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 arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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4c54f7ef0c |
Ballistic FX: DAFC muzzle flash + autocannon fire replication (task #61)
The autocannon gains its authentic muzzle effect AND becomes visible when an enemy fires it -- the ballistic-FX gap behind "I only see the AC from my own view." MUZZLE FLASH (the genuine shipped effect, not the cut card): - MUZFLASH.BGF is an orphaned/cut asset (nothing references it) -- so it is NOT rendered. The shipped projectile-gun muzzle effect is DAFC.PFX, which BTDPL.INI documents as "the effect used on all projectile guns" (psfx 6 external / 14 internal): an orange fire-smoke blast (btfx:firesmoke1), maxIssue 25 over ~0.2s so the emitter auto-expires = one burst per shot. - BTFlashMuzzle (mech4.cpp) spawns it on the gun-port SEGMENT via the existing BTStartPfxAttached path; the segment frame sprays -Z out the barrel. Hooked at ProjectileWeapon::FireWeapon (the fire edge). Default ON (BT_MUZZLE=0 disables). AC only -- lasers show their beam, missiles their launch. ENEMY AC FIRE NOW REPLICATES (the real find): - ROOT CAUSE: the subsystem-record replication channel EXISTS and works (mech ticks subsystem->PerformAndWatch(update_stream); Entity::UpdateMessageHandler routes incoming records to GetSimulation(subsystemID-1)->ReadUpdateRecord). The emitter (beam) and MissileLauncher (salvo mirror) both call ForceUpdate() so their fire serializes -> enemy lasers + missiles ARE visible on the peer. The AUTOCANNON set only `simulationFlags |= 0x1` (the +0x28 instance flag, NOT the updateModel bit WriteSimulationUpdate walks) and had NO fire record, so its shot never crossed the wire -- the enemy's cannon was invisible. - FIX (the AC twin of the missile salvo mirror): ProjectileWeapon:: WriteUpdateRecord/ReadUpdateRecord (fire counter + aim) + ForceUpdate() in FireWeapon. The replicant edge-detects the counter and mirrors ONE visual round + DAFC muzzle flash from its own resolved muzzle; a null/untargeted aim streaks straight out the barrel (launchVelocity) instead of toward origin. - Verified live 2-node: the watching node logs REPLICANT AC shots + DAFC flashes at the enemy's gun-port (seg 7), aimed shots fly to the real target; no crashes. TRACER: all ACs author TracerInterval=1 (every round is a tracer); the existing amber streak is acceptable-authentic, so no tracer change was needed. KB: open-questions.md -- CORRECTED the (wrong) earlier note that claimed no subsystem-record channel exists; it does, the AC just wasn't using it. Logged the methodology lesson: the coverage audit finds UNWRITTEN functions, not "reconstructed but inert" ones (a function present but never called -- the AC record + the missile mirror both looked done); a LIVENESS audit would catch that class. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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065c114590 |
Impact-FX FORENSICS wave: the i860 specialfx engine, per-round detonations, the ram economy closed
The "we're off the rails" reinvestigation -- a 5-thread evidence workflow
(logs / PFX data / RES model lists / decomp / port audit) + the i860 firmware
decode, then surgical fixes. Every claim tiered; the wrong turns are on the
record in the KB alongside the corrections.
THE OLD-STYLE SPECIALFX ENGINE [T1, firmware-decoded from VREND.MNG]:
rebuilt scratchpad/i860dis.py (binutils opcode table); mapped the dispatch
(data+0xdd0c; sfx trigger 0xf040cda0, install 0xf040cdc0, step ~0xf0413698,
instance init 0xf04128d8); decoded the heat model EXACTLY: per 30Hz board
frame h *= cool_a; RGB_ch = h_old*(h_new*cook_ch - 0.25) + 0.25 (K=0.25 =
the ember floor @VA 0xF080; kill at h <= 1e-4 @0xF0A0); alpha fades cool_b
x RAW dt (PER-SECOND -- the x30 scaling made laser hits invisible); 7s cap;
y_off = the kill plane; "variance" is DEAD DATA (binary reads "variance",
INI authors "varience"). The 13 descriptors (PPCHit/LaserHit/MissileHit/
Chunks/Sparks/Fireball...) parse from BTDPL.INI and render via the BTPfx
layer -- heat bursts draw the FIERY sheet (brightness over fire), .PFX keeps
GRAYSCALE (authored colours: DNBOOM orange, DDAM gray).
HIT-PACKAGE CENSUS [T1, RES byte-verified]: ppchit=[8] lzrhit=[9] mghit=[7,11]
canhit=[11] mslhit=[10,12,1023] explode=[6]; all 8 mech death lists identical.
Effect routing corrected in BOTH consumers: <100 = specialfx, >=1000 = psfx.
"SILVER MIST x5" ROOT CAUSE: SHKWAVE.PFX (mslhit's 1023) authors maxIssue=5
relPeriod=0.2 rate=1 -- the ONE file where rate contradicts the window; the
emitter trusted rate -> 5 shells at exactly 1Hz. Emission rate now always
maxIssue/releasePeriod.
PER-ROUND DETONATIONS [T1 @004bef78]: every missile round spawns its own
ExplosionModelFile at ITS impact (hull + terrain) -- a volley ripples 12
fireballs like the demos; rack-tube launch spread [T3] (GUIDED rounds only --
the slot-0 deflection sent every AFC100 shell 3.4deg left/2.5deg down: the
phantom "4th gold beam"); replicant salvos detonate too (launcher index rides
the visual push). Missile damage bundles through the shooter's messmgr with
the launcher's subsystemID (mslhit fires at the consolidated point; the
binary's dedup CONFIRMED [T1 @0049b784] -- a workflow agent's per-record
claim REFUTED by direct decomp read).
DAMAGE-BAND SEMANTICS [T1]: MechDeathHandler fires the CURRENT band effect on
any damage rise (the binary's changed-flag coalescing) -- a mauled mech under
fire smokes/burns per hit; bands 3/4 are authored fire plumes.
THE RAM ECONOMY -- CLOSED (3 layers, measured live):
1. armor = POINTS (every zone: damageScale = 1/armorPoints, armor 50-140;
the [zone-armor] BT_DMG_LOG dump);
2. StaticBounce prices rams with authored moverMass ~1.3e6 -> ~59,000 pts
@10m/s; the binary dispatches it RAW but pod MP dropped it on the local
replicant (MECH.CPP:986 warns) -- ram damage was NETWORK-INERT; our
task-#47 replicant forwarding surfaced it as a one-shot. Port
normalizes x1e-3 to the point economy [T3];
3. contact EDGE (ramLastVictim/ramContactLinger): the binary's bounce made
separation implicit; our gait-derived velocity re-priced full rams at
60Hz (the respawn explode-loop). One bump = one hit; pressed = BLOCK.
PLUS: sfx size x0.5 + 1.25m visibility floor + hot-phase occlusion [T3];
particle pool 2048->8192 (missile traffic starved laser bursts -- the
"intermittent effects"); replicant beam aging (a lost beam-END record pinned
a stale beam on forever); UV-variant noise stamps (mask-safe mirror/swap);
no scroll on particle stamps (material-path only); BT_FX_TEST/fxshot.py
self-verification harness ([beam-draw]/[zone-armor]/[collide-tx] telemetry).
KB: rendering.md (specialfx engine + census + closeout), combat-damage.md
(ram economy + band semantics).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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48c9c8444f |
Fire VISUALS wave: the authored firesmoke sheet, vertex-alpha effect cards, the case-4 wreck dressing
The "fireballs like the demo vids" arc, decomp/content-grounded end to end,
plus the live-play UX batch verified over the same sessions:
FIRESMOKE SHEET (the PFX fireball fix): every firesmokeN_scr_tex in BTFX.VMF
maps the SAME 64x64 tileable noise image bintA (variants differ only in SCROLL
rate) and firesmoke1_mtl colours it through the "fiery" ramp (0.3,0.1,0.1)->
(0.9,0.7,0.3). The particle layer now bakes ramp(lum(bintA)) as its sprite
colour (noise detail in alpha) and SCROLLS it at firesmoke1's authored rate
via a texture-transform; the port's radial soft-edge mask moved to a second
CLAMPed stage so the WRAPPED scroll rolls flame through the sprite without
scrolling the edge away. Old grit x radial bake kept as the no-BINTA fallback.
Impact hits, damage-band smoke and death booms all ride this layer.
AUTHORED TEXTURE SCROLL in the model path: the BMF TEXTURE records carry
SPECIAL " SCROLL u0 v0 du dv" (tag 0x2037); the draw path always supported
per-op scrolling (SetTextureScrolling) but the BGF loader never parsed it, so
every scrolling material rendered frozen. Wired TexRef -> MatInfo -> batch ->
L4TEXOP.doScroll: the flame cards (flamebig/fire5) now roll fire noise.
VERTEX-ALPHA EFFECT CARDS (the "twisted drill bit of fire" fix): FLAMEBIG's
verts carry authored float RGBA -- white-hot base (1.0,0.99,0.97) -> dark-red
tip fading to alpha -0.2 (the DPL clamp convention). The loader kept a flat
batch colour and drew it OPAQUE = a solid orange spike. Corpus sweep: exactly
14 shipped BGFs carry vertex alpha, ALL effect cards (flames, MUZFLASH,
EXDISK_A/B/C, TMST_A/B/C, beam models, DECLOUDS). Such batches now keep the
authored per-vertex gradient and route to the alpha-blend pass, unlit,
colour = texture x gradient, alpha = the vertex fade; sky objects excluded
(drawAsSky + alphaTest passes NEITHER pass filter -- DECLOUDS stays in the
sky pass). MUZFLASH/EXDISK render correctly for free when the muzzle-model
work lands.
WRECK DRESSING (the 1996 ExplosionScripts case-4 transcription): pieces spawn
HIDDEN and reveal 0.25s after the boom (the InstanceSwitch delay, behind the
dnboom flash); flamebig hangs over the pile, Y-BILLBOARDED at the camera
(SetOffsetYaw + a camera-pos getter -- the dpl_SetDCSReorientAxes analog);
the MakeDCSFall settle arms at the reveal with the two authored rates (hulk/
debris -0.025 t^2, fires -0.01 t^2 -- the flames ride above the sinking pile
and die with it at burial). EMPTY-PLACEHOLDER hulk guard: THRDBR.BGF is a
153-byte zero-geometry stub that "loads fine" -- vertex-count check now routes
it to the gendbr fallback (a Thor wreck was invisible). Hulk content census
recorded: AVADBR==MADDBR==VULDBR geometry (palette-only prefix diffs),
RAPDBR==SNDDBR==STIDBR byte-identical -- wreck variety is materials + the
dressing, not unique piles.
LIVE-PLAY BATCH: muzzle resolve uses the named segmentIndex (raw +0xdc read
was layout garbage); forward launch frame (authored MuzzleVelocity +Z vs the
mech's -Z facing); dock-bottom single window (gauge strip appended below the
world viewport, 1100x600 default, BT_DEV_GAUGES_WINDOW=1 restores the separate
window); portrait sec surface unrotated CW; ammo counters live via typed
bridges (BTAmmoBinCountPtr/BTAmmoBinFeeding/BTWeaponAmmoBin -- raw bin+0x180
and a hand-rolled link walk were garbage); fourth fire key ('4' = Pinky);
panel/arc probes de-aliased (%61 prime).
KB: rendering.md (vertex-alpha card family + scroll), combat-damage.md (hulk
census + THRDBR stub), gauges-hud.md (ammo bridges).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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bb795e2805 |
MP live-play wave: collision economy, missiles, radar transform, panel polarity, comm ticker
The interactive 2-node playtest wave -- every fix decomp-grounded and live-verified: COLLISION ECONOMY (the ram one-shot): StaticBounce mutates worldLinearVelocity per contact and ProcessCollisionList walks EVERY touched solid per frame; with 2007 terrain-as-solids the reflections compounded x4-x40 within one frame and a walking bump one-shot a pristine mech for 112,375 pts (62-pt authentic economy). Fix: frameEntryWorldVelocity restore per contact (damage always priced at the real approach speed -- all the binary's physics ever saw); Mech::Reset zeroes the mover motion (respawn = teleport); [collide-tx]/[mp-hdlr] telemetry. Gotcha #16 (engine-facility drift class). MISSILES: peer-visible salvos (the launcher record extension carries a salvo counter + aim point; ForceUpdate actually enqueues it -- the dirty flag alone never serialized), the authentic arc (authored MuzzleVelocity vector + the Seeker's 200m/0.1/300 loft + gain-4 steering, decoded from @004beae4/@004bef78), world-impact bursts (rounds detonate on cave geometry instead of phasing through), contact-only damage (flight-cap expiry = fizzle, no more teleport damage), live re-lead, and ballistic (unguided) shells for autocannons. projweap's stale BTPushProjectile extern (the /FORCE signature trap, gotcha #6 corollary) crashed the Avatar's first AFC100 shot -- fixed + sweep rule recorded. RADAR: two transcription bugs made the scope permanently empty -- FUN_0040b244 is the affine INVERSE (not a copy) and FUN_0040adec writes ONLY the 3x3 rotation (never the translation); worldToView now Invert(view) built rotation-first. CulturalIcons sorted out of the moving grid (the phantom red pips were map props), visible-radius culls on all three draw passes, live pip verified at |delta| x ppm px. Gotcha #17 (verify the FUN_ body, not its call shape). WEAPON PANELS (the frozen-dial hunt): the binary's *(subsystem+0x40) means FAILED -- the recon's 'operating' name was backwards, inverting the destroyed-X lamps, the panel look, the children enable and the ready-lamp gate (which had NEVER executed). Polarity chain corrected end-to-end (failedState, fed by real damage saturation). Root cause of the freezes: MFD page-mode gating -- the dev composite shows ALL pages at once, so off-page dials legitimately stopped; under BT_DEV_GAUGES the 15 page-plane bits stay active (the exclusive secondary trio untouched). The SEH gauge guard now names its kills; repaint-heal resets the incremental arc after panel repaints; [panel]/[arc] probes added. COMM/SCORE: MessageBoard LIVE (the engine already shipped the whole Player__StatusMessage queue; wired the binary's one producer -- the kill branch, victim's name, 6s -- plus the consumer bridge and a lazy source bind); MP DEATHS counted via the observed-death tally (each node scores every pilot from locally observed events, the same model as the KILLS credit) and the -2/-1 engine seed clamped for display. DEV UX: node-tagged window titles (-net port), gauge panel reworked (1320x480, true 4:3 MFD cells, the portrait secondary UNROTATED upright, linear filtering, BT_GAUGE_SCALE), fixed close spawns via BT_SPAWN_XZ, Boreas flies an Avatar (first second-chassis live outing). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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092408041c |
Cockpit: the CONFIG-MODE weapon-regrouping session + the live-play fire fixes (tasks #6+#11)
TASK #6 -- the pod's in-cockpit weapon regrouping, fully reconstructed and live-verified (hold-configure -> tap fire button -> toggle membership -> release-commit): - MechWeapon handlers id 9 ConfigureMappables @004b9550 / id 10 ChooseButton @004b95b8 (binary table @0x511860; the old "Myomers fns" mislabel swept) + the GetMessageHandlers() accessor chain through Emitter/ProjectileWeapon/ MissileLauncher/GAUSS/PPC (empty per-class sets swallowed dispatch). - Mapper vtable truth: +0x38 EnterConfiguration / +0x3C ExitConfiguration / +0x40,+0x44 AddOrErase evt/dir. No "secondary vtable @0050f498", no "CreateTemporaryEventMappings" virtual (RP-name drift; swept incl CLASSMAP). L4 Enter/Exit rebuilt complete: StartMappableButtonsConfigure (the NonMapping 0x10000 <-> Mapping 0x8000 mode flip + the gauge's active-weapon latch) + the held-button re-arm + the 4 fire-button temp maps; only the RIO mapper implements the toggle (Thrustmaster no-ops = can't regroup). - MechSubsystem +0xE8/+0xEC corrected to controlDestination/controlMessageID (ex hostEntity/subsystemId2 mislabel); MechWeapon ctor defaults the destination to &fireImpulse (@004b99a8). - ConfigMapGauge state loop reconstructed (PE-recovered DAT_00518eb4 table; buttonGroup GetMapState sampler -- the "needs ModeManager" guard rationale was wrong). Finding [T1]: the shipped binary NEVER enables this gauge (no SetColor caller) -- authentically dormant; BT_CONFIGMAP=1 is the dev enable. - Dev harness: HOLD 'G' opens the session (BT_CONFIG_SLOT picks the weapon); BT_CONFIG_TEST scripts a headless verify. @004afbc4 corrected to its real Fail-trap body (the guessed AddOrErase(NULL) body would corrupt groups). - Bonus [T1]: the binary MechWeapon ATTRIBUTE table has ELEVEN entries (PercentDone..WeaponState) -- "TriggerState is the only one" was wrong. TASK #11 -- the user-reported live-play regressions (both real bugs): - PHANTOM FIRE: the mech4 bring-up shot block painted an explosion at the victim on its OWN 0.3s cadence whenever fire was held -- desynced once the authentic recharges landed. Retired (the real impact visual flows from each discharge via the messmgr SubmitExplosion). - WEAPON BRICKING (the "cuts out" bug): the Loading->Loaded snap window (+-0.01 around seekV) assumes the pod's LOCKED 60 fps; one port dt-spike jumps it, the byte-verified >1.0 clamp (_DAT_004ba830=0) zeroes readiness, and the weapon sticks in Loading at level ~10000 forever (observed live). Fixed with pod-frame (1/60s) sub-stepping of the binary's own Loading tick -- also fixes the I^2R integral over-heating generators on big steps. NEW GOTCHA CLASS recorded: reconstruction-gotchas #12 (frame-pacing trap). - Duty-cycle measured (max-rate autofire): generators equilibrate in the degradation band (recharge stretch ~3.5-4.4x), the FailureHeat breaker never trips solo, PPCs sustain ~11.8-damage full-charge fire. The slow kill pacing and recharge gaps are the AUTHENTIC heat economy; the pilot's counters (this regrouping UI, generator reassignment, coolant valves) are the reconstruction queue. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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Heat: THE AUTHENTIC ELECTRICAL MODEL -- weapons recharge from generators (task #10)
Task #10 set out to fix "scrambled linked-sink routing"; a [heat-link] attach log proved the routing was NEVER scrambled (every subsystem links its authored condenser exactly; the "pools in Condenser1" read was the diagnostic-sampler aliasing trap). The real defect: emitter.cpp's local FUN_00417ab4 stub returned NULL, so the whole electrical model was inert and the E7 force-charge recharged every emitter in ONE frame (~0.3s cycle, 1501 fires/90s, ~1.7e9 heat/s -- the "runaway"). Landed authentically [T1: disasm + byte-verified constants]: - Emitter ctor @004bb120: seekVoltage = authored fraction x generator ratedVoltage (10000); EC = energyTotal/(seekV^2 x 0.5); voltageScale@0x310 = (RechargeRate / -ln(1 - 1e-4 x seekV)) / EC -- charge reaches seekV[rec] in EXACTLY the authored RechargeRate (PPC 5s, ERL 4s, SRM 3s, ERM 2s) cold. Owner-flags ctor gate (the usual gotcha; the this-flags read never armed). - PoweredSubsystem::ChargeTimeScale (@004b0d50, was a =1.0 stub): voltageScale x (1 + thermalResistivity x srcTempRise) -- hot generators charge slower. ("voltageScale is never read back" was wrong; corrected + swept.) - TrackSeekVoltage @004ba838: charging I^2R -> the GENERATOR's pendingHeat (~3.5e8/full PPC charge) -- generators self-heat, conduct to their authored condensers, and throttle further charging. The feedback economy closes. - FailureHeat consumers found: this+0x184 == 2 gates BOTH weapon families (@004baa88 emitter: reset firing + hold charge 0; @004bbd36 ballistic: recoil=rechargeRate + alarm 7). Emitter::GetFaultState un-stubbed. - ProjectileWeaponSimulation @004bbd04 opens with call 0x4b0bd0 (disasm) -- launchers now run the powered/heat step (their firing heat previously accumulated in pendingHeat forever). - heat.cpp: per-instance BT_HEAT_LOG census (the old shared-static 1-Hz sampler aliased); [heat-link] attach log; the stolen-else Verify restored. Verified live (120s max-rate autofire): PPC ~470-500 (was 55,000), bank plateaus ~600 and sheds to ambient, generators 1100-1400, ERMLaser self-regulates at the authored 2000 failure threshold (shutdown-cool-resume). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Heat: authentic 1e7-unit heat + the ambient radiator land (task #9)
- Emitters: heatPortion closed form = heatCostToFire x 1e7 x (charge/seekV)^2 (PPC 1.1e8 -> +632K on its own sink); the missing projectile/missile heat adds (raw -- resources author pre-scaled 1e7 units). - The bank's AMBIENT RADIATOR @4ae73c reconstructed (the system's ONLY heat exit; conductance x 0.1 x HeatSinkCount -- _DAT_004ae974 float80 = 0.1) + the link-attach guard corrected (skip = the 0xBBE bank, not Condenser; the inversion blocked condenser->bank links and closed the system). - Constant corrections (all byte-verified float80s): coolant epsilons 0.0025/0.003/1e-4 (was a single 1e-4 serving three sites); CoolantCapacityScale 0.05 (was 1.738). - Verified: heat flows + exits; max-rate autofire overheats weapons into the authentic heatLoad range-cutout (thermal spam unsustainable by design). - KNOWN REMAINING: linked-sink routing scrambled (heat pools in Condenser1; authored map says PPC->C4/C6) -- the heat-stream offset audit, filed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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Combat: AUTHENTIC weapon groups -- streamed per-mech button bindings + the real fire chain (task #5)
The recovered system: fire channels = LBE4ControlsManager buttonGroups (0x40/0x45/0x46/0x47); default groups = the per-mech type-6 controls-map resource in BTL4.RES, installed by the T0 CreateStreamedMappings the port already called -- it needed only the TriggerState attribute (id 0x13 PINNED to the binary value; fireImpulse@0x31C is the binary's TriggerState) and an input feed. Keyboard/harness now push press/release edges into the button groups; the gBT*Trigger bypasses, per-type keyboard split and 1,0 pulse hack are retired -- weapons sharing a button fire TOGETHER (madcat Trigger = 4 weapons). Myomers @4b9550/@4b95b8 misattribution corrected (they are MechWeapon ConfigureMappables/ChooseButton). Verified 2-node: kill through the authentic chain (12 hits vs ~36 pre-groups). Config-mode session (regrouping UI) = the remaining stage, KB-scoped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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Gyro: damage fan-out FUN_004b2980 -- the cockpit hit-BOUNCE is live (task #56)
Re-disassembled the unexported gap 0x4b2980-0x4b2d8b byte-exact (capstone over
section_dump.txt) and reconstructed Gyroscope::ApplyDamageResponse:
- zero-damage + Collision(type 0) no-op; hit direction = Damage::damageForce
or a RANDOM horizontal fallback when ~zero (per-component sign roll then
value roll -- binary-legal until senders fill damageForce)
- direction rotated by the yaw-only torso-twist frame (placeRot=(0,twist,0)
-> euler->matrix, the FUN_00408744 raw row-dot reproduced verbatim)
- per-type scaling amount / damageMultiplier[type] * damageResponse[type]
.{trans,pitchRoll,yaw,vibration}; Explosive alone multiplies burstCount;
each clamped at 1.3f
- four kicks: impulse(trans, dir), torque(pitchRoll, dir), impulse(vibration,
vibrationDirection@0x390) and verticalImpulse(yaw, dir)
Layout corrections (byte-verified): gyro+0x390 is ONE Vector3D vibration axis
init (0,1,0) -- was mis-split as scalars animationOffset/Scale/Phase; mech
+0x5c4 is a FLOAT rumble-period countdown (gyroRumbleTimer) -- was mis-typed
int clipLoadGuard.
Call sites wired (binary-gated):
- take-damage hub: mech.cpp TakeDamageMessageHandler, FIRST action (@0x4a0264
in hub FUN_004a0230) -- an invalid-zone hit still bounces
- crushable-icon crunch: mech4.cpp, torque 0.4 along the bounce delta-v + up
impulse 0.2 (@4aa81e/@4aa86c)
- firing recoil: projweap.cpp FireWeapon, damage>3 -> impulse (0,0.6,-1.5)
x damage/16 (@4bc136-4bc19c) via the new Mech::GetGyroSubsystem accessor
DEFERRED (recorded in KB with the byte recipe): the alternate-gait engage
jolt + 0.4s rumble (@4aa158-4aa365) -- its gates are [T3]-flagged and it
mutates the #49/#50-stabilized gait machine.
Verified live: [gyro-dmg] fires per hit with correct type scaling; eyePosition
shows the damped bounce (ramp to ~0.015u, oscillating Y, decay to zero); kill
chain un-regressed; no NaN.
Also recorded in KB: the OFFSET-COCKPIT verification -- Thor's authored
jointeye tranx=+1.13 matches its canopy X-center exactly AND our in-game eye
reproduces it to the hundredth (the placement model is correct per-mech); and
the playable roster is 8 models (strider/raptor/firstrtr/blkjack have assets
but no model resource -- BT_FORCE_MODEL with those names = NULL-resource AV,
cdb-verified, not a code bug).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Fable 5
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Cross-pod beams: replicate emitter discharge via subsystem update records
User report: lasers only visible on the window firing them. The peer's replicant emitters never learned the master fired. THE AUTHENTIC PIPE (decomp-verified): - FUN_0041c350 (the "beam keepalive" ServiceDischarge/ContinueDischarge call) does TWO things: queue the LOCAL deferred beam-effect callback (@0x4bac0c) on the app+0x34 manager -- our per-weapon render walk already plays that role -- and set the subsystem DIRTY bit, which maps to the 2007 engine's updateModel / ForceUpdate(). - Replication rides SUBSYSTEM UPDATE RECORDS inside the mech's update message: the roster walk already hands the entity's stream to every subsystem's PerformAndWatch; Simulation::WriteSimulationUpdate serializes each requested updateModel bit; Entity::UpdateMessageHandler routes received records by subsystemID to the subsystem's ReadUpdateRecord. All engine machinery -- the missing pieces were the Emitter's serialize/apply pair + the triggers. CORRECTIONS to the dormant task-33-era transcriptions (never exercised -- nothing ever set updateModel -- so the latent misreads never surfaced): - The weapon-family VTABLE SLOT MAP was swapped: slot 6 = ReadUpdateRecord, 7 = WriteUpdateRecord, 9 = TakeDamage (evidence: Mech hierarchy symmetry + body semantics; @004ba568 resolves an EntityID at rec+0x30 through the entity index -- record semantics, not Damage). Renamed across MechWeapon / Emitter / ProjectileWeapon; the real Emitter::TakeDamage @004bafc8 is undecoded (inherits MechWeapon for now). - Emitter/MechWeapon Write: `*record = 0x38/0x18` is the record LENGTH, not recordID; rec+0x30 is the TARGET's EntityID (GetEntityID()), not a colour -- the old `CopyColor(targetEntity+0x184)` was also a databinding trap. - OVERRIDE-SIGNATURE TRAP: the decls used each class's own shadowing UpdateRecord typedef as the param type, silently NOT overriding the engine virtual (the base ran instead; nothing would ever have serialized). Base-typed params (Simulation__UpdateRecord*), casts inside. - Emitter::ReadUpdateRecord reconstructed (@004ba568): target EntityID resolve (drop unknown non-null targets), MechWeapon alarm apply chain, beam fields. - ServiceDischarge/ContinueDischarge: ForceUpdate() per keepalive tick + one final record at beam end (turns the peer's beam off). - Mech::DrawWeaponBeams extracted from the player-only drive block so the walk runs for REPLICANTS (+ per-mech gun-port cache -- the process-wide statics would have served the player's segment pointers as the replicant's muzzles). VERIFIED 2-node: A fires 57 volleys -> 225 emitter records -> B applies all 225 -> B draws 414 beams (PPC blue / laser red, from A's replicant's own gun ports). Solo un-regressed (150 beams, kill chain, no crash). Also preserved: the full Mech::WriteUpdateRecord @0x4a0c2c recovery (reference/decomp/mech_writeupdate_004a0c2c.disasm.txt) with all 9 record types decoded (pose/alarm/leg-state+heat with the body-channel write-through re-sync, knockdown, death, impact, movementMode) -- transcription deferred; it replicates remote knockdown/death/heat and was not needed for beams. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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World-pick targeting: 0x388 = whatever is downrange -- mech, terrain, or nothing (task #41)
User video evidence (lasers firing at nothing) + the colleague's
torso-locked report + the binary all reconcile into one model:
The boresight pick hits the WORLD, and the target slot mech+0x388 holds
whatever entity is downrange:
- enemy mech under the boresight -> aimed target (hull point -> STEP-6
zone under the boresight, hotbox + lock ring, damage);
- else the TERRAIN downrange (BTGroundRayHit to 1200) -> the beam and
missiles fire at the scenery ("firing at nothing", as in the pod
videos), range caret reads the ground distance (authentic :5639), no
damage;
- else (sky) -> no target, and the weapon's own double 0x388 gate
refuses the discharge.
Binary evidence for non-mech targets: HudSimulation :5620 explicitly
handles a target WITHOUT damage zones (target->0x120 == 0) -- dead code
if only mechs were ever targeted. The pick is automatic every frame
(0x388: 11 reads / 0 direct stores in CODE).
Implementation: gBTTerrainEntity captured in MakeEntityRenderables
(Terrain::GetClassDerivations); mech4 pick = enemy PickRayHit else
ground ray -> terrain entity + ground point; damage/hotbox/lock only
for the mech pick; the task-40 enemy auto-converge REMOVED (facing away
now fires at the scenery, not magically at the enemy -- the user's
complaint). Verified all three states headless (BT_AIM 0,0 / .6,.5 /
0,-.8): aimed zone hits / terrain beams + 0 damage / no discharge.
Fourth (and evidence-complete) targeting model iteration; KB updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verified the BLH loadout (missiles ARE authentic) + split weapon controls
BT_ROSTER dump (the shipped subsystem stream is the authority): the pod Blackhawk mounts 5 Emitters (two laser types) + 2 MissileLaunchers each with its own AmmoBin -- the periodic missile volleys are the real loadout firing on its own recharge, NOT a placeholder weapon. What WASN'T authentic: one key firing everything (the bring-up collapse of the controls mapper). Interim split toward the real weapon groups: SPACE = energy weapons (lasers) CTRL = missile launchers (the projectile-weapon channel) New gBTMissileTrigger pulse; projweap's fireImpulse moves onto it; the BT_AUTOFIRE harness drives both channels. The full controls-mapper weapon grouping stays the deferred authentic reconstruction. Also: BT_ROSTER=1 one-shot loadout dump (class name + id per subsystem). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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gauge wave P1a: publish heat/power/weapon attributes + radar zoom
The gauge-databinding-map workflow found most cockpit gauges resolve NULL because the reconstructed subsystems publish only a fraction of the attributes the config binds. First publishing batch (attribute tables are read-only static data; ids kept a dense prefix from each parent's NextAttributeID): - HeatSink table dense-append: DegradationTemperature/FailureTemperature (the condenser temp-bar warn/max endpoints -- were NULL, so the two-part bars could not scale), NormalizedPressure/DegradationPressure/CoolantMassLeakRate, and the HeatSink link. Condenser/Reservoir inherit this -> all 6 condenser temp bars now resolve current/warn/max (verified: BT_GAUGE_ATTR_LOG all OK). - PoweredSubsystem::GetAttributeIndex() (new) publishes InputVoltage->voltageSource -- the cluster power-branch gate (the power-lamp/generator-voltage/state-lamp sub-branch is skipped when it resolves NULL). Flows to Sensor/Myomers/weapons. - MechWeapon::GetAttributeIndex() (new) publishes OutputVoltage/PercentDone-> rechargeLevel; Emitter/PPC/ProjectileWeapon/MissileLauncher/GaussRifle DefaultData re-pointed at it (they carried an EMPTY default-constructed index -> resolved NOTHING). Verified: the ER MED LASER / PPC / STREAK weapon clusters now render live recharge dials (were blank TEMP/STATUS). - Mech::SetTargetRange un-stubbed (radarRange = range) -> the radar map scale + overlay range readout track the mapper's zoom (was frozen at 1000). - GAUGREND ParseAttribute: env-gated per-binding resolution trace (BT_GAUGE_ATTR_LOG) -- durable diagnostic infra for the wave. Verified DBASE+dev gauges: no startup/gauge-construction crash (dense chain intact), combat un-regressed (TARGET DESTROYED), clusters build with InputVoltage resolving. Remaining config-binding NULLs: HeatSink/AmbientTemperature (aggregate bank, P3) + Searchlight/LightOn (P1b). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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WAVE 7 Phase B polish: missiles launch from the mech's missile ports + look like missiles
Two issues the user hit driving the Mad Cat: (1) projectiles appeared to launch from the mech's FEET -- MechWeapon::GetMuzzlePoint falls back to the mech origin (localOrigin) when the weapon's mount segment (this+0xdc) doesn't resolve, so the passed muzzle was at ground level; (2) they rendered as a thin laser-like line, not a missile. Fix: BTPushProjectile now takes the SHOOTER mech and resolves the real launch port by NAME (sitermissleport / sitelmissleport, alternating L/R for a salvo look; then torso ports, then gun ports; then a raised fallback) -- the same segment-name -> world-transform mechanism the visible laser beams use for the gun ports. The tracer is now a 3-part missile look (dim smoke trail behind + orange body + hot flame tip) instead of a single thin beam. FireWeapon (both ProjectileWeapon and MissileLauncher) passes owner as the shooter. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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WAVE 7 Phase B fix: projectile weapons no longer permanently jam in bring-up
Interactive repro: fire one missile salvo, then only lasers. Cause: ProjectileWeapon:: CheckForJam gates the heat-scaled jam roll on `heatLoad > 0` (true whenever firing), and the roll uses currentTemperature -- which the reconstructed heat model pins at a constant ~77 (thermalMass is huge, so temp doesn't rise/fall with fire yet). So the roll fired spuriously on ~every shot, and since JammedState clears only on ResetToInitialState, a weapon that jammed stayed jammed for the whole mission. (The auto-fire harness hid this -- it kills the target before jams accumulate.) Fix: gate the roll on the weapon being in a degraded HEAT STATE (heatAlarm level >= DegradationHeat) instead of raw heatLoad -- the authentic "jam risk scales with heat" rule. In bring-up the alarm stays 0 (temp << degradation threshold), so weapons fire reliably; real jams return once the heat model drives true temps. FOLLOW-UP noted in-code: make JammedState recoverable (unjam delay) so even a genuine overheat jam clears. Verified: 31 projectile impacts sustained over 18s, 0 crashes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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WAVE 7 Phase B: the Mad Cat's LRMs LAUNCH flying missiles that fly + damage (autocannon too)
The byte-exact WORLD-ENTITY reconstruction (Projectile @4be1bc 0x340 / Missile @4bf5b4 0x368)
is infeasible on the 2007 engine: measured sizeof(engine Entity)=0x1BC vs the 1995 binary's
0x300, so the reconstruction's raw base-offset reads (velocity@0x1dc, roster@0x124, motion@0x250)
read GARBAGE on the engine (the Mech 0x638-vs-0x854 gap, but the entity integrator DEPENDS on
those offsets). So -- like the mech drive and the beam renderer -- flying projectiles are a PORT
reconstruction (BTPushProjectile/BTUpdateProjectiles in mech4.cpp, a static array + stack
messages, ZERO heap ops): seeded from the launcher's fire with the decomp's real muzzle
(GetMuzzlePoint) / launch speed (|launchVelocity|) / per-shot damage (damageData, split across
missileCount), they fly to the target (tracer via BTPushBeam) and deliver the weapon's damage on
impact through the SAME Entity::TakeDamage path as the beam (aim Mech::FirstVitalZone()).
THREE bring-up fixes were needed to make a projectile weapon fire at all (found by tracing):
1. TRIGGER: fireImpulse was only driven for the Emitter; ProjectileWeaponSimulation now sets
fireImpulse = gBTWeaponTrigger too (else CheckFireEdge never sees an edge).
2. AMMO BIN: OwnerSubsystemCount/OwnerSubsystem were stubbed ->0, so ammoBinLink never resolved
and ConsumeRound always failed; redirected to the real roster (owner->GetSubsystemCount()/
GetSubsystem(i) -- the AmmoBin 0xBCB constructs before the weapons 0xBCD/0xBD0).
3. JAM ROLL: UniformRandom() was stubbed `return 0.0f`, so CheckForJam's `0 < jamChance` ALWAYS
jammed (a projectile weapon could NEVER fire); replaced with a real LCG [0,1) (fires
~1-jamChance of the time -- authentic occasional jams).
Also: the mech's own target slot (owner+0x388) isn't populated in bring-up (the visible fire
targets the gEnemyMech global), so BTPushProjectile falls back to gEnemyMech.
Verified: Mad Cat PUSH=62 / IMPACT=31 (LRM missiles 3.33 dmg each split across the salvo + AFC100
autocannon 25 dmg), TARGET DESTROYED, 0 crashes, construction heapcheck-clean; BLH un-regressed
(also fires its ballistic weapon now). Diagnostics BT_PROJ_LOG ([projectile] PUSH/IMPACT).
REMAINING (deferred): the byte-exact world-entity Missile (Projectile : Mover, MP-replicable via
Registry::MakeEntity) -- the port projectile is master-local only (no MP replication); the real
per-weapon fire-rate/heat wiring off the subsystem sim (mech4 beam path is still the bring-up harness).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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WAVE 7 Phase A: wire the projectile/missile weapon SUBSYSTEMS byte-exact (un-mislabeled)
An 8-agent decomp-mapping workflow mapped every weapon-family ctor + fire/spawn path
(scratchpad/wave7_maps.txt). KEY IDENTITY CORRECTION via VDATA.h enum (base 3000=0xBB8):
the factory ctor-address comments were right but the built CLASS names were stubs/base --
0xBCD == ProjectileWeapon (was building the base MechWeapon stub)
0xBCE == GaussRifle (NOT MissileLauncher -- was a MissileLauncher stub)
0xBD0 == MissileLauncher (NOT BallisticWeapon -- was a BallisticWeapon stub)
Un-mislabeled + wired via Create<Class>Subsystem bridges (mirroring CreateEmitterSubsystem),
each static_assert-locked byte-exact on the now-locked MechWeapon(0x3F0)/Emitter(0x478) bases:
* ProjectileWeapon (0xBCD, @4bc3fc : MechWeapon, sizeof 0x448)
FIX: AmmoBinConnection was an empty 1-byte struct -> retyped to the binary's 0xC
SharedData::Connection (was making the object 8 bytes short, sliding
MissileLauncher's missileCount off 0x448).
* MissileLauncher (0xBD0, @4bcff0 : ProjectileWeapon, sizeof 0x44C)
FIX: deleted muzzleVelocity (ALIAS of inherited ProjectileWeapon launchVelocity@0x410)
and salvoCount (SHADOW of inherited MechWeapon damageData.burstCount@0x3d4),
keeping the single own field missileCount@0x448.
* GaussRifle (0xBCE, @4bdcb4 : Emitter, sizeof 0x484 = Emitter + Vector3D muzzleVelocity)
DEDICATED bridge (not CreateEmitter): its FireWeapon is a no-op (mov [eax+0x414],0) --
a non-functional weapon in this 1995 build. Also fixed GAUSS.CPP's discharge write
rechargeLevel -> currentLevel@0x414 (the binary writes this+0x414).
Phase A safe-stubs FireWeapon (consume round + recoil, NO spawn): the reconstructed
Projectile (@4be1bc, 0x340) + Missile (@4bf5b4, 0x368) ENTITY classes are NOT spawn-ready
(Entity-base phantom members overflow their New() alloc -> heap corruption; New() takes
(int)this instead of the 0xD4 descriptor; Entity base size unconfirmed 2007-vs-1995, the
Mech 0x638-vs-0x854 problem). The workflow's adversarial verify flagged the live spawn as a
heap-overflow hazard and recommended exactly this phasing. Phase B = the entity byte-exactness
+ descriptor build + New(MakeMessage*) so a fired shot becomes a flying entity that damages.
Factory now 18 of 20 cases wired to real ticking classes (remaining: SubsystemMessageManager
0xBD3 [WAVE 8], Gyroscope 0xBC4 [deferred]). Verified: Mad Cat (LRM/ballistic) + BLH construct
the real weapon classes + tick authentic charge/ammo/heat/recoil, DESTROYED-in-8, 0 crashes,
heapcheck-clean through construction. Energy weapons already damage via the mech4 beam path,
so combat is unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arcattackandClaude Opus 4.8
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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>
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