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Support for ROTT's RTL/RTC and ROTT:LE extended RTLX map format
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Issue Details: Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition supports four different level formats. Two of them are the classic RTL/RTC map formats, and two of them are the extended RTLX/RTCX map formats specific to Ludicrous Edition, which support a WAD-style directory.
A description of the RTL/RTC file format can be found here. In essence, it is a list of 100 map structs that point to RLE-encoded map data that is appended at the end of the map structs.
The extended format with the directory has the following headers. I can provide more details if necessary, but all files that ship with ROTT:LE have two lumps - one called "MAPS" which contains the old-school map headers and data, and the other containing a JSON-encoded MAPINFO.
struct header_s
{
char signature[4]; // RTL and RTC are old-school level lists, RXL and RXC are modern ROTT:LE map lists
uint32_t version; // 0x0101 for RTL/RTC, 0x0200 for RTLX/RTCX
uint64_t directoryoffset; // Only in RTLX/RTCX
uint64_t directorycount; // Only in RTLX/RTCX
};
struct direntry_s // Only for RTLX/RTCX
{
char title[15];
char forcenullterminator; // True if the game expects a null terminator at the end of the lump.
uint64_t offset;
uint64_t length;
};