Release 4.12.6

Seven commits since 4.12.5, all about where things sit on screen.

RP412MFDLAYOUT remembers window placement across the menu-race-menu
loop, in mfd_layout.cfg beside bindings.txt: the game window, the
exploded view's display panes, and the plasma glass. Append ,noframe to
a line to take that window's title bar and border off - a cockpit
filling a monitor edge to edge at a rect you chose, where -fit could
only do it by taking the whole screen.

That needed a way out of a window with no title bar, so the setup screen
carries an EXIT GAME button, bottom left and diagonally opposite LAUNCH.

The Steam host/join buttons dim and say STEAM NOT RUNNING rather than
disappearing - two buttons quietly missing reads as a broken build.

And the Winners Circle camera is framed off the award stand rather than
off whoever is standing on it. It had been averaging the filled spots,
which moved the shot with the head count: eight finishers put the eye 24
units closer to the stand and aimed it at the middle of the tiers
instead of at the winner. The framing constants are untouched, so the
shot everybody gets now is the one that was dialled in.

Version strings bumped in RPL4.CPP, pack-dist.ps1 and the controls page
that ships in the zip.

Built clean, packed, and smoke-tested from the dist: boots to the
console screen reporting 4.12.6, virtual RIO up, Steam transport up,
nothing alarming in the log.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

README.md

@@ -61,6 +61,20 @@ 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.
 
+[v4.12.6](https://gitea.mysticmachines.com/VWE/RP412/releases/tag/v4.12.6)
+is about the windows. Where you put them now survives the
+menu-race-menu loop: `RP412MFDLAYOUT` remembers the game window, the
+exploded view's display panes and the plasma glass in `mfd_layout.cfg`
+beside `bindings.txt`. Append `,noframe` to a line to take that
+window's title bar and border off — a cockpit filling the monitor edge
+to edge at a rect you chose, rather than `-fit` taking the whole
+screen — and the setup screen carries its own **EXIT GAME** button,
+since a window with no title bar needs a way out. The Steam buttons
+now dim and say *STEAM NOT RUNNING* instead of disappearing. And the
+Winners Circle camera is framed off the award stand itself rather than
+off whoever is standing on it, so the shot is the same one for every
+player at every head count.
+
 ## Playing
 
 Grab the release zip (or run `pack-dist.ps1` on a build). Single player:

RP_L4/RPL4.CPP

@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine
       fclose(file);
    }
 
-   DEBUG_STREAM << "Red Planet 4.12.5" << std::endl << std::flush;
+   DEBUG_STREAM << "Red Planet 4.12.6" << std::endl << std::flush;
    DEBUG_STREAM << "L4CONTROLS=" << getenv("L4CONTROLS") << std::endl << std::flush;
 
 #ifdef RP412_STEAM

docs/rp412-controls.html

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<title>Red Planet 4.12.3 — Controls</title>
+<title>Red Planet 4.12.6 — Controls</title>
 
 <style>
   :root {
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@
 <div class="wrap">
 
   <header class="masthead">
-    <p class="eyebrow">Virtual World Entertainment · Tesla pod · RP 4.12.3</p>
+    <p class="eyebrow">Virtual World Entertainment · Tesla pod · RP 4.12.6</p>
     <h1>Red Planet<br>Controls Map</h1>
     <p class="lede">
       Every input the pod answers to, on the gamepad and the keyboard. The
@@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@
   </section>
 
   <footer>
-    <span>Red Planet 4.12.3</span>
+    <span>Red Planet 4.12.6</span>
     <span>gitea.mysticmachines.com/VWE/RP412</span>
     <span>docs/CONTROLS.md · CONTROLS.txt ships with the game</span>
     <span>RGB keyboards mirror the pod lamps · RP412KEYLIGHT=0 to disable</span>

pack-dist.ps1

@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ start rpl4opt.exe -fit
 "@
 
 Set-Content -Path "$dist\README.txt" -Encoding ascii -Value @"
-Red Planet 4.12.5
+Red Planet 4.12.6
 =================
 
 Run start-fullscreen.bat for borderless over the whole monitor, or
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ $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-4.12.5.zip'
+    $zipPath = Join-Path $root 'RedPlanet-4.12.6.zip'
     Write-Host "zipping to $zipPath..."
 
     # Everything lives under a single RP412\ folder inside the zip, so