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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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Red Planet 4.12
Red Planet is the VWE pod-racing game built on the in-house MUNGA engine
(Win32 / DirectX 9, MUNGA_L4 platform layer). The 4.12 line is the
consumer port: a version of Red Planet that can be sold on Steam and played
over internet multiplayer, without cockpit-pod hardware.
Forked from RP411 (the arcade/cockpit 4.11 line) with full history preserved.
Goals
- Steam distribution — Steamworks integration, SteamPipe builds, store-ready packaging.
- Internet multiplayer — take the engine's LAN-era WinSock networking online (NAT traversal, matchmaking, latency tolerance).
- No cockpit required — keyboard / mouse / gamepad input and on-screen replacements for the pod's RIO panel and plasma display, drawing on vRIO.
- Self-hosted sessions — in-game race setup/join replacing the operator-driven TeslaConsole flow.
See docs/RP412-ROADMAP.md for the plan and the Steam-multiplayer logistics.
Building
Unchanged from 4.11 for now — see BUILD.md
(VS 2005/2008 + DirectX SDK June 2010, Release|Win32, output Release\rpl4opt.exe).
Toolchain modernization is a roadmap item.
Related repositories
| Repo | Role |
|---|---|
| RP411 | Upstream arcade source (this repo's base) |
| VRIO | Virtual RIO panel + vPLASMA display — input bindings and display emulation to fold in |
| TeslaSuite | TeslaConsole / Launcher / vPOD — the arcade session-control stack 4.12 replaces (and a reference for the Munga control protocol, TCP 1501) |