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fix(D.5.2): effect tint = per-pixel tile copy (surface ReplaceColor overload)

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Visual verification (Coldeve, Energy Crystal) showed acdream's Magical blue as a
flat tint vs retail's gradient. Root cause: RenderIcons calls the SURFACE overload
of SurfaceWindow::ReplaceColor (0x004415b0), which copies the textured effect tile
pixel-by-pixel into the icon's pure-white pixels — not the flat color->color overload
(0x00441530) I'd approximated with the tile's mean color. Port the surface overload
exactly (dst[x,y]=src[x,y] where dst==white); confirmed via clean Ghidra decompile +
named decomp. Retires AP-43 (mean-color approximation); IA-18 updated to the surface op.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ accepted-divergence entries (#96, #49, #50).
| IA-14 | Rendering + dat-handling base is WorldBuilder's tested port, not a fresh retail-decomp port (Phase N.4/O design stance) | `docs/architecture/worldbuilder-inventory.md` (code at `src/AcDream.{Core,App}/Rendering/Wb/`) | WB visually verified on the AC world, MIT, same stack; known WB↔retail deltas resolved case-by-case — terrain split kept retail `FSplitNESW` (**#51**, pinned by `SplitFormulaDivergenceTest`), scenery drift accepted (AP-31) | A WB-upstream divergence not yet caught ships silently as "our" behavior; guard = the inventory doc's 🟢/🔴 split + per-formula divergence tests | retail decomp per algorithm; `tests/.../SplitFormulaDivergenceTest.cs` |
| IA-15 | D.2b retail UI is our own UiHost/UiElement retained-mode tree drawing dat-sprite window frames, not a byte-port of keystone.dll's LayoutDesc binary tree. Both the vitals window (`LayoutDesc 0x2100006C`) and the chat window (`LayoutDesc 0x21000006`) are rendered by the LayoutDesc importer; `UiNineSlicePanel`/`RetailChromeSprites` now back only plugin panels | `src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/LayoutImporter.cs` (vitals + chat) + `src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/ChatWindowController.cs` | keystone.dll has no PDB/decomp so a byte-port is impossible by definition; we mirror retail's ElementDesc field model + controls.ini tokens, and the chrome sprites ARE the real dat RenderSurfaces (Step-0 prove-out 2026-06-14 confirmed 0x06004CC2 center + 0x060074BF..C6 bevel). The 8-piece edge/corner→position mapping is DATA-DRIVEN from the dat: the `LayoutImporter` reads `LayoutDesc 0x2100006C`/`0x21000006` and resolves chrome element positions + sprite ids directly from parsed dat fields; vitals locked by the conformance fixture `tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/fixtures/vitals_2100006C.json` | Remaining residual risk: anchor resolution at non-800×600 and the controls.ini cascade still lack an oracle — layout scaling at non-reference resolution and stylesheet token inheritance differ silently | `LayoutDesc 0x2100006C`/`0x21000006` (SHIPPED); `docs/research/2026-06-15-layoutdesc-format.md`; controls.ini tokens; keystone.dll layout eval (no PDB) |
| IA-17 | Toolbar window FRAME is toolkit-supplied (per-window UiNineSlicePanel 8-piece bevel, drawn over content via UiElement.OnDrawAfterChildren) rather than the window-manager-owned chrome retail paints uniformly around every window | `src/AcDream.App/Rendering/GameWindow.cs` (toolbar mount) + `src/AcDream.App/UI/UiNineSlicePanel.cs` | LayoutDesc 0x21000016 has NO baked frame; retail's toolbar frame is window-manager chrome (keystone.dll). We draw the same reusable 8-piece bevel chat/vitals use; border drawn over content so the toolbar's 2px-wide row-2 right cap (W=8) can't poke through. Same pattern as the chat window. | Until a central window manager owns chrome uniformly, per-window wraps can drift (size/offset/z-order) from each other and from retail; the border-over-content rule is the toolkit's, not the WM's | gmToolbarUI WM chrome (keystone.dll, no PDB); no bevel ids in LayoutDesc 0x21000016 (toolbar dump) |
| IA-18 | Effect overlay tile (enum 0x10000005) is used as a `ReplaceColor` tint SOURCE — white pixels in the composited drag icon are replaced with the tile's representative color; the tile itself is NOT blitted as an additional layer. This IS faithful retail behavior (`IconData::RenderIcons` 0x0058d180 / `SurfaceWindow::ReplaceColor` 0x00441530). **Anti-regression: do NOT re-implement this as a separate blit layer.** | `src/AcDream.App/UI/IconComposer.cs` (`GetIcon`) | Faithful port of `IconData::RenderIcons` @407575 / `ReplaceColor` @407614; confirmed in `docs/research/2026-06-17-stateful-icon-RESOLVED.md`. Recorded here as a guard against a future dev "fixing" it back to a blit. | A blit-layer re-implementation would show the tile's colors additively over the icon instead of recoloring the base white highlights — wrong effect look, masked by the fact that the tile IS mostly the right color but composites differently | `IconData::RenderIcons` acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:407524; `ReplaceColor` @407614 (fixed src=white); `docs/research/2026-06-17-stateful-icon-RESOLVED.md` |
| IA-18 | Effect overlay tile (enum 0x10000005) is a `ReplaceColor` SURFACE SOURCE — pure-white pixels in the composited drag icon are replaced PER-PIXEL with the same (x,y) pixel of the effect tile (the SURFACE overload `SurfaceWindow::ReplaceColor` 0x004415b0), preserving the tile's texture/gradient; the tile itself is NOT blitted as an additional layer. This IS faithful retail behavior. **Anti-regression: do NOT re-implement this as a blit layer NOR as a flat-color replace (it is a per-pixel surface copy).** | `src/AcDream.App/UI/IconComposer.cs` (`ReplaceWhiteFromSurface`) | Faithful port of `IconData::RenderIcons` @407614 → the SURFACE overload `ReplaceColor` 0x004415b0 (`dst[x,y]=src[x,y]` where `dst==white`); confirmed via clean Ghidra decompile + named decomp + visual (the Energy Crystal's blue is a gradient, 2026-06-17). | A blit-layer or flat-color re-implementation would show the wrong effect look (no gradient) — the visual-verification regression that retired the mean-color approximation | `IconData::RenderIcons` acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:407524; `ReplaceColor` SURFACE overload 0x004415b0:71656; `docs/research/2026-06-17-stateful-icon-RESOLVED.md` |
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@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ accepted-divergence entries (#96, #49, #50).
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## 3. Documented approximation (AP) — 43 rows
## 3. Documented approximation (AP) — 42 rows
| # | Divergence | Where (file:line) | Why it is safe / justified | Risk if assumption breaks | Retail oracle |
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@ -142,7 +142,6 @@ accepted-divergence entries (#96, #49, #50).
| AP-40 | Single default translucency for the chat window chrome; no focused/unfocused opacity transition; dat font face/size taken from the vitals `vitalsDatFont` (same dat font, not a chat-specific size lookup) | `src/AcDream.App/Rendering/GameWindow.cs` (chatController binding line) | Retail fades the chat window to ~80% alpha when unfocused (`gmMainChatUI::UpdateAlpha @0x4cdea0`); the opacity animation deferred to the Plan-2 window-manager input integration; sharing `vitalsDatFont` is safe — retail uses the same AC-default font for both | The chat window is always fully opaque/same-font rather than subtly fading when idle; no wrong text, but the focused/unfocused breathing rhythm is absent | `gmMainChatUI::UpdateAlpha` @0x4cdea0; `UCF::SetAceFont @0x4d3940` |
| AP-41 | Scrollbar thumb 3-slice cap fallback only: single-tile draw (`0x06004C63`) used only when `ThumbTopSprite`/`ThumbBotSprite` are unset; the chat controller passes all three cap ids so the 3-slice path is drawn in practice | `src/AcDream.App/UI/UiScrollbar.cs:35` | The fallback single-tile path is unreachable when caps are bound (chat controller always sets them); the 3-slice path is the active code path | Only if a future caller omits the cap ids will the fallback fire — no visual regression in the chat window | `UIElement_Scrollbar::UpdateLayout @0x4710d0`; cap sprites `0x06004C60` (top) + `0x06004C66` (bottom) from base layout `0x2100003E` |
| AP-42 | `UiMenu` item model is flat (label + opaque payload, single-level popup); retail `UIElement_Menu::MakePopup @0x46d310` supports hierarchical nested submenus via recursive popup chain | `src/AcDream.App/UI/UiMenu.cs` | The chat talk-focus menu is single-level (14 rows, 2 columns, no submenu); hierarchy is latent and unreachable through the chat window — no behavioral difference in the current usage | A future menu with nested submenus would render flat (only the top-level items drawn, no drill-down) | `UIElement_Menu::MakePopup` @0x46d310 |
| AP-43 | Effect tint color = the effect tile's mean-opaque RGB (average of non-transparent pixels); the exact retail color is an `effectTile + 0xac` pointer reinterpreted as `RGBAColor` — decompiler-ambiguous in the BN pseudo-C (field offset vs pointer). Visual/cdb confirmation pending (D.5.2 lever: DR-2) | `src/AcDream.App/UI/IconComposer.cs` (`TryGetEffectColor`) | The tile IS the per-effect coloring authority (Magical=blue, Poisoned=green, …); its mean-opaque color is the representative color. The ambiguity only affects hue saturation slightly. | Effect tints could be subtly wrong vs retail (too washed-out or oversaturated) if the header field is a precomputed key color rather than the pixel mean — visible on items with distinctive effect glows | `IconData::RenderIcons` 0x0058d180 (`effectTile+0xac` usage); `docs/research/2026-06-17-stateful-icon-RESOLVED.md` |
| AP-45 | `PublicUpdatePropertyInt (0x02CE)` sequence byte parsed-past but not honored; last update wins (no freshness check against sequence number) | `src/AcDream.Core.Net/Messages/PublicUpdatePropertyInt.cs` | Loopback ACE rarely reorders; latest-wins matches `PrivateUpdateVital`/`UpdatePosition`'s existing non-sequence behavior. Sequence tracking added when needed alongside TS-26. | A reordered 0x02CE on a real network could apply a stale UiEffects value — item icon temporarily shows the wrong effect state, corrected on next update | `PublicUpdatePropertyInt` sequence byte (ACE GameMessagePublicUpdatePropertyInt) |
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