Case study

mortar-eng: LSW game scene and character reconstruction

mortar-eng reconstructs parts of an LSW game runtime in C++. Its NUP and HGP readers load scene models and character data, including meshes, textures, joints and transforms, into resource objects used by scene-loading and rendering code.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C3 notes only

Stars: 27
Last commit: 2022-08-20
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code observed; no usable documentation found.
Scope: Notes
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: C++20, OpenGL, SDL2 and tsl-sparse-map, as specified by CMake.
Limits: The game initializer loads a hard-coded scene.
License: GPL-3.0 license.

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BibTeX

@misc{mortar-eng-lsw-case,
  title = {{mortar-eng: LSW game scene and character reconstruction}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/leftmostcat/mortar-eng}},
  url = {https://github.com/leftmostcat/mortar-eng},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/mortar-eng-lsw-case/}}
}

Plain text

mortar-eng: LSW game scene and character reconstruction. https://github.com/leftmostcat/mortar-eng (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/mortar-eng-lsw-case/

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Primary sources

game/lsw/readers/nup.cpp GitHub · leftmostcat/mortar-eng · Revision 9b53260
game/lsw/readers/hgp.cpp GitHub · leftmostcat/mortar-eng · Revision 9b53260
game/lsw/game.cpp GitHub · leftmostcat/mortar-eng · Revision 9b53260
CMakeLists.txt GitHub · leftmostcat/mortar-eng · Revision 9b53260