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  CydandClaude Opus 5
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The keyboard becomes the button board (RP412 bindings port) + a controls page
Ported RP412's bindings design and made it the DEFAULT: the letter and number rows are the MFD button banks laid out WHERE THEY SIT ON THE PANEL, flight moves to the numpad so the board stays free, F1-F12 are the map's two columns, and G/B stay unbound as the physical gap between the lower clusters. Expressed in BT's OWN grammar (slew/deflect/set, the Turn channel) -- bindings.txt is a documented compatibility surface and was not touched. Coverage: 61 of 72 addresses on the keyboard, and the 11 absent ones are exactly those the pod never wired (0x16/0x17/0x1E/0x1F column gaps, 0x38-0x3E intercom/door). All 72 stay clickable on the panel. It lands on BT's addresses unreasonably well: 1-4 + QWER are the ENTIRE coolant system (Condensers 1-6, flush, balance), F6/F7 the display and control-mode cycles, F9-F12 Generators A-D, F4 the crouch button reconstructed earlier today. THE DELIBERATE COST. A bound key is removed from the authentic 1995 typed-hotkey channel so it cannot double-dispatch, and this board binds nearly everything -- so 5 (Quad page), z (Eng1), t/y/u/i/o (pilot select) and +/- (target zoom) are given up. Unbind a key to get its 1995 meaning back. Documented in the file header, the markdown and the page. NEW RULE: A BINDINGS ROW WINS OVER A BUILT-IN CONVENIENCE KEY (PadRIO::KeyHasBinding). V and J/K/L are board buttons now, and those polls read GetAsyncKeyState directly -- without this they would have fired BOTH the button and the built-in. View toggle lives on BACKTICK alone. CONTROLS.MAP rewritten to mirror the board so glass/pod/dev still feel identical (the 2026-07-21 settlement): 90 bindings, 0 parse complaints. HAT LABELS CORRECTED [T1]. INPUT_PATH_AUDIT flagged 0x41-0x44 and was right. Settled from the streamed mapping (BT_CTRLMAP_LOG): elem 66 -> subsys 17 attrID 14, i.e. 0x42 is the TORSO subsystem, not a look; 0x44/0x43/0x41 are the mapper's LookLeft/LookRight/LookBehind (attrID 10/11/12). The .RES has no "TORSO CENTER" string -- its names are LookBehind/Down/Forward/Left/Right -- so the audit's wording was loose but its substance correct. Swept L4GLASSWIN, L4PADPANEL and L4VB16. docs/CONTROLS.html: interactive keyboard (hover a key for its address and meaning, MFD clusters outlined), pad diagram, panel map, the under-glass press-target figure, radar placement thumbnails and the environ.ini table -- modelled on RP412's page, rewritten for BT's addresses and hazards. mkdist wraps the fragment in a doctype/charset shell and ships it beside CONTROLS.txt. Verified: bindings.txt regenerates and loads (74 keys, 0 errors); CONTROLS.MAP 90 bindings, 0 errors; 72/72 panel addresses still dispatch; surround / exploded / dock / pod / dev boot and simulate with zero faults. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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CydandClaude Opus 5
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Glass cockpit refit: one mode resolver, one button geometry, and a cockpit that scales
Replicates the RP412 cockpit line into BT411's own architecture -- porting the geometry and keeping our renderers, so BT_SHOT single-frame verification stays intact. MODE RESOLVER. Where the secondary displays go was decided in TWO places with duplicated precedence, and the boot banner read NEITHER -- it announced "per-display cockpit windows" for every glass boot, surround included. The split had also broken BT_COCKPIT=0: documented as the dock-bottom opt-out, the profile block converted it to BT_GLASS_PANELS=1, so the docked strip was UNREACHABLE under the glass profile. One resolver now, consumed by the banner, the pad-panel decision and the window sizing; BT_GLASS_PANELS is explicit-only; dock/window modes auto-raise BT_PAD_PANEL so the button field always has a home. L4RIOBANK -- one button geometry. Both renderers carried their own copy and had drifted: an MFD button was 156x138 reaching under the glass in the exploded window and a 76x24 sliver entirely OUTSIDE the glass in the surround. One module owns it now, both are consumers, placement stays per-renderer. The pod's under-glass rule (RP412 L4MFDVIEW): reach half the glass in behind the display, leave a lamp strip clearing the edge, paint buttons first and imagery over -- so the lamp reads as a bar and practically the whole display is the press target. The strip scales off the display's SHORT axis (the map is portrait) with a readable floor. Retired L4GLASSWIN's three local placers and seven layout constants. LAMP FLASH DECODE was wrong [T1]. BTLampBrightnessOf returned max(state1, state2) and blanked on the alternate phase; RIO::LampState (L4RIO.h [T0]) says solid shows state 1 and flashing ALTERNATES the two. Agrees only when one state is Off -- true for the Panic lamp, which is why it survived -- but L4LAMP.cpp:252 commands flashFast + state1Dim + state2Bright, a dim->bright pulse that rendered as a hard bright->off blink. Three copies existed (l4vb16.h, L4GLASSWIN, L4PADPANEL), all three wrong; the two locals now forward to the one fixed inline. THE COCKPIT SCALES. The fixed canvas was stretched into whatever the client area was, so a window dragged to a different shape squashed the instruments (the projection was aspect-corrected in task #20; the panels never were). Now one uniform scale, centred, leftover black. D3D9 applies it as a Present destination rect, which DISCARD forbids -- so the WINDOWED swap effect becomes COPY when the surround is up and multisampling is off. The click mapping had to follow (mapping against the full client drifts the hit test off every button by the bar width), as did the world aspect (under a uniform scale it is the view rect's own). -fit / -windowed-fullscreen: borderless over the monitor. - ordering trap: the first WM_SIZE beats the device, so a -fit boot logged aspect=3.14 and applied it on frame 1. The letterbox INTENT is decided in btl4main; L4VIDEO only confirms or withdraws it. PLAYER-TUNABLE DISPLAYS. BT_MFD_SCALE (+ _UL/_UC/_UR/_LL/_LR), BT_RADAR_SCALE, BT_RADAR_POS (CENTER/LEFT/RIGHT/MIDLEFT/MIDRIGHT). The surround BANDS derive from the resolved sizes -- that is why the sizes could not stay constants: the band a display hangs in has to grow with it or the canvas clips it. 100% reproduces the historical L276 R276 T223 B336 exactly. A corner map goes flush to the CANVAS edge and the lower MFD slides beside it (measuring off the view edge overlapped them by 232px). MAP LEGEND GRID -- measured, not inherited. scratchpad/measurelegend.py over a native capture: top 3, cell 102, pitch 107 of 640. RP412's map is 13 + 6x102 @ 105 -- same cell height, different top and pitch, so its numbers do NOT transfer. Our old even division had the pitch right by luck and sat 3px high of the labels. environ.ini. It was read ~300 lines into WinMain, AFTER the platform-profile block had run its getenv()s -- so every setting the profile reads was silently ignored FROM THE FILE and only worked as a real env var. It also putenv()'d comments verbatim. Now loaded immediately after the first-breath line, comments skipped, the real environment WINS over the file, and a fully documented default is written on first run (the bindings.txt convention: untracked, so extract-over-top never clobbers a player's settings). VERIFICATION HARNESS (new, reusable): BT_RIOBANK_LOG=1 dumps every bank; checkbank.py proves no address is SHADOWED (an address whose rect is covered by earlier buttons is dead however big it looks -- the overlapping under-glass banks make that a live hazard); clickbank.py posts a real click at every button centre. Verified: 72/72 placed, 0 shadowed, 72/72 dispatched in BOTH modes, after a resize, at 150%/135%, and at 75%+BOTTOMRIGHT; wide/tall drags and -fit undistorted on a 3440x1440; exploded/dock/pod/dev un-regressed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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Gitea #48: arm the artifact tripwires BY DEFAULT + surface detections through the matchlog
The user's ask: if the translation-table fix did not quite catch it, will the
next playtest LOG the artifact? Before this commit, no -- BT_PLANE_AUDIT was
opt-in via env var, and playtest machines set none.
Changes (all engine L4VB16):
* BT_PLANE_AUDIT is now DEFAULT-ON, =0 opts out. Armed cost is a couple of
integer compares per DRAW CALL (not per pixel); confirmed zero log noise
on a clean default-env run post-fix.
* A SECOND trap class: out-of-bounds draw STARTS, checked always-on in
buildDestPointer (the funnel every primitive builds its pointer through).
Release builds compile Verify() to nothing, so a wild start previously
computed a silent rogue pointer into (or past) the shared buffer. Now
logged ([plane] OOB) and CLAMPED in-bounds.
* First detection of each class writes a GLITCH matchlog record
(kind=plane / kind=oob with position+color+mask), so the evidence arrives
with the round logs the operator already collects -- unattended.
* Both existing plane-leak trap levels (display primitives + the port-level
pixmap table scan) flipped to the same default-on gate.
Honest coverage note (in gauges-hud.md): an in-buffer EXTENT overrun from a
valid start (a blit walking past the right/bottom edge into later rows of the
SAME plane) is not trapped -- per-pixel walk checks are too hot. The plane
trap still catches any such overrun whose color leaks planes, which is the
class the night-3 artifacts belonged to.
Verified: full clean rebuild -- 40 pre-existing LNK2019 only (the
engine->game BTMatchLog linkage resolved, /FORCE-trap checked); default-env
probe run: 0 [plane] lines, game unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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Gitea #48 ROOT-CAUSED + FIXED: MFD "stray blocks / misplaced lamps" = uninitialized translation-table entries leaking pixels into other displays' bit-planes
The conviction was empirical, not theoretical: a new write-site trap
(BT_PLANE_AUDIT) in the seven L4VB16 drawing primitives logs any draw whose
color carries bits outside its port's plane mask -- the exact cross-display
corruption condition (Replace ORs an unmasked color; Or/Xor ignore the mask
entirely; And clears foreign planes). A quiet solo session produced 15-30
leaks per minute:
[plane] PORT 'sec' pixmap draw at(0,0) idx 217 entry=0xffffff00 mask=0x3f
[plane] LEAK DrawPixelMap8[table] at(639,0) color=0xffffff00 mask=0x3f leak=0xff00
THE DEFECT: L4GraphicsPort::translationTable[256] is never initialized in the
ctor, and BuildSecondaryTranslation fills only the entries its BitWrangler
reaches -- 2^numberOfBits: 64 for the sec plane (mask 0x3F), 4 for the overlay
(0xC0). Entries above that stay heap garbage. Every draw resolves color
through this table, and the PIXMAP path indexes it with raw pixel values
0..255: the 480x640 radar background carries pixel index 217, whose garbage
entry's high bits (0xFF00 = ALL EIGHT MFD planes) were stamped into the shared
640x480 buffer -- invisible on the culprit page (the in-plane bits happened
dark) and visible as bright fragments at the same coordinates on every OTHER
display. That is the operator's screenshot exactly: the same-position blips
on Mfd1+Mfd2 and the Heat-display block.
FIX (engine, both layers):
* zero translationTable in the L4GraphicsPort ctor (plane-neutral default);
* BuildSecondaryTranslation now cycles the in-plane pattern across entries
[2^bits..255] -- high-index art degrades to its (index mod 2^bits) colour
IN-PLANE and can never leak. The 1995 binary ships the SAME 64-entry fill
and survived on 6-bit art discipline; garbage is not a preservable
behaviour, so the cycle-fill is a guarded PORT deviation (documented).
A/B PROOF: same probe, 60s -- 0 leaks after the fix (15-30/min before).
sim3 3-pod regression: zero crashes.
SECOND real defect found + fixed en route: sessions configure the CAMERA seat
first ("cameraInit" -- which includes the MISSION-REVIEW context:
configure(0, sec, 0, 0x00FF, native, rgb, mrpal.pcc), a DirectColor context
whose translation tables legitimately hold full RGB565 values spanning all 16
plane bits), and the viewpoint swap to the mech re-configured WITHOUT tearing
that tree down (btl4app's s_gaugeTreeBuilt latch treats the mech build as the
first). The orphaned review gauges kept executing through stale DirectColor
ports. BTL4GaugeRenderer::ConfigureForModel now overrides (ConfigureForModel
made virtual in L4GREND.h) and tears the prior entity-bound tree down before
every rebuild -- safe on first build, and the review screen rebuilds the same
way when the seat returns to the camera.
Also logged (open-questions): the review-screen PlayerStatus panels read the
compiled player at RAW BINARY OFFSETS (+0x1FC vehicle / +0x1C8 score /
+0x1C4 alive-dead box) -- the databinding trap, dormant until the review
screen runs; bridge before enabling the review.
Ruled out along the way (with evidence): the pilot-list label/erase geometry
(erase box 128x32 covers the 64x16 name rasters), the radar name labels
(view-level ClipImage clips them), PlayerStatus in-game execution ([ps] probe:
never runs in-game), and the PNAME bitmap dimensions (egg generator emits
64x16 exactly).
Why it "started with the comms feature" (#43): that wave registered the new
gauge classes with the config interpreter, letting more of the authored page
furniture parse and draw than before -- the leaking high-index pixmaps rode in
with it. [T3 correlation detail; the leak + fix are T2 live-verified.]
Diagnostics kept (env-gated): BT_PLANE_AUDIT (the leak trap, now a permanent
regression tripwire), BT_PS_LOG, the port-level pixmap identity trap.
KB: gauges-hud.md (#48 section), decomp-reference.md (BT_PLANE_AUDIT),
open-questions.md (PlayerStatus databinding entry). checkctx CLEAN.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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7052d9e5bb |
Cockpit: pull the MFD red lamps fully outside the screens; drop the flight blocks clear
Playtest feedback: the red MFD lamp buttons were obstructed (only a thin sliver showed under the surface, crammed against the DISPLAY/PROGRAM legends), and the blue THROTTLE/JOYSTICK flight blocks overlapped the bottom MFDs. - Red lamps now sit FULLY OUTSIDE the MFD (kCkRedGap=3 off the edge, kCkRedH=24 tall) instead of reaching kCkRedCell into the display -- nothing occludes them and they read as real buttons, clear of the DISPLAY/PROGRAM legends. topBand grows to 223. - Flight blocks drop below the MFD's bottom red lamps (belowLamp) -- no overlap. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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Cockpit surround: composite the gauges around the 3D view (default desktop layout)
Under BT_DEV_GAUGES the DEFAULT is now the pod-faithful cockpit surround: the 3D world CENTERED with the six gauge surfaces composited AROUND it in the single main window at 1/2 native scale, plus clickable RIO button lamps. Iterated as a visual reference with the user, then landed in the engine. - L4VB16.cpp/.h: BTCockpitLayout + BTCockpitComputeLayout (layout single source of truth, computed from the backbuffer canvas); BTDrawCockpitPanels (band fill -> button lamp quads -> 9-entry surface loop, phosphor-green mono / amber palette sec, Eng-sibling slot map -> GDI-atlas flight labels; D3DSBT_ALL state-block isolation = the floating-rocks trap); BTCockpitMouseDown/Up (client->bb hit-test + glass press/release/right-latch contract); BTApplyWorldViewport + DevGaugeDocked cockpit branches; shared BTLampBrightnessOf inline. Hooked at the top of BTDrawGaugeInset (before BT_SHOT, so shots include it). - btl4main.cpp: glass preset (cockpit default, per-display panels opt-in); mode resolution -> gBTGaugeCockpit with work-area-clamped window sizing (-res = view size); WndProc WM_L/RBUTTON routing. - L4VIDEO.cpp: BTWorldAspectOf cockpit branch (view rect on-screen aspect). - L4VIDRND.cpp: CameraShipHUDRenderable::Render made viewport-relative. Buttons = the L4GLASSWIN address banks x0.5 (Heat 0x2F, Mfd2 0x27, Comm 0x37, Mfd1 0x0F, Mfd3 0x07 red; radar rails 0x10-0x1B yellow; flight 0x38-0x47 blue, labeled). Full rect is the hit target; the surface draws over it so only the lamp edge shows. Precedence: BT_GLASS_PANELS=1 stands cockpit down > BT_COCKPIT=1 > _WINDOW/_DOCK opt-out > cockpit default; BT_COCKPIT=0 = dock-bottom. Green tunable via BT_COCKPIT_TINT. Renders in ALL builds; only the PadRIO click/lamp seam is BT_GLASS-gated. Verified (awaiting playtest): both build/ + build-glass/ compile (0 error C); glass BT_SHOT matches the mockup; 500-click storm during a live mission survived (Gitea #18 Receiver-gap fix holds); BT_COCKPIT=0 dock-bottom unregressed; BT_GLASS_PANELS=1 stands cockpit down; pod build renders the panels. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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CydandClaude Opus 4.8
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Glass cockpit: per-display windows (BT_GLASS_PANELS)
Break the desktop glass cockpit's secondary displays out of the single combined pad panel + D3D gauge strip into ONE window per pod display, each carrying that display's surface with its RIO button bank, arranged pod-faithfully around the main view. New TU engine/MUNGA_L4/L4GLASSWIN.* (BT_GLASS-only), selected by the -platform glass preset via the new runtime gate BT_GLASS_PANELS (=0 falls back to the legacy single panel + dock). - Surfaces are CPU-expanded from the shared gauge buffer (SVGA16::ExpandPlaneToBGRA, no D3D) and StretchDIBits'd in -- the D3D dev-composite path (dock / window / overlay) stands down while active. - Buttons sit UNDER the imagery: big hidden click targets that reach into the display, with only a small protruding edge showing as a lamp light. Red MFD banks tile the top/bottom; radar rails run the sides + a bottom row; a Flight Controls window hosts the no-display banks. - Windows: Heat / Engineering / Comm / Left Weapons / Right Weapons / radar + Flight Controls; edge-to-edge (no in-client margin/title; OS caption labels each). - Fix blank surfaces: application/ghWnd are duplicate-defined and bind non-deterministically under /FORCE, so the fresh L4GLASSWIN TU read NULL. Reach the renderer/window via BTResolveGaugeRenderer/BTResolveMainWindow defined in btl4main.cpp off the real btl4App/hWnd pointers. New gotcha: reconstruction-gotchas.md S6 duplicate-GLOBAL corollary. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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Gitea #9: the upper-MFD PRESET pages (3 MFDs x 5) live -- SetPresetMode
table re-decoded to the ModeMFD bits + desktop J/K/L page cycle
The preset system was unwired by ONE defect in the message layer: the
SetPresetMode @004d1b24 table @0051dbf0 had been transcribed from the
section dump as BIG-endian dwords ({0x1e,0x01000000} instead of
{0x1e,0x01}), so a preset press set a garbage high bit -- and for group 1
items 3-4 / group 2 items 0-2 stomped the LIVE NonMapping / Intercom /
ModeSecondary* bits -- while the real page bits never moved. Ground
truth (section_dump.txt:72901-72908, little-endian + BTL4MODE.HPP [T0]):
set = ModeMFD{1,2,3}{Quad,Eng1-4} = 1<<(group*5+item), bits 0-14, fully
disjoint from the #6 secondary trio (bits 18-20); group 2 is MFD3, NOT a
duplicate of the secondary views.
What the 15 presets show (l4gauge.cfg): group = the MFD (Mfd1 lower left
/ Mfd2 upper center / Mfd3 lower right), item 0 = the btquad.pcx Quad
overview (up to 4 vehicleSubSystems cluster panels), items 1-4 = the
full-screen engineering-detail pages (bteng.pcx + prepEngr screens
group*4+1..4 + the cluster eng children: GENERATOR SELECT A-D, POWER
graph, COOLING loop, DAMAGE, ammo). Empty screens are authored per mech
(Blackhawk: 3/11/12 empty).
Authentic dispatch (streamed "L4" .CTL EventMappings, BT_CTRLMAP_LOG
dump): each MFD owns the 8-button RIO bank around it, MODE-MASK-gated --
Mfd1 = 0x08-0x0F, Mfd2 = 0x20-0x27, Mfd3 = 0x00-0x07. Quad page ->
direct-select buttons for the POPULATED eng pages (mapper msgs
Aux1Eng1-4 0x4-0x7 / Aux2* 0x9-0xC / Aux3* 0xE-0x11); eng page -> one
back-to-Quad button (0x3/0x8/0xD) + per-subsystem controls. These
records already install and fire on desktop (btinput passes the live
manager mask), so the NUMPAD profile's 0x20-0x27 keys page MFD2
authentically.
Port wiring (the #6 pattern): keys J/K/L -> actions Mfd1/2/3Cycle ->
gBTPresetCycle -> L4MechControlsMapper::CyclePresetModeNow(group) -- a
documented desktop shim (24 mode-dependent pod buttons don't fit a
keyboard) that cycles Quad -> populated Eng pages -> Quad, visiting
exactly the pod-reachable set; the body is the authentic SetPresetMode.
Dev-composite: BTDrawGaugeSurfaces now draws the Eng1-3 planes at their
sibling cells and skips any mono plane whose channel is BlankColor,
honoring the mode-driven reconfigure (RemapGraphicsPort) -- each dev
cell shows the ACTIVE page like the pod monitor. This supersedes and
removes the 2026-07-12 GAUGREND "frozen-dial" scaffold (forced all 15
page bits active under BT_DEV_GAUGES; it pinned the shared Eng plane on
the highest screen and ate the page flips).
Pixel-verified (BT_PRESET_TEST + BT_DEV_GAUGES_DOCK + BT_SHOT,
Blackhawk): all three MFDs page Quad -> SYSTEM NN eng details -> back to
Quad in lockstep with the [mode] preset mask log; group 0 skips the
authored-empty screen 3, group 2 skips 11/12. Un-regressed: N display
cycle (0x450421->0x490421->0x510421, page bits intact), M control mode,
CONTROLS.MAP 52 bindings parse clean.
Diags: BT_MODE_LOG ([mode] preset), BT_PRESET_TEST=<frame>.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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Fire VISUALS wave: the authored firesmoke sheet, vertex-alpha effect cards, the case-4 wreck dressing
The "fireballs like the demo vids" arc, decomp/content-grounded end to end,
plus the live-play UX batch verified over the same sessions:
FIRESMOKE SHEET (the PFX fireball fix): every firesmokeN_scr_tex in BTFX.VMF
maps the SAME 64x64 tileable noise image bintA (variants differ only in SCROLL
rate) and firesmoke1_mtl colours it through the "fiery" ramp (0.3,0.1,0.1)->
(0.9,0.7,0.3). The particle layer now bakes ramp(lum(bintA)) as its sprite
colour (noise detail in alpha) and SCROLLS it at firesmoke1's authored rate
via a texture-transform; the port's radial soft-edge mask moved to a second
CLAMPed stage so the WRAPPED scroll rolls flame through the sprite without
scrolling the edge away. Old grit x radial bake kept as the no-BINTA fallback.
Impact hits, damage-band smoke and death booms all ride this layer.
AUTHORED TEXTURE SCROLL in the model path: the BMF TEXTURE records carry
SPECIAL " SCROLL u0 v0 du dv" (tag 0x2037); the draw path always supported
per-op scrolling (SetTextureScrolling) but the BGF loader never parsed it, so
every scrolling material rendered frozen. Wired TexRef -> MatInfo -> batch ->
L4TEXOP.doScroll: the flame cards (flamebig/fire5) now roll fire noise.
VERTEX-ALPHA EFFECT CARDS (the "twisted drill bit of fire" fix): FLAMEBIG's
verts carry authored float RGBA -- white-hot base (1.0,0.99,0.97) -> dark-red
tip fading to alpha -0.2 (the DPL clamp convention). The loader kept a flat
batch colour and drew it OPAQUE = a solid orange spike. Corpus sweep: exactly
14 shipped BGFs carry vertex alpha, ALL effect cards (flames, MUZFLASH,
EXDISK_A/B/C, TMST_A/B/C, beam models, DECLOUDS). Such batches now keep the
authored per-vertex gradient and route to the alpha-blend pass, unlit,
colour = texture x gradient, alpha = the vertex fade; sky objects excluded
(drawAsSky + alphaTest passes NEITHER pass filter -- DECLOUDS stays in the
sky pass). MUZFLASH/EXDISK render correctly for free when the muzzle-model
work lands.
WRECK DRESSING (the 1996 ExplosionScripts case-4 transcription): pieces spawn
HIDDEN and reveal 0.25s after the boom (the InstanceSwitch delay, behind the
dnboom flash); flamebig hangs over the pile, Y-BILLBOARDED at the camera
(SetOffsetYaw + a camera-pos getter -- the dpl_SetDCSReorientAxes analog);
the MakeDCSFall settle arms at the reveal with the two authored rates (hulk/
debris -0.025 t^2, fires -0.01 t^2 -- the flames ride above the sinking pile
and die with it at burial). EMPTY-PLACEHOLDER hulk guard: THRDBR.BGF is a
153-byte zero-geometry stub that "loads fine" -- vertex-count check now routes
it to the gendbr fallback (a Thor wreck was invisible). Hulk content census
recorded: AVADBR==MADDBR==VULDBR geometry (palette-only prefix diffs),
RAPDBR==SNDDBR==STIDBR byte-identical -- wreck variety is materials + the
dressing, not unique piles.
LIVE-PLAY BATCH: muzzle resolve uses the named segmentIndex (raw +0xdc read
was layout garbage); forward launch frame (authored MuzzleVelocity +Z vs the
mech's -Z facing); dock-bottom single window (gauge strip appended below the
world viewport, 1100x600 default, BT_DEV_GAUGES_WINDOW=1 restores the separate
window); portrait sec surface unrotated CW; ammo counters live via typed
bridges (BTAmmoBinCountPtr/BTAmmoBinFeeding/BTWeaponAmmoBin -- raw bin+0x180
and a hand-rolled link walk were garbage); fourth fire key ('4' = Pinky);
panel/arc probes de-aliased (%61 prime).
KB: rendering.md (vertex-alpha card family + scroll), combat-damage.md (hulk
census + THRDBR stub), gauges-hud.md (ammo bridges).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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MP live-play wave: collision economy, missiles, radar transform, panel polarity, comm ticker
The interactive 2-node playtest wave -- every fix decomp-grounded and live-verified: COLLISION ECONOMY (the ram one-shot): StaticBounce mutates worldLinearVelocity per contact and ProcessCollisionList walks EVERY touched solid per frame; with 2007 terrain-as-solids the reflections compounded x4-x40 within one frame and a walking bump one-shot a pristine mech for 112,375 pts (62-pt authentic economy). Fix: frameEntryWorldVelocity restore per contact (damage always priced at the real approach speed -- all the binary's physics ever saw); Mech::Reset zeroes the mover motion (respawn = teleport); [collide-tx]/[mp-hdlr] telemetry. Gotcha #16 (engine-facility drift class). MISSILES: peer-visible salvos (the launcher record extension carries a salvo counter + aim point; ForceUpdate actually enqueues it -- the dirty flag alone never serialized), the authentic arc (authored MuzzleVelocity vector + the Seeker's 200m/0.1/300 loft + gain-4 steering, decoded from @004beae4/@004bef78), world-impact bursts (rounds detonate on cave geometry instead of phasing through), contact-only damage (flight-cap expiry = fizzle, no more teleport damage), live re-lead, and ballistic (unguided) shells for autocannons. projweap's stale BTPushProjectile extern (the /FORCE signature trap, gotcha #6 corollary) crashed the Avatar's first AFC100 shot -- fixed + sweep rule recorded. RADAR: two transcription bugs made the scope permanently empty -- FUN_0040b244 is the affine INVERSE (not a copy) and FUN_0040adec writes ONLY the 3x3 rotation (never the translation); worldToView now Invert(view) built rotation-first. CulturalIcons sorted out of the moving grid (the phantom red pips were map props), visible-radius culls on all three draw passes, live pip verified at |delta| x ppm px. Gotcha #17 (verify the FUN_ body, not its call shape). WEAPON PANELS (the frozen-dial hunt): the binary's *(subsystem+0x40) means FAILED -- the recon's 'operating' name was backwards, inverting the destroyed-X lamps, the panel look, the children enable and the ready-lamp gate (which had NEVER executed). Polarity chain corrected end-to-end (failedState, fed by real damage saturation). Root cause of the freezes: MFD page-mode gating -- the dev composite shows ALL pages at once, so off-page dials legitimately stopped; under BT_DEV_GAUGES the 15 page-plane bits stay active (the exclusive secondary trio untouched). The SEH gauge guard now names its kills; repaint-heal resets the incremental arc after panel repaints; [panel]/[arc] probes added. COMM/SCORE: MessageBoard LIVE (the engine already shipped the whole Player__StatusMessage queue; wired the binary's one producer -- the kill branch, victim's name, 6s -- plus the consumer bridge and a lazy source bind); MP DEATHS counted via the observed-death tally (each node scores every pilot from locally observed events, the same model as the KILLS credit) and the -2/-1 engine seed clamped for display. DEV UX: node-tagged window titles (-net port), gauge panel reworked (1320x480, true 4:3 MFD cells, the portrait secondary UNROTATED upright, linear filtering, BT_GAUGE_SCALE), fixed close spawns via BT_SPAWN_XZ, Boreas flies an Avatar (first second-chassis live outing). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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Gauges: the CLOSEOUT wave -- radar pips, Myomers dedup, attribute parity, ledger sweep (tasks #14-#17)
TASK #17 -- AUTHENTIC RADAR SYMBOLOGY (the cross-blip stand-in retired). The recon proved the 'missing pip raster set' never existed as BT game code: pips are the ENGINE's L4GaugeImage vector-stroke system (T0 source in tree, L4GAUIMA.cpp == FUN_0046f0c0 line-for-line), the 'pip table' is L4Warehouse:: gaugeImageBin keyed by Entity::resourceID, and BTL4.RES ships 110 type-0x12 shapes (every mech/vehicle/building/tree). The six btl4rdr stubs are wired to the real facilities: contacts draw their authentic model silhouettes with LOD selection, the target gets the binary's 4px-inflated box highlight, and player-name labels resolve via Mission::GetSmallNameBitmap (the prebuilt 64x16 egg rasters keyed by the player's bitmapindex). DECODED: the invented 'VideoObject' was Entity::owningPlayer all along (+0x190; nameID = playerBitmapIndex@0x1E0, target = BTPlayer::objectiveMech@0x284 -- new bridge BTPlayerObjectiveMechOf); the 'LabelledEntity' class is Landmark (cultural.h; label path dormant -- no landmark content ships, no runtime landmarkID writer). The L4GREND BT_DEV_GAUGES warehouse guard is removed (its AV had a different culprit, below); resource type 18 corrected to GaugeImageStream in decomp-reference (was mislabeled 'ModelList'). TASK #14 -- the Myomers ODR duplicate ELIMINATED: the powersub.cpp/hpp 'Myomers' (classID 0xBC3 -- actually Sensor) is retired whole; it duplicated ?DefaultData@Myomers@@ against the real class (dumpbin-verified) and /FORCE picked the winner by link order. The real Myomers (0xBC6) now chains PoweredSubsystem's handler set (ids 4-8) and publishes its SEVEN binary attributes (@00511588: SpeedEffect/Current/Recommended/Min/MaxSeekVoltage- Index/SeekVoltage/OutputVoltage) -- the old empty unchained index starved the Myomer engineering panel of every resolve. TASK #16 -- attribute parity: MechWeapon publishes the FULL binary table @0x511890 (11 entries; ids renumbered to binary truth -- the port aliases had squatted the binary's DistanceToTarget/TargetWithinRange ids; the streamed TriggerState 0x13 binding unchanged). Binary names resolved two TODO members: pipState -> estimatedReadyTime (attr 0x1A), and the EXT-model flag is the binary's RearFiring (0x1B). ThermalSight LightState published. HUD (offset conflicts) + missile-side tables (id encoding suspect) documented for a re-dump instead of publishing blind. THE CRASH THIS EXPOSED [T2, cdb-verified]: gotcha #11's dense-table gap is a LATENT AV, not a guaranteed one -- the old table's 0x0D..0x12 gap (task #5) survived on heap luck; the renumber reshuffled allocations and Find() AV'd on a garbage entryName in WeaponCluster's PercentDone resolve. Fixed with five named PAD entries (the mech.cpp attrPad idiom) + a static_assert locking the pad base to PoweredSubsystem::NextAttributeID. Gotcha #11 amended with the proof. TASK #15 -- stale-ledger sweep: GAUGE_COMPOSITE ('composite not yet built', Reservoir shadow, PlayerStatus/vehicleSubSystems 'remaining', valve-dormant- until-0xBD3, sensor guard, the superseded 'Heat MFD near-static' reframe -- all banner-corrected), gauges-hud frontmatter, L4VB16 + powersub comments. Verified live: 50/50 config attribute bindings resolve, 0 NULLs, 0 parse skips, mech spawns and simulates 31/31 subsystems, no cross-blip fallbacks, the pip cache fills through entity registration without the old guard. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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gauges: all 6 cockpit MFD surfaces in a SEPARATE dev window (Milestone C)
Generalizes the single-'sec'-inset (Milestone B) into a full 6-surface compositor presented in its own top-level window -- the default under BT_DEV_GAUGES (BT_DEV_GAUGES_DOCK=1 docks it into the main window instead). A 960x384 window tiles all six pod instrument screens: Heat (COOLANT/BALANCE/ RES + condenser gauges), Comm (KILLS/DEATHS/SELECT TARGET), Mfd1/2/3 (DISPLAY/ PROGRAM/NEAREST frames), and the color radar (SCALE grid + dials + ARMOR DAMAGE). Main 800x600 3D view is un-occluded; default DEV un-regressed (TARGET DESTROYED after 8 hits, 0 crashes). Design (mapped by the mfd-multisurface-map workflow): - All 6 surfaces are bit-plane MASKS over the ONE shared SVGA16/pixelBuffer (sec=palette low byte; Heat=0x4000 UL, Mfd2=0x0400 UC, Comm=0x8000 UR, Mfd1=0x0100 LL, Mfd3=0x1000 LR), so the compositor reaches the SVGA16 once and extracts each by mask. No port-name reconcile needed on the dev path -- fetch the BT names directly; the RP aux* names only matter to the pod's own SVGA16::Update demux (a deferred pod-only fallback). - SVGA16::DrawDevSurface: two kernels -- palette-LUT (sec) + mono bit-plane-> tint ((word&mask)?tint:0). BTDrawGaugeSurfaces iterates a 6-entry table. - Separate window = one CreateAdditionalSwapChain on the existing device (no 2nd D3D device). BTGaugeWindowRenderAndPresent (after the main EndScene): SetRenderTarget -> SetDepthStencilSurface(NULL) -> Clear -> BeginScene -> 6 tiles -> EndScene -> restore -> swap->Present. - KEY BUG fixed: the main 800x600 depth surface stays bound when rendering to the 960x384 gauge backbuffer; a bound depth smaller than the RT is invalid -> all draws silently fail (clear color, no geometry). Unbind depth (Z is off), restore after. Pod SVGA16::Update/BuildWindows path byte-unchanged; all gated BT_DEV_GAUGES. Content is still the authored cockpit frames + base-table gauges -- the live MFD widgets need the BTL4MethodDescription reconstruction (this window is now the live viewer for that work). Details: docs/GAUGE_COMPOSITE.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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gauges: secondary/radar MFD composites live on a dev box (Milestone B)
The pod's secondary/radar cockpit surface now renders as an inset in the 800x600 dev window under BT_DEV_GAUGES: radar/tactical grid, SPEED/HEADING/ MAGNETIC/PROP dials, and the color-coded ARMOR DAMAGE mech schematic -- real gauge content (nzSec=27247), composited from the shared CPU pixelBuffer. Composite pass (engine): SVGA16::DrawDevInset palette-expands the secondary plane into a MANAGED texture on the MAIN device and draws an XYZRHW inset quad; BTDrawGaugeInset() reaches the gauge renderer's 'sec' port and is called from DPLRenderer::ExecuteImplementation as the last draw before EndScene. Three reconstruction bugs fixed to get real content: 1. BTL4Application::MakeGaugeRenderer signature mismatch (REAL fix): the reconstructed no-arg override only HID the 2007-engine's widened 3-arg virtual MakeGaugeRenderer(int*,int*,int*), so the engine built a base L4GaugeRenderer whose ctor never parsed gauge/l4gauge.cfg -> empty symbol table -> "undefined label 'bhk1Init'" -> no ports/gauges. Matched the 3-arg signature so it truly overrides (args ignored; BT is fullscreen). Same bug class as the BTL4GaugeRenderer(false,NULL,NULL,NULL) ctor fix. 2. Parse hung on undefined primitives (gated dev accommodation): the BT gauge primitive table (BTL4MethodDescription) is still a stub, so an unknown primitive -> ReportParsingError -> Fail() -> a MODAL dialog freezing the parse. Under BT_DEV_GAUGES, skip the unknown primitive's params so labels register and the base "configure" primitive builds the ports. 3. Gauge widgets AV on NULL data bindings (gated): NumericDisplayScalar's NULL value_pointer -> GaugeConnectionDirectOf ctor deref (bind NULL->static zero); RankAndScore::Execute derefs unreconstructed game state (Gauge::GuardedExecute SEH wrapper -> Disable(True) on first fault). All guards gated on BT_DEV_GAUGES: default DEV un-regressed (TARGET DESTROYED, 0 crashes) and the pod path is byte-unchanged (strict Fail, no guards). Remaining (docs/GAUGE_COMPOSITE.md): the real gauge WIDGET reconstruction (BTL4MethodDescription method table + gauge->game-state data bindings), then Step 2 (RP<->BT MFD port-name reconcile) + Step 3 (2-window layout). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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platform profile + gauge dev-composite (Milestone A: gauge renderer woken)
PLATFORM PROFILE (-platform pod|dev / BT_PLATFORM / run.cmd pod; default dev): an env-preset selector, NOT a code fork -- it picks which environment the existing video/gauge/input code reads. dev = single 800x600 window + keyboard (the working build); pod = RIO input + (on real hardware) the multi-surface gauges/MFDs, mirroring content/SETENV.BAT (the pod path -- FindBestAdapterIndices / SVGA16 -- is left untouched). The multi-surface needs the pod's 2 video cards, so -platform pod does NOT auto-enable L4GAUGE on a dev box (stays bootable, single-window). Also fixes a real engine bug: SVGA16::BuildWindows PostQuitMessage'd on a CreateDevice failure but fell through to a null-device deref (segfault) -- now breaks (inert on the pod). GAUGE DEV-COMPOSITE, Milestone A (option B; opt-in BT_DEV_GAUGES, default OFF): wake the (dormant) gauge renderer so its CPU-rastered pixelBuffer can later be composited into the dev window, WITHOUT touching the pod SVGA16 output path. SVGA16 does no per-surface D3D in this mode (a DevGaugeComposite() gate forces the no-surface path + short-circuits Update/Refresh). Waking the never-exercised gauge subsystem exposed 4 latent reconstruction bugs, each guarded: SVGA16::Update / Refresh (empty mSurfaces[]), LBE4ControlsManager::MakeLinkedLamp (NULL lamp manager), L4GaugeRenderer::NotifyOfNewInterestingEntity (garbage warehouse chain). It now boots STABLY; the gauge reconstruction is incomplete (shadowed lamp-manager + warehouse members) -- Milestone B (the composite pass) will reveal whether the content is real. See docs/GAUGE_COMPOSITE.md. Verified: default DEV un-regressed (combat DESTROYED, 0 crashes); pod path untouched; BT_DEV_GAUGES boots stable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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Initial commit: bt411 -- standalone Windows BattleTech (Tesla 4.10 port)
Clean, self-contained extraction of the BattleTech-specific work from the
reverse-engineering workspace -- engine + game + content + build, with nothing
from Red Planet or the raw archive dumps. Builds green (Win32) and runs the
single-player drive->animate->target->fire->damage->destroy loop out of the box.
Layout:
engine/ MUNGA + MUNGA_L4 shared 2007 engine, carrying our BT render/loader
work (bgfload/L4D3D/L4VIDEO: BSL bit-slice decode, LOD/ground/shadow
models) + image codec; the minimal rp/ headers the audio HAL needs
game/ reconstructed BT logic + surviving-original BT source + fwd shims
+ WinMain launcher
content/ full runtime tree (BTL4.RES, VIDEO/, GAUGE/, AUDIO/, eggs, BTDPL.INI)
docs/ format specs + reconstruction ledgers
reference/ raw Ghidra pseudocode (recon source-of-truth) + decomp exporter
tools/ MP console emulator + map/resource scanners
One top-level CMake builds munga_engine lib + bt410_l4 game lib + btl4.exe.
All paths relativized (186 fwd shims + ~437 CMake abs paths -> repo-relative);
DXSDK is the one external, overridable via -DDXSDK. Verified: builds to a
byte-identical 2.27MB exe and runs combat (TARGET DESTROYED, 0 crashes) against
the bundled content.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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