Measured (loadphase markers + queue blocker dump): renderer LoadMission
31ms, model loads 0.2s -- the teal->green minute is the LoadingMission
ready-gate (IsPriorityEmpty counts timed events too) waiting out the
THREE renderers' entity-make streams: every entity/subsystem creation
posts message 3 to each Renderer receiver (classIDs 8/30/36 =
video/audio/gauge), hundreds deep per queue, draining across the whole
window (the audio renderer's share is why sound starts mid-load).
Instrumentation kept: [loadphase] markers (renderer span + busy-pass
counter) always on; GeneralEventQueue::DumpBlockers + the class-named
DumpData fallback behind BT_LOAD_DIAG=1 (hundreds of lines per load).
Optimizing the drain (batching/budget) is an open perf item --
deliberately untouched before the 8-player night.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
