Playtester report: (1) the CONTROL MODE stack showed filled boxes around the
inactive MID/ADV entries, (2) a phantom block between the HEADING dial and the
ARMOR rosette. Root-caused [T1]:
The #48 translation-table cycle-fill (6bb03ae, 2026-07-25) mapped
out-of-range art indices in-plane as (index mod 2^bits) -- so art index 254
landed on plane slot 62 = the LIVE colorMapperMultiArmor right-armor damage
slot. And idx-254 art EXISTS: every SMODE.PCC frame fills the INACTIVE
mode-box interiors with 254, and BTSEC1.PCX carries a stray 52x13 idx-254
bar at port (199-250,101-113) between the heading dial and the rosette (a
scratch duplicate of the rosette quadrant bars). Both lit up in the
current right-armor color (adpal ramp green/orange/red) on EVERY render
path. On the shipped machine those regions rendered BLACK (the garbage
entry's low plane bits were 0), which is why the 2026-07-19 smode audit --
run before the cycle-fill landed -- verified CORRECT.
FIX (BuildSecondaryTranslation): map [2^bits..255] to translationTable[0]
(plane BACKGROUND) -- the authentic on-screen result, same no-leak
guarantee. Verified on both desktop paths: MID/ADV back to authored
borders+text (idx 5/9), no interior fills; the phantom bar gone; the BAS
badge and the live armor rosette (in-range slots 60-63) untouched.
KB: gauges-hud #48 REFINED addendum; GAUGE_COMPOSITE audit row 33 corrected
(binding is ControlsMapper/ControlMode, not DisplayMode) + re-verification
note.
(The companion glass-token palette-generation fix lives on glass-panel-perf --
it depends on the dirty-skip code there. The two branches touch disjoint
hunks and merge in either order.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CydandClaude Opus 4.8
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