CydandClaude Fable 5
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The name art was never missing. The egg carries it as notation pages of hex rows ([BitMap::Small::Aeolus]); the engine BitMap has a ctor that reads exactly that format; and the AUTHENTIC Mission ctor already loads them into smallNameBitmapChain (MISSION.CPP:525 -- implemented, called, working). The break was ours: btl4gau3's LookupPlayerNameBitmap was a bring-up stub returning NULL. It now uses the authentic API (GetCurrentMission()-> GetSmallNameBitmap(playerBitmapIndex)) and resolves live -- traced index=1 to a real BitMap, with the fallback-box branch provably never firing. Coverage 91% -> 92%. DIAGNOSIS CORRECTED for the stray magenta blocks over the top-left title: they are NOT a missing-name placeholder. They are the REAL name bitmap drawn at the wrong slot coordinates -- PilotList lays its 8 roster slots out from the PE-recovered DAT_0051af88 (x,y,mode) table, and ours puts them top-left instead of the shipped exe's centre row. Recovering that table is the next cockpit thread; the egg-hex -> live-BitMap pipeline is verified end to end, so what remains there is layout, not art or lookup. (A duplicate loader written before finding the authentic one was removed -- CODE/RP/MUNGA/MISSION.CPP already does this job.) Gauge fight 11/11, smoke and novice clean, zero faults. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scene Restorations
Modern re-renderings of the Division dVS scenes recovered from the Glaze developer drive (see HISTORY.md) and this repo's CONTENT tree. The originals ran on Division Ltd.'s pixel-pipeline hardware in 1994–1997; these tools parse the original data files and re-render them in WebGL, in the browser.
Viewers (open in any browser, fully self-contained)
vwe-archive.html— the Scene Archive: 26 curated scenes across all projects — Star Trek (Enterprise-D, Klingon flyby), Hull Pressure (sea demos, fish schools, sunken temple), BattleTech (polar map with mech lineup, Ravine and desert maps, stadium), Red Planet (Blade arena, the Mars canal milestone demo), and the Canyon/Maya-temple Division demos. Fly camera: drag to look, WASD to fly, R resets.trek-scn.html— the original standalone Star Trek restoration (TREK.SCN and KLNGVID.SCN).
Toolkit
divformats.py— parsers for every Division format found on the drive: textVGF/VMF(DIV-VIZ2 geometry/materials, both the 1995VERSION 2:07and 199602:05dialects, with header SCALE support), binaryBGF/BMF(DIV-BIZ2) — the binary block-stream layout was recovered from Division's own reader source (DPL3/BIZREAD.C, 1994), including all 14 vertex layouts, pmesh/tristrip/polygon connectivity, LOD blocks (newer writers nest patches inside LODs; the largest LOD is taken), and embedded materials/textures/ramps — plusTGAand rawSVTtextures,SPLsplines, andSCNscene scripts.audit.py— scans every.SCNon the drive and reports what fraction of its geometry survives, and in which format.extract_all.py— extracts every scene with ≥60 % of its geometry recoverable (108 of 241 on the drive; the rest reference lost models) intoallscenes.json, resolving models/materials/textures across the drive and this repo's CONTENT dirs.gallery_build.py— curates scenes fromallscenes.jsoninto the self-containedvwe-archive.html(viagallery_template.html).convert.py/viewer_template.html— the original single-scene Star Trek pipeline.
Rebuild
python extract_all.py # requires the sda4/ drive dump beside this repo
python gallery_build.py
Fidelity notes
Faithful: vertices, triangles, material colors and shading ramps, textures,
fog and light parameters, spline motion, camera start positions. Approximated:
Division's rasterizer behavior, point sizes, timing (originals ran at 30 Hz).
Not simulated: event-driven SPECIALFX particles. A few dev scenes had camera
start positions inside geometry; those get overridden or auto-framed cameras
(see START_OVERRIDE in gallery_build.py). Scenes missing one or more
models from the drive say so in their header.