CydandClaude Fable 5
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pose_chase.png: the MadCat assembled from its 19 parts, standing in the arena at its live articulated position. Feet, legs, torso, weapon pods, canopy plate. Not a collapsed stack at the origin, which is what every prior frame actually showed. The convention is no longer inferred -- it is read from the engine. RootRenderable's ctor writes an entity pose into a DCS with *(Matrix4x4*)dpl_GetDCSMatrix(myDCS) = localToWorld, so Matrix4x4::operator=(const AffineMatrix&) IS the wire layout: row-major, rotation in rows 0-2, zeros in column 3, translation in ROW 3 (entries 12/13/14). The old 3/7/11 choice rested on two errors, both corrected in the code comments: AffineMatrix does keep translation at 3/7/11, but because it is COLUMN-major -- citing it as precedent for a row-major layout read the storage and ignored the indexer (AFFNMTRX.HPP:99). And 'the last row made the maths blow up' came from the contaminated bisect; those crashes were the RIO fault. Rotation now composes through the engine's own Matrix4x4::operator=(const EulerAngles&) from the page's pitch/yaw/roll, and the node write uses the RootRenderable idiom (dpl_GetDCSMatrix + assign). Also banked: the chase-frame fifobridge variant -- camera framed on the articulated root instead of the arena bounds -- as the offline proof harness for any future pose question. 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.