Two two-node benches close the last stated gap ("no two-node run has watched a
peer's view of an arm death"), the second at the user's insistence on the REAL
field composition after the first used the self-damage scalpel:
1. mp_armchain.sh (scalpel): B self-destroys dz_rarm mid-fight. A's screen
receives the whole cascade -- [zone-repl] dz_rarm lvl 0->1 AND the cascaded
dz_rgun lvl 0->1 -- plus the respawn reset coming back clean (1->0). B's
post-cascade AFC pushes turned out to be the RESPAWN RE-ARM, correct
behavior, not a gate failure. (Also confirmed: the self-damage harness
dispatches a real Entity::TakeDamageMessage -- the identical path a peer's
round takes, so the scalpel and the field share every line from the handler
down.)
2. mp_armgrind.sh (the field composition): stand-off at 180, NO self-damage
anywhere, A grinding B with real cross-pod fire for six minutes. On B:
* 25 incremental arm-zone hits from A's weapons via the cylinder tables
(dz_rgun reached 1.0 from pure accumulation -- 15 cascades on rehits)
* dz_rarm finished by B's OWN AFC bay cooking off (AmmoBinAFC100 BAY FIRE
350, half into dz_rarm) -- itself lit by A's fire crits: peer-originated
end to end
* [cascade] zone 9 -> AFC100 + AmmoBinAFC100 + Condenser6 force-failed,
fire gate refusals logged
On A: [zone-repl] dz_rarm 0->1 and dz_rgun 0->1 -- the shooter SEES the arm
and pod die. B symmetrically received A's torso deaths.
Also: DamageZone::ReadUpdateRecord gets a change-only [zone-repl] diagnostic
(BT_MP_LOG) -- the probe that made the peer side measurable; mp_armgrind.sh
opens with the stale-node taskkill the other benches already had (a leftover
node from an aborted launch joined a later lobby as a third instance).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (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>
