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// File:	btl4vid.hpp                                                         //
// Project: BattleTech                                                       //
// Contents: Implementation details for the BT video renderer                //
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//   Date    Who  Modification                                               //
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// Copyright (C) 1995, Virtual World Entertainment, Inc.                     //
// All Rights reserved worldwide                                             //
// This unpublished sourcecode is PROPRIETARY and CONFIDENTIAL               //
//===========================================================================//

#if !defined(BTL4VID_HPP)
#	define BTL4VID_HPP

#	if !defined(L4VIDEO_HPP)
#		include <l4video.hpp>
#	endif

#	include <dpl.h>
#	include <dplutils.h>

//###########################################################################
//#######################   BTL4VideoRenderer   #############################
//###########################################################################

	class BTL4VideoRenderer:
		public DPLRenderer
	{
	public:
		BTL4VideoRenderer(
			RendererRate		calibration_rate,
			RendererComplexity	calibration_complexity,
			RendererPriority	calibration_priority,
			InterestType		interest_type,
			InterestDepth		depth_calibration
		);
		~BTL4VideoRenderer();

	protected:
		void
			LoadMissionImplementation(Mission *mission);

		//
		// (A diagnostic ExecuteImplementation wrapper briefly lived here to
		// count dynamic renderables per frame; it cannot exist, because
		// DPLRenderer::ExecuteImplementation is PRIVATE -- virtual dispatch
		// reaches it, but a subclass cannot chain it by name.  The question
		// it was built to answer got answered by the wire instead: zero
		// vr_flush_dcs_artic records because NO dynamic renderable existed
		// -- the engine rejects Skeleton resources, so chaining the base for
		// the mech built nothing.  See MakeEntityRenderables.)
		//

		//
		// The bottom of this virtual chain is
		// VideoRenderer::MakeEntityRenderables (VIDREND.CPP:231), whose own
		// comment says it is only reached when nobody above could figure out
		// what to build -- and it just complains.  The engine's DPLRenderer
		// layer knows the ENGINE classes; the game's own classes are ours.
		//
		void
			MakeEntityRenderables(
				Entity				*entity,
				ResourceDescription	*model_resource,
				ViewFrom			 view_type);

		//
		// The mech's model resource is a SKELETON, not an object, and the
		// engine rejects it ("wrong video resource type") because building
		// one is the GAME renderer's job.  Shape taken from the surviving
		// sibling header CODE/RP/RP_L4/RPL4VID.HPP.
		//
		dpl_DCS *
			ReadSKLFile(
				Entity			*entity,
				dpl_DCS			*parent_dcs,
				const char		*skeleton_filename,
				ViewFrom		 view_type,
				int				*eye_count,
				int				*joint_count);

		dpl_DCS *
			RecurseSKLFile(
				Entity			*entity,
				dpl_DCS			*parent_dcs,
				NotationFile	*skeleton,
				const char		*page_name,
				int				 recursion_depth,
				ViewFrom		 view_type,
				dpl_ZONE		*zone,
				int				*node_count,
				int				*object_count,
				int				*eye_count,
				int				*joint_count);

	protected:
		int		reserved[16];
	};

#endif