The doc's open gap was "where does the screen's draw list live" -- the eff/deli/msg
sprites have no .rat and loop1.rat turned out to be an animation. It is the
bundle's own declaration table, which is NOT the child listing: children are
grouped by type (all .t32, then all .rat) while the declaration table names
ELEMENTS in a plausible back-to-front order and contains exactly the missing set.
For the in-mission pause menu it lists 23 elements ending with loop1.rat, and it
omits the focused button variants -- those are reached via each base record's
"opt " link -- so it is the screen's element set, not an inventory.
Also corrects the entry layout: it is FIVE words after the name, not "u32 x4
flags", and word +32 is a PARENT ELEMENT INDEX (0xffffffff = none). pgpeff02a
carries 3 and element 3 is pgpeff02; pgpeff03a carries 5 and element 5 is
pgpeff03. Verified on two independent language builds, no out-of-range value in
any bundle, and the tutorial bundle (no "a" variants) is 0xffffffff throughout.
Bounded honestly: what is drawn and in what order is now answered; WHERE the
eff/deli/msg sprites land is not -- the declaration entry has a pivot but no X/Y.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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