Entry 216

Infection whole again on generated tables

2026-09-27volumes

Filescrates/piney-gen/src/manifest.rscrates/piney-data/src/tables/world.rscrates/piney-world/src/navi.rscrates/piney-world/src/town_party.rscrates/piney-world/src/event.rscrates/piney-world/src/map/field.rscrates/piney-game/src/story.rs

The rebuild that began in 0207 left piney-game with 97 failing tests:

• The World, the fields and the streams could not load.
• Every read of main's data found nothing, because the run-time image has no executable.

That rebuild has now reached every system the Infection boot touches. The suite passes again.

The last pieces

The new world group holds these:

• markers. markerEvTbl is the town's event markers by script number. The event instruction marker read it from main and silently found nothing.
• map_labels. mapmsg gives the field map's "Overall Map" and "Default Map".
• book. bookItemAddMsg and the others give the story's announcement of a desktop item. Outbreak and Quarantine lead it with #W.
• The navigation. navi_marks, navi_landmarks, navi_lines and navi_points hold each town's landmarks and main lines, and the points the party walks to.
  • Each landmark list goes one past its town's last, as ccNaviGetLandmarkPos reads it.
  • The main lines are unsigned char runs, and they are main's (mainLine26 and the others). Dun Loireag's and the shrine's tests stopped there.

The story's announcements take the server letters and item lines from fieldui (server_str, get_item_str). Execute's three literals (#Y, #B, a space) are the reader's own constants. World keeps its volume, and NaviMap, TownPcs and the battle's TownMap read by it.

Where Infection stands

• piney-game: 123 passed, 0 failed, 59 ignored. The ignored ones are the long logs, shots and surveys.
• story_survey runs every main event with a start (3, 4, 10-31) under the autopilot for 4000 frames:
  • no panic;
  • no host call left at its default;
  • event 31 plays into the ending stream.
• The field UI's, the battle's, the effects' and the streams' harnesses pass against the game.

What Infection still reads from GCMN.PRG uses Infection's addresses, and reading a PRG at run time is allowed. These are:

• npcTbl rows, with their constructors, through NpcRow;
• the walking PCs' rtpc* tables, the Grunty's and the breeder's cameras;
• the field map's icons, the town maps' icon positions, the dungeon map's floor names;
• the gimmick rows' files through SpawnTables.img;
• the enemies' weapon and dust blocks (races.rs's 156 addresses);
• charTbl through DEMO.PRG.

Infection is right on them, but no later disc is.