SS_BLACKRECT paints the system window-frame color - gray on modern
Windows - so the viewscreen child is now a plain STATIC subclassed to
erase true black. The MFD/map panes flickered because Paint() cleared
the on-screen surface before redrawing at the fill cadence; the pane
now composes off screen and lands in a single BitBlt.
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Playtest direction on the canvas layout: all five MFDs at the compact
320x240 glass size - upper pair pushed to the top corners, score glass
top-center, lower pair in the bottom corners, map bottom-center - and
the viewscreen now fills the entire 1920x1080 canvas. Launched with
-res 1920 1080 the 3D renders native 1:1 (the 2007 D3D9 path takes the
1080p backbuffer and 16:9 aspect without complaint). start-windowed.bat
updated accordingly.
Verified live: full-screen native 3D with the cockpit floating over its
edges, mission running, preset lamp lit on the map column.
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The cockpit is now a fixed 1920x1080 canvas (uniformly scaled down on
smaller monitors, min 25%):
[ MFD UL 640 ][ MFD UC 640 ][ MFD UR 640 ] <- native glass, 1920 wide
[ viewscreen 800x600 centered ]
[ MFD LL ] [ Map ] [ MFD LR ] <- bottom edge
Playtest direction: the original pods MFDs partially occluded the main
display, and that is used here on purpose - the panes overlap the
viewscreen and render over it (viewscreen pinned to the bottom of the
sibling z-order, WS_CLIPSIBLINGS everywhere, so the 3D present clips
around every pane). Top-row glasses are gauge-canvas native 640x480 -
three across is exactly 1920. Red MFD buttons at half height; the amber
map columns stack contiguous like the pod strips. The auto-fit
scale/L4MFDSCALE machinery is gone - the canvas is the design space.
Verified live at 100% scale: contiguous native top row over the
centered viewscreen, bottom cluster overlapping its lower edge, map and
gauges updating (BOOST values moving, presets lit).
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The assembled shell could exceed the work area (1291px tall at default
scale) - on a 1080p monitor the whole lower row, map included, hung off
the bottom of the screen, which read as the map not rendering, and the
lamp-reactive preset buttons were unreachable down there. (The render
and click paths themselves were verified fine: a synthetic press on a
map preset button lights it through the game lamp command.)
The layout now measures SPI_GETWORKAREA and fits: the pane scale steps
down (to 20% minimum) and the viewscreen takes the leftover height at
the 3D aspect, shrinking below native when needed - Present stretches,
so the scene scales cleanly. Rows and viewscreen center in the shell,
which is sized to the work area. Verified: at 70% panes in a 1392-high
work area the viewscreen reduced to 609x457 with everything on screen.
The plasma glass sits out of the cockpit for the moment
(PlasmaScreen::Hide) per playtest direction.
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The main game window becomes the cockpit shell (enlarged, clipping
children); every display folds in as a chrome-less child pane in the
pod interior arrangement:
[ MFD UL ] [ MFD UC ] [ MFD UR ]
[ plasma (reduced) ][ viewscreen (centered) ]
[ MFD LL ] [ Map ] [ MFD LR ]
The 3D scene presents into a black STATIC viewscreen child via
Present's hDestWindowOverride (new gMainPresentWindow global) - no
swap-chain changes, and STATIC's transparent hit-testing keeps mouse
input over the 3D view flowing to the game window. MFDSplitView gains a
parent/child mode; PlasmaScreen::Position reparents the glass into the
shell. Main window class background goes black for the cockpit gaps.
Verified by screenshot: live green gauges (LIFT CUT / BOOST / CHUTE /
trigger-program screens) with their red button strips, the 3D canyon in
the centered viewscreen, plasma score glass at its left, map with lit
amber preset lamps - one window, 976x1132 client at 50% scale.
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[ MFD UL ] [ MFD UC ] [ MFD UR ]
[ plasma (reduced) ][ main screen (centered) ]
[ MFD LL ] [ Map ] [ MFD LR ]
SVGA16 moves the main game window into the middle band (centered under
the MFD columns) and shrinks the plasma glass to fill the space at its
left via a new PlasmaScreen::Position hook (the glass paint stretches to
the client area, so resizing rescales it). Lower row sits below the
main screen band.
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The pod stacks its displays vertically - upper MFDs above the
viewscreen, weapon MFDs + secondary below. Default grid now places the
lower row (MFD LL / Map / MFD LR) at the main screen's bottom edge
instead of directly under the upper row, so the main screen reads as
the middle band, with the plasma glass at its lower-left.
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The side-button columns widened the map window, drifting the glass right
of center; shift the default position left by one column width.
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Each MFDSplitView window now carries its display's physical button bank,
placed as in the pod (addresses per vRIO CockpitLayout): a 4x2 red
cluster around each MFD glass (anchors 0x2F/0x27/0x37 upper, 0x0F/0x07
lower, addresses descending row-major) and 6 amber buttons down each
side of the map - Secondary 0x10-0x15 left, Screen 0x18-0x1D right; the
remaining column addresses are Tesla relays, per the pod wiring, so they
get no buttons.
Buttons light from the lamp state the game commands: PadRIO grows a
static active-instance hook (SetScreenButton/GetLampState); mouse
press/release feeds PadRIO's desired-state sampling alongside pad and
keyboard, and paint decodes the lamp byte (state1/state2 brightness,
solid/slow/med/fast flash animated by tick). With real serial hardware
(no PadRIO) the buttons draw dark and inert.
Verified: map flank buttons light per the game's preset lamps, aligned
with the labels the glass draws at its edges; MFD clusters render 4+4.
Roadmap: queued the vRIO Dynamic Lighting RGB-keyboard lamp mirror as a
polish-pass item. dist repacked.
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The pod drove five monochrome MFDs from the color channels of two video
outputs - SVGA16 packs bit-slices of the shared gauge canvas into R/G/B
of gauge window 3 (upper MFDs) and R/G of window 4 (lower MFDs), with the
map palettized on the secondary and physically mounted portrait. The
desktop reconstruction previously required an external BitBlt-mirror
wrapper.
With L4MFDSPLIT=1, SVGA16 renders each display into its own window
(MFDSplitView, plain GDI) straight from the canvas + port bit-masks:
five green-screen MFD windows and the 90CW-rotated Map, tiled in the pod
grid to the right of the main view (L4MFDSCALE percent, default 50). The
packed D3D windows stay hidden but keep presenting off-screen, leaving
the original path untouched. Handles spanning mode (2-window setups).
Also: the plasma glass now opens directly below the main view (clamped
to the work area; L4PLASMAPOS=x,y overrides) per playtest feedback.
Verified: window grid comes up as main + 5 MFDs + Map + plasma with the
packed windows hidden; screenshots confirm a green MFD score readout and
the portrait tactical map rendering correctly. dist packer and BUILD.md
updated; the launcher wrapper is obsolete for split-mode use.
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Imports the current Win32 source for the pod-racing game 'Red Planet',
built on the MUNGA engine and its L4 (Win32/DirectX) platform layer:
- MUNGA / MUNGA_L4: cross-platform engine core and Win32 backend
- RP / RP_L4: Red Planet game logic and Win32 application
- DivLoader, Setup1: asset loader and installer project
- lib, MUNGA_L4/openal, MUNGA_L4/sos: third-party audio dependencies
Removed stale Subversion metadata and added .gitignore/.gitattributes.
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