Fullscreen UI overhaul: single windowed workspace with live pawn preview

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Summary

Replaces the old four-window cascade (Dialog_FactionLoadout → PresetUI → FactionEditUI → PawnKindEditUI) — where every navigation step opened, dragged, or closed another floating window — with a single fullscreen, paused workspace navigated by top tabs and a clickable breadcrumb. Addresses user feedback that the UI involves too much "dragging windows around, expanding, and scrolling."

Screens

One Dialog_TotalControl window hosts a TotalControlController that dispatches to three screens:

• Faction View — home: global settings + preset management + faction list
• Faction Edit — two panels: pawnkind list │ faction settings (tech level, xenotypes, spawn groups, module UI)
• Pawn Edit — three columns: live pawn portrait │ vertical category nav │ option content

Tabs form a context hierarchy (Faction Edit enabled once a faction is selected, Pawn Edit once a pawnkind is selected); selecting a row auto-advances, and the breadcrumb navigates back. Esc steps back one screen, closing only from Home.

Live pawn preview

Pawn Edit renders a big portrait via PortraitsCache.Get, generated through the real generation pipeline so the always-active apparel/weapon/hediff patches apply edits exactly as they would for a raid. Auto-refreshes (debounced) when inline options change, plus a manual Regenerate button and rotate / headgear / clothes toggles. Throwaway preview pawns are disposed with the same save-safe pattern as the old FactionEditUI.DestroyPawns (RemoveAndDiscardPawnViaGC / PassToWorld(Discard)) on teardown and before each regeneration.

Notable internals

• Reuses the existing Tab/DrawOverride system unchanged in Pawn Edit; the vertical category nav replaces the cramped 5-per-row tab buttons, and each category now has its own scroll position (fixes the previous shared-scroll bug).
• TCEditContext.CurrentFaction (a small static) replaces the hidden Find.WindowStack.WindowOfType<FactionEditUI>() lookup in SpecificGearDrawer — the one spot that could silently regress material/tech-level resolution once the old window was gone.
• BaselinerDefName moved from FactionEditUI to FactionEdit.
• Both entry points (mod-settings button and the in-game options-page link) now open Dialog_TotalControl.
• The four old window classes and ModCore.SettingsDialog are removed.

Backwards compatibility

• No preset/settings XML changes — old presets load unchanged.
• Module AddTabs / AddFactionUI contracts preserved (called exactly as before).

Build / testing

• Compiles cleanly in Debug and Release (0 warnings/errors), csharpier-clean.
• No remaining references to the removed classes in the main assembly or the Compatibility modules.
• ⚠️ In-game verification still pending. Suggested pass: open from settings/options → Faction View → Faction Edit → Pawn Edit; confirm per-category scroll is independent, Apparel/Weapon material pickers resolve the correct tech level, the portrait updates on edit and on Regenerate, and no preview pawn remains in WorldPawns after closing.

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