CydandClaude Fable 5
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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. 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) |