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Erik
22b86b9ff4 feat(ui): Campaign OP slice OP4 — the Character tab
Binds LayoutDesc 0x21000028 (gmCharacterSettingsUI) through OP2's
template-list mechanism and OP3's OptionPage model: 6 authored group
headers + 50 toggle rows (49 from the 2013 build + D3's "Listen to PK
death messages", AP-193) in research doc §2's authored order, each row
resolved by PlayerOption id through CharacterOptionTable, seeded from
live RuntimeCharacterOptionsState, defaulted from CharacterOptionTable.
ClientDefault (byte-verified against UIOption_Checkbox::SetPlayerOption
@0x00486e80's own GetDefaultOptionValue call — AP-194 updated to confirm
the directive was followed), labels/tooltips resolved by name from
string table 0x23000003 (never hard-coded English), and registered with
OptionsPanelController.CharacterPage. Apply/Reset/Defaults
(0x100001FC/FD/FE) are now wired per-page via a scoped subtree search
(UiElement.FindDescendant, promoted from UiTabPanel) since Character/
Chat/Config each author their own physical instance under the SAME
element ids.

Consumers: Group A (29 ids) wire+store only via the existing
SetSingleCharacterOptionRuntimeCmd/TrySetOption seam. Group B: Display
Timestamps prefixes new transcript lines (RuntimeCommunicationState.
DisplayTimestampsSource); Disable Distance Fog forces FogMode.Off
(WeatherSystem.DisableDistanceFogSource, retiring half of TS-73); Run as
Default Movement inverts the walk-mode modifier's default
(RuntimeLocalPlayerMovementState.RunAsDefaultMovementSource). Group C
re-points AutoTarget/AutoRepeatAttack/ViewCombatTarget
(CharacterOptionCombatSettingsSource), VividTargetingIndicator/
CoordinatesOnRadar/LockUI/AcceptLootPermits from the client-local
GameplaySettings record to the canonical server bit — closing two
previously-unfiled divergences where AutoRepeatAttack and
AcceptCorpseLootingPermissions never reached the wire despite being
retail auto-save ids. TS-73 narrowed to its two still-open cases;
TS-75..TS-80 file the genuine gaps (no day/night force, no weather-
particle/profanity-filter/salvage/housing/pickup-preference subsystem,
fellowship-create's unaudited client-sourced field) rather than
inventing stand-ins.

Conformance: CharacterOptionsPageControllerTests pins all 50 rows
against CharacterOptionTable in both directions (an invented or dropped
row fails the build), the authored group/order row-by-row, and the
build/seed/Apply/Reset/Defaults/wire-publish behavior end-to-end against
the committed fixture. 52 new tests; full solution suite 13,008 passed /
4 skipped / 0 failed (was 12,956/4/0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 04:31:34 +02:00
Erik
cb3346907d fix(ui): OP3 re-review residuals R1/R2/R3 (coordinator pass)
R1: the gate script no longer promises a timestamp prefix on the Magic
macro lines — acdream renders no chat timestamps yet (the Display
Timestamps consumer is OP4 scope; no chat-log file exists, TS-69). A
bare light-blue transcript line is the CORRECT gate outcome.

R2: IsGrounded yields null (silent) for a NULL controller in player
mode — the prior pattern returned false and fired the mid-air refusal
retail cannot produce in that state; comments now match the code.

R3: the dormant-ActivePageChanged pin now applies the real stimulus —
every authored tab button on a dormant host must carry NO click handler
(RetailTabBinding.SetClick never ran), which is AD-73's actual dormancy
mechanism; SwitchTo deliberately has no guard.

OP3 is CLOSED: dual APPROVE-WITH-FIXES -> fix round 386076af ->
re-review REOPEN(narrow) -> this pass. Connected gate now READY.

Full Release suite: 12,956 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 03:25:40 +02:00
Erik
386076af0f fix(ui): OP3 review fixes — byte-verified Magic chat lines, Gameplay/OptionPage shape, mid-air tri-state, shared geometry
Consolidated fix round for the two OP3 dual-lens reviews
(docs/research/2026-08-11-op3-review-{mechanism,blast}.md), both
APPROVE-WITH-FIXES.

MUST-FIX:
- The six "Use Mouse Turning Settings" chat lines were typed
  RetailLogTextType.ClientLocal (0x1A); retail types them 0x07 (Magic).
  BYTE-VERIFIED against the PDB-paired binary at all six
  gmConfigUI::SetMouseTurningDefaults call sites (0x0049E972/E9E2/EA52/
  EAA4/EAF6/EB48): every site pushes `6a 07` (type=7) immediately before
  the text-pointer push and the AddTextToScroll call. Added a dedicated
  OptionsRuntimeBindings.DisplayMouseTurningMacroLine seam routed at
  Magic (scrolling chat transcript, light blue, timestamped) instead of
  the 4-slot SpewBox ClientLocal uses; the mid-air refusal and UA/RA
  keep ClientLocal (both independently confirmed correct).
- Filed AD-77: the client-wide floating-only gmPanelUI host divergence
  (retail also exposes a docked 0x21000017 host) the plan §5 delegated
  to this review, scoped to every main panel, not just Options.

SHOULD-FIX:
- gmGameplayOptionsUI is not an OptionPage in retail (acclient.h:55857,
  UIElement_Field). OptionsPanelController now constructs the Gameplay
  slot's OptionPage with AfterApply deliberately null, so entering/
  leaving that tab never publishes SaveCharacterOptionsRuntimeCmd.
  Corrected OptionPageModel's doc comment and rewrote the two tests
  that pinned the wrong (Gameplay-flushes) shape.
- Added the OptionPage.OnOptionChanged seam (PlayerOptionPage::
  OnOptionChanged @0x004F27D0) — fires as the last step of Apply/
  Reset/Defaults, plus once per live LED edit via a new
  IOptionRow.AttachPageNotify hook (BoolOptionRow wires it into
  SetCurrentValue only, matching retail's Apply(1)-only
  HandleDialogAndNotices path). OP4-6 will bind Apply/Reset enable
  state to this.
- Exit to Character Selection's mid-air refusal is now tri-state
  (Func<bool?> IsGrounded): retail's UseTime only reaches the airborne
  test inside `else if (smartbox->player)`, so outside player mode (or
  with no live controller) the button is a SILENT no-op, not a
  refusal. Fixed the inverted comment at both call sites.
- Options panel geometry now matches its nine gmPanelUI siblings
  sharing RetailPanelUiController's one main-panel rectangle
  (ResizeX=false, bottom-edge-only resize, no invented Min/MaxWidth/
  Height) instead of being the only all-four-edge/horizontal-resize
  outlier whose width silently reverted whenever a sibling was shown.
- Added the three missing test pins: Options/Character mutual
  exclusion through a REAL RetailPanelUiController registration,
  RetailDialogFactory.MakeConfirmation's omitted-queueKey overload
  sharing DefaultQueueKey, and UiTabPanel.ActivePageChanged never
  firing on a dormant (non-activated) host.
- TS-74's What/Where now names the five store-only CameraTurning
  preferences explicitly instead of only mentioning them in Risk.
- Test script gains the toolbar-button ghosted->enabled+highlight
  check, UseMouseTurning-survives-relogin and the five prefs-survive-
  relaunch steps, a UA/RA legibility eye-item, and the corrected
  bottom-edge-only geometry description for step 5.

One-liners fixed in files already touched: symmetric close-button
resolve-failure logging in OptionsPanelController.Bind (blast NOTE 8).

Full Release suite: 12,947 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline
12,935/4/0 post-OP7 — 12 net new tests; the two OptionPageModelTests
"wrong-shape" tests were renamed/rewritten in place, not removed).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 03:05:27 +02:00
Erik
9d26ecc623 feat(ui): Campaign OP slice OP3 — Options panel shell, open paths, Gameplay tab
Mounts retail's Options panel (LayoutDesc 0x2100002B resolved through host
0x2100006E slot 0x1000018D, gmPanelUI key 10) via the same catalog-import
pattern CharacterController already validates, registered through
RetailPanelUiController so it shares retail's "one active gmPanelUI child"
mutual exclusion with every other sibling panel for free. F11 and the
toolbar's options button (0x1000019B, already authoring panel id 10) both
now open it; the close button fires the same ToggleOptionsPanel action.

OptionPageModel (OptionPage/BoolOptionRow) ports retail's exact
Apply/Reset/Defaults/visibility semantics from
UIOption_Checkbox/PlayerOptionPage — LED clicks apply live immediately,
Apply commits every row unconditionally + flushes the batched blob, Reset
reverts only Changed rows, Defaults restores without committing, and
tab-switch/window-hide revert uncommitted edits. Wired for all four tabs;
this slice registers real rows on none of them (Gameplay authentically has
none — a pure button list). UiTabPanel gains an ActivePageChanged event so
the page model can hook every tab transition, including the initial
default-tab activation.

The seven Gameplay-tab buttons: Exit Game reuses the existing graceful
window-close path; Exit to Character Selection gets retail's confirmation
dialog and byte-verified mid-air refusal but still behaves as Exit Game
(AD-74 — no pre-world character-select flow exists); Configure Keyboard
and In-Game Help Files are inert this slice (AD-76 for Help — the
plugin retail depends on doesn't exist); Urgent Assistance/Report Abuse
short-circuit to their own byte-verified failure text through the
interface-text seam instead of ShellExecute against a dead URL (AD-75);
Use Mouse Turning Settings runs the pure MouseTurningSettingsMacro port,
persisting five new CameraTurningSettings preferences and sending
PlayerOption.UseMouseTurning — TS-74 records that acdream has no
persistent mouse-turning camera mode for the bit to drive yet.

Full Release suite: 12,918 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline
12,871/4/0 — only new tests added).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 02:14:40 +02:00
Erik
f7a6f46ba0 fix(chat): consolidated-review fixes — retail /help Detail extraction, seam wiring test
SHOULD-FIX 1: RetailClientCommandCatalog's ~45 catalog leaf verbs were
showing acdream-authored Summary text for /help <verb> instead of
retail's own Detail_HelpType(2) text. Byte-swept every Help* handler
against the PDB-paired acclient.exe (verified MATCH), confirmed each
Detail/Summary branch by reading the actual decompiled if/else shape
(address order and string length both proved unreliable alone), and
fixed a sweep_weenie_strings.py 800-char truncation bug that silently
dropped several longer Detail branches. Resolved every ambiguous
CmdHashData-registered verb (hor/hr/hom/hoa/alh/ah/friends_add/
friends_remove/squelch/unsquelch) by reading for Binary Ninja's
nullptr-4th-arg decompiler artifact instead of trusting it. Coverage:
42 of 47 distinct catalog Definitions verbatim-extracted, 4
confirmed-null (index/clist/on/off register with a genuinely null help
pointer — DoHelp falls to UnknownCommand for these, now reproduced),
1 honest UNVERIFIED (messagetypes builds its text from a runtime enum
table, not a static string). ChatCommandRouter now prefers retail
Detail text over the catalog summary; RetailCommandHelpTable's class
doc no longer overclaims its own scope.

SHOULD-FIX 2: extracted the a5a7eb4f-class OnInterfaceText wiring into
a testable CreateChatViewModel method and added
ComposedChatViewModelWiresOnInterfaceTextToSpewBox, which the prior
FakeFactory-based test suite could never exercise.

SHOULD-FIX 3: retires register row AP-113. DoLifestone/DoMarketplace
print their own 0x1A refusal text (byte-recovered, UTF-16LE) instead
of falling through to the generic 0x26 fallback; ChatCommandRouter's
comment corrected to state the fallback's real scope.

SHOULD-FIX 4: corrected the divergence register's stale AP section
header sentence about AP-190's opacity default (refuted by cc582899).

NITs: (a) HeadlessStaticStateAudit routes through the injected
HeadlessDiagnosticWriter instead of Console.WriteLine; (b) a bounded
300-pump liveness diagnostic on the IsQuiescent conductor gate (no
retry, no behavior change); (c) fixed the #365 hydration test's doc
comment contradiction against diagnosis §8; (d) the 0x26 fallback
dispatches on WeenieErrorMessages' own Type instead of hardcoding
ClientLocal.

Full Release suite: 12,553 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline
03404b71: 12,542/4/0; net +11 tests, zero regressions).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 16:22:36 +02:00
Erik
09453ecae8 fix(chat): #363 — retail 0x1A typing for command refusals via the interface-text seam
ChatVM gains an OnInterfaceText hook + ShowInterfaceText(text), the
App-layer composition wires it to RuntimeCommunicationState.AddText,
and ChatCommandRouter routes every retail-0x1A command refusal through
it instead of the chat log's 0x00 sink. UI.Abstractions still never
references Runtime directly; unwired hosts (headless, tests) fall back
to the chat log tagged ClientLocal so no text is ever silently lost.

Reclassified per register row AP-183 (DoChannelList/On/Off, DoAllegiance,
DoHouseAvailableList — the last also corrected to retail's own bad-house-
type string instead of a synthesized "Usage:" line) and newly wired two
sites that previously showed nothing at all (DoStupidChannelHack's bare
legacy-channel-verb refusal, DoReply's message-but-no-last-teller
refusal). The generic bad-args fallback now resolves WeenieErrorMessages
0x026 ("That is not a valid command.", retail's HandleFailureEvent(0x26))
instead of synthesizing "Usage: {Usage}". DoSpeaker/DoEndurance/DoTitle
are untouched — already correct at 0x00.

Also closes #367 (DoHelp's "Unknown command" fallback and the degenerate-
prefix refusal now reach the SpewBox too) and retires register row
AP-186, whose own filing proposed exactly this seam shape.

Full Release suite: 12,542 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline
12,466/4/0 at ff2784ea).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 15:21:30 +02:00
Erik
a819687cf0 feat(chat): Campaign CH slice CH6c — window opacity + transparency setting
Retail's ChatInterface::SetOpacity (0x004F3120) fades the WHOLE composited
window surface with one alpha; UiRenderContext.ApplyAlpha already gated
DrawSprite/DrawRect/DrawFill (since 1da697ec, pre-CH6) but DrawStringDat and
DrawString still passed applyAlpha:false, so text stayed sharp over a
translucent window. Both now route through the same chokepoint.

RetailWindowOpacityController (new) subscribes to a new
RetailWindowManager.WindowRegistered event and drives every registered
window's live Opacity from keyboard-focus state, applied to EVERY window
(chat, floaties, vitals, toolbar, ...) rather than retail's ChatInterface-only
scope — register row AP-190, retiring the stale AP-40 "fixed 0.75, no focus
transition" row in the same commit.

Verified retail's shipped opacity defaults from the decomp (constructor
literals, no cdb needed): the base ChatInterface ctor sets
DefaultOpacity=0.5/ActiveOpacity=1.0, kept unmodified by the four floating
windows; gmMainChatUI's own ctor overrides the main window to 1.0/1.0
(always fully opaque). acdream ships one shared global default (0.5/1.0)
rather than replicating the per-class override — also AP-190. The linking
invariant (raising default above active drags active UP; lowering active
below default drags default DOWN — never a clamp) is ported verbatim as
ChatOpacityLink in AcDream.UI.Abstractions, shared by the live controller
and the new Settings -> Chat tab's two linked opacity sliders.

Persistence: ChatSettings.DefaultOpacity/ActiveOpacity round-trip through
SettingsStore; Save pushes both through IRuntimeSettingsTargets.SetChatOpacity
into the live controller, no restart required.

Rider (CH6a/b re-review): strengthened the grip-media regression guard past
a bare SpriteFile != 0 check — ChatLayoutConformanceTests now drives each
live grip through a real UiRenderContext/TextRenderer (backed by the
in-memory RecordingGpuDevice test double) and asserts the draw call chain
actually queued sprite geometry, via a new TextRenderer.DebugSpriteSegments
test-only accessor.

Full Release suite 12,459 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline
12,420/4/0). No subagents, no client launches (session hard constraints);
pending the next connected user gate for visual confirmation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 14:00:55 +02:00
Erik
22020ef2c4 feat(chat): Campaign CH slice CH6b — floating chat windows 1-4
Mounts retail's four floating chat windows as always-resident, born-hidden
children per gmGamePlayUI::SetupChildren @0x004E9EC0, all sharing LayoutDesc
0x2100005B (window ids 0x10000505/0x1000050E/0x1000050F/0x10000510). New
FloatingChatWindowController (AcDream.App/UI/Layout) binds each window's own
widget tree — built fresh per instance from one shared imported ElementInfo
— reusing ChatWindowController's word-wrap + retail color-carry algorithm via
the extracted ChatTranscriptRenderer instead of duplicating it. A floaty
window has no talk-focus menu (research doc §2.2), so its entry field always
sends on Say; the mismatch against retail's possible shared-channel behavior
is UNVERIFIED and filed as #369/AP-188.

Runtime owns the per-window filter/open state: ChatWindowState (new,
AcDream.Core.Chat) seeds retail's exact PostInit defaults per window
(window 1 0x0000101C Speech/Tell/DirectSend/Emote, window 2 0x00040C00
Social/SocialSend/Allegiance, window 3 0x00080000 Fellowship, window 4
0x78000000 Turbine General/Trade/LFG/Roleplay) and implements the full
ShouldDisplay(windowId, targetWindowId, logTextType) display predicate from
ChatInterface::RecvNotice_DisplayFinalStringInfo @0x004F4640. It lives on
RuntimeCommunicationState.ChatWindows so every host borrows the same
instance. The main window's filter (0xFBFFFFFF, "no user filter") never
actually gates anything because its own explicit-address branch already
covers every broadcast line — that's why UpdateFromPlayerModule early-returns
for window 0 in retail, ported here by construction rather than a special
case.

Keybind wiring: InputAction.ToggleFloatingChatWindow1..4 and their
KeyBindings.RetailDefaults() chords already existed since Phase K.1c
(unwired until now). The MetaKeys table confirms retail's default is Alt+1
through Alt+4 (index 3 = bit 0x00000004, cross-checked against the same
file's Alt+A/D strafe and Alt+Enter/Tab/F4 rows). Routes through
GameplayInputCommandController -> RetainedGameplayWindowCommands ->
RetailUiRuntime.ToggleFloatingChatWindow -> the generic UiHost.ToggleWindow,
whose visibility-change event is the single chokepoint that syncs
ChatWindowState.SetOpen and mirrors the main window's 1-4 indicator button
regardless of what changed a window's visibility (keybind, close button, or
a restored layout).

A direct decomp read of gmMainChatUI::ListenToElementMessage @0x004CDA80 —
the only function in the whole binary that branches on a click message —
settles what the research doc had left as a hedge: it handles exactly
0x1000046f (max/min) and the talk-focus menu's selection message, with NO
case for 0x10000522-0x10000525. The four indicator buttons are PURE
one-directional mirrors in retail; clicking them does nothing.
ChatWindowController.SetIndicatorOpen ports this with no OnClick at all.
Corrected research doc §1.4 accordingly.

Persistence is local-only (register row AP-187; the retail 0x1000008C
GameplayOptions wire remains deferred to CH6f): window geometry and
open/visible state ride the existing generic RetailWindowLayoutPersistence
path for free once each window registers under its own WindowNames entry;
the four filter masks get a dedicated ChatSettings round-trip
(ChatWindow1Filter..ChatWindow4Filter, defaulting to the retail PostInit
constants) loaded at mount and saved alongside SaveLayout().

Tests: ChatWindowStateTests (defaults, TypeIsActive, the full display-rule
matrix, toggle/reset, revision counter), FloatingChatWindowControllerTests
(bind smoke tests against a synthetic 0x2100005B tree, per-window filter
routing, filter-change cache invalidation, fixed-Say submit), new
ChatWindowController.SetIndicatorOpen tests (Highlight/Normal state,
cross-window isolation, range validation), GameplayInputCommandController
routing for the four toggle actions, and a SettingsStore filter round-trip.
Full Release suite: 12,392 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 12:10:20 +02:00
Erik
98de4f5ab3 fix(chat): Campaign CH round 3 — SpewBox flush-top/font, /help exact print sequence
User-gate round 3 findings (a)-(c):

(a) SpewBox: TopOffset moves from the round-1 60px placeholder to 0 (flush
to the viewport top). SpewBoxController never wired DatFont/Font at all
before this round, so it silently rendered through the 15px debug
BitmapFont fallback; it now resolves retail dat Font 0x40000025
(MaxCharHeight=11px) through a new RetailUiRuntime.Assets accessor —
the smallest font id confirmed in use by any currently-imported retail
LayoutDesc fixture, cross-referenced against every
tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/fixtures/*.json dump and confirmed
against the installed DAT via AcDream.Cli dump-font-atlas. It is also the
chat window's own smallest font (the 0x2100006F floating-window 1/2/3/4
indicator badges), so both selection criteria the brief offered agree.
Both remain best-available approximations, not resolved retail values —
register row AP-178 updated accordingly.

(b)/(c) /help and /help death: round 2 extracted the individual retail
strings byte-exact but never traced ClientCommunicationSystem::DoHelp's
complete print sequence. Byte-swept DoHelp's own range plus the five
Summary-branch functions it calls into (HelpEmote/HelpSquelch/
HelpStatusGroup/HelpTextGroup/HelpAllGroup) against the PDB-paired
acclient.exe. Retail's real shape: bare /help prints exactly TWO scroll
entries (HelpPrefixNote, then the 13-item AvailableHelpListing built from
DoHelp's own literals and each group's Summary_HelpType branch, in exact
source order) — not the acdream-invented cheat sheet BuildHelpText()
built before. Any resolved /help <verb> gets the SAME two-entry shape:
HelpPrefixNote, then ForMoreInformationPrefix concatenated directly onto
the verb's own Detail text (retail's own unsubstituted "<command>"
literal, ported verbatim). ChatCommandRouter.EmitVerbHelp applies this
uniformly to every resolved verb, not just death. An unresolved verb now
shows retail's real "Unknown command" fallback text; that fallback types
0x1A (ClientLocal), which retail routes to the SpewBox exclusively — a
gap ChatVM's UI.Abstractions layer can't yet reach, filed as ISSUES #367
/ register AP-186 rather than left silently unregistered.

Jump-in-air (round 2's open item 1) was root-caused and fixed separately
at a5a7eb4f between rounds — recorded in the campaign ledger.

Debug suite (all projects): 12,329 passed / 4 skipped / 1 failed — the
one failure is issue #351, a pre-existing Debug-only streaming flake
confirmed reproducing identically on the pristine pre-round-3 commit via
git stash, not a regression. Release verification covers every project
reachable without rebuilding AcDream.App: a live client process (PID
15064) held its own Release binaries locked for the session and was not
killed per project policy — AcDream.UI.Abstractions.Tests (867/867, the
layer both /help fixes live in) plus every other non-App-dependent
project, all 0 failed. AcDream.App/AcDream.App.Tests/AcDream.Core.Tests
(the SpewBox fix's layer) are green in Debug only this session.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 10:40:19 +02:00
Erik
c1f1582576 fix(chat): Campaign CH user-gate round 2 -- portal notice rerouted to SpewBox, verbatim /help extraction, jump-in-air evidence
Item 2: retail's portal-space "In Portal Space..." notice is the SpewBox
(ECM_UI::SendNotice_DisplayStringInfo(0x1A,...) -> AddTextToScroll(str,
0x1A, 1, 0), hardcoded to the SpewBox per the decomp), not a dedicated
centered overlay. PortalWaitNoticeController and its lease are deleted;
PortalTunnelPresentation's per-rotation-segment cadence now writes
straight into RuntimeCommunicationState.AddText(ClientLocal) -- the
SpewBox's own dedupe-at-index-0 handles the repetition exactly as
retail's does. Register row AP-184 records the surface fix and the AP-178
scope extension.

Items 4+5: /help text was partially fabricated -- the user caught the
"/help death" meta-message. Generalized
tools/pdb-extract/sweep_weenie_strings.py to decode narrow
PStringBase<char> literals (the ClientCommunicationSystem::Help* family's
shape) alongside its original UTF-16LE support, then swept every
HelpXxxGroup function's exact byte extent against the PDB-paired
acclient.exe. 4 of 7 group topics (death/status/text/allegiances) are now
complete verbatim listings; the other 3 (channels/chatting/commands) keep
an honest UNVERIFIED note citing HelpStupidChannelHack @0x0056f290 (a
genuinely undecodable BN-mislabeled-fragment mechanism) instead of the
old fabricated sentinel. 7 of ~35 channel one-liners are also now
verbatim. ISSUES.md #364 tracks the remainder;
RetailCommandHelpTableTests.cs pins every result byte-exact.

Item 1: jump-in-air refusal still silent live is NOT reproduced and NOT
speculatively fixed. Exhaustive static re-audit found the mechanism
correct by construction (single-writer OnWalkable, exactly-once-per-frame
Update()/Capture(), no interfering edge-history resets). A live headless
repro (new jump-probe bot policy, real ACE connect) was blocked --
probeaccount2 has no character, and the graphical client already owned
testaccount this session so the task's own fallback rule forbade using
it. Two temporary probes are left behind ACDREAM_PROBE_JUMP=1 (blocked
entirely in Headless by the existing multi-session static-state guard --
graphical-only for the next round).

Item 3 confirmed fixed, no regression. Item 6 (resize: no diagonal
cursors, cannot grow Y from bottom-right) folded into CH6a's existing
scope.

Full Release suite: 12,267 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (up from
12,221/4/0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 08:40:24 +02:00
Erik
d1c1368a5e fix(chat): CH2 SpewBox lease was acquired but never transferred — startup crash
The composition scope's completion contract threw 'unpublished
resources: spew box' on every graphical launch with the retail UI:
scope.Acquire's returned lease was discarded, so it could never be
Transfer()ed alongside its siblings. Suite missed it because the
composition tests run with RetainedUi absent, so the acquire block
never executed. Ownership after transfer matches the wait-notice
no-tunnel arm: the retained-UI root's teardown reclaims the element
tree.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 22:38:34 +02:00
Erik
614a1e055f feat(chat): Campaign CH slice CH3 — side-channel membership, wire, and echo parity
Ports retail's SendTurbineChat (@0x0057db10) local pre-send membership gate
so Roleplay/Society/Olthoi stop silently swallowing outbound chat: a new
TurbineChatMembershipGate checks Turbine availability and the player's own
Hear*Chat option before sending, raising "Turbine chat is not available."
or the 0x0551 YouAreNotListeningTo_Channel refusal through the CH2 AddText
chokepoint instead. Wired into both the graphical (LiveSessionCommandRouter)
and headless (DirectGameRuntimeCommandAdapter) send paths so they can't
diverge. Retracts the 26-day-old false "ACE doesn't run a TurbineChat
server" claim from ISSUES.md, the roadmap, and project_chat_pipeline.md —
ACE's TurbineChat implementation is complete and on by default; the real
bug was treating Hear*Chat as a display filter instead of room membership.

Also: implements SetSingleCharacterOption (0x0005), the only wire message
that actually joins/leaves a Turbine room, and wires the five Settings Chat
toggles to it (publish on Save, changed bits only) plus seeds ChatSettings
from the server's own CharacterOptions2 on every PlayerDescription. Fixes
the legacy-channel double-print (Fellow/Vassals/Patron/Monarch/CoVassals
skip the local echo now that ChatChannelInfo.IsSelfEchoChannel is finally
consulted). Routes /a to Turbine unconditionally (retail's @a never falls
back to the legacy bitflag) and adds /ab for the legacy AllegianceBroadcast
verb retail actually has. Surfaces a nonzero TurbineChat ack HResult instead
of discarding it silently. Deletes the malformed, callerless SetCharacterOptions
(0x01A1) and AddChannel/RemoveChannel (0x0145/0x0146) builders.

Files every AC-specific algorithm change cites the named retail decomp
(SendTurbineChat 0x0057db10, StartupTurbineChatSystem 0x0057EFB0,
GameActionSetSingleCharacterOption) plus ACE/holtburger cross-checks.
Register rows AP-181 (no client-side spam throttle) and UN-9 (an
incidentally-discovered CharacterOptions1.Default literal mismatch, not
investigated further) filed per the divergence-register rule.

11,957 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (full Release suite, up from the
11,916/4/0 baseline).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 19:39:44 +02:00
Erik
77c8296e3f feat(chat): Campaign CH slice CH2 — retail SpewBox interface text
Retail routes on-screen refusals ("You can't jump while in the air",
"You are too encumbered to carry that!") through a SEPARATE transient
screen surface (gmSpewBoxUI, ClientSystem::AddTextToScroll @0x00563C50)
that never touches the chat scroll — type 0x1A is exactly the bit every
ChatInterface window's default filter excludes
(ChatInterface::ChatInterface @0x004F4550). acdream had no such split:
every WeenieError rendered in chat at a single stand-in LogTextType
0x00 (CH1-era approximation, register AP-176), and locally-detected
jump refusals were silently discarded.

This slice ports the full mechanism per
docs/research/2026-08-09-chat-retail-interface-text.md:

CORE (AcDream.Core/Chat):
- WeenieErrorMessages.Resolve now returns (text, RetailLogTextType) from
  a 338-row transcription of ClientCommunicationSystem::HandleFailureEvent
  @0x00571990 (Appendix A's 339 cases minus one, 0x4F8, deliberately
  excluded — its case body is a tangled decompiler artifact, not
  resolvable with confidence). Spot-checked ~20 rows directly against
  the raw decomp (case 0x2b/0x36/0x3a/0x4e/0x4ec/0x4f3/0x4f4 and the
  jump family), beyond the ~10 the brief asked for, because the first
  pass surfaced two transcription classes the research doc's markdown
  silently ate: (1) 7 ids marked "shared string global" resolved by
  reading the case bodies directly (0x24/0x48/0x49 reuse the jump-
  refusal globals; 0x4DE/0x4DF/0x55A/0x55E are pure param passthrough);
  (2) 19 "arg3 + literal" CONCATENATION ids whose leading space (and
  therefore their %s marker) the markdown table's cell-trimming ate —
  fixed by re-reading each case body, several requiring a SECOND
  non-truncated data_XXXXXXXX dump elsewhere in the same oracle file to
  recover text the ~33-char inline preview cut off. One retail typo is
  preserved verbatim: 0x4F4's second placeholder is literal "$s", not
  "%s" — only the first substitutes.
- ClientTextRefusals: the 11 process-lifetime string globals, all
  byte-recovered from the PDB-paired C:\Users\erikn\Downloads\acclient.exe
  (MATCH verified via check_exe_pdb.py) via raw UTF-16LE prefix search —
  5 were truncated in the research doc's own transcription and all 5
  turned out to end "...combat mode"/"...this position", not the
  shorter "...combat" a truncated read would suggest.
- SpewBoxState: the gmSpewBoxUI pending/visible queue port (insert-at-0,
  dedupe-against-index-0-only, MaxConcurrentItems overflow, per-entry
  expiry, one-frame enqueue/drain decoupling). Placed in Core (not
  Runtime as the brief's default) because AcDream.UI.Abstractions
  references Core but not Runtime, and SpewBoxVM needs to wrap it
  directly — the same constraint ChatVM already satisfies against
  ChatLog.
- Folded the 4-entry WeenieErrorText.cs into the full table; deleted it.

RUNTIME (AcDream.Runtime):
- RuntimeCommunicationState.AddText(text, type, windowId): the
  AddTextToScroll chokepoint. type == ClientLocal -> SpewBox only, never
  chat; everything else -> the existing transcript, tagged with type.
- GameEventWiring gains an `onInterfaceText` delegate hole (Core.Net
  cannot reference Runtime, so this follows the file's own established
  pattern for every other Runtime-owned sink). Rewires 0x028A/0x028B/
  UseDone through the full table + router; fixes 0x02EB
  CommunicationTransientString's routing type from a CH1-era 0x00
  guess to retail's hardcoded ClientLocal (Handle_Communication__
  TransientString @0x0057D460).
- LiveSessionEventRouter's 0xF7E0 ServerMessage handler now routes
  through AddText with the wire chatType verbatim instead of always
  writing ChatLog directly.
- PlayerMovementController gains OnInterfaceText, applied by
  RuntimeLocalPlayerMovementState to every controller it installs.
  Reports ChargeJump/jump refusals exactly as ClientCombatSystem::
  CommenceJump @0x0056AF90 / DoJump @0x0056B110 do — confirmed via
  their compiled dispatch that ONLY 0x24/0x48/0x49 produce text;
  0x47 (GeneralMovementFailure, fully-constrained/no-stamina) and any
  other code are retail-SILENT (DoJump's jump table has exactly 4 real
  targets), which contradicts this task's brief ("0x47 -> the
  constrained/stamina row per §4.2") — the brief's reading of §4.2
  described what jump_is_allowed COMPUTES, not what CommenceJump/DoJump
  DISPLAY for it. Implemented the decomp-verified silent behavior.

APP (AcDream.App / AcDream.UI.Abstractions):
- The 5 composition sites that already used RetailLogTextType.ClientLocal
  now call Communication.AddText instead of Chat.OnSystemMessage
  directly, so they reach the SpewBox instead of the transcript.
- SpewBoxVM (UI.Abstractions) + SpewBoxController (App), modeled
  directly on PortalWaitNoticeController. Position/font/colour/
  MaxConcurrentItems are placeholders: SpewBoxLayoutDumpDiagnostic
  exhaustively swept the installed client_portal.dat's entire LayoutDesc
  id range (0x21000000-0x21000075, 101/118 ids populated, sanity-checked
  against 3 known ids) and found ZERO elements of class 0x10000016 —
  gmSpewBoxUI is mounted from C++ code, not any authored LayoutDesc, so
  the dump cannot recover these values.

REGISTER: AP-176 retired (its WeenieError half is now the full table
port); its OnCombatLine half was never in this slice's scope and is
split out to AP-179 so that divergence keeps a row. AP-177 (invented
line lifetime) and AP-178 (invented position/font/colour/max-items)
filed for the presentation placeholders above. AP-175 (PopUpString ->
chat instead of modal) is untouched, not duplicated.

Suite: 11,890 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (was 11,835/4/0; +55 net
new tests, 0 regressions).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 17:04:02 +02:00
Erik
34d8a3c0e7 fix(chat): CH1 review fixes — sbb-idiom channel catch-all, command-output typing
Applies the Opus review findings on CH1 (172c6f9a), the exact retail chat
color table. Two blockers plus should-fixes/nits, one commit:

BLOCKER 1 — LegacyChannelChatType.Resolve's channel-bit table was wrong.
Binary Ninja renders retail's `neg esi; sbb esi, esi` idiom (a branchless
select between Channel 0x08 and Channel_Send 0x09) as the trivial pseudo-C
`esi - esi` (always 0), hiding the real values. Corrected by decoding the
raw bytes at the PDB-paired binary: HEAR sbb site VA 0x00570F0A (mask -6 ->
0x08), SEND sbb site VA 0x00570D4F (mask -5 -> 0x09). The generic
admin/audit/sentinel catch-all is Channel/Channel_Send, NOT Abuse (0x0E) —
Abuse is retail's ONLY 0x0E producer (bit 0x0001). The unnamed
FellowBroadcast bit (0x4000000) is hear=Channel(0x08)/send=Fellowship(0x13),
not a flat 0x13. ACE's PDB-sourced Channel enum corroborates. Introduces
`RetailLogTextType`, the 34-value named enum for the wire LogTextType space
(values only, no color — Core stays presentation-free).

BLOCKER 2 — three ChatLog.OnSystemMessage sinks (ChatVM.ShowSystemMessage,
LiveSessionRuntimeFactory's ShowSystemMessage delegate,
HeadlessGameplayOperations.DisplayMessage) were typing ALL
ClientCommandController output 0x1A (bright red), including informational
command output (@version, /loc, friends list, usage lines). Retail types
the great majority of that output 0x00 Default (green) and reserves 0x1A
for genuine refusals/errors. Reverted to 0x00 with a comment noting the
refusal-vs-info split lands with CH2's SpewBox producer rewiring. The five
App composition sites that pass 0x1A for actual refusal text
(InteractionRetainedUiComposition, SessionPlayerComposition) were already
correct and are untouched (aside from converting the literal to the new
enum).

Also: AP-176 divergence-register row for OnWeenieError/OnCombatLine's
single-type approximation of retail's per-code/per-message dispatch; a
carry-forward test for the out-of-range LogTextType color fallback in
ChatWindowController; decomp-confirmed anchors replacing ACE-inferred
citations in CombatChatTranslator and ChatLog.OnPlayerKilled; required
(non-optional) logTextType parameters on OnLocalSpeech/OnTellReceived/
OnCombatLine/OnSelfSent since no production caller relied on a default;
LegacyChannelChatType.Resolve's parameter renamed channelBit -> channelId
with a doc note on multi-bit ids; corrections to the color-table research
doc's §3.3 wire tables; and issue #359 for the pre-existing (not
CH1-introduced) 0x019E PlayerKilled participant-suppression gap retail has
and acdream lacks.

dotnet build clean; full Release suite 11,835 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed
(11,839 total), up from the CH1 baseline of 11,833/4/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 16:03:13 +02:00
Erik
2cf94dbcd2 feat(audio): Ctrl+M instant mute + inn-chatter investigation closed as server content
Two items from listening-gate round 2.

Mute: AcdreamToggleAudioMute (default Ctrl+M; bare M is selection) flips
OpenAlAudioEngine.Muted, implemented as the AL LISTENER gain - unused
since A2 moved all mixing to the CPU, so it is a free master switch that
silences already-playing voices instantly and restores them exactly,
without touching the retail mixing math, the -50 dB allocation cutoff, or
any persisted volume setting. Rebindable like every other action; console
line confirms each flip.

Inn chatter: the user hears talk-and-laughter ambience in retail inns and
not in acdream. Three installed-dat scans (pinned as conformance tests in
EnvCellSoundEmitterInventoryTests) prove the mechanism is NOT client
data: no interior static in the town landblock carries an ambient-slot
sound table, no Setup among all 5,935 in the portal dat references one,
and yet 23 sound tables carrying ONLY Ambient1..8 slots exist - pure
soundscape banks with nothing client-side pointing at them. They are
wire-bound: the server attaches one to an emitter object via
CreateObject's sound-table field and fires the slots over 0xF750 - ACE
implements exactly this (EmoteType.Sound heartbeat emotes ->
GameMessageSound broadcast). Our 0xF750 receiver (slice A3) is live and
now instrumented (ACDREAM_PROBE_SOUND_WIRE=1, via the new
AudioDiagnostics owner per Code Structure Rule 5, with per-event drop
reasons in AudioHookSink.PlayServerSound). A probed session against the
local ACE received ZERO 0xF750 events across a town walkabout: the
silence is server world-content (no emitters configured/firing), not a
client drop. The first scan's assertion originally encoded the
emitter-object hypothesis; the data refuted it, and the test now pins the
negative so the conclusion cannot silently rot.

Full Release suite green (the one failure during development was the
hypothesis-pinning assertion, corrected to pin the finding).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 14:09:24 +02:00
Erik
e5ade796ac fix(audio): listening-gate round 1 — tunnel interior sound + ambience in houses (#355 gate)
Two user findings from the Campaign A listening session.

1. The portal tunnel's in-flight sound was silent while its enter/exit
cues played. The tunnel's authored SoundTweakedHook drained into the
world 3-D path at its synthetic owner's origin (0,0,0) — after A2 that
dies twice: the listener is usually beyond the -50 dB no-allocate radius,
and the world pool is suspended for the whole transit hold. The cues the
user COULD hear were on the interface bus, which has neither problem, and
retail's tunnel is gmSmartBoxUI — UI-owned — so that bus is also the
faithful route. UiPresentationHookSink now wraps the shared router for
the tunnel: sound-bearing hooks go from-centre through the interface bus
(AudioHookSink.OnUiHook); every other hook kind still reaches the
particle/lighting/translucency sinks unchanged.

2. Ambience cut dead inside houses; retail keeps the outdoor soundscape
in sky-lit interiors. This is TS-66, now retired: the ambient listener
source resolves the per-cell CEnvCell.seen_outside bit through the
physics cache (the same #107 field AdjustPosition reads) and converts the
envcell-local origin through the cell's WorldTransform into landblock
coordinates before the 3x3 walk centres on it — an outdoor Position's
origin is already landblock-local, an envcell's is cell-local, and
skipping that conversion would centre the walk wrongly by up to a
landblock. A not-yet-resident cell record resolves to silence for that
rebuild rather than a wrong walk. Sealed dungeons stay silent, which is
retail-correct.

The user also reports interiors carrying their own local sound in retail
(hearth-type emitters). Statics already register their sound tables and
route animation hooks, so the expectation is that the seen_outside fix
plus existing emitters covers it; re-listen decides, and anything still
missing becomes a precise follow-up.

Full Release suite: 11,740 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 12:56:26 +02:00
Erik
7c4dd1ade7 feat(audio): Campaign A slice A5 — retail's region ambient soundscape
acdream had no ambient system: StartAmbient minted a handle and played
nothing. Retail's is a weighted-accumulation + timer-queue engine, not
looping voices. On every objcell change (24 m) CellManager::ChangePosition
rebuilds per-sound weights over the 3x3 landblock ring x 64 land cells
each, decoding each cell's terrain word through the region file's
terrain -> scene -> AmbientSTBDesc chain; playback is a min-heap of
absolute deadlines drained from the frame tick, where each pop fires a
one-shot and re-arms.

A continuous bed (base_chance == 0) is non-positional, crossfaded by its
share of the TOTAL weight, and re-fired every min_rate seconds — that
rate is the author's intended loop period, and re-firing is how retail
fakes a sustained bed with no looping voice, re-rolling the variant and
the crossfade each time. An intermittent one keeps its authored volume,
plays at a random accumulated compass bearing at min + (max-min)*t^2,
and is dice-gated. Indoors is silent by design: CEnvCell's contributor is
a folded ret and EnvCell carries no sound data.

The Opus review caught four bugs before this landed, one fatal:

- Cell offsets were built in ABSOLUTE world coordinates and differenced
  against the listener's STREAMED-frame position, so every one of 576
  offsets came out ~32 km, every contribution was culled, and the whole
  feature was silent with nothing logged. Offsets are now landblock-local
  the way Position::get_offset builds them, and the streamed-frame
  position is carried separately for playback, where it belongs.
- The cell's weight was added to the shared denominator once per
  DESCRIPTOR instead of once per CELL, dividing every bed's crossfade by
  the table's entry count — enough to push a typical authored volume
  under the 0.03 audibility floor.
- The drain used  where retail's UseTime is strictly
  below, so a descriptor authored with a zero rate re-armed at the same
  instant and spun the frame forever.
- Arming only enqueued; retail's UpdatePlayQueue PLAYS and then re-arms,
  so a newly audible ambient was silent for a full period after the
  crossing that made it audible.

Also: beds now go through retail's single 16-voice priority pool rather
than acdream's UI pool (retail has one pool; parking beds in the UI pool
let an A4 portal cue chop one mid-wave and discarded the authored
priority), and CalcDir's in-block test is XY-only, since CalcWeight
includes Z on purpose and CalcDir excludes it on purpose.

Two behaviours are knowingly incomplete and registered rather than
guessed at slice end: TS-66 (sky-lit interiors should keep the outdoor
set) and TS-67 (contribution weight is computed in-plane). Retires TS-29.

The frame-loop hook is a typed IAmbientFramePhase, not a callback — the
first attempt used an Action<float> and the architecture guard
ExtractedUpdateOwners_DoNotRetainAnonymousCallbacks correctly rejected it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 22:53:41 +02:00
Erik
6eaa490bb3 feat(audio): Campaign A slice A4 — the interface sound bus
Retail's UI sound bank was absent, so three families of cue were silent:
the portal enter/exit stingers, the AdminEnvirons dungeon atmosphere
(chanting, drums, whispers, thunder — what players remember as dungeon
'music'), and every other interface slot.

The bank's DID is not a literal anywhere in retail: GetUISoundTable
@0x00563FB0 asks GetByEnum for enum slot 7, and DBCache::GetDIDFromEnum
@0x00413940 resolves it through two EnumIDMap hops off the portal dat
header's master map. UiSoundTableResolver walks that chain the way
RetailCursorResolver already walks it for cursors. Against the shipped
dats it resolves to 0x2000004B, and that table holds exactly the 32 UI_*
slots (UI_EnterPortal 0x6A .. UI_Thunder6 0x8A) — content that confirms
the walk independently of the decode. UiSoundTableResolutionTests pins
the walk, the DID, and the content, and skips when dats are absent.

Two corrections to the research along the way. The lane-5 note recorded
GetByEnum's arguments transposed: the 0x22 it called a fileType is the
CACHE type (CLOCache(cache, CSoundTable::Allocator, 0x22)) and the real
second-hop key is 0x10000003; walking it the other way finds nothing. And
its claim that the interface volume pref applies is wrong — GetAttenuation
with ambient=0 multiplies by the EFFECT knob, so retail's
interface_sound_volume stays the dead knob lane 1 byte-decoded it to be.

EnvironSoundCueMap is an explicit 21-case table read straight out of
Handle_Admin__Environs @0x0055DE20, not arithmetic: codes 0x65..0x72 sit
0x11 below their SoundType, but 0x73/0x74 have no case, so 0x75 lands on
UI_Squeal (0x84) where an offset gives 0x86, and the switch ends at 0x7B
with no 0x7C case. Verified case-by-case against the decomp rather than
from the lane note, whose tail table was ambiguous.

Cues are attached where retail plays them: the teleport-animation
boundary for the portal pair, and the AdminEnvirons handler for the
stingers. PlaySoundFromCenter's pan-0 / distance-0 shape is what
PlayUiWave already implements after A2.

Retires TS-54. Narrows AP-115 to its notice-presentation residual.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 22:22:09 +02:00
Erik
8bc458fb88 feat(audio): Campaign A slice A3 — the server sound channel (0xF750)
acdream never parsed retail's Sound event, so every server-driven cue was
silent: melee hits and wounds, wield/unwield, pickup/drop, lockpicking,
lifestone bind, spell resist, trap triggers, item mana depletion.

SoundEvent parses the 16-byte message (guid, SoundType, f32 volume) whose
layout three oracles agree on: retail CM_Physics::DispatchSB_SoundEvent
@0x006AC760 reading buf+4/+8/+0xC, ACE's GameMessageSound at declared
length 16, and holtburger's PlaySoundData.

Playback reuses EntityEffectController's existing per-guid queue rather
than adding a second one, because retail routes sounds through the SAME
CObjectMaint blob queue as F754/F755: an event for a guid the client does
not know yet is parked and drained by HandleCreateObject, so a creature
that spawns and immediately grunts still grunts. Dropping it — the
obvious alternative — would silently lose the cue. Sound joins Direct and
Typed as a third PendingEffect kind so one readiness edge releases the
whole mixed stream in order.

AudioHookSink.PlayServerSound reproduces two decoded asymmetries with the
animation-hook path: the sound plays at the WIRE volume and the
SoundTable entry's volume is ignored (the hook path does the opposite),
while the entry's probability still gates it and its priority still
drives eviction. An object with no SoundTable plays nothing, matching
CPhysicsObj::play_sound @0x0050F460's early return.

The no-window host parses and discards, exactly as it does for F754/F755
— sound is presentation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 22:07:23 +02:00
Erik
02b735ba4a fix(vendor): evidence-based pass — max-first stack ceiling; the local player resolves never-animated MoveTo targets
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Both chains pinned by the live [vendor-diag] run (vendor-diag.log)
after three code-reading rounds each failed:

The split bar: ACE serializes descStackSize=1 for EVERY browse row
(live wire, log 343-348) — the R1-era "ACE never populates desc"
claim is retracted with the line quoted. Retail's vendor sites read
pwd._maxStackSize directly (four sites, incl. UpdateItemsList
@0x004c1ea0 stamping min(remaining, _maxStackSize));
ResolveAuthoredStackSize flips to max-first for its vendor-only
consumers. Taper ceiling 1000, scarab 100, seed 1 for exempt.
Pricing still reads the desc (per-1 values on ACE).

Walk-to-use: the local player's getObjectA seam was bound to
TryGetPhysicsHost, which resolves only INSTALLED physics hosts — a
never-animated vendor has none, so TargetManager.SetTarget got null,
the MoveToObject armed with zero nodes, and UseTime never dispatched.
The log's natural=False completions were the user's own movement keys
(retail-correct input-edge cancels); attempt 4 worked because the
greeting animation had installed a host. RuntimePhysicsState gains
the retail CObjectMaint::GetObjectA seam (bound canonical resolver
with installed-host fallback); the graphical host binds the SAME
lazy-minimal-host resolver every remote already uses — whose own doc
comment names this exact never-animated hazard. The reservation
release was already correct (2b premise refuted with evidence); the
production-wiring invariants are now pinned by four new tests
including the pre-fix pathology as a permanent sabotage control.

AP-169 rewritten a second time, honestly. The [vendor-diag] probe
family (ACDREAM_DUMP_VENDOR) lands env-gated for future live triage.

Clean-room complete solution: 11,536 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 17:17:04 +02:00
Erik
92ea3977b6 feat(vendor): Slice 6b/6c — move-to-use, buy staging, selling; the vendor arc is functionally complete
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C1 an out-of-range Use now approaches first via the existing
client-predicted BeginApproach (Pickup's far-range shape mirrored;
retail's ItemHolder::UseObject @0x00588A80 has no range check and the
dispatch stays immediate). C2 Add-to-List stages into the Buying tab
via VendorStagingList (RemoveProfileFromList's two shapes,
pc:200497-200537), Buy All sends ONE batched 0x005F and flushes
staging on send exactly as retail does (SendShopEvent -> Flush,
pc:204075-204076 — not UseDone-gated), and X-close over a non-empty
staging list shows retail's confirm string recovered verbatim from the
binary data segment (0x007b5bd8) through the existing dialog factory.
C3 the Selling tab's list is the sole drop target (retail's single
IsAncestorOfMe gate, pc:204229-204246); VendorSellAcceptability ports
InqAcceptability with all rejection strings recovered verbatim from
the raw data segment; the sell side prices with BuyPrice (retail's
inverted naming: what the vendor PAYS) and 0x0060 carries no trailing
currency field, unlike Buy. C4 the status-bar reproduction test PASSES
against the production toolbar mount — retail's toolbar shows count +
name with the split bar and NO price parenthetical (that figure is the
vendor row's own cost text); no code change, the live gate referees.
C5 pack order verified correct, untouched.

Register: AP-161 narrowed to its two pre-existing cosmetic gaps;
AP-162 extended over Buy All; AP-164 (non-sellable bitfield
unmodeled), AP-165 (DescStackSize for _maxStackSize in the removal
test, bounded), AP-166 (purse text + pending-sell highlight cosmetic)
filed.

Clean-room complete solution: 11,482 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 11:43:11 +02:00
Erik
3c9fc57adb fix(vendor): Slice 6 review corrections — ownership-checked retire, live slider display, drag-proof shop rows, hardened buy reservation
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All nine findings from the buy-arc review, at root:

F1 the materializer's retire pass re-checks ownership (guid->vendorId
map; remove only while the live object's ContainerId still equals the
recording vendor) — buying a player-sold UNIQUE no longer deletes the
item you just purchased; the discriminating reparent-then-refresh test
pins it. F2 the cost/name display subscribes to the live split state
and shares ONE quantity computation with Buy (retail re-renders per
slider tick: RecvNotice_StackSliderChanged 0x004C4500) — the sentence
and the charge can no longer disagree. F3 shop rows never mint drag
payloads (UiItemSlot.AllowDragSource gates both IsDragSource AND
GetDragPayload — the second gate was caught by this pass's own test).
F4 sendBuy reports whether anything was sent; a null-session buy
cancels the reservation instead of leaking BusyCount forever.
F5 the retire loop snapshots, isolates per-guid observer failures, and
clears its tracking in finally and Dispose — teardown convergence can
no longer wedge. F6 auto-select is retail's unconditional
first-filtered-item shape (pc:201180-201184; the survival-check was
our invention and the comment claiming otherwise is corrected).
F7 non-stack buys clamp to quantity 1 locally (BuySingleItem
pc:201669). F8 the Add button is hard-disabled until staging exists.
F9 AP-161/162/163 rewritten to the post-fix reality.

Clean-room complete solution: 11,378 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed.
The #350 render-ledger overflow observed this session is under
separate investigation and is NOT addressed here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 23:12:50 +02:00
Erik
97cf873870 feat(vendor): Slice 6 buy arc — shop items are real objects, vendor selection is THE selection, and Buy works (0x005F)
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Three ordered pieces in one landing (the shared controller/composition
files carry all three; the internal order was 6.1 -> 6.2 -> 6.3):

6.1 VendorShopItemMaterializer diff-merges the shop list into the live
ClientObjectTable on VendorState transitions (so client-local close and
session teardown retire the entries too) and never claims a guid it did
not add — ACE's UniqueItemsForSale can re-list a guid a player once
held (AP-163 files the collision-skip; no retail counterpart traced).
Right-click examine on shop items now routes through the ordinary
appraisal path — the 5.4 F7c blocker dissolves with the table entries.

6.2 SelectionChangeSource.Vendor: row clicks, auto-select, and examine
all flow through the canonical SelectionState; the status bar and the
existing byte-faithful StackSplitQuantityState slider light up
unmodified. VendorSplitPolicy is the single 0xDC41CB0 mask owner; the
slider VALUE seeds to 1 for exempt items while maxSplitSize keeps the
stack (the splitSize/maxSplitSize distinction, research §B.3).
Selection clears at retail's actual site — VendorItemsUI::RemoveFromShop
(pc:202848), not a CloseVendor-level clear that does not exist.

6.3 BuildBuy (0x005F): vendorGuid, count, (i32 amount, u32 guid) pairs,
and the trailing alternateCurrencyId the REAL client sends
(CM_Vendor::Event_Buy pc:689288) though ACE's reader ignores it.
TryBuy rides the EXISTING J5.2 one-request-at-a-time reservation and
completes on UseDone; the Buy button disables while a request is in
flight. The reconciliation round-trip (money property update, inventory
CreateObject, ApproachVendor refresh -> panel rebuild) is proven by a
synthetic-inbound test against existing machinery — no new owner.

Register: AP-161 narrowed (selection + examine residuals close;
staging/Sell remain; double-click-to-buy confirmed ABSENT from retail
with negative evidence cited — we match retail). AP-162 files the
conscious no-client-side-affordability-precheck deferral.

Clean-room complete solution: 11,368 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 20:28:26 +02:00
Erik
c721830e71 feat(ui): Slice 5.4 — the authored vendor browse panel (LayoutDesc 0x21000012)
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The vendor window is retail's own: LayoutDesc 0x21000012, root
0x100000B7, found by enumerating all 101 layouts for the one
containing both known tab controls and clinched by the root's Type
0x10000017 — the literal UIElement::RegisterElementClass id for
gmVendorUI (pc:202075). Discovery evidence and the D0 read live in
the research doc's new §B.4.

D0 corrected two assumptions: retail's category "tabs" are a UiMenu
DROPDOWN fed by a hardcoded 18-row ordered category table (ported
bit-for-bit against our ItemType enum; list always scoped to exactly
one category, first-present wins, selection preserved across refresh
per retail's clamp), and the layout authors THREE tabs — Items
(browse, this slice), Buying and Selling (staged-transaction review,
Slice 6) — decision 4's "browse/Buy tab" names the Items tab retail's
mode-2 OpenTab opens. The non-default tabs render and switch pages
but stay inert, fenced in comments.

VendorUiController mounts Items: category dropdown, icon-cell item
row with the retained scrollbar, per-unit retail pricing via
VendorPricing.SellPrice (the vendor-stock path VendorProfile::
VendorSellPrice feeds), name/cost on selection. The panel is a pure
projection of VendorState — opens on populate, closes on clear; the
close button's VendorState.Close() is its only permitted mutation.
Nothing on the wire.

AP-110 narrowed (vendor leaves the absent-panels list); AP-161 files
the precise Slice-6 remainder (Buying/Selling unwired, Buy/Add
buttons, InqAcceptability). Twelve controller tests on a real-dat
fixture. Clean-room complete solution: 11,323 passed / 4 skipped /
0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 17:00:21 +02:00
Erik
9796d71522 feat(runtime): Slice 5.3 — RuntimeInventoryState owns the vendor browse session
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The sole VendorState joins the J4.2 inventory owners: populated by the
new 0x0062 ApproachVendor route (parse via VendorApproach, wire-to-
domain mapping at the routing seam, silent-drop on malformed like every
sibling), borrowed by both graphical and headless hosts, and torn down
through the EXISTING ExternalContainer reset stage — session reset,
portal-out, and logout all funnel through the one mechanism. Close is
client-local per retail (nothing on the wire): a range watcher rides
the existing per-advanced-frame publishMovement callback, using the
vendor's own authored UseRadius (ACE's 0.6 m fallback when absent).
The dormant ItemInteractionController ActiveVendorId seam is finally
wired as a live delegate — real id while open, 0 the moment the
session clears.

AP-160 filed in this same commit: the watcher measures plain 3D center
distance rather than retail's cylinder-gap, because Runtime has no
per-NPC collision radius/height source; bounded sub-meter, client-
local UI only.

Twelve Runtime tests: populate/field mapping, vendor replacement,
range clear + within-range retention, all three generation teardowns,
the ActiveVendorId seam, malformed-event drop. Clean-room complete
solution: 11,302 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 15:37:12 +02:00
Erik
52bdf4df71 fix(world): #344 — a mid-teleport world-frame disagreement defers the projection instead of crashing
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During a portal transit the two world-frame owners legitimately rebase
on different edges (Runtime at TeleportAdvanced, streaming only after
old-window retirement), and a spawn projection landing in that window
hit the #283 invariant as an unhandled render-path throw — the crash
the user hit entering a dungeon.

The guard's check is unchanged; only the disagreement RESPONSE is
discriminated on the canonical transit authority
(RuntimeWorldTransitState.IsTeleportActive, the same field the App
layer already reads for portal-in-flight): in transit -> the
materializer's existing "not yet" return, parking the projection on
its established retry rides (OnLandblockLoaded's re-attempt loop,
whose ordering guarantees agreement on retry because the recenter
coordinator adopts the new origin BEFORE unblocking new landblock
loads — verified at source; plus OnPosition recovery and
OnAppearance). Outside transit -> still throws: genuine corruption
stays loud. The implementer explicitly ruled out riding the Runtime
placement pump, which would have acknowledged-and-discarded the
completion receipt and silently dropped the entity forever.

Sabotage: removing the discriminator reddened the pre-existing #283
throw tests as well as the new not-in-transit test — the sabotage
defeats the original contract, not merely the new coverage. Four new
tests cover defer, defer-then-agree-then-succeed (projected exactly
once), throw-outside-transit, and the agreeing pass-through.

Clean-room suite: 11,261 passed / 6 skipped / 0 failed. #346 filed for
a sixth, distinct load-sensitive allocation flake observed during the
runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 10:07:45 +02:00
Erik
55b07f6a62 refactor(physics): hoist the live-entity collision builder to Runtime (#330 groundwork)
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LiveEntityCollisionBuilder and LiveEntityDefaultPoseResolver move from
AcDream.App.Physics to AcDream.Runtime.Physics with no behaviour change
— diff-verified byte-identical shape math by both review lenses. The
Build signature's App-record parameter is replaced by presentation-free
primitives with identical guard semantics, INCLUDING the
FinalPhysicsState read the contract had missed and the implementer
surfaced rather than dropped. Visibility stays internal: Runtime's
existing InternalsVisibleTo grants already cover every consumer, so the
implementation's public widening is reverted per the architecture
review's finding 11.

The registration WIRING is deliberately WITHHELD. Both Opus lenses
failed it, converging: a shadow registered at spawn freezes there
(RuntimeRemotePhysicsUpdater is Runtime-homed but App-driven — nothing
headless ticks it), so a walking NPC becomes a phantom obstacle at its
spawn point while the real NPC still passes through the bot; three of
five shadow-lifetime edges leaked (pickup leaves a permanent invisible
collider, supersession orphans a duplicate, generation reset never
unregisters and the K-ledger convergence oracle only checks retained
shadows AFTER disposal clears them); and headless cannot resolve BSP
collision assets at all, so doors and chests would still be
walk-through. The frozen-shadow root was the SESSION LEAD's contract
error (fact 3), not the implementer's.

#330 stays OPEN, rewritten as the seven-point scope map the reviews
produced — the honest overnight deliverable is that map, not a
half-mechanism carrying new divergences.

Suite 11,235 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (the withheld seam's two
tests account for the delta from the implementation run's 11,237).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 01:49:13 +02:00
Erik
3aab05b0cc fix(streaming): derive the portal reveal window from the live streaming radii (#280)
The user watched far terrain visibly assemble after portal space exits.
The reveal gate was NOT missing a hold — Slice E's hold mechanism is
correct and already in place. The hold was measuring the wrong domain:
it opened at a hardcoded 3x3 landblock neighbourhood (~192 m) while the
visible world extends to the fog end (~2,189 m at the shipped High
preset, inside a 2,304 m Far window). An 11.4:1 ratio.

Retail's equivalent ratio is 1:1 BY CONSTRUCTION. `LScape` owns one
`mid_width x mid_width` array of `CLandBlock*` (`LScape::SetMidRadius`
@0x00504C00, `LScape::update_block` @0x005063A0), `mid_radius` is
assigned directly from the user's `Render.LandscapeDrawDistance`
preference (`SmartBox::SetRegion` @0x004531F0; values
`Render_LandscapeDrawDistance_Values` @0x007CA988 = {3,5,8,11,15,25},
default 8 — both byte-verified against the PDB-paired 2013 binary), and
that same square is simultaneously the prefetched set
(`LScape::PreFetchCells` @0x00505660), the drawn set (`block_draw_list`
over the same array), and the set the simulation blocks on
(`CellManager::blocking_for_cells`). There is no retail configuration in
which the client streams farther than it gates, because there is only
one number.

So the fix derives rather than duplicates. Four coupled parts, which is
why this is one commit and not four — D1 without D2 hangs the client and
D2 without D1 is dead code:

D1 `WorldRevealReadinessBarrier` takes a live `Func<StreamingRevealWindow>`
and stops being static: outdoor requires `FarRadius`, indoor still 0
(retail's `CEnvCell::PreFetchCells` @0x0052D1E0 arm). Read per
evaluation, never captured — the radii are runtime mutable through
Settings, and retail's answer to a mid-hold radius change is to reset,
re-radius, and re-arm the blocking prefetch at the NEW value
(`SmartBox::set_mid_radius` @0x00453180). `OutdoorNeighborhoodRadius`
is deleted; there is no constant left to drift.

D2 `StreamingController.IsRenderNeighborhoodResident` becomes tiered,
because acdream's loaded landscape is: inside `NearRadius`,
`IsNearTier && IsRenderReady`; out to `FarRadius`, `IsRenderReady` only.
Without this the fix cannot work at all — nothing outside the Near ring
is ever promoted, so any radius above `NearRadius` was unsatisfiable and
would have held the reveal forever. Proof obligation P1 (a Far-tier
landblock genuinely satisfies `IsRenderReady`) is now a test driven
through the real `PublicationKind.Far` pipeline against a real
`LandblockSpawnAdapter`, not an inference.

D7 `RuntimeWorldTransitState.AcknowledgeDestinationReadiness` re-derived
`indoor ? 0 : 1` and failed `invalid-readiness-shape` on any other
value, so changing the radius alone would have looked like "the fix
hangs the client". It is now a SHAPE invariant (`indoor => 0`,
`outdoor => >= 1`). Runtime does not own the graphical host's streaming
configuration and must not learn it; plumbing App radii into Runtime to
preserve the strict equality is exactly the assert-a-mechanism-that-does-
not-exist failure C5b was built to stop. Both non-graphical producers
keep emitting their centre-ring token and stay legal, annotated in place.

D6 `PhysicsEngine.IsNeighborhoodTerrainResident` rebuilt a full-map
`HashSet` on every call, every frame of every hold. At radius 1 that was
invisible; at radius 12 (625 ring members) it violates Slice I1's
0 B/resolve standard. Now an engine-owned scratch set, cleared in place;
measured at 0 bytes over 1,000 warmed radius-12 queries.

Also: the destination reservation opens at exactly the gate's radius and
reopens on the same generation when the radius changes mid-hold (retail
has one square for both, and no concept of prioritising an inner ring
differently). Composite warmup deliberately stays `NearRadius`-scoped —
the composite domain is entity-scoped and Far builds carry no entities,
so widening it would walk the outer window to warm nothing.
`ACDREAM_PROBE_REVEAL_RADIUS` is a measurement probe in a diagnostic
owner (CLAUDE.md rule 5) so the connected route can be run A/B on one
binary; it is NOT a user-facing prefetch knob, since a low setting would
reintroduce the decoupling this slice exists to close.

Register: AD-2 amended with the derived window, the two-tier split, and
the four new retail anchors. AP-149 FILED for the residual this does not
close — the outer ring accepts terrain-only publication where retail
requires LandBlockInfo and every building EnvCell, so a distant building
can still pop in at Far-ring distances. Do not let a later closeout
claim parity.

Docs: `ACDREAM_STREAM_RADIUS`'s CLAUDE.md description was wrong on every
clause (the default is unset, not 2; it forces `NearRadius`; it is
silently discarded by any Settings save) — corrected, since that is the
file every session reads. `reference_two_tier_streaming.md` corrected in
four ways, including "Far tier = terrain only": Far also publishes
terrain COLLISION, which is precisely what makes this fix viable.
#280's issue text had the right conclusion from a wrong premise (it
names a view-distance setting acdream does not have) — corrected, and
the missing Viewing Distance option filed separately as #326, with #327
(DDD progress readout) and #328 (hardcoded 5000 f far plane vs retail's
byte-verified 4000) filed alongside.

Expect LONGER holds and the "In Portal Space - Please Wait..." cue on
recalls MORE often. That is convergence toward retail, not away from it:
retail emits the byte-identical string for the whole duration of a
blocked prefetch and polls at 5 s intervals. The failure condition is
non-convergence, not duration.

Gates: Release build 0 errors. Complete suite 11,178 passed / 4 skipped
/ 0 failed, against a re-measured 11,142 / 4 / 0 baseline at 9ee9c1a1 —
+36, reconciled exactly as 36 new tests (App +23, Runtime +10, Core +3),
zero deleted, zero newly skipped. Nine discriminating tests
sabotage-verified in both directions. The connected/visual gate is
batched into C5's matrix; its recipe, its three positive artifacts, and
its required recall leg are written into the campaign plan.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 23:54:59 +02:00
Erik
f8e55ba5e4 fix(physics): route local-player shadow presentation through SyncPose (#318, AP-145)
RuntimePlacementPresentationSink.TryPublishPlace previously published the
local player's collision-shadow pose with a direct LocalPlayerShadowState.Set
call — a plain cache write that never touched PhysicsEngine.ShadowObjects.
Because LocalPlayerShadowSynchronizer.SyncPose's own dedup check compares
against that same cache, the direct write could pre-seed the cache with the
destination pose and cause the next real SyncPose call to see "nothing
changed" and skip its own ShadowObjects publish — leaving the real collision
shadow at the pre-teleport position until an unrelated movement tick forced
a real publish.

Fix: TryPublishPlace now calls _localPlayerShadowSync.SyncPose(...,
force: true), the same publisher ordinary per-tick movement uses, so Place
always drives a real ShadowObjects write before the cache updates.
TryPublishWithdrawal carried the exact mirror asymmetry (a bare
LocalPlayerShadowState.Clear with no ShadowObjects.Suspend, leaving a live
phantom shadow row at the park's source cell for the whole park window — the
#184 shape) and is fixed in the same commit, same one-call shape:
_localPlayerShadowSync.Suspend(entity). The sink no longer holds a direct
LocalPlayerShadowState reference; both halves route exclusively through the
one synchronizer, which owns the cache internally.

The single LocalPlayerShadowSynchronizer instance is now constructed in
LivePresentationComposition (before the sink) and threaded through
LivePresentationResult to SessionPlayerComposition, which no longer builds
its own — this guarantees the sink's Place/Withdraw edge and ordinary
per-tick movement publish through the exact same publisher and cache rather
than two independent instances that could drift out of sync with each other.

TryPublishPlace's xmldoc now states the behavioural nuance directly: routing
through SyncPose means Place inherits SyncPose's own admission guard
(IsHidden, cellId == 0, not-current-visible-projection), which the old
direct .Set() call never consulted. Under those conditions SyncPose now
calls Suspend instead of publishing — correct and symmetric, but new
behaviour worth flagging at the call site, not just in a test comment.

RuntimePlacementShadowCompositionTests.cs (#318) proves four facts against
the real ShadowObjects registry, not the cache: a bare Place publishes a
real row at the destination cell with the source cell's row gone; a
subsequent ordinary per-tick Sync is then a correct no-op; a Place for a
registered non-local-player entity leaves its row at the source cell
untouched and never touches the player's cache (route 7 P4 — the fix lives
entirely inside the pre-existing player-only gate); and Withdraw suspends
the real registry row, not just the cache, with the retained
(suspendable) registration surviving for a later restore. All four were
sabotage-verified in both directions.

RuntimeForcePositionRenderCommitTests.cs (B2) drives a real end-to-end
accepted ForcePosition through RuntimeEntityObjectLifetime.TryApplyPosition
and RuntimeAcceptedPositionDriveController.TryExecuteAcceptedLocalPosition
against a live HostFixture, asserting both the committed render position
AND a cell change that deliberately crosses out of the spawn's outdoor grid
cell, so the cell assertion is independently falsifiable rather than riding
along with the position assertion.

Retires AP-145 (this fix) in docs/architecture/retail-divergence-register.md.
AP-1 and AD-1 are untouched by this commit — they retire separately in the
deletion-sweep commit that follows.

Evidence chain: docs/research/2026-08-05-c5a-contract.md (the governing C5a
slice contract), docs/research/2026-08-05-c5a-architecture-review.md (round
1, FAIL — three MAJORs: vacuous route-7 P4 test, unfixed Withdraw-side
mirror asymmetry, non-driving B2 test), docs/research/2026-08-05-c5a-architecture-review-round2.md
(round 2, PASS with two MINORs — an unfalsifiable B2 cell assertion and the
undocumented SyncPose guard nuance, both fixed here).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 14:09:11 +02:00
Erik
e0f96a55bf fix(physics): C4 route 3 — portal placement authority (local player)
Removes a duplicate placement authority for local-player portal arrival.
Portalling worked before this change and works after it — this is not a
bug fix, EXCEPT that it found and fixed one dead-code production bug.

THE PRODUCTION BUG: TryExecuteCanonicalPortalPlacement re-read the
accepted destination at Place time, but TryBeginPortalReveal already
consumes that slot at Aim time — so the arm was 100% dead code and every
real portal Place refused with host-token-unavailable. Found only
because we refused to accept 7 skipped tests instead of chasing the
count to zero.

RETAIL IS THE GENERIC PATH FOR THE THIRD ROUTE RUNNING:
SmartBox::TeleportPlayer @0x00453910 = SetPositionSimple(dest, 1) with
flags 0x1012, followed by PlayerPositionUpdated.

BOTH INVERSIONS, WITH THEIR ANCHORS: unlike route 2, the leash IS armed
here (ConstrainTo @0x0045418A) and velocity is zeroed
(set_velocity @0x004541B4); unlike route 4b-3, the local teleport_hook
runs AFTER placement (@0x004538AE).

THE THREE-ROUND DEFECT CHAIN, HONESTLY:
- Round 1 released the player at the pre-teleport position while the
  anim stream marched on — the contract wrongly assumed Place re-fires
  (process rule 1's third occurrence this campaign).
- Round 2's fix inferred commit from a global PendingCount, which three
  non-committing paths also clear — making the SAME bug complete
  cleanly and silently. Strictly worse than round 1: round 1 at least
  tripped portal-complete-before-materialized.
- Round 3 latches the commit where it actually happens
  (ReconcileAndAcknowledgePortal), keyed on reveal generation and
  teleport sequence, via TryConsumePortalCommit. Two of the three
  required regression tests landed and are sabotage-verified on both
  hosts (ParkedPlace_ForgottenByOrdinaryMergeDoesNotLatchAsCommitted /
  HeadlessPortalPrepareDestinationForgottenByOrdinaryMergeDoesNotLatchAsCommitted).
  The third (force-arm-takes-the-slot) was judged unnecessary on review:
  with the inference gone, PendingCount is only a "don't ask yet" guard
  at both gates, so a force operation occupying or vacating the slot no
  longer changes an input the commit decision reads — the case collapses
  into what the landed test already discriminates.

THE B2/P3 RESOLUTION: both round-2 reviews were right about different
branches of the same synchronous call. RuntimePlacementProjectionSubscription
.OnPlacement acknowledges the FIFO head only when TryApply returns true;
a Place whose portal authority went stale (transit ended/superseded
while parked) used to return false, wedging every later entity's
placement receipt behind it forever. Both sinks
(RuntimePlacementPresentationSink, HeadlessRuntimePlacementProjectionSink)
now acknowledge-and-ignore a stale-authority Place instead of refusing
it. The regression test (RuntimePlacementPresentationSinkTests
.PortalPlace_StaleTransitHostOrSequenceIsAcknowledgedAndIgnored) had
been asserting the old, wrong `false` behaviour; it now asserts and
sabotage-verifies the fix.

Also lands: AP-144 (register discipline — the portal movement-event
send reuses the stricter UsePositionFromServer gate where retail's
SendMovementEvent is the looser autonomy_level != 0 test, diverging
only at level 1, currently unreachable), AP-145 + issue #318 (the
local-player collision-shadow presentation write bypasses its own
publisher's ShadowObjects write via a direct cache .Set(), self-healing
only once dedup diverges — filed, not fixed, pending a composition
test), AD-42 deleted (its last citation retired by the canonical portal
arm), AD-2 updated (the wait-cue's trigger predicate now covers a
second cause), and two documentation corrections: the enter_world
misattribution (both call sites are in SmartBox::HandleCreateObject,
only one in the player branch — portal arrival is TeleportPlayer, not
enter_world) and the stale "local player never reaches this path"
comment on the generic-remote-render-pose write.

Suite: 11,090 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed. No new skips, nothing
weakened.

STILL OWED: the connected two-client gate, with
ACDREAM_PROBE_LOCAL_TELEPORT=1, scored only if [local-tp] lines
actually appear in the capture — and explicitly NOT scored as covering
issue #318 (no composition test yet asserts PhysicsEngine.ShadowObjects
directly).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 03:57:37 +02:00
Erik
6dc7ba51ee feat(physics): C4 route 4b-3 — remote teleport + cell-less through the canonical placement
Flips the last remote classification (SetPosition: teleport-advanced and
cell-less) onto 4b-1's RuntimeRemotePlacementDriveController, runs retail's
teleport_hook before the placement, and deletes the legacy remote-teleport
machinery. Contract: docs/research/2026-08-04-c4-route-4b-3-contract.md.

Retail: MoveOrTeleport @0x00516330's branch @0x00516386 -> teleport_hook
@0x005163EF -> SetFlags(0x1012) @0x00516414 -> SetPosition @0x00516420 ->
return 1 @0x00516438. The hook @0x00514ED0 runs BEFORE the placement and
regardless of its outcome. Retail places this branch unconditionally, at any
distance and any contact state (arg4 is read only @0x0051638E, after the
branch) — which is what retires AP-137's cell-less enqueue-vs-place delta.

D1 — the classifier's cell-less input is now the PRE-merge committed cell.
Retail's predicate is `this_1->cell == 0`, the BODY's own cell at
MoveOrTeleport entry (this_1 is assigned from this @0x00516334). acdream fed
the POST-merge canonical.FullCellId, which RefreshSnapshot ->
RefreshDerivedState -> SetFullCell has already stamped with the accepted wire
cell; a zero wire cell fails validation into RejectedData first. The shipped
remote cell-less predicate was therefore dead code, not merely different from
remotePlacementRequired. Threaded via a builder overload; route 1's overload
is untouched. The graphical !IsSpatiallyVisible arm of
projectionRequiresTeleportHook is deleted — a presentation predicate with no
retail analogue that fired the teleport machinery on a routine hot path.

Deleted: RemoteTeleportController (605), RemoteTeleportPlacement (85),
RemoteShadowPlacementSynchronizer (49), their 1,709 lines of tests, the
remotePlacementRequired predicate, the TeleportHookRequired plumbing, the
legacy pre-operation ConstrainTo fallback, and the player arm's legacy
!IsGrounded fallback. Net -2,030 lines.

Structural fix (two independent Opus reviews, round 1 FAIL/FAIL): three of the
four MAJORs were one defect — OnPosition carried two parallel inline copies of
the routing tail (player-guid, NPC-guid) that had drifted. Extracted
RunRemoteArmTail (3 call sites) and ApplyWireAirborneLeftoverBookkeeping (2),
both branches now share one implementation.

  A1  ToConstraintArm mapped AirborneSnap -> AirborneNoOperation, so the NPC
      arm armed ConstrainTo ZERO times for an out-of-contact wire-grounded
      creature — a regression this slice introduced while closing a
      structurally identical hole. Now maps to NearInterpolate; switch made
      total with a throwing default proven unreachable.
  R1  D2's write-nothing shape existed on the player arm only; NPC packets
      fell through and wrote the body. Retail makes no player/NPC distinction.
  R2  report_collision_end(this,1) @0x00514F31 was bound to
      ShadowObjects.Suspend, a port of a DIFFERENT retail function
      (remove_shadows_from_cells) that teleport_hook never calls. Now routes
      to RuntimeCollisionReportingState.LeaveWorld, which wraps the private
      ForceEnd in an admission-blocking transaction so a DoCollisionEnd
      callback cannot recreate the contact table.
  R3/A2 A teleported NPC synthesized ServerVelocity from the teleport distance
      (~1,000+ m/s) and planned a run cycle from it. Both the install and
      RemoteServerControlledVelocityCycle.Apply now gate on !isTeleportRoute.

BISECT HAZARD — A1's fix is correct only BECAUSE R1 landed. AirborneSnap is
reachable wire-airborne on the NPC arm only while D2's shape is missing there.
Reverting R1 alone silently inverts A1 into the opposite divergence: arming
where retail returns 0. Revert both or neither.

Also in the velocity hunk: the NPC block's two !IsPlayerGuid(update.Guid)
guards were dropped when it was wrapped in `if (!isTeleportRoute)`. Safe — all
five exit paths of the enclosing IsPlayerGuid block return, so the predicate is
unconditionally false below it — but it was unremarked by both reviews.

Register: AP-137 REWRITTEN (not deleted) to the surviving acdream-only
divergences — null classification during the login window and Rejected*
through UnroutedCatchUp keep a row. AD-42's RemoteTeleportController citation
retired; AP-136/AP-138 writer lists corrected to the two surviving non-Position
rebucket writers; AP-138 gains the teleport arm as a second producer of the
visible-without-collision residual (retirement path remains #309). AP-135 is
untouched and its two airborne bookkeeping writes are preserved on both arms.
AP-131 does not retire; #276 does not close.

Proof obligation 1: ParkCollisionResidents' overlap throw stays unreachable —
the teleport arm adds packets to the same TryBeginExclusiveAuthoredPlacement
one-operation-per-key machinery the far arm uses, opens no new operation shape,
and every DeferredCell outcome cancels synchronously with
restoreCancelledPark: true. The guarded property remains
HasOldPrefixPlacementDebt's stall, not a throw (4b-1's B2 caveat stands).

Correction to an earlier claim: LiveEntityPresentationController's
_activePlacementOwners was NOT write-never at HEAD —
remotePlacementRequired -> BeginPlacement -> Begin -> BeginAuthoritativePlacement
was a live writer chain. It becomes write-never BECAUSE this slice deletes that
chain, which is why deleting the dead half is behaviour-preserving.

Probe: ACDREAM_PROBE_REMOTE_TELEPORT=1 emits one [remote-teleport] line per
routed arm (guid, cause, hook-ran, placement status). TEMPORARY, strip with the
probe family.

Carried, disclosed not fixed: no dedicated bidirectional collision-partner test
for R2 (the wiring, not LeaveWorld itself, is what lacks coverage); the
stress test's teleport step drives hand-written field assignments rather than
the canonical arm; the per-packet runTeleportHook closure allocation (network
path, not the resolve path Slice I's 0 B discipline governs — file before
route 5 adds a fourth call site). B2: IRuntimeCollisionReportObserver has zero
production implementations, so retail's bidirectional DoCollisionEnd half still
reaches no gameplay consumer — this fix closes the wrong-function binding, not
that nobody listens.

Complete Release suite MEASURED at 11,013 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed
(baseline 11,027/4/0; net -14 = ~33 deleted test cases against ~19 added).
Neither known flake fired (#302 PortalProjectionTests GC-allocation, #308
NakEmissionTests wall-clock).

STILL OWED: the two-client connected gate, which MUST use an NPC/creature
teleport target. Both round-1 MAJORs lived on the NPC arm and the velocity
cycle early-returns for 0x50xxxxxx guids, so a player target structurally
cannot observe A1, A2, or R3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 16:00:10 +02:00
Erik
7f1c1f5aa6 feat(physics): C4 route 4b-2 — remote far snap through the canonical placement
Flips the SetPositionSimple classification (contact, PlayerDistance >= 96 m) for
remotes onto 4b-1's drive controller and deletes both legacy far blocks, both
duplicated 96f/4f constant pairs, and both `?? Vector3.Zero` fabrications. The
4 m constant now exists exactly once. Teleport and cell-less stay legacy for
4b-3.

Retail: MoveOrTeleport @0x00516330's far branch runs StopInterpolating
@0x005163CB before SetPositionSimple @0x005163D9 and returns 1 @0x005163E8
regardless — the SetPositionError is discarded — so HandleReceivedPosition arms
ConstrainTo @0x00454272 post-move on commit AND on failure. The x87 parity
decode at @0x00516393-@0x0051639E puts exactly 96.0 on the far branch.
SetPositionSimple @0x005162B0 builds flags 0x1012 at @0x005162C4.

Non-commit outcomes still advance the body, because retail's SetPositionInternal
@0x00515BD0 commits the destination via store_position @0x00515CE2 when no cell
resolves. The partition is by STAGE, not heuristic, enforced by an exhaustive
switch: Refused/Contention/NotApplicable/RejectedPreparation store (the placement
never executed); Committed/Deferred/RejectedByPlacement do not (the engine ran
and refused, matching retail's non-storing returns @0x00515CB2 and @0x00515CD5).
Without this a refused far snap froze the remote with an emptied queue.

Also fixes a shipped defect this route made live: ParkDeferred's quiescence parks
withdrew the entity (InWorld=false, clock suspended, residency removed) and were
never restorable, while Forget(restoreCancelledPark: true) runs for every
accepted Position on every entity. The restorable decision now lives inside
ParkDeferred AFTER SnapToCell, reading body.CellPosition.ObjCellId — the value
RestoreParkWithdrawal actually restores at — against every live quiescence
rather than one minimum-OperationId token. The three pre-snap fields are hoisted
into locals because SnapToCell ends with InWorld = true. ParkCollisionResidents
passes restorableOnCancel: false explicitly; the plain unplaceable park is
provably unchanged. RestoreParkWithdrawal re-tests the prefix at restore time so
a retained route-2 park cannot re-admit into a prefix that began quiescing
during the park.

CanAttemptDestination is retained as an OPTIMISATION only, with the two Core
predicates it cannot reproduce written down at the pre-flight, plus the two
properties that depend on it staying there.

Four fix rounds and eight Opus reviews. The slice was fully green at 10,990,
10,997 and 11,004 while containing real defects — a frozen remote pinned as
correct by its own test, a fallback that over-wrote on the exact retail paths
that decline to store, and a park guard incomplete on two independent axes.

Register: AP-137 (leftover classifications take AP-87's catch-up; states the
cell-less enqueue-vs-place delta deferred to 4b-3, that RejectedData is applied
anyway, and the headless divergence), AP-138 (the refusable far placement),
AP-136 narrowed to match the relocation. #309's acceptance steps rewritten —
step 5 previously asserted a recovery the code does not perform — and gated on a
new ACDREAM_PROBE_PARK=1 signal so the check cannot pass while broken.

Suite 11,009 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed against a measured 10,968 baseline.
The 10,973 figure recorded earlier was wrong and is corrected here.

Connected gate outstanding: the two-client far-snap walk and #309.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 07:55:56 +02:00
Erik
9b1e6fc637 fix(physics): #297 — keep the PWD bitfield live so PK status reaches the client
The user typed @pklite and then walked straight through other PKLite players.

Root cause: ClientObject.PublicWeenieBitfield was written exactly once, from the
0xF745 CreateObject parse, and never refreshed. ACE's only PK-change message is
PropertyInt.PlayerKillerStatus (134) over 0x02CE/0x02CD, which we parsed and
stored into Properties.Ints[134] but never translated back into the bitfield —
and ACE never re-sends a PublicWeenieDesc at all (EnqueueBroadcastUpdateObject
has zero live callers), so that property is the ONLY signal a client can learn
from. Both sides of the collision test read the frozen value, so
CollisionExemption's "4c. both PKLite -> collide" rule could never fire.

Retail's missing port: PublicWeenieDesc::SetPlayerKillerStatus @0x005AC7C0
rewrites _bitfield in place — PK(4) -> (b & 0xfddfffff) | 0x20; PKLite(0x40) ->
(b & 0xffdfffdf) | 0x2000000; Free(0x20) -> (b & 0xfdffffdf) | 0x200000; else
b &= 0xfddfffdf. Mutually exclusive, verified byte-for-byte, with input values
confirmed against retail's own PKStatusEnum (acclient.h:6412-6427), not just
ACE's. Driven from ACCWeenieObject::OnStatUpdated @0x0058DF20 case 0x86.

The fix rewrites the value at its source rather than patching consumers. Two
review rounds were needed because the first pass missed that there are TWO
snapshot stores: InboundPhysicsStateController keeps its own private _snapshots
dictionary, and every untimestamped-field merge (ApplyAcceptedObjDesc and
friends) reads `old` from THAT store, not from RuntimeEntityRecord.Snapshot.
Refreshing only the active record left the target-side shadow flags correct
until the remote's next equip or unequip — ACE broadcasts an ObjDesc on every
one — at which point the appearance path rebuilt the registration from the
frozen spawn and dropped the bit permanently. The regression test demanded by
review is what surfaced that; it is verified discriminating (reverting gives
Actual: 8 instead of 33554440).

Five stores now hold this value, kept coherent from one source by two
ObjectUpdated subscribers plus the appearance-rebuild path. The two shadow-flag
writers are the same invalidation applied at the two edges that can invalidate
it, not competing authorities — review enumerated every drift path and closed
each. That coherence invariant is new as of this commit and is recorded as
register row AP-134, with AP-133 as the precedent for filing a row when the
danger is a future writer rather than current behaviour.

Also corrects TS-23's retirement narrative, which claimed every mover-flags call
site read the mover's "real" PK bits from 2026-07-30. The bits existed but their
source was frozen, so that only became true here; the site enumeration also
missed RuntimeSetPositionMoverPreparation, a seventh site that decodes the
snapshot directly.

Unblocks #298 (melee/missile admission needs the local player's own PKLite bit).
Follow-ups filed: #300 (Properties.Ints[134] vs bitfield mirror gap), #301 (same
defect class for radar blip colour and radar behaviour), #302 (a pre-existing
PortalProjection allocation-assertion flake, 1 in 6, found while verifying this
gate), #303 (LiveEntityPvpBitfieldSync is App-resident but Runtime-owned-state).

Gates: complete Release solution 10,895 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline
10,887 including #299). Adversarial + retail-conformance review PASS after one
FAIL round. Every new test discrimination-verified by reverting the fix.
Connected acceptance NOT run — needs a live two-client PKLite session.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 20:59:01 +02:00
Erik
9966b53174 feat(physics): C4 route 2 — ForcePosition through the canonical placement
A local-player ForcePosition had TWO independent writers for one accepted
packet: LocalForcePositionTransaction snapped the physics body
(PlayerMovementController.BlipPosition, a raw SnapToCell with no collision
resolve), while LiveEntityNetworkUpdateController's generic tail separately
wrote position/cell/rotation to the render WorldEntity from the raw wire and
rebucketed it. Two stores, one packet — the divergence class 670f307c fixed on
the remote path. The outbound AutonomousPosition ack also fired BEFORE any
canonical commit existed: we told ACE "got it, I'm here" before deciding where
"here" was, and the trailing isCurrent() could only suppress the continuation,
never recall the packet.

RuntimeAcceptedPositionDriveController is now the one Runtime-owned seam. Both
hosts call the identical TryExecuteAcceptedLocalPosition; App and headless
project the committed result through the existing placement projection sink
(LiveEntityRuntime.TryApplyRuntimePlacementPlace already performed the same
four writes, from committed state rather than a wire guess).

Retail: SmartBox::HandleReceivedPosition @0x00453FD0's FORCE_POSITION branch is
get_heading -> Frame::set_heading -> SmartBox::BlipPlayer @0x00453940 -> stamp
POSITION_TS -> SendPositionEvent @0x00454091 -> return @0x0045409D. BlipPlayer
is CPhysicsObj::SetPositionSimple @0x005162B0 with flags 0x1012
(Teleport|Slide|SendPositionEvent) — a real collision-resolving SetPosition,
not a snap. The pinned classifier already encoded this exactly.

Named behaviour changes:

* The ack is now an OUTPUT of the committed route, fired strictly after the
  canonical commit and exactly once per accepted force packet.
* The ForcePosition route no longer re-arms the constraint leash. The force
  branch returns at 0x0045409D, ahead of all three ConstrainTo sites
  (0x00454272, 0x0045418A, 0x004541EC); the old re-arm cited retail's "Player,
  normal" branch, which BlipPlayer is not on. The teleport, CommitPreparedPosition
  and first-entry callers legitimately still constrain and are untouched.
* A force correction that terminates WITHOUT committing still sends its
  position event and is not retried — retail's BlipPlayer discards
  SetPositionSimple's SetPositionError return and acks unconditionally.

A single _pending funnel owns the in-flight placement, deciding on the token's
PositionAuthorityVersion against the record's: equal -> clear; advanced with the
newest accepted event still a force -> re-issue, re-classified; advanced to an
ordinary Apply -> clear, since newer server truth owns that pose. This closes a
double-apply/double-ack and a silently-dropped correction that two earlier
iterations of this slice each introduced.

AD-62 records the residual: a ForcePosition our async collision publication
cannot carry to a committed placement is not re-applied. Retail has no park —
its world is fully resident and its placement synchronous — so the state is
unreachable there. AP-131 is NOT retired; its legacy Position caller is route 4.

Deleted: LocalForcePositionTransaction, PlayerMovementController.BlipPosition,
HeadlessSessionWorldProjection.BlipLocalPlayer.

Gates: complete Release solution 10,858 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline
10,844/4/0). Two independent Opus reviews (retail-conformance and
architecture/adversarial) PASS on the final diff after three FAIL rounds; every
intermediate state was fully green, so the suite caught none of the four real
defects. Connected acceptance is NOT run: nothing a user can do makes ACE emit
a ForcePosition without retail's @pklite, which acdream does not implement — see
docs/research/2026-08-03-c4-route-2-visual-gate.md.

Known gap, recorded not claimed: the plan's acceptance item 2 is unmet. The App
double-write check is a source pin, and "the committed projection moves the
render entity" is uncovered at any layer (#292). Filed alongside: #286-#291,
#293-#296.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 18:46:36 +02:00
Erik
f24532adf3 fix(vfx): bind effects after canonical placement
C3c created graphical effect, projectile, and static-animation sidecars before Runtime finished the entity's first SetPosition. One-shot F754/F755 packets could be discarded, projectiles could adopt a cell-less body, and animated statics could compete for body ownership. Keep effects behind an exact-incarnation presentation barrier, retry projectile/static binding on the committed visibility edge, and keep effect cells synchronized with canonical rebuckets. User verified spell, recall, arrow, projectile, portal, and static presentation; 90 focused App tests and the Release build pass.
2026-08-03 12:10:21 +02:00
Erik
529e0e9d88 feat(runtime): C3c - production placement cutover: both hosts on the residence conductors (routes 1+8)
Campaign P remaining-physics-divergence, placement cutover slice C3c
(docs/plans/2026-08-02-placement-cutover.md). Both production hosts now
register every initial Create through the residence + continuation-
executor + first-entry-conductor machinery (C0-C3b):

- Graphical (route 1): RegisterEntityWithInitialResidence at Create; the
  shared RuntimeFirstEntryDriveController pumps both conductors from the
  placement-receipt flow; MaterializeProjection and RebucketLiveEntity
  are presentation-only while a residence is ACTIVE (ExecutorCompleted is
  the presentation-binding receipt); post-residence entities take the
  full legacy path including the prepare_to_enter_world clock edges.
  PlayerModeController attaches presentation to the Runtime-published
  controller; its legacy resolve/step-heights/host-construction path is
  deleted; presentation-only rollback (retail has no entry-flow rollback).
- Headless (route 8): OnSpawned registers with residence when a drive
  exists; content-less sessions keep the pre-flip direct registration;
  SynchronizeLocalPlayer/CreateController/ApplySetupStepHeights deleted;
  prepared-collision read failure is a typed AwaitingCollisionSource
  retry; far remotes outside the service window complete celless.
- RuntimeLocalPlayerMovementState.Controller setter sealed internal; all
  controller mutation flows through the publication lifecycle.

Fix slices landed within this cutover, each dual-gated:
- F1: live movement-stat/server-physics application routed through the
  Runtime ownership seam (post-logout ingest crash on the retired
  controller eliminated; RuntimeMovementSkillProjection deleted).
- F2: login activation wedge - collision-admission prefix gate factored
  out of the seal (reentrant-commit RejectedAuthority), rearm generation
  identity corrected, PlayerModeAutoEntry requires the Runtime-published
  controller (world reveal can no longer seal unmaterialized).
- F3: landblock-prefix 0-sentinel replaced by explicit absent-id guards;
  map-corner landblocks (grid row/col 0) fully legal through admission,
  park/rearm/retire, quiescence, and outdoor shadow seeds.
- F5: local-player first-entry ground contact seeded by the shared
  SpawnPlacementSettler (moved App->Core) at FinalizeActivation - the
  retail first-gravity-frame touch (enter_world 0x00516170 carries no
  seed); the legacy unconditional force-seed is overwritten by a real
  floor-found contact; airborne spawns stay airborne; outbound contact
  bit verified end-to-end. Fixes the standing-cast 'You can't do that
  while in the air!' rejections.
- R1 (dual-review round): login constraint leash armed at the committed
  placement (HandleReceivedPosition 0x00453FD0 analog); register rows
  AD-61 (settle-timing compression now covering the local player) and
  AD-42 (repointed off the deleted resolve split) in this commit;
  residence-conversion owner API; wire-landblock guards; drive-pending
  ledger in IsConverged; route attach/detach latch; executor-drain drift
  model documented + source-pinned.

Gates: Runtime 1,003, App 4,039/3 skips, Headless 79, complete solution
10,816/0 failed/4 skips (Release, -m:1); connected lifecycle/reconnect
gate PASS (logs/connected-world-gate-20260802-175401; graceful exits,
world-visible, zero airborne rejections). The nine-stop soak remains red
for the pre-existing 6b28ff99 whole-world collision-clone throughput
regression (attributed with evidence; scheduled as its own slice before
C5). Dual Opus reviews (retail-conformance + adversarial): delta PASS.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-02 18:10:33 +02:00
Erik
f05ed5c3cd feat(app): observe canonical placement receipts 2026-08-01 15:22:52 +02:00
Erik
d6e8b60303 fix(movement): invalidate burden on enchantment changes 2026-07-31 10:16:27 +02:00
Erik
bb7b899bfe fix(physics): TS-23 - plumb real PK/PKLite/Impenetrable mover flags
Campaign P Slice P3 item 3. The wire parse (CreateObject's
PublicWeenieDesc._bitfield), the decode (EntityCollisionFlagsExt.
FromPwdBitfield), the per-GUID storage (ClientObjectTable.
PublicWeenieBitfield), and the exemption logic (CollisionExemption.
ShouldSkip) all already existed and were already correct -- every
mover-flags call site just fed a GUID-prefix IsPlayer heuristic instead
of the real per-entity PK/PKLite/Impenetrable state (retail
OBJECTINFO::init 0x0050cf30 state |= 0x80/0x800/0x1000).

Port:
- EntityCollisionFlagsExt.ToMoverState translates the decoded PWD
  bit-space into the ObjectInfoState bit-space FindObjCollisions
  actually reads -- two different numberings that must not be
  confused. Deliberately does not translate IsPlayer (every call site
  already derives that correctly from its own GUID heuristic per
  #184 Slice 2b).
- EntityCollisionFlagsExt.ResolveMoverPvpState is the one shared
  ClientObjectTable-backed lookup (guid -> ObjectInfoState), replacing
  what would otherwise have been three separate inline copies across
  GameWindow/LivePresentationComposition/RemoteTeleportController.
- Threaded as a new optional moverPvpState parameter through
  RuntimeRemotePhysicsUpdater.Tick/TickHidden and
  RuntimeOrdinaryPhysicsUpdater.TryBegin (default None preserves every
  pre-P3 caller unchanged), and as PlayerMovementController.OwnPvpFlags
  for the local player's own two resolve call sites.
- TS-23 section 12b: PlayerWeenie.JumpStaminaCost's pk parameter now
  reads the real PlayerKillerStatus(0x86)/LastPkAttackTimestamp(0x91)
  pair against retail's 20-second recency window
  (pkStatus in {4, 0x40} && (timestamp + 20.0) >= now), replacing the
  P1 hardcoded false. RuntimeMovementSkillState/Snapshot and
  LiveSessionEventRouter.RecomputePvpStatus push both the PWD bitfield
  and the PlayerKillerStatus pair reactively, riding the SAME
  ClientObject event triggers RecomputeBurden already uses.
- A conformance test caught a genuine precision bug in the first
  PK-timer clock choice: DateTimeOffset.UtcNow's Unix-epoch seconds
  (~1.7 billion) loses ~128 seconds of precision in a 32-bit float,
  silently swallowing the entire 20-second window. Switched to
  Environment.TickCount64 (small, monotonic magnitude) -- also the more
  retail-plausible basis, since LastPkAttackTimestamp is itself a wire
  PropertyFloat and retail's Timer::cur_time is almost certainly a
  process/session-relative counter for the same precision reason, not
  an absolute epoch.

Non-PK invariant (the acceptance criterion): an entity with no
ClientObjectTable row, or a row whose PublicWeenieBitfield is null or
0, resolves to ObjectInfoState.None -- a no-op OR into moverFlags,
bit-identical to every pre-P3 caller's hardcoded value. A dedicated
test drives two real ClientObjectTable rows through
CollisionExemption.ShouldSkip and confirms PK-vs-PK collides while
PK-vs-non-PK and non-PK-vs-non-PK both stay exempt (walk through).

Register: TS-23 retired (both the collision-flags and PK-timer halves);
the stale "M2 combat must land TS-23" phase-gate note removed.

dotnet build + dotnet test (Core.Tests 4008/2 skip, Runtime.Tests
425/0, App.Tests 3968/3 skip, complete solution build) all green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 09:52:55 +02:00
Erik
dae5b1ea68 fix(physics): TS-46 - seed the sweep from the Setup's own sphere list
Campaign P Slice P3 item 1. Retail CPhysicsObj::transition (0x00512dc0)
seeds the collision sweep from CPartArray::GetSphere (the Setup's own
<=2-sphere list, each origin+radius scaled by m_scale) via
SPHEREPATH::init_sphere (0x0050c670) -- not from a symmetric two-scalar
(radius, height) capsule reconstruction. The human Setup 0x02000001's
authored spheres are (0,0,0.475) r=.48 and (0,0,1.350) r=.48; the old
reconstruction from (0.48, 1.835) produced (0,0,0.48) + (0,0,1.355), a
5 mm head-center offset the TS-46 register row documented as a residual.

Port:
- SpherePath.InitPath gains a sphere-list overload (ImmutableArray<
  FlatCollisionSphere>, scale) sharing a new InitPathCore with the
  existing (radius, height) overload, which is now the degenerate
  2-scalar case of the same code -- byte-for-byte unchanged, so every
  captured-fixture replay (CellarUpTrajectoryReplayTests,
  DoorBugTrajectoryReplayTests, CellarLipWedgeTests) keeps passing
  unmodified.
- PhysicsEngine.ResolveWithTransition gains optional sphereList/
  sphereScale parameters; empty/default preserves the legacy scalar
  path for every pre-existing caller.
- LiveEntityMotionRuntimeController.GetSetupMoverShape is a new sibling
  of GetSetupCylinder (left untouched) that resolves the Setup's own
  sphere list plus Setup-derived step-up/step-down
  (CPartArray::GetStepUpHeight/GetStepDownHeight, 0x005180d0/0x005180f0,
  x ObjScale, 0.4 m fallback matching the pre-existing literal).
- Threaded through PlayerMovementController (both resolve call sites,
  new SphereList property set by PlayerModeController.ApplyStepHeights
  and the Headless world projection), RuntimeRemotePhysicsUpdater
  (Tick + TickHidden), and RuntimeOrdinaryPhysicsUpdater.TryBegin.
  Remote/ordinary step heights are now Setup-derived instead of a
  hardcoded 0.4f literal. Projectile and camera-probe sweeps are
  untouched (already single-sphere-exact).
- PlayerModeController.ApplyStepHeights also now applies the x ObjScale
  multiply to the player's own step heights (previously only the
  remote/ordinary paths did), closing an adjacent gap the P3 research
  flagged.

Ts46SphereListConformanceTests proves the sphere-list overload sees the
exact dat spheres (not the reconstruction), that the scalar overload is
unchanged, and that ResolveWithTransition's sphereList parameter
actually drives the sweep (a decoy-scalar control pair using a
head-height obstacle sphere).

Register: TS-46 retired (both residuals it named are closed); header
count corrected to 40 active TS rows.

dotnet build + dotnet test (Core.Tests 3991/2 skip, Runtime.Tests
425/0, App.Tests 3968/3 skip, complete solution build) all green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 09:05:44 +02:00
Erik
aa07baed42 feat(diag): #262 - wire the permanent [snap] login/teleport diagnostic (Campaign P P6)
PhysicsEngine.DiagnosticLog was never assigned in production, so the #111
[snap] apparatus (one line per entry-snap Resolve, low volume by design)
was structurally silent - including on the Coldeve run-on-the-spot login.
Wire it at session composition; a session reset constructs a fresh engine
and re-wires.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 08:21:51 +02:00
Erik
f6db964fd5 feat(interaction): Slice 4 - equipped-child world picking
A click on a remote character's wielded weapon reported nothing. The picker
was already correct: RetailSelectionScene publishes every drawn part under its
own live-entity server GUID and RetailWorldPicker returns the weapon as the
polygon winner. The failure was downstream eligibility - WorldSelectionQuery
required TryGetInteractionEligibleRecord, whose _visible set admits
LiveEntityProjectionKind.World only, so the winning hit was discarded.

Retail has no such gate. Render::GfxObjUnderSelectionRay @ 0x0054C740
accumulates each hit under the drawn part's own physics-object id
(CPhysicsPart::get_physobj_id @ 0x0050D490), and CPhysicsPart::Draw @
0x0050D7A0 admits any drawn part whose physobj id is nonzero. An equipped item
is a first-class CPhysicsObj with its own id and part array
(CPhysicsObj::add_child @ 0x0050F870 via CSetup::GetHoldingLocation @
0x005213F0). There is no parent redirection and no wielded-specific rule, so a
click on a wielded weapon returns THE WEAPON'S GUID. PositionState.WIELDED is
distinct from IN_CONTAINER (acclient.h:6802), so container suppression never
hid a wielded selection either.

LiveEntityRuntime gains two scoped predicates: TryGetAttachedProjectedRecord
(a current Attached projection that is spatially projected) and
TryGetPickEligibleRecord (that arm plus today's World visible-set arm, with
the same WorldEntity.Id staleness recheck). TryGetInteractionEligibleRecord
and the _visible set are deliberately NOT widened - they feed radar,
auto-target, sticky/MoveTo establishment, and CombatAttackTargetSource, and
retail's radar has no wielded blips. A regression test asserts an attached
child stays out of that set while picking admits it.

Marker anchoring had the twin problem. SmartBox::GetObjectBoundingBox @
0x00452E20 pushes the picked object's OWN m_position - which for a child is
the frame CPhysicsObj::UpdateChild @ 0x00512D50 recomposes each tick as
Frame::combine(parent part frame, holding frame) - and
CPartArray::GetSelectionSphere @ 0x00518B80 scales the authored sphere by that
object's own part-array scale. acdream stores the PARENT's root in the child
projection's Position/Rotation because the child's MeshRefs are
parent-relative, which put the vivid brackets at the wielder's feet. The
composed child root is already published per frame to EntityEffectPoseRegistry
by EquippedChildRenderController.PublishChildPose, so selection now borrows it
through an injected Func<uint, Matrix4x4?> wired in LivePresentationComposition
beside the existing selection-sphere hook. There is no parent fallback: a child
with no published composed root has no live frame this tick and no sphere. Its
part-array scale comes from the spawn record, the same source
EquippedChildRenderController.TryRealize reads, because an Attached WorldEntity
carries the parent-derived pose rather than its own ObjScale.

The sr_Use branch of RecvNotice_SmartBoxObjectFound @ 0x004E5AD0 guards
ItemHolder::UseObject with `found->pwd._wielderID != SmartBox::player_id` at
0x004E5BE9 while still selecting and flashing. Equipped-child picking makes
that click reachable, so the gate ships with it as
IWorldSelectionQuery.IsWieldedByPlayer.

CPhysicsObj::SetLighting @ 0x00511A80 is non-recursive, so the pulse lights the
clicked object's own part array only - clicking a weapon never flashes its
wielder. That follows from routing the pulse identity through the same
predicate.

RetailWorldPicker, RetailSelectionScene, WbDrawDispatcher, and
EquippedChildRenderController are untouched, as are all wire and physics paths.

The slice REMOVES an undocumented deviation (Attached projections excluded
from pick eligibility versus retail's part-id pick) and introduces none, so no
retail-divergence-register row is owed in either direction.

Gates: dotnet build green; AcDream.App.Tests 3,951 passed / 3 skipped;
complete Release solution 9,783 passed / 5 skipped;
tools\run-connected-world-lifecycle-gate.ps1 RESULT=PASS.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 18:30:25 +02:00
Erik
7a0227c12e feat(render): Vulkan campaign V11 step 3 — drop the GL packages and shaders
Commit 2 deleted the GL rendering backend's implementations; this step
removes the package references and shader vocabulary they leave behind,
so nothing in the App project still spells Silk.NET.OpenGL.

Silk.NET.OpenGL and Silk.NET.OpenGL.Extensions.ARB are dropped from
AcDream.App.csproj. Chorizite.Core stays — the audit is NOT clean: its
Render.Enums (TextureFormat, BufferUsage) and Lib.BoundingBox types are
used directly and extensively across the Wb texture/mesh pipeline,
independent of the deleted GL IUniformBuffer implementers the package
comment used to cite. The stale comment is corrected in place.

IMeshPipelineDevice.Gl is removed along with the GL? gl parameter
threaded through WbMeshAdapter's four constructors, WorldRenderComposition's
CreateMeshAdapter, and VulkanMeshPipelineDevice's Gl => null
implementation — nothing read any of them once the legacy per-mesh
upload bodies were gone (confirmed by grep: the sole non-doc-comment hit
was a test assertion). While in WbMeshAdapter.Dispose(), found and fixed
a real bug along the way: its teardown still pattern-matched the deleted
GL GpuFrameFlightController to decide whether to wait for submitted work,
which VulkanFrameFlightController replaced at slice V6a without this site
being updated — so the wait had been silently dead on every Vulkan run
since then. Retargeted to VulkanFrameFlightController, which carries the
same WaitForSubmittedWork().

The GL pixel-format vocabulary (Silk.NET.OpenGL.PixelFormat/PixelType) that
WorldTextureArray/TextureFormatExtensions/TextureAtlasManager used for
upload validation is replaced by AcDream.Content's existing Silk.NET-free
UploadPixelFormat/UploadPixelType enums (added at MP1a to keep the bake
tool GL-free); two new members (Rgb, Red, Float) extend that enum with
their GL ABI constants to cover the full vocabulary WorldTextureArray
needs, since MP1a's original set only covered what the extractor itself
emits. ObjectMeshManager's App-boundary cast
`(Silk.NET.OpenGL.PixelFormat?)batch.UploadPixelFormat` becomes a direct
pass-through now that both sides share the type.

GpuBindingModel.StorageTextureTable (the GL-only binding=9 emulation of
the Vulkan texture table) is deleted and StorageBindingCount drops from
10 to 9; the descriptor-set-layout code that builds from that count
(VulkanPipelineLayouts, VulkanFrameBindings) is untouched and just
allocates one fewer always-dummy-seeded, always-unused binding.

Several fully dead GL-only classes came along for the ride, confirmed by
zero construction sites: SilkFramebufferViewportTarget
(NullFramebufferViewportTarget is the sole production
IFramebufferViewportTarget), SilkRenderGlStateReader
(NullRenderGlStateReader.Instance is the sole IRenderGlStateReader),
RuntimeRenderFrameClearPhase (VulkanRenderFrameClearPhase is the sole
IRenderFrameClearPhase, expressing the same atmosphere-clear logic as a
pass load-op instead), and GpuFrameTimer plus FrameProfiler's
GL-owning FrameBoundary(GL) overload and BeginGpuFrame/EndGpuFrame
bracket (RecordGpuSample is the only GPU-timing path any backend uses
now — the ACDREAM_WB_DIAG nested-query exclusion these existed for no
longer applies, since WbDrawDispatcher's own diagnostic GPU sampling
already moved to the device's Vulkan timer pool). GpuFrameFlightController
itself stays (never constructed with a real fence API in production, but
its retirement-ledger/serial-ring logic is backend-neutral and still
covered by its own unit tests) — only its GL-specific parts (the public
GL constructor overload, SilkGpuFenceApi) are deleted, since removing the
whole class would mean restructuring the frozen Slice-8 composition
shape's GpuFrameFlightController? threading, which is out of this
commit's scope. TextureParameters.cs and BufferUsageExtensions.cs
(zero callers each) are deleted outright.

common.glsl is deleted: nothing in the actual Vulkan .spv build reads
it. tools/ShaderCompiler/Program.cs compiles each .vert/.frag pair
directly and tools/ShaderCompiler/VulkanGlslPreamble.cs injects its own
complete self-contained preamble per file; common.glsl's textual
concatenation was exclusively Shader.cs's GL-only mechanism, deleted at
Commit 2. The five shader files that named it in comments
(mesh_modern.vert, particle.vert, particle.frag, sky.frag,
terrain_modern.frag) are corrected to point at VulkanGlslPreamble.cs
instead. mesh.vert/mesh.frag — the pre-N.5 legacy shader pair the
mandatory modern path already made unreachable, with zero C# consumers
and no compiled .spv — are deleted too. Regenerated via
tools/compile-shaders.ps1: 9/9 remaining shader pairs compile
(previously 9/10, with mesh the sole failure — the VulkanShaderManifestTests
doc comment's "nine of ten are not Vulkan-expressible" was already
stale before this commit).

Test fallout: dead-subject test methods/files are deleted rather than
patched (TextRendererFailureSafetyTests.cs, ClipFrameUploadTests.cs,
GpuResourceRetirementTransactionTests.cs's GL queue tests, one
WorldRenderDiagnosticsTests source-order test, one
RenderFrameResourceControllerTests clear-phase-order test); tests whose
subject moved or was renamed are updated in place rather than deleted
(GpuContractTests, VulkanCapabilityGateTests, MeshPipelineDeviceSeamTests'
pinned seven-member surface now reads six, ParticleBindlessInstanceTests'
cross-dialect check now covers the one surviving dialect,
WbMeshAdapterTests' misleadingly-named null-gl test — gpuDevice was
always the parameter that actually threw).

Build: `dotnet build AcDream.slnx -c Release` — 0 warnings, 0 errors,
with the Silk.NET.OpenGL/.Extensions.ARB package references physically
removed from the csproj (not just unreferenced in code).
Tests: full-solution `dotnet test` green across every project.
Zero remaining `using Silk.NET.OpenGL` anywhere in src/ or tests/.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 02:58:15 +02:00
Erik
8a7a0837e1 feat(render): Vulkan campaign V11 step 2 — delete the OpenGL backend
Vulkan is the sole, user-signed-off backend (V10 landed) and step 1
already removed ImGui/Studio/DevTools. This step deletes the GL
rendering backend itself: every Gpu/Gl/** implementation, the Wb
ManagedGL*/GLHelpers/GLSLShader/GLStateScope/RenderStateCache/
BindlessSupport family, Shader/ShaderProgramConstruction/SamplerCache,
RenderBootstrap, and RenderFrameGlStateController.

GameWindow.cs's Run()/CreateGraphics()/CreateBackbufferReader()/
OnLoad() collapse to their Vulkan-only arm; GameWindowGraphics loses
its OpenGlGameWindowGraphics subclass. RuntimeOptions.RenderBackend and
RenderBackendKind (incl. the Gl member of GpuBackendKind) are gone —
there is nothing left to select between. The five world-draw dual-arm
renderers (WbDrawDispatcher, EnvCellRenderer, TerrainModernRenderer,
ParticleRenderer, SkyRenderer) and the composition roots
(WorldRenderComposition, HostInputCameraComposition,
LivePresentationComposition, FrameRootComposition) collapse to their
RHI-only arm. GL-only diagnostic properties with a live external reader
(DynamicBufferCount and friends) simplify to a documented `=> 0`/no-op
rather than disappearing, since the reader is out of this commit's
scope.

A few GL-flavored mechanisms turned out to be backend-neutral once
isolated: GlConstructionCleanupLedger is renamed
ResourceConstructionCleanupLedger (exception-chain walking has nothing
to do with GL), and GlfwNativePlatformProbe moved out of the otherwise
GL-only GraphicalCapabilityRecord.cs into
GraphicalWindowBackendSelection.cs before the rest of that file was
deleted.

Test files with no surviving subject are deleted outright
(GraphicalCapabilityRequirementsTests, ShaderProgramConstructionTests,
PortalDepthShaderParityTests, TextureCacheBindlessTests,
TextRendererFailureSafetyTests, ClipFrameUploadTests, every
Gpu/Gl/*Tests, GlTextureOwnershipTests, RenderFrameGlStateControllerTests);
others get their dead GL-only members trimmed while their live
assertions stay (ClipFrameLayoutTests' MeshClipSsboBinding check now
reads GpuBindingModel.StorageClipRegions, the same binding index under
its new backend-neutral name; GpuResourceRetirementTransactionTests
drops its OpenGLGraphicsDevice-subclassing test double and the two GL
queue tests it existed for). EnvCellRendererTests' construction helper
now builds a real ObjectMeshManager via VulkanMeshPipelineDevice
instead of passing null through a null-forgiving operator, since the
RHI constructor never tolerated a null mesh manager and the old GL
constructor (which did) is gone.

Deferred to the next two steps, deliberately not touched here: the
Silk.NET.OpenGL/.Extensions.ARB package references, IMeshPipelineDevice.Gl
(WbMeshAdapter's GL? threading stays in place), Chorizite.Core's stale
csproj comment (the package itself is still load-bearing —
TextureFormat and friends are used well beyond the deleted
ManagedGLUniformBuffer), and the CI/gate scripts.

Build: `dotnet build AcDream.slnx -c Release` — 0 warnings, 0 errors.
Tests: full-solution `dotnet test` green across every project
(App.Tests 3937/3940 + 3 skips, Core.Tests 3296/3298 + 2 skips, all
others 100%); the 2 App.Tests names that flake under full-suite
parallel execution (#250-family, documented pre-existing) pass in
isolation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 02:19:53 +02:00
Erik
844cf092a1 feat(render): Campaign V slice V11 commit 1 - delete ImGui, Studio, and the DevTools frontend
The ImGui developer-tools stack (AcDream.UI.ImGui), UI Studio
(src/AcDream.App/Studio), and the DevToolsFramePresenter/
SettingsDevToolsCompositionPhase ImGui composition machinery are removed.
Vulkan never composed a DevTools frontend (DevToolsEnabled already forced
false whenever the backend was Vulkan); this commit makes that permanent by
deleting the only implementation rather than leaving a dead branch behind.

What moved: Studio/SampleData.cs is a live production dependency
(InteractionRetainedUiComposition's character-sheet fallback, plus three
UI.Layout test files) - git mv'd to src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/SampleData.cs,
namespace AcDream.App.UI.Layout, and trimmed to the SampleCharacter API that
is actually still called (BuildObjectTable/AddItem/AddEquipped/the item-guid
and icon constants had zero callers left once the Studio fixture provider
that used them was deleted).

What survives as backend-neutral seams, per the tests that still exercise
them: IDevToolsFrameLifecycle (moved into RenderFramePreparationController.cs,
now always bound to null), IFramebufferDevToolsTarget/FramebufferDevToolsBinding
in FramebufferResizeController.cs (its concrete DevToolsFramebufferTarget
adapter is deleted), and IDevToolsGameplayCommands in
GameplayInputCommandController.cs (DevToolsGameplayCommands becomes a
documented no-op instead of forwarding to the deleted presenter). A follow-up
re-homes Settings/Debug onto the retained UI through IPanelRenderer; until
then keybind remapping falls back to editing keybinds.json.

DevToolsEnabled is now `private const bool DevToolsEnabled = false`.
RuntimeOptions.DevTools is unchanged and still reaches VulkanGraphicsContext
for the optional debug-utils extensions; Program.cs now logs one line when
ACDREAM_DEVTOOLS=1 explaining that the ImGui UI is gone and the flag is
Vulkan-only now.

Removed: AcDream.UI.ImGui (project + ImGui.NET/Silk.NET.OpenGL.Extensions.ImGui
package refs), src/AcDream.App/Studio (minus SampleData.cs),
DevToolsFramePresenter.cs and everything only it constructed
(ISettingsDevToolsCompositionFactory, RetailSettingsDevToolsCompositionFactory,
DevToolsCompositionOwner, IGameWindowSettingsDevToolsPublication,
SettingsDevToolsOptionalDependencies, the "developer tools" shutdown-ledger
stage and its DevTools-typed fields on IngressShutdownRoots/
RenderShutdownRoots), the ui-studio Program.cs verb, and the cimgui native
manifest entries in GraphicalHostPlatformServices. GameWindow.cs's DevTools
composition branch, its _vitalsVm/_debugVm/_devToolsComposition/
_devToolsFramePresenter/_devToolsCommandBus fields, and every settingsDevTools
.DevTools?.* access across FrameRootComposition.cs/SessionPlayerComposition.cs
are gone with it.

Build green; complete Release solution suite 8,830 / 5 skips (App Tests
4,097/3 skips run standalone - one #250-family zero-allocation test flakes
under the full parallel `dotnet test AcDream.slnx` run, a pre-existing,
documented class unrelated to this change).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 23:56:04 +02:00
Erik
00e1b32177 perf(render): Campaign V slice V8 commit 1 - the Vulkan arm gets an instrument
V8 is the performance gate, and it opened on a plain fact: the Vulkan arm
emitted no [frame-prof] line at all. V6h wired it to
NullRenderFrameGpuMeasurement, whose BeginFrame does nothing - and that method
is the ONLY caller of FrameProfiler.FrameBoundary. So a Vulkan run produced no
CPU frame distribution, no allocation-per-frame column, no frame-history CSV
and no GPU sample. The campaign's own performance vehicle,
tools/run-connected-r6-soak.ps1, waits on [frame-prof] boundaries to time its
samples, so it could not be pointed at the backend V8 exists to judge. You
cannot measure what you have not instrumented, so the instrument lands first.

The bracket is deliberately identical on both arms. On GL,
FrameProfilerGpuMeasurement begins a TimeElapsed query at BeginFrame and ends
it at EndFrame, spanning resource preparation, the world scene and private
presentation, and NOT the swapchain present. VulkanFrameGpuMeasurement opens
and closes a Vulkan timestamp scope at exactly those two points. Two
differently-bracketed numbers in one comparison table would have been worse
than reporting none.

Vulkan timestamps resolve two or three frames late, so the sample carries the
profiler frame index that ISSUED it rather than being credited to the frame
that happened to read it - the pairing GpuFrameTimer already performs
internally on GL. VulkanGpuDevice opens the whole-frame scope tagged with that
index, reads the previous use of the slot back in BeginFrameResources BEFORE
the tag is overwritten, and hands completed (tag, microseconds) pairs to the
adapter through a bounded queue that never blocks.

VulkanGpuTimerPool gains TryTakeResolved, which consumes the value it reports.
TryResolve deliberately reports the last known measurement forever, which is
right for a diagnostic readout and wrong for a percentile: counting one
measurement into the distribution twice is how an instrument flatters itself.

FrameProfiler gains a GL-free FrameBoundary() overload and RecordGpuSample.
Every other line of its bookkeeping - the CPU delta, the per-thread allocation
delta, the stage buffers, the history row, the five-second report - is the same
code the GL arm runs. The GL path is byte-for-byte unchanged in behaviour:
FrameBoundary(GL) still owns and creates the query ring.

Gates: Release build green. App tests 4,152 passed / 3 skipped, exactly the
pre-slice baseline. Strict GL offline pixel gate against 13c8733d:
1.95e-05 (11 px of 563,200), inside the documented 9-31 px band, so GL did not
move. An offline Vulkan run now reports gpu_ms in [frame-prof] and fills gpu_us
in the frame-history CSV, where before this commit it reported neither.

No divergence-register row is owed: this is diagnostic apparatus and no
rendered pixel depends on it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 20:35:59 +02:00
Erik
ad5f8b68dc fix(render): Campaign V slice V7 commit 1 - world anisotropy, and the sky's second clock
Two changes, one measurement. The V6m smoke pair put GL versus Vulkan at
Holtburg at 18.52% of the frame differing at tolerance 2 with MSAA off. The same
stop on the same instrument now measures 9.05%, and the two populations these
address are gone from the difference map rather than merely smaller.

1. THE WORLD ATLASES WERE SAMPLED WITHOUT ANISOTROPY ON VULKAN, AND WITH THE
DEVICE MAXIMUM ON GL.

RhiWorldTextureArray -- the backend-neutral shared object/material atlas, and
the only IWorldTextureArray the Vulkan arm ever constructs -- registered its
clamp and repeat slots with GpuSamplerDescription.WorldClamp/WorldRepeat as
written, which carry MaxAnisotropy 1. The GL arm asks for the driver's own
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY twice over: ManagedGLTextureArray sets
GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY on the image, and the two sampler objects its resident
bindless handles are built from (OpenGLGraphicsDevice.WrapSampler/ClampSampler)
set it again, which is the one that actually wins.

V6i-2 knew it was asking for 1 and said so in a comment -- "the world arm that
draws through these arrays is the next slice, and it is the one that can gate a
filtering change visually." That slice was V6j, the gate is V7, and this is it.

Retail settles the question rather than the GL arm settling it.
RenderDeviceD3D::SetDefaultD3DStates (0x005a3800) loops all sixteen sampler
stages and issues SetSamplerState(stage, 0xA, this->m_D3DCaps.MaxAnisotropy) at
0x005a4230. 0xA is D3DSAMP_MAXANISOTROPY and the argument is the device's
reported cap, not a setting -- so "as much anisotropy as this device has" is
retail's own rule, the GL arm is faithful to it, and asking for 1 diverged from
retail as well as from the shipping backend. No divergence-register row is owed
in either direction: this retires a Vulkan-only gap and lands on retail's value.

The fix asks for a ceiling rather than reading a limit back, because the pinned
RHI contract (plan section 3.3) carries no anisotropy field and is frozen. It
does not need one: VulkanGpuSampler already clamps MaxAnisotropy to
VkPhysicalDeviceLimits.maxSamplerAnisotropy, Vulkan guarantees that limit is at
least 16 wherever the samplerAnisotropy feature is supported -- which this
backend requires -- and 16 is where every desktop driver caps. The request and
the GL arm's read therefore land on the same number.

What it was worth, from the difference map at the same stop: the roof shingles
of both Holtburg cottages, which had been dense hatching across the whole
surface, and the stone courses of the near building are now black. Measured as
high-frequency energy (mean absolute neighbour difference, GL versus Vulkan) the
right-hand roof went from visibly blurred to a ratio of 0.999 and the wall to
1.023; every other textured region in the frame is between 0.99 and 1.02.
Grazing-angle surfaces are where anisotropy is the whole difference, which is
why a roof was the loudest thing in the frame.

2. THE SKY HAS TWO CLOCKS AND ONLY ONE OF THEM WAS PINNABLE.

ACDREAM_DAY_GROUP and the route's AcdreamCycleTimeOfDay presses pin the Dereth
date, which chooses the day group, the keyframe and the sun angle. The cloud
sheet does not read that clock: SkyRenderer accumulates TexVelocityX/Y against
DateTime.UtcNow minus its own construction time, by design, because retail's
clouds drift with real time regardless of the date. Two launches minutes apart
therefore cannot agree about where the clouds are no matter what the route does,
and the V6m smoke measured the cost -- 89% of its 18.52% sat in the top 240 rows.

ACDREAM_SKY_PHASE_SECONDS (RuntimeOptions.SkyAnimationPhaseSeconds ->
SkyRenderer.AnimationPhaseSecondsOverride) replaces that elapsed-seconds value
with a fixed one. Unset -- the default, and every ordinary run -- keeps the wall
clock, so nothing a user or the offline gate sees changes. The differential gate
forces it on both launches alongside MSAA and the day group; the offline gate
keeps its top-280 mask, because a same-commit GL pair still has the sun to
disagree about.

This is instrument determinism on the same footing as ACDREAM_DAY_GROUP, not a
workaround: it is one input to a UV offset, it is off by default, and no shipping
path reads it. The alternative on the table was -MaskTopPixels, which would have
permanently blinded the campaign's strictest instrument to the entire sky -- one
of the five surfaces the offline gate already cannot see. Rows 0-32 of the
Holtburg pair went from 23,090 differing pixels to 1,211, and what remains up
there is roof and portal rather than cloud.

WHAT THE SAME PAIR STILL SHOWS, unattributed and carried to the next commit: the
distant treeline, the player and the NPCs, and the animated portal. The portal is
phase and expected. The treeline is not filtering -- sharpness now matches within
5% and a shift search finds no sub-pixel offset -- and the two runs entered the
world at different last-logout positions (0xC95B0001 versus 0x09040008), so the
far-tier streaming history differed. That is the next thing to prove or refute.

Gates. Release build green. App tests 4,133 passed / 3 skipped against the
4,132/3 baseline (one new: the sky-phase parse). GL offline pixel gate against
the pre-change tree: 2.31e-05, 13 pixels of 563,200, inside the documented 9-31
band -- GL did not move. One offline Vulkan run with VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation
proven inserted by the loader: zero validation errors, zero warnings. Full
three-stop differential recorded at artifacts/v7-diff-c1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 19:14:08 +02:00
Erik
59c6b2ae94 feat(render): Campaign V slice V6m commit 1 - portal space draws on Vulkan
PortalTunnelPresentation was the last raw-GL world-adjacent renderer. It now
draws on both arms, and the composition that used to hand the Vulkan arm a
portal-less teleport presentation is gone with it.

Nothing about the scene changed. Same synthetic DAT Setup resolved through the
same client-enum mapping, same 40 fps CSequence, same retail rotation cadence,
same distant light, drawn through the same already-dual-arm WbDrawDispatcher.
What forked is only where the draw is recorded:

  * GL keeps its GLStateScope, its viewport/scissor/depth/cull/blend statements
    and its depth-only glClear, untouched.
  * The RHI arm opens a backbuffer pass of its own and publishes it on
    IWorldPassScope for the span of the draw - the shape V6l gave the two
    offscreen viewports, and required for the same reason: the dispatcher's RHI
    arm borrows its pass rather than opening one. Publication comes after
    BeginPass and before UploadRetailLight, because publishing resets the
    frame-global sections and this scene wants its own light, not the world's.

The one substantive decision is the pass's COLOUR load op, and it is a Clear
rather than a Load. Retail preserves the colour target and only clears depth
(UIViewportObject::DrawContent @ 0x006950A5 -> Clear(4) = D3DCLEAR_ZBUFFER), and
so does the GL arm. A Vulkan pass cannot inherit an image the way a bound
framebuffer can: under MSAA the frame's world pass RESOLVES into the swapchain
image and stores DontCare into the multisampled scratch, so a second
multisampled pass declaring Load would load undefined contents - plan section
5.5.12 item 5, the same hazard that merged the clear into the world pass.

Re-clearing is exact rather than approximate because of an invariant the frame
graph already enforces. RenderFrameFoundation.PortalViewportVisible and this
scene's IsVisible are the same value, read once at the top of the frame, and
WorldSceneRenderer returns without drawing when it is set. So whenever portal
space draws, the backbuffer holds exactly the opaque black
SceneTool::BeginScene @ 0x0043DAD0 establishes and nothing else, and clearing to
that same black changes no pixel. The alternative - a single-sampled Load pass
over the resolved image - would have been both a silent MSAA divergence and
invalid, since the backbuffer's depth attachment is multisampled.

The pass takes IWorldPassScope.SampleCount, so WbDrawDispatcher's sample-count
pipeline variants (V6l) select the backbuffer set, and depth matches the
attachment.

CreateRequired becomes internal: its two new seams are internal RHI contracts
and composition is its only caller. The TYPE keeps its visibility - plan section
7.1 rule 3.

Gates. Release build green. App tests 4,132 / 3 skips against the 4,129
baseline (three new: the retail black constant, the RHI arm's composition
precondition, and the both-arms composition assertion). Complete Release suite
9,195 / 5; one AcDream.Content failure in the solution-wide run that passes
124/124 rerun alone - the documented rerun-singly flake class, not carried
forward as a claim. Strict GL offline pixel gate against 280f3b3f: 28 px of
563,200, fraction 4.97e-05, inside the documented 9-31 band, with a same-commit
control pair at 20 px / 3.55e-05 taken immediately afterwards. GL connected
-Runs 3: 3/3 RENDERED on the desktop witness and 3/3 on the client capture. One
offline Vulkan run with VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation proven inserted by the
loader: zero validation errors, zero warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 18:25:49 +02:00
Erik
2e8b8b91ad feat(render): Campaign V slice V6l commit 3 - the offscreen viewports draw on Vulkan
Amendment 3 of three: the paperdoll and creature-appraisal views render on the
Vulkan arm. Plan section 5.5.16 defect 3 named two backend fixes as the
precondition; both are here, and running it found two more the note could not
have known about.

Fix 1: a layered sampled view per render target. An ATTACHMENT view must be
VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_2D and the global texture table's descriptor array is
sampler2DArray, so the attachment view cannot legally be registered into it -
section 5.5.7 recorded that as invalid usage rather than a mismatch that samples
oddly, and V6k made RegisterTexture refuse it loudly and name this fix.
VulkanGpuTexture now creates a SECOND, layered view over the same image for a
colour render target: one image, one allocation, two ways of looking at it,
legal without any creation flag. SampledView is what the table registers for
every texture, so the question disappears rather than being answered.

Fix 2: sample-count pipeline variants for WbDrawDispatcher. Vulkan requires a
pipeline's rasterizationSamples to equal the pass it draws in, and this
dispatcher draws in two passes with different counts - the multisampled
backbuffer world pass and the single-sampled offscreen target, which the
contract fixes at one sample. Its five pipelines became a MeshPipelineSet with
two instances, selected at bind time from the live pass rather than from the
scope, which is the same shape section 5.5.8 gave the depth-format problem. When
the backbuffer is single-sampled the two sets are one object, so nothing is
built twice and nothing is freed twice. The offscreen target's DEPTH attachment
also had to take the device's own combined depth/stencil format rather than the
contract enum's literal D24_UNORM_S8_UINT: a pipeline bakes one depth/stencil
format under dynamic rendering and the same pipelines draw in both passes, so a
second format would make one of the two undefined.

Fix 3, which running it found: entity APPEARANCE composites were still
bindless-only, so no entity with a palette override could be drawn on the Vulkan
arm at all - the doll being one, and every creature and player besides. The
backend that serves it has existed since V6i-2 and had no production consumer;
it has one now. TextureCache builds the composite cache on both arms, and
EnsureCompositeTexturesAvailable stops asking about bindless. Nothing about the
cache itself changed: the sharing, the bounded unowned LRU, the metered upload
budget and the retirement fence were already backend-neutral.

Fix 4, which the first successful capture found: the doll rendered upside down.
UiViewport has flipped V since V4a because a GL framebuffer's origin is
bottom-left, so its colour texture samples bottom-up. A Vulkan image's origin is
top-left and the backend's negative viewport height stores the rendered image
that way round, so the same flip stands the doll on its head. That is a property
of the backend that made the texture, not of the widget that draws it, so
IUiViewportRenderer answers TextureIsBottomUp and UiViewport asks. The line this
replaces had predicted exactly this failure since it was written.

The seam. WbDrawDispatcher's RHI arm borrows its pass from IWorldPassScope
rather than opening one, so a viewport that opens a pass of its own has to
publish it there for the span of the draw. Publish is on the interface now for
that. It does not nest: the world phase has closed its own pass by the time
private presentation runs, which is where these viewports have always drawn.

Gates. Release build green. App tests 4,129/3 skips; complete Release suite
9,192/5 (one solution-wide run reported a single App failure that did not
reproduce in the App suite alone or in a second solution-wide run - the
documented rerun-singly flake class; the failing test name was not surfaced by
the runner and is not carried forward as a claim). Strict GL offline pixel gate
against 08ffe141: 3.55e-05, 20 differing pixels of 563,200, inside the
documented 9-31 band. GL connected -Runs 3: 3/3 RENDERED on the desktop witness
and 3/3 on the client capture. One offline Vulkan run with
VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation proven inserted by the loader: zero validation
errors, zero warnings.

And the two captures the offline gate cannot reach, both connected and both
inspected. The Vulkan paperdoll (artifacts/v6l-vk-paperdoll3) renders the doll
upright, in armour, at the right scale, over a transparent background, and is
indistinguishable from the same capture on GL taken minutes later
(artifacts/v6l-gl-paperdoll) - which is also the no-regression check for the V
change. Particles (artifacts/v6l-vk-poi versus artifacts/v6l-gl-poi, cropped
4x at artifacts/crop-vk-glow.png and crop-gl-glow.png): Holtburg's forge plume
and its field of glint sprites draw in the same places with the same alpha
compositing on both backends, the puffs differing only in phase because two
launches cannot agree on an emitter's age.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 18:05:24 +02:00
Erik
eced67d038 feat(render): Campaign V slice V6l commit 2 - the portal mask draws on Vulkan
Contract amendment 2 of three, and V4g's remaining half behind it. Plan section
5.5.16 defect 2: PortalDepthMaskRenderer's two-pass punch (#117) is built on
glStencilFunc/glStencilOp/glStencilMask, GpuPipelineDescription carried no
stencil state at all, and nothing else can express it - so the renderer stayed
raw GL, invisible to the Vulkan arm, and V4g's "stencil/depth-mask pipelines"
row could not be written.

The amendment splits the way core Vulkan 1.3 splits. The ENABLE and the
attachment intent are baked: GpuPipelineDescription.StencilTest, false by
default so no pipeline in the tree changed. The per-draw compare, three outcome
ops, reference and both masks are a GpuStencilState that the pipeline carries as
a DEFAULT and IGpuPassEncoder.SetStencil overrides - exactly the split cull
mode, front face and depth write already have, and exactly what
VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_STENCIL_OP/_COMPARE_MASK/_WRITE_MASK/_REFERENCE make dynamic.
The four stencil dynamic states are declared ONLY by a pipeline that tests
stencil: declaring a dynamic state obliges every draw with the pipeline to have
set it, so adding them unconditionally would make every existing pipeline depend
on a call none of them make. GpuStencilOp carries three values because the punch
uses three - Replace marks, Equal gates, Zero self-cleans - and a fourth would
be a facility with no consumer.

The arm. Three pipelines, not one, because depth COMPARE is not dynamic in the
contract and the punch's two passes differ in it: mark tests LEQUAL and writes
no depth, punch tests ALWAYS and writes, seal is ALWAYS + write with no stencil.
All three write no colour, which is what retail's "COLOR-INVISIBLE triangle fan"
means. The fan is expanded to a triangle LIST on the CPU - the contract has no
fan topology and Vulkan's is not portable - which is exact: triangle i is
(v0, v[i+1], v[i+2]), the same triangles in the same order.

portal_depth.{vert,frag} is a new committed shader pair, and this is the ONE
renderer in the campaign whose two arms do not share a source. Its clip planes
have to travel in the TerrainClip uniform block at binding 2, which is already
precisely this shape and already read by terrain_modern.vert and sky.vert - but
on GL that binding is held globally by ClipFrame for terrain, so a portal draw
that rebound it would leave every later terrain draw in the frame reading the
wrong region. The GL arm therefore keeps its inline program.
PortalDepthShaderParityTests is the tripwire: retail's far-Z constant
(0.99999988, from DrawPortalPolyInternal 0x0059bc90), #129's capped mark-bias
expression and the eight-half-plane loop are asserted to appear in both. Both
are deleted at V11. 9/10 shader pairs now compile to SPIR-V.

Two GL-side gaps closed while the state was being extended, both of section 7.1
rule 1's class rather than new work. GlAmbientCapabilityState now saves and
restores the stencil test, function, ops and both masks - the portal punch draws
mid-frame among renderers that are still raw GL and assume the test is off - and
the COLOUR MASK, which had no consumer until a colour-invisible pipeline existed
and whose absence would have blacked out every raw-GL renderer after such a
pass.

PortalTunnelPresentation was re-read and confirmed as V6k left it: it clears
depth and draws into the active viewport, binds no framebuffer of its own, and
needs no port for section 5.4's sake. It remains unported on the Vulkan arm -
the composition uses NullLocalPlayerTeleportPresentation there - which is an
absence on the V7 list, not a defect.

Gates. Release build green. App tests 4,129/3 skips; complete Release suite
9,192/5 (one solution-wide run reported a single App failure that did not
reproduce in two subsequent runs, solution-wide or alone - the documented
rerun-singly flake class). Strict GL offline pixel gate against 08ffe141:
2.31e-05, 13 differing pixels of 563,200, inside the documented 9-31 band. GL
connected -Runs 3: 3/3 RENDERED on the desktop witness and 3/3 on the client
capture. One offline Vulkan run with VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation proven inserted
by the loader: zero validation errors, zero warnings, a captured world frame.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 17:36:45 +02:00