Carry the remaining CTCL, lobby, and player-limit updates onto the new moreplayers branch.
This change set is intentionally marked untested and may still be broken. It needs follow-up validation and likely further work before it should be considered stable.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Update mech_loadouts.csv with derived playability, hardpoint, facing, and loadout annotations, and add mech_loadouts.md as the catch-up reference for future updates.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Battlemaster stock loadouts (Content\Mechs\Battlemaster\battlemaster.subsystems):
- Replace lone MediumPulseLaser with full IS stock: PPC (Special2, group 1),
6×ML (3 RT + 3 LT, group 1), 2×MG (LA, 200 rds, group 1), SRM6 (Special1,
15 rds, group 2).
Battlemaster Clan 2C (battlemaster2c.subsystems):
- Replace ClanMediumPulseLaser with: ER PPC (RA, group 1), 6×ER ML (3 RT + 3
LT, group 1), 2×Clan Gauss (LA, 16 rds each, group 1), Clan SSRM6 (Special1,
15 rds, group 2).
Behemoth / Behemoth2 (.subsystems):
- Move Gauss rifles from weapon group 3 → group 1 (3 occurrences each).
Resource builder (build-resources.ps1):
- Always run with -window (windowed + DDrawCompat). Fullscreen native DDraw
fails on VMs with the generic Microsoft display adapter.
- Remove dgVoodoo2 D3D interceptors (D3D8/D3D9/D3DImm.dll) from Gameleap\mw4:
they silently break the builder (process exits 0 without packing anything).
Script also defensively moves any such files aside via $dgvMoved block.
- Remove dgVoodoo.conf and dgVoodooCpl.exe (abandoned experiment, no longer used).
- Expected: 'Hardware Error: not compatible with MechWarrior 4' dialog at end
of build on VMs -- click OK, packages are built correctly regardless.
CLAUDE.md: updated with mfdsplit branch notes covering all 2026-07-18 work.
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ConLobbyMission.script:
- Expand MP time-limit dropdown from 9 to 18 entries (1-15, 20, 25, 30 min)
with max_displayed=10 so the list scrolls cleanly.
- Fix bare else-if syntax (missing braces) that caused null-reference crash
on console lobby load when this was merged from main.
- Fix i==5 vs i==6 max_displayed assignment for time vs radar dropdowns.
build-resources.ps1:
- DDrawCompat's ddraw.dll is fatal to MW4pro.exe in FULLSCREEN but works
in WINDOWED mode. Don't move it aside; instead run the builder with
-window when ddraw.dll is present. This fixes builds on VMs with generic
display adapters (no hardware DirectDraw) and avoids the EnterWindowMode
CreateSurface crash on Win10/11 without a functioning DWM shim.
- Also temporarily set options.ini bitdepth=32 when running without any
ddraw interceptor (bare-metal fallback), restored in finally block.
- Remove stale comment about ddraw being fatal; update interceptor detection
to correctly identify DDrawCompat vs dgVoodoo2 via dgVoodoo.conf presence.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: GitHub Copilot <copilot@github.com>
MySQL database export (dbexport.h / dbexport.cpp):
- New files dbexport.h / dbexport.cpp implement late-bound MySQL export.
libmysql.dll is loaded at runtime via LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress so no
MySQL SDK is required at compile time; the app runs normally if the DLL
is absent.
- After each print job, match data is exported to a MySQL server before
PrintDlg() is called: one row in 'match', one row per player in
'player_result', one row per attacker/victim pair in 'pvp'. An optional
'event' table records every individual SRecScore entry (off by default).
Tables are created automatically (CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS) on first
connect.
- Config stored in mw4print.ini (app directory), section [MySQLExport]:
Enabled, Host, Port, Database, Username, Password, ExportEvents.
- Config loaded at startup (OnCreate); DB_LoadConfig() / DB_SaveConfig().
- Connection timeout set to 5 seconds so the app does not hang if the
server is unreachable.
- libmysql.dll (MySQL Connector/C 32-bit) added to Gameleap/mw4/ so the
deploy script copies it to MW4/ alongside mw4print.exe.
Database Settings dialog (File > Database Settings... / Ctrl+D):
- MFC dialog: enable checkbox, Host/Port/Database/Username/Password fields,
Export Events checkbox, Test Connection button with live status label,
OK/Cancel. OK persists settings to mw4print.ini immediately.
Configurable banner text (File > Banner Setting...):
- The 'WWW.MECHJOCK.COM' URL string printed at the bottom of every score
sheet is now configurable. Stored as BannerText= in options.ini under
[battle tech print] (same section/file as the other print layout params).
File > Banner Setting... opens a dialog to edit it; OK saves to options.ini
and takes effect on the next print job with no restart needed.
Default value is the original MECHJOCK string if the key is absent.
korean_diff.html: side-by-side GitHub-style diff of all 171 source files
changed in the Korean->English translation commit (af416960). Shows the
original EUC-KR/CP949 Korean text on the left and the English replacement
on the right, including the UTF-8 encoding cleanup changes.
Generated from: git diff HEAD~1..HEAD (af416960) for documentation/
review purposes. Not a build input.
Root cause of the broken MFD2 display: CMFD_Device::BeginScene() cleared
the right device back buffer at old sh_step==0, but with the stagger the
right device flip also fired in that same frame (new sh_step==1 = old
sh_step==0 after increment). The flip presented a just-cleared buffer
with only the grid, no channel data.
Fix: split BeginScene for mode 4 - left device (step 0) vs right device
(step 1). Add BeginSceneRight() called from WinMain at old sh_step==1.
The right device flip at new sh_step==1 (= old sh_step==0) now shows
channels 3-4 rendered at steps 5-6 of the previous cycle - correct.
Cycle for mode 4 with stagger:
old sh_step 0: radar+left BeginScene, no flip
new sh_step 1: flip right MFD (shows prev cycle channels 3-4)
old sh_step 1: right BeginScene (clear+grid)
old sh_step 2-4: channels 0-2 -> left device
old sh_step 5-6: channels 3-4 -> right device
new sh_step 0: flip radar+left MFD (shows prev cycle channels 0-2)
Incremental Release + Profile builds (0 errors) picking up the
CRIOMAIN.CPP UpdateThrottle change; rel.bin\MW4.exe and MW4pro.exe
deployed to MW4\. Build logs in build-env\build_pr4_*.log.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removes the if(lT!=0) guard in UpdateThrottle that made an exact-zero
throttle reading keep the previous throttle value; adds a negative
clamp. Zero now falls into the deadzone branch -> ZERO_THROTTLE.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
-tbaud <rate> (9600-921600) overrides the COM1 baud rate while keeping
old-RIO (type 0) protocol behavior unchanged; independent of -trio.
SetupComm buffers 2/2 -> 1024/1024 only when the override is active.
Rebuilt Release + Profile (0 errors), deployed rel.bin\MW4.exe to MW4\.
run-firestorm driver: game-start now takes optional extra args.
CLAUDE.md: branch notes incl. the CP949 comment-encoding hazard
(mw4 sources must be edited byte-safely).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FS507D_20161015 release analysis wrap-up (drop itself is gitignored; art-review
folder kept local for review):
- Recovered the only assets our tree lacked: 13 hsh HUD/radar/mech bmps and the
two 5.07D lobby decals (decal_46/47.tga, extracted from release props.mw4 via
a ported gos_LZDecompress).
- ResourceImagePool.cpp: missing-texture placeholder is now LAB_ONLY (editor
keeps degraded mode); Release restores the original fatal STOP. Release +
Profile rebuilt, 0 errors.
Console script reconciled:
- ConLobby.script.new ("BattleTech Console V5.0.7Df", newest revision anywhere)
promoted to Content\ShellScripts\ConLobby.script; .new removed; stale loose
deploy copy removed. Verified in-game (console title shows V5.0.7Df).
- Corrected CLAUDE.md: the release never "renamed" the console to
ComputerPlayer.script -- the resource packer stores script contents under
alphabetically skewed entry names (runtime resolves the same pairing).
Packer quirks documented (stale entry carry-forward on incremental builds,
name/content skew in directory sweeps).
Mechlab bug fix (first FireStorm bug hunt):
- New-Mech dialog showed blank rows for Wolfhound/Zeus and crashed (KERNELBASE
read AV) when creating a Zeus. Root cause: newmech in chassis.script created
its Type droplist without setting $$m_listBoxSize$$, so capacity defaulted to
60 while 65 chassis were written in -- OOB script-array writes. Fixed by
sizing the list from $$m_chassisCount$$. Latent stock-MW4 bug armed when the
FireStorm roster passed 60 chassis. Verified: Zeus variant creates cleanly.
props.mw4 fully repacked (decals + promoted console + mechlab fix, junk
.new/.org entries gone); game deploy refreshed at MW4\. Gitignore: FS507D drop
and player-created MW4\Resource\Variants.
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- ADDING-A-MECH.md: full workflow for adding a 'Mech chassis (MSL ADD MECH
touch points, positional Mech IDs, scriptaddmech.xls generator, hardpoints
in .damage, rebuild/repack/deploy steps)
- ADDING-A-MAP.md: full workflow for maps (MapCreator terrain) vs missions
(MW4Ed2-authored), .nfo MP registration, user vs stock routes, pitfalls
- CLAUDE.md: reference pointers to both new docs
- README.md: annotated folder map; warning to read RECOVERY.md before cloning
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Git-for-Windows defaults core.autocrlf=true, which expanded LF->CRLF on checkout in a
test clone (69 text files differed). '* -text' makes the repo self-enforcing: no EOL
conversion on any machine. Added 'diff' overrides so source still diffs as text.
Complete disaster-recovery snapshot: engine/game source, game data assets,
VC6 toolchain + DX SDKs, build outputs, deployed game, and _UNUSED archive.
Large binaries in Git LFS; text preserved byte-for-byte (core.autocrlf=false,
no eol attributes). See RECOVERY.md for the one-clone rebuild procedure.
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