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  CydandClaude Opus 4.8
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4c7f6fd9b1 |
environ.ini: document BT_GLASS_LAYOUT in the shipped default
The default environ.ini template (BTWriteDefaultEnvironIni) now carries a commented BT_GLASS_LAYOUT block in the cockpit section, next to BT_GLASS_PANELS: off/save/load explained in player-facing terms, noting glass_layout.cfg lives beside the file and delete-to-reset. Ships commented out like every other option, so a fresh install still applies nothing. Verified: Release builds clean; the new text is embedded in btl4.exe. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5
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the log day now starts at 6am, because the playtesters are night owls
A midnight boundary splits one evening across two files at exactly the moment the session is most worth reading whole: the 01:30 crash lands in a different file from the 23:00 run that set it up. And a 02:00 session is "last night" to everyone who was in it, so filing it under the new calendar date reads wrong even when nothing goes bad. So shift the clock back 6h before taking the date for the FILENAME. The log day runs 06:00 -> 06:00 and one night stays in one file. Only the filename moves. The session header and the lastrun breadcrumb each call GetLocalTime separately (three distinct SYSTEMTIMEs in this function), so every timestamp a human reads is still true local time -- checked the scoping rather than assuming it, since sharing one variable would have silently backdated the header by six hours. FileTimeToSystemTime carries the month and year boundaries, verified against a scratch harness rather than reasoned about: 2026-07-28 20:00 -> solo_20260728.log one playtest night, 2026-07-28 23:59 -> solo_20260728.log start to finish, 2026-07-29 00:01 -> solo_20260728.log in a single file 2026-07-29 05:59 -> solo_20260728.log 2026-07-29 06:00 -> solo_20260729.log the boundary 2026-08-01 01:00 -> solo_20260731.log month 2027-01-01 03:00 -> solo_20261231.log year 2026-03-01 02:00 -> solo_20260228.log non-leap February Nothing in the tooling parses these filenames -- the operator app's own log is operator_relay.log and _collect_egg is mission settings, not logs -- so the console auto-transfer is unaffected. The player-facing text did need fixing though: the bats and README told players to send the log "dated today", which is now wrong for anyone who plays past midnight. They now say to take the NEWEST one and ignore the date, with a note on why. That was already the safer instruction. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Opus 5
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one log per day, and every log says who it sent it -- rotation was eating the crash stacks
Conn Man crashed twice in an Owens on 2026-07-27, kept playing, and by the time
we asked for his logs they no longer existed. Not a mystery: every launcher did
if exist content\X.old.log del content\X.old.log
if exist content\X.log ren content\X.log X.old.log
which keeps TWO generations. He relaunched more than twice, so his own bat
deleted both crash sessions. The player who crashes is exactly the player who
relaunches immediately, so the retention window was aimed at the wrong case.
THE LOG. BT_LOG set still means "use this path verbatim" -- that contract is
load-bearing (mp_a.log/mp_b.log for 2-node runs from one cwd, btoperator's
operator_N.log, every scratchpad/mp_*.sh that greps the file it named) and is
untouched. Only when BT_LOG is UNSET does the exe now name the file itself:
content\<stem>_YYYYMMDD.log, appended, one per day, no rotation window to fall
out of. The stem (solo/join/steam/joyconfig) comes from the gates the bat
already sets, so solo still cannot overwrite the MULTIPLAYER log.
Self-named files append UNCONDITIONALLY. The default open mode is ios::out --
TRUNCATE -- and the operator GUI's exported bats never set BT_LOG_APPEND, so
they were truncating already; leaving append implicit would have let the second
launch of the day erase the morning.
IDENTITY, because these arrive from many players at once and Discord renames
half of them to message.txt (most of the night-5 evidence had to be
re-identified by hand):
===== BT411 SESSION build=4.11.603 (d64d75f+) machine=... user=...
callsign=Conn Man mode=solo pid=13192 local=... log=... =====
Also the session separator inside a per-day file, and it puts build+hash ABOVE
any [crash] block so btl4+0xNNNN offsets stay matchable to a PDB across builds.
SIZE. Never delete, but stay sendable: past 8 MB the next launch rolls to
<stem>_YYYYMMDD.1.log. Checked only at open, so a live session is never split.
CONSOLIDATION. launch_report.txt is gone, folded into lastrun_<stem>.txt (one
launch record: the exe appends its block at first breath, the bat appends the
exit line). Per-stem because one shared lastrun.txt let a second launcher's
`del` destroy the first launch's block. Its ABSENCE after a run is now the
#41 "never reached WinMain" probe -- the old "if not exist X.log" test cannot
work against a per-day file, which survives earlier launches, and would have
reported every healthy run as blocked by antivirus. marshal.log folded into
the day log too; it keeps its own handle and gained a CRITICAL_SECTION because
it runs on a worker thread while the engine log stream is single-threaded.
play_steam.bat gained a launch bracket it never had -- which is why a Steam
player killed before WinMain previously left no evidence at all.
_putenv_s, not SetEnvironmentVariableA, to pin the resolved name: MSVC's CRT
keeps its own environment copy, so getenv() in-process does NOT see a
SetEnvironmentVariableA write (measured). btl4console/btl4lobby resolve the
day log via getenv, so with the Win32-only call they silently fell back to
marshal.log and the fold never happened.
logfile.open() is now checked -- a failed open used to rebind cout to a dead
buffer, silently dropping the header, [boot] and any crash stack while
lastrun still claimed log=<name>.
Verified: append across sessions with distinct pids, crash block landing under
its own header, BT_LOG verbatim unmangled, an inherited BT_LOG cleared by the
bats, roll-over at 8 MB, and both forensic verdicts (exe ran / exe blocked).
Console auto-retrieval is unaffected -- it uploads the matchlog, a different
file, and a crashed round never reaches the upload call anyway.
Known gaps, deliberately not in this commit: the setlocal hoist for gate
leakage when two bats share one console (dev-only), and btoperator's exported
bats still lack the lastrun bracket -- do not press Export on a shipped zip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Opus 5
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the X button means QUIT: a user-closed window exits for real instead of relaunching
Operator report (00:30): "my local instance auto-relaunches whenever I stop and
start a session, even if I close my window." Root cause is the pod's AUTHENTIC
immortality: an arcade cabinet's join loop never exits, so every RunMissions
return relaunches into the join wait -- and a human closing the window was
indistinguishable from a round ending. On a desktop that made the client
unkillable outside Task Manager, and explains every orphaned-plasma zombie
hunted this week (my own test teardowns included), plus tonight's "eventually
all I could find was my plasma display".
FIX, one flag + one gate:
* btl4main WndProc WM_CLOSE stamps gBTUserRequestedExit before DestroyWindow
(covers X, Alt-F4, taskbar close, Task Manager's polite phase).
* BTFE_RelaunchSelfAndExit -- the single choke point every relaunch path
funnels through (round end, console-pad lost, round abort, FE loop) --
exits for real when the flag is set, logging 'window closed by the user
-- exiting for real (no relaunch)' to the marshal log.
Round-end auto-rejoin is UNTOUCHED: the flag only sets on WM_CLOSE.
VERIFIED both directions on the built exe (4.11.591):
* WM_CLOSE posted to a live solo instance -> the whole process tree is GONE
8s later: no relaunched generation, no plasma orphan. [was: immortal]
* Offset-port rig, full launch -> StopMission -> both pods AUTO-REJOINED and
re-ACKed for the next round (2/2 ready, WAITING FOR OPERATOR); zero
exiting-for-real lines fired (nobody closed a window).
Requires the next zip for players; the operator's running instance keeps the
old behavior until restarted onto this build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Opus 5
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12d6862c1f |
keylight: unship it -- opt-in (BT_KEYLIGHT=1), gone from all player docs
Operator decision: the player base is not on Windows 11, so the RGB keyboard
mirror should not be shipped or promised. The feature is NOT deleted -- Cyd's
implementation stays intact behind the gate for whoever wants it -- it is
simply off by default and invisible:
* PadRIO gate flips from opt-out (BT_KEYLIGHT=0 disables) to OPT-IN
(BT_KEYLIGHT=1 enables). Default boots produce zero keylight lines, and a
stub build and a real build now behave identically for players: nothing.
* Removed from every user-facing artifact: the README paragraph, the
CONTROLS.md section, the CONTROLS.html footer line.
* environ.ini template: the entry stays (it is the discoverable home for the
opt-in) but now says OFF-unless-1, Windows 11 22H2+, and why it is
unshipped.
* mkdist's cut-time stub warning removed -- it existed to protect a README
promise that no longer exists.
* context/glass-cockpit.md records the decision, the opt-in, and the
build-time SDK stub gate in one place.
VERIFIED: default boot logs zero keylight lines; BT_KEYLIGHT=1 engages the
feature (the stub on this machine: its one honest log line + the key map).
All three console suites pass; checkctx CLEAN.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Opus 5
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150961176c |
merge fix-ups: the four review findings + a build portability gate the merge exposed
Applied on top of the glass-cockpit-refit merge, all from the pre-merge review: 1. README CONTROLS TABLE REWRITTEN for the new default board. It still taught "W/S throttle, A/D turn" while the defaults moved flight to the numpad and handed the letter rows to the MFD banks -- a fresh install would read controls that do not work. The new table teaches the numpad flight block, the panel-on-your-keys groups, F7 for control mode (was M), backtick for the camera (was V), the coolant valves on 1-3/QWE with the detent warning kept, and PgUp/PgDn volume. UPGRADERS ARE TOLD EXPLICITLY that their preserved bindings.txt keeps their old keys, and that deleting it opts into the board. 2. BACKTICK VIEW-TOGGLE GUARDED. The bindings-row-wins rule (KeyHasBinding) covered V and J/K/L but not backtick itself, which polled unconditionally -- and BACKTICK is a nameable, unbound key, so binding it to a button double-dispatched (button + camera). Both halves of the view poll are now guarded. 3. ENVIRON.INI REFUSES ONE-SHOTS. The loader applied ANY key=value line, and BT_JOYCONFIG in the file would defeat the #66 one-shot in a sneaky way: the wizard DELETES the process var after running, so in every relaunched child there is no real env var left to win over the file -- capture wizard at every mission start. BT_JOYCONFIG is now skipped with the reason in the template header, which also warns that test/debug hooks (BT_MP_FORCE_DMG and friends) do not belong in a file that silently persists forever. 4. VOLUME DOCUMENTED EVERYWHERE IT WAS MISSING. CONTROLS.md gains the PgUp/PgDn row (the old "- / = (see below)" cell pointed at a note that never mentioned volume) and the note that the keys moved so they no longer share a key with anything in any layout; the bindings template header reserves PgUp/PgDn informally. 5. L4KEYLIGHT BUILD GATE (found by building the merge on this machine). The C++/WinRT Dynamic Lighting TU does not compile against SDK 10.0.19041 -- its bundled cppwinrt fails inside winrt/base itself (C2039 'wait_for'). CMake now detects an SDK older than 10.0.22000 and builds a dormant stub with the same five-function scalar interface (logs once at Start, identical behaviour otherwise) -- extending the feature's own runtime philosophy ("no Dynamic Lighting -> log once, stay dormant") to build time. Dynamic Lighting is a Windows 11 22H2 feature, so nothing real is lost on an older build machine, and machines with a newer SDK build the real mirror unchanged. VERIFIED on the merged tree (4.11.572): * build clean -- 0 compile errors; the 40 /FORCE-tolerated unresolved externals are byte-identical to every pre-merge build (20 CreateStreamedSubsystem + 20 DefaultData; the earlier claim that all 40 were CSS was shorthand -- corrected here for the record). * solo boot: environ.ini template written + loaded, mode resolver announces the surround, historical bands L276/R276/T223/B336 confirmed, keylight stub logs its dormant line, BT_SHOT capture shows the under-glass button treatment and the corrected hat labels, 0 faults. * PgUp/PgDn volume PROVEN LIVE via injected keys: 5%->10%->15%->10%, saved to volume.cfg. (Side catch: content\volume.cfg had been sitting at 0.00 from an old test -- anyone using this tree had a silent game; reset.) * full relay cycle on the merged exe: 2 pods staged, launch pair, mission, StopMission, round RESET -- all clean. * all three console suites still pass; checkctx CLEAN. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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CydandClaude Opus 5
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Find content\ ourselves: a bare exe launch no longer scatters config and dies
Field report: `.\btl4.exe -fit` from build\Release opens the mission console,
then the mission crashes on Launch.
ROOT CAUSE (pre-existing landmine, newly reachable). The engine resolves
BTL4.RES, VIDEO\, BTDPL.INI, the eggs AND both player config files
(bindings.txt, environ.ini) RELATIVE TO CWD. Every launcher .bat does
`cd content` first, so this never showed. A bare launch of the exe therefore
found no resources ("Resource file btl4.res v1.0.0.0 is obsolete!"), wrote a
stray bindings.txt / environ.ini / btl4.log NEXT TO THE EXE -- so the player's
real ones in content\ looked like they had never been created -- and killed the
mission generation the menu launched (the child inherits the parent's cwd).
Recent work made that path inviting rather than obscure: glass is the desktop
default, a zero-arg launch opens the menu, and -fit is documented as something
you pass on the command line.
FIX: BTEnsureContentDirectory() runs before anything resolves a relative path
(the log file included, so a bare launch logs where the launchers log). If cwd
has no BTL4.RES, probe from the exe's own directory -- ..\..\content for the
shipped layout, plus the flattened and in-content cases -- and
SetCurrentDirectory there. Says so in the boot line when it had to go looking.
Belt and braces: the environ.ini writer refuses to write unless BTL4.RES is
beside it, so a failed probe cannot scatter a settings file either.
ALSO: -fit was silently dropped when the menu relaunched into a mission. The
front end rebuilds the child's command line from scratch, and the flag was
parsed at window creation -- code the menu process exits long before reaching.
Parsed early into gBTFitDisplay now, and appended to the relaunch.
Verified: bare `btl4.exe -fit` from build\Release leaves ZERO files next to the
exe, writes environ.ini + btl4.log into content\, and the mission child's exact
command line (-net 1501 -platform glass) from that same wrong cwd now logs
"cwd: found the content directory from the exe path", loads resources and
enters RunMissions instead of dying.
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 Opus 5
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#66: joyconfig.bat no longer hangs the game -- clear BT_JOYCONFIG once the wizard is done
Found while sweeping the shipped launchers for the PATH-shadowing bug class.
Previously recorded ONLY as row 10 of docs/INPUT_PATH_AUDIT.md and never
filed, so it was invisible on the tracker.
joyconfig.bat sets BOTH `BT_JOYCONFIG=1` and `BT_FE_SOLO=1`, so after the
wizard writes bindings.txt the boot continues into the FRONT END, which hands
off by CreateProcessW()ing the next generation with the CURRENT environment.
That clear-list (btl4console.cpp) covers only BT_FE_EGG/PODS/SECS/LOOP --
BT_JOYCONFIG is never cleared -- so the handed-off generation re-entered
BTJoyConfigWizard() and blocked on _getch() BEHIND the 3D window: an
unrecoverable hang, hitting exactly the players most likely to run that bat
(flight stick / HOTAS / pedals).
Fix: SetEnvironmentVariableA("BT_JOYCONFIG", NULL) immediately after the
wizard returns. Cleared in the WIN32 environment (what CreateProcess
inherits, matching the console's own pattern) rather than the CRT copy, so
exactly one generation ever runs it. Chosen over extending the console's
clear-list because it also covers any future relaunch path.
NOT YET REBUILT: the exe was locked by a live play session when this landed.
Must be rebuilt + verified (run joyconfig.bat, finish the wizard, confirm no
second "=== BattleTech joystick setup ===" banner and that the game proceeds
into the menu) before the next zip is cut.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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f7daf03507 |
Crash self-report + round-completed latch + PDB archiving
CRASH SELF-REPORT (the #35/#41 heisenbug hunt): every unhandled exception now logs its code, address, and an EBP-walked stack as module-relative offsets (btl4+0xNNNN) into BT_LOG before dying -- any field crash on any machine hands us a resolvable stack. The walker is per-dereference guarded (a corrupt chain truncates). BT_CRASHTEST=1 exercises the path end-to-end (verified: forced AV logs code/addr/5-frame stack). mkdist archives each build's PDB next to its zip so offsets resolve per distributed version. Context: a flaky release-only crash in the mech build path surfaced during #38 rigs -- it moves with build layout, spares neither peer, and masks under a debugger heap (13 clean cdb runs vs 2/3 crashes without). A real latent memory bug; the self-report will catch it wherever it strikes next. ROUND-COMPLETED LATCH (issue #38, awaiting verification): relay-mode clients refuse RunMission after a round has ended -- the lobby-loop relaunch owns the next round (in-process round 2 rebuilt every player/mech entity on stale globals; matchlog caught player=3:1->3:36 in one generation). Latch sets ONLY when the stop ends a RUNNING mission (a stray pre-mission StopMission must not poison round 1 -- the first cut ate a legit launch, caught + fixed in rig). Regression verification pending (contaminated by the heisenbug above). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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Issue #33/#34: relaunch-storm + duplicate-seat fixes (pod-grade session stability)
Night-2 capture: one flapping pod cascaded 3 ROUND ABORTs in 8s; every
client relaunch-churned (~1 gen/s) until the D3D device-creation 20s
deadline fired on every machine ('could not connect direct 3d'), and
claim-less restarts minted duplicate roster seats.
Console (relay):
- Round abort clears stale console-conn ACK flags and HOLDS the next
egg release for an 8s settle window (_tick_settle re-releases when
quiet) -- the abort->instant-re-release->drop->abort cycle is broken.
- HELLO from a stale identity gets a REJOIN reply (identity resync via
the seat-request path, 5s/IP rate limit) instead of a bare drop.
- STATIC SEATS: seats remember (IP + callsign); a claim-less restart
from the same machine+name RECLAIMS its own seat (displacing its
zombie beacon) instead of minting a duplicate -- the pod contract:
same box, same seat, always.
- Operator local instances log with BT_LOG_APPEND (the night-2 crash
loop left a 2-line file; generations now leave a full trail).
Client:
- Relaunch storm damper: a generation that lived <15s sleeps 5s before
respawning (storm decays to a gentle cadence; normal multi-minute
round relaunches untouched; menu clicks explicitly never delayed).
Rig-verified: normal round + mid-MISSION drop = no abort (correct);
mid-LOAD kill = exactly ONE abort + 8s hold + seat reclaimed + no
cascade. The night-2 'host 7' identity-derivation subtlety remains
under forensics (append logs + first-breath line will capture it).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Boot forensics: first-breath log line + generation-safe bat logging
Field 2026-07-23 (second night): a player's join.bat failed 3x in a row with a 0-byte join.log -- indistinguishable from 'never ran'. Two causes of evidence loss fixed: 1. The first flushed log line now happens the INSTANT the log opens (version, pid, args, first-process vs relaunched-generation). An empty log after this build means the exe was killed before WinMain -- an external cause (antivirus/loader), not ours. 2. The menu->game relaunch chain truncated join.log each generation (BT_LOG_APPEND was unset in the player bats): the crashed generation's evidence was erased by the next attempt. The bats now delete the log once per bat run and append across generations. Also explains the confusing 'The game has exited' bat message on SUCCESSFUL launches (the menu process exits after relaunching the game detached) -- the log now records the whole chain. |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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Generic joystick / HOTAS / pedals support: DirectInput 8 layer + capture wizard
Tester ask: configure non-Xbox controllers. New L4JOY layer (DI8): enumerates every non-XInput game device (up to 4), DIJOYSTATE2 polling with range normalization, reacquire-on-loss, 3s hot-plug re-enum. XInput devices are excluded via the documented RawInput IG_ VID/PID check (live-verified skipping a real XBOX360 pad -- no double-feed). bindings.txt grows joydev/joyaxis/joybutton/joyhat rows (device slots by name substring or ordinal; axes X..RZ/SL0/SL1 with invert/slew/ deadzone; hats as 4-direction buttons with diagonal chords). PadRIO runs them through the existing channel/event machinery -- per-binding edge arrays release automatically on detach (the #24 rule), and a direct throttle axis maps full lever travel onto the 0..1 channel while the gait detent still snaps a lever parked in the walk/run dead band. BT_JOYCONFIG=1 (joyconfig.bat) runs a console capture wizard: move each control when prompted (stick/twist/throttle/fire), invert derived from the move direction, hat look cluster auto-added, output written between markers in bindings.txt with the rest of the file preserved. Legacy L4DINPUT DIJoystick (L4CONTROLS=DIJOYSTICK) untouched. Verified: grammar accept/reject per line, XInput-exclusion live, 30s in-mission no-device polling clean. Awaiting a tester with real stick hardware for axis verification. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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c8cba8c764 |
Connection audit: every connect/disconnect scenario handled + verified
Systematic actor-death x lifecycle-phase sweep (operator request after the WaitingForEgg zombie). New handling, all live-verified: 1. PRE-EGG console-pad loss (the real zombie phase): before the egg the pod's only link is the console pad -- the game socket doesn't exist, so the earlier RelayGameDown hook could never fire (the verification run itself caught this). Detection now lives in HostDisconnectedMessageHandler ConsoleHostType (relayMode + pre-scene -> BTRelayRejoinNow); mesh keeps 1995 behavior. 2. MID-MISSION relay loss: the STOP is relay-sent (1995: the console owned the clock), so a pod losing its relay mid-match played a peer-less FOREVER-mission. RelayGameDown (scene presented) now posts StopMissionMessage at +15s -> normal end -> lobby relaunch. 3. POST-RELEASE pod death stalled the round (survivors wait forever on the dead peer's connection gate): relay _abort_round -> route -11 REJOIN to survivors -> everyone re-seats in seconds (reset-first ordering makes the drop cascade re-trigger-proof). 4. BTRelayRejoinNow carries BT_SEAT_CLAIM (mirrored tag): without it the rejoiner's own reclaim-hold blocked assignment -> ROSTER FULL loop for the 90s window (found by verification round 2). 5. Beacon NAT keepalive (SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS 60s/10s) so long between-rounds waits can't be silently unseated. 6. BT_LOG_APPEND=1 preserves the log across lobby-loop generations (truncation erased round-1 verification evidence). Verified non-issues: relay pods never bind the -net listener (no double-launch collision on the internet path); mesh bind-fail exits cleanly. Full matrix + evidence: context/multiplayer.md; scratchpad/audit_verify.sh is the repeatable rig. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Lobby loop: auto-rejoin between rounds + seat reclaim + live mission edits
The between-rounds arcade flow (first-playtest-night field request): at
mission end every pod exited, seats dropped, and every round required
everyone to re-run join.bat with no way to adjust the mission.
1. AUTO-REJOIN: StopMission (operator END / mission clock -- NOT a
window close) sets gBTMissionStoppedByConsole; after the matchlog
upload btl4main relaunches the pod into the join wait with the same
cmdline (BT_CALLSIGN/BT_MECH ride the inherited environment).
2. SEAT RECLAIM: the assigned tag is mirrored file-scope
(BTRelaySelfTag) and re-presented as the 3rd SEAT_REQUEST payload
field (BT_SEAT_CLAIM); the relay holds a dropped seat for its tag
for 90s and a returning player gets their EXACT seat back -- static
ordering across rounds, the real-pod model. Non-claim joiners skip
reclaim-held seats.
3. LIVE MISSION EDITS: the console gains "Apply mission settings"
(enabled while a session runs) writing arena/time/weather/length
into the session egg; the relay re-reads the file at round reset and
egg release (roster shape locked mid-session).
Verified 2-pod 3-round: pods self-relaunched after each clock end; the
SECOND-to-rejoin still reclaimed its original seat (ordering held); the
between-rounds edit landed ("mission length now 75s"). Known edge
noted in the KB: a stale ready flag from a not-yet-exited old conn can
satisfy the launch gate mid-rejoin -- operators launch on green dots.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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Operator console: relay-mode local instances go through the JOIN menu
The Launch-local-instances path pinned BT_SELF, which claims a seat directly and SKIPS the seat request -- the join menu (and the callsign/ mech choice it carries) never ran, so a local test instance couldn't exercise the walk-up flow. Relay-mode local instances now launch zero-arg with BT_FE_JOIN=1: the JOIN-GAME menu opens, the relay assigns the seat, and the choice lands in the egg like any join.bat player. Each instance gets a distinct relaunch port via BT_FE_JOINPORT (btl4main JoinRelay case; default 1501) -- two -net listeners can't share a port on one box. Mesh-mode locals keep the direct path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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fcedc046cf |
Walk-up callsign/mech request: join menu -> relay -> the session egg
The 1995 front-desk conversation, over the internet. join.bat/
join_lan.bat now open a JOIN-GAME menu (the FE in BT_FE_JOIN trim:
CALLSIGN edit + the 18-mech list + JOIN); the choice relaunches into the
normal join with BT_CALLSIGN/BT_MECH env, rides the relay SEAT_REQUEST
as {callsign NUL mech NUL} (empty payload = roster defaults, wire-
compatible), and the relay validates the mech tag, HOLDS egg delivery
until every pod's console pad is connected, rewrites the egg via
eggmodel (vehicle= + rasterized callsign bitmaps, graceful no-PySide6
fallback) and streams it to all pads -- so every player's egg copy
carries every player's callsign.
The hold is gated on CONSOLE-PAD count, not game-side registration: a
pod HELLOs only after parsing the egg's roster, so a registration gate
deadlocks (hit live in the first run; pods animate in WAITING FOR
MISSION ASSIGNMENT during the hold).
Verified 2-node e2e (env-injected requests): thor/vulture requested over
roster defaults bhk1/ava1 -> relay held 1/2, released at 2/2, rewrote
both seats (relay log), the delivered egg carries vehicle=thor/vulture +
name=VIPER/MONGOOSE, both pods launched and built [cyl] tables for both
requested mechs. Join-menu layout screenshot-verified; the menu's
click-through relaunch awaits live human verification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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eb618fe9e6 |
BT_EXPIRE: tester builds stop working 14 days after build (compile gate)
Distributed test zips go stale and stray. BT_EXPIRE (CMake option,
DEFAULT ON so a zip can never accidentally ship without it) makes the
exe refuse to start BT_EXPIRE_DAYS (default 14) after its build day:
boot logs the remaining window, an expired build logs + shows a
"test build expired -- ask the operator for the current build" box and
exits. btversion.h now stamps BT_BUILD_UNIX (UTC-midnight-rounded so
the only-on-change header churns once per day, not every build) +
BT_BUILD_DATE. Dev is unaffected: every build re-stamps the day.
-DBT_EXPIRE=OFF builds a non-expiring exe; mkdist reads the cache and
marks such a zip "-noexpire" + prints a warning, and the tester README
expiry note is {EXPIRE}-marker-gated like the steam lines. Second
compile-gate exception after BT_STEAM (convention updated in
glass-cockpit.md). Quality gate, not DRM -- a clock rollback defeats it.
Verified live: default build logs "test build window: 14 day(s) left";
a -DBT_EXPIRE_DAYS=0 build logs TEST BUILD EXPIRED and parks on the
explanation box (window title checked) without starting the game;
restored to 14 and rebuilt clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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753540de96 |
MP match forensics: per-peer matchlog + relay auto-upload + matchcheck
For the 8-player playtest. Damage authority is VICTIM-side, so no single peer sees the whole match: every -net instance now writes a compact machine-parseable matchlog_<date>_<time>_<pid>.txt (auto-armed by -net; BT_MATCHLOG=1/0 overrides; solo silent), and at mission end a relay-mode pod dials the relay game port (the seat-request throwaway-dial pattern, envelope route -9) and streams the file back -- the relay saves every peer's copy under matchlogs/ on the operator's machine, so testers send nothing by hand. tools/matchcheck.py <dir> reconciles all of them: damage claimed (FIRE/PROJ/SPLASH/RAM, shooter-side) vs applied (DMG, victim-side authoritative), kill/death replication across observers, PLAYER_DEAD counts, scores, version skew, replicant-application and unattributed-damage anomalies, mid-mission disconnects. Hooks at the authoritative sites: Mech::TakeDamageMessageHandler (DMG, post-base, zone + post-application damageLevel), MechWeapon:: SendDamageMessage (FIRE), projectile impact/splash/collision dispatch (PROJ/SPLASH/RAM), wreck entry (DEATH -- a ONE-SHOT latch at MovementMode 9, NOT the transition: a replicant arrives at 9 straight from the type-6 record header and never runs the transition branch), BTPlayer vehicle/death/score handlers (VEHICLE/PLAYER_DEAD/SCORE), zone crit cascade (CRIT), APP.cpp RunningMission (MISSION), L4NET host handlers (PEER_UP/PEER_DOWN). Every line t=/w=/st=-stamped + fflushed. Verified 2-node: mesh run pairs A's 22 FIRE 1:1 with B's 22 DMG (same amounts, cylinder-resolved zones, ~200ms latency); force-damage kill run logs 103 DMG + 3 DEATH inst=M + 3 PLAYER_DEAD across three respawn cycles victim-side and the kill SCOREs shooter-side; relay-mode run auto-uploaded BOTH peers' files at the mission-clock stop and matchcheck produced the full report with exactly one (correct) anomaly -- the force hook's claim-less damage, the unattributed-damage detector working. Relay gained a route-specific 8MB cap for the upload frame (game frames stay capped at 1600). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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9e85f6dc56 |
Desktop default platform = GLASS (kills the recurring "old keymap" trap)
Root cause of the keymap whack-a-mole: three input layers exist (PadRIO/ bindings.txt under glass; btinput/CONTROLS.MAP under DEV; the bring-up drive bridge also under DEV, which clobbers e.g. Alt-reverse every frame), and DEV was the DEFAULT -- so every launcher that forgot BT_PLATFORM=glass booted the old stack: the play bats, then play_steam, then the operator console's local instances, each fixed with the same one line. Omission can't resurrect it now: with no BT_PLATFORM, desktop boots GLASS (and the menu on a zero-arg launch -- bare double-click of btl4.exe opens the mission menu). BT_PLATFORM=dev explicitly opts into the legacy DEV profile for debugging. BT_PLATFORM=pod is the cabinet profile; the real pod's SETENV.BAT must set it (contract recorded in glass-cockpit.md -- the old "bare boot == cabinet shape" menu-guard assumption is retired). Verified: no-env mission launch boots GLASS; bare no-env launch opens the MENU; BT_PLATFORM=dev boots DEV. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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10ed66bd7c |
UNIFY: one exe -- retire the pod/glass/steam compile split
The three build dirs (build\ pod, build-glass\, build-steam\) were compile-
time splits of the same game; the tax was real: a stale steam exe shipped 2
days behind, the felt keymap flipped with the boot flavor, and cockpit
clicks were silently dead in the pod build (the trigger-config incident).
Now everything compiles into the single build\ exe:
- CMakeLists: BT_GLASS/BT_STEAM options removed; the glass TUs (PadRIO,
bindings, panel, glass windows, plasma) + FE/console + Steam transport
compile unconditionally; both macros always defined (seam markers).
- Steam: steam_api.lib linked with /DELAYLOAD:steam_api.dll + delayimp --
the DLL maps only when SteamAPI is first called, and every call site
gates on BT_STEAM_NET=1 (BTSteamNet_* short-circuit on steamActive), so
machines without the DLL run everything but Steam sessions.
- CABINET GUARD (btl4main): the miniconsole menu previously claimed any
zero-arg launch -- unified, that would hijack the pod cabinet's boot
shape. The menu now requires BT_PLATFORM=glass (or BT_FE_MENU=1);
platform parse moved above the fe_menu_mode computation. A bare boot
behaves exactly like the old pod build (DEV profile, wait for egg).
- Bats (play_solo/join/join_lan/play_steam) + the btoperator.py template:
single build\ path + BT_PLATFORM=glass. mkdist: one exe (+DLL scan
picks up OpenAL32 + steam_api). build-glass\/build-steam\/build-glass2\
(a stale Jul-20 cache) deleted.
Verified matrix on the unified exe:
bare zero-arg boot == old pod exe (same DEV profile + egg-load path;
the segfault on a missing egg is pre-existing, baselined vs the zip exe)
glass + BT_BTNTEST scripted click -> [cfgmap] ENTER/EXIT (trigger config)
runs with steam_api.dll ABSENT (delay-load proven)
glass zero-arg -> miniconsole menu
2-node loopback MP: 145 ticks each, cross-connected
BT_STEAM_NET=1 without Steam client -> "staying on Winsock", game runs
KB: context/glass-cockpit.md compile-gates section rewritten for the
unified model.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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129b27499d |
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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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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1e6f5fd347 |
FE: the menu process applies NO platform profile -- the preset leak fix
Steam-host report ('no glass panel, plasma yes'): a direct btl4.exe start ran
the MENU under the DEV profile, whose putenv(L4CONTROLS=KEYBOARD) leaked into
the relaunched mission child -- the child's glass preset (sets-when-unset)
could then never select PAD: no PadRIO, no panel; the plasma appeared only
because DEV never touches L4PLASMA. Menu-mode is now detected FIRST and the
front-end process skips the profile putenvs entirely (profiles belong to game
processes); boot line reads 'MENU (front end -- no profile applied)'.
Verified: zero-arg start -> menu -> launch -> child boots GLASS, PadRIO up,
72-control panel present, plasma present.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CydandClaude Fable 5
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f889e24ce0 |
Merge origin/master: the D1 relay/operator line + input remap meet the glass layer
33 master commits in (relay TCP/UDP + PySide6 operator console, CONTROLS.MAP +XInput binding engine, camera seats, torso pitch aim, sign fixes, the 1995 manual, version stamping, 18-mech certification). Conflicts: .gitignore + CLAUDE.md router rows (combined). SEMANTIC RECONCILIATION (the one real overlap): masters btinput binding engine (ungated, CONTROLS.MAP) and the glass PadRIO (gated, bindings.txt) would both read the keyboard/pad in a glass+PAD session. btinput now joins the stand-down convention: BTInputPoll yields (and BTInputSuppressKey claims NOTHING, so authentic hotkeys flow) when an operational cockpit device owns the input path -- BTRIODevicePresent, BT_KEY_BRIDGE force-override honored, forced harness exempt. One input system per mode: btinput on pod/dev desktops, PadRIO on glass. The mechmppr/mech4 bridge merges composed clean (masters negate-once sign fix inside our device-gated bridge). The D1 relay keeps its own raw sockets by design (an alternative LAN wire; Steam and relay are separate modes). Verified post-merge: all 3 configs build; glass boots with [input] binding engine standing down + PadRIO owning input (30 ticks); pod forced-walk speedDemand=61.501 with btinput ACTIVE; 2-node loopback MP full 31/31 mission, 76/76 ticks. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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fad962bec8 |
Version stamping: 4.11.<git commit count> (<hash>[+])
4.10 = the 1995 arcade release; 4.11 = the win32 reconstruction; the
build number is the git commit count -- monotonic, zero-maintenance,
and every exe pins to exact source via the short hash ('+' = built
from an uncommitted tree). tools/btversion.cmake regenerates
build/btversion.h on every build (write-if-changed, no rebuild churn);
the stamp shows in the boot banner (btl4.log head, replacing the stale
'v4.10' line) and the window title (incl. the MP node tag).
Verified: build stamps 4.11.311 (980c9cd+), banner + title correct on
a live boot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CydandClaude Fable 5
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f703bb1d56 |
Steam: the lobby + IDENTITY-TOKEN roster -- internet MP code-complete (step 4c)
NEW gated (BT_STEAM) game/glass/btl4lobby: an ISteamMatchmaking room replacing the arcade Site-Management screen -- host creates (lobby data btl4=1), members join by filter, pilots publish name/mech/color, the host ENTER mints the roster and signals GO. THE FAKEIP LESSON (live-verified, prior-art assumption DISPROVEN): a fresh process gets a DIFFERENT FakeIP, so menu-time fake addresses go stale by mission time -- the first cycle timed out connecting to its own stale address. Redesign: roster addresses are opaque ipv4-shaped TOKENS (169.254.77.N with ports 1501/1502) minted by the host at GO, mapped to Steam IDENTITIES; connections ride ConnectP2P(identity, channel) with console=0/game=1 virtual ports; the map reaches mission processes via env (BT_FE_MYFAKE + BT_FE_STEAMMAP); the GetMyAddress seam feeds the pod its own token for roster self-match; CheckSocket reports peers by token. L4STEAMNET reworked (no FakeIP allocation at all); the marshal gained the Steam-wire branch. Verified single-machine (ON/ON, live Steam): menu -> HOST STEAM LOBBY -> room -> GO -> token map minted -> egg roster carries the token -> mission process up with 1 roster token incl. self -> pod self-matches -> stock console ladder -> mission RUNS (46 ticks). Remaining: the live 2-account cross-machine session (docs/STEAM_TEST.md). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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48ede2f7d7 |
Net: the Steam transport -- FakeIP + SDR behind the wire seam (step 4b)
NEW gated (BT_STEAM) TU L4STEAMNET: ISteamNetworkingSockets with FakeIP -- pseudo-SOCKET handles (0x5EA0xxxx) behind the L4NET BTNet* seam; the engine TCP byte stream rides reliable-NoNagle Steam messages re-assembled into per-connection rings (nonblocking recv semantics preserved: empty -> WSAEWOULDBLOCK, peer-closed -> 0); two FakeIP ports mirror the arcade console/game channel convention; listen sockets + accept queues via the global status-changed callback; graceful degrade to Winsock at every step. Seam completions in L4NET.CPP: CheckSocket reports a pseudo-socket peer as its FAKE ipv4:port (the lobby egg roster matches unchanged); OpenConnection TCP_OPEN delegates FakeIP targets to BTSteamNet_Connect. WinMain installs on BT_STEAM_NET=1 (lobby launch path / by hand). CMake: gated SDK include/ lib/dll-copy. Both pumps (SteamAPI_RunCallbacks + sockets RunCallbacks) drive it -- the FakeIP result rides the GENERAL dispatch (first attempt with only the sockets pump timed out). Verified live (ON/ON build, Steam client running): SteamAPI_Init OK, steam_appid.txt(480) auto-written, FakeIP allocated (169.254.36.58, console 54464 / game 54465); without BT_STEAM_NET or without Steam the game stays pure Winsock. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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CydandClaude Fable 5
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c4ca87b808 |
Miniconsole: the front end + LocalConsole marshal -- self-launched missions (step 3)
NEW gated dir game/glass/: btl4fe (green-on-black GDI catalog menu -- map/ time/weather/length/mech/color/pilot/mode/port/peers; egg writer emitting the FULL console egg shape, golden-tested vs MP.EGG: identical section sequence at identical line offsets, the 4 static ordinal pages verbatim, GDI-rendered 128x32/64x16 pilot-name plasma bitmaps in MP.EGG framing) and btl4console (the marshal: a worker-thread console CLIENT speaking the btconsole.py wire protocol verbatim -- 1040-byte chunked egg, 20s settle, RunMission x2, STAY CONNECTED, own the clock, StopMission at expiry; logs marshal.log). The engine sees a real connected console and runs the 100% stock ladder -- NO engine hooks (less invasive than planned: the L4APP.H setters proved unnecessary; launches go through real argv on relaunch). WinMain (one gated block): zero-mission-arg glass launch -> menu -> relaunch self with the mission argv (per-mission process relaunch; BT_FE_* env arms the marshal); post-RunMissions BT_FE_LOOP tail returns to the menu. Menu relaunches CLEAR the BT_FE_* handoff (found live: the inherited env re-armed a marshal instead of showing the menu). Verified end-to-end (synthetic menu drive): menu -> frontend.egg -> relaunch -> marshal feeds self over loopback -> stock console ladder -> mission RUNS (58+ ticks) -> 60s clock -> StopMission -> clean menu return, no env leak. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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db9ac947f7 |
Displays: on-screen cockpit buttons + desktop plasma + the glass preset (steps 2d/2e)
NEW gated TUs: L4PADPANEL (GDI top-level window, all-W APIs: the pod button banks -- upper/lower aux, 12 secondary, specials/hat/handle, 63 buttons -- clickable via PadRIO::SetScreenButton with lamp-lit faces from GetLampState, 10 Hz repaint; created by the PadRIO ctor on BT_PAD_PANEL=1) and L4PLASMAWIN (PlasmaWindow : Video8BitBuffered -- the gauge renderer draws the 128x32 plasma into its pixelBuffer through the SAME code path as the serial device; Update() blits orange-on-black at L4PLASMASCALE, default x4). Gated seams: L4GREND.cpp L4PLASMA=SCREEN branch; btl4main.cpp -platform glass preset (PAD,KEYBOARD + BT_DEV_GAUGES + SCREEN plasma + panel; env always overrides; non-glass builds log+fall back to DEV); run.cmd glass token. MFD surfaces need NO new code: the existing dock-bottom / BT_DEV_GAUGES_WINDOW=1 / BT_DEV_GAUGES_DOCK=1 modes are the display story. Verified live: -platform glass boots GLASS profile, panel + plasma windows up, pad detected, dev gauges awake, mission loop clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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48c9c8444f |
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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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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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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launcher: bgfload.h via fwd shim, not an absolute path (relocatable)
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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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