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@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+# `recorded_animations.obj` continuation wave (2026-08-27)
+
+## Result
+
+This wave advances `recorded_animations.obj` from 6/16 to 12/16
+strict-exact functions. The object now has no unwritten function owners:
+12 are strict exact and the remaining four are typed, target-sized residuals
+with the target relocation counts.
+
+The strict-exact owners account for 1,648/2,800 padded target bytes.
+
+| Strict function | Padded bytes | Relocations | Normalized SHA-256 |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| `_code_000836c0` | 96 | 4 | `dfe89944f5a5133e3b05901bba5076f4bcda484539e5373342c7a97452e745b7` |
+| `_recorded_animation_controlling_unit` | 96 | 4 | `f21618f605218178bd0239d32d5361e014e232c079b62c3efde6d64fecdcfef0` |
+| `_recorded_animation_play` | 32 | 1 | `ef585acc1d2013cd265d49eaa84ecdaf199a4240338ab525e2e5415f55138fa2` |
+| `_recorded_animation_play_and_delete` | 32 | 1 | `35ec6175e1878120e0ea7fdb6a81827fd940b345897631bc2401ac44c32740ea` |
+| `_recorded_animation_play_and_hover` | 32 | 1 | `c11e67670227db5072be50fc141406af4628cdaabce20cdbd8b1377aed52d2a3` |
+| `_recorded_animations_clear_debug_storage` | 64 | 7 | `1211ce37dc4823572de1d952fab7bec9bfd63c39ac60cad7e77b3c10d3603e2e` |
+| `_recorded_animations_dispose` | 48 | 4 | `b9b64bb030325c73231a51ab101f24b1d8ce3ec37789c76d2686751f0cc07ed0` |
+| `_recorded_animations_dispose_from_old_map` | 16 | 2 | `9dedd614496101c84c04e338b0fb2167843b37380b3f0e2a50007ce9c2bc7edc` |
+| `_recorded_animations_initialize` | 128 | 14 | `62d7955bddb2ac2c835aad58824e6de31cd285e0c65afd49c7325dd4cf8ed262` |
+| `_recorded_animations_initialize_for_new_map` | 80 | 9 | `974d8b0cddba4e676cb8649ac9b1efbfa2e238ef8e1fe20f223dc475581781e8` |
+| `_recorded_animations_update` | 560 | 34 | `d0606972324bba256754b94bd47bef61e499de94bc830df2dcbb5cff364c5f05` |
+| `_render_debug_recording` | 464 | 28 | `a888551deefc05cfa73b658369687feeb95c6c0fe75561a53f9122ef938ea885` |
+
+The retained residual owners are:
+
+| Residual function | Target/candidate padded bytes | Target/candidate relocations | Remaining difference |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| `_code_000839a0` | 640/640 | 38/38 | normalized instruction SHA |
+| `_recorded_animation_get_time_left` | 144/144 | 8/8 | normalized instruction SHA |
+| `_recorded_animation_kill` | 96/96 | 4/4 | normalized instruction SHA |
+| `_recorded_animation_verify` | 272/272 | 14/14 | normalized instruction SHA |
+
+## Recovered behavior
+
+The update owner is now a complete typed implementation. It advances each
+playback codec, validates the relative tick count and debug stream cursor,
+applies unit control, detects corrupt early termination, restores unit state,
+performs the optional destroy/hover completion actions, clears the debug slot,
+and retires the datum. Its 192 decoded instructions match the target exactly.
+
+The debug renderer is also complete and strict exact. It builds the original
+tabbed debug report in the 0x2800-byte local buffer, resolves scenario object
+and recording names through typed tag blocks, applies the 200/300 tab stops,
+renders the string, and restores the tab-stop state. Its 150 decoded
+instructions and all 28 relocation identities match the target.
+
+This wave also closes initialization, new-map debug clearing, debug storage
+clearing, and the controlling-unit query. `recorded_animation_verify`, the
+time-left query, the kill operation, and the private playback worker are kept
+as lawful semantic residuals rather than forced through compiler artifacts.
+
+## Evidence and experiments
+
+The January split COFF remained the byte, relocation, string, line-number,
+field-width, and control-flow authority. Semantic recovery used the pinned
+local donors under:
+
+- `build/audit/refs/stian-halo/src/halo/cutscene/recorded_animations.c`;
+- `build/audit/refs/halocea/src/blam/cutscene/recorded_animations_update.c`;
+- the recorded-animation playback and lookup donors documented by the prior
+  playback wave.
+
+The update target's relocation order exposed the two omitted stream checks and
+the dynamic `animation %s appears corrupt` assertion. Restoring those ordinary
+source blocks first produced an equal 560-byte body; matching the natural
+positive-valid-object branch, branch-local lifetimes, direct flag fields, and
+the original stringized expression then made the owner strict exact.
+
+The renderer donor produced an instruction-for-instruction match on its first
+typed implementation apart from the two independent zero assignments. Reversing
+their source order recovered the target schedule. Naming the two standalone
+globals directly recovered the target relocation identities without raw
+addresses or synthetic aliases.
+
+For `recorded_animation_verify`, a typed 0x40-byte `unit_control_data` aggregate
+recovered the target size and relocation count. Its remaining difference is
+the compiler's choice of two interchangeable local stack slots. Natural loop,
+break, nested-if, shared-result, and early-return forms were evaluated for the
+two small query/kill residuals; the retained forms preserve target sizes and
+relocation counts without steering constructs.
+
+Claude's active work was treated read-only throughout. No Claude worktree,
+index, object, build output, or session state was modified.
+
+## Policy and validation
+
+The retained source uses typed animation-thread, codec, debug-entry, scenario,
+object, unit-control, tag-block, and data-iterator access. It contains no
+assembly, volatile/register steering, pragmas, intrinsics, barriers, raw
+addresses, byte-offset access, pointer reconstruction, punning, undefined
+behavior, synthetic anchors, byte payloads, or object patching. Declarations
+remain C89-compatible and every function returns explicitly.
+
+The frozen whole-object scratch gate reports `12 exact / 4 residual / 0
+unwritten`. One selected-object production Ninja build completed successfully,
+and direct post-build comparison reproduced `12 / 4 / 0`. `git diff --check`
+passed; Git emitted only its line-ending notice. The production compiler also
+reported one pointer-level warning at the `game_state_data_new` assignment,
+caused by this translation unit's missing visible allocator prototype; the
+32-bit emitted owner nevertheless matches the target strictly.
diff --git a/source/cutscene/recorded_animations.c b/source/cutscene/recorded_animations.c
index b92ad081..a5572cac 100644
--- a/source/cutscene/recorded_animations.c
+++ b/source/cutscene/recorded_animations.c
@@ -92,8 +92,10 @@ symbols in this file:
 #include "game/players.h"
 #include "memory/data.h"
 #include "objects/objects.h"
+#include "render/render_debug.h"
 #include "scenario/scenario.h"
 #include "scenario/scenario_definitions.h"
+#include "text/draw_string.h"
 #include "units/units.h"
 
 /* ---------- constants */
@@ -101,12 +103,31 @@ symbols in this file:
 enum
 {
 	_recording_thread_finished_bit = 0,
+	_recording_thread_killed_bit = 1,
 	_recording_thread_unit_was_controlled_bit = 2,
+	_recording_thread_delete_unit_on_complete_bit = 3,
+	_recording_thread_hover_vehicle_on_complete_bit = 4,
 	RECORDED_ANIMATION_VERSION = 4,
 };
 
 /* ---------- structures */
 
+struct unit_control_data
+{
+	char animation_state;
+	char aiming_speed;
+	word control_flags;
+	short weapon_index;
+	short grenade_index;
+	short zoom_level;
+	short pad;
+	real_vector3d throttle;
+	real primary_trigger;
+	real_vector3d facing_vector;
+	real_vector3d aiming_vector;
+	real_vector3d looking_vector;
+};
+
 struct animation_thread
 {
 	short identifier;
@@ -116,7 +137,7 @@ struct animation_thread
 	word flags;
 	long relative_ticks;
 	byte *event_stream;
-	byte controller[0x40];
+	struct unit_control_data controller;
 	byte animation_state[0xC];
 	short version;
 	short pad62;
@@ -126,8 +147,8 @@ struct animation_thread_debug
 {
 	boolean active;
 	byte pad1[3];
-	byte *event_stream;
-	long event_stream_size;
+	byte *event_stream_start;
+	long stream_length;
 	short animation_index;
 	short padE;
 };
@@ -139,6 +160,11 @@ struct animation_playback
 		void *controller,
 		byte **event_stream,
 		byte unit_control_data_version);
+	boolean (*apply_event_stream)(
+		void *animation_state,
+		struct unit_control_data *controller,
+		long *relative_ticks,
+		byte **event_stream);
 };
 
 struct recorded_animation_playback_data
@@ -168,6 +194,15 @@ static boolean code_000839a0(
 	short animation_index,
 	word extra_flags);
 
+void unit_control(
+	long unit_index,
+	struct unit_control_data const *control_data);
+void hs_object_destroy(
+	long object_index);
+void vehicle_hover(
+	long vehicle_index,
+	boolean hover);
+
 extern boolean recorded_animation_controlling_unit(
 	long unit_index);
 
@@ -176,9 +211,39 @@ extern boolean recorded_animation_controlling_unit(
 extern struct animation_thread_debug *animation_threads_debug;
 extern struct recorded_animations_globals_prefix bss_00435ca4;
 extern struct recorded_animation_playback_data data_002dd160;
+extern boolean debug_recording;
+extern short debug_recording_newlines;
 
 /* ---------- public code */
 
+#define animation_threads bss_00435ca4.animation_threads
+
+void recorded_animations_initialize(
+	void)
+{
+	animation_threads = game_state_data_new(
+		"recorded animations",
+		64,
+		sizeof(struct animation_thread));
+	match_assert(
+		"c:\\halo\\SOURCE\\cutscene\\recorded_animations.c",
+		108,
+		animation_threads);
+
+	animation_threads_debug = match_malloc(
+		"c:\\halo\\SOURCE\\cutscene\\recorded_animations.c",
+		111,
+		0x400);
+	match_assert(
+		"c:\\halo\\SOURCE\\cutscene\\recorded_animations.c",
+		112,
+		animation_threads_debug);
+
+	return;
+}
+
+#undef animation_threads
+
 void recorded_animations_dispose(
 	void)
 {
@@ -202,6 +267,346 @@ void recorded_animations_dispose_from_old_map(
 	return;
 }
 
+void recorded_animations_clear_debug_storage(
+	void)
+{
+	match_assert(
+		"c:\\halo\\SOURCE\\cutscene\\recorded_animations.c",
+		0x99,
+		animation_threads_debug);
+	memset(animation_threads_debug, 0, 0x400);
+
+	return;
+}
+
+void recorded_animations_update(
+	void)
+{
+	struct data_iterator iterator;
+	struct animation_thread *thread;
+
+	data_iterator_new(&iterator, bss_00435ca4.animation_threads);
+	thread = data_iterator_next(&iterator);
+	while (thread)
+	{
+		if (object_try_and_get_and_verify_type(thread->unit_index, _object_mask_unit))
+		{
+			if (!TEST_FLAG(thread->flags, _recording_thread_finished_bit))
+			{
+				struct animation_thread_debug *thread_debug;
+				long *relative_ticks;
+				boolean finished;
+
+				thread->ticks_left--;
+				relative_ticks = &thread->relative_ticks;
+				finished = !playback_codec[thread->version]->apply_event_stream(
+					thread->animation_state,
+					&thread->controller,
+					relative_ticks,
+					&thread->event_stream);
+
+				match_assert(
+					"c:\\halo\\SOURCE\\cutscene\\recorded_animations.c",
+					347,
+					thread->relative_ticks>=0);
+
+				thread_debug = animation_threads_debug_get(iterator.datum_index);
+				if (thread_debug->active)
+				{
+					match_assert(
+						"c:\\halo\\SOURCE\\cutscene\\recorded_animations.c",
+						354,
+						thread->event_stream-thread_debug->event_stream_start<thread_debug->stream_length||(thread->event_stream-thread_debug->event_stream_start==thread_debug->stream_length&&finished));
+				}
+
+				thread->relative_ticks++;
+				unit_control(thread->unit_index, &thread->controller);
+				SET_FLAG(
+					thread->flags,
+					_recording_thread_finished_bit,
+					finished);
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				struct animation_thread_debug *thread_debug;
+
+				thread_debug = animation_threads_debug_get(iterator.datum_index);
+				if (thread_debug->active &&
+					!TEST_FLAG(thread->flags, _recording_thread_killed_bit) &&
+					thread->ticks_left != 0)
+				{
+					match_vassert(
+						"c:\\halo\\SOURCE\\cutscene\\recorded_animations.c",
+						373,
+						FALSE,
+						csprintf(
+							temporary,
+							"animation %s appears corrupt",
+							TAG_BLOCK_GET_ELEMENT(
+								&global_scenario_get()->recorded_animations,
+								thread_debug->animation_index,
+								struct recorded_animation_definition)->name));
+				}
+
+				thread_debug->active = FALSE;
+				unit_set_controllable(
+					thread->unit_index,
+					TEST_FLAG(thread->flags, _recording_thread_unit_was_controlled_bit));
+				unit_set_possessed(thread->unit_index, FALSE);
+				unit_set_actively_controlled(thread->unit_index, FALSE);
+				object_set_automatic_deactivation(thread->unit_index, TRUE);
+				if (TEST_FLAG(
+					thread->flags,
+					_recording_thread_delete_unit_on_complete_bit))
+				{
+					hs_object_destroy(thread->unit_index);
+				}
+				if (TEST_FLAG(
+					thread->flags,
+					_recording_thread_hover_vehicle_on_complete_bit))
+				{
+					vehicle_hover(thread->unit_index, TRUE);
+				}
+
+				datum_delete(bss_00435ca4.animation_threads, iterator.datum_index);
+			}
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			datum_delete(bss_00435ca4.animation_threads, iterator.datum_index);
+		}
+
+		thread = data_iterator_next(&iterator);
+	}
+
+	return;
+}
+
+void recorded_animations_initialize_for_new_map(
+	void)
+{
+	data_make_valid(bss_00435ca4.animation_threads);
+	recorded_animations_clear_debug_storage();
+
+	return;
+}
+
+void render_debug_recording(
+	void)
+{
+	char string[0x2800];
+	struct data_iterator iterator;
+	struct scenario_object_name *object_name;
+	short tab_stops[2];
+	short newline_index;
+	long string_length;
+	struct animation_thread *thread;
+	struct object_datum *object;
+	struct animation_thread_debug *thread_debug;
+	char const *recording_name;
+
+	if (debug_recording)
+	{
+		string_length = 0;
+		newline_index = 0;
+		tab_stops[0] = 200;
+		tab_stops[1] = 300;
+		while (newline_index < debug_recording_newlines)
+		{
+			string_length += sprintf(string + (short)string_length, "|n");
+			newline_index++;
+		}
+
+		string_length += sprintf(
+			string + (short)string_length,
+			"recording name|tticks left|tobject name");
+
+		data_iterator_new(&iterator, bss_00435ca4.animation_threads);
+		thread = data_iterator_next(&iterator);
+		while (thread)
+		{
+			object = object_try_and_get_and_verify_type(
+				thread->unit_index,
+				_object_mask_all);
+			thread_debug = animation_threads_debug_get(iterator.datum_index);
+			if (!TEST_FLAG(thread->flags, _recording_thread_finished_bit) &&
+				object &&
+				object->object.name_index != NONE)
+			{
+				object_name = TAG_BLOCK_GET_ELEMENT(
+					&global_scenario_get()->object_names,
+					object->object.name_index,
+					struct scenario_object_name);
+
+				recording_name = "<unknown>";
+				if (thread_debug->active)
+				{
+					recording_name = TAG_BLOCK_GET_ELEMENT(
+						&global_scenario_get()->recorded_animations,
+						thread_debug->animation_index,
+						struct recorded_animation_definition)->name;
+				}
+
+				string_length += sprintf(
+					string + (short)string_length,
+					"|n%s|t",
+					recording_name);
+				string_length += sprintf(
+					string + (short)string_length,
+					"%d|t",
+					thread->ticks_left);
+				string_length += sprintf(
+					string + (short)string_length,
+					"%s",
+					object_name->name);
+			}
+
+			thread = data_iterator_next(&iterator);
+		}
+
+		string[0x400] = 0;
+		draw_string_set_tab_stops(tab_stops, NUMBEROF(tab_stops));
+		render_debug_string(TRUE, string);
+		draw_string_set_tab_stops(tab_stops, 0);
+	}
+
+	return;
+}
+
+void recorded_animation_verify(
+	struct recorded_animation_definition const *animation)
+{
+	struct unit_control_data controller;
+	byte animation_state[0xC];
+	byte *stream;
+	byte *playback_stream;
+	long size;
+	long relative_ticks = 0;
+	long ticks_left;
+	boolean finished;
+
+	stream = animation->event_stream.address;
+	playback_stream = stream;
+	size = animation->event_stream.size;
+	ticks_left = (word)animation->length_in_ticks;
+
+	playback_codec[animation->version-1]->initialize_event_stream(
+		animation_state,
+		&controller,
+		&playback_stream,
+		animation->unit_control_data_version);
+
+	do
+	{
+		ticks_left--;
+		finished = !playback_codec[animation->version-1]->apply_event_stream(
+			animation_state,
+			&controller,
+			&relative_ticks,
+			&playback_stream);
+
+		match_assert(
+			"c:\\halo\\SOURCE\\cutscene\\recorded_animations.c",
+			428,
+			ticks_left>=0);
+		match_assert(
+			"c:\\halo\\SOURCE\\cutscene\\recorded_animations.c",
+			429,
+			relative_ticks>=0);
+		match_assert(
+			"c:\\halo\\SOURCE\\cutscene\\recorded_animations.c",
+			430,
+			playback_stream-stream<size||(playback_stream-stream==size&&finished));
+
+		relative_ticks++;
+	}
+	while (!finished);
+
+	return;
+}
+
+boolean recorded_animation_controlling_unit(
+	long unit_index)
+{
+	boolean result = FALSE;
+	struct data_iterator iterator;
+	struct animation_thread *thread;
+
+	data_iterator_new(&iterator, bss_00435ca4.animation_threads);
+	thread = data_iterator_next(&iterator);
+	if (thread)
+	{
+		while (thread->unit_index != unit_index ||
+			TEST_FLAG(thread->flags, _recording_thread_finished_bit))
+		{
+			thread = data_iterator_next(&iterator);
+			if (!thread)
+				break;
+		}
+
+		if (thread)
+			result = TRUE;
+	}
+
+	return result;
+}
+
+void recorded_animation_kill(
+	long unit_index)
+{
+	struct data_iterator iterator;
+	struct animation_thread *thread;
+
+	data_iterator_new(&iterator, bss_00435ca4.animation_threads);
+	thread = data_iterator_next(&iterator);
+	while (thread)
+	{
+		if (thread->unit_index == unit_index)
+			break;
+
+		thread = data_iterator_next(&iterator);
+	}
+
+	if (thread)
+	{
+		thread->flags |=
+			(1 << _recording_thread_finished_bit) |
+			(1 << _recording_thread_killed_bit);
+	}
+
+	return;
+}
+
+long recorded_animation_get_time_left(
+	long unit_index)
+{
+	long result = 0;
+	struct data_iterator iterator;
+	struct animation_thread *thread;
+
+	data_iterator_new(&iterator, bss_00435ca4.animation_threads);
+	thread = data_iterator_next(&iterator);
+	if (thread)
+	{
+		while (thread->unit_index != unit_index)
+		{
+			thread = data_iterator_next(&iterator);
+			if (!thread)
+				break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	match_assert(
+		"c:\\halo\\SOURCE\\cutscene\\recorded_animations.c",
+		312,
+		!thread||thread->unit_index==unit_index);
+
+	if (thread)
+		result = thread->ticks_left;
+
+	return result;
+}
+
 boolean recorded_animation_play(
 	long unit_index,
 	short animation_index)
@@ -299,8 +704,8 @@ static boolean code_000839a0(
 
 					debug = animation_threads_debug_get(thread_index);
 					debug->active = TRUE;
-					debug->event_stream = thread->event_stream;
-					debug->event_stream_size = animation->event_stream.size;
+					debug->event_stream_start = thread->event_stream;
+					debug->stream_length = animation->event_stream.size;
 					debug->animation_index = animation_index;
 
 					thread->version = animation->version - 1;
@@ -313,7 +718,7 @@ static boolean code_000839a0(
 					playback = playback_codec[thread->version];
 					playback->initialize_event_stream(
 						thread->animation_state,
-						thread->controller,
+						&thread->controller,
 						&thread->event_stream,
 						animation->unit_control_data_version);