CydandClaude Fable 5
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Same binary (md5 identical), different run: Eng1/Eng2/Comm read 17981/17981/15656 on some runs and 19011/19011/16909 on others. The shipped binary is STABLE across three runs, so this is ours. Eleven consecutive clean runs is what let it hide, and the dirty numbers are exactly the pre-gate numbers from 5.3.32 -- the same artifact recurring. Read off the raw words rather than inferred: in the artifact rect the shipped binary writes ONE masked plane bit per pixel (0x4000 = Heat, 0x002D = sec), while we write arbitrary 16-bit words (0x8BD6 / 0x8AD6 / 0x8AC0) that light sec+overlay+Mfd1+Eng1+Eng2+Comm at once. Raw values going into a plane-packed buffer -- which is why one bad draw appears as extra pixels on six heads and as 483 MISSING on Heat at the same time. Intermittent because these widgets are change-driven: on runs where the coolant value never moves after the first paint, the bad draw never happens. The six fixes of 5.3.33-39 stand (each moved specific attributable pixels). What must be restated is the claim that four heads are exact -- true only when this defect does not fire. The rig now needs a run-variance check before any per-head number is believed. 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.