fix(physics): enforce retail step-down support radius (#273)

docs/architecture/retail-divergence-register.md

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ AP-94..AP-112 for the confirmed retail-UI completion gaps.
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | AP-1 | Snap-path Z settle: validated claims ground on their own walkable polys, but floor-less claims (thresholds, stair lips) fall through to a legacy nearest-in-Z scan over every CellSurface in the landblock; retail settles via `CheckPositionInternal` → `find_valid_position` | `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/PhysicsEngine.cs:614` | `find_valid_position` unported; the **#111** fix narrowed the legacy pick's blast radius (validated claims bypass it) rather than replacing it | A threshold/stair-lip snap can still pick a neighbouring cell's same-height floor by iteration order — wrong cell or Z at login/teleport arrival (the #111 clobber class) | `SetPositionInternal` :283426 → find_valid_position |
 
-| AP-3 | Step-down chain triggered only when contact is invalid OR steeper than walkable; retail's `transitional_insert` OK-path ALWAYS runs it | `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/TransitionTypes.cs:1197` | Conditional preserves the observed-to-matter cases (edge departure, steep cliff-slide) without running the chain every step (per pc:273191 agent reports) | Steps where retail runs step-down despite a valid walkable contact (bump maintenance, edge-slide arming) are skipped — float-off or missed edge slides in untested geometry | `transitional_insert` OK-path pc:273191 |
+| AP-3 | Step-down chain also runs for a valid contact plane when that plane is steeper than walkable; retail's `transitional_insert` OK-path returns immediately for every valid contact plane and enters the step-down tail only when contact is invalid | `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/TransitionTypes.cs` (`TransitionalInsert`) | The added steep-contact entry preserves the current cliff-slide compensation while the response-layer state/order family remains open (AP-4/AD-53/AD-54/TS-4) | A steep valid contact can enter step-down/edge response where retail restores or validates state through its normal contact path, producing different retry and slide behavior | `CTransition::transitional_insert` 0x0050B6F0, named-retail pseudo-C pc:273191–273307 |
 | AP-4 | CliffSlide check moved BEFORE retail's Branch-1 (`!OnWalkable` → restore+OK) gate, compensating our L.2.3i FloorZ OnWalkable bookkeeping | `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/TransitionTypes.cs:1316` | Retail's order with our incomplete OnWalkable stops the player dead every frame on steep slopes ("stay on the roof"); reorder restores downhill drift | CliffSlide fires in states where retail's Branch 1 would restore-and-OK — body slides where retail holds, e.g. contact-plane-bearing steep geometry near edges | retail EdgeSlide dispatch order (transitional_insert step-down failure) |
 | AP-5 | Step-down skips Placement validation for the contact-maintenance call (`runPlacement=false`); ACE/retail run it unconditionally (kept for DoStepUp) | `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/TransitionTypes.cs:3393` | Residual wall-slide artifacts made Placement misfire, leaving players stuck near walls; the skip was the targeted L.2.3h fix | Step-down can settle into positions Placement would reject — slight wall embedding, or accepting a step-down through overlap geometry retail catches | `CTransition::step_down` pc:272952; ACE Transition.cs:731-741 |
 | ~~AP-7~~ | **RETIRED 2026-07-30 (Campaign P Slice P2) — the "state gate" was a BN decompiler artifact, not a locomotion exemption.** `calc_friction` now ports retail's confirmed 0.25f threshold (`if (angle >= 0.25f) return;`) unconditionally, no special-cased gate. The "state check at pc:276702" the old row cited is `PhysicsState.Sledding` (confirmed via ACE's `PhysicsObj.calc_friction`, references/ACE/Source/ACE.Server/Physics/PhysicsObj.cs:2120-2141, and `SLEDDING_PS=0x800000` in acclient.h:2838) — it gates the 1.5625/6.25/near-flat friction-value OVERRIDE, not the threshold return itself; acdream had no live Sledding setter then or now (see #166 research, docs/research/2026-07-30-response-layer-edge-family-pseudocode.md §3), so the branch was simply unreachable dead code, not an exemption for ordinary walking. The reverted 2026-04-30 L.3c attempt (naive 0.0→0.25 bump, forward locomotion 3→0.16 m/s in `PlayerMovementControllerTests`) does not reproduce on the production graphical local-player path post-R6: `PlayerMovementController` zeroes `Velocity.X/Y` to exactly zero every tick before `calc_friction` runs whenever animation root motion drives the walk, so friction has no horizontal velocity left to hammer (pinned at the PhysicsBody level by `GroundedRootMotion_FrictionThreshold_DoesNotHammerLocomotionTests`). The headless/`get_state_velocity` movement-controller path and remote/NPC movers still feed real velocity into this function and remain the ones to watch if a similar regression resurfaces there. **CORRECTION (2026-07-30, same day, #265/#166 capture bisect):** the sentence above undersold the gap — `calc_friction` wasn't merely "no horizontal velocity to hammer," it was structurally UNREACHABLE with meaningful data on ANY grounded path: (a) the animation-root-motion path zeroed `Velocity.X/Y` outright every tick (the actual #265/#166 root cause, ten days pre-existing, not a Campaign-P regression), and (b) `PhysicsBody.GroundNormal` — the vector `calc_friction` dots velocity against — had ZERO production writers anywhere and silently defaulted to `Vector3.UnitZ` forever, so even surviving velocity would have been tested against a fake flat-ground normal on any real slope. Both gaps are now closed: `PlayerMovementController.cs`'s grounded block no longer reconstructs `Velocity` for the animation-root-motion case, and `PhysicsEngine.cs` syncs `body.GroundNormal` from the committed `ContactPlane.Normal` at the same commit point that already publishes `ContactPlane`. The 0.25f threshold port itself (this row's original subject) was always correct — it just had nothing real to operate on until this fix. See `docs/research/2026-07-30-265-capture-bisect.md`'s as-fixed addendum. | `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/PhysicsBody.cs` (`calc_friction`); `src/AcDream.Core/Physics/PhysicsEngine.cs` (`GroundNormal` wiring); `src/AcDream.Runtime/Gameplay/PlayerMovementController.cs` (grounded-velocity fix); `tests/AcDream.Core.Tests/Physics/PhysicsBodyTests.cs` (AP-7 test block); `tests/AcDream.Core.Tests/Physics/Issue265SteepSlopeCaptureBisectTests.cs`; `tests/AcDream.Runtime.Tests/Gameplay/PlayerMovementControllerTests.cs` | — | — | `CPhysicsObj::calc_friction` pc:276694-276822 (0050ee70); ACE `PhysicsObj.calc_friction` PhysicsObj.cs:2120-2141; `docs/research/2026-07-30-response-layer-edge-family-pseudocode.md` §1; `docs/research/2026-07-30-265-capture-bisect.md` |

docs/research/2026-07-31-issue273-tight-gap-support.md

@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+# Issue #273 — Holtburg tight-gap support validation
+
+**Date:** 2026-07-31
+**Status:** implementation, automated gates, and exact live gate pass
+**Scope:** grounded player step-down support at a floor edge beside a static
+cylinder
+
+## Captured scene
+
+The reproducible gap is in outdoor cell `0xA9B40032`, between:
+
+- building shell GfxObj `0x01000F69`, placed at
+  `(158.178, 37.7055, 94.0)` with quaternion
+  `(w=.939319, x=0, y=0, z=-.343045)`;
+- static post `0xCA9B4027`, placed at `(160.173, 34.487, 95.975)`,
+  represented by its Setup-authored cylinder (`radius=.282`,
+  `height=5.564`);
+- the local player Setup's exact two spheres (`radius=.48`, origins
+  `z=.475` and `z=1.35`).
+
+The building's supporting ledge terminates at local `x=4`. The first
+post-side response moved the player's foot-sphere center to approximately
+local `x=4.33`. The full `.48` movement sphere still overlapped the floor, so
+the existing step-down path accepted the candidate. Repeated frames then
+carried the player around the post and outside the building shell.
+
+The fixture
+`tests/AcDream.Core.Tests/Fixtures/issue273/0x01000F69.gfxobj.json` preserves
+the installed DAT PhysicsBSP. The replay in
+`Issue273HoltburgTightGapReplayTests` uses the captured object placement,
+player spheres, static posts, and movement offsets.
+
+## Retail mechanism
+
+The missing rule is not extra collision padding and is not a larger player
+sphere. It is retail's second-stage support validation:
+
+1. `CTransition::step_down` (`0x0050B2A0`) performs the ordinary downward
+   collision probe.
+2. After finding a walkable contact plane, an EdgeSlide mover that is not in
+   StepUp calls `CTransition::check_walkable` (`0x0050AFF0`). The binary
+   sequence is `test ah,2` at `0x0050B36A`, which is state bit `0x200`
+   (`EdgeSlide`), followed by the `step_up == 0` test and call at
+   `0x0050B380`.
+3. `CTransition::check_walkable` first calls
+   `SPHEREPATH::check_walkables` (`0x0050C3E0`).
+4. `SPHEREPATH::check_walkables` halves the saved foot-sphere radius and
+   calls `CPolygon::check_walkable` (`0x00538E60`).
+5. If the remembered polygon does not support that smaller sphere,
+   `CTransition::check_walkable` performs a downward CheckWalkable insertion.
+   BSP leaves require both `walkable_hits_sphere` and
+   `CPolygon::check_small_walkable` (`BSPLEAF::hits_walkable`,
+   `0x0053D670`).
+6. If neither check finds support, `CTransition::step_down` rejects the
+   candidate and the existing edge-response chain handles it.
+
+ACDream already had the small-radius BSP-leaf test, but
+`DoCheckWalkable` treated the mere presence of a remembered polygon as
+success, and the ordinary `DoStepDown(..., runPlacement:false)` path never
+called it. This let a full-radius overlap stand in for actual foot support.
+
+## Port
+
+- `BSPQuery.CheckWalkableSupport` is the shared resolved-polygon form of
+  retail `CPolygon::check_walkable`.
+- `SpherePath.CheckWalkables` implements the retail half-radius remembered
+  polygon check without mutating canonical sphere state.
+- `Transition.DoCheckWalkable` now tests the remembered polygon rather than
+  treating a non-null polygon as sufficient.
+- `Transition.DoStepDown` restores the EdgeSlide/non-StepUp support gate
+  before the existing placement-policy seam.
+
+There are no location checks, object IDs, guessed radii, widened collision
+shapes, or gap-specific tolerances in the production fix.
+
+## Regression impact
+
+The existing #271 staircase-side replay begins with its center `.288 m`
+outside a tread whose retail half-radius support boundary is `.24 m`.
+Retail may therefore stop that exact candidate. The test now preserves the
+original user-visible invariant—never reverse or accelerate downhill—without
+requiring forward progress beyond retail's support boundary. The ordinary
+continuous staircase replay still requires and achieves forward progress.
+
+## Gates
+
+- issue #273 fixture/replay: 3 passed;
+- focused BSP, step-up, edge-slide, #185/#271 family: 42 passed / 1 skipped;
+- complete Core tests: 4,111 passed / 2 skipped;
+- Release solution build: passed;
+- complete Release solution tests: 10,068 passed / 5 skipped.
+
+The user accepted the exact in-client Holtburg gap gate on 2026-07-31: the
+gap blocks from the tested approach, and the adjacent movement checks remain
+healthy.

src/AcDream.Core/Physics/BSPQuery.cs

@@ -284,28 +284,46 @@ public static class BSPQuery
         CollisionSphere sphere,
         Vector3 up,
         bool small)
+        => CheckWalkableSupport(
+            poly.Plane,
+            poly.Vertices,
+            sphere.Center,
+            small ? sphere.Radius * 0.5f : sphere.Radius,
+            up);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Retail <c>CPolygon::check_walkable</c> against an already resolved
+    /// polygon. The caller supplies the effective support radius; retail's
+    /// <c>SPHEREPATH::check_walkables</c> halves its saved sphere before
+    /// entering this routine.
+    /// </summary>
+    internal static bool CheckWalkableSupport(
+        Plane plane,
+        ReadOnlySpan<Vector3> vertices,
+        Vector3 center,
+        float supportRadius,
+        Vector3 up)
     {
-        float angleUp = Vector3.Dot(poly.Plane.Normal, up);
+        float angleUp = Vector3.Dot(plane.Normal, up);
         if (angleUp < PhysicsGlobals.EPSILON) return false;
 
-        float angle = (Vector3.Dot(poly.Plane.Normal, sphere.Center) + poly.Plane.D) / angleUp;
-        var center = sphere.Center - up * angle;
+        float angle = (Vector3.Dot(plane.Normal, center) + plane.D) / angleUp;
+        center -= up * angle;
 
-        float radsum = sphere.Radius * sphere.Radius;
-        if (small) radsum *= 0.25f;
+        float radsum = supportRadius * supportRadius;
 
-        int n = poly.Vertices.Length;
+        int n = vertices.Length;
         int prevIdx = n - 1;
 
         for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
         {
-            var v = poly.Vertices[i];
-            var lv = poly.Vertices[prevIdx];
+            var v = vertices[i];
+            var lv = vertices[prevIdx];
             prevIdx = i;
 
             var edge = v - lv;
             var disp = center - lv;
-            var cross = Vector3.Cross(poly.Plane.Normal, edge);
+            var cross = Vector3.Cross(plane.Normal, edge);
             float diff = Vector3.Dot(disp, cross);
 
             if (diff < 0f)

src/AcDream.Core/Physics/TransitionTypes.cs

@@ -850,6 +850,27 @@ public sealed class SpherePath
         return true;
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Retail <c>SPHEREPATH::check_walkables</c> (0x0050C3E0). A missing
+    /// remembered polygon passes; otherwise the foot sphere is tested against
+    /// that polygon with half its normal radius. Retail mutates an embedded
+    /// scratch sphere before the test. Our world-space representation can pass
+    /// the equivalent effective radius without mutating canonical sphere state.
+    /// </summary>
+    internal bool CheckWalkables()
+    {
+        if (!HasWalkablePolygon || WalkableVertices is null)
+            return true;
+
+        var footSphere = GlobalSphere[0];
+        return BSPQuery.CheckWalkableSupport(
+            WalkablePlane,
+            WalkableVertices,
+            footSphere.Origin,
+            footSphere.Radius * 0.5f,
+            WalkableUp);
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Retail <c>SPHEREPATH::init</c> reset for a retained transition record.
     /// Every logical value is restored; only the two private exact-length
@@ -5211,6 +5232,22 @@ public sealed class Transition
             && CollisionInfo.ContactPlaneValid
             && CollisionInfo.ContactPlane.Normal.Z >= walkableZ)
         {
+            // Retail CTransition::step_down (0x0050B2A0) validates the
+            // candidate's actual support before placement whenever an
+            // already-grounded mover is not performing a step-up. The first
+            // check uses SPHEREPATH::check_walkables' half-radius foot sphere;
+            // when that fails, DoCheckWalkable performs the downward BSP
+            // probe with the same small-support rule. Omitting this gate let a
+            // wall/post slide leave most of the player sphere beyond a floor
+            // edge while the full-radius step-down overlap still counted as
+            // grounded (issue #273).
+            if (ObjectInfo.EdgeSlide
+                && !sp.StepUp
+                && !DoCheckWalkable(walkableZ, engine))
+            {
+                return false;
+            }
+
             // L.2.3h (2026-04-29): Placement validation is for the
             // DoStepUp use case (prevents climbing through walls by
             // stepping up onto ground beyond a tall wall). For the
@@ -5461,8 +5498,10 @@ public sealed class Transition
         if ((oi.State & ObjectInfoState.OnWalkable) == 0)
             return true;
 
-        // If the current walkable entry is still valid, skip the probe.
-        if (sp.WalkableValid)
+        // Retail first validates the remembered polygon with a half-radius
+        // support sphere. Merely having a polygon pointer is insufficient:
+        // the candidate may already hang too far beyond its edge.
+        if (sp.CheckWalkables())
             return true;
 
         sp.SaveCheckPos();

tests/AcDream.Core.Tests/Physics/Issue185OutdoorStairsSeamReplayTests.cs

@@ -179,12 +179,18 @@ public class Issue185OutdoorStairsSeamReplayTests
 
     /// <summary>
     /// #271 live capture, quantum 310: a forward/uphill displacement that also
-    /// presses into the staircase's side wall must keep its uphill tangent.
-    /// Pre-fix the composite retry path reversed that tangent, moving from
-    /// Y=75.539 to Y=75.199 and rapidly carrying the player back down the stairs.
+    /// presses into the staircase's side wall must never reverse downhill.
+    /// Pre-fix the composite retry path moved from Y=75.539 to Y=75.199 and
+    /// rapidly carried the player back down the stairs.
+    ///
+    /// The captured center is 0.288 m beyond the tread's side edge. Retail's
+    /// SPHEREPATH::check_walkables uses a 0.24 m half-radius support sphere, so
+    /// stopping at this exact side-wall position is valid; advancing farther
+    /// uphill is not. The regression invariant is therefore no downhill motion,
+    /// not mandatory forward progress beyond retail's support boundary.
     /// </summary>
     [Fact]
-    public void OutdoorStairs_SideWallContact_DoesNotReverseUphillTangent()
+    public void OutdoorStairs_SideWallContact_DoesNotReverseDownhill()
     {
         var engine = BuildStairEngine();
         var body = GroundedOnTread();
@@ -211,8 +217,8 @@ public class Issue185OutdoorStairsSeamReplayTests
             $"collision={result.CollisionNormalValid} " +
             $"normal=({result.CollisionNormal.X:F3},{result.CollisionNormal.Y:F3},{result.CollisionNormal.Z:F3})");
 
-        Assert.True(result.Position.Y > body.Position.Y + 0.25f,
-            $"Side-wall response failed to preserve meaningful uphill motion: " +
+        Assert.True(result.Position.Y >= body.Position.Y - 0.001f,
+            $"Side-wall response reversed the intended uphill motion: " +
             $"{body.Position.Y:F6} -> {result.Position.Y:F6}.");
         Assert.True(result.Position.Z >= body.Position.Z - 0.001f,
             $"Side-wall response dropped the grounded player downhill: " +

tests/AcDream.Core.Tests/Physics/Issue273HoltburgTightGapReplayTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,259 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Immutable;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Numerics;
+using AcDream.Core.Physics;
+using Xunit;
+using Xunit.Abstractions;
+
+namespace AcDream.Core.Tests.Physics;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Issue #273 — exact Holtburg tight-gap replay captured live on 2026-07-31.
+/// The player presses between building shell 0x01000F69 and the timber post
+/// at 0xCA9B4027. Retail blocks this passage; before the fix ACDream lets the
+/// post slide feed a displaced step-down probe into precipice-slide, which
+/// carries the player around the post and along the building's outer edge.
+///
+/// The shell collision is a self-contained dump of the installed DAT's real
+/// PhysicsBSP. Post dimensions, building frame, player Setup spheres, and
+/// movement frames are copied from the live trace.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class Issue273HoltburgTightGapReplayTests
+{
+    private readonly ITestOutputHelper _output;
+
+    public Issue273HoltburgTightGapReplayTests(ITestOutputHelper output)
+        => _output = output;
+
+    private const uint Landblock = 0xA9B40000u;
+    private const uint Cell = 0xA9B40032u;
+    private const uint ShellGfxObj = 0x01000F69u;
+    private const uint PlayerEntity = 0x000F4243u;
+
+    private static readonly Vector3 BuildingOrigin = new(158.178f, 37.7055f, 94f);
+    private static readonly Quaternion BuildingRotation =
+        Quaternion.Normalize(new Quaternion(0f, 0f, -0.343045f, 0.939319f));
+    private static readonly Matrix4x4 BuildingTransform =
+        Matrix4x4.CreateFromQuaternion(BuildingRotation)
+        * Matrix4x4.CreateTranslation(BuildingOrigin);
+
+    private static readonly ImmutableArray<FlatCollisionSphere> PlayerSpheres =
+    [
+        new FlatCollisionSphere(new Vector3(0f, 0f, 0.475f), 0.480f),
+        new FlatCollisionSphere(new Vector3(0f, 0f, 1.350f), 0.480f),
+    ];
+
+    private static PhysicsEngine BuildEngine()
+    {
+        var cache = new PhysicsDataCache();
+        var engine = new PhysicsEngine { DataCache = cache };
+
+        string dumpPath = Path.Combine(
+            SolutionRoot(),
+            "tests",
+            "AcDream.Core.Tests",
+            "Fixtures",
+            "issue273",
+            "0x01000F69.gfxobj.json");
+        Assert.True(File.Exists(dumpPath), $"Missing issue #273 fixture: {dumpPath}");
+        cache.RegisterGfxObjForTest(
+            ShellGfxObj,
+            GfxObjDumpSerializer.Hydrate(GfxObjDumpSerializer.Read(dumpPath)));
+
+        // The shell is registered through retail's building channel, not as a
+        // shadow object. Its one portal is irrelevant to this exterior sweep.
+        cache.CacheBuilding(
+            Cell,
+            Array.Empty<BldPortalInfo>(),
+            BuildingTransform,
+            ShellGfxObj);
+
+        // Terrain is deliberately below the shell. The player stands on the
+        // shell's authored z=2 ledge (world z=96), not synthetic terrain.
+        var heights = new byte[81];
+        var heightTable = new float[256];
+        Array.Fill(heightTable, -1000f);
+        engine.AddLandblock(
+            Landblock,
+            new TerrainSurface(heights, heightTable),
+            Array.Empty<CellSurface>(),
+            Array.Empty<PortalPlane>(),
+            0f,
+            0f);
+
+        RegisterPost(
+            engine,
+            0xCA9B4027u,
+            new Vector3(160.173f, 34.487f, 95.975f),
+            radius: 0.282f);
+        RegisterPost(
+            engine,
+            0xCA9B402Eu,
+            new Vector3(158.282f, 34.610f, 95.975f),
+            radius: 0.282f);
+        RegisterPost(
+            engine,
+            0xCA9B402Fu,
+            new Vector3(157.952f, 32.239f, 96f),
+            radius: 0.600f);
+
+        return engine;
+    }
+
+    private static void RegisterPost(
+        PhysicsEngine engine,
+        uint entityId,
+        Vector3 basePosition,
+        float radius)
+    {
+        engine.ShadowObjects.Register(
+            entityId,
+            gfxObjId: 0u,
+            worldPos: basePosition,
+            rotation: Quaternion.Identity,
+            radius,
+            worldOffsetX: 0f,
+            worldOffsetY: 0f,
+            landblockId: Landblock,
+            collisionType: ShadowCollisionType.Cylinder,
+            cylHeight: 5.564f,
+            state: 0u,
+            seedCellId: Cell,
+            isStatic: true);
+    }
+
+    private static PhysicsBody GroundedBody(Vector3 position)
+    {
+        Vector3[] localWalkable =
+        [
+            new(4f, 7.25f, 2f),
+            new(3.3f, 6.5003f, 2f),
+            new(3.3f, -2.0157f, 2f),
+            new(4f, -4.7f, 2f),
+        ];
+        var worldWalkable = new Vector3[localWalkable.Length];
+        for (int i = 0; i < localWalkable.Length; i++)
+            worldWalkable[i] = Vector3.Transform(localWalkable[i], BuildingTransform);
+
+        var floor = new Plane(Vector3.UnitZ, -96f);
+        return new PhysicsBody
+        {
+            Position = position,
+            Orientation = Quaternion.Identity,
+            ContactPlaneValid = true,
+            ContactPlane = floor,
+            ContactPlaneCellId = Cell,
+            WalkablePolygonValid = true,
+            WalkablePlane = floor,
+            WalkableUp = Vector3.UnitZ,
+            WalkableVertices = worldWalkable,
+            TransientState =
+                TransientStateFlags.Contact | TransientStateFlags.OnWalkable,
+        };
+    }
+
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData(1.239f, true)]
+    [InlineData(1.241f, false)]
+    public void RetailHalfRadiusSupport_RejectsCenterBeyondQuarterMeterEdge(
+        float centerX,
+        bool expected)
+    {
+        Vector3[] floor =
+        [
+            new(0f, 0f, 0f),
+            new(1f, 0f, 0f),
+            new(1f, 1f, 0f),
+            new(0f, 1f, 0f),
+        ];
+
+        // The player's 0.48 m foot sphere becomes a 0.24 m support sphere in
+        // SPHEREPATH::check_walkables. Just inside that boundary is supported;
+        // just outside it is not, even though the full movement sphere still
+        // overlaps the floor polygon.
+        bool supported = BSPQuery.CheckWalkableSupport(
+            new Plane(Vector3.UnitZ, 0f),
+            floor,
+            new Vector3(centerX, 0.5f, 0.48f),
+            supportRadius: 0.24f,
+            Vector3.UnitZ);
+
+        Assert.Equal(expected, supported);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void CapturedRun_DoesNotSqueezeBetweenPostAndBuilding()
+    {
+        PhysicsEngine engine = BuildEngine();
+        Vector3 position = new(160.016f, 33.562f, 96.005f);
+        var body = GroundedBody(position);
+        uint cell = Cell;
+
+        // First frame is copied verbatim from the live capture. Subsequent
+        // held-forward frames use the stable displacement visible in that
+        // same trace after input acceleration settles.
+        Vector3[] offsets =
+        [
+            new(1.396f, 1.123f, 0f),
+            new(0.727f, 0.584f, 0f),
+            new(0.624f, 0.501f, 0f),
+            new(0.727f, 0.585f, 0f),
+            new(0.728f, 0.585f, 0f),
+            new(0.727f, 0.585f, 0f),
+            new(0.727f, 0.585f, 0f),
+            new(0.728f, 0.585f, 0f),
+        ];
+
+        for (int frame = 0; frame < offsets.Length; frame++)
+        {
+            ResolveResult result = engine.ResolveWithTransition(
+                currentPos: position,
+                targetPos: position + offsets[frame],
+                cellId: cell,
+                sphereRadius: 0.48f,
+                sphereHeight: 1.835f,
+                stepUpHeight: 0.6f,
+                stepDownHeight: 1.5f,
+                isOnGround: true,
+                body: body,
+                moverFlags: ObjectInfoState.IsPlayer | ObjectInfoState.EdgeSlide,
+                movingEntityId: PlayerEntity,
+                sphereList: PlayerSpheres,
+                sphereScale: 1f);
+
+            _output.WriteLine(
+                $"f{frame}: in=({position.X:F3},{position.Y:F3},{position.Z:F3}) "
+                + $"out=({result.Position.X:F3},{result.Position.Y:F3},{result.Position.Z:F3}) "
+                + $"hit={result.CollisionNormalValid} "
+                + $"normal=({result.CollisionNormal.X:F3},"
+                + $"{result.CollisionNormal.Y:F3},{result.CollisionNormal.Z:F3})");
+
+            position = result.Position;
+            cell = result.CellId;
+            body.Position = position;
+        }
+
+        // The captured broken run reached (163.234, 36.982) by this point,
+        // already beyond the post and sliding along the building. Retail
+        // blocks the passage before the player can cross the post's Y.
+        Assert.True(
+            position.Y < 34.487f,
+            $"Player squeezed through the retail-blocked gap: "
+            + $"final=({position.X:F3},{position.Y:F3},{position.Z:F3}).");
+    }
+
+    private static string SolutionRoot()
+    {
+        string? directory = AppContext.BaseDirectory;
+        while (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(directory))
+        {
+            if (File.Exists(Path.Combine(directory, "AcDream.slnx")))
+                return directory;
+            directory = Path.GetDirectoryName(directory);
+        }
+
+        throw new InvalidOperationException(
+            $"Could not locate AcDream.slnx from {AppContext.BaseDirectory}.");
+    }
+}

tools/A8CellAudit/Program.cs

@@ -323,9 +323,9 @@ static (int RegistryBuildings, int ShellEntities) DumpLandblockBuildings(LandBlo
 {
     uint lbPrefix = landblockId & 0xFFFF0000u;
     uint stabIdBase = 0xC0000000u
-        | (((landblockId >> 24) & 0xFFu) << 16)
-        | (((landblockId >> 16) & 0xFFu) << 8);
-    uint nextEntityId = stabIdBase + 1u;
+        | (((landblockId >> 24) & 0xFFu) << 20)
+        | (((landblockId >> 16) & 0xFFu) << 12);
+    uint nextEntityId = stabIdBase;
 
     int supportedObjects = 0;
     foreach (var obj in info.Objects)
@@ -333,7 +333,13 @@ static (int RegistryBuildings, int ShellEntities) DumpLandblockBuildings(LandBlo
         if (!IsSupported(obj.Id))
             continue;
         supportedObjects++;
-        nextEntityId++;
+        uint entityId = nextEntityId++;
+        Console.WriteLine(
+            $"objectOrdinal={supportedObjects} entity=0x{entityId:X8} "
+            + $"model=0x{obj.Id:X8} "
+            + $"pos=({obj.Frame.Origin.X:R},{obj.Frame.Origin.Y:R},{obj.Frame.Origin.Z:R}) "
+            + $"quat=({obj.Frame.Orientation.W:R},{obj.Frame.Orientation.X:R},"
+            + $"{obj.Frame.Orientation.Y:R},{obj.Frame.Orientation.Z:R})");
     }
 
     Console.WriteLine(
@@ -365,7 +371,9 @@ static (int RegistryBuildings, int ShellEntities) DumpLandblockBuildings(LandBlo
 
         Console.WriteLine(
             $"buildingOrdinal={zeroBased + 1} registryId={registryText} shellEntity=0x{shellEntityId:X8} " +
-            $"model=0x{building.ModelId:X8} pos=({building.Frame.Origin.X:F2},{building.Frame.Origin.Y:F2},{building.Frame.Origin.Z:F2}) " +
+            $"model=0x{building.ModelId:X8} pos=({building.Frame.Origin.X:R},{building.Frame.Origin.Y:R},{building.Frame.Origin.Z:R}) " +
+            $"quat=({building.Frame.Orientation.W:R},{building.Frame.Orientation.X:R}," +
+            $"{building.Frame.Orientation.Y:R},{building.Frame.Orientation.Z:R}) " +
             $"portalCells={portalText}");
     }
 
@@ -436,6 +444,25 @@ static void DumpGfxObj(DatCollection dats, uint gfxObjId)
     Console.WriteLine(
         $"classify: walls={walls} (outwardFacing={outwardWalls} inwardFacing={inwardWalls}) " +
         $"floors={floors} ceilings={ceilings} slopes={slopes}");
+    Console.WriteLine("physics polygons:");
+    foreach (var (polyId, poly) in g.PhysicsPolygons.OrderBy(p => p.Key))
+    {
+        Vector3 polyMin = new(float.MaxValue);
+        Vector3 polyMax = new(float.MinValue);
+        foreach (ushort vertexId in poly.VertexIds.Select(id => (ushort)id))
+        {
+            if (!g.VertexArray.Vertices.TryGetValue(vertexId, out var vertex))
+                continue;
+            polyMin = Vector3.Min(polyMin, vertex.Origin);
+            polyMax = Vector3.Max(polyMax, vertex.Origin);
+        }
+        Vector3 normal = ComputeNormalG(g, poly);
+        Console.WriteLine(
+            $"  poly=0x{polyId:X4} n=({normal.X:F3},{normal.Y:F3},{normal.Z:F3}) "
+            + $"min=({polyMin.X:F3},{polyMin.Y:F3},{polyMin.Z:F3}) "
+            + $"max=({polyMax.X:F3},{polyMax.Y:F3},{polyMax.Z:F3}) "
+            + $"sides={poly.SidesType} stip={poly.Stippling}");
+    }
     Console.WriteLine();
 }
 

tools/SetupInspect/Program.cs

@@ -45,6 +45,26 @@ if (!dats.TryGet<Setup>(setupId, out var setup) || setup is null)
 
 Console.WriteLine($"=== Setup 0x{setupId:X8} ===");
 Console.WriteLine($"Flags            = 0x{(uint)setup.Flags:X8}");
+Console.WriteLine($"Radius/Height    = {setup.Radius:F3} / {setup.Height:F3}");
+Console.WriteLine($"StepUp/StepDown  = {setup.StepUpHeight:F3} / {setup.StepDownHeight:F3}");
+Console.WriteLine($"Spheres          = {setup.Spheres.Count}");
+for (int i = 0; i < setup.Spheres.Count; i++)
+{
+    Sphere sphere = setup.Spheres[i];
+    Console.WriteLine(
+        $"  sphere[{i}] origin=({sphere.Origin.X:R},{sphere.Origin.Y:R},{sphere.Origin.Z:R}) "
+        + $"radius={sphere.Radius:R} "
+        + $"radiusBits=0x{BitConverter.SingleToUInt32Bits(sphere.Radius):X8}");
+}
+Console.WriteLine($"CylSpheres       = {setup.CylSpheres.Count}");
+for (int i = 0; i < setup.CylSpheres.Count; i++)
+{
+    CylSphere cylinder = setup.CylSpheres[i];
+    Console.WriteLine(
+        $"  cyl[{i}] origin=({cylinder.Origin.X:R},{cylinder.Origin.Y:R},{cylinder.Origin.Z:R}) "
+        + $"radius={cylinder.Radius:R} height={cylinder.Height:R} "
+        + $"radiusBits=0x{BitConverter.SingleToUInt32Bits(cylinder.Radius):X8}");
+}
 Console.WriteLine($"Parts            = {setup.Parts.Count}");
 for (int i = 0; i < setup.Parts.Count; i++)
 {
@@ -78,7 +98,10 @@ foreach (uint gfxId in setup.Parts.Select(p => (uint)p).Distinct())
     Console.WriteLine(
         $"  gfx=0x{gfxId:X8} verts={count} "
         + $"x[{minX:F2},{maxX:F2}] y[{minY:F2},{maxY:F2}] z[{minZ:F2},{maxZ:F2}] "
-        + $"sortCenter=({gfx.SortCenter.X:F2},{gfx.SortCenter.Y:F2},{gfx.SortCenter.Z:F2})");
+        + $"sortCenter=({gfx.SortCenter.X:F2},{gfx.SortCenter.Y:F2},{gfx.SortCenter.Z:F2}) "
+        + $"flags=0x{(uint)gfx.Flags:X8} "
+        + $"physicsBsp={(gfx.PhysicsBSP?.Root is null ? "none" : "present")} "
+        + $"physicsPolygons={gfx.PhysicsPolygons.Count}");
 }
 
 Console.WriteLine($"DefaultAnimation = 0x{(uint)setup.DefaultAnimation:X8}");