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arcattackandClaude Opus 5 62513b2f8a Gitea #53: generators can be switched off -- ToggleGeneratorOnOff reconstructed from @004b1ed0
TWO missing pieces, both now in place.

1. Generator had NO handler set of its own, so every message aimed at it hit a
   default-constructed blackhole.  Proved empirically with the new
   unhandled-message trace by pressing button 0x1A:
     [msg] UNHANDLED: Generator has no handler for message id 4 -- silently dropped
   Added Generator::GetMessageHandlers() chained to **HeatSink**, deliberately NOT
   PoweredSubsystem: id 4 there is SelectGeneratorA (the weapon-side generator
   SELECTION that already works), so chaining to it would have made these four
   buttons invoke the WRONG function instead of doing nothing.  HeatSink owns id 3
   (ToggleCooling), leaving id 4 free.

2. ToggleGeneratorOnOff had no body at all (0 references in game/).  Transcribed
   instruction-for-instruction from @004b1ed0:
     - call @004ac9c8 -> BTPlayerRoleLocksAdvanced: a NOVICE pilot cannot use it
     - [msg+0xc] <= 0 -> press only, ignore the release
     - ON  : startTimer = 0; if heatAlarm(@0x184) < 1 also stateAlarm -> 0
             (Starting, so it spins up -- a heat-faulted generator keeps its fault
             level); generatorOn = 1, coolantAvailable = 1, coolantFlowScale = 1.0
     - OFF : stateAlarm -> 1 (GeneratorIdle); generatorOn = 0,
             coolantAvailable = 0, coolantFlowScale = 0 (its coolant share is
             released back to the loop)
   So taking a generator off line idles it, drops its coolant draw and stops it
   feeding its taps -- the authentic heat-management trade from the manual.

VERIFIED LIVE (BT_BTNTEST=0x1A,400,900 through the real click seam):
  [btntest] PRESS 0x1a at poll 400
  [gensel] GeneratorA generator OFF LINE (stateAlarm 1, coolantFlowScale 0)
and the UNHANDLED warning for Generator is gone.

Answers Cyd's report from two playtests ('still cannot turn of gennies').  Note
this is the ON/OFF control -- generator SELECTION (which generator a subsystem
draws from) is a different message and already worked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0166KTsC7ADm7VXEi1HF1jNg
2026-07-25 10:15:25 -05:00
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