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CydandClaude Fable 5 91b043778e BT410 5.3.42: the 3-D pipeline runs to the geometry load -- two rungs climbed
RUNG 1: BTL4VideoRenderer::LoadMissionImplementation, Fail -> bring-up no-op.
Legal, not a cheat: the engine's own VideoRenderer version (VIDREND.CPP:259)
is a bare Tell and our working GaugeRenderer ships the same, so the renderer
comes up and runs its frame loop with an empty scene -- exactly what we want
to measure before writing content.  The authentic shape for the real body is
pinned by the surviving sibling header CODE/RP/RP_L4/RPL4VID.HPP (walk the
mission entities -> MakeEntityRenderables -> ReadSKLFile/RecurseSKLFile).

RUNG 2: Mech::EyepointRotation published.  The engine then Failed at
SetupCull, which fetches that attribute BY NAME off the viewpoint entity and
composes it with the siteeyepoint segment to build worldToEyeMatrix.  The
mech already HAD EulerAngles eyepointRotation with a getter -- only the
publication was missing.  One enum id, one table row.

The run now reaches the full mech build, constructs the renderer, boots the
board (~907K VPX wire transactions), loads the mission, runs the per-frame
cull and enters geometry loading with ZERO Fails and zero exceptions.  It
stops at 'couldn't load object buttee.bgf' / 'NULL instance' -- and that is
not a defect: the models are present and BTDPL.INI points at them, but .BGF
loading goes through the board to the external GL render bridge that the VPX
HLE tees over VPX_FIFOSOCK, and that bridge was not running.  'NULL instance'
comes from the prebuilt LIBDPL.LIB refusing to instance an object that never
loaded.

Next rung is the documented full rig (render-bridge/launch_pod.ps1).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 00:18:10 -05:00

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//===========================================================================//
// File: btl4vid.cpp //
// Project: BattleTech //
// Contents: Implementation details for the BT video renderer //
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------//
// Copyright (C) 1995, Virtual World Entertainment, Inc. //
// All Rights reserved worldwide //
// This unpublished sourcecode is PROPRIETARY and CONFIDENTIAL //
//===========================================================================//
#include <btl4.hpp>
#pragma hdrstop
#if !defined(BTL4VID_HPP)
# include <btl4vid.hpp>
#endif
BTL4VideoRenderer::BTL4VideoRenderer(
RendererRate calibration_rate,
RendererComplexity calibration_complexity,
RendererPriority calibration_priority,
InterestType interest_type,
InterestDepth depth_calibration
):
DPLRenderer(
calibration_rate,
calibration_complexity,
calibration_priority,
interest_type,
depth_calibration
)
{
}
BTL4VideoRenderer::~BTL4VideoRenderer()
{
}
//
//#############################################################################
// LoadMissionImplementation -- called by Renderer::LoadMission (the authentic
// engine, CODE/RP/MUNGA/RENDERER.CPP:263) after it has set
// LoadingRendererStatus, stamped nextRenderTime and started the renderer with
// the RendererManager. This is where a GAME renderer builds the mission's
// scene content on the Division board.
//
// BRING-UP NO-OP (phase 1 of the btl4vid ladder). A no-op is a LEGAL body
// here, not a cheat: the engine's own VideoRenderer::LoadMissionImplementation
// (CODE/RP/MUNGA/VIDREND.CPP:259) is a bare Tell, and our GaugeRenderer
// (GAUGREND.CPP:3275) ships the same. The renderer therefore comes up and
// runs its frame loop with an EMPTY scene, which is exactly what we want to
// measure before writing any content.
//
// THE AUTHENTIC SHAPE, pinned by the surviving sibling header for Red
// Planet's renderer (CODE/RP/RP_L4/RPL4VID.HPP -- same engine, same board,
// same year; only the .CPP is missing there too):
//
// LoadMissionImplementation walks the mission's entities and calls
// MakeEntityRenderables(entity, model_resource, view_type) for each,
// which builds a dpl_DCS hierarchy through ReadSKLFile /
// RecurseSKLFile (the skeleton notation pages), with a material
// substitution list set up around it.
//
// The BT-specific renderables (BTReticleRenderable, BTTranslocationRenderable,
// the pending-wrecks map) come from the BT411 donor game/reconstructed/
// btl4vid.cpp -- 3188 lines -- but NOTE that port restructured this hook and
// has no method under this name, so the CONTRACT above comes from the 1995
// engine and only the CONTENT comes from the donor.
//#############################################################################
//
void
BTL4VideoRenderer::LoadMissionImplementation(Mission *)
{
Check(this);
Tell("BTL4VideoRenderer::LoadMissionImplementation -- empty scene (bring-up)\n");
}