Resolved the non-Madcat blocked views. Rendering every *_COP shell offline
from its mech's AUTHORED eye (SKL [jointeye] translation -- incl. the Thor's
+1.13 offset cockpit) with faces coloured by punch flag showed the answer
plainly: the PUNCH-tagged patches sit exactly over the window apertures in
all 8 mechs. On these texture-less black-diffuse shells dpl_Punchize renders
the tagged geogroup as holes -- the punch patches are the transparent
WINDSHIELDS, and the visible frame is only the non-punch geometry.
The loader now drops the punch batches of _cop meshes (bgfload finish();
BT_COP_KEEPPUNCH=1 keeps them for diagnosis). In-game sweep on pure defaults:
- madcat: the dark dome frame (matches gameplay footage)
- thor / owens / sunder: authentic brace/dash/pillar remnants
- bhk1 / loki / vulture / avatar: authentically FRAMELESS (all-punch
canopies -- the pod showed no frame for those mechs)
(An early-session test that "disproved" drop-punch ran with the broken
pre-inverse eye; its conclusion was wrong and is corrected in the KB.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
