Anchoring each key string to the first store AFTER the accessor call makes the
extraction exact: 159 fields, 125 of them floats, and verify_fieldmap now checks
every one against the live objects -- 154 agree with the disc, 0 disagree.
The last ten mismatches taught the rule: angle fields are degrees on disc and
RADIANS at runtime (AV_PitchPlus_Max 3.6 -> 0.0628319; MaximumBank_Normal 60 ->
1.0472), an exact conversion across every angle field and unit.
101 defaulted fields now have runtime values: angle limits default to 3.6 degrees,
afterburner/turn-attack fields to 0, FiringRange to 0 (matching the loader's miss
value), Size_Y to that unit's Size_X, and the ratio family is per-unit rather than
constant (HQRatio 0.2 or 1, DefencePoint 0.1 or 0.25, ...).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The filler builds each key as addi r4, r30, -N with r30 = 0x82088f94, so every
store's field NAME is a string in the image. Pairing keys with the following stfs
gives the layout outright: Size_X/Y/Z at +48/52/56, HQRatio +88, ShieldRatio +92,
ThrusterRatio +96, resistances +116..132, Radar/FCS/FiringRange +672/676/680,
Attack/Defence points +692/696/700. verify_fieldmap.rs checks it against the live
dump: 62 fields agree with the disc, 0 disagree.
That yields the runtime value of each field for units whose record omits it --
HQRatio 0.2/1, ThrusterRatio 0.2/1, ShieldRatio 1, ResistanceToPlayer 1,
ResistanceToShell 0.1, ResistanceToExplosion 0.5, AttackVesselPoint 0.1,
AttackCraftPoint 0.1/0.5, DefencePoint 0.1/0.25, FiringRange 0, Size_Y = Size_X.
Recorded with the caveat that several show two values across units, so these are
per-unit runtime values rather than one global default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
pool_window.rs shows the Destroyer's raw tokens: "200.0" "Size_X" "Size_Y"
"2000.0" "Size_Z" -- Size_Y is a bare key, so the 13 runtime values recovered
earlier are real defaults, not a reader artefact.
The filler reads each size field through sub_822FC5A8, which loads f31 from
0x8209fd28 = 0.0 at entry and returns it on a pool miss, then stores to +52.
Nothing else in the 15876-byte filler writes +52, so the definition leaves a
defaulted Size_Y at 0.0 and the runtime 200 is written later.
Two corrections: the +48/+52/+56 comparison block builds a size-class bitmask
against 1000.0 (constant 0x8209fd20), not a has-value mask; and both earlier
Size_Y derivation candidates are refuted (one is a conditional pick, the other
multiplies into a different struct).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Searched RAM for HP 25000 (200+ hits, too common), for the rare float
AttackVesselPoint 0.08 (64 hits, no window holds the unit's other values, one hit
is a code constant), and for the ID string itself (two copies, each pointed at
from -0x10, but the surrounding 256 words hold none of the numbers because that
region is the IDXD string pool where values are ASCII).
Hypothesis recorded as 🟡: IDXD is reflective and the engine likely reads values
from the pool by key on demand, caching only the per-frame ones -- which is
exactly what the 0x820af844 object contains at any dump depth. If so, a defaulted
field has no value anywhere in data and the default is applied by code at read
time, so Route B for the Ratio/Count family needs the read path or the static
DuckDB route, not more scanning. The 13 Size_Y values worked because Size_Y is
one of the cached fields.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dumping 512 words instead of 96 finds exactly the same 4 of ~50 disc values, for
all five correlated units, so the rest of the record is not in this structure.
Also corrects the reason recorded last commit: get_f32 is NOT unreliable on
default-heavy records -- it resolves 46-57 numeric fields per unit, which is what
made the emptiness of the correlation measurable in the first place. The one
automated hit (YawDragFactor -> +0x0c) remains false: +0x0c holds the integer 2
as a denormal and collided with the float 2.0.
Next probe is a RAM-wide search for a unit-distinctive value, not a bigger window.
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Anchoring on a unit whose disc record sets a field locates it in the live object:
Size_X/Y/Z (+0x30/34/38) and HP (+0x54) confirmed across five capital ships and
the player fighter; +0x74 (0.8) and +0x84 (0.97) are probable ThrusterRatio and
ResistanceParalyze but rest on a single anchoring unit; +0x40 varies per unit and
is unidentified.
live_offsets.rs automates the correlation and currently produces one hit which is
false -- YawDragFactor 2.0 collided with the integer 2 at +0x0c stored as a
denormal. Causes recorded: get_f32 is unreliable on default-heavy IDXD records
because the value-before-key pairing shifts, and 96 words only reaches +0x180
while RadarRange/FCSRange sit beyond it. Next run dumps 512 words.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Live definition objects carry no name, so identity comes from the values:
unit_signatures.rs prints (HP, Size_X/Y/Z) for every disc unit and vessel, and a
live object is the record whose known fields it reproduces. 7 of 14 match a disc
record outright; the other 7 match nothing because their records default a field
-- 18 of 23 vessel records are missing at least one, nearly always Size_Y.
Matching each single-default record against the live object that reproduces its
remaining fields resolves 13 values (Destroyer 200, Cruiser 600/700, ASFrigate
80, ADAN Destroyer 300, Acropolis 400, ISCMissile 300, plus _Inv/_EX variants).
Every one equals that unit's Size_X, so the engine's own parsed definitions
confirm the statically-derived inheritance rule.
Limits stated: variants share one live object, and the ...Ratio/...Count family
is not resolved -- their offsets in the live object are still unknown.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Filtering after the assignment made every subset query a full decode (~15s on a
50MB container). full_decode_cached memoises it per container -- fingerprint is
length plus three sampled 4KB windows, keyed with min_consistency, last four kept.
Decoding five ships from Stage_S02 in turn: 10.5s for the first, then 48us-1.4ms.
A stage now costs one decode rather than one per ship. Ten suites green, viewer
builds, and a spot-checked resource still lands on the same offset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
models_named pruned to the wanted set BEFORE distinct assignment, so collision
resolution saw a different resource population and returned different offsets:
27 of 356 resources in Stage_S02 decoded differently when asked for alone,
including real geometry (f001_bdy_30, f106_sld_02_l/m/d, f101_wep_01_l). Both the
viewer and assemble_ship decode subsets, so both could disagree with the
container's own answer. This was a regression from distinct assignment itself.
Fixed by filtering the OUTPUT: the assignment always runs over the whole
container. One-name, three-name and full decodes now agree exactly. Cost: a
single-resource query on a 50MB container goes from near-instant to ~15s;
per-container caching is the follow-up. Ten suites green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Checking the vertex count of every minority decode: all 89 are 24-vertex
resources, including e101_wep_01_l, which last commit called the one real
geometry disagreement -- it is a 24-vert box too. So after this thread's fixes no
real mesh on the disc decodes differently in different containers; what remains
is structurally identical bounding boxes swapping identities, which needs an
ordering rule rather than a validity gate. Monotone anchoring was refuted before
but under a decoder with other defects, and is now cheap to judge: 89 -> 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
consensus_check names the minority container instead of just flagging
disagreement: 89 minority decodes across 477 resources with a majority, and 88
are scene composites. A composite's descriptor carries a 24-vertex bounding box
(e_rou_e106 -> 22x22x22, e_rou_f106 -> 745x718x718); those boxes look
interchangeable so the assignment shuffles per container. 1141 of 6209 decoded
resources have scene nodes. Counting only real geometry the disc has ONE
disagreement: e101_wep_01_l in Stage_S25.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Last iteration reported e303_wep_01 as inflated 30-110x by assemble_ship. Wrong:
the composite nodes carry scale 1.0 and orthonormal matrices, and under the
current decoder the turret places as 49x23x42 at +/-179. The 1600x2100x4800 box
only appears with XBG7_COVER_SLACK=4 -- the exact-coverage fix had already
repaired the turret too. The error came from comparing a deliberately pre-fix
render against post-fix measurements.
The containment screen's blindness therefore has a mundane cause: one mis-decode
inflated the envelope and hid another. Kept as a forward-looking invariant with
that caveat.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
envelope_screen measures per-axis protrusion past the sibling envelope, the
relationship the eye used. It still does not flag e106_bdy_03, and dumping the
static assembly shows why: e303_wep_01's world box is 1600x2100x4800 around a
~400x400x2000 hull, so nothing can protrude. The decode is innocent -- that
resource is 49x23x42 in every container -- so the static assembler is inflating
it 30-110x per axis, non-uniformly. The screen is only meaningful once placement
is trustworthy, and the assembler now has a worse defect than the decoder had.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rendered f101/f105/f106/e105 statically -- all coherent, no stray masses, so the
e106 slab was specific. slab_screen.rs tries to automate the check by comparing
each part's min-axis extent to its ship median, but it produces identical flags
with and without the coverage fix at both 4x and 2.5x: it never sees
e106_bdy_03, the part it was built for. The eye used relationship (a mass apart
from the hull), not scale; a containment test is the right analogue and is not
built. Kept for what it does show: f002_bdy_22's 100000-unit tether and
t901_e01_D's mast are legitimate, and capture-verified f101_bdy_01 flags at 6x.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rendering assembled e106 from Stage_S02 showed the old slab: e106_bdy_03 spanning
600x1600x998 where three other containers give 276x236x941. Its anchor had slack
3, and the coverage gate tolerated up to three unreferenced tail vertices --
tolerance that was hiding a mis-anchor, since real blocks reach their last vertex
exactly (8580 of 8629). Requiring exact coverage moves it to the block the other
containers agree on and the slab disappears.
Costs 3 resources (6212 -> 6209), inconsistency 39 -> 38, capture oracle
unchanged at 46/46, suite green. Evidence: captures/e106-cover-slack-before-after.png
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Under the winding gate, coverage is 6212/6294 (98.7%) with 82 misses left,
attributed 42 degenerate/extent, 31 winding, 9 coverage, 0 connectivity. The
biggest bucket turns out NOT to be the blocker: replacing the absolute area test
with a scale-free collinearity test decodes no more resources and raises
inconsistency 39 -> 44, and dropping the extent floor to 0.05 adds two. Both stay
as opt-in knobs (XBG7_REL_DEGEN, XBG7_MIN_EXTENT) rather than defaults. Also
fixed another stale default label in edge_cap_sweep.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The last two blocks that under-covered their vertex pool were f102_break.dat and
f104_break.dat in ptc_pack.xpr, each reading a neighbouring block's index buffer
against the wrong declaration (414 verts indexed to 404; 160 indexed to 79).
Their marker lists do not map onto the stored blocks -- only 2 of 9 and 4 of 10
sub-meshes decoded at all. Requiring coverage (max_idx + 4 >= vtx_count) for
pre-pivot sub-meshes drops exactly the mismatched pieces.
Every decoded sub-mesh disc-wide now covers its pool: 8580 at slack 0, 49 within
tolerance, none beyond, none negative. Coverage 6069/6294, inconsistency 56,
truth table 46/46 -- all unchanged. Suite green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
coverage_audit measures index coverage per decoded sub-mesh. 8586 of them
reference their last vertex exactly, so the 'buffer not covered' gate is well
founded -- but 18 had NEGATIVE slack: indices up to 364 vertices past the end of
their own buffer, emitted because anchor_grouped_meshes reads pre-pivot
sub-meshes unconditionally. Quality gates stay relaxed there (a tiny flat lead
part is legitimately poor) but index range is now required.
Coverage 6069/6294 unchanged, inconsistency 56 unchanged, truth table still 46/46
claimed, suite green; the vertex total drops by exactly the 1546 garbage verts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
undecoded.rs supplies the denominator the coverage numbers never had; the disc
holds 6294 XBG7 resources, 6069 decode, 225 are searched and missed, 0 lack a
descriptor. gate_histogram.rs attributes each miss to the furthest gate its best
candidate reached: 120 connectivity, 74 grouped-pool (different path), 15
degenerate/extent, 9 winding, 7 buffer-not-covered. Recorded as a work-list, not
a verdict -- a wrong candidate can pass more gates than the true block.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
debug_grouped_report (why_rejected) shows n206_02's alternative pool is ACCEPTED
at pad 0 under production gates and is in the candidate list -- and the decoder
does take it: n206_02 now anchors at 0x342d984. The 'still collapsed' reading
came from the audit comparing decoded geometry, and that offset holds a direct
(unmirrored) copy, so a separated pair still looked identical. The audit now
requires a SHARED BUFFER to call it a collapse: disc-wide 18 exact mirrors, 16
related, 0 collapses, 0 unrelated -- and the regression test drops its exception.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
anchor_grouped_meshes takes the same taken set; a colliding grouped model is
re-placed whole past everything claimed, or keeps what it had. Runtime oracle
unchanged (45/46 exact, 0 unclaimed), coverage unchanged (6069), cross-container
inconsistency 62 -> 56, suite green.
It does not clear the n206 twin collapse: no alternative pool validates for the
loser, so that pair is a validator case (like eng_02_l before the cap move), not
a selection one. Also fixes a stale '0.28 (default)' label in edge_cap_sweep.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
twin_mirror_audit applies the capture-derived rule to all 166 containers: of 34
equal-count twin pairs, 18 are exact X-mirrors, 15 related another way, 1
identical, 0 unrelated. Two calibration fixes were needed first (authored halves
need a tolerance, and a mirrored pair may be stored in another vertex order).
The one collapse, n206_01/_02, is a grouped-pool pair -- the path distinct
assignment excludes -- so it names the next target. Added a disc-gated
regression test; refreshed the stale ignore message on the consistency test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
locate_draw counts copies of a captured buffer. The f105 parts _rou_f105_break
claims exist 3-6 times over (the 2336-vert one: 6 direct AND 6 mirrored), and
every live LOD checked is anchored on a direct, byte-identical copy -- so the
composite taking the drawn copy costs nothing. This also calibrates the oracle:
'exact' (anchored at the drawn offset) is stricter than correct, so 45/46 is a
lower bound. Open: a resource landing on a MIRRORED copy would be a real defect
invisible to every count-based metric.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
capture_truth_scan places every drawn buffer across all 166 containers by modal
vbase-offset. Stage_S02 wins with 64 matches at one constant against Stage_S01's
16, and the logs carry f101/f105/f106/e105 -- a Stage-02 cast. Stage_S01 looked
consistent because the shared block is duplicated verbatim (twins 0x116F0 apart
in both), so the earlier structural findings hold; only the loaded-container
claim was wrong. The S02 table places 46 buffers, 12 claimed by nobody, and
resolves the six Stage_S01 mystery buffers as e105 parts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
XBG7_EDGE_CAP / XBG7_SMALL_TRIS make the threshold sweepable (defaults unchanged,
full suite green). Above 0.417 the capture-proven eng_02_l anchors exactly right
and no e106 part regresses, and nothing that decoded at 0.28 is lost -- but ~250
existing anchors move silently and 18 shared resources lose cross-container
consistency. Not changed: the movers have no oracle yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
debug_find_index_buffer scans the container for an index buffer that validates
against a capture-proven vertex buffer. For eng_02_l nothing validates with the
connectivity test on; with it off the nearest hit is exact pad-0 adjacency
(vb-ib = 144 = 72*2). The block's mean_edge/diag is 0.417 against a 0.28 cap --
the documented false positive for coarse LODs, now caught with ground truth.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
debug_try_anchor asks validate_block directly at the capture-proven offsets. Both
119-vert twin buffers are accepted by both twins (so the correct block lost the
first-match race, and a distinct assignment fixes it); the drawn 51-vert bridge
buffer is accepted by both bridge resources; eng_02_l's proven offset is rejected
outright, even with the pad widened to 64 -- a validator gap, not a selection one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
debug_vertex_run_starts exposes the anchor scan's candidate list: Stage_S01 has
15710 stride-24 starts and all three capture-proven offsets (0x3c55d8 twin,
0x40e418 bridge, 0x44a32c eng_02_l) are among them. anchor_pool_mesh takes the
first that validates, so an earlier lookalike wins. Scoped to the current
decoder's e106 cases; does not overturn the residual-51 finding.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first read of the capture-truth table located our resources by searching the
container for their leading vertices, which reads much worse than reality: the
same leading run occurs at several offsets in one container. GameMesh now carries
the offset the anchor scan actually chose, so the comparison is exact -- 4 of the
ship's drawn buffers are anchored correctly, 2 are the twin collapse, and 2 are
real mis-anchors of a size we do decode (brg 51 verts, eng_02_l 44).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Locating each drawn buffer's positions inside Stage_S01.xpr shows vbase - offset
is one constant (0x1A94FFF4, same in two runs), so a capture gives ground truth
at file-offset granularity. Read against our anchor scan it is a defect list:
full/_m resources starting at their own _l buffer, eight drawn buffers claimed by
nobody, and the bdy_01_l/bdy_02_l twins sharing one buffer while the container
carries both halves (0x3b3ee8 and its exact X-mirror at 0x3c55d8).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
texture_disc.rs and mesh_disc.rs fall back to "/home/fabi/RE Project Sylpheed/..."
when SYLPHEED_ISO / SYLPHEED_RES3D are unset. The directory is "RE - Project
Sylpheed"; the fallbacks were missing the " - ", so stage_models_decode,
stage_models_sweep and stage_models_quality_audit failed with NotFound for anyone
who did not happen to know the env var. They now pass unaided (10/10 in
mesh_disc).
Found while auditing what the suite actually exercises after withdrawing the
anchor change: an ISO-gated test skipping, and an ignored test failing on a typo,
are both "green" in a normal run.
Full state, with SYLPHEED_ISO/DISC/RES3D set and --include-ignored: 82 lib tests
and every disc/ISO suite pass; the single failure is
shared_resources_decode_identically_in_every_container, which is deliberately
written as the target state and #[ignore]d.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dumping the remaining Arsenal components turned up placements reading as
4294966780 and 4294966856 -- negative as i32 (-516, -440). X and Y are signed;
off-screen animation starts are negative, and read as unsigned a reimplementation
would draw them four billion pixels off.
The raw region then showed the rest of it. The trailing word is a TIME, and a
group is an in -> hold -> out animation: prselect_win1 runs
t=4:-516 -> 6:-71 -> 7:81 -> 8:127 -> 23:134 -> 24:134 -> 25:127 -> 27:81 ->
31:-71 -> 1:-516. So NEITHER the first nor the last keyframe is where the element
sits -- both are off-screen. The resting position is the max-dwell keyframe,
(127,155)..(134,155) here, which is where the weapon-list panel actually appears.
This corrects my own note from earlier today, which reported "final=" positions.
Static elements were unaffected (the pause menu's buttons have identical
keyframes) but animated ones were misread. screen_layout.rs now reports the
max-dwell pose plus the full timeline, and both captures are regenerated.
Also seen while dumping: kind 0x2, and a .sbo child (scrollbar) parented to the
list window.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
examples/screen_layout.rs dumps a bundle's declaration table and placement region
together. It reproduces the tutorial pause menu exactly and reads the ARSENAL the
same way -- 23 elements that match the running game: eight buttons prbtn1..8.rat
at X=242 evenly spaced (the config declares WEAPON_CATEGORIES = 8, and eight
categories are what the Arsenal shows), prexp3.t32 declared SEVEN times at X=726
34px apart (the DATA SHEET rows), prexp1 sliding (726,143)->(1286,143) with
prexp1a parented to it, and prmsg at (151,645).
Two additions to the format:
kind = 0x4 marks a REPEATED INSTANCE of a sprite -- prexp3.t32 appears once
with 0x0 then six times with 0x4, each with its own placement. So the element
name is not a key; the declaration index is.
A screen composes from named .prt components. GP_HANGAR_ARSENAL.pak has 510
RATC entries because its config names components (Menu = prmain_scr.prt, etc.)
and they resolve under the config's own PATH prefix: prmain_scr.prt is absent,
eng\prmain_scr.prt is present -- the same <lang>+<member> convention the movie
table uses. A sub-component reads identically: psselect_win1 declares 4
elements, three parented to element 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tier 3 matched a part to its hardpoint by trailing index, so `e105_brg`
compared "01" == "" against GN_Bridge_01 and fell through silently. The runtime
capture is what exposed it: the game draws the bridge and places it at
[0, 70, -1850] rel e105_bdy_01, and assemble_ship emitted nothing there.
With no index to match on, take the lowest-numbered frame of the category.
Diffing assemble_ship part counts across every container: 34 (stage, ship)
entries gain parts — e102 +2 (bridge and engine), e104 +1, e105 +1, Stages
02-29. ship_audit is unchanged, so nothing regressed, and the capture now agrees
to dT 0.03 / dR 0.000.
Also fixes the diff itself: correlate_frames compared static against a rotation
sampled from the first block, which can belong to another INSTANCE of the class.
Scoped to the position-agreeing cluster, e105_eng_01 goes 1.711 -> 0.000 and
both e106 nacelles to 0.000. The one remaining rotation delta (e106_wep_02_01,
0.134) is a turret whose rotation varies by 0.182 between blocks that agree on
its position — the runtime disagrees with itself more than with the assembler.
The new rotVar column makes that distinction visible.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A capture at controlled range (ship_capture_close.sh: lock a capital ship, close
on it, F10 per range band) finally draws capital-ship hulls at full detail. Two
correctness fixes were needed before the numbers meant anything:
* one F10 log is ~14 frames with no delimiter, and WV_ref^-1 . WV_p only cancels
the camera within one frame — segment_frames splits on vertex-buffer
recurrence, and correlate_frames cross-checks the blocks against each other
instead of trusting a single shot;
* aggregate by consensus, not median: a stage holds several ships of one class
sharing vertex buffers, so a block can mix two instances.
Result: f105, e105 and e106 reproduce assemble_ship to <=0.43 units in
translation and 0.000 in rotation for every part that does not move. The e106
rules generalise, and the viewer bug report now points at the viewer. Narrow
leftovers: e105_brg is missing from assemble_ship, e105_eng_01 rotation differs
by 1.711.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Inverting the capture↔part question (invert_capture over one container,
vcount_index over all 166) identifies every large draw in the 2026-07-31
capture: the player's own DeltaSaber (10891 verts), its weapon packs, the
backdrop and particles. Of f101/e105/e106 only 1-3 of 15-37 resources have a
drawn vcount, each a 44-225-vertex far-LOD/effect piece whose count collides
with dozens of unrelated resources.
So the zero-correlation was not an LOD-list gap, not over-strict position
validation and not a different draw path: the ships were too far away to be
drawn. approach_capture.py flies at a locked capital ship and presses F10 per
range band, stamping each capture with its distance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
idxd_tokens took the sub-record type list as an argument already but still
hard-filtered entries to those declaring a `Weapon_*` id, so it could not be
pointed at another schema. Filter on the requested type names instead -- it now
splits `EnumUnit` (Generic/Maneuver/Shield/Explosion/Frame/Turret/...) too.
gmem: honour $GMEM_FILE. `cp --sparse=always /dev/shm/xenia_memory_* snap.bin`
takes ~2 s and reads identically, which matters because a running Canary pegs
every core under lavapipe and makes repeated live reads stall unpredictably.
Groundwork for the craft (UNIT) stats. Not a finding yet: in menus only the
player craft's *name* is resident -- the flight-model object is not instantiated
until a mission loads, so that needs an in-mission snapshot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Canary backs the whole guest address space with one shared-memory file, so the
game's RAM is readable from the host while it runs -- no debugger, no emulator
patch. That turns the parked Route-B question (fields the IDXD omits because
they sit at their default) from "unreachable" into a table lookup.
gmem.py maps guest VAs into /dev/shm/xenia_memory_* via Xenia's fixed table and
searches only the allocated extents, so a full-RAM scan is ~0.2 s.
weapon_runtime.py finds the parsed objects by scanning for their vtable, then
*solves* the struct layout instead of guessing it: every (field, offset,
encoding) triple is scored against the disc records, and a binding is accepted
only with zero contradictions -- and marked confirmed only when >=10 records
agree on >=3 distinct values, because a field whose samples are all one number
matches any offset holding that constant.
Result: Weapon (0xc0) and Shell (0x200) mapped, 4393 values the disc does not
carry, for all 126 weapons at 5 % save progress. Cross-checks hold -- the
Arsenal DATA SHEET read 4 for wep_05/wep_60 Max. Lock Ons and the memory read
agrees; the in-flight HUD's 06000/00300 match LoadingCount; all 252 objects are
byte-identical across a screen change, so this is definition data, not state.
Two findings fell out: `IsCharging = Yes` switches LoadingCount and
TriggerShotCount to float32 (it partitions the 8 float-encoded records exactly),
and two .tbl entries declare Shell_TCAF_Ship_AAGun with conflicting Power -- the
runtime keeps the one that omits it.
Where the defaulted values *come from* (the IDXD's undecoded binary node region
vs code defaults) is not settled here; they vary per weapon, so they are not one
constructor constant.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each UI sprite <name>.t32 ships with a <name>.rat companion, and that companion
is the layout record: big-endian u32, a 1280x720 design space at 0x18, and a
placement block of scaleX/scaleY/tint/X/Y. Animated elements repeat the block
with a trailing time field (keyframes); an 'opt ' tag carries a length-prefixed
link to the focused-state record.
Verified in that order, records first: across the four pause buttons exactly one
field varies, stepping 268/338/408/478 at a constant 70px pitch with X fixed at
226; the three items visible in a screenshot of the running game measure
346.0/415.5/485.5, mapping onto those numbers under one constant offset to
within 0.5px. The tutorial build's records are outright framebuffer coordinates,
and compositing its sprites there reproduces the screenshot pixel-accurately.
Also records two mistakes the A/B caught, since a static-only reading would have
shipped both: texture width does not identify a language (Japanese fits English
widths), and the in-mission and tutorial pause menus are separate sprite sets
rather than one set re-packed into slots.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drove the retail game headless (Canary + lavapipe, vgamepad) to the Ready Room
Arsenal and read the Gallery-Mode DATA SHEET for every weapon the 5%-progress
save reveals.
Two UI->field mappings are CONFIRMED against weapons whose values ARE on disc:
Ammo Capacity == LoadingCount (9/9 exact matches)
Max. Lock Ons == TriggerShotCount (FALCON 9AM 12 == wep_02; BUZZARD 22 == wep_04)
That makes the panel an oracle for fields the disc leaves defaulted, and it is
shown for undeveloped weapons too, so no points need spending. Recovered
TriggerShotCount for wep_05 and wep_60 (both 4, on-disc absent), and bracketed
the defaulted Power / MaximumRange via the Range/Damage letter classes.
Ruled out first: the defaults are not in hidden/DefTables.pak (no WEAPON-schema
objects there) nor in the localized GP_MAIN_GAME_* duplicates.
Also adds the two analysis examples that produce the shopping list of defaulted
fields, the screenshot harness used to drive the menus, and the evidence PNGs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
capture_verify example: clusters every part's ship-relative transform across
the new multi-snapshot, multi-instance F10 captures (5 snapshots, 43 e106
instances, all angles). Verdict: the dominant clusters match the static
assembly to ~1 unit on EVERY part — including BOTH engine nacelles at
(+-131, -133, -131) — so the "engines inside the hull" appearance is the
game's own placement: the engine geometry sits recessed in the aft hull, and
the visible "thrusters" in-game are exhaust FX drawn at the GN_Jet/GN_SJet
frames (Z ~ -570, past the stern).
To close that perception gap the viewer now draws simple exhaust cones at the
game's own jet frames (ship::exhaust_frames; part of the external-parts
toggle). The jet frames flip Z, so the cone apex is authored at +Z and lands
trailing aft — verified in the offline render.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes the two things the user saw in the Ships browser:
- "Can't find the thrusters": show_external defaulted OFF, hiding the engine
rig / bridge / turrets entirely. Externals are EXACT since the node-TRS fix,
so the toggle now defaults ON (relabelled; off = bare hull bodies).
- "Some parts very far away": families without a composite scene graph (fighter
morph sets like f002 whose detached parts are authored far from the origin,
shared turret/prop part families) fell into the stack-at-origin fallback and
rendered as piles with stray pieces. ShipModel now carries has_composite and
the catalog lists only real assembled ships.
Offline audit across ALL stages (ship_audit example): the only far-away
outliers were composite-less f002 morph parts (now filtered); every capital
ship assembles coherently (e108 places its 7 turret instances, f105 its
mirrored shield generators). All primary composites are single-key tracks —
multikey exists only in animation composites (e901 attacks, missile-open),
which assemble_ship does not select.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The runtime capture served its true purpose: as the answer key that exposed the
static encoding. The XBG7 node joint table (node+0x44) holds NINE keyframe
channels [TX TY TZ RY RX RZ SX SY SZ] behind EIGHT pointer slots shifted one
track forward: channel k+1 = f64@(ptr[k]+8), and channel 0 -- TX, which no
pointer names -- sits at ptr[0]-0x48 (tracks are 0x50-byte records, value at
+8). The old 8-slot read took TY as X, RY as Y (usually 0 -- why both hulls
stacked on the centreline) and never saw TX at all (the +-264 hull offsets).
Euler order is Ry(ch3)*Rx(ch4)*Rz(ch5) with angles applied directly, pinned by
the captured engine nacelle Rx(-15)*Rz(30) decomposition. mesh.rs gains
read_trs9/node_rotation; scene_world_nodes and node_transforms both fixed
(saber fin overrides unaffected).
assemble_ship rewritten fully static and exact:
- every composite-node instance placed (alias duplicates collapsed, real
instances kept) including cross-id turret mounts (rou_e303_wep_01_root x2)
- the e_rou_<id>_eng cluster rig mounts at GN_Engine_01 (two mirrored nacelles
+-131 with -+30-degree cant + centre engine) -- world = frame o rig_local
- brg/sld at their exact GN frames (frames were always exact)
- shared-geometry twin pairs at +-TX: X-reflect the instance whose offset
opposes the geometry's dominant side (viewer reverses winding on det<0)
- squeezed node names resolve (wep02 -> wep_02_01)
Ground-truth gate: ship::tests::static_assembly_matches_runtime_capture asserts
static == the baked e106 capture for all 8 parts (T<1.0, R<0.02) plus both
nacelles, both turrets, and the starboard-hull mirror. Viewer now uses pure
static assembly; ship_capture + the baked table remain as the verification
oracle. Renders show a coherent, bilaterally-symmetric destroyer.
81 formats-lib + all disc tests green; viewer builds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ship_render example: assemble a ship from the baked capture table (or --static)
and write orthographic top/side PPM renders + per-part world bounds — the
offline eye for placement bugs.
Findings recorded (docs to follow with the fix):
- e106 baked eng_01 is CROSS-INSTANCE contamination: the F10 capture de-dups by
vertex-buffer address alone, so for a part drawn by several fleet ships only
the FIRST instance's transform survives; eng_01's 30-degree rotation and
below-hull position belong to a different destroyer. Fleet formation made it
reproduce across captures, defeating the cross-validation.
- The static composite DOES carry the exact placement: BE-f64 +-264.0 (the
lateral hull pair offset the static assembler loses) and -164.044 (the bridge
Z we captured as -164.037) sit in e_rou_e106's node joint tables. The static
decode is incomplete, not the data — full static assembly is achievable, with
captures demoted to a verification oracle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The second F10 capture (ship at _m LOD distance) closes e106 entirely: all 8
parts placed including the bridge both earlier captures missed, cross-validating
the doc's 7 known translations to 0.1 units and adding brg_01 at the exact
centreline (0, 153.3, -164.0).
Matching hardened by what the real capture taught us:
- LOD-aware: each part tries every variant vcount (base/_m/_l/_d) — a distant
ship draws its LOD copies, same local frame.
- Position-validated, SET-based, against the UNION of a part's variants: buffer
order != decode order, and one draw's vcount equalled the _m count while its
buffer held the FULL 1633-vert geometry. A coincidental vcount (foreign
51-vert mesh vs the bridge) is rejected by geometry.
- Runtime mirror handled: twins share one file geometry; the engine uploads the
starboard copy X-reflected. Mirror-validated draws bake diag(-1,1,1) and the
viewer reverses triangle winding for det<0 so front faces stay outward.
- Near-axis rotation entries snapped to exact 0/+-1 for a clean table; eng_01
keeps its genuine 30-degree nacelle rotation.
data/ship_placements.txt now ships e106 (viewer renders via the captured table);
embedded_e106_is_complete locks the baked data. part_pos + capture_match helper
examples added. 10 ship_capture tests; 80 formats-lib tests green; viewer builds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The correlator now accepts BOTH capture formats: the F10 ship-capture snapshot
and the draw-logger format (mission_draws.log / xenia_re_draws.log) via
parse_drawlog — group the ship shader's draws by vertex-buffer base, vcount =
size_words/stride_words, keep the first c0..c2 WVP. So a capital ship seen in a
normal instrumented run bakes without a dedicated F10 pass. correlate_capture
auto-detects the format. Shared normalize_wvp between both parsers.
Also add examples/ship_dump.rs (offline static-placement inspector) and record
the measured static-assembler gaps for e106 in the doc: bdy_01/bdy_02 overlap
(runtime port/starboard mirror at X=+-264), eng_02 and wep_02_01 never placed.
These confirm exact placement is runtime-only — nothing more to squeeze
statically; the capture-driven table is the only path. The draw logs present on
this box are the player fighter, so no capital-ship table can be baked offline.
7 ship_capture tests (adds draw-log parse + correlate); 77 formats-lib green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Promote the F10 ship-capture correlator from an example into a reusable, unit-
tested library module (ship_capture): parse_capture (log -> per-draw rigid
WorldView from the c0..c2 WVP constants), correlate (match parts to draws by
vertex count, express each in the reference part's frame), and a checked-in
placement-table format (serialize_table/parse_table, embedded via
embedded_placement from data/ship_placements.txt).
build_ship_model now prefers a ship's captured placement over the static
assemble_ship when a table entry exists (empty table -> unchanged fallback).
correlate_capture example refactored onto the module + gains --emit to print a
table block. Doc updated: bake plumbing done; remaining is running real F10
captures to populate the table (needs the emulator).
5 new ship_capture tests (parse/normalize/correlate/table round-trip); 76
formats-lib tests + viewer build green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Static external-part placement (ship::assemble_ship) is only approximate — a GN_*
frame is the mount pivot, and the real offset lives in a runtime detail rig. So
capture ground truth from Canary instead.
Finding: the guest vertex buffer holds LOCAL coords (byte-identical to the .xpr),
so capital-ship parts are placed entirely in the vertex shader. The per-part
transform is in the VS float constants — c0..c2 are the WorldViewProjection rows;
normalising each by its norm (= projection x/y/z scales, sy/sx = 16:9) yields the
rigid WorldView (rows orthonormal, det +1). Expressing every part relative to a
reference part cancels the camera: rel_p = WV_ref⁻¹·WV_p, a pure ship-space rigid
transform.
- examples/correlate_capture.rs: parse xenia_ship_capture.log, decode the ship's
parts, match by vertex count, recover each part's ship-relative placement.
- docs/re/ship-placement-runtime-capture.md: full method + the capture protocol
(Canary branch capture-ship-placement, F10 hotkey) + validated e106 result.
Validated on e106 (ADAN Destroyer, Stage_S01): all 7 drawn parts matched by
vertex count; bdy_01/bdy_02 recovered as a PORT/STARBOARD pair (X = ∓264) that
static had overlapping; engines correctly aft; extent 872×670×2181. Only brg_01
(bridge) missing — culled at that camera angle, needs a bridge-facing capture.
HANDOFF: next = re-capture bridge, bake a per-ship placement table the viewer
prefers over assemble_ship, then capture the cruiser / ACROPOLIS / TCAF ships.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Decode the player weapon arsenal from the UNITS tables
(GP_HANGAR_ARSENAL.pak): the selectable weapons per Delta Saber
hardpoint. Each `STANDARD_<hp>` header (Nose / Arm1-3) lists its options
up to the next header — extracted by shape, unioned + deduped across
configs.
The arsenal reads with the game's own names: NOSE guns (Stiletto,
Rapier, Broad Sword, Machine Cannon), ARM missiles/bombs (Falcon, Eagle,
White Shark, Piranha, Tomahawk Rail Gun, Maelstrom Bomb). Example
`arsenal` prints them. +1 test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Decode the UNITS/ZUNITS player-unit tables (GP_HANGAR_ARSENAL.pak) into
flight assignments: which pilot flies each callsign (Rhino1→Katana,
Bird1→Sandra, …), plus the player craft. Assignments are `Callsign<N>-
Pilot` tokens, extracted by shape.
138 configs; the distinct line-ups trace the campaign's story — Raymond
leads Rhino flight early (Rhino1=Raymond, Rhino2=Katana), then Katana
takes the lead (Rhino1=Katana, Rhino2=Ellen, Rhino3=Gene, Rhino4=Yoji).
Example `flights` prints the line-ups. +1 test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>