docs: Campaign VM shipped — owner accepted #422 as carried and authorised the merge

VM3 and VM6 user-accepted live at 2560x1440 (High); #424 and #425 fixed
during the gate. Roadmap entry flipped to shipped; plan ledger VM7 row
SHIPPED; #422 recorded as carried by owner decision.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

docs/plans/2026-04-11-roadmap.md

@@ -2072,7 +2072,7 @@ OpenGL ceiling; revisit macOS only if a supported graphics backend is chosen.
 
 **Future / unscheduled — Campaign AR:** the opt-in [Atmospheric Rendering / Shader Packs campaign](2026-08-21-atmospheric-rendering.md) makes moving authored sun-and-moon directional shadows from trees, monsters, players, and buildings its Tier-2 headline while preserving acdream's current retail-faithful renderer as the default and leaving physics, collision, gameplay, and network behavior unchanged; the project owner assigned Campaign AR on 2026-08-22 without displacing active M4 gameplay work. The [celestial source contract](../research/2026-08-22-dereth-celestial-shadow-sources.md) selects sun, dominant moon, then secondary moon by rendered direction while retaining AC's single authored directional-energy channel; sun rays and volumetrics remain sun-only. The previously referenced #268 + TS-8 package is complete and retired. Stage 1's automated correctness, performance, lifetime, locked-restore, Release, evidence, documentation, and project-owner live gates completed on 2026-08-22 after the opt-in exposure correction. The [Stage 2 connected and closeout gate](../research/2026-08-22-atmospheric-stage2-connected-gate.md) now closes every available machine-local ACE, dense A/B, long-lifetime, graphical-package, shader, Release, and complete-test row. The implemented two-client gate proved that ACE rejects two concurrent characters on the one available account and is ready for separate observer credentials without recording secrets. A distinct-account remote-player row, unavailable physical GPU classes, and final project-owner pack-off/pack-on acceptance remain external gates; Campaign AR is not yet declared shipped.
 
-**In flight, automated closeout complete — Campaign VM (VisualMaster):** the [VisualMaster campaign](2026-08-22-visualmaster-campaign.md) closed the [Campaign AR review](../research/2026-08-22-campaign-ar-review.md) findings with evidence: VM0 proved the pack-off path is the pre-campaign renderer (pixel identity on static content, CPU −13 %, allocation −25×); VM2 cdb-read retail's live detail path (single-pass texture stages, the z-fade dead for built meshes) and VM1 re-ported #226 to it; VM4 made the documents truthful (real hardware darkens, the fallback brightened); VM5 de-banded the volumetrics (#421 filed); VM3 put the post stack in linear light with a numerically neutral preset; VM6 added weather-driven foliage wind behind the render pack (scenery-only, cutout/trunk motions, casters follow, independent of the shadow gate) through five Opus review rounds and a repeat-floor pixel apparatus ([note](../research/2026-08-23-vm6-foliage-wind-pixel-proof.md)). VM7's automated gates ran 2026-08-23 on `99d5b2a6`: release gate 15,283/0/0, connected lifecycle/reconnect route PASS pack-off and pack-on, final pack-off vs `base+normals` robust diff 5–10 px, #422 not reproducible in 40 instrumented runs. **Owed: the owner's VM3 and VM6 visual gates and the VM7 pack-off/pack-on matrix, then the merge to main; not declared shipped until then.**
+**SHIPPED 2026-08-23 — Campaign VM (VisualMaster):** the [VisualMaster campaign](2026-08-22-visualmaster-campaign.md) closed the [Campaign AR review](../research/2026-08-22-campaign-ar-review.md) findings with evidence: VM0 proved the pack-off path is the pre-campaign renderer (pixel identity on static content, CPU −13 %, allocation −25×); VM2 cdb-read retail's live detail path (single-pass texture stages, the z-fade dead for built meshes) and VM1 re-ported #226 to it; VM4 made the documents truthful (real hardware darkens, the fallback brightened); VM5 de-banded the volumetrics (#421 filed); VM3 put the post stack in linear light with a numerically neutral preset; VM6 added weather-driven foliage wind behind the render pack (scenery-only, cutout/trunk motions, casters follow, independent of the shadow gate) through five Opus review rounds and a repeat-floor pixel apparatus ([note](../research/2026-08-23-vm6-foliage-wind-pixel-proof.md)). VM7's automated gates ran 2026-08-23 on `99d5b2a6`: release gate 15,283/0/0, connected lifecycle/reconnect route PASS pack-off and pack-on, final pack-off vs `base+normals` robust diff 5–10 px, #422 not reproducible in 40 instrumented runs. The owner's VM3 (linear light) and VM6 (wind) live gates passed 2026-08-23 at 2560×1440 with the High pack; two defects found during those gates were fixed the same session (#424 alt-tab zero-area frame crash, #425 resolution-blind resident budget + activation lockout). #422 (rare heap-corruption exit at process close, pack-independent) is carried open by the owner's decision. Merged to main as a fast-forward of 54 commits.
 
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docs/plans/2026-08-22-visualmaster-campaign.md

@@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ single-pass path darkens by ~10 %. Neither explains a scene-wide level.
 | VM4 | F5 — overclaiming docs, incl. the reviewer's own | **CLOSED 2026-08-22** |
 | VM5 | F8 — volumetric banding; F7 filed | **CLOSED 2026-08-22** (#421) |
 | VM6 | Foliage wind | **CODE-COMPLETE 2026-08-23** — `0930c35d`, `39e8408c`, `43e3abed`, `a82959f1`, `fccba839`, `eec95535`, `754d59d9`, `1f151242`; five Opus review rounds (round 3 APPROVE; round 4 REJECT caught the overhead-sun regression, fixed in round 5; round 5 APPROVE, its four nits closed in `1f151242`); pixel proof [note](../research/2026-08-23-vm6-foliage-wind-pixel-proof.md) (14,993 robust wind px vs 65 floor, scenery only; wind-off frames match the plain pipeline at mean |Δ| 0.007); **CLOSED — owner visual gate USER-ACCEPTED 2026-08-23 ("Looks good")** — live Holtburg, High pack, day group 9 "Rainy" (Overcast), 1920×1080, launched from the cloned config under `artifacts/owner-gate`; the remaining §VM6 Acceptance steps (30 s single tree, shadow follows, indoors still, pack-off still, Clear vs Storm) are the owner's to tick or waive |
-| VM7 | Closeout: full gates, register, roadmap, merge | **AUTOMATED ROWS PASSED 2026-08-23** — release gate 15,283/0/0, connected route PASS pack-off + High, VM0 invariance on the final binary (robust 5–10 px), performance matrix PASS, #422 re-characterised (pack-independent, ~2 %, no stack yet); [closeout note](../research/2026-08-23-vm7-automated-closeout.md). **Owner visual gates (VM3, VM6, VM7 matrix) and the merge OWED** |
+| VM7 | Closeout: full gates, register, roadmap, merge | **SHIPPED 2026-08-23 — owner: "accept 422, commit and merge with main"; #422 carried as an open watch item; merged to main as a fast-forward.** AUTOMATED ROWS PASSED 2026-08-23 — release gate 15,283/0/0, connected route PASS pack-off + High, VM0 invariance on the final binary (robust 5–10 px), performance matrix PASS, #422 re-characterised (pack-independent, ~2 %, no stack yet); [closeout note](../research/2026-08-23-vm7-automated-closeout.md). **Owner visual gates (VM3, VM6, VM7 matrix) and the merge OWED** |
 
-Order is VM2 (done) → VM0 (done) → VM1 (done) → VM4 (done) → VM5 (done) → VM3 (closed, user-accepted) → VM6 (closed, user-accepted) → VM7 (automated rows passed; #422 verdict + merge owed). VM0 goes first because everything after it is measured
+Order is VM2 (done) → VM0 (done) → VM1 (done) → VM4 (done) → VM5 (done) → VM3 (closed, user-accepted) → VM6 (closed, user-accepted) → VM7 (shipped; #422 carried). VM0 goes first because everything after it is measured
 against the baseline it establishes.
 
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