Launch Shadow of Chernobyl

Start by reviewing the unchecked task groups in this issue, especially filesystem, renderer, Lua scripting, animations, AI, UI, gameplay, and the listed referenced issues. The issue gives no specific file, test, or entry point. Done is defined broadly as launching and ultimately finishing Shadow of Chernobyl, with additional mod support listed separately.

Just self explaining.

It's recommended to solve this task after launching Clear Sky. (#382)

Status:

• Pre-alpha (same as alpha, but in a separate branch, and no official support claimed)
• Alpha (many bugs, crashes, don't expect that you can finish the game)
• Beta (bugs, crashes, but it's possible to finish the game)
• Release Candidate (there are minor bugs, from a few to none crashes, game is stable finishable)
• Release (game is stable)

Tasks:

• Filesystem:
  • Support both WW and RU encoded archives (efdd64650ee4472a6cfa73cecbc363b9a069bf5b and 1d92cff8a8ca4c44efed1744b94fda1fa092f7a8)
  • Read archives from game root folder (26841e3c064635d9a4e1a0d49b391b175441af96)
• Environment
  • ShoC style weather config
• Renderer
  • ShoC style texture descriptions (50a4548348ec4cf5569acdbfcc347c57955443f0)
  • Don't crash on missing COP functionality. (c7dec853de8899e1ad98a0758e2dd596cea265fa)
  • R2 issues with old/new shadow cascades (d6780cc2bc0c0fe385d78c151118f49bd207cff9)
  • Launch R4 (#487)
• Lua scripting
  • C-style Lua comments (6378093)
  • Return deleted script export
• Main menu
  • Exit
  • Titles
  • Options
  • Load game
• Animations
  • Different animation names
    • Crow
    • HUD uses anim_ prefix instead of anm_ (CS/COP standard)
  • Missing animations
    • Dogs
      • This problem is linked with A-Life's group states
• Old HUD (hands) system (2c0c12390493e48b3222dbacb56688246e23fae2)
• AI
  • Read game.graph and level.gct (6b30ac37b30f46c2df381ad29ae7c0a646c87c3b)
  • Mutants
  • Group states use set_current_animation() instead of animation manager
    • This makes us harder to fix the problem with missing dogs animation. Group states should use animation manager too.
• UI
  • Actor inventory UI
  • PDA
    • Generic
    • Sidorovich's PDA usage tutorial (c36d59e49de080d95c1414c66e5af736240bd188)
  • Another UI parts
  • Return deleted UI functionality
  • Return deleted UI script export
• Gameplay
  • Monsters inventory (670632a6126f411fa25385967c5f0590e52fcd21, 3dc9f5a846bf637b1f6091df60189c2120864a29)
  • Shadow of Chernobyl task system (c5ef6c7af405c641a004367a8db6fc75f07e9319, 147edc4ccb0776303cf74bdf34c6c1dc3d2aae1a, 6e63ffa7d9d129257cb10bf0acd7b1d1f86a3615)
• Actual game (singleplayer)
  • Launch it (not really playable)
  • Launch it and play
  • Finish the game
  • Launch and complete mods:
    • AMK Mod
    • Priboi Story
    • OGSE 0.6.9.3
    • People's Soup (Narodnaya Solyanka)
• Multiplayer is not planned.
  • Multiplayer-specific UI won't be restored, because multiplayer won't be supported.
  • Scripted multiplayer game mode. (restored, but not tested)
• Other
  • Disable excessive warnings about missing COP features, outdated file versions, etc.
• Bugs
  • #768