CydandClaude Fable 5
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No 1995 L4SPLR.CPP survives, but its header does, and the direct descendant
source survives in the RP411 tree. This is that 741-line file back-dated
onto the 1995 engine APIs the header declares -- the BACKFILLS method -- and
the ENGINE COUNT MOVES: 181 -> 182 TUs, link clean, zero unresolved.
What the brick is: the whole mission-review spool layer --
SpoolingInterestManager every interest packet -> the spool
L4SpoolingNetworkManager normal connect + the spool PREAMBLE (app ID,
data version, per-host remote/local + HostID)
L4PlaybackNetworkManager "connect" FROM the spool: verify the preamble,
rebuild the host table with no wire, post Load
L4SpoolingApplication the recorder app -- renderless makers, deferred
stop (spool the ending exactly once), hand the
finished spool to the application manager
SpoolerTask the playback pump: egg packets while waiting,
interest packets while loading, then everything
doled out on recorded timestamps + GetTimeBias()
Back-dating deltas, each named in the header block: the HINSTANCE/HWND ctor
reverts to (ResourceFile*, ApplicationID); SOCKADDR_IN + two-arg
ResolveAddress revert to the 1995 unsigned-long address; L4Host construction
uses NullNetworkAddress/0 (L4NET.CPP's own idiom); PostQuitMessage becomes
Exit_Code = AbortExitCodeID (the loop gate ExecuteForeground already tests);
accessor-style statics revert to the header's static members; and the
later-era MakeGaugeRenderer/Shutdown parameters drop.
Two BC4.52 notes in source: the StopMissionMessage re-post carries an
explicit (Receiver::Message *) cast for the compiler's nested-scope upcast
quirk (NetworkClient derives Receiver, so the type IS right), and the
foreground tick casts to LBE4ControlsManager::Execute exactly as L4APP does
(the 1995 base ControlsManager has no Execute).
KNOWN DEBT, deliberately left: L4PlaybackNetworkManager::DefaultData is
referenced by its ctor but defined nowhere yet -- the linker does not pull
the member because nothing references the playback manager until BTL4PB.CPP
exists. That definition belongs with the playback app increment, which is
next. Regression run clean (same y-track terrain walk).
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.