#152: the real hole -- glass/RIO rigs had NO torso-centre control; wire pod button 0x42

The reported "torso no longer recentres on its own" decomposed into two parts:
the auto-recentre in Mid/Adv was never authentic (it was the stuck-centerCommand
bug acting as a phantom feature since ~674 -- analysis on the ticket, awaiting
Oracle's 1995-memory verdict), but underneath it sat a REAL defect: with the
phantom gone, a glass/RIO player had no way to recentre the torso at all.

WHY.  The only centerCommand writer lived inside the desktop key-bridge block,
which is OFF whenever a RIO/PadRIO is present -- glass and the pod both.  The
pod's dedicated CENTER button (0x42, "the shipped .RES name", UP arrow via
bindings.txt) reached nothing: benched two scripted 0x42 holds on the RIO path,
ctrCmd=0 throughout, twist parked forever.  (Keyboard X/NumPad5 recentred only
as a side effect of ALL-STOP -- you could not recentre without stopping.)

FIX, two pieces, both existing patterns:
  * L4PADRIO::EmitButton -- the documented single chokepoint every button
    source funnels through -- publishes the 0x42 HOLD state
    (gBTTorsoCenterHeld), exactly the 0x3F ReverseThrust precedent.
  * mechmppr gains ONE unified centerCommand writer, deliberately OUTSIDE the
    key-bridge gate (the same placement lesson as the mode-cycle hook):
    hold = torsoCenter(@0x154 databound) OR gBTTorsoCenterHeld(0x42) OR the
    one-frame X pulse; asserts while held, clears on release.  Single writer
    == the sources can never stomp each other's clear.

BENCHED (scratchpad/night14/center42.sh, RIO path, bridge off):
  before: ctrCmd=0 in all samples across two 0x42 holds; twist parked at 1.478
  after:  hold -> ctrCmd=1 recen=1, twist slews 2.22->0.44 at the authored
          0.87 rad/s; twist input DURING the hold cancels sim-side (authentic);
          release clears; no button -> aim holds (authentic Std/Vet).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018SgmXGNMXavXiafKXf9MDC
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Joe DiPrima
2026-08-09 17:26:27 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent aa250c4e22
commit 2b6b0276fd
3 changed files with 73 additions and 15 deletions
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@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ int gBTPadViewToggleEdges = 0;
// desktop bridge, which owns `reverseThrust` (mapper attr 6 @0x124) every frame.
//
int gBTReverseHeld = 0;
int gBTTorsoCenterHeld = 0; // button 0x42 hold (#152; same seam as 0x3F)
//
// The desktop per-MFD preset-page cycle edges (J/K/L -> Mfd1/2/3), consumed
@@ -458,6 +459,17 @@ void
// via SetScreenButton), so the desktop bridge can honour the button exactly
// like the pod's RIO board did.
//
// TORSO CENTER (pod button 0x42, 'the shipped .RES name' -- UP arrow via
// bindings.txt). Same chokepoint pattern as 0x3F below: publish the HOLD
// state so the mapper's unified recenter writer (#152) can honour it on
// every rig. Before this, no RIO/glass path reached centerCommand at all
// -- bench: two scripted 0x42 holds, ctrCmd=0 throughout.
if (address == 0x42)
{
extern int gBTTorsoCenterHeld;
gBTTorsoCenterHeld = pressed ? 1 : 0;
}
if (address == 0x3F)
{
gBTReverseHeld = pressed ? 1 : 0;