From 464dd759fa7685bbc2238dfe0990be0060c86c26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Kimbrell <aronwk.aaron@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 07:06:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat(entity): the client's choice build component (52)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 dGame/Entity.cpp                         |  7 +++++++
 dGame/dComponents/ChoiceBuildComponent.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 dGame/dComponents/ChoiceBuildComponent.h

diff --git a/dGame/Entity.cpp b/dGame/Entity.cpp
index 76ad5ca90..e71d87b85 100644
--- a/dGame/Entity.cpp
+++ b/dGame/Entity.cpp
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
 #include "CollectibleComponent.h"
 #include "ItemComponent.h"
 #include "MinifigComponent.h"
+#include "ChoiceBuildComponent.h"
 #include "ChangelingComponent.h"
 #include "SpringpadComponent.h"
 #include "ModelBuilderComponent.h"
@@ -1036,6 +1037,12 @@ void Entity::Initialize() {
 			if (id > -1) AddComponent<ChangelingComponent>(id);
 			break;
 		}
+		case eReplicaComponentType::CHOICE_BUILD: {
+			// LWOChoiceBuildComponent: the client makes it from the registry
+			const auto id = compRegistryTable->GetByIDAndType(m_TemplateID, eReplicaComponentType::CHOICE_BUILD, -1);
+			if (id > -1) AddComponent<ChoiceBuildComponent>(id);
+			break;
+		}
 		default:
 			break;
 		}
diff --git a/dGame/dComponents/ChoiceBuildComponent.h b/dGame/dComponents/ChoiceBuildComponent.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..74c2b61f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dGame/dComponents/ChoiceBuildComponent.h
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#ifndef CHOICEBUILDCOMPONENT_H
+#define CHOICEBUILDCOMPONENT_H
+
+#include "Component.h"
+#include "eReplicaComponentType.h"
+
+/**
+ * Choice build, as the client's LWOChoiceBuildComponent makes it from the registry. Nothing of it is sent or done on the server yet.
+ */
+class ChoiceBuildComponent final : public Component {
+public:
+	static constexpr eReplicaComponentType ComponentType = eReplicaComponentType::CHOICE_BUILD;
+
+	ChoiceBuildComponent(Entity* parent, const int32_t componentID) : Component(parent, componentID) {}
+};
+
+#endif // CHOICEBUILDCOMPONENT_H