The first-person arms model ends partway up the upper arm, open, where
the Xbox's camera never looked. With the arms reaching for the hands
(vr.arms "ik") that end comes into view and, its inside faces culled, the
arms look hollow: one sees through them (reported worn). While they reach,
the hands model (only it, not the gun) is drawn with culling off and its
back faces shaded to 30% (a pixel shader key bit, back_faces_dark, so no
other draw's program changes): the sleeve reads as a closed, shadowed
inside. The user chose this over folding the upper arms away.
When a level's tags load, the VR build adds widget tags cloned from the
solo pause menu's (same font, colours, buttons and boxes): a fifth item,
VR SETTINGS, in the pause list (its button hints move under the mission
objectives to make room), and a screen of nine settings in two columns -
controls, aim, gun hand, turning, room-scale, scope, vehicle view,
steering and cutscenes. A or right steps a setting on, left back, B
returns to the pause menu; the laser pointer clicks them too.
Changes are written into config.toml (config_write_real/_string join
config_write_boolean) and the VR layer takes them up at once
(vr_reload_settings). cache_file_add_tag adds tags made in memory after
a map's own; the buttons' text and changes come through a new game data
input function and two event handler functions.
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The HUD panel defaults to 15 m away and 10 m wide (about 37 degrees, as
the PC mod HaloCEVR's), so the eyes need not refocus between it and the
world. Its pass is drawn from the head's camera with frustum bounds
matching the panel, so nav points and friends' names sit over what they
mark rather than following the hand's aim. The motion sensor turns with
the head too.
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While a hand-aimed weapon is zoomed, a pass between the eyes and the HUD
renders the view along the gun into a corner of the back buffer, sized
to the scope's 768x768 image. It goes through a sight mask (round, or
the sniper rifle's wide one) onto a layer held at the gun, at the PC
mod HaloCEVR's per-weapon offsets. The eyes never zoom: the first-person
gun stays in the hand and the HUD layer drops the zoom mask.
vr.scope and vr.scope_size are the settings; vr.diag_zoom_seconds zooms
unattended for dumps (vr-scope.bmp). The docs now cover the VR controls,
gestures, weapon feel and scope, and credit LivingFray's HaloCEVR for
their designs.
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After the designs of LivingFray's PC mod HaloCEVR, re-implemented here.
vr.controls "vr" (the default) lays the headset's controllers out for VR
over the Xbox pad the game reads: right trigger fire, left trigger zoom,
A jump, B reload and action, X switch grenades, Y switch weapons, right
bumper grenade, left bumper flashlight, right stick click melee, left
stick click crouch, menu pause, view back, held a second to recentre.
"pad" keeps the Xbox layout. The host now reports each controller's own
buttons (hand_buttons) beside the pad it built.
Gestures, taken into the game's own control flags in
handle_one_player_input (before a cutscene's inhibition clears them):
- a hand swung up or down faster than vr.melee_speed (2.5 m/s) melees;
- the off hand brought within vr.flashlight_distance (0.2 m) of the
head's middle toggles the flashlight;
- ducking vr.crouch_height (0.15 m) below the recentred height crouches,
standing again within 5 cm;
- the weapon hand's grip at either shoulder (vr.holsters) switches
weapons, with a tick as the hand enters a holster;
- the off hand's grip holds the gun in both hands (vr.two_handed "grip",
within 80 cm; "auto" keeps the earlier proximity test);
- palms together and the off hand's grip moves the weapon to that hand.
vr.left_handed (or that swap) puts the weapon in the left hand: the
weapon hand is a variable throughout, its trigger fires and its bumper
throws grenades, and the first-person model is mirrored across the
weapon camera's upright plane with its winding turned over; the IK then
reaches the gun arm from the left shoulder. vr.move_relative moves
relative to the head or a hand.
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vr.vehicle_view "first_person" (the default) has the director treat every
seat as first person, which hides the player's body, and puts the eyes at
the player's head in the seat (a seat's camera marker is where the chase
camera sits). The view turns with the vehicle's yaw only, the horizon
kept level; a passenger seat facing aside keeps its turn from the
vehicle. The player's own gun is put away in driver and gunner seats.
vr.vehicle_steering "stick" (the default) leaves a driver's facing to the
game, so the right stick steers (and pitches the Banshee) as on a flat
screen while the head only looks; "head" and "hand" steer where you look
or point. Gunners aim with the head relative to the vehicle, so a turret
follows the head without turning the view.
vr.diag_drive_seconds seats the player as the nearest vehicle's driver,
for unattended checks (after cheat_all_vehicles). The headset went
offline before the first vehicle test ran; the build is warning-clean.
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With the hand aiming, the first-person weapon's camera puts the gun in
the right hand and used to carry both arms along with it. vr.arms "ik"
(the default) gives the arms shoulders where the body is (below and
either side of the eyes, turned with the heading) and solves each arm's
upper arm and forearm, elbows down and out, to reach its hand: the right
the gun's grip as the controller holds it (the wrist and the gun, its
child, stay as they are), the left the left controller, or the gun's
grip for it while the left controller is within 15 cm of it. Out of
reach, the shoulder comes forward rather than the hand letting go.
Fingers and other bones go with the bone above them. "hidden" shows the
gun alone, "animated" the arms as the animation moves them.
Halo's first-person graphs name the hands' bones "wriste"; the gun is the
right one's child.
Cutscene frames have their own dump trigger (vr.dump_cinema_frame).
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With vr.aim "hand", on foot the right controller's aim sets the
player's facing, so shots, grenades and melee follow it; in a vehicle's
or a turret's seat the head still aims. The left stick is turned to move
relative to the head rather than the aim. In a local game the shots
start at the hand (unit_adjust_projectile_ray) unless a wall stands
between it and the unit's eye.
The first-person weapon is posed from a camera placed so that its model
sits in the hand (vr.weapon_offset_*, to tune in the headset). The HUD
crosshair gives way to a reticle on its own OpenXR layer where the
hand's aim meets the world, about a degree across.
Head aiming stays the default until this is checked in the headset.
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A widget background bitmap whose bounds cover the whole 640x480 design
space (the pause menu dim, for example) stopped at the edges of the
centered 640 column on widescreen displays, leaving the side bands
undimmed. Widen the bounds and the clip symmetrically to the full
screen width, mirroring the existing fade_to_black special case in
render_ui_widgets().
Tested on a Retroid Pocket Flip2 (854x480 render target).
Recover transparent geometry submit (+1,285 meaningful code, zero exact losses); reconcile COMMON ownership and Q10 85+EXT1 credit, actions/main data, and separately disclosed denominator corrections. Preserve canonical-only repairs and all held research. C09 is ordinary disclosed cleanup, not a claim of proven scaffolding intent. Clean rebuild, 1,663 tests, parks, audits, provider links and independent EXT1 check pass. Local reconciliation only.
Import only independently reviewed production changes. Preserve canonical physics and virtual-keyboard repairs; keep B3 and all unresolved holds out.
Record exactly four approved canary debits (6987 meaningful bytes), six Halo admissions and two revocations. Keep vendor ioinit/storage work separate. Full build, 8252-row sweep, 1318 tests, park/admission/fake audits and 621-object binding pass within approved debit bounds.
Do not publish donor research dumps or private assets. README and unrelated user research remain untouched. See frontier_publication_reconciliation_20260927.md for complete evidence limits and accounting.
Independently gate storage + K, OQ-4 P-a/P-b1, four static-local packets and comment-only disclosures. Preserve all 7641 exact owner rows, 71 valid parks and 1161 passing tests; code/data credit unchanged. G and game_engine admission remain held because current canonical loses populate_statistic_buffer. Existing collision static-local repair is not duplicated. No donor tree, held candidate, scorer or private asset imported.
Independently rebuilt and source-reviewed donor b659a777. Restores attested helper, clipping and color-call shapes; 743 meaningful / 752 padded bytes, 0 regressions. No new helpers or storage changes.
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Independently verified donor 9f0b3af9413e6dc5c1be28786d22f0ea7df6c119. Restore the first-party-attested null-and-text-box-type invariant. The redundant check is genuine source evidence, not a fabricated allocator lever. Complete 608-byte section and 50 relocations match January; no new helper, owner, warning or exact regression.
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Native builds only (#ifdef HALO_LINUX); the matching MSVC build keeps the
original text and stays byte-identical.
- ui_widget_game_data_input_functions.c: the local machine limit follows
HALO_PORT_MAXIMUM_NETWORK_MACHINES and the struct network_game copy holds
HALO_PORT_MAXIMUM_NETWORK_PLAYERS players; its layout is checked against
halo_port_limits.h. The pregame screen keeps its three remote machine
panels and shows the first three remote machines instead of asserting
(sizing its arrays by the machine limit read uninitialized widget
pointers). netgame_prejoin_players scans every player slot, and the
player count texts have room for three digits. network_machine_is_valid
widens the char index before comparing it with 128.
- ui_widget_event_handler_functions.c: the join/unjoin, team swap and
countdown handlers use the port's players offset and player count
instead of 0x226/0x242/0x243 and 16.
- hud.c: hud_draw_players sizes its teammate buffer by the port's player
limit and bounds the fill (more than 16 teammates overflowed the stack).
- motion_sensor.c: multiplayer tests the (horizontal) range before a unit
takes a blip slot, so distant units no longer crowd nearby ones out of
the 16 slots.
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Match _hud_update_weapon_local_player: 1472 credited bytes, 68 relocations. Default is unreachable over all 19 loop states. First-party evidence supports the ammo predicates and primary-trigger correction. Independently verified in the three-function batch with zero regressions.
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