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>
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>
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>
The user tested Campaign CH's CODE-COMPLETE build live and reported ten
defects (docs/plans/2026-08-09-chat-parity-campaign.md, "User gate —
round 1"). Items A-G are fixed here; the remaining three (extra chat
windows on 1/2/3/4, resize working in only one corner, transparency/
artifacts) are out of scope for a fix and filed as slice CH6.
A. Jump-in-air refusal never fired live: the jump block only ever
evaluated input.Jump inside the grounded-charge or already-charging
branches. PlayerMovementController now detects the press RISING EDGE
while airborne and reports WeenieError.NotGrounded once per press,
leaving the grounded charge/fire path untouched.
B. ChatVM's invented "[System] " prefix is dropped — retail prints
system text bare. [Popup] is unchanged (AP-175).
C. SpewBoxController's color is now the user-pinned exact value
(1, 1, 0.247, 1), the same bright yellow as an incoming Tell.
Register row AP-178 updated: color CLOSES, size/position/font stay
open per the user's live report that they still differ.
D. Closes#329: PortalTunnelPresentation now emits the portal wait cue
unconditionally on every rotation-segment boundary, matching
gmSmartBoxUI::UseTime's decompiled else-arm exactly instead of gating
on a 5-second hold local transits never reached. PortalWaitNotice
Controller now renders it in the same pinned yellow as item C.
Register row AP-150 retired.
E. Closes#362: new ClientCommandResponses.cs parses and renders the
four previously-unhandled inbound GameEvents (ChannelIndex,
ChannelList, AvailableHouses, AllegianceInfoResponse), each ported
line-for-line from the named-retail decomp's inbound handlers.
Register row TS-70 retired.
F. ChatWindowController.WrapText now splits on embedded '\n'/'\r\n'
first, then word-wraps each segment independently — server text like
/help's reply no longer collapses onto one line.
G. The chat input field's right edge no longer holds a fixed absolute
pixel position across a window resize; Bind now upgrades it to
retail edge-mode 1 (UiLayoutPolicy) or the AnchorEdges.Right stretch
fallback so it tracks the window's client width instead of
overflowing past a narrower resize.
Full Release suite: 12,247 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline
12,221/4/0 + 26 new tests across items A, E, F, G).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Blocker 1: an unrecognized "@allegiance <sub>" subcommand escaped
TryMatchAllegiance (which only claimed "info"/"hometown") and fell through
the unregistered-tag channel fallback, broadcasting the raw subcommand
text to the Allegiance chat channel (0x02000000). Retail's own
DoAllegiance never reaches DoChannelCommand for an unrecognized
subcommand — it claims the whole verb and prints its own client-local
refusal. TryMatchAllegiance now claims "allegiance"/"all" unconditionally
and shows retail's "Please see @help Allegiance..." text; ChatCommandRouter
also gained a blanket RetailClientCommandCatalog.KnownVerbs ownership
guard in TryDispatchChannelFallback as defense in depth.
Blocker 2: "@house abandon" sent 0x021F immediately with no confirmation.
Retail runs a real two-stage dialog before Event_AbandonHouse(); ported
both verbatim strings and chained two ShowConfirmation calls.
Should-fixes: a bare unregistered tag with no text now passes through
silently instead of showing a refusal that belongs to a different retail
function; @join/@leave update RuntimeCharacterOptionsState locally (new
SetOptionBit) before the wire push so the Turbine membership gate stops
refusing a just-joined room; @permit accepts multi-word names; @clist/
@on/@off validate shape only and raise WeenieError 0x422 for an unknown
tag; @mr/@pr help text is now the verbatim retail strings; corrected
issue #360, register row TS-68, the campaign doc's B.7 note, and a stale
RetailChannelTagTable comment; filed issue #363 + register row AP-183 for
the deferred error-typing debt.
Nits: fixed TryMatchHouse's stale doc comment, the AP-182/@title "stores
the value" comments (the binding is a no-op), IsUnregisteredFallbackTag's
olthoi false-positive, added /g and /rp binding-level conformance pins,
made @index ignore extra arguments, and noted the six removed invented
verbs in ISSUES.md.
Suite: 12,216 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (Release), up from CH4's
12,190/4/0 — net +26 tests, no removals.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brings acdream's / and @ command parsing to parity with the complete
retail registry (130 registered verbs + 22 unregistered GetChannelID
fallback tags = 152 client-parsed verbs), per
docs/research/2026-08-09-chat-retail-command-registry.md.
Parser semantics (retail OnChatCommand/DoCommand):
- : and ; rewrite to "@emote <rest>" before dispatch.
- Verb trailing-comma trim ("@f, hi" == "@f hi") applied at every
verb-lookup site in the catalog and the parser.
- @tell/aliases split the target on the FIRST COMMA, not the first
whitespace token, so multi-word names work ("@tell Aunt Agatha, hi").
- The 22 unregistered GM/faction channel tags (admin, sentinel,
celestialhand, ...) now broadcast for real via a new
RetailChannelTagTable + SendRawChannelCmd bypass, reusing the existing
BuildChatChannel wire builder.
Binding corrections:
- /g, /group, /party -> Fellowship (0x800), not General.
- /rp -> reply alias (retail's own help text confirms "@r or @rp"), not
Roleplay; /role (an acdream invention) deleted.
- /allegiance, /all -> the allegiance management command
(RetailClientCommandCatalog), not a channel verb.
- /house no longer swallows unrecognized subcommands with a local usage
error; they now correctly fall through to ACE.
- @mr/@pr pinned as permanently non-executable (retail registers them
with a null function pointer).
New verbs with real local execution: endurance, speaker, title (silent,
AP-182), chat, notell, join, leave, permit, hslist, index, clist, on,
off, alh/ah (+ "@allegiance hometown"/"ho"), "@allegiance info",
"@house abandon"; a missing-alias sweep across pkl/hou/message_types/
msgtypes/msg_types/rt/send/whisper/w/vassal/covassal/co-vassals/c/
fellows/group/party/guild/gu/cg/ct/clfg/crp/soc/o; the non-retail
inventions gen/cv/lookingforgroup/tr/role/h are deleted. New Core.Net
wire builders (IndexChannels, ListChannels, AddChannel, RemoveChannel,
RecallAllegianceHometown, AllegianceInfoRequest, ListAvailableHouses,
AddPlayerPermission, RemovePlayerPermission, AbandonHouse) are all
parameterless or single-field payloads cross-checked against ACE's
GameAction readers, not guessed.
Deferred (filed as #360/#361/#362, register rows TS-68/TS-69/TS-70):
the ~22 remaining allegiance/house subcommands + standalone @motd
(largest single item, needs its own slice per the doc), the three
still-inert pure-local commands (day/log/render), and the inbound
GameEvent responses for the new outbound requests. All correctly fall
through to ACE server-passthrough rather than being silently swallowed
or faking success.
RetailCommandRegistryConformanceTests pins the complete 152-verb
registry against production: every verb resolves through exactly one
production surface if Implemented, through none if HelpOnly/
ServerPassthrough, and two reverse-direction tests fail the build if
RetailClientCommandCatalog or ChatInputParser ever claims a verb
outside this registry again. Final tally: 138 Implemented / 5
ServerPassthrough / 9 HelpOnly = 152.
Release suite: 12,190 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (up from CH3's
11,964/4/0).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Applies the Opus review of Campaign CH slice CH3 (614a1e05):
- B1: UN-9 was a phantom divergence — ACE's CharacterOptions1.cs:47
OR-sum is 0x50C4A54A (its own comment confirms 1355064650), identical
to acdream's literal. The wrong 0x50C48D4A existed only in the research
doc. Row deleted, register §5 reverted to 4 rows, research doc corrected
with dated notes.
- S1/S4: AllegianceBroadcast (0x02000000) is a server-echoing channel —
ACE's GameActionChatChannel handler includes the sender in its real-name
Allegiance.Members broadcast (retail's DoAllegianceBroadcast has no
AddTextToScroll), so the client must skip its local optimistic echo, not
keep it. ChatChannelInfo.Legacy.IsSelfEchoChannel() now returns true for
it; RouteLegacyChannel's comment corrected; Turbine.IsSelfEchoChannel()'s
backwards comment rewritten truthfully.
- S3: retail's /a stays on the legacy AllegianceBroadcast bitflag until
StartupTurbineChatSystem successfully starts Turbine chat — "never
started" (TurbineChatState.Enabled == false) now falls back to legacy in
both LiveSessionCommandRouter.RouteChat and
DirectGameRuntimeCommandAdapter.TrySendChannel, while "enabled but no
allegiance room" still correctly refuses locally.
- S5: added a LiveSessionEventRouter test proving the Options.Replace ->
OnCharacterOptionsChanged seeding order, and RuntimeSettingsTargets /
GameWindowLiveSessionOwnershipTests tests proving the concrete
ICommandBus.Publish wiring and the single LiveSessionCommandSurface
construction site.
- S6: AP-181 rewritten to name both of retail's omitted pre-send checks
(IsMessageSafe silent-drop, then IsMessageSpam) and stop misattributing
either to RouteLegacyChannel, which has no such gates.
- N1-N7: CharacterOptionId moved below SocialActions so its doc comment
re-attaches; TurbineChatMembershipGate reuses TurbineChatDisplayNames
instead of a duplicate table; the gate-to-refusal-text mapping is now
shared via TurbineChatMembershipGate.ResolveRefusalText instead of
duplicated in both hosts; ChatSettings.Default now matches ACE's real
CharacterOptions2.Default (Roleplay/Society start off); a doc-comment
clarifies only the five Hear toggles are server-backed; the register's
§3 header recounted 129 -> 128.
Suite: 11,964 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline 11,957/4/0 + 7 new
tests). Campaign ledger CH3 review column updated to APPROVE-WITH-FIXES.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
Reworks Campaign CH slice CH2 per the REJECT-review findings doc
(docs/research/2026-08-09-ch2-review-findings.md).
BLOCKER 1 — SpewBoxController never rendered a line and leaked its
pending queue. LinesProvider only ran through UiText.OnDraw, which
gates on Visible — and the box started invisible, so the provider (the
sole caller of SpewBoxState.Tick) never ran. Gave the controller an
explicit per-frame Tick(now) driven by UiRoot's global-message-3
broadcast (a zero-size GlobalTimeSink child, the same pattern
VendorUiController.DragOverGlobalTimeSink already uses), matching
retail's gmSpewBoxUI::Update. LinesProvider now only returns the
cache. Tests rewritten to drive root.Tick(...) instead of calling the
provider directly, plus new coverage for visibility-without-a-draw,
queue-drain-without-a-draw, and bounded-queue-across-many-ticks.
BLOCKER 2 — re-derived the HandleFailureEvent routing table from the
PDB-paired binary instead of the pseudo-C's ~33-char string previews.
tools/pdb-extract/sweep_weenie_strings.py sweeps every push imm32 in
VA 0x571990-0x575480, dereferences into .rdata/.data, and decodes the
full UTF-16LE literal. Added the 5 ids dispatched via else-if (missed
by case-label enumeration), resolved 0x4F8 (previously excluded),
fixed 18 wrong strings (16 the review flagged + 2 more — 0x4E9 and
0x518 — an automated diff between every swept literal and the landed
table found). Every changed row cross-checked against ACE's
WeenieError/WeenieErrorWithString enum doc comments; both oracles
agreed on every row, including a case where the review's own proposed
text for the new 0x4E8 row was itself wrong (it was 0x4E9's text) —
corrected via the else-if block's own instruction address plus the ACE
cross-check. Pinned table count: 344 (338 + 5 + 0x4F8).
SHOULD-FIX 1 — RuntimeCommunicationState.ResetSpewBox was dead code;
folded into the ChatIdentity generation-reset stage (same lifetime
boundary), with a reset assertion added to the existing populated-reset
test.
SHOULD-FIX 2 — AddText trimmed only the trailing end and invented an
empty-string early return; retail's AddTextToScroll trims both ends
(trim(&str, 1, 1, ws)) and has no empty guard. Both retired.
SHOULD-FIX 3 — ShowWeenieError bypassed the AddText chokepoint via
ChatLog.OnWeenieError (hardcoded LogTextType 0x00); routed through
Communication.AddText(Resolve(code, param)) instead, and
ChatLog.OnWeenieError is deleted — GameEventWiring's legacy no-router
fallback now resolves + calls OnSystemMessage directly.
SHOULD-FIX 4 — retail's HandleFailureEvent switch has no default case;
an unmapped id now resolves to a null Text (silence toward the
player) instead of the invented "WeenieError 0xNNNN" hex fallback,
with a diagnostics-only console log line for the id.
NITs — AP-TBD placeholders corrected to their real register rows
(AP-178, not the unrelated AP-177 lifetime row); filed AP-180 for the
windowId dual-destination gap and corrected three stale "lands with
CH2" comments; extended SpewBoxLayoutDumpDiagnostic from dats.Portal
to dats.Local and found the SpewBox element for real — LayoutDesc
0x21000011, element 0x10000048, size 450x72, MaxConcurrentItems
(ListBox property 0x10000028) = 4, not retail's code default of 1.
AP-178 narrowed accordingly; SpewBoxState.MaxConcurrentItems and
SpewBoxController's extent/anchor/OneLine are now authored rather than
placeholder (absolute screen position and colour remain open); fixed
the "19 ids... lists 18" miscount by retiring the stale paragraph in
the class doc rewrite; aligned the UseDone handler's silent-status
check with the other two WeenieError handlers.
Full Release suite: 11,914 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (build 0
errors).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
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>
Retail colors chat lines by the 34-value wire LogTextType (ACE's
ChatMessageType), NOT by acdream's synthetic 9-value ChatKind. The old
ChatWindowController.RetailChatColor(ChatKind) collapsed distinct retail
colors onto one bucket per ChatKind — e.g. every Channel line rendered
colorLightBlue (Magic's slot) when retail's actual palette spans five
different colors across the Turbine rooms and legacy allegiance family.
Ports ChatInterface::BuildChatColorLookupTable @0x004F31C0 verbatim
(RetailChatColorTable, all 34 RGBA floats read from the PDB-paired
binary's .data section) and threads a new ChatEntry.LogTextType field
through every ingestion site to the correct retail wire value:
HearSpeech/Tell pass the wire chatType through verbatim; Emote/SoulEmote
hard-code 0x0C; the Tell self-echo hard-codes 0x04; legacy ChatChannel
broadcasts derive their type from the channel bit via the new
LegacyChannelChatType helper (ported from the decompiled
Handle_Communication__ChannelBroadcast dispatch, hear vs. own-send);
TurbineChat rooms map through TurbineChatDisplayNames.LogTextType;
CombatChatTranslator's hit/miss/evade lines map to ACE's CombatSelf/
CombatEnemy per Player_Combat.cs; kill/death lines use retail's
decompiled 0x00 Default (not a combat color). ChatWindowController's
transcript now folds LogTextType through RetailChatColorTable with
retail's exact "out-of-range keeps the previous line's color" carry
rule; ChatPanel's combat highlighting sources the same table.
Corrects HearSpeech.cs's doc-comment ChatType legend (4 of 6 entries
were wrong). Adds register row AP-175 for the pre-existing (unchanged)
Popup-renders-in-chat divergence and updates AP-39's stale per-ChatKind
description. Narrows ISSUES #139 — its chat-colors half is done.
Retail renders no chat timestamp prefix path exists in acdream today,
so the "timestamp is always colorGrey 0x0C" rule has nothing to attach
to; noted here per the research doc rather than left silent.
Research: docs/research/2026-08-09-chat-retail-color-table.md
Full Release suite: 11,833 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retail EoR has no music system: the linked winmm MIDI player has zero
callers, 'music' appears zero times in the 65 MB decomp, SoundType has no
music member, InitPrefs registers no music key, and the install ships no
music files. So PlayMusic/StopMusic/MusicVolume and the AudioSettings
Music knob are deleted rather than left as an API modelling dead code —
the string-keyed signature was the tell, since every other entry point is
DID-keyed. Old settings.json files carrying a 'music' key still load; the
reader ignores unknown keys and the next save drops it.
The Ambient slider is now surfaced, because slice A5 gave it something to
drive, and its default returns to retail's 1.0 from an invented 0.8 —
InitPrefs defaults every sound preference to unity. The panel rule is
unchanged: no slider that does nothing.
r05-audio-sound.md gets a SUPERSEDED banner naming its five wrong
sections (falloff, pan, voice pool, selection, music, ambient) so a
future reader reaches the lane notes instead of the Ghidra-era reads that
this campaign spent its first two slices undoing.
TS-9 re-scoped from 'any MP3 cue' to the measured blast radius: exactly 1
MP3 among 786 shipped waves, a ~2 s mono clip. Its original framing
assumed a music system that does not exist. The ADPCM count remains
unmeasured and is named as the open question.
Deferred deliberately: #321's sound-cache decode-dedup race. It is a
pre-existing concurrency flake rather than audio-parity behaviour, and
shipping a speculative fix to a race I have not reproduced is exactly the
shortcut this project's no-workarounds rule exists to prevent.
Campaign A is code-complete; the plan carries the closeout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
acdream never implemented @pklite. It is a CLIENT command in retail, not a
server one — ACE has no pklite text-command handler — so typing it forwarded as
inert chat text that the server ignored.
Retail: ClientCommunicationSystem::DoPKLite @0x0057A490 rejects with
WeenieError 0x507 when ACCWeenieObject::IsPlayerKiller @0x0058C910 is true
(that returns true when EITHER the PK bit 0x20 OR the PKLite bit 0x2000000 is
set), prints "Please see @help pklite for more..." and sends nothing if given
any argument text, and otherwise calls CM_Character::Event_EnterPKLite
@0x006A13F0 — a bare 12-byte parameterless game action, opcode 0x28F, the same
shape as Event_LoginCompleteNotification beside it. Verb string at 0x007E16B0,
help text at 0x007DF0C8, failure string at 0x007D31E8; one verb, no alias.
HasPlayerFlag is a tri-state (null = the local PublicWeenieDesc has not
arrived). The existing arena gates compare `== false` because they reject on a
known-FALSE flag; retail's DoPKLite gates the other way, rejecting on
known-TRUE. So this case compares `== true` on either bit: an indeterminate
description sends rather than blocks, which matches retail trusting the server
instead of inventing a client-side suppression rule.
Landed as its own commit because it is retail-faithful on its own merits, but
the motivation is C4 route 2: ACE advances SequenceType.ObjectForcePosition in
exactly two places, and the only reachable one is Player.HandleActionEnterPkLite's
entry-collision bump (allow_pkl_bump, default on). Every admin teleport advances
ObjectTeleport instead, so @teleto-style displacement exercises route 3, not
route 2. Without this command route 2 has no connected acceptance gate at all.
Gates: complete Release solution 10,867 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed
(9966b531 baseline 10,858/4/0; +9 = the 9 tests added). Coverage includes both
known-true rejections, the known-false success case, the tri-state unknown
case, the 12-byte wire envelope, and @pklite resolving as ClientHandled rather
than falling through to the server-text path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Port SmartBox's release-completed sr_Examine gesture through the configurable SelectRight binding. Cancel camera drags at the shared retail three-pixel threshold, then reuse the canonical picker, selection pulse, and appraisal request path without inventing another wire or UI owner.
Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Move camera pointer, framebuffer resize, and retained/devtools input edges behind focused reversible owners. Preserve input priority while making shutdown deactivate callbacks before live-session retirement and retry physical detach without stranding transport teardown.
Drive turn, movement, jump, and combat through the production InputDispatcher so connected Release testing works without an interactive Windows desktop. Track held automation actions through normal completion and every shutdown path.
Add a seven-destination ACE route with post-liveness memory, allocation, update, fatal-log, outbound-movement, and graceful-close gates. Record dynamic ACE population changes as context instead of a false lifetime oracle, and document the accepted rebaseline.
Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <codex@openai.com>
Replace the projected Setup-sphere rectangle and independent physics-wall ray with retail's render-coupled picker: only visible server-object parts participate, each exact drawing sphere broad-phases the camera-eye ray, and first-in-DAT-order visual polygon hits globally outrank sphere fallbacks.
Replace the devtools-only procedural triangles with the retained gameplay VividTargetIndicator using retail client-enum surfaces 1..4, radar-blip colorization, Setup selection-sphere framing, and the exact eight-pixel viewport clamp.
Release build succeeds with zero warnings and all 5,886 tests pass with five intentional skips.
Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <codex@openai.com>
Honor the requested non-dev-UI behavior by making the 2x DAT-authored particle cutoff the application default while keeping Retail as the exact opt-down setting. Update migration tests and the divergence/roadmap documentation accordingly.
Release build succeeds and all 5,857 tests pass with five intentional skips.
Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <codex@openai.com>
Resolve DAT-authored particle ranges from the hardware GfxObj, apply retail distance and completed-cell visibility gates, and preserve the exact finite/infinite off-view update semantics. This removes dense-world simulation work without shortening terrain, entity, fog, or streaming distance.
Publish doorway-clipped outdoor cells through a focused frame controller, retain effect cell identity for outdoor statics, reject hidden emitters before particle-slot scans, and offer an explicit opt-in Extended particle range.
Release build succeeds and all 5,857 tests pass with five intentional skips. Retail-conformance, architecture, and adversarial review cycles are clean; connected Aerlinthe visual/performance gate pending.
Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <codex@openai.com>
Complete the retail cast-intent, target, component, enchantment, and busy-state paths; mount the DAT-authored spell bar, spellbook, component book, effects panels, and shared panel lifecycle; and add scoped input plus conformance coverage.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Preserve PlayerDescription inventory/equipment ownership across authoritative manifest replacement, make weapon switching and combat/UI consumers read the same canonical object state, and carry the complete outbound player position frame across landblocks.
Route target-facing and mouse-look through the shared MovementManager and MotionInterpreter completion owner. Match retail input aggregation, toggle ordering, turn/sidestep remapping, per-axis hold keys, and synchronous movement publication without render-only heading state.
Initialize the live streaming origin from the first accepted canonical player Position, defer other projections until that origin exists, and retain logical entity identity through hydration.
Advance the project ledger from completed M2 to active M3, synchronize CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md and durable memory, and record the next cast-lifecycle, spellbook/enchantment, and two-client portal gates.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Translate suicide response 0x004A as retail's successful self-kill notice. Port /framerate onto the authored SmartBox FPS element with live two-decimal FPS and DEG values, keep diagnostic window chrome independent, and synchronize command-driven settings without discarding panel drafts.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Expand the typed client-command boundary across travel, character queries, local UI and layout controls, AFK and consent, emotes, friends, squelch and filters, and fill-components. Preserve retail packet layouts and queue ownership, import the confirmation dialog, and keep authoritative social state in Core.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Separate retail client actions, ACE server commands, and ordinary chat at the shared router. Port lifestone/lif/ls from the named retail registry through a typed App controller to game action 0x0063, keep unknown verbs on ACE Talk, and cover both UI backends plus exact outbound bytes.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Mount authored gmCombatUI, share one press/hold/release request state machine across DAT buttons and keybindings, and recover the exact 1.0s/0.8s power timing from matching retail x86. The same timer fixes jump charge, while ready-stance, response queueing, auto-repeat, layout binding, migration, and conformance coverage keep behavior architectural rather than panel-local.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Port global toolbar use/select/create actions, migrate the collapsed Ctrl-number bindings, and route them through a focused retained-UI controller. Preserve shortcut aliases as aliases across inventory and paperdoll drops with retail's neutral/accept/reject drag states, preventing physical item moves such as unwielding an equipped helmet.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Route ACE server commands through the existing chat path, bind the retail paperdoll hit mask instead of its obscured viewport, and prefer authoritative private health vitals. Record the user-confirmed live gate and pin the production DAT widget type in tests.
Retail treats / and @ interchangeably for commands, but two client-side
layers broke the / spelling for server commands:
- ChatCommandRouter refused ANY unknown /verb with a local "Unknown
command" guess — so /tele, /ci, /acehelp never reached ACE even
though ACE supports them. The guard is gone; the server is now the
single authority on what's a valid command (ACE replies "Unknown
command: x" itself).
- ChatInputParser passed unknown /verbs through as literal speech.
ACE's GameActionTalk only intercepts the @ form on the wire (the /
acceptance in CommandManager is the server CONSOLE path), so the
parser now rewrites unknown /xyz -> @xyz.
Both command pass-throughs (@ and rewritten /) now also force the Say
channel: GameActionTalk (0x0015) is the only wire action ACE parses
commands on — previously a command typed with a chat channel active
would broadcast as channel speech.
Phase J Tier 4 ("/-text must never broadcast as speech") still holds:
letter-verbed input goes out as an @command (never speech), and
command-shaped-but-verbless input ("/", "//shrug") is refused locally
by a narrow router guard.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
In chat write mode the keyboard belongs to the input — typing "swd" must not
walk the character — but AUTORUN must keep going (the user can chat while
running).
- InputDispatcher.IsActionHeld now returns false while WantCaptureKeyboard is
set (a focused chat input), the polling-path twin of the existing gate on
Fired actions. This SUPERSEDES the old per-frame OnUpdate early-return, which
also killed autorun. Gating here instead lets the movement block keep running,
so autorun — a separate latched bool ORed into Forward at the call site, not a
polled key — survives. Test updated to encode the new contract.
- GameWindow: the movement suppress-guard reverts to ImGui-devtools-only (the
retail write mode no longer early-returns); wires DefaultTextInput = the chat
input (Tab/Enter activation) and Input.Keyboard for clipboard. Drops the
one-shot UI-scale diagnostic.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both the ImGui devtools ChatPanel and the upcoming retail chat window
now route through ChatCommandRouter.Submit so command handling lives in
one place. The ChatPanel inline block (TryHandleClientCommand / EqAny /
BuildHelpText) is deleted; ChatCommandRouter carries the same logic
verbatim. ChatPanel.Render becomes a 2-line delegate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the [indoor-bsp] probe + ProbeIndoorBspEnabled toggle for the
Indoor walking Phase 1 BSP-cluster investigation. Mirrors the existing
[resolve] / [cell-transit] / [indoor-*] pattern: one log line per
BSPQuery.FindCollisions call from FindEnvCollisions' cell branch,
capturing cell id, sphere local-pos, result TransitionState, and the
hit poly's normal + side-type via the LastBspHitPoly side-channel
(already wired for ProbeBuildingEnabled, now also fires for the indoor
flag).
Toggle via ACDREAM_PROBE_INDOOR_BSP=1 env var or DebugPanel checkbox.
Zero-cost when off.
Predecessor for the three fix commits that will close ISSUES.md
#84/#85/#86 after the capture session.
Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-19-indoor-walking-phase1-bsp-cluster-design.md
Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-19-indoor-walking-phase1-bsp-cluster.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Visual test of the B.4b handler revealed the dispatcher never fired
SelectDblLeft. OnMouseDown was only looking up Press and Hold
activations — DoubleClick bindings in KeyBindings.cs were effectively
dead code.
Adds 500ms-threshold double-click detection: tracks last-mouse-down
button + Environment.TickCount64 timestamp; a same-button press within
the threshold additionally fires ActivationType.DoubleClick for the
matching binding (Press still fires normally for the second click).
Clears the pair-state after firing so a triple-click doesn't produce
a second DoubleClick.
Tests cover same-button within threshold, beyond threshold (no fire),
different-button (no fire), and triple-click (fresh pair required).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add QualityPreset enum + QualitySettings readonly record struct with
From(preset) table and WithEnvOverrides() env-var override layer.
Four presets (Low/Medium/High/Ultra) drive NearRadius, FarRadius,
MsaaSamples, AnisotropicLevel, AlphaToCoverage, MaxCompletionsPerFrame.
Env vars (ACDREAM_NEAR_RADIUS, ACDREAM_FAR_RADIUS, ACDREAM_MSAA_SAMPLES,
ACDREAM_ANISOTROPIC, ACDREAM_A2C, ACDREAM_MAX_COMPLETIONS_PER_FRAME)
override individual preset fields for dev spot-testing.
DisplaySettings gains a Quality: QualityPreset field (default High);
SettingsStore persists/loads it under display."quality" as an enum
name string with Enum.TryParse fallback. 12 new QualityPresetTests
cover the preset table (radii, msaa, aniso, a2c, completions) and all
six env-var override paths. 415 UI.Abstractions tests passing.
Wiring into GameWindow / WbDrawDispatcher / TerrainAtlas follows in
commit 2 of this task.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two should-fix items from the pre-merge code review pass:
1. Persisted settings now apply on startup unconditionally
(previously gated on ACDREAM_DEVTOOLS=1).
2. Music + Ambient volume sliders are hidden because the
underlying engine paths don't exist yet (R5 MIDI playback).
== 1. Settings load + apply outside DevToolsEnabled gate ==
Previous structure put SettingsStore construction, LoadDisplay /
LoadAudio / etc, and ApplyDisplayWindowState inside the
`if (DevToolsEnabled)` block. A user running with the env var unset
silently got WindowOptions defaults (1280x720 / VSync=false /
60° FOV) instead of their saved settings.json values — even though
the settings file existed and was valid.
Refactored: extracted LoadAndApplyPersistedSettings() that runs
unconditionally in OnLoad after _audioEngine is constructed but
before the DevToolsEnabled block. Persisted values cached as
_persistedDisplay / _persistedAudio / _persistedGameplay /
_persistedChat / _persistedCharacter fields. The Settings PANEL
construction (devtools-gated, naturally — no UI without ImGui) now
reads those fields when wiring SettingsVM.
The Settings UI gating is correct (panel needs ImGui devtools);
the persisted-runtime-state gating was the bug.
== 2. Music + Ambient sliders hidden ==
OpenAlAudioEngine has Music/MusicVolume/Ambient/AmbientVolume
properties but they're never read — PlayMusic is a stub for R5 MIDI
playback that hasn't shipped, StartAmbient reserves a handle but
doesn't start a source. Dragging those sliders moved a number that
nothing observed.
Hid the Music + Ambient sliders from RenderAudioTab; left the
AudioSettings record fields intact so settings.json round-trips
the values across phases — when R5 lands and the sliders return,
saved values will already be in place. Updated the panel's footer
note to call out the limitation. Updated
Audio_tab_when_active_renders_implemented_volume_sliders to assert
Master + SFX are present AND Music + Ambient are absent.
dotnet build green; dotnet test 1,309 / 1,309 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The InvisibleButton drag-trap inside BeginChild only catches clicks
inside that specific child. Chat had widgets OUTSIDE the inner
##chattail child (the Copy-mode Checkbox + a Separator at top, the
footer Separator + InputTextSubmit at bottom) — empty space around
those widgets fell through directly to the parent window's
window-drag init.
Fix: wrap the entire chat panel body in a single outer ##chatbody
BeginChild before drawing any content. The renderer's drag-trap
fires inside this outer child too, absorbing every empty-space
click in the chat panel body. The inner ##chattail child is now
nested inside it, which doesn't change its scroll-tail semantics
but does mean it gets its own drag-trap as a bonus.
Test fixed: Render_BeginChild_ReservesNegativeFooterFromFrameHeight
was using Single(BeginChild) — there are now two BeginChild calls
(##chatbody outer + ##chattail inner). Switched to Single(... &&
Args[0] == "##chattail") so the test still pins the footer reserve
on the inner call where it lives.
dotnet build green; 1,309 / 1,309 tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
User reported wanting to mark text in-game and copy it out (item names,
coordinates, NPC dialogue, etc). ImGui doesn't natively let you select
across multiple TextColored widgets, but a read-only multi-line
InputText is fully click-drag selectable + Ctrl+C copyable. This
commit adds a "Copy mode" toggle to ChatPanel that swaps the chat
tail's render path between the colored-line view and a single
selectable text region.
New IPanelRenderer primitive:
void TextMultilineReadOnly(string id, string content, Vector2 size);
ImGui maps this to InputTextMultiline with the ReadOnly flag — same
selection + Ctrl+C UX a user expects from any text-input widget.
FakePanelRenderer records the call for tests. The future D.2b
custom retail-look backend implements its own equivalent (likely
the same widget pattern with retail font/skin).
ChatPanel rendering:
· A "Copy mode (select text to Ctrl+C)" Checkbox at the top of
the panel toggles _copyMode.
· Off (default) — current per-line render with colored combat
entries. Visually unchanged from before.
· On — the chat tail becomes a single TextMultilineReadOnly
widget holding every visible line joined with newlines. Loses
per-line color, gains arbitrary-span text selection.
· Footer (separator + input field) renders identically in both
modes so the user can still type while in copy mode.
Existing ChatPanelLayoutTests's footer-separator probe was using
IndexOf("Separator") — which now matches the new pre-tail separator
between the Checkbox and the chat tail. Switched to LastIndexOf
which still pins the footer separator (between EndChild and
InputTextSubmit). Behaviour and intent unchanged.
DisplaySettingsTests' With_expression test was still asserting the
old "1920x1080" Default.Resolution; updated to the new "1280x720"
that the previous wire-up commit introduced (the earlier commit
forgot this one).
dotnet build green (0 warnings); dotnet test 1,309 / 1,309 green
(243 Core.Net + 393 UI.Abstractions + 673 Core).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase L.0 polish — the Display + Character tabs were persisting to disk
but didn't yet drive runtime behavior. This commit flips the live
switches.
DISPLAY ↔ GL window:
· FOV slider (degrees) → camera FovY (radians) on Orbit + Fly + Chase,
pushed every frame so dragging is visible immediately. Brainstorm
said FOV is a live-preview slider; this delivers it.
· VSync → _window.VSync, change-detected per-frame so flipping the
checkbox is instant. Applied at startup too so saved-VSync takes
effect before the first frame.
· Resolution → _window.Size on Save (TryParseResolution parses
"WIDTHxHEIGHT"). Live preview would be too jarring; resize is on
Save only.
· Fullscreen → _window.WindowState (Silk.NET borderless mode), also
on Save only.
· ShowFps → wraps the title-bar perf string. true → full perf line;
false → just "acdream" for a cleaner alt-tab. Default true matches
pre-L.0 behavior.
Defaults rebalanced — FieldOfView 75→60° (matches Orbit/Fly/Chase
FovY = π/3), VSync true→false (matches the previous WindowOptions),
ShowFps false→true (preserves the existing perf-in-title behavior).
Net effect: a user who never opens Display tab + later opens it +
Saves without touching anything sees ZERO visual change. Tests pinned
to the new defaults.
ApplyDisplayWindowState helper consolidates the window-side
mutations. Called from the SettingsVM construction site (apply
persisted at startup) and from the onSaveDisplay callback (apply
saved on demand). Malformed resolution strings are silently ignored
to avoid crashing mid-session if settings.json gets hand-edited.
CHARACTER ↔ active toon:
· _activeToonKey field replaces the hard-coded "default" — starts as
"default" (used for any pre-login Settings interaction), gets
swapped to the actual character.Name immediately after EnterWorld
in BeginLiveSessionAsync.
· onSaveCharacter callback closes over _activeToonKey by reference
(lambda captures `this`), so saves always write to the current
toon's slot without rebinding the lambda.
· After EnterWorld lands the chosen toon's name, the host loads
that toon's bag via SettingsStore.LoadCharacter and calls a new
SettingsVM.LoadCharacterContext to swap BOTH persisted snapshot
AND draft atomically — HasUnsavedChanges stays false on login so
the user doesn't see a "pending changes" indicator just because
they switched toons.
Per-toon storage already worked at the SettingsStore layer (commit
73749d1); this commit just plumbs the actual character name through
to the toonKey instead of always using "default".
2 new tests for LoadCharacterContext: atomic persisted+draft swap,
and pending edits getting wiped on swap (so pre-login bleed-through
can't write to the new toon's slot).
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Phase L.0 (final) — last tab on the Settings shell. Per-toon
preferences keyed by toon name in settings.json under
character[<toonName>]. With this commit the L.0 build order
finishes and every approved tab is implemented.
CharacterSettings record (4 fields):
· DefaultChatChannel (string — Local / Allegiance / Fellowship / etc)
· AutoAttack (bool — continue swinging until target dies)
· ConfirmSalvage (bool — prompt before salvaging valuable items)
· ShowPickupMessages (bool — pickup lines in chat)
AvailableChannels static list exposes the 7 retail-routing targets
for the dropdown.
SettingsStore grows LoadCharacter(toonKey) / SaveCharacter(toonKey)
using JsonNode/JsonObject for the nested-toon write — the existing
SaveSection raw-text-preservation pattern handles top-level keys
but doesn't fit the nested per-toon mutation. The character map
preserves every other toon's settings on save, and other top-level
sections (display / audio / gameplay / chat) are preserved too.
SettingsVM grows the parallel character state machine. The host
owns the toonKey (currently hard-coded to "default" in GameWindow
because we don't have a current-character source plumbed yet) —
the VM just edits whatever bag the host loaded.
SettingsPanel.RenderCharacterTab replaces the L.0-shell placeholder
— a Combo for default chat channel + 3 Checkboxes for
AutoAttack / ConfirmSalvage / ShowPickupMessages. The
RenderPlaceholder helper is now removed (no callers); the old
"Placeholder_tabs_render_coming_soon_text_when_active" test is
replaced by an "all six tabs are implemented" guard test that
fails if any future commit adds a placeholder back.
GameWindow loads/saves character settings under toonKey "default"
with a TODO comment to swap in the real toon name once
CharacterList plumbing exposes a currentCharacter source.
18 new tests:
· CharacterSettings record (4) — defaults pinned, AvailableChannels
list shape, value equality, with-expressions
· SettingsStore character (6) — missing-file / toon-not-in-file →
defaults, round-trip, multi-toon preservation, preserves other
top-level sections, all five sections coexist
· SettingsVM character (5) — initial draft, SetCharacter marks
dirty, Save invokes callback, Cancel reverts, ResetAllToDefaults
covers
· SettingsPanel character tab (3 net, after removing the
placeholder test) — combo+checkboxes render only when active,
channel combo uses AvailableChannels, all six tabs are now
non-placeholder
Phase L.0 final tally:
· 5 commits on feature/settings-retail (shell + 5 tabs)
· 6 tabs: Keybinds (Phase K) + Display + Audio + Gameplay + Chat + Character
· 5 settings sections in settings.json (display/audio/gameplay/chat/character),
coexisting non-destructively + a sixth file (keybinds.json) on the side.
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Phase L.0 (cont.) — fourth tab on the Settings shell. Mixes retail's
CharacterOptions2 chat-channel filter bits (Hear*Chat / TimeStamp /
FilterLanguage / AppearOffline) with a font-size slider that has no
retail bitfield equivalent.
ChatSettings record (9 fields):
· 5 channel filters: HearGeneralChat, HearTradeChat, HearLFGChat,
HearRoleplayChat, HearSocietyChat
· 3 display flags: ShowTimestamps, FilterProfanity, AppearOffline
· 1 visual: FontSize (10..20 pt)
Local-only this phase per the brainstorm — Hear*Chat flags affect
client-side display filtering only; the server still streams every
channel. Server-sync arrives later when the protocol round-trip is
in place.
SettingsStore grows LoadChat / SaveChat using the existing generic
SaveSection helper. All four non-keybind sections (display, audio,
gameplay, chat) now coexist non-destructively in settings.json.
SettingsVM grows the parallel chat state machine. HasUnsavedChanges,
Save, Cancel, ResetAllToDefaults all cover chat. Constructor signature
adds two more params; existing call sites updated.
SettingsPanel.RenderChatTab replaces the L.0-shell placeholder —
8 Checkbox calls grouped under "Channel filters" + "Display"
headers, plus a font-size SliderFloat. The "Coming soon" placeholder
test was retargeted from "Chat" to "Character" since Chat is no
longer a placeholder.
GameWindow wires SettingsStore.LoadChat / SaveChat + a TODO comment
for the future ChatPanel filter integration (read SettingsVM.ChatDraft
when filtering inbound chat lines).
13 new tests:
· ChatSettings record (3) — defaults pinned, value equality, with-
expressions
· SettingsStore chat (3) — missing-file → defaults, round-trip, all
four sections coexist
· SettingsVM chat (5) — initial draft, SetChat marks dirty, Save
invokes callback, Cancel reverts, ResetAllToDefaults covers
· SettingsPanel chat tab (2) — checkboxes + slider render only when
active
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Phase L.0 (cont.) — third tab on the Settings shell, in the Easy-wins
build order. Subset of retail's CharacterOption + CharacterOptions2
bitfield flags ported as bools (see acclient.h:3404+ enum). Local-
only this phase per the brainstorm — server sync deferred to a
later phase that will marshal the draft into the retail
CharacterOption packet.
GameplaySettings record exposes 14 named flags grouped by usage:
· Combat: AutoTarget, AutoRepeatAttack, ToggleRun, AdvancedCombatUI,
VividTargetingIndicator
· Display: ShowTooltips, SideBySideVitals, CoordinatesOnRadar,
SpellDuration, ShowHelm, ShowCloak
· Interface: AllowGive, LockUI, UseMouseTurning
Retail names + bit values are documented in field-level comments so
the future server-sync phase has a 1:1 mapping. Defaults are
typical-user starting points (NOT bit-exact to retail's
0x50C4A54A / 0x948700 masks); class-level remarks call out that
defaults will be re-anchored to retail values once the wire-format
is the load-bearing source.
SettingsStore grows LoadGameplay / SaveGameplay using the existing
SaveSection generic helper (added in the audio commit). All three
non-keybind sections (display, audio, gameplay) now coexist in
settings.json with non-destructive cross-section saves — verified
by a new "all three sections coexist" round-trip test.
SettingsVM grows the parallel gameplay state machine
(gameplayPersisted / gameplayDraft / SetGameplay / onSaveGameplay).
HasUnsavedChanges, Save, Cancel, ResetAllToDefaults all cover
gameplay too. Constructor signature adds two more params; existing
call sites (App startup + tests) updated.
SettingsPanel.RenderGameplayTab replaces the L.0-shell placeholder —
14 Checkbox calls grouped under three Text+Separator headers, plus
a footer note explaining the local-only-this-phase scope. The
"Coming soon" placeholder test was retargeted from "Gameplay" to
"Chat" since Gameplay is no longer a placeholder.
GameWindow construction site loads gameplay on startup + writes via
the SettingsStore on Save. Server-sync packet wiring is left as a
TODO comment in the onSaveGameplay callback (next phase, after the
protocol round-trip is in place).
14 new tests:
· GameplaySettings record (3) — defaults pinned, value equality,
with-expressions
· SettingsStore gameplay (4) — missing-file → defaults, round-trip,
partial-file fallback, all-three-sections coexist
· SettingsVM gameplay (5) — initial draft, SetGameplay marks dirty,
Save invokes callback, Cancel reverts, ResetAllToDefaults covers
· SettingsPanel gameplay tab (2) — 8 spot-checked Checkboxes render
only when active
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(243 Core.Net + 360 UI.Abstractions + 673 Core).
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