assets/RP411/RPL4.RES is now the 1.25MB resource from the airlock archive, a
2014 community build, replacing the 785KB file RP412 inherited. It verifies
as a strict superset of ours: nothing is lost but two unnamed Not Used
placeholders, the format version matches, all 26 base vehicles' L4 and
Thrustmaster mapping streams are byte-identical to the ones we shipped, vole
matches resource for resource, and it boots against our own GAUGE, VIDEO and
AUDIO with a log identical to the baseline.
Its L4GAUGE.CFG comes with it. That file is ours plus the new vehicles'
blocks and one fix: dragonInit gains twoBoosterInit, so the dragon's two
boosters finally have gauges - it always had them in its subsystem list and
the panel simply never drew them.
dark, blkspk and blktrn are back with the tables they shipped with in 4.10,
checked against the retail file: blkspk still puts its third booster on the
thumb-high in preset 4 alone, dark still spends preset 5's HORN slot on its
second demo pack. The archive also brings neut, a four-booster Lepton class
with an Eject subsystem, eight community Blacker variants and seven maps.
The black mystery turned out to be a renaming bug rather than a vehicle that
never existed. RP411's gauge config carried a blackInit block nothing could
select, because the lookup is <model>Init and no model is named black. The
airlock config calls the same block - byte-identical body - blktrnInit,
which is the model's real name. disk is now the only genuine orphan: a panel
layout with no vehicle behind it in any resource file, and no entry in the
console's own config either.
The roster page regenerates to 34 vehicles. Four of the eight community
variants have a ControlsMappings List but no streams of their own, pointing
at another vehicle's by id, so they carry no preset table and do not appear.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The original AWE32 soundbanks are the source the shipped sound effects are
generated from, and they belong in the repo for that, but the game has no
use for them at run time - the LoadSBK path died with the sound cards and
AUDIO.INI's [AudioResources] section is commented out alongside it. They
were going into every download regardless.
Also drops four wav files that nothing references: two leftovers named temp,
one of them empty, and two stale zone files orphaned when the preset table
was regenerated from the banks.
Together about 8MB off the package.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Red Planet's original AWE32 soundbanks are back in the tree, and the game's
sound effects are now generated from them instead of from an incomplete
one-off extraction.
AUDIO1.RES and AUDIO2.RES come from the 1996 release in the TeslaRel410
archive, hash-identical. AUDIO.INI has named them all along - they were
simply never carried into the port. tools/rp_sf2extract.py reads them and
regenerates both the WAV set and RP_L4/WTPresets.cpp, so the assets are
reproducible from the banks rather than hand-maintained.
Two things were wrong with the old set:
Pitch. Every shipped WAV was flat 44100 Hz with the banks' tuning discarded,
so 202 of the 219 zones played at the wrong speed - the worst by nine
semitones. The EMU8000's per-zone root key and tuning are now baked into
each file's declared sample rate, which is exact and needs no engine change.
Layers that were meant to be deep now are: a collision sub-thud that lasted
18 milliseconds at the wrong rate is a 0.66 second one at 1228 Hz.
Missing layers. 93 presets were short of zones and 176 were missing outright,
219 of 395. Nothing was lost recovering them - the 46 preset slots that
disappeared were all empty placeholders. The old files were also over-read,
running past the end of their sample into whatever PCM came next;
WellheadDrill02a was six seconds where the bank says eight hundred
milliseconds. Every one of the 395 files now matches its bank record exactly.
Also baked in: per-zone layer attenuation, and the static resonant low-pass
the EMU8000 applied in hardware.
Measured while doing it, and worth knowing: RP's banks contain no key-splits
at all - every multi-zone preset is a pure layer stack - and no preset has
more than four zones, which is what the engine's own "AWE appears to only
play 1st 4 voices" warning has been asserting since 1995.
Still to do: loop regions and the release fades, which 349 zones ask for and
which need new SAMPLEINFO fields. And voice demand per sound has gone from
about one zone to about two and a half, so the per-event alGenSources and
alDeleteSources churn roughly doubles - the BT tree measured pooling as the
fix for that, and a CPU win besides.
Builds clean. The extreme baked rates, 1228 Hz up to 88200, were checked
through the real path - libsndfile, alBufferData, alSourcePlay - and all
load. Not yet listened to on the pod.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
startrp-800x600.bat/.ps1 rode into the previous commit unintentionally;
remove them from tracking (local copies untouched) and gitignore them so
a bulk add cannot sweep them back in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
d3d_OBJECT::LoadTexture never checked D3DXCreateTextureFromFileA, cached
the NULL texture, and unconditionally AddRef()ed it - an access violation
on any missing/unreadable texture, hit by every bare working copy because
the pod skins (VIDEO\player1-8) come from the presets/replacement-material
path, not the depot. Failures now log the filename+hr and the draw op
renders untextured, matching the existing no-texture-filename path. Also
guard the unchecked gReplacementData->find() in LoadObject (same latent
UB one branch earlier).
Verified in the sandbox working copy: the game now boots to a running
RPL4 window with -windowed -egg TEST.EGG (RIO served by vRIO), logging
the eight missing pod skins instead of dying in MakeEntityRenderables.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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