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Erik
ec1bbb4f43 feat(vfx): Phase C.1 — PES particle renderer + post-review fixes
Ports retail's ParticleEmitterInfo / Particle::Init / Particle::Update
(0x005170d0..0x0051d400) and PhysicsScript runtime to a C# data-layer
plus a Silk.NET billboard renderer. Sky-PES path is debug-only behind
ACDREAM_ENABLE_SKY_PES because named-retail decomp confirms GameSky
copies SkyObject.pes_id but never reads it (CreateDeletePhysicsObjects
0x005073c0, MakeObject 0x00506ee0, UseTime 0x005075b0).

Post-review fixes folded into this commit:

H1: AttachLocal (is_parent_local=1) follows live parent each frame.
    ParticleSystem.UpdateEmitterAnchor + ParticleHookSink.UpdateEntityAnchor
    let the owning subsystem refresh AnchorPos every tick — matches
    ParticleEmitter::UpdateParticles 0x0051d2d4 which re-reads the live
    parent frame when is_parent_local != 0. Drops the renderer-side
    cameraOffset hack that only worked when the parent was the camera.

H3: Strip the long stale comment in GfxObjMesh.cs that contradicted the
    retail-faithful (1 - translucency) opacity formula. The code was
    right; the comment was a leftover from an earlier hypothesis and
    would have invited a wrong "fix".

M1: SkyRenderer tracks textures whose wrap mode it set to ClampToEdge
    and restores them to Repeat at end-of-pass, so non-sky renderers
    that share the GL handle can't silently inherit clamped wrap state.

M2: Post-scene Z-offset (-120m) only fires when the SkyObject is
    weather-flagged AND bit 0x08 is clear, matching retail
    GameSky::UpdatePosition 0x00506dd0. The old code applied it to
    every post-scene object — a no-op today (every Dereth post-scene
    entry happens to be weather-flagged) but a future post-scene-only
    sun rim would have been pushed below the camera.

M4: ParticleSystem.EmitterDied event lets ParticleHookSink prune dead
    handles from the per-entity tracking dictionaries, fixing a slow
    leak where naturally-expired emitters' handles stayed in the
    ConcurrentBag forever during long sessions.

M5: SkyPesEntityId moves the post-scene flag bit to 0x08000000 so it
    can't ever overlap the object-index range. Synthetic IDs stay in
    the reserved 0xFxxxxxxx space.

New tests (ParticleSystemTests + ParticleHookSinkTests):
- UpdateEmitterAnchor_AttachLocal_ParticlePositionFollowsLiveAnchor
- UpdateEmitterAnchor_AttachLocalCleared_ParticleFrozenAtSpawnOrigin
- EmitterDied_FiresOncePerHandle_AfterAllParticlesExpire
- Birthrate_PerSec_EmitsOnePerTickWhenIntervalElapsed (retail-faithful
  single-emit-per-frame behavior)
- UpdateEntityAnchor_WithAttachLocal_MovesParticleToLiveAnchor
- EmitterDied_PrunesPerEntityHandleTracking

dotnet build green, dotnet test green: 695 / 393 / 243 = 1331 passed
(up from 1325).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-28 22:47:11 +02:00
Erik
3f913f1999 docs+feat: 13 retail-AC deep-dives (R1-R13) + C# port scaffolds + roadmap E-H
78,000 words of grounded, citation-backed research across 13 major AC
subsystems, produced by 13 parallel Opus-4.7 high-effort agents. Plus
compact C# port scaffolds for the top-5 systems and a phase-E-through-H
roadmap update sequencing the work.

Research (docs/research/deepdives/):
- 00-master-synthesis.md          (navigation hub + dependency graph)
- r01-spell-system.md        5.4K words (fizzle sigmoid, 8 tabs, 0x004A wire)
- r02-combat-system.md       5.9K words (damage formula, crit, body table)
- r03-motion-animation.md    8.2K words (450+ commands, 27 hook types)
- r04-vfx-particles.md       5.8K words (13 ParticleType, PhysicsScript)
- r05-audio-sound.md         5.6K words (DirectSound 8, CPU falloff)
- r06-items-inventory.md     7.4K words (ItemType flags, EquipMask 31 slots)
- r07-character-creation.md  6.3K words (CharGen dat, 13 heritages)
- r08-network-protocol-atlas 9.7K words (63+149+94 opcodes mapped)
- r09-dungeon-portal-space.md 6.3K words (EnvCell, PlayerTeleport flow)
- r10-quest-dialogs.md       7.1K words (emote-script VM, 122 actions)
- r11-allegiance.md          5.4K words (tree + XP passup + 5 channels)
- r12-weather-daynight.md    4.5K words (deterministic client-side)
- r13-dynamic-lighting.md    4.9K words (8-light cap, hard Range cutoff)

Every claim cites a FUN_ address, ACE file path, DatReaderWriter type,
or holtburger/ACViewer reference. The master synthesis ties them into a
dependency graph and phase sequence.

Key architectural finding: of 94 GameEvents in the 0xF7B0 envelope,
ZERO are handled today — that's the largest network-protocol gap and
blocks F.2 (items) + F.5 (panels) + H.1 (chat).

C# scaffolds (src/AcDream.Core/):
- Items/ItemInstance.cs    — ItemType/EquipMask enums, ItemInstance,
                             Container, PropertyBundle, BurdenMath
- Spells/SpellModel.cs      — SpellDatEntry, SpellComponentEntry,
                             SpellCastStateMachine, ActiveBuff,
                             SpellMath (fizzle sigmoid + mana cost)
- Combat/CombatModel.cs     — CombatMode/AttackType/DamageType/BodyPart,
                             DamageEvent record, CombatMath (hit-chance
                             sigmoids, power/accuracy mods, damage formula),
                             ArmorBuild
- Audio/AudioModel.cs       — SoundId enum, SoundEntry, WaveData,
                             IAudioEngine / ISoundCache contracts,
                             AudioFalloff (inverse-square)
- Vfx/VfxModel.cs           — 13 ParticleType integrators, EmitterDesc,
                             PhysicsScript + hooks, Particle struct,
                             ParticleEmitter, IParticleSystem contract

All Core-layer data models; platform-backed engines live in AcDream.App.
Compiles clean; 470 tests still pass.

Roadmap (docs/plans/2026-04-11-roadmap.md):
- Phase E — "Feel alive": motion-hooks + audio + VFX
- Phase F — Fight + cast + gear: GameEvent dispatch, inventory,
            combat, spell, core panels
- Phase G — World systems: sky/weather, dynamic lighting, dungeons
- Phase H — Social + progression: chat, allegiance, quests, char creation
- Phase J — Long-tail (renumbered from old Phase E)

Quick-lookup table updated with 10+ new rows mapping observations to
new phase letters.
2026-04-18 10:32:44 +02:00