Decode tfrag normals from the overlay's sine table
Normals are per-vertex, and the tfrag's light records store them as an azimuth and elevation *index* into a 256-entry sine table rather than as angles. This decodes that table and builds normals for the renderer. The reference reads the table from an ELF at BOOT_NORMAL_TABLE_VADDR (0x165500) and notes every level overlay carries a copy. The overlay has no ELF header -- it is a raw loadable image starting with code -- so there is no program header to map a virtual address through, and the offset is not fixed either: level 0 has the table at 0xb650c, level 5 at 0xcca30, level 26 at 0xb6284. So it is located by content. Every table starts with exactly (1.0, 0.0), angle zero, and the scan then requires all 256 entries to match cos(i*pi/128), sin(i*pi/128). Validating the whole curve is what makes the search safe: a lone (1.0, 0.0) pair of floats occurs by accident in a 2.7 MB executable, and a test plants one as a decoy. The values are read from the disc rather than recomputed, since those are the numbers the game indexes. A normal is (cos(az)cos(el), sin(az)cos(el), sin(el)) *negated* -- the stored normals point into the surface -- and then given the same Z-up to Y-up swap as positions, or the lighting comes out sideways. The azimuth and elevation fields are stored signed but index 0..=255, so entry 200 must be read as 200, not as -56; there is a test for that. Also frames and parses the level light bank from the gameplay extent, and the pipeline now writes overlay.bin. The per-vertex lighting evaluation is not written yet, so the renderer stays unlit by default. GC_ENGINE_LIT=1 substitutes a host directional light for inspection -- that is a stand-in, not the game's lighting, and it is deliberately not the default. The hash table is regenerated for the 27 new overlay.bin files: now 5,213 files and 5,762,497,559 bytes.
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@@ -528,16 +528,36 @@ brightness changes did nothing at all. Faking it would also have hidden the
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gap. The colour attribute is picked up from the mesh automatically, so it is
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the *colour* data that is missing lighting, not a flag that was left off.
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The real model is `LightTfrags`, which needs three things this project has not
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parsed yet:
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The real model is `LightTfrags`, which needs three things:
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* the **light bank** from the level's `gameplay` extent (directional and point
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light sets, and the per-vertex light `select` field);
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* the **normal table**, 256 pairs of cos/sin read from an ELF at
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`BOOT_NORMAL_TABLE_VADDR` (`0x165500`) -- every level overlay carries one, so
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it does not need the boot ELF;
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* the **light records** themselves, which are already parsed: azimuth and
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elevation at pi/128 radians per unit, and the base colour.
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* the **light records** -- already parsed: azimuth and elevation as *indices*
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into the overlay's sine table, plus the base colour;
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* the **normal table** -- now decoded (`gc_formats::tfrag_light`), and normals
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are built and fed to the renderer;
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* the **light bank** from the level's `gameplay` extent -- framed and parsed,
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but the per-vertex evaluation is not written yet.
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### The normal table, and why it is found by searching
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The reference reads the table from an ELF at `BOOT_NORMAL_TABLE_VADDR`
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(`0x165500`) and notes every level overlay carries a copy. **The overlay has no
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ELF header** -- it is a raw loadable image starting with code -- so there is no
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program header to map a virtual address through, and the offset is not fixed
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either: level 0 has the table at `0xb650c`, level 5 at `0xcca30`, level 26 at
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`0xb6284`.
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So it is located by content. Every table starts with exactly `(1.0, 0.0)` --
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angle zero -- and the scan then requires all 256 entries to match
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`cos(i·pi/128), sin(i·pi/128)`. Validating the whole curve is what makes the
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search safe: a lone `(1.0, 0.0)` pair of floats occurs by accident in a 2.7 MB
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executable, and a test plants one as a decoy. The values read from the disc are
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used as-is rather than recomputed, since those are the numbers the game indexes.
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A normal is `(cos(az)cos(el), sin(az)cos(el), sin(el))` **negated** -- the
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stored normals point into the surface -- then given the same Z-up to Y-up swap
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as positions, or the lighting comes out sideways. The azimuth and elevation
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fields are stored signed but index 0..=255, so the byte is what matters, not its
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sign: entry 200 is read as 200, not as -56.
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Given the table, a normal is `(cos(az)cos(el), sin(az)cos(el), sin(el))`,
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negated, exactly as `decode_normal` builds it. The lighting pass itself is
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