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Sylpheed/tools/re-capture/flight_probe.py
Sylpheed RE agent 1ddb699d12 tools+docs: the pitch stick sign was inverted - the pilot fires now
Measured, not argued: command a 45-degree-off-the-nose error and watch whether it
shrinks, both axes, both sides, two pulse widths, with the opposite sign as a
control. Yaw's sign is correct (45 -> 11.3/32.7 at 0.6 s, 41.6/33.8 at 1.2 s).
Pitch's is inverted - the pilot's own sign GREW the error every time
(48.3/55.6/70.7/91.7) and the opposite shrank it every time (30.7/41.5/15.7/9.6).

A method artefact is recorded because it gave the opposite answer first: a 3 s
full-deflection pulse overshoots a 45-degree error so far that BOTH signs look
wrong (45 -> 164 and 45 -> 178). A long pulse cannot answer a sign question.

Verified against the game rather than by inspection. Before: fire=1 in 0 of 13521
samples, |aim yaw| pinned at 90.0, target 36-43 km away. After: 43 of 1732, aim
down to 2.3 degrees, range median 6.3 km, and the HUD's own ammunition counters
moving - NOSE BM 06000 -> 05723, MAIN MPM 00300 -> 00298.

Also fixed a leftover of the same FIFO era: pilot.py called pad.f.write("tap A
90") for the target-select double tap, which raised AttributeError once Pad
stopped having an `f`. Pad gained tap()/dpad(); ctrl_probe.py and target_probe.py
still use pad.f and now say so in place.

Still open: YOU KILLED is 0000 after 250 s of firing and REMAINING OB is still
012. The craft shoots, closes and selects; whether it destroys anything is next.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PMRJjbxLqZtsb5Vb7KunPE
2026-08-23 22:39:33 +00:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Drive a scripted input sequence in flight while sampling guest RAM, so the
player craft's live transform can be *derived* rather than guessed.
The point is correlation: each sample is tagged with the stick/trigger state
that produced it, so afterwards we can ask "which floats move only while the
yaw axis is deflected?" and "which triple integrates to the velocity?".
Writes a .npz-ish flat binary: a header of (va, offset, name) per instance,
then per frame a timestamp, the input vector, and every instance's raw window.
Usage: flight_probe.py <out.bin> [seconds]
"""
import os
import struct
import sys
import time
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
import gworld # noqa: E402
# (the old vgamepad FIFO constant is gone with the server it named)
class Pad:
"""Drive Canary's `--hid=file` pad by rewriting its state file.
🔴 REWRITTEN 2026-08-23, and this is the whole reason `pilot.py` never fired.
This class used to write lines to `/tmp/sylph-vgamepad.fifo`, "the vgamepad
server's FIFO". That server does not exist any more — the uinput pad was
replaced by the `--hid=file` driver, because a uinput device is not
namespaced and every scripted press leaked to the HOST's desktop. The FIFO is
now an ordinary 91-byte file that **nothing reads**, so every axis, trigger
and button this class emitted went nowhere, silently, and the craft flew on
its own for the whole of every "autopilot" run.
The corpus already carries this exact trap for the MENU path
(`canary-scripted-input-traps.md`: "pad.py, NOT vgamepad … every call here
failed silently"). The shell scripts were fixed then; this class was not, and
every flight tool imports it — `pilot.py`, `autopilot3.py`, `aim_probe.py`,
`flight_probe.py` itself.
Measured symptom, on a run confirmed to be animating throughout: full left
and full right stick for four seconds each, and the ship's **velocity
direction did not move by 0.01°** — heading change 0.00° in every phase while
it travelled 350735 units. With this rewrite the same probe is what checks
the fix.
Format is the driver's own (`file_input_driver.h`): `key=value` pairs, with
`press=A,START`, `lt`/`rt` 0..255 and `lx`/`ly`/`rx`/`ry` -32768..32767.
Written through a temp file and renamed, so a poll can never see a partial
state; the driver re-parses on any nanosecond-mtime or size change.
"""
PATH = os.environ.get("XENIA_PAD_FILE", "/tmp/xenia_pad.txt")
def __init__(self):
self.state = {"LX": 0.0, "LY": 0.0, "RX": 0.0, "RY": 0.0,
"LT": 0.0, "RT": 0.0}
self.buttons = set()
self._write()
def _write(self):
parts = []
if self.buttons:
parts.append("press=" + ",".join(sorted(self.buttons)))
for k, key in (("LT", "lt"), ("RT", "rt")):
v = int(round(max(0.0, min(1.0, self.state[k])) * 255))
if v:
parts.append(f"{key}={v}")
for k, key in (("LX", "lx"), ("LY", "ly"), ("RX", "rx"), ("RY", "ry")):
v = int(round(max(-1.0, min(1.0, self.state[k])) * 32767))
if v:
parts.append(f"{key}={v}")
tmp = self.PATH + ".tmp"
with open(tmp, "w") as f:
f.write(" ".join(parts))
os.replace(tmp, self.PATH)
def axis(self, name, v):
self.state[name] = v
self._write()
def trig(self, name, v):
self.state[name] = v
self._write()
def press(self, b):
self.buttons.add(b.upper())
self._write()
def release(self, b):
self.buttons.discard(b.upper())
self._write()
def reset(self):
for k in self.state:
self.state[k] = 0.0
self.buttons.clear()
self._write()
def tap(self, b, secs=0.09):
"""Press and release, blocking for `secs`.
The old FIFO server slept on the *server* side, so callers wrote
`tap A 90` and carried on; `pilot.py` still did that through `pad.f`,
which this class no longer has. Here the caller pays the 90 ms. That is
acceptable only because the one caller — the double-tap that selects a
target — is rate-limited; do not put this in a per-tick path.
"""
self.press(b)
time.sleep(secs)
self.release(b)
def dpad(self, direction, secs=0.06):
"""One d-pad step; `center` releases all four."""
for d in ("UP", "DOWN", "LEFT", "RIGHT"):
self.buttons.discard(d)
if direction.lower() == "center":
self._write()
return
self.tap(direction.upper(), secs)
def vector(self):
return [self.state[k] for k in ("LX", "LY", "RX", "RY", "LT", "RT")]
# (duration_s, description, action)
SCRIPT = [
(3.0, "idle", lambda p: p.reset()),
(4.0, "pitch-up", lambda p: p.axis("LY", -0.9)),
(2.0, "idle2", lambda p: p.reset()),
(4.0, "yaw-right", lambda p: p.axis("LX", 0.9)),
(2.0, "idle3", lambda p: p.reset()),
(4.0, "yaw-left", lambda p: p.axis("LX", -0.9)),
(2.0, "idle4", lambda p: p.reset()),
(5.0, "boost", lambda p: p.trig("RT", 1.0)),
(3.0, "idle5", lambda p: p.reset()),
]
def main():
out = sys.argv[1]
w = gworld.World()
inst = w.refresh()
print(f"# {len(inst)} instances", flush=True)
if not inst:
sys.exit("no instances — not in a mission?")
pad = Pad()
hz = 10.0
with open(out, "wb") as f:
f.write(b"SYLPHPRB")
f.write(struct.pack("<III", len(inst), gworld.WINDOW, 6))
for va, off, nm in inst:
f.write(struct.pack("<IQ", va, off) + nm.encode()[:63].ljust(64, b"\0"))
t_start = time.time()
for dur, label, act in SCRIPT:
act(pad)
print(f"# {label} ({dur}s)", flush=True)
n = int(dur * hz)
for _ in range(n):
t = time.time()
f.write(struct.pack("<d", t - t_start))
f.write(struct.pack("<6f", *pad.vector()))
f.write(struct.pack("<32s", label.encode()[:32]))
for va, off, nm in inst:
f.write(w.read_off(off, gworld.WINDOW).ljust(gworld.WINDOW, b"\0"))
time.sleep(max(0, 1.0 / hz - (time.time() - t)))
pad.reset()
print(f"# wrote {out} ({os.path.getsize(out)/1e6:.1f} MB)", flush=True)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()