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>
Two changes after user feedback that externals sit near-but-wrong (shield inset
into the hull, thruster floating close):
- Scale: the joint table's slots 5–7 are per-axis scale (a GN_ShieldG frame ships
at 0.5, GN_Jet FX at 2.4–6.5) and were being ignored, rendering scaled parts at
the wrong size. ScenePart now carries `s` and applies R·(S·v)+T.
- External placement is fundamentally approximate: a GN_* frame is the mount
PIVOT (f105's two GN_ShieldG frames are both on the centreline), while the
part's outboard/rotational offset lives in a detail sub-rig / runtime code this
static pass can't recover. So assemble_ship gains `include_external`: the hull
tier (rou_ nodes) is exact and always drawn; the external tier (bridge / shield
/ engine at GN_ frames) is opt-in via a "Show external parts" checkbox in the
Ships browser, off by default so the clean, correct hull is the default view.
The module doc is corrected to the scene-graph mechanism (the old "draw parts
untransformed" claim was wrong).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first cut drew every part at the origin, overlapping into a mess — the parts'
vertex buffers are authored around the origin, NOT pre-placed. The real world
placement lives in the composite scene-graph resource `e_rou_<id>`, exactly like
node_transforms poses the DeltaSaber's fins within one resource — but here the
nodes reference SEPARATE geometry resources.
Two tiers, matching how the game splits a ship (as the user described):
- Hull — `rou_<id>_*` scene nodes name the hull body resources and carry their
world transform (bodies that together form the hull, not individually
destructible). Composed parent∘child down the first-child/next-sibling tree.
- External hardpoints — `GN_*` frame nodes are the Vessel mounts (`GN_Bridge_01`,
`GN_ShieldG_01`, `GN_Engine_01`, matching the IDXD recipe Frame names). Each
bridge / shield-generator / engine part is placed at its frame by category+idx —
the individually-destructible parts.
- mesh: `scene_world_nodes` — walk a composite, emit every `rou_`/`GN_` node with
its composed world transform (same record layout + TRS convention as
node_transforms, cross-resource). ScenePart{resource,m,t}+apply.
- ship: `assemble_ship(bytes, id)` — resolve hull nodes to the ship's own parts
(shared cross-id turrets excluded — they need the per-mount recipe), match
external parts to GN frames, fall back to a raw draw when a prop has no
composite. is_base_part now also drops `_dNN`/`_lNN`/`_mNN` LOD copies.
- viewer: build_ship_model runs assemble_ship, decodes only referenced resources,
bakes each part's world pose into its vertices (one posed copy per placement),
then assembles via the shared prepare path. RequestShipRender carries the id.
Verified headless: parts now spread into coherent single-ship extents
(e108 185×174×683, f106 703×479×2079, f101 carrier 560×539×1712) instead of
piling at the origin. Turret placement (shared eNNN gun models on many GN_*Gun*
frames) still pending the per-mount recipe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Project Sylpheed never stores a capital ship as a single mesh. Each ship is
modelled, then split into destructible parts (hull segments, bridge, engines,
integral turrets), each shipped as its own XBG7 resource inside a
hidden/resource3d/Stage_SNN.xpr container. The split lets the game hide/replace
a part when the player destroys it. Crucially each part keeps its ship-local
position, so reconstructing the whole ship is: draw every base part of one id
together, untransformed.
New `ship` module: Faction (from the e/f/n id prefix — ADAN/TCAF/Neutral),
ShipModel, ship_id_of, is_base_part (skips _l/_m/_d LODs, _bNN/_dead/_break
destruction geometry, e_rou_ scene nodes), and ships_in_container to group a
stage's resources into whole ships.
Supporting:
- mesh::xbg7_resource_names — list a container's XBG7 resource names (directory
walk only, no geometry decode).
- Xbg7Model::models_named — decode only the named resources (assemble a ship
from its ~8 parts instead of the whole ~300-resource stage).
- game_data::Vessel gains `model` (the rou_<id> hull stem) to link stats to the
3D part family.
Tests: id/part classification + a disc-gated reconstruction of the ADAN e108
frigate from Stage_S02.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The movie cutscene subtitle + voice pipeline, driven by the ADVERTISE_MOVIE
manifest (the authoritative movie -> subtitle -> voice index). Also flushes
several sessions of local WIP (async viewer loading, grouped-pool XBG7/hero-ship
decode, drawlog tooling). See docs/HANDOFF-movie-voice-subtitles-2026-07-19.md.
Subtitles (movie_subtitle.rs):
- Full movie->track->text chain; join multi-line captions sharing one timing
(fixes S13A dropped "Look at it father" line); overlap-safe active_cues();
Latin-1 accents preserved.
Voice (slb.rs): XACT .slb -> XMA1 RIFF; take the FIRST sub-wave bounded by its
declared data size (fixes S10-S16 alternate-take garble); list_voice_clips.
Manifest (movie_manifest.rs): parse ADVERTISE_MOVIE (0x5B983A08) for the real
movie->voice binding (not always VOICE_<movie>; e.g. hokyu -> VOICE_D_* in etc\).
Resolve the token's sound.pak path via sounds.tbl. DIRECT bindings only — the
demo-id shared-clip fallback for unbound hokyu movies was verified WRONG in-game
and reverted (unbound hokyu stay unvoiced; correct join key is an OPEN problem).
Viewer: manifest-driven voice (movie player toggle + solo button), standalone
"Voice Lines" browser, stacked caption overlay.
Tests: 46 formats-lib + 11 viewer-lib + movie_manifest/movie_subtitle/slb disc
tests; full workspace green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Revert the mis-guided "triangle STRIP" reading (a937779): XBG7 index
buffers are triangle LISTS (prim=4 in the GPU capture; stored-normal
agreement 1.000 as a list vs ~0.49 as a strip). Reinstate the
winding-consistency gate.
Crack the grouped-pool layout used by the hero ship and ~150 detailed
models. A resource's sub-meshes share one index pool (buffers 4-byte
aligned, in descriptor-marker order) followed by one vertex pool (each
vtx_count*stride, same order); the vertex pool is 4-byte aligned after
the index pool. The whole resource is derived from one anchored pivot:
ib0 = vb0 - span - pad (pad in 0..=3, alignment)
ib[i] = align4(ib[i-1] + idx_count[i-1]*2)
vb[i] = vb[i-1] + vtx_count[i-1]*stride
vb0 is found via the unit-normal vertex-run scan; the alignment is
confirmed by validating the LARGEST sub-mesh (most reliable), after
which the rest are read/validated. A single marker reduces this to the
existing adjacency anchor, so grouped generalises it.
Results (cross-checked against a Canary GPU draw-log capture of
DeltaSaber_T.xpr):
- DeltaSaber_T f001 = body + 7 detail parts = 8650 tris, every sub-mesh
0-degenerate / full-coverage / winding-agreement 1.000.
- All 19 previously-declined weapon models now decode (they hit pad 2
and/or lead with a tiny bracket that broke a markers[0] pivot). Corpus
audit: 0/146 geometry files fail (was 19 -> flat-texture in the viewer).
- Stages unchanged (single-marker path is byte-identical; grouped falls
back to the old anchor on failure). 7/7 disc tests green incl. the
strict stage quality audit; new hero_ship_grouped_pool_decodes test.
Viewer: route by count_xbg7; --only matches an exact model name (so the
neutral pose renders without the mnv*/turn180 animation poses). Fix the
albedo matcher: match a sub-model to its _col map by entity stem
(e007_bdy_01 -> e007_col) instead of a full-name prefix, lifting stage
sub-model texturing from ~25% to ~95% (the rest were flat grey). Colour
correctness (channel order/sRGB) remains a separate dynamic-RE item.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The weapon/prop models (rou_fxxx_wep_nn.xpr) rendered with triangular holes in
the hull and misplaced/extra spikes. Root cause: XBG7 sub-mesh index buffers are
triangle STRIPS, but the decoder read them as triangle LISTS — a strip of N
indices is N-2 triangles, a list is only N/3, so ~2/3 of every hull was missing
(the holes) and each list-triple of strip data spanned unrelated vertices (the
spikes). The tell: triangles-per-vertex was 0.5-1.0 with 0 unreferenced vertices
(a closed surface needs ~2.0).
- mesh.rs: expand_triangle_strip() converts strip -> list with alternating
winding, skipping degenerate triangles (repeated index = strip restart).
Applied in both from_xpr2 (weapons) and read_pool_mesh (stage sub-models).
All 71 weapon submeshes now have healthy ratios; hulls fill in (wep_03 cannon,
wep_04 pod, wep_11, wep_37 verified coherent).
- Module doc updated (strip, not list).
- sylpheed-cli: `mesh info` reports per-submesh degenerate/unref/spanning-triangle
counts; `mesh render` gains --dist (camera zoom). XMESHDBG env dumps the
descriptor index markers.
Known residual: an index buffer may concatenate several strips with no degenerate
bridge, leaving ~2 spanning "spike" triangles at each restart (index jump to a new
vertex region) — <1% of tris on most models. Decoding the restart mechanism is a
follow-up (a blanket spanning-filter is unsafe: clean models have legit elongated
tip triangles).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stage containers (hidden/resource3d/Stage_S*.xpr) are collections of up to
~450 enemy/prop sub-models, not single meshes. Xbg7Model::stage_models decodes
them: each resource is a [12-byte header][index buffer][vertex buffer] block
(index count = descriptor marker, vertex count = u32 32 bytes before it) whose
on-disc offset is NOT stored, so it is located by content — one O(file) pass per
stride finds vertex-buffer starts (unit NORMAL at +12 whose previous slot isn't)
and each resource is pinned to the candidate whose indices validate and produce
non-degenerate, well-connected triangles. A connectivity gate (mean triangle
edge <= 0.28x the bbox diagonal) rejects spiky mis-anchors. ~4993 sub-models
decode across the 22 stages.
The same insight fixes the weapon single-model layout: it is [12-byte header]
[index][vertex] too, not [index][12-byte gap][vertex]. Reading indices from the
block start turned the 12 header bytes into 6 junk indices (2 leading degenerate
triangles — the recurring stray-triangle artifact) and dropped the last 6 real
indices. Skipping the header leaves vertex offsets identical (coverage unchanged
at 36/166) and corrects the triangle list. Verified on wep_00/03/04.
Adds `sylpheed-cli mesh {info,render}` — a headless software rasterizer that
writes a shaded PNG (orthographic, z-buffered, two-sided), so recovered geometry
can be verified without the GUI. Stages render as a normalised thumbnail grid;
--only filters sub-models.
Tests: stage_models_{decode,sweep,quality_audit}; docs/re updated (xbg7-mesh.md
evidence log + INDEX.md).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dynamic-RE follow-up: capture Canary's GPU vertex-fetch + draw calls and
feed the ground truth back into the static decoder.
The GPU capture confirmed the reverse-engineered layout exactly — meshes
draw as triangle LISTs (prim=4) with pos f32x3 @0, normal f16x4 @0x0C,
uv f16x2 @0x14 — and revealed the XBG7 vertex format is NOT fixed-stride:
models omit elements (stride 20 = pos+normal, no UV; 24 = pos+normal+uv).
- mesh.rs: parse the descriptor's vertex declaration ({offset, format-code,
usage} triples; 0x2A23B9=pos f32x3, 0x1A2360=normal f16x4, 0x2C235F=uv
f16x2) to drive per-model stride + element offsets, instead of assuming
stride 24. Coverage 25 -> 36 fully-validated models (e.g. the Stage_S*
props, which are pos+normal only). Same index-range + unit-normal safety
gates; complex/mismatched layouts still declined.
- Endianness note (documented): the capture's fetch endian=k8in32 describes
the GPU's guest-memory copy, NOT the .xpr file bytes — reading the file
with k8in32 breaks the normals (|n|->1.33); naive big-endian per element
is correct (the game rearranges vertex data on load).
- tests: a coverage-regression test (>=35 models) + the existing weapon /
body-declined disc tests still pass.
Confirmed against a Canary draw-log capture; see docs/re/structures/
xbg7-mesh.md (evidence log + declaration table).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reverse-engineer the single-stream XBG7 geometry layout (clean-room: hex
inspection + geometric validation of the retail disc's
hidden/resource3d/*.xpr, no game code copied) and present models as
textured 3D meshes in the explorer.
Format (docs/re/structures/xbg7-mesh.md): XBG7 geometry resources sit
inside XPR2 containers alongside TX2D textures. For ~25 single-stream
models (weapons, simple props) the data section is a sequence of
sub-meshes, each an u16-BE triangle-list index buffer followed (after a
fixed 12-byte header) by a stride-24 vertex buffer whose declaration is
in the descriptor: POSITION f32x3 @0x00, NORMAL f16x4 @0x0C, TEXCOORD
f16x2 @0x14. Sub-mesh (vtx,idx) counts come from descriptor tuples.
The +12 vertex offset is pinned by the recovered normals being exactly
unit-length (align16 lands 4 bytes early and silently corrupts every
field). A safety gate rejects any model whose indices are out of range
or whose mean |normal| is not ~1, declining garbage (Stage_S*
placeholders, the complex multi-stream hero-ship body) rather than
mis-decoding it.
- mesh.rs: Xbg7Model::from_xpr2 -> GameMesh { positions, normals, uvs,
indices }; standalone f16->f32; unit + real-disc tests (weapon decodes
to 215v/364t with unit normals + in-range UVs; DeltaSaber body
declined).
- texture.rs: from_xpr2_index / texture_names so the viewer can pick a
model's _col albedo map.
- viewer: loose .xpr with decodable XBG7 spawns Bevy meshes (real normals,
double-sided) textured with the albedo, framed by the orbit camera; the
central egui panel goes transparent so the 3D scene shows through.
Complex multi-stream body meshes (DeltaSaber f004, other vertex layouts)
remain undecoded and are cleanly declined — next target is dynamic RE.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
