Complete the interactive mission viewer with environment rendering, audio events, dynamic shadows, free-flight camera controls, and per-component CTL pose sampling.
Remove planning and acceptance scaffolding while retaining the native Vulkan mission preview, format readers, runtime algorithms, and ordinary Rust tests. Keep the book aligned with the runnable project and validate checked-in shaders without generated tool metadata.
- Introduced `terrain-core` crate for loading and processing terrain mesh data.
- Added `tma` crate for parsing mission files, including footer and object records.
- Created `unitdat` crate for reading unit data files with validation of structure.
- Implemented error handling and tests for all new crates.
- Documented object registry format and rendering pipeline in specifications.
- Introduced `render-parity` crate for comparing rendered frames against reference images.
- Added command-line options for specifying manifest and output directory.
- Implemented image comparison metrics: mean absolute difference, maximum absolute difference, and changed pixel ratio.
- Created a configuration file `cases.toml` for defining test cases with global defaults and specific parameters.
- Added functionality to capture frames from `render-demo` and save diff images on discrepancies.
- Updated documentation to include usage instructions and CI model for automated testing.
- Updated MSH documentation to reflect changes in material, wear, and texture specifications.
- Introduced new `render.md` file detailing the render pipeline process.
- Removed outdated sections from `runtime-pipeline.md` and redirected to `render.md`.
- Added detailed specifications for `Texm` texture format and `WEAR` wear table.
- Updated navigation in `mkdocs.yml` to align with new documentation structure.
- Implemented msh_export_obj.py for exporting NGI MSH geometry to Wavefront OBJ format, including model selection and geometry extraction.
- Added msh_preview_renderer.py for rendering NGI MSH models to binary PPM images, featuring a primitive software renderer with customizable parameters.
- Both tools utilize the same NRes parsing logic and provide command-line interfaces for listing models and exporting or rendering geometry.
- Introduced a comprehensive markdown file `nres.md` detailing the structure, header, and operations of the NRes and RsLi formats.
- Updated `mkdocs.yml` to reflect the new documentation structure, consolidating NRes and RsLi under a single entry.
- Created `huffman_decompression.md` detailing the Huffman decompression algorithm used in NRes, including context structure, block modes, and decoding methods.
- Created `overview.md` for the NRes format, outlining file structure, header details, file entries, and packing algorithms.
- Updated `mkdocs.yml` to include new documentation files in the navigation structure.
Valentin Popov