CydandClaude Fable 5
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Three of the six authentic Mech message handlers land, decomp-verified: - RealMaxSpeed (@0049f604): adopt the streamed real-max-speed (+0x7a0, the 5-notch throttle quantizer base) only while our own is unknown (+0x7a4); wire payload at +0x1c, sender stamped by Entity's network send @0041f640. The master-perf head's one-shot send stays staged with the EntityManager stream path. - SetBurningState (@0049f674): the burning wreck parks in a per-host off-field slot -- x = localHostID x 10000, y = localHostID x -1000 (data words @0049f6fc/@0049f6f8; the id is HostManager:: GetLocalHostID, the same accessor the entity-instance dispatch compares against ownerID) -- and the mode alarm drops to 2: BURNING, the second InDeathTransition state, whose writer was the last missing piece of that predicate. ForceUpdate(1) + AlwaysExecute (the binary's `flags &= ~2` IS DontExecuteFlag clearing). - ClearBurningState (@0049f700): mode 0, same dirty/execute pair. Decoded and recorded for the next sitting (MECH4.NOTES.md): BalanceCoolant (@0049f728 mark + @0049f788 redistribute-with-gauge-blip; blocked on the mech tail chain triple +0x7ac/+0x7bc/+0x7cc identity), and EjectPilot (@0049f854, read end-to-end): the ejection gate is mech+0x414 -- the combat-effectiveness census's consumer, found -- you can only punch out of a CRIPPLED mech; ejection is mode 10 (why IsMechDestroyed tests >= 9) plus a self-dispatched type-2 TakeDamage whose amount reads through the mapper's +0x208 binding. Soak: duck cycles green on the new build (7 volume swaps, crash-sig 0). 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.