CydandClaude Fable 5
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Ran the reconstructed exe and the shipped ALPHA_1 binary against the SAME GAUGE content, same mount, gauges on, and diffed the 640x480x16 framebuffers. OUR EXE DRAWS THE COCKPIT: 90.1% pixel-identical on the first run, and every difference traced to a single root cause. The authored aux-screen block (screen number / background placement / label) lives in the subsystem resource -- which is freed with the Mech ctor's stream buffer (the 5.3.24 use-after-free landmine). Both this tree and the BT411 port had stubbed it, which is why BT411's displays show the same artifacting. PoweredSubsystem now caches the block at ctor time with accessors, and btl4gau2 uses the AUTHORED screen instead of a roster-order stand-in and builds the placement strip art. Panels snapped onto their authored screens -- weapon dials now land on the same panels as the shipped exe, mech icons appear on the sensor/myomer panels, generator letters correct -- taking the match to 93.2% identical / 85% coverage. Remaining differences are donor-inherited stubs: the panel title art (now proven to come from the q-strip statusImage path, not auxScreenLabel -- the label blit is wired and guarded regardless), the pilot name bitmap, and some lamp frames. The A/B rig is banked at emulator/render-bridge/gauge-ab/ (both confs + the window-grab script) so the comparison is repeatable. 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.