feat(core+app): per-cell terrain texture blending (Phase 3c.4)

The visual-win commit that wires up the Phase 3c.1/.2/.3 building blocks:
Holtburg's terrain now uses AC's real per-cell texture-merge blend
(base + up to 3 terrain overlays + up to 2 road overlays, with alpha
masks from the alpha atlas) instead of the flat per-vertex single-layer
atlas lookup that preceded it.

Geometry rewrite:
  - New TerrainVertex struct (40 bytes): Position(vec3) + Normal(vec3) +
    Data0..3 (4x uint32 packed blend recipe)
  - LandblockMesh.Build is now cell-based: iterates 8x8 cells instead of
    the old 9x9 vertex grid, emits 6 vertices per cell (two triangles),
    384 total vertices per landblock
  - For each cell: extract 4-corner terrain/road values → GetPalCode →
    BuildSurface (cached across landblocks via a shared surfaceCache) →
    FillCellData → split direction from CalculateSplitDirection → emit
    6 vertices in the exact gl_VertexID % 6 order WorldBuilder's vertex
    shader expects
  - Per-vertex normals preserved via Phase 3b central-difference
    precomputation on the 9x9 heightmap, interpolated smoothly across
    the cell (we deliberately didn't adopt WorldBuilder's dFdx/dFdy
    flat-shade approach — Phase 3a/3b user-tuned lighting was worth
    keeping)

Renderer rewrite:
  - TerrainRenderer VAO: vec3 Position, vec3 Normal, 4x uvec4 byte
    attributes for Data0..3. The uvec4-of-bytes read pattern matches
    Landscape.vert so the ported shader math stays byte-for-byte
    identical to WorldBuilder's.
  - Binds both atlases: terrain atlas on unit 0 (uTerrain), alpha atlas
    on unit 1 (uAlpha)

Shader rewrite (ports of WorldBuilder Landscape.vert/.frag, trimmed):
  - terrain.vert: unpacks the 4 data bytes + rotation bits, derives the
    cell corner from gl_VertexID % 6 + splitDir, rotates the cell-local
    UV per overlay's rotation field, and computes world-space normal
    for the fragment shader
  - terrain.frag: maskBlend3 three-layer alpha-weighted composite for
    terrain overlays, inverted-alpha road combine, final composite
    base * (1-ovlA)*(1-rdA) + ovl * ovlA*(1-rdA) + road * rdA. Phase
    3a/3b directional lighting applied on top (SUN_DIR, AMBIENT=0.25,
    DIFFUSE=0.75, in sync with mesh.frag).
  - Editor uniforms (grid, brush, unwalkable slopes) deliberately
    omitted — not applicable to a game client
  - Per-texture tiling factor hardcoded to 1.0 for now (WorldBuilder
    reads it from uTexTiling[36] uploaded from the dats); one tile per
    cell = 8 tiles per landblock-side, slightly coarser than the old
    ~2x-per-cell tiling. Tunable via the TILE constant if needed.

TerrainAtlas grew parallel TCode/RCode lists (CornerAlphaTCodes,
SideAlphaTCodes, RoadAlphaRCodes) so TerrainBlendingContext can be
built without the mesh loader touching the dats directly.

GameWindow builds a TerrainBlendingContext once, shares a Dictionary
<uint, SurfaceInfo> surfaceCache across all 9 landblocks. Output:
"terrain: 137 unique palette codes across 9 landblocks" — avg ~15
unique per landblock, cache reuse healthy.

LandblockMeshTests rewritten for 384-vertex layout. 77/77 tests green.
Visual smoke run launches clean: no shader compile/link errors, no
GL warnings, terrain renders to the screen.

User visual verification is the final acceptance gate for Phase 3c.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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using System.Numerics;
namespace AcDream.Core.Terrain;
/// <summary>
/// Per-vertex terrain geometry + blend data. Terrain uses a cell-based
/// layout: 64 cells per landblock, 6 vertices per cell (two triangles),
/// 384 vertices per landblock total. All 6 vertices in a cell carry
/// identical <c>Data0..3</c> (the cell's blend recipe from
/// <see cref="TerrainBlending.FillCellData"/>); the vertex shader derives
/// which of the 4 cell corners a given vertex represents from
/// <c>gl_VertexID % 6</c> plus the split direction bit.
///
/// Normal is stored per vertex via Phase 3b's central-difference scheme on
/// the 9×9 heightmap — this lets the fragment shader interpolate a smooth
/// normal across triangles (softer than WorldBuilder's <c>dFdx</c>/<c>dFdy</c>
/// flat-shaded approach). UVs are derived from the corner index in the
/// vertex shader — not stored here.
///
/// Size: 12 (position) + 12 (normal) + 4*4 (Data0..3) = 40 bytes.
/// </summary>
public readonly record struct TerrainVertex(
Vector3 Position,
Vector3 Normal,
uint Data0,
uint Data1,
uint Data2,
uint Data3);