Mounts gmCharGenMainUI (enum 0x10000039, root 0x100003CC) via
CharacterCreationUiController/CharacterCreationUiMountCoordinator,
cloning CharacterManagementUiController's recipe. Master shell ports
SetProgressState @0x004e7a10 (Olthoi tab-hide + redirect) and
ListenToElementMessage @0x004e9450 (Back/Next/Finish/Help/Exit/Random
nav) verbatim, with free tab navigation over all six pages. Heritage,
Profession, Skills, and Town pages bind to CC3's
RuntimeCharacterCreationState commands; Appearance and Summary mount as
content-inert placeholders for CC6b/CC5.
Live-DAT probing (CharacterCreationLiveDatTests) found two widget-
mapping surprises the decomp's DynamicCast hints don't predict: the
Profession slider's value field imports as an editable UiField (wired
for direct numeric entry), and the avail/health/stamina/mana/credits
displays author as UIElement_Button hosts whose Type-12 value child is
swallowed by UiButton.ConsumesDatChildren — substituted with the
button's own Label. No new DatWidgetFactory widget types were needed.
Threads the installed DAT's real ChargenOptions into Runtime via the
new RuntimeCharacterCreationState.InstallOptions, called from
ContentEffectsAudioCompositionPhase.Compose (mirrors
InstallSpellMetadata's pattern); headless keeps ChargenOptions.Empty
unchanged. Wires CC3's F14 status-hook gap (ApplyCharacterCreated/
ApplyCreationFailed) to SessionStatusWriter for both graphical and
headless hosts, and adds the CharacterCreation view/command seam
through CurrentGameRuntimeAdapter and DeferredGameRuntimeStateCommands
alongside CharacterSelection's existing shape.
Register: AD-101/102/103, AP-212/213, TS-82 filed for the auto-gender-
select interim default, the omitted ToD-account gate, the button-Label
widget substitution, the Random-button approximation, the flat-listbox
Skills simplification, and the Appearance/Summary placeholders.
Runtime 1713/0 (was 1707), App 5117/13 skips (was 5101/6), Headless
165/0 unaffected, full solution Release build green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Opus dual-lens review of CC3's RuntimeCharacterCreationState passed on
retail fidelity but failed the controller integration: the post-create
log-straight-in indexed the CACHED wire CharacterList, which ACE never
resends after a create (it only appends server-side and replies Ok) —
with zero pre-existing characters this throws, with N it can silently
enter the WRONG character. The same stale-index problem corrupted every
pre-existing character's delete slot on roster re-sort. Fixes all four
blocking findings plus a credit-gate correctness bug (retail warns and
lets the user confirm through unspent credits; it does not force a full
spend) and eight lower-severity findings from the same review round.
F1 (blocking): WorldSession gained a guid-based EnterWorld(uint,string,
TimeSpan?) overload sharing EnterWorldCore with the index-based one;
ILiveSessionOperations gained a default EnterWorldByGuid method.
LiveSessionController factored EnterSelectedCore/the new
EnterCreatedCharacterCore through a shared EnterHighlightedCore so the
post-create enter sends by the exact guid the 0xF643 Ok reply carried,
never by a roster index.
F2 (blocking): RuntimeCharacterSelectionState gained a real
AppendCreatedCharacter primitive that preserves every existing entry's
ActiveIndex (a wire contract — SendDeleteCharacter sends it as the
CharacterSet slot) and assigns the new entry's from the pre-create wire
roster count, instead of round-tripping the post-create roster through
ApplyRoster's name-sort-and-renumber.
F3 (blocking): retail's DoFinish(this, arg2) gate is
"arg2 != 0 && remainingAtrbCredits > 0" — the ordinary click warns and
refuses, but the warning dialog's own confirm re-invokes DoFinish(this,
0), which sends anyway with credits unspent (ACE accepts this).
TryBeginFinish/Finish gained a confirmedUnspentCredits parameter; the
plan doc's "retail FORCES full spend" line is corrected in the same
commit.
F4 (blocking): a stale out-of-range template index surviving a heritage
switch to a heritage with fewer templates now clears to TemplateUnset,
matching ConstrainAllByHeritage's clamp.
F5/F9/F10: three register-row/doc citation corrections (AP-207's real
FitTemplateToCharacter call sites — a fourth one the original filing
also missed; the Slot field's real retail assignment source; AP-209's
classID branch table for Olthoi/OlthoiAcid). F6: ApplyCreationResponse
no longer publishes from inside the owner lock. F7: two new tests pin
BalanceAttributes' persistent donor cursor (successive-overspend
advance, Self-to-Strength wrap). F8: ResetSkillLevels' doc corrected to
retail's real both-costs->=0 gate. F11: the integration test fixture
captures guid-based enter calls and uses two pre-existing characters
whose wire order differs from alphabetical order, so the roster
assertion actually exercises F2 instead of coinciding with it by
accident. F12: filed register row AP-211 for the client-side RosterFull
slot-cap refusal (no retail DoFinish-layer counterpart). F13: narrowed
Finish's bare catch to InvalidOperationException/SocketException and
bound _scope to a local. F15: RandomizeStartAreaLocked leaves the start
area unchanged on an empty list instead of forcing -1, matching retail.
Runtime 1706/0 (was 1701), Core.Net unchanged at 994/0, full solution
Release build green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ports retail's CharGenState as the one Runtime-owned character-creation
state machine, mirroring RuntimeCharacterSelectionState's exact pattern
(snapshot/delta/event-stream, borrow-only view, generation-gated
commands, one mutable owner, no App types). Every command ports a named
retail function: SetHeritageGroup, SetGender, SetTemplate/ApplyTemplate
(Custom = template 0, Olthoi force-lock), the six attribute setters plus
GetAbsRemainingCredits/BalanceAttributes (retail's literal round-robin
order and fairness cursor), SetSkillLevel plus ResetSkillLevels' free-skill
baseline (reusing CC1's ChargenSkillCreditMath two-tier cost lookup
verbatim), RandomizeStartArea, and DoFinish's complete gate sequence
(empty name / unspent attribute credits / already-Pending / client-side
roster-vs-slotCount cap).
LiveSessionController gained a sibling IRuntimeCharacterCreationCommands
implementation, a CreateCharacter wire hook, and a response handler that
reuses existing machinery rather than inventing new paths: the Ok
identity is appended to the roster via RuntimeCharacterSelectionState's
own ApplyRoster, and the "log straight in" behavior reuses the private
EnterSelectedCore. ILiveSessionLifecycleHost gained two default-no-op
hooks (ApplyCharacterCreated/ApplyCreationFailed) so AcDream.App needs
zero changes to keep compiling; wiring them to the status stream is a
CC4 follow-up.
Filed four divergence-register rows for the corners deliberately not
ported: the FPU-unrecoverable FitTemplateToCharacter auto-detect (AP-207,
ACE only reads the field for title text), the per-style color-count
approximation (AP-208, CC1's model has no per-style palette data), the
classID DAT-DID placeholder (AP-209, ACE ignores the field), and
ApplyTemplate's atomic-vs-sequential attribute apply (AP-210).
34 new tests: full state-machine coverage (every Finish gate, every
rejection-code mapping, duplicate-NameInUse tolerance, Olthoi lock,
attribute balance/lock interaction, uncostable-skill rejection) plus a
LiveSessionController integration suite proving the wire send is exactly
55 skill slots (decoded from a real WorldSession + GameMessageCapture)
and the full Ok/rejection round trip through WorldSession.ProcessDatagram.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Erik