Release 4.12.5

Version string, zip name and README, plus the new environ.ini options -
the podium and the mission-length override. Everything else in that file
documents itself, so these should not be the exception.

This one restores the Winners Circle: the race fades out and fades back
in on the award platform, finishers in finishing order with their
callsigns on the plates, held for a few seconds before the results.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

README.md

@@ -50,6 +50,17 @@ position. And a lobby holds **eight** players rather than four, a full grid as
 the pod hall ran it, with the room sizing its roster to whatever space the
 window gives it.
 
+[v4.12.5](https://gitea.mysticmachines.com/VWE/RP412/releases/tag/v4.12.5)
+restores the **Winners Circle**. The pod hall stood the finishers on a
+numbered award platform when the race ended, and all of it was still in this
+repo — the stand, eight ranked spots in every map, and the code to put racers
+on them — wired only into the mission-review build and so never once run by a
+pod. The race now fades out and fades back in on the platform: finishers in
+finishing order, each pilot's callsign on the plate beside their spot, the
+cockpit glass cleared away, held for a few seconds before the results screen.
+Three pieces of it had been stubbed out in the D3D9 port and are working
+again.
+
 ## Playing
 
 Grab the release zip (or run `pack-dist.ps1` on a build). Single player:

RP_L4/RPL4.CPP

@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine
       fclose(file);
    }
 
-   DEBUG_STREAM << "Red Planet 4.12.4" << std::endl << std::flush;
+   DEBUG_STREAM << "Red Planet 4.12.5" << std::endl << std::flush;
    DEBUG_STREAM << "L4CONTROLS=" << getenv("L4CONTROLS") << std::endl << std::flush;
 
 #ifdef RP412_STEAM

pack-dist.ps1

@@ -216,6 +216,36 @@ L4RADARSCALE=100
 # both of them, and it grows from the middle in both directions).
 L4RADARPOS=CENTER
 
+# The Winners Circle: at the end of a race the finishers are stood on
+# the award platform in finishing order, with each pilot's callsign on
+# the plate beside their spot, and held there for a few seconds before
+# the results screen. 1 = show it, 0 = straight to the results.
+RP412PODIUM=1
+
+# The shot is framed for you, but these move the camera if you want it
+# somewhere else. Distances are in game units, measured from the middle
+# of the group of finishers.
+#   STANDOFF  how far out in front of the stand the camera sits
+#   HEIGHT    how far above the group
+#   AIM       height of the point it looks at, relative to the group -
+#             negative tilts down, positive tilts up
+#   ASPECT    the stand was composed for a 4:3 pod monitor, so the shot
+#             is cropped to that shape with black either side. 0 runs it
+#             full width instead.
+#   FADEIN    seconds to come up out of the black after the race fades
+#   CAM       0 watches from your own cockpit rather than off the stand
+#RP412PODIUMSTANDOFF=36
+#RP412PODIUMHEIGHT=12
+#RP412PODIUMAIM=2
+#RP412PODIUMASPECT=1.333
+#RP412PODIUMFADEIN=0.45
+#RP412PODIUMCAM=1
+
+# Override the game length the menu picked, in seconds. The shortest the
+# menu offers is 3:00, which is a long wait when what you are testing is
+# what happens at the buzzer. Unset = use the menu's choice.
+#RP412MISSIONSECONDS=20
+
 # Simulation/render frame rate, integer frames/second. The desktop
 # default is 60; the arcade pods shipped at 25.
 TARGETFPS=60
@@ -327,7 +357,7 @@ start rpl4opt.exe -fit
 "@
 
 Set-Content -Path "$dist\README.txt" -Encoding ascii -Value @"
-Red Planet 4.12.4
+Red Planet 4.12.5
 =================
 
 Run start-fullscreen.bat for borderless over the whole monitor, or
@@ -392,7 +422,7 @@ $size = (Get-ChildItem $dist -Recurse | Measure-Object Length -Sum).Sum
 Write-Host ("dist ready: {0:N1} MB" -f ($size / 1MB))
 
 if ($Zip) {
-    $zipPath = Join-Path $root 'RedPlanet-4.12.4.zip'
+    $zipPath = Join-Path $root 'RedPlanet-4.12.5.zip'
     Write-Host "zipping to $zipPath..."
 
     # Everything lives under a single RP412\ folder inside the zip, so