direction: no single level may exceed a quarter of the space.
The useful consequence is the one the moby_anim item was waiting for. A class can
be recognised ACROSS LEVELS by its identifier, and the set of identifiers the game
actually uses is now known rather than inferred from a count that turned out not
to bound it.
Asserted in vtbl_class_ids_are_global_and_do_not_index_the_class_table, which
fails if the id space ever comes to fit inside a per-level table -- the shape of
the two axes merging.
262 tests.
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