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>
Version string, zip name and README. Cut as its own release rather than
replacing 4.12.3's asset again: the three test machines need to be able
to tell builds apart from what the log and the README say, and a binary
that reports 4.12.3 while carrying the lobby work defeats exactly that.
This one is about the lobby. Both rooms show the host's mission setup,
the football team sheet names each player's VTV, and a lobby holds eight
players rather than four.
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Version string, zip name and README. This one is about the screen:
the cockpit scales both ways and re-fits on resize keeping 16:9, -fit
runs it borderless over the monitor at a matched render size, the six
secondary displays are the players to scale and the radar to place,
and the button banks reach under the glass.
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Written from the default bindings.txt so it matches what the game
actually writes. Covers the Xbox pad (ASCII diagram plus a table of
every button and its RIO address), the keyboard - numpad flight
cluster diagram, the Shift/Ctrl/Alt throttle and reverse modifiers,
Alt+Q abort - and the panel button banks, showing how the number and
letter rows map onto the five MFD clusters exactly as printed on the
pod board, with the G/B gap keys and the F-key Secondary/Screen
columns. Also notes the keypads being deliberately unbound, the RGB
lamp mirror, and how to rebind with worked examples.
pack-dist copies it to the dist as CONTROLS.txt, flattened to ASCII so
it reads correctly in Notepad while the markdown source keeps its
typography. README links it.
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The setup menu gains a SCENARIO group. Picking Football relayouts the
menu live: the track list swaps to the football-legal set (drops
Paingod Passage and the race build of Freezemoon Freeway, adds the
football build headmf - RPConfig per-scenario invalid lists), the
COLOR and BADGE columns become TEAM and POSITION, and the title
reads MARTIAN FOOTBALL.
The egg builder was restructured around one flat pilot table so both
scenarios share it. Football emits scenario=football, per-pilot team=
and position= entries, and the [teams] / [team::X] / [pilots::X] /
[teambitmap] blocks in RPFootballMission layout (team name bitmaps
generated by the same GDI plasma renderer as pilot names). Colors are
derived rather than chosen, as the arcade did it: the runner wears the
team runner color, crushers and blockers the team color. Multi-pod
games alternate pilots across two teams and give each team exactly one
runner, honoring the host own position pick.
Verified end to end: Football launches from the menu, the engine loads
the football mission (the cockpit shows the RUNNER - GO FOR POINTS
panel), the console marshals it to a scored finish, and the Death Race
path still passes its regression unchanged.
Known gap: lobby members cannot pick their own team or position yet -
the host pick seeds a deterministic assignment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
README.md rewritten around the lineage: Red Planet 4.10 on the
Tesla 1 pod platform, 4.11 the Win32 port, 4.12 the Steamification
of 4.11 - with the arcade-to-consumer replacement table, current
status (v4.12.1 verified on three machines), playing/building/docs
sections brought up to date.
And ahead of internet-wide beta testing: lobby search now applies the
worldwide distance filter - Steam defaults to roughly same-region
results, which would have hidden lobbies from cross-region testers
even though joining them works fine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Consumer port of Red Planet: sellable on Steam, internet multiplayer,
playable without cockpit hardware. Adds the project README and
docs/RP412-ROADMAP.md covering the three workstreams (vRIO-derived
input/display, TeslaConsole-derived session UI, Steamworks networking)
and the Steam logistics assessment.
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