🔬 Demo File Internals

Deadlock demos use Valve’s game-neutral PBDEMS2 Source 2 container and entity wire format. Those shared mechanisms are implemented by pbdems2 and documented in its docs.rs guide:

• File structure and outer commands

• Inner packet-message framing

• Serializers and field paths

• String tables and instance baselines

• Entities, class information, and handles

• Adapters, playback, seeking, and segmentation

Boon supplies the Deadlock protobuf adapter, entity/property selections, events, datasets, and hashed ability/modifier name tables. See the pbdems2 guide when extending the shared parser, and the chapter below for the Deadlock-specific token tables.

• Name Tables (.vdata)