From 0cbcbfc14997eff39e0c76acf30c48b851ed1f62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: salmonik <salmonik@tuta.io>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 22:09:14 +0100
Subject: Chams: working alpha via RenderView blend and a custom VMT

Testing on :99 showed the material $alpha path is a dead end: UnlitGeneric
takes translucency from the base texture/vertex alpha, and the debug materials
have neither. Follow Amalgam: apply alpha with IVRenderView::SetBlend
(VEngineRenderView014 slot 4) around the model draw, saving/restoring it.

To have something translucent to blend, write a tiny UnlitGeneric VMT with
$model 1 + $translucent 1 + a white base texture to
<game>/<mod>/materials/hl2hake/translucent.vmt (plus a custom/ copy). It is
written by a preload constructor so it exists before the material system scans
its search paths, then loaded once with FindMaterial. Styles 0/3/4/6 use it
when the colour alpha is below 255.

Also:
- Visible wireframe + through-wall: fill the visible silhouette first so the
  through-wall pass cannot show in the wireframe gaps, then draw a brightened
  contour. Style 6 is now "Solid + contour" (recolour + visible edges).
- find_modules builds local snapshots and publishes them under a mutex; the
  setup thread and the server retry could reset the shared vectors live and
  crash at startup.

Verified on :99: Solid + alpha 64 renders a see-through viewmodel, Solid +
contour shows a blue fill with bright blue contours, Additive is a translucent
coloured glow and Fullbright is a white additive glow.
---
 src/modules.cpp | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/modules.cpp')

diff --git a/src/modules.cpp b/src/modules.cpp
index b832694..7a82028 100644
--- a/src/modules.cpp
+++ b/src/modules.cpp
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 // modules.cpp — /proc/self/maps parsing and module discovery
 #include "hl2h.h"
 #include <elf.h>
+#include <mutex>
 #include <vector>
 
+static std::mutex g_modules_mutex;
+
 static bool basename_is(const char *path, const char *base) {
   size_t pl = strlen(path), bl = strlen(base);
   if (pl < bl || strcmp(path + pl - bl, base) != 0)
@@ -11,9 +14,7 @@ static bool basename_is(const char *path, const char *base) {
 }
 
 void find_modules() {
-  g_client = Module();
-  g_engine = Module();
-  g_server = Module();
+  Module client, engine, server;
   FILE *f = fopen("/proc/self/maps", "r");
   if (!f)
     return;
@@ -41,19 +42,19 @@ void find_modules() {
       memcpy(clean, path, pl);
       clean[pl] = 0;
       if (basename_is(clean, "client.so"))
-        m = &g_client;
+        m = &client;
       else if (basename_is(clean, "engine.so"))
-        m = &g_engine;
+        m = &engine;
       else if (basename_is(clean, "server.so"))
-        m = &g_server;
+        m = &server;
     } else {
       // anon: absorb only as .bss tail after a file-backed range
-      if (g_client.valid() && g_client.ranges.back().file &&
-          lo == g_client.ranges.back().hi && hi - lo <= 0x1000000)
-        m = &g_client;
-      else if (g_engine.valid() && g_engine.ranges.back().file &&
-               lo == g_engine.ranges.back().hi && hi - lo <= 0x1000000)
-        m = &g_engine;
+      if (client.valid() && client.ranges.back().file &&
+          lo == client.ranges.back().hi && hi - lo <= 0x1000000)
+        m = &client;
+      else if (engine.valid() && engine.ranges.back().file &&
+               lo == engine.ranges.back().hi && hi - lo <= 0x1000000)
+        m = &engine;
     }
     if (!m)
       continue;
@@ -71,6 +72,16 @@ void find_modules() {
     }
   }
   fclose(f);
+  // setup_thread and resolve_server_netvars can both call this; the old code
+  // reset the shared Module globals and reallocated their vectors live, which
+  // crashed under the startup thread. Publish complete snapshots instead.
+  std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(g_modules_mutex);
+  if (client.valid())
+    g_client = std::move(client);
+  if (engine.valid())
+    g_engine = std::move(engine);
+  if (server.valid())
+    g_server = std::move(server);
 }
 
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