vpx-device/vpxlog.cpp -- WEAPONS FIRE. The game's fire gate is
targetReticle.targetEntity (mech+0x388), filled every frame by a Division-board
reticle pick (dpl_RapidSectPixel) our HLE never answered, so every shot
misfired. The device now casts the camera centre ray against the live scene
(Moller-Trumbore) and returns the full hit -- instance + DCS + geogroup +
geometry -- piggybacked on the draw_scene reply; terrain is a valid target so
you can fire and miss. Sending geogroup=0 was hanging the game (GetAppSpecific
on a null); returning the real geogroup fixed it. Pick is default-on with a
single VPX_NO_PICK escape hatch. Also swaps the upper-left/right MFD explode
windows (screen location only -- decode untouched, real cause TBD on a pod).
dpl3-revive/patha/vrview.py -- HAT-GLANCE fix at the source. One cockpit DCS
(0xa2c) flushes a rank-2 rotation (shifted body -> wrong read window) that
collapsed the camera chain to rank 2 and smeared the head glance onto the wrong
axis (left/right hat read as pitch). chain_matrix(fix_degenerate) treats a
degenerate chain DCS as identity: preserves the look exactly and keeps stick-Y
torso pitch working (an earlier bridge-level yaw/pitch swap broke stick-Y and
was reverted). User-verified live: hat all 4 dirs + stick-Y both correct.
render-bridge/launch_pod.ps1 -- launch the bridge with pyw (windowless) so no
console window parks over the cockpit displays (Start-Process ignores
-WindowStyle once stdout/stderr are redirected).
render-bridge/live_bridge.py -- surface bridge render errors, flush the status
line; reverted glance-swap note.
Also vendored HUD (dpl2d) renderer work in vrboard/vrview_gl and RENDERER-COLLAB
/ RIO notes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- emulator/render-bridge/: the pod->Dave's-renderer live bridge (rescued
from session scratchpad): live_bridge.py (first-person cam from the 0x1f
pose, arrow-key eye-height trim), fp/chase offline renders, fifobridge,
diagnostics, gauge_arena[_sound].conf, and launch_pod.ps1 (one-command
pod+bridge restart: pentapus VPX_EXPLODE + AWE32 sound + GL bridge).
- _backend.py: renderer selection -- vrview_gl.GLRenderer (moderngl) by
default, VRVIEW_SOFT=1 for the software reference; backend-agnostic
frame save via last_frame.
- GPU backend runs on side-by-side CPython 3.13 (moderngl/glcontext cp313
wheels; no MSVC needed): 63fps headless / 60.7 windowed vs 21fps software
on the same scene, and the GL path also draws the vertex-alpha cloud dome.
- vrview.py: VRVIEW_GAMMA env selects DAC gamma (1.25 live-renderer legacy
vs 1.7 per the original GAMMA.C) for A/B against the real pod.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>