A port's tail tip: whole until the cut, then it drops

[sp00ktober]

A port's tail is whole until it is cut; then the tip lies on the ground beside it, as on a native monster. For sp00ktober/MHFU-ModKit#121.

• Converter:
  • The tip is PMO mesh record 1, with its cut face as material Workspace skeleton: uv, ruff, pytest, pre-commit, CI, REUSE #1, which em75 hides until the cut.
  • Its chain stays a root at params[1]; ADOPTER is gone.
  • rig.tip_of derives the tip-to-tail joint map from the skeleton (it reproduces the game's own attach joints on all 35 native rigs with a tip), and the moves module carries it as tip.
  • mesh.build requires the tip, so fidelity and the Blender writer split it too.
  • verify fails a port that a tail-dropping host would crash on: a one-mesh model makes PPSSPP die when the dropped tip draws.
• Framework (api 3):
  • mhfu_em_tip / mhfu.em_tip: em_vhook wraps the species OBJ_VTABLE.BRAIN and copies each tip joint's JOINT.POSE from its tail joint every frame, until the drop. mhfu_port installs it from the moves module.
  • Rules, requests and own moves wait while the cut's (4,4) runs to the drop, so a mod can no longer skip it.
• Manifest: a clip's start cuts its source, so one source fills several entries. The layout.clips helper is now the one way to get the clip an entry plays.
• Zinogre: its tail-cut flinch is frames 0–2 on entry 65 and the rest on 83, so the tail drops 0.2 s after the cut and the flinch plays on through it. The tail_cut rule is gone, and walk_forwards_faster is pinned at 73 for the village NPC.
• Studio: a render poses the tip on the tail; --severed shows the stump.

Live in lane 3:

• the tip joints equal their carriers on 60 of 60 frames, and the tail is whole in idle, walk and attack;
• the drop comes 0.200 s after SEVERED;
• the tip stays on the ground for 3 min, with no crash;
• the village follower still walks.

Tests: 2531 passed with game data; the CI job in a Linux container passes.

Follow-ups: carving, a thrown fall, and making the studio's clip preview aware of start.

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