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arcattackandClaude Fable 5 5dd35365c7 Glass input audit: RIO mapper id fix (panel banks live), keyboard reconciliation
Root cause of the dead on-screen panel: MechRIOMapper's message-id enum
chained off L4MechControlsMapper::NextMessageID (=0x19), registering all 18
RIO override handlers at 0x19-0x2a while the streamed .CTL EventMapping
records carry the binary's ids -- the binary RIO table @0051dd30 re-registers
the BASE aux/zoom ids 3..0x13 (Hotbox 0x1a @0051de98).  Every MFD-bank/zoom
press hit the base ConfigureMappableMessageHandler FAIL trap (26/72 buttons
dead; an abort() on a trap-armed pod).  Ids now pinned to the binary
numbering + static_assert-locked (btl4mppr.hpp) -- panel goes 26 -> 52
working buttons (8 await handler reconstruction, filed on Gitea; 12 have no
streamed mapping authored = authentically inert).

Keyboard reconciliation (glass-only): the merged map -- keyboard hosts the
~20 core gameplay actions on the CONTROLS.MAP keys, the panel covers every
pod address by click (right-click = hold latch):
- W/S throttle lever, A/D pedals, Q/E twist, R/F elevation, X all-stop,
  arrows drive; numpad flight cluster kept (Cyd)
- 1/2/3/4/Space/LCTRL/RCTRL fire, LALT reverse, B look-behind (0x41)
- M=0x18 mode cycle, N=0x15 display cycle, H=0x2C coolant flush (hold),
  C=0x2F Condenser1 valve, G=0x0E weapon-1 configure (Mfd1-Quad-gated)
- F5-F9 = Mfd2 bank 0x27-0x24 + 0x22 (page-gated gen A-D / gen mode)
- hardcoded: ` or V = view toggle, J/K/L = Mfd1/2/3 preset-page cycle
  (PadRIO edges -> gBTPresetCycle; no pod "cycle" button exists)
- PadRIO::SuppressKey: bound keys are swallowed from the typed 1995 channel
  (the btinput suppression pattern, glass side) -- ends the glass double
  dispatch ('w'=pilot select 0, 'a'..'g'=MFD2 presets, NUMPAD/F-key key-up
  VK aliases like VK_F5=0x74='t').  Unbound keys keep their authentic
  meanings (5/z presets, t-o pilot select, +/- zoom, F1/F2 align).

DISPLACED from Cyd's default bindings (each reachable on the panel or by a
bindings.txt edit -- flagging for Cyd's veto): number row -> secondary panel
(1-4 now fire), QWERTY row -> pilot keypad (dropped), arrows -> hat looks
(now drive), V/C/B -> fire 0x47/0x46/0x45 (now view/valve/look-behind),
LCTRL -> throttle-down (now fire).  XInput pad section untouched.

Audit by-products (KB updated): the always-active msg-4 records identified
(0x2C = Reservoir flush, 0x29-0x2F = condenser valves, 0x1A-0x1D =
GeneratorA-D ToggleGeneratorOnOff @004b1ed0 unreconstructed); 0x13 = Mech
DuckRequest (crouch), 0x28 = BalanceCoolant; Searchlight/ThermalSight
ToggleLamp handler-sets are default-constructed EMPTY; weapon Eng-page msgs
0x3/0xb = ToggleCooling / ToggleSeekVoltage / EjectAmmo, all unwired;
unhandled messages are SILENT (no [FAIL] -- census = BT_CTRLMAP_LOG dump x
handler tables).

Verified live (build-glass2, ARENA1): panel presets/zoom/display/flush;
W drive (speedDemand 61.5, gait advances), Q turn (BAS), M -> MID, A turn
(MID), Space fires, N display, J/K/L presets, H flush drain, C valve 1->5;
suppression ('w' swallowed, 't' flows, F5-keyup swallowed); BT_SHOT frame.
Un-regression: pod build (gates OFF) compiles 0 errors, forced-walk drives,
streamed ids unchanged; CONTROLS.MAP/btinput untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 08:35:55 -05:00
arcattackandClaude Fable 5 1d6339b226 Gitea #6: secondary MFD Damage/Critical/Heat cycling -- reconstruct the
NotifyOfDisplayModeChange override (vtbl+0x4C @4d1ae4) + wire desktop 'N'

The secondary screen's schematic selector was mislabeled: @004d1ae4 (the
bits-18..20 ModeSecondary* mask swap) was reconstructed as a non-virtual
"SetControlMode" that nothing called, so the desktop stayed pinned on the
Damage view.  The binary's L4 vtable @0051e440 pins the truth:

  +0x48 = @004d1acc  <- CycleControlModeMessageHandler (FUN_004afbe0):
          forwards to the base RET no-op @004b048c.  A BAS/MID/ADV
          control-mode change never touches the secondary view
          (empirically confirmed: BT_MODECYCLE_TEST cycles the CONTROL
          MODE lamp, mask bits 18-20 unchanged, schematic stays ARMOR).
  +0x4C = @004d1ae4  <- CycleDisplayModeMessageHandler (FUN_004afcac):
          THE Damage/Critical/Heat selector, indexed by displayMode
          (table @0051dbe4 = ModeSecondaryDamage/Critical/Heat).

Authentic pod inputs (streamed type-6 .CTL EventMappings, dumped via the
new BT_CTRLMAP_LOG EVENT records): secondary-panel button 0x15 -> msg
0x15 CycleDisplayMode (manual p13, the "'Mech status Info center" bottom
left of the secondary screen), button 0x18 -> msg 0x14 CycleControlMode
(manual p6, top right), 0x10/0x11 -> ZoomIn/Out.  The DOS keyboard
fallbacks (Keypress 0x13d/0x13e = extended F3/F4) are dead under the
WinTesla VK map, hence the desktop pin.

Port wiring (the M/ModeCycle pattern): key N / pad RightThumb -> action
DisplayCycle -> gBTDisplayCycle -> CycleDisplayModeNow() -- the same body
the pod console button message drives.  Both .MAP profiles + the
compiled-in default updated.

Verified live (docked gauges + BT_SHOT, BT_VIEWCYCLE_TEST): the sec
panel cycles ARMOR DAMAGE silhouette -> CRITICAL DAMAGE subsystem list
-> HEAT DAMAGE colored list, mask 0x450421 -> 0x490421 -> 0x510421; M
control-mode cycling un-regressed (BAS/MID/ADV lamp cycles, view pinned).

Diags: BT_MODE_LOG, BT_VIEWCYCLE_TEST=<frame>, BT_MODECYCLE_TEST=<frame>,
BT_CTRLMAP_LOG now dumps EVENT records.  KB: gauges-hud secondary-view
section rewritten, CLASSMAP +0x48/+0x4C slots, decomp-reference env
gates, GAUGE_COMPOSITE phase-4 entry resolved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-19 16:28:38 -05:00
CydandClaude Fable 5 22d7a0e3b7 PadRIO: publish stick X in the WIRE sign -- the left/right inversion fix
User-reported: glass left/right inverted.  Closed with live sign algebra:
the joystick-group wire push was traced end to end (new env-gated
BT_CTRLMAP_LOG push trace + record mode-mask in the install log) --
measured wire stickX=-1 -> turnDemand=-1, the SAME demand the
user-verified dev D-key-RIGHT produces (stickX=+1 -> turnDemand=-1 via the
bridge's negate-once, cb82d8c).  The mapper interprets the authentic RIO
WIRE convention: stick right = NEGATIVE JoystickX (the vRIO/RIOJoy
calibration convention).  PadRIO now publishes X negated (all sources --
keyboard deflect, pad LX, panel -- uniformly); Y stays screen-sign;
L4PADFLIP still flips both.  Also: PadRIO honors BT_KEY_NOFOCUS=1 (the
btinput harness override) for automation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-18 19:38:53 -05:00
CydandClaude Fable 5 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>
2026-07-18 17:46:41 -05:00
arcattackandClaude Fable 5 980c9cd7e5 Input remap: CONTROLS.MAP binding engine + XInput gamepad support
The pod's controls reach the game through the RIO serial board; on a
desktop that hardware is a keyboard shim of hardcoded GetAsyncKeyState
reads.  New binding engine (game/reconstructed/btinput.cpp) maps PC keys
and an XInput pad onto the authentic channels through a user-editable
file (content/CONTROLS.MAP, community-suggested grammar, corrected):

  key/pad -> button <addr>   real buttonGroup emissions, mirroring the
                             RIO convention exactly (press a+1 w/ mode
                             mask saved, release -a-1 w/ saved mask;
                             L4CTRL.cpp:2470-2520) -- aux/preset banks,
                             hotbox, panic, reverse thrust all reachable
  key/pad -> axis            Throttle rate (lever), pedals/JoystickX
                             deflect (turn/twist) into the existing
                             virtual-controls integrators (feel, gait
                             detent, spring-centering all unchanged)
  keypad pilot|external <n>  keyboardGroup key values ('0'-'F')
  pckey <char>               any authentic 1995 typed hotkey
  action <name>              port dev controls (view, all-stop, ...)

Keys claimed by a binding are SUPPRESSED from the legacy WM_CHAR/KEYUP
feed -- ends the historic double-dispatch ('w' drove AND selected pilot
0; F5's key-up value 0x74 aliased to the 't' hotkey; letter key-ups fed
the developer fake-event dispatcher).  Unbound keys keep their authentic
meaning.  The dual-use 'V' is split: V = view toggle, B = look behind.

Default profile = WASD classic (compiled-in twin; delete the file to
restore).  CONTROLS_NUMPAD.MAP ships the corrected community layout
(keypads are NOT buttons 0x50-0x6F -- that space doesn't exist; no
clickable cockpit exists so everything needs a binding; keyboard fire
buttons added; 0x36/0x37 are hotbox not 'config'; missiles moved off
Ctrl).  XInput loads dynamically (1_4 -> 9_1_0), disconnected-pad
probing rate-limited; pad sticks write the axes as absolute positions
(the spring is physical), triggers/buttons per the file.

Verified live: bindings load (43), W and NumPad8 drive (speedDemand 0 ->
61.5), X all-stop (spd -> 0), aux-bank emission (D1 -> [input] 0x2f
PRESS/release under the numpad profile), suppression both directions
(posted 'r' reaches [keych], posted 'w' swallowed), full-keyspace
WM_CHAR+WM_KEYUP fuzz x3 survived with sim advancing, XInput graceful
with no pad, 2-node relay session un-regressed (full ladder + UDP).
Pad-in-hand testing still needs a physical controller.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-18 13:09:36 -05:00
CydandClaude Fable 5 9f35a8034a Controls: the keyboard bridges STAND DOWN for a live device (step 2c)
New engine query BTRIODevicePresent() (L4CTRL.cpp, ungated -- pod-correct for
the serial RIO too): device exists AND IsOperational().  Both dev input
bridges -- the mech4.cpp mapper-attr writes and the mechmppr.cpp BT_KEY_BRIDGE
block -- now gate their WRITES on it: BT_KEY_BRIDGE unset = auto (bridge only
when no device), 0 = force off (the documented pod setting, honored), else
force on.  The BT_FORCE_THROTTLE headless harness always rides the bridge.
The mapper demand READ (turn = turnDemand) always runs.

Verified live (glass build, PAD): OS-injected LSHIFT hold slews the PadRIO
throttle 0 -> 0.33 -> 1.0 with pre==thr every frame -- the value arrives via
the ENGINE push through the streamed .CTL binding, not the bridge -- and
speedDemand=61.501 comes out of the authentic InterpretControls.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 22:14:37 -05:00
CydandClaude Fable 5 ac57a474ef Input: the RIOBase seam + PadRIO -- the glass cockpit gets hands (step 2b)
L4RIO.h splits the abstract cockpit-control surface (RIOBase: enums, the five
analog Scalars, GetNextEvent/SetLamp, no-op serial ops, NEW IsOperational) out
of the serial RIO (RIO : PCSerialPacket, RIOBase -- byte-for-byte behavior kept,
ctor assigns as before); LBE4ControlsManager holds a RIOBase* and gains the
gated L4CONTROLS=PAD factory arm (BT_GLASS; OFF build logs+ignores the token).
NEW gated TUs: L4PADRIO (XInput+keyboard synthesize the surface; 3s hot-plug
re-probe; focus-guarded keys; per-poll AnalogEvent heartbeat; lampState[] +
static SetScreenButton/GetLampState for the panel) and L4PADBINDINGS
(content\bindings.txt profile, self-documenting default written on first run;
deflect/slew/set axis model; addresses validated against ButtonCount).
Verified live (glass build, L4CONTROLS=PAD): bindings written+parsed 44/10/5,
XInput pad detected, 121 streamed mappings install via stock PrimaryRIO path,
2157 frames clean. Pod build (gates OFF) compiles the split with zero
behavioral delta.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 22:11:16 -05:00
CydandClaude Fable 5 b26e8205e3 Controls: the .CTL positional-id off-by-one -- CONFIRMED live and FIXED (step 2a)
The streamed L4 mapping resource carries the binary's positional attribute ids
(stick=3, throttle=4) but MechControlsMapper chained from Subsystem::NextAttributeID
== 2 -- every streamed record resolved ONE MEMBER LATE (attr 4 -> pedalsPosition,
verified via the new permanent BT_CTRLMAP_LOG diagnostic in CreateStreamedMappings).
A latent real-pod bug: the serial RIO throttle would drive the pedals member; the
dev keyboard bridge masked it. Fix per the mechweap/mech attrPad idiom: ids pinned
to the binary numbering, id-2 gap padded, static_assert-locked. Torso + weapon
chains verified already aligned. Regression: BT_FORCE_THROTTLE headless walk clean
(speedDemand=61.501 through authentic InterpretControls, gait cycles, no faults).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 21:59:51 -05:00
arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8 c13e72d0ba 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>
2026-07-06 10:18:40 -05:00
arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8 7b7d465e5e 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>
2026-07-05 21:03:40 -05:00