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Erik
c0afcacbb2 fix(physics): movement-parity fixes - adjusted catch-up cap, autorun retail semantics, AP-30 retired
Ports CMotionInterp::get_adjusted_max_speed (0x00527D00, byte-decoded:
bare rate unless RunForward; forward_speed x 4.0 when running;
current_speed_factor proven a ctor-constant 1.0 at 0x00528C34) and swaps
all five interpolation catch-up call sites to it - retail's
fUseAdjustedSpeed_ static (.data 0x0081F418 = 1) makes this the live
branch, so standing/walking remotes now catch up at ~2x runRate instead
of 4x too fast (the #41/#165 presentation family). Autorun now hard-
forces Run for its duration and cancels on every fresh forward press
(CommandInterpreter::HandleNewForwardMovement 0x006b3d60 is literally
SetAutoRun(0,1)); the old test pin codified the divergence. AP-30
retired: retail Frame::is_equal genuinely uses the 0.0002 epsilon - the
row recorded a non-divergence. Three catch-up test pins re-baselined to
retail semantics with citations. Full Release suite 9,983/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 15:04:17 +02:00
Erik
252e806804 fix(physics): AD-55 retired — Sledding fast-sled constant is cos(10 deg)
Per docs/research/2026-07-30-ts4-116-oracle-plan.md Addendum (byte-proven
2026-07-30). Raw bytes of CPhysicsObj::calc_friction @ 0x0050ee70's
Sledding fast-sled branch (0x0050ef52-0x0050ef6a):

  d9 86 38 01 00 00   fld  dword [esi+0x138]    ; contact_plane.Normal.Z
  dd 05 28 6b 7c 00   fld  qword [0x007c6b28]   ; = 0.17453292519943295 (10 deg RADIANS)
  d9 ff               fcos                       ; st0 = cos(10 deg) = 0.984807753
  de d9               fcompp

confirm a genuine fcos opcode over a real 10-degrees-in-radians double
literal -- not a BN misdecompile of a raw float load. Retail truly
computes cos(10 deg) ~ 0.9848078 at runtime; ACE's 0.99999536f equals
cos(0.1745 DEGREES) -- the same radian literal evaluated in degree mode,
a proven ACE porting error carried into this port provisionally.

PhysicsBody.calc_friction's Sledding near-flat override now compares
GroundNormal.Z > 0.98480775f (cos 10 deg). Feel impact: retail's 0.2f
fast-sled friction override engages on any ground within 10 degrees of
flat; the old constant engaged only within ~0.175 degrees (never, in
practice).

Tests: two new boundary pins
(calc_friction_sledding_fast_override_engages_at_5_degrees_from_flat /
..._does_not_engage_at_15_degrees_from_flat) construct a tilted
GroundNormal with velocity purely orthogonal to the tilt plane (dot=0
exactly, isolating the Sledding-band friction value from the outer 0.25f
gate and the normal-removal step) and assert the exact pow(1-friction, dt)
decay on each side of the new 10-degree boundary.

Register: AD-55 retired (struck through, retirement note with the byte
decode).

Full AcDream.Core.Tests suite: 4063 passed / 1 skipped, no regressions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 12:56:26 +02:00
Erik
5e2be19b4e fix(physics): TS-4 retired — Path-6 steep-poly shortcut deleted
Per docs/research/2026-07-30-ts4-116-oracle-plan.md §1, §4 item 2 (the
decisive TS-4 confirming run). Retail's BSP layer has NO steepness test at
all (acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:323783-323821, 0x0053a793) — every airborne
hit, steep or shallow, falls through to the same unconditional
`SetCollide` + `Adjusted`. The L.4 slide-tangent shortcut (worldNormal.Z <
FloorZ -> project-and-Slid, with its own SetSlidingNormal write) is deleted
from both BSPQuery.cs's and FlatBspQuery.cs's Path 6 sphere0 branch.

Fixing FlatBspQuery.cs (the flat/indexed engine Slice I6/I7 made
production-authoritative) was necessary in this same commit: it carried an
exact structural duplicate of the shortcut, caught by
FlatBspQueryDifferentialTests.InstalledDat_LargeRandomizedSweep_HasZeroBitMismatch
(graph=Adjusted vs flat=Slid) once the graph side was fixed alone. Its
sphere1 branch is also brought in line with the #116 shape-1 fix landed
in db2889af (direct Collided + SetCollisionNormal instead of the deferred
SetCollide/shortcut treatment) — that parity gap existed since shape-1's
commit only touched BSPQuery.cs and the randomized differential sweep
didn't happen to exercise the narrow foot-clear/head-hit case until this
session's broader change surfaced it.

DECISIVE CONFIRMING RUN (Ts4SteepRoofWedgeCaptureTests, per the plan's own
required test-first order): added
FallOntoSteepSlope_WithHorizontalVelocity_NeverFreezesForOverHalfASecond_AndReachesFloor
— the same steep-roof drop as the existing pure-vertical fixture, but with
a small residual horizontal velocity (vx=-0.3 m/s), matching the realistic
live-play input (WASD, jump momentum) that validated the shortcut on
2026-04-30. With the shortcut removed, this variant converges cleanly to
the flat floor with zero freeze. The pure-vertical fixture, run
shortcut-removed, DOES still freeze — per the oracle plan's root-cause
trace (§1.2 Step E), this is the DEGENERATE case: AdjustOffset's crease
projection (Cross(ContactPlane.Normal, SlidingNormal)) is mathematically
orthogonal to a purely-Z gravity offset, crushing it to zero every tick
before TransitionalInsert can run again — present identically in the raw
decomp, ACE's port, and this port. Renamed and re-asserted as a PINNED
known-degenerate test
(FallOntoSteepSlope_PureVertical_FreezesAtDegenerateFixedPoint_RetailParity)
rather than treated as a bug. Filed as register row AD-56.

BSPStepUpTests.C3_Path6_AirborneMoverHitsSteepSlope_ReturnsSlid pinned the
OLD shortcut's Slid-no-Collide behavior directly; renamed to
...ReturnsAdjustedAndSetsCollide and corrected to the retail-faithful
Adjusted/Collide=true outcome.

Register: TS-4 row retired (struck through, retirement note); AD-56 filed
for the pure-vertical degenerate case; the retire-next shortlist's TS-4
entry removed and renumbered.

Full AcDream.Core.Tests suite: 4060 passed / 2 skipped (D4 stays Skip-tagged
in this commit; its own un-skip is a separate, dependent test-only commit
for #116 shape-2), no regressions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 12:51:44 +02:00
Erik
db2889afda fix(physics): #116 shape-1 — Path-6 head-sphere direct Collided return
Per docs/research/2026-07-30-ts4-116-oracle-plan.md §2.3-§2.4: retail's
airborne (not-yet-Contact) BSPTREE::find_collisions dispatch, when the
FOOT sphere is completely clear but the HEAD sphere hits or near-misses,
does not defer through SetCollide/Adjusted (nor the steep-poly
slide-tangent shortcut) — it records the head polygon's normal directly
and hard-stops: pc:323824-323834 (0x0053a793/0x0053a7a4), independently
cross-checked against ACE BSPTree.cs:221-230 (`SetCollisionNormal` +
`return TransitionState.Collided;`), an exact structural match confirming
this isn't a BN misdecompile. BSPQuery.cs's Path 6 `hasSphere1` branch now
does the same: `collisions.SetCollisionNormal(worldNormal1); return
TransitionState.Collided;`, replacing the old steep-shortcut-or-deferred-
SetCollide handling. This mechanically retires one of TS-4's two
`SetSlidingNormal` write sites (sphere1's) ahead of TS-4's own item.

Added two permanent diagnostics gated on the existing
PhysicsDiagnostics.ProbeIndoorBspEnabled flag (`[path-dispatch]` at
FindCollisionsCore entry, `[path5-diag]` inside Path 5) to make future
BSPQuery dispatch tracing cheaper.

HONEST RESULT of the plan's own confirming instrumentation (re-run of
DoorBugTrajectoryReplayTests.Diagnostic_Tick22760_DumpEngineInternals):
this fix does NOT change the tick-22760 outcome (harness still cn=(0,0,1)
vs live cn=(0,+1,0)). The new dispatch-entry probes show the tick-22760
mover is GROUNDED (Contact set), so it never reaches Path 6 at all — it
dispatches Path 5 -> StepSphereDown (Path 3, both DoStepDown half-steps
fail) -> EdgeSlideAfterStepDownFailed -> SpherePath.PrecipiceSlide, whose
find_crossed_edge-false fallback returns Collided with NO collision-normal
write. A fresh byte-level read of retail's SPHEREPATH::precipice_slide
(pc:274316-274326, 0x0050cc80) confirms this is byte-exact retail
behavior (`if (eax == 0) { walkable = 0; return 2; }`, no
set_collision_normal call) — not a bug. The real tick-22760 divergence is
further upstream, most likely this test's simplified door registration
(BuildEngineWithDoorFixture) not placing the door's BSP where live retail
actually intersected it, or a walkable-polygon state-capture gap — see
the research doc's Addendum 2 for the full trace and open candidates.

#116 shape-1 is therefore NARROWED, not closed: the Path-6 fix is a real,
independent retail-faithfulness improvement; the tick-22760 acceptance
criterion is not met by it and needs further harness/geometry work before
any further code change.

Full AcDream.Core.Tests suite: 4059 passed / 2 skipped, no regressions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 12:36:26 +02:00
Erik
7e1be3def0 fix(physics): TransitionalInsert returns the real exhausted-retry state
Per the TS-4/#116 oracle plan (docs/research/2026-07-30-ts4-116-oracle-plan.md
§1.4, §4 item 1): TransitionalInsert's retry loop hardcoded
`return TransitionState.Slid;` when the attempt budget exhausted, despite
the comment's own claim of returning "whatever the last iteration said."
ACE's equivalent (Transition.cs:933, `return transitState;`) and retail's
(pc:273363, 0x0050b949, `return edi;`) both reuse one state variable
across the composite per-attempt call and return whatever it holds.

acdream's per-phase dispatch (env/building/object/other-cells/neg-poly/
step-down) is split across several locals instead of ACE's single
composite call, so `transitState` is now re-synced from whichever
phase-local variable most recently caused a retry `continue`, and the
final return uses that real value instead of the hardcoded constant.

Blast radius is zero: ValidateTransition's "not OK" branch treats
Collided/Adjusted/Slid identically, and every caller of TransitionalInsert
either feeds the result straight into ValidateTransition/
ValidatePlacementTransition (both `== OK` vs. not) or checks `== OK`
directly. Full AcDream.Core.Tests suite: 4059 passed / 2 skipped, no
change in pass count.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 12:36:05 +02:00
Erik
9e17554ed4 fix(physics): P5 commit 3 - retire TS-35, close #167 (ConstraintManager leash)
PhysicsBody.IsFullyConstrained now reflects real ConstraintManager state
(pushed every tick by the same per-tick pumps commit 2 wired), so
jump_is_allowed's already-ported gate (WeenieError 0x47) actually fires
while an object is rubber-banding hard against a server position
correction, closing the last piece of #167.

Housekeeping:
- Delete register row TS-35 (retired: the write side is no longer stubbed).
- Rewrite the stale doc comments on PhysicsBody.IsFullyConstrained,
  ConstraintManager (class + IsFullyConstrained), PositionManager.ConstrainTo,
  EntityPhysicsHost.PositionManager, and PlayerMovementController.PositionManager
  that described the leash as permanently unarmed/stubbed.
- Close #167 in ISSUES.md citing the research doc and commits e0629145 /
  7719d25b.
- Add an "as-ported" addendum to
  docs/research/2026-07-30-constraint-leash-constants.md naming the actual
  current seam owners (the doc's own open question flagged this as
  implementer-verify-required post-J-slices).
- Update docs/plans/2026-07-29-physics-parity-campaign.md's P5 status and
  CLAUDE.md's Campaign P summary to reflect #167's closure (items #153/#72
  remain open in P5).

Verification: complete solution suite green - 9,978 tests, 5 skips, 0
failures across all 9 test projects (Core.Tests, Runtime.Tests, App.Tests,
Headless.Tests, Core.Net.Tests, Content.Tests, UI.Abstractions.Tests,
Bake.Tests, Cli.Tests).
2026-07-30 12:12:29 +02:00
Erik
7719d25bc5 feat(physics): P5 commit 2 - arm the ConstraintManager leash on accepted positions (#167)
Wire ConstraintManager.ConstrainTo at every current acdream inbound-position
acceptance seam, matching retail SmartBox::HandleReceivedPosition
(0x00453fd0):

- Remote (player + NPC): LiveEntityNetworkUpdateController arms right after
  the hard-teleport branch (remotePlacementRequired) returns - reaching that
  point already means MoveOrTeleport did NOT hard-place - anchored to the
  object's own live IPhysicsObjHost.Position.
- Local player teleport: PlayerMovementController.SetPositionCore now runs
  UnConstrain (retail teleport_hook 0x00514ed0, previously a no-op because
  nothing armed the leash) then re-arms anchored to the just-snapped
  position, composing with the existing StopCompletelyAtPhysicsObjectBoundary
  velocity zero rather than duplicating it. CommitPreparedPosition mirrors
  the same pair for the deferred player-mode-entry commit path.
- Local player ForcePosition: PlayerMovementController.BlipPosition arms
  with NO preceding UnConstrain (retail BlipPlayer/SetPositionSimple
  survives motion/velocity/stick, and the leash is no different).

Push PhysicsBody.IsFullyConstrained from PositionManager.IsFullyConstrained
at the SAME per-tick chokepoint each pump already runs AdjustOffset
(PlayerMovementController.Update, RuntimeRemotePhysicsUpdater.Tick/TickHidden)
so TS-35's read gate in jump_is_allowed sees live state instead of a stub
that is never written.

Tests: local-player arm/teardown/rearm/taper/jump-refusal (Runtime.Tests,
PlayerMovementControllerTests), remote-tick IsFullyConstrained push
(Runtime.Tests, RuntimePhysicsStateTests). Full Core/Runtime/App suites
green with no regressions.
2026-07-30 12:05:19 +02:00
Erik
e0629145ef feat(physics): P5 commit 1 - port ConstraintManager leash distance constants (#167)
Add ConstraintDistance (outdoor/indoor start=10/5, max=50/20), byte-decoded
from the matching retail binary (GetStartConstraintDistance 0x0050ebc0,
GetMaxConstraintDistance 0x0050ec10 - both x87-return functions BN elided).
Deliberately omits the vestigial player-vs-remote branch the disassembly
shows loads identical constants either way. Pins the ACE-inversion (ACE's
start mapping is outdoor 5/indoor 10, the opposite of the binary - the
binary wins). Adds a full-chain conformance test proving an armed,
over-strained leash actually blocks jump_is_allowed (0x47), not just the
bare stub-property regression already covered.

See docs/research/2026-07-30-constraint-leash-constants.md.
2026-07-30 11:54:35 +02:00
Erik
7a0f836af5 fix(physics): AP-129 review fix - port CanMoveInto/IsAllowedIn, stop failing closed
Campaign P Slice P4 Opus review verdict: FIX-FIRST. RestrictionObjPrevalenceInspectionTests
(commit 3b5e0992) found 103,766 of 729,888 installed EnvCells (1,293 landblocks -
the whole housing estate) carry a baked RestrictionObj. The AP-71 gate's
unconditional fail-closed default (CanMoveInto unmodeled) would have locked
every apartment/cottage/villa interior for every player, including its own
owner - a live regression, not the "inert in dev content" the original
register row assumed.

Ports ACCWeenieObject::CanMoveInto (0x0058da40, pc:407982-408056) and
RestrictionDB::IsAllowedIn (0x005ae8f0, pc:444493-444516) verbatim into
ObjectInfo.CheckEntryRestrictions:
- owner_iid == 0 or == mover's own guid -> admit (open/owner)
- no RestrictionDB (retail _db == 0, i.e. never authored or not yet
  received) -> admit
- present RestrictionDB -> IsAllowedIn: open-to-public flag, OR mover
  shares the house's allegiance monarch, OR mover's own guid is a
  guest-table member
- unresolved restriction object -> fails CLOSED, exactly retail's own
  fallback when GetObjectA can't resolve it (pc:704-716)

Wire feed (Core.Net):
- CreateObject.cs: HouseOwner (WeenieHeaderFlag 0x02000000), HouseRestrictions
  (0x04000000), and Monarch (0x40) PWD-tail fields were parsed-and-skipped;
  now captured. Also fixes the HouseRestrictions PHashTable header
  misconception: the wire is ONE packed u32 (low 24 bits = entry count),
  not a separate count(u16)+numBuckets(u16) pair - verified against
  Chorizite's RestrictionDB.generated.cs. The old skip's byte-count
  happened to match for realistic guest-list sizes, but a future
  numBuckets value >255 would have corrupted the parse; now correct
  regardless.
- GameEvents.cs/GameEventWiring.cs: new House_UpdateRestrictions (0x0248)
  parser + wiring - retail's live guest-list refresh, whole-unit replace.
  No-ops if the house object hasn't arrived via CreateObject yet.
- ClientObject/WeenieData/ClientObjectTable: HouseOwnerId, MonarchId,
  Restrictions (new HouseRestrictionRecord) fields + merge-preserving
  Ingest + targeted UpdateHouseRestrictions.

Physics wiring:
- PhysicsEngine gains an Objects (ClientObjectTable?) property, mirroring
  the existing DataCache pattern - acdream's GetObjectA equivalent, used
  ONLY by the entry-restriction gate.
- RuntimeEntityObjectLifetime wires Physics.Engine.Objects = Objects in
  all three constructors, right alongside the table's own construction -
  the same canonical table every other subsystem borrows from, never a
  second one. This is the production fix: without it the gate still fails
  closed on every restricted cell (unresolvable object), so the wiring is
  load-bearing, not cosmetic.

Register: AP-129 narrowed (not retired) to the genuine remaining residual -
House_UpdateRestrictions' Sequence byte isn't used for staleness/reordering
rejection (low-probability, self-correcting), and outdoor CLandCell
restriction (a separate DAT structure) remains unported and unaffected by
this fix.

Tests: 15 new/updated in Ap71EntryRestrictionGateTests.cs (resolved-unowned
admits, owner admits, present-list-excluded blocks, present-list-included
admits, open-to-public admits, shared-allegiance-monarch admits, unresolved
blocks via null and via an empty table, plus two new end-to-end
PhysicsEngine.Objects-wired scenarios); 2 new CreateObject parser tests +
2 new GameEventWiring tests for the wire feed.

AcDream.Core.Tests: 4049 passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed.
AcDream.Core.Net.Tests: 761 passed, 0 skipped, 0 failed.
Complete solution suite: 9,961 total, 9,956 passed, 5 skipped, 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 11:36:11 +02:00
Erik
cc8d57a26e fix(physics): AP-10 - restore retail's 0.1m dry-corner water sink-in; wire WATER_CONTACT_TS
Campaign P Slice P4 item 2. TerrainSurface.SampleWaterDepth now returns 0.1
(was collapsed to 0) for a partially-water cell's dry corner, matching
retail's ObjCell.get_water_depth / calc_water_depth (via ACE's unambiguous
C# port). ValidateWalkable's formula was already byte-for-byte verbatim
(ACE ObjectInfo.ValidateWalkable line 124); only the constant was collapsed.

The old collapse's justification ("0.1 destabilizes the feet-exactly-on-plane
contact-touch check because dist > EPSILON skips SetContactPlane that tick")
is structurally true of retail too - traced and confirmed this slice: in ALL
THREE implementations (retail, ACE, acdream) a skipped touch-reassertion is
NOT a fall, because Contact/OnWalkable are STICKY -
PhysicsEngine.ResolveWithTransition's onGround computation ORs the fresh
per-call ContactPlaneValid with the seeded, persistent
PhysicsBody.TransientState.OnWalkable bit (itself written back by the
caller's own sticky TransientState). PhysicsEngine.SampleTerrainWalkable's
isWater = waterDepth >= 0.45f threshold means the restore does not flip the
dry corner's water classification (0.1 still < 0.45) - only the sink-in
depth changes. Full Core.Tests suite green (4038/2 skips, up from 4026)
proves the sticky-bit argument held in practice.

WATER_CONTACT_TS (TransientStateFlags.WaterContact, declared but never
written) is now mirrored alongside CONTACT_TS/ON_WALKABLE_TS at every commit
point that writes them: PhysicsObjUpdate.ApplySetPositionContact (projectiles
+ remote teleport), PhysicsObjUpdate.CommitSetPositionTransition (remote
teleport placement), and PhysicsEngine's per-resolve body-state commit (local
player + remote dead-reckoning + ordinary movers via ResolveWithTransition -
the actual SetPositionInternal-equivalent path). No signature changes needed:
body.ContactPlaneIsWater is already fresh by the time each function runs.

CollisionShadowVerifier audit: no change needed. It diffs graph-vs-flat BSP
traversal outcomes (ObjectInfo/CollisionInfo/SpherePath fields already
including ContactPlaneIsWater); it never touches PhysicsBody.TransientState,
and the water-depth constant is computed identically upstream of both
traversal modes, so it cannot introduce a new graph/flat divergence.

Filed #264 for the three items research explicitly left open (none block
this port): no confirmed retail consumer of WATER_CONTACT_TS was found (an
xref scan wasn't attempted - bitmask reads aren't text-greppable); the
CLandCell ENTIRELY_WATER ethereal/swim exemption from terrain collision was
not cross-checked; jump-in-water/swim-animation effects were not
investigated (out of physics/collision scope).

Conformance: Ap10WaterSemanticsTests covers SampleWaterDepth golden values
(NotWater/EntirelyWater/PartiallyWater wet+dry corners), the isWater
threshold non-flip, WaterContact mirroring in both PhysicsObjUpdate
functions, and two settle-to-rest end-to-end PhysicsEngine.ResolveWithTransition
scenarios (water: sinks exactly waterDepth below the plane and sets
WaterContact; dry: rests exactly on the plane and clears any stale
WaterContact bit).

Register: retired AP-10 (92 active AP rows, down from 93).

AcDream.Core.Tests: 4038 passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 10:52:39 +02:00
Erik
d6c3f8657a fix(physics): AP-71 - port check_entry_restrictions at the head of indoor FindEnvCollisions
Campaign P Slice P4 item 1. Ports retail's CObjCell::check_entry_restrictions
(pc:308873-308912, 0x0052b6d0), called FIRST by CEnvCell::find_env_collisions
(pc:309576) before any BSP work, as ObjectInfo.CheckEntryRestrictions wired at
the top of the indoor branch of Transition.FindEnvCollisions.

Resolves the research doc's open question on restriction_obj's source: the
ACE cross-check (references/ACE/Source/ACE.DatLoader/FileTypes/EnvCell.cs:32,
66-67) plus an independent reflection probe of Chorizite.DatReaderWriter
2.1.7's own EnvCell.RestrictionObj field confirm it is a plain DAT-baked
uint32 gated by EnvCellFlags.HasRestrictionObj (0x8) - not a live wire
override. The BN pseudo-C's "count for an array alloc" read at the same
UnPack offset was the mis-attributed field-name collision
feedback_bn_decomp_field_names warned about.

CellPhysics.RestrictionObj is wired from envCell.RestrictionObj in BOTH the
dev/graph-fixture path (CacheCellStruct) and the production/prepared path
(CachePreparedCellStruct) - the latter already receives a live parsed
envCell for Position/EnvironmentId, so no bake-format change was needed.

The mover's own CanBypassMoveRestrictions (BF_ADMIN 0x100000 AND
BF_IMMUNE_CELL_RESTRICTIONS 0x400000, acclient.h:6452-6454) is decoded via
the same PWD-bitfield pipeline TS-23 established for PK/PKLite/Impenetrable
(EntityCollisionFlags -> ToMoverState -> ObjectInfoState moverFlags).

Remaining gap (filed as AP-129, replacing the retired AP-71 row): CanMoveInto
(house owner IID + guest/ban list) is unmodeled, so a genuinely restricted
cell fails CLOSED for everyone, not just intruders - matching retail's own
fallback when the restriction weenie can't be resolved (pc:704-716). Outdoor
CLandCell restriction (LandblockInfo.RestrictionTables, a separate DAT
structure) is explicitly out of scope for this gate.

Conformance: Ap71EntryRestrictionGateTests covers the pure gate logic
(NPC bypass, admin bypass, fail-closed, ordinary-cell no-op), the PWD-bitfield
two-bit AND decode, and three end-to-end Transition.FindEnvCollisions
scenarios proving zero behavior change for ordinary cells.

AcDream.Core.Tests: 4026 passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 10:30:45 +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
8b5425498c fix(physics): AD-25 - remote collision response through ported HandleAllCollisions
Campaign P Slice P3 item 2. CPhysicsObj::handle_all_collisions
(0x00514780, pc:282647) is one uniform function retail calls
unconditionally after every SetPositionInternal, player or remote. The
gate is shouldReflect = !(prevOnWalkable && nowOnWalkable && !sledding).

RuntimeRemotePhysicsUpdater.Tick's post-resolve reflect was still the
2026-07-05 (#173) hand-inlined block, gated on
resolveResult.CollisionNormalValid and using two ad-hoc branches that
diverge from retail in exactly the cases the register row named:
  - non-sledding: old = "!prevOnWalkable && !nowOnWalkable" (reflects
    ONLY airborne-before-AND-after); retail reflects on every transition
    except grounded-before-AND-after.
  - sledding: old = "!(prevOnWalkable && nowOnWalkable)" (suppresses the
    bounce exactly when both grounded); retail's "!sledding" term forces
    shouldReflect = true unconditionally when sledding, the opposite
    polarity.

Both gaps meant a remote's post-landing reflect never ran on a
grounded-transition tick at all -- the "acdream lands clean and dead"
half of #166's slope-landing composite.

Replace the hand-inlined block with a direct call to
PhysicsObjUpdate.HandleAllCollisions -- the same verbatim port the
local player and every ordinary body already use via
CommitSetPositionTransition -- passing the same
prevContact/prevOnWalkable/nowOnWalkable values the old code already
computed. Narrower swap per the research's explicit recommendation:
does not fold in CommitSetPositionTransition's HitGround/LeaveGround
dispatch, leaving the remote's bespoke landing-detection block
(interp-queue-clear, animation-hook-specific logic) untouched. The call
is now unconditional (matching retail's own unconditional call site)
rather than gated behind CollisionNormalValid, since HandleAllCollisions
already no-ops the reflect step internally when no normal was found but
still runs the frames-stationary-fall bleed regardless.

PhysicsObjUpdate.HandleAllCollisionsTests already exhaustively pins the
retail formula in isolation; this change is a mechanical wiring swap to
the already-tested function using values the removed block already
computed. Full regression suites (Core.Tests 3991/2 skip, Runtime.Tests
425/0, App.Tests 3968/3 skip) pass unchanged -- no existing test pinned
the old broken formula.

Register: AD-25 retired (both the local-player and remote halves are now
the ported HandleAllCollisions); #166's reattribution note updated to
reflect the closure, leaving only TS-4 as the remaining blocker on that
issue's downhill-jump-glide acceptance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 09:21:53 +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
26e0334af3 merge: Campaign P Slice P2 response-layer (TS-1 resolved, AP-7 ported, TS-4 stopped at escape valve)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

# Conflicts:
#	docs/architecture/retail-divergence-register.md
2026-07-30 08:33:18 +02:00
Erik
001e466d42 review(physics): P1 Opus review APPROVE - UN-8 retired by byte decode; PK-timer semantics recorded for P3
All seven review lenses pass. CanJump's polarity is upgraded from
plausibility to proof: raw bytes of 0x00591b50 show fld load / fcomp
[0x007c5e24 = 2.0f] / test ah,5 / jp -> return 0, i.e. return 1 iff
load < 2.0 with unordered refusing - exactly the shipped code, NaN edge
included. UN-8 deleted. CACQualities::JumpStaminaCost's pk flag decoded
for P3: PlayerKillerStatus in {4,0x40} AND PropertyFloat 0x91 + 20 s >=
now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 08:32:06 +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
9355ddcec6 feat(physics): Campaign P P1 - stat-coupled movement (burden/stamina/vitae)
Ports the retail CACQualities/EncumbranceSystem/MovementSystem chain
(named-retail decomp pc 256393/412901-414050/416169-416320/695958+) so
PlayerWeenie's run rate, jump height, jump permission, and jump stamina
cost are real functions of burden, current stamina, and vitae/skill
enchantments instead of stubs.

Core:
- New EncumbranceSystem.cs (delegates to the already-verified
  BurdenMath formulas — one source of truth for the burden HUD and
  movement physics) and MovementSystem.cs (GetRunRate/GetJumpHeight/
  JumpStaminaCost/GetJumpPower, decomp-cited; ACE cross-referenced
  where BN dropped the general-case arithmetic entirely).
- PlayerWeenie rewritten as the CACQualities-shaped composition:
  CanJump gates on burden (<2.0 load, UN-8 — x87 polarity resolved by
  plausibility, Ghidra MCP unavailable this slice), JumpStaminaCost
  returns the real ceil((load+0.5)*power*8+2) cost and always affords
  it (matches decomp — retail's own function never refuses; "weak"
  jump comes entirely from the stamina==0 skill-zeroing gate inside
  InqRunRate/InqJumpVelocity, not a hard refusal), SetStamina wires a
  null="unknown, don't gate" sentinel preserving every pre-P1 test.
- EnchantmentMath.GetMod gained an optional StatModType flag filter
  (GetSkillMod convenience wrapper) so the SAME vitae/family-stacking
  machinery already used for vital-max buffs now also answers "what's
  the vitae+skill-enchantment-adjusted Run/Jump skill" — reusing the
  M3 active-enchantment state, not a new engine.

Runtime:
- RuntimeCharacterState now stores the pre-EnchantSkill base run/jump
  skill and recomputes the adjusted value (vitae first, then matching
  Skill-flagged buffs, floor 0.5, truncate) on every base push AND on
  every Spellbook.EnchantmentsChanged notification — a vitae change
  alone moves the produced rate without a fresh PlayerDescription.
- RuntimeMovementSkillState extended with Burden/CurrentStamina
  (RuntimeMovementSkillProjection.ApplyTo pushes both through the
  existing seam); LiveSessionEventRouter recomputes burden from the
  same Strength+aug-property+EncumbranceVal inputs the burden HUD
  already assembles (reacting to the same ClientObjectTable events)
  and pushes current stamina from LocalPlayerState vital updates.
- Wires the previously dead-lettered ReportExhaustion() R3-W4 seam:
  LiveSessionRuntimeFactory's OnMovementStatsUpdated callback re-
  applies the current snapshot to the live controller and forces an
  immediate movement re-evaluation on any skill/burden/stamina change.

Register: retires TS-5 (CanJump/JumpStaminaCost stubs) and AP-25 (no
vitae in pushed skill). Adds AP-127 (two minor unmodeled retail bonus
properties + the stamina-buff-adjusts-local-copy nuance, deliberately
out of the bounded "run/jump query path only" scope) and UN-8 (the
CanJump x87 polarity call, flagged for a future Ghidra MCP
confirmation pass). Extends TS-23 (PlayerKillerStatus not parsed) to
cover JumpStaminaCost's new pk parameter, hardcoded false pending P3.

Full pseudocode + retail citations + the vitae/skill-level finding in
docs/research/2026-07-30-stat-coupled-movement-pseudocode.md.

Release suite: Core.Tests 3977/2 skips, Runtime.Tests 425/0 skips,
App.Tests 3968/3 skips — all green. (One pre-existing, unrelated Debug-
only flake in LandblockBuildOriginTests reproduces on the pre-P1
baseline and passes in Release; not touched here.)

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2026-07-30 08:18:06 +02:00
Erik
4f7e29f7cf fix(physics): AP-7 - port calc_friction's retail 0.25f threshold; retire AP-7, file AD-55
Campaign P Slice P2 step 3 (docs/research/2026-07-30-response-layer-edge-family-pseudocode.md
§1, §6 Step 5). The named retail decomp (CPhysicsObj::calc_friction,
pseudo-C:276694-276822, 0050ee70) independently re-confirms the 0.25f
threshold (derived twice, once per BN-rendered branch); the in-code claim
that "the decompile uses 0.0" traced to the older, unnamed FUN_0050f940
Ghidra chunk at a different address -- per CLAUDE.md the named decomp wins.

calc_friction now reads angle = dot(Velocity, GroundNormal); if (angle >=
0.25f) return; then unconditionally removes the normal-aligned velocity
component, then applies the existing (already-present but previously
unreachable) PhysicsState.Sledding-gated friction overrides. The BN-rendered
"two duplicated branches" around the state check is adopted as a single
linear function matching ACE's PhysicsObj.calc_friction shape -- the branch
split is most likely a BN decompiler artifact around one `if (state &
SLEDDING_PS)` block (ACE-derived, Ghidra-verify; low implementation risk
either way since ACE's reading is adopted regardless).

Why this doesn't repeat the reverted 2026-04-30 L.3c regression (naive 0.0
-> 0.25f bump dropped forward locomotion 3 -> 0.16 m/s): that test predates
the 2026-07-17 R6 "local player animation-owned grounded movement" landing.
PlayerMovementController (Runtime/Gameplay, out of this slice's scope) zeroes
Velocity.X/Y to exactly zero every tick before calc_friction runs whenever
animation root motion drives the walk, so friction has nothing horizontal
left to hammer on the production graphical local-player path. Pinned at the
PhysicsBody level (the only file this slice may touch) by
GroundedRootMotion_FrictionThreshold_DoesNotHammerLocomotionTests. The
headless/get_state_velocity path and remote/NPC movers still feed real
velocity into this function and remain the ones to watch if a similar
regression resurfaces there -- flagged in the retired AP-7 row for future
sessions working in Runtime/Gameplay.

Left an open, explicitly-flagged discrepancy: the raw decomp's Sledding
slope-flatness test computes cos(10 deg) (~0.984808) while ACE's port (and
acdream's prior dead code) compares GroundNormal.Z > 0.99999536f (~0.175 deg
from flat) -- physically different tests, neither confirmed this pass
(Ghidra MCP down). Kept 0.99999536f provisionally (least churn) and filed
AD-55 for just that constant rather than silently picking one.

Register: AP-7 retired with a corrected citation; AD-55 filed for the
cos(10 deg) question. Core.Tests: 3916 passed, 2 skipped (both pre-existing
and unrelated), 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 08:17:32 +02:00
Erik
325fee7cbb docs+test(physics): retire stale TS-1 row; file AD-53/AD-54 for its two acdream-only branches
Campaign P Slice P2 step 1 (docs/research/2026-07-30-response-layer-edge-family-pseudocode.md
§2, §6 Step 1/2). The TS-1 register row (retail-divergence-register.md:238)
described work that is already done: SpherePath.PrecipiceSlide,
Transition.CliffSlide, and Transition.EdgeSlideAfterStepDownFailed are real,
tested ports of retail's edge_slide -> precipice_slide/cliff_slide chain
(pc:274316, pc:272397, pc:273001-273090). Its cited :1254 line was stale
stepping-loop code the file moved past.

The one real remaining gap (the back-probe fallback skipping retail's
walkable_check_pos/localspace_sphere recache before its second
precipice_slide call, pc:274318-274326 / 0050b4e0-0050b507) needed no
production code change: a fresh read of SPHEREPATH::get_walkable_pos
(0050a8f0), cache_localspace_sphere (0050c9d0), and set_walkable_check_pos
(00509ce0) shows that machinery exists to re-project a sphere across
retail's PER-CELL local coordinate frames. acdream's SpherePath.WalkableVertices
and GlobalSphere are populated in UNIFIED WORLD SPACE at assignment time
(SetWalkable/SetWalkableTransformed, SetCheckPos/RestoreCheckPos), so both
operands BSPQuery.FindCrossedEdge compares are already commensurable --
retail's recache is a no-op correction under this architecture, and
FindCrossedEdge never reads a sphere radius, so retail's walkable_scale
radius correction has no acdream counterpart either. Documented in-code at
the back-probe site with full citations, and pinned with
EdgeSlideBackProbePrecipiceSlideTests: a walkable polygon rediscovered near
GlobalCurrCenter, tested against GlobalSphere[0] restored to the original
failed target, crosses the edge and slides -- it does not wedge into
Collided (and the inverse case, standing inside the polygon with no edge
crossed, correctly still returns Collided matching retail's own
precipice_slide on a false find_crossed_edge).

TS-1's other two flagged gaps are real acdream-only compensating branches,
not retail reads, and get their own rows rather than being silently
retired alongside it:
- AD-53: CliffSlide's three-source reference-normal fallback chain
  (LastWalkablePlane -> LastKnownContactPlane -> world-up) vs retail's
  direct last_known_contact_plane.N use. A fresh read of
  last_known_contact_plane's maintenance (pc:272659-272668) confirms retail
  overwrites it unconditionally every validate_transition pass, including
  with a steep plane -- so the fallback chain compensates for AP-4's
  incomplete OnWalkable bookkeeping, not a retail-matching read.
- AD-54: the walkable-steepness reroute to CliffSlide before PrecipiceSlide
  when the stored walkable polygon itself is steeper than FloorZ. Retail's
  raw edge_slide has no such branch; the permissive LandingZ acceptance
  that makes this state reachable IS retail-faithful (TS-4's own
  BSPTREE::find_collisions citation), but whether retail's outer
  transitional_insert retry loop absorbs the resulting COLLIDED_TS some
  other way is not yet independently verified -- flagged open in the row.

Physics test suite: 1836 passed, 1 skipped (D4, unrelated to this change).

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2026-07-30 08:13:20 +02:00
Erik
e6a87679b7 fix(render): read TransparentPartHook opacity by the real part ordinal, not 0
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The user reported crystal shards hovering in the air above every Bind
Stone on Coldeve (setup 0x020010AC) that do not exist in the retail
client. The DAT truth, extracted with the new tools/SetupInspect probe:
the model authors SEVEN parts - pedestal, spinning column, inner
crystal, and four shard meshes parked in a static ring at Z=3.0 in the
placement frame and every frame of the idle cycle - and frame 0 of that
idle cycle fires four TransparentPartHooks (parts 3-6, start=end=1.0)
each loop. Retail hides the shards through those hooks; the model
simply ships with permanently-hooked-invisible parts.

acdream's hook chain was intact end to end - the static-animating
workset captures the hooks (RetailStaticAnimatingObjectScheduler ->
AnimationHookFrameQueue -> TranslucencyHookSink), and
TranslucencyFadeManager committed translucency 1.0 for parts 3-6 -
but BOTH dispatchers' bare-GfxObj branch read the fade with a
hard-coded part index 0 under a false #188-era assumption ("a bare
GfxObj entity has exactly one part"). Every live server object is a
FLATTENED multi-part entity in exactly that branch: SetupMesh.Flatten
emits one bare-GfxObj MeshRef per Setup.Parts[i], order preserved,
AnimPartChanges replacing in place - so the MeshRef ordinal IS the
retail CPartArray ordinal TransparentPartHook.PartIndex addresses.
The committed invisibility for parts 3-6 was never consulted and the
shards drew forever. Proof the ordinal was trustworthy all along:
click-selection in the same loops already publishes it as the part
identity (Slice 4 picking runs on it in production).

Fix: both the legacy classifier and the packed oracle now pass the
per-part ordinal (partIdx / packedPart.PartIndex) to the translucency
lookup. Single-part objects still read index 0; the #188 door fades
are unchanged; the Setup-expanded branch already indexed correctly.
Any other object hiding authored parts via idle-loop hooks gets its
retail appearance from the same change.

tools/SetupInspect is the new reusable DAT probe that cracked this:
dumps a Setup's parts, parent indices, GfxObj vertex bounds, placement
frames, motion-table default cycle, sampled animation frames, and all
animation hooks.

Closes task #32's code side; the connected visual gate (shards gone at
the Bind Stone, base crystals and spin retained) is the acceptance.
App Release suite 3,968 / 3 skips.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 22:26:45 +02:00
Erik
16ed6e7c5c fix(render): keep authored surface translucency on composite textures
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The user reported wielded items subtly hiding particle effects, as if a
translucent texture were missing. Root cause verified in source: the
DAT authors a per-surface Translucency float, and the shared-atlas
extraction honors it by baking (1 - Translucency) into the texture
alpha (MeshExtractor). But a surface with an appearance override -
ObjDesc subpalettes or texture changes, which wielded loot typically
carries - routes through the per-instance composite paths instead
(WbDrawDispatcher.ResolveTexture -> TextureCache
GetOrUploadWithPaletteOverrideBindless /
GetOrUploadWithOrigTextureOverrideBindless -> DecodeFromDats), and the
textured decode there never saw the authored value: only the
Base1Solid branch passed it (SurfaceDecoder.DecodeSolidColor);
DecodeRenderSurface has no translucency input at all.

Consequence: the part still classified translucent, still sorted in
the RetailAlphaQueue, still drew with depth writes off - but with
texture alpha = 1 it overwrote everything already composited behind
it. Particles behind the part vanished; particles in front survived.
The same GfxObj without overrides (atlas path) rendered correctly,
which is why the loss was so selective and subtle.

Fix: SurfaceDecoder.ApplyAuthoredTranslucency mirrors the atlas bake
(in-place alpha scale, caller-owned buffers, Magenta sentinel
guarded), and DecodeFromDats applies it behind an opt-in flag set by
exactly the two world composite paths. The sky path stays unbaked (its
shader applies the authored opacity separately - baking would
double-apply, the AP-89 compounding class) and particle sheets stay
unbaked (emitter-driven alpha, no authored-translucency consumer).
Composite cache keys already include the surface id, so the baked
alpha is cache-coherent.

This closes an unregistered divergence (no register row existed; the
fix restores parity with the shipped atlas mechanism, so none is
added). Investigation evidence: equipped children and world objects
share the same classification chain (ClassifyPackedBatches/GroupKey),
so the gap was override-driven, not attachment-driven - a dropped item
with the same ObjDesc was equally affected.

Core SurfaceDecoder tests 22/22 (3 new); App Release suite 3,968 / 3
skips. Visual gate: a wielded item with authored-translucent parts
must let its particle effects show through.

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2026-07-29 21:40:26 +02:00
Erik
bfba0ecf7f fix(ui): interactive window moves must survive the per-frame anchor layout; lock the dragbar cursor
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The dragbar port (e4c99f54) armed the press path but the combat/spell
bar still would not move in the live client, and the move cursor kept
showing with the UI locked. Two distinct causes, both reported from
the user's connected session:

1. Snap-back: the combat/spell bar mounts ANCHORED (Left|Bottom), and
   ApplyAnchor runs every frame before drawing children, recomputing
   Left/Top from margins captured at mount. The drag wrote Left/Top and
   the very next layout pass wrote them back - the window never visibly
   moved. (The unit harness runs no per-frame layout, which is why the
   original tests passed; unanchored windows like inventory never hit
   this.) Interactive window moves AND resizes now re-baseline the
   anchor capture on every applied change, and
   RetailWindowManager.MoveTo/ResizeTo get the same rebase so
   programmatic moves of anchored windows cannot be silently undone
   either. ResetAnchorCapture is exactly the documented tool for this
   ("make the current geometry the new layout baseline after an
   intentional change").

2. Locked cursor: the cursor the user saw was never the window-move
   feedback path (which is lock-gated) - it was the dragbar's own
   authored MD_Data_Cursor, revealed the moment the element began
   claiming the pointer. Authored cursor resolution now suppresses a
   WindowMoveHandle element's cursor while the UI is locked, matching
   the radar's existing locked behavior of hiding its authored drag
   affordance; movement itself was already gated.

Two inversion-sensitive regression tests: an anchored window dragged by
its handle must hold its position ACROSS an ApplyAnchor pass, and the
authored handle cursor must disappear when UiLocked flips on. App
Release suite 3,968 / 3 skips.

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2026-07-29 21:24:49 +02:00
Erik
e4c99f54c0 feat(ui): port retail UIElement_Dragbar so authored drag strips move their windows
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The combat bar and spell bar could not be moved at all: their window
mounts Draggable=false (correct - retail never whole-surface-drags
them) and the authored move mechanism was missing. Retail registers
element class 2 as UIElement_Dragbar (Register @ 0x0046C840); a press
inside it calls UIElement::StartMovement on its parent window
(StartMouseMoving @ 0x0046C760) and release calls StopMovement
(@ 0x0046C7C0). The combat/spell bar layout (LayoutDesc 0x21000073)
authors exactly one such element - a 600 x 5 strip along the top edge,
which is where the user expects the move cursor. The powerbar, vitals,
indicators, radar, and examination layouts author dragbars too, so
they all gain their retail handles from this one port.

Our importer knew Type 2 by name but built it as a generic
UiDatElement - ClickThrough decoration, so the strip never even
claimed the pointer. Now:

- UiElement.WindowMoveHandle marks an authored handle; the DAT factory
  sets it for Type-2 elements and opts them out of ClickThrough.
- A left-press inside a handle subtree moves the handle's top-level
  window (the outer frame directly under the root - the mounted
  analogue of retail's dragbar parent) even when that window is not
  whole-surface Draggable. Edge-resize still wins; UiLocked still
  gates, matching the retail locked/fixed parent-flag check.
- HoverWindowMove reports the handle so the window-move cursor shows
  over the strip - and only there - on non-Draggable windows.

Four new tests: handle press moves a non-Draggable window and stops on
release, hover shows the move cursor over the strip but not the body,
UiLocked suppresses both, and the factory builds Type 2 as a
pointer-claiming move handle. App Release suite 3,966 / 3 skips.

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2026-07-29 21:04:33 +02:00
Erik
67379d1f9a fix(ui): UiField wrapped-line cache coherent with the text at mouse-hit time
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Fixes the crash the user hit twice today (captured in
artifacts/coldeve-acceptance-20260729/crash-hunt.log): clicking into a
multiline UiField - the examination window's inscription field - after
the text had changed since the last draw threw an unhandled
ArgumentOutOfRangeException from String.Substring and took the whole
client down (UiField.MeasureRange <- HitChar <- OnEvent MouseDown).

Root cause: _wrappedLines is a DRAW-side cache (rebuilt only in
DrawMultiLine) consumed by the INPUT side (HitChar on MouseDown and
drag-select MouseMove). Input events are pumped before the frame's
draw, so a mutation (backspace, SetText, paste) followed by a click in
the same pumped frame handed HitChar wrap lines describing the OLD,
longer text; measuring those stale ranges ran past the end of the live
string.

Fix: text mutations now bump a version (the _text field became a
private property so every existing mutation site participates without
churn), the draw records which version its wrap lines describe, and
HitChar proves coherence via EnsureWrappedLinesCurrent() - rebuilding
with the last draw width when stale. Rebuilding rather than clamping
keeps caret placement CORRECT against the live text, not merely
non-throwing. Two inversion-sensitive regression tests reproduce the
exact crash sequence (wrap long text, shrink without a draw, click);
they throw without the HitChar coherence call.

App tests 3,962 passed / 3 skipped (3,960 + 2 new).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 19:38:52 +02:00
Erik
0ccbb4e52c fix(interaction): port retail's wielded-item pickup rejection (Slice 4 F1)
Slice 4 made a remote character's wielded weapon selectable, which made the
pickup chain reachable end to end for the first time: SelectionPickUp on
another player's weapon captured identity, passed ValidatePickupTarget (which
checked only the Stuck flag and the small-item mask, and a MeleeWeapon clears
both), installed a real non-autonomous approach through
PlayerInteractionMovementSink, and then sent a pickup request the server
rejects. Retail does none of that.

ItemHolder::AttemptToPlaceInContainer @ 0x00588140 runs
AttemptToPlaceInContainer_IsItemLegal @ 0x005870C0 first, at 0x00588173 --
ahead of container legality, auto-merge, the container walk, and the only
CM_Inventory::Event_PutItemInContainer emitter
(ACCWeenieObject::UIAttemptPutInContainer @ 0x0058D680). IsItemLegal's arm at
0x005872B7 rejects `!ACCWeenieObject::IsOwnedByPlayer(item) &&
item->pwd._location != 0` with one local
ECM_UI::SendNotice_DisplayStringInfo(0x1a, ...), and
CPlayerSystem::PlaceInBackpack @ 0x0055D8C0 then withdraws the waiting slot it
had published (SetWaitingState(obj, 0) + SendNotice_EndPendingInPlayer at
0x0055D918). No request, no movement. acdream had never ported that arm; it
was harmless while wielded children were unpickable and stopped being harmless
at f6db964f.

The notice is data_7e2228, "The %s is being wielded by someone else!" -- WITH
the exclamation mark. IsItemLegal's six strings occupy one contiguous literal
block, 0x007e21f0 through 0x007e234c, one per arm in reverse code order, and
the two neighbours already ported here (0x007e227c "The %s cannot be picked
up!" at 0x00587264, 0x007e22b4 "You cannot pick up creatures!" at 0x005871f4)
pin it. The punctuation-free 0x007cd350 variant belongs to the wield/wear
block and is emitted from a different function at 0x00560aef.

pwd._location is the PublicWeenieDesc CurrentWieldedLocation field
(acclient.h:37175), which acdream projects as
ClientObject.CurrentlyEquippedLocation, and ACCWeenieObject::IsOwnedByPlayer
@ 0x0058D160 is IsOwnedByObject(this, player_id) -- already ported as
ClientObjectTable.IsOwnedByObject @ 0x0058CEB0 and reached here through the
existing ItemInteractionController.IsOwnedByPlayer. The arm reads pwd._location
verbatim rather than adding a WielderId belt-and-braces test, because retail's
predicate is the thing being ported.

The player's OWN wielded item is IsOwnedByPlayer, so retail passes it and takes
a different route. ACCWeenieObject::DeterminePositionState @ 0x0058BE70 gives
it PositionState.WIELDED (acclient.h:6802) rather than IN_3D_VIEW, and
UIAttemptPutInContainer records IR_PICK_UP only for IN_3D_VIEW, treating
WIELDED and IN_CONTAINER alike as a plain IR_PUT_IN_CONTAINER transfer. So an
own-wielded item is unwielded in place: the request goes out immediately with
no approach, joining the existing current-ground-object shortcut. The shortcut
carries an ownership conjunct so it can never outrun the 0x005872B7 gate.

TryGetApproach now refuses attached children outright, for the same
IN_3D_VIEW reason. An Attached projection's bookkeeping WorldEntity.Position
carries the PARENT's composed root (EquippedChildRenderController
.ApplyParentWorldPose), not the child frame CPhysicsObj::UpdateChild @
0x00512D50 composes, so an approach built from it walked toward the wielder.
Slice 4 de-parented the marker anchor but left this one parent-derived; no
approach can anchor on a wielder now.

The pick predicates are deliberately untouched. Picking, selecting, examining,
lighting-pulse identity, and the vivid-marker anchor on a remote's wielded
weapon all behave exactly as Slice 4 shipped them -- retail's sr_Select and
sr_Examine branches of RecvNotice_SmartBoxObjectFound @ 0x004E5AD0 never
consult IsItemLegal. The gate is the transaction, not the pick.

f6db964f's message asserted the slice introduced no deviation and owed no
retail-divergence-register row. That was wrong: the unported 0x005872B7 arm
was a deviation it made reachable. This commit ports the arm in full, matches
retail on the own-wielded path, and removes the parent-derived approach
anchor, so the record is corrected here and no register row is owed.

Gates: dotnet build green; AcDream.App.Tests 3,960 passed / 3 skipped;
complete Release solution 9,792 passed / 5 skipped;
tools\run-connected-world-lifecycle-gate.ps1 -SkipBuild RESULT=PASS.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 19:09:38 +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
27c5151189 docs(net): N6 accepted - Opus review PASS; five owed register rows filed
The final slice review verified every retail address claim down to the
three distinct gate strictness masks (0x41 strict for NAK/handshake, no-ZF
>= for the 5 s sweep) and found no handshake, eviction, or ring defect.
This acceptance settles the campaign's remaining bookkeeping debt the
review surfaced: TS-58 (no TimeSync/Echo keepalive), TS-59 (no Flow
report), TS-60 (no 140 s dead-link/referral), TS-61 (send-failure burns
sequence+key), and AP-126 (one monotonic clock) are now real register
rows instead of dangling citations in shipped code. DropAll additionally
resets the completed-sequence ring (INFO-4's latent session-reset trap),
and the ledger corrects the post-acceptance retry-drop attribution to
NetworkManager's pre-route (INFO-5). N6 SHA f9c5e47e and its revert line
recorded. Core.Net 757/757 green after the ring-reset change.

Campaign N's implementation is complete: N0-N6 all shipped, all reviewed.
The remaining acceptance is the user Coldeve endurance session.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 17:32:59 +02:00
Erik
f9c5e47e7f feat(net): N6 - ConnectResponse retransmit + fragment assembler eviction
Campaign N Slice N6, the final implementation slice.

ConnectResponse handshake retransmit:
- While the connection is unconfirmed, the Connect character-list pump
  resends the IDENTICAL cleartext ConnectResponse (same sequence 1, same
  cookie, the one encoded datagram - no new outbound state) on retail's
  strict 0.333333333 s gate. Retail: ClientNet::ProcessConnection
  @ 0x00545450, case cs_ConnectionRequestAcked @ 0x0054547B (the constant
  load at 0x00545481; the mask-0x41 strictly-greater x87 test at
  0x0054548C); ClientNet::SendConnectAck @ 0x005440F0 re-stamps
  lastSentHandshake_ (0x00544102) and rebuilds the same cookie packet.
- Confirmation = the first checksum-valid post-negotiation packet whose
  header lacks the ConnectRequest flag: retail's cs_ConnectionRequestAcked
  -> cs_Connected edge (ClientNet::ProcessPacket @ 0x00545100, the 0x40000
  exclusion at 0x0054514E, SetConnectionState(..., 5) at 0x00545160).
- The cadence rides the TransportClock (virtual-clock testable through
  TransportClockSource); the Connect deadline stays wall-clock.
- ACE safety pinned against the N0 model: a duplicate while still
  AuthConnectResponse re-routes idempotently through NetworkManager's
  pre-route; after acceptance CheckState clause 2 drops it pre-CRC at
  zero keystream cost.
- Pre-N6, one lost ConnectResponse was a hang to the Connect deadline;
  the N5 decorator deliberately arms after this window, so nothing
  covered it.

FragmentAssembler eviction (divergence register row AD-52):
- Partials evict 60 s after their last ACCEPTED fragment; the stamp
  refreshes on every new fragment (retail's re-stamp rule,
  ArrivedEphInfo::UpdateNetBlobID @ 0x0054AE00), so a merely-slow partial
  can never age out - 60 s is a floor, not a tunable. Swept from
  ReliableTransport.Sweep on retail's 5 s flush cadence
  (Indicator::FlushTimedOutEphInfo @ 0x0054A3D0, the gate at 0x0054A3DC;
  per-entry ArrivedEphInfo::fTimedOut @ 0x0054AE30). N4's RejectRetransmit
  abandonment made an unrecoverable partial a REACHABLE permanent state;
  the TTL reclaims it.
- A 64-entry completed-sequence ring drops late duplicate fragments of
  already-completed messages instead of allocating a fresh partial that
  can never complete (the completed-then-duplicate leak).

Fold-ins:
- N5 review LOW-5: NetProbeTests + LossyTransportDecoratorTests (the
  static NetDiagnostics / Console.SetOut mutators) share one
  DisableParallelization xunit collection so they never run alongside
  classes constructing WorldSession.
- Campaign section 9: N6 ledger row recorded; N5 row verified carrying
  4e290f00.

Gates: 757 Core.Net Release tests green (10 new); full solution Release
green (0 failures / 5 skips); connected lifecycle gate PASS; the
N5-strengthened connected loss gate PASS on its first live run (2%/seed 1:
dropped out=3 in=10, resends=1 nak-in=1 nak-out=5, cksum-fail=0
sanity-drop=0 uncached-nak=0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 17:20:12 +02:00
Erik
4e290f00d8 feat(net): N5 - loss observability, lossy decorator, the connected loss gate
Campaign N Slice N5 (docs/plans/2026-07-29-network-transport-campaign.md
section 8 rung 3): the permanent removal of the loopback blindness that let
#260 ship. Local ACE never drops a datagram, so every historical connected
gate was structurally incapable of exercising the N1-N4 recovery machinery;
from this slice on, tools/run-connected-loss-gate.ps1 runs the standard
lifecycle route through deterministic seeded loss and passes only on proven
non-zero recovery.

Observability:
- [net-tick] gains resend/s nak-out/s nak-in/s rej-in/s dup-drop/s parked/s
  reclaim/s cache= nakset= - TransportStats window deltas mirroring the
  acks/s cumulative-delta pattern, plus the two instantaneous depths (the
  unbounded-like-retail sent-packet cache watchdog and the inbound NAK set).
  TransportStats gains RejectsReceived (inbound RejectRetransmit packets).
  Counters increment unconditionally; every string is behind
  NetDiagnostics.ProbeNet (Code Structure Rule 5).
- WorldSession.Dispose emits one cumulative [net-final] totals line so the
  loss gate asserts exact counters instead of reconstructing them from
  rounded per-second rates.
- LinkStatusSnapshot.PacketLossPercentage is deliberately NOT wired: filed
  #261 - retail's CLinkStatusAverages formula
  (LinkStatusHolder::GetPacketLossPercentage @ 0x00411370) must be located
  first; inventing a ratio is forbidden.

N4-review F3 fold-in:
- Fresh reliable sends stamp Header.Iteration = the session iteration
  through the same shared retail header build already cited for Time (N3)
  and the N4 control packets: FlowQueue::TransmitNewPackets @ 0x00547A60,
  the stack build at 0x00547A84/0x00547AA8. The control-header rule now
  holds across all three send shapes (fresh reliable, ack, NAK). ACE reads
  neither Time nor Iteration inbound (campaign section 3) - wire-safe, and
  resends keep the stamp verbatim per the N1 rebuild rule.

Loss injection (Transport/LossyTransportDecorator):
- IWorldSessionTransport wrapper with deterministic seeded per-direction
  loss. Config via NetDiagnostics typed env properties read once:
  ACDREAM_NET_DROP_PCT (0 = off = default), ACDREAM_NET_DROP_SEED (default
  1), ACDREAM_NET_DROP_DIR (out|in|both, default both).
- Arming gate: NOTHING drops in either direction until the decorator has
  FORWARDED the first ENCRYPTED outbound datagram - parse-free check on
  length > 20 with EncryptedChecksum set in the LE flags word at bytes
  4..8. The cleartext handshake always survives and the arming datagram is
  never a casualty; handshake-loss testing belongs to N6's ConnectResponse
  0.333 s retransmit.
- Structurally absent at 0%: WrapIfConfigured returns the raw transport -
  WorldSession's default factory is the only production seam and a normal
  run never constructs the decorator.

Root-cause fix the gate immediately exposed:
- The logoff-confirmation wait in Dispose processed inbound datagrams but
  never pumped the transport, so a lost S2C logoff confirmation was
  gap-detected but its healing NAK never went out. Retail's pump
  (Client::UseTime @ 0x00411C40 -> PacketController::UseTime @ 0x005410D0)
  runs until LogOffServer; the wait now sweeps per processed datagram,
  making the logoff wait the third covered blocking pump (after Tick and
  the handshake loops). A lost C2S logoff REQUEST remains unrecoverable by
  ACE design (arrival-driven NAK; a quiet client is never NAKed - campaign
  section 3 row 1), recorded in the gate header.

Gates:
- tools/run-connected-loss-gate.ps1 (-DropPct 2 -Seed 1): PASS vs local
  ACE - the first automated observation of packet loss in project history.
  Decorator ledger: dropped out=3 in=10 of forwarded out=183 in=496.
  [net-final] resends=2 nak-in=2 nak-out=6 rej-in=0 acks-out=114
  acks-in=119 dup-drop=0 sanity-drop=0 cksum-fail=0 parked=9 reclaimed=0
  uncached-nak=0 cache=1 nakset=0. Every injected loss healed: both
  ACE-driven C2S resend recovery (nak-in=2 -> resends=2) and client-driven
  S2C NAK recovery (parked=9 -> nak-out=6) fired on a real connected
  route, all six checkpoints validated, graceful logout confirmed, ACE
  recorded the transport Disconnect.
- tools/run-connected-world-lifecycle-gate.ps1 (decorator absent): PASS -
  zero behavior change on the no-loss baseline; the gate now defensively
  clears the drop env vars.
- Core.Net Release: 747/747 (737 + 10 N5: decorator determinism/direction/
  arming/structural-absence/env parsing, the 5% seeded WorldSession lossy
  lifecycle with zero message loss both ways + ACE Headroom 256, the
  [net-tick] field pins, the Iteration stamps).
- Full solution Release: 9,763 passed / 5 skipped / 0 failed.

Test-fixture note: FakeAceTransport gains AutoAdvanceOnBlockingReceive so
virtual time can move during the blocking Connect()/EnterWorld() pumps -
with the clock frozen there, a dropped handshake-window datagram could
never be NAK-healed (a fixture artifact, not a transport property).

Campaign section 9 ledger row added (SHA recorded at N6 kickoff).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 16:26:06 +02:00
Erik
396838bb40 docs(net): N4 accepted - Opus review PASS; AP-125 filed; F1/F5 fixed
The N4 review confirmed the draw-order reclaim design (invariant attacked
from five angles, held) and NAK fidelity down to the decomp''s x87
comparison masks. This acceptance commit settles the two process debts it
found: AP-125 (standalone control packets vs retail''s CoalesceData
piggyback - the ACE-safety divergence that has shipped since N3''s ack and
N4''s NAK) now has its register row; the false rounding-bug justification
in AckNakScheduler (0.6 x 1e7 rounds UP under IEEE-754, truncation never
lost a tick) is rewritten as the defensive hardening it actually is; and
Admission.Process''s defaulted draw-ordinal is now ulong.MaxValue so an
accidental cleartext repark can never head a bubble-shift chain. Core.Net
737/737 green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 15:40:34 +02:00
Erik
852a59e388 feat(net): N4 - client NAK emission + RejectRetransmit reclaim
Campaign N slice N4 completes the AckNakScheduler NAK branch and closes
the ACE cleartext-reject keystream hazard - the slice that makes S2C
loss actually RECOVER.

NAK emission (SharedNet::EnqueueNaks @ 0x00543BD0):
- One cleartext exact-flags RequestRetransmit per sweep behind the
  STRICT 0.6 s gate on the ONE shared timestamp (the x87 0x41-mask test
  at 0x00543C03 proceeds only on strictly-greater; the ack's gate stays
  >=). Never an ack in a NAK sweep; a NAK delays the next ack by 2.0 s
  and vice versa (landmine #7).
- Body = u32 count + ids ascending, capped at 114 (ReceiverData::GetNaks
  @ 0x005490C0, cap 0x72; the m_cbData = 4*count+4 store at 0x00543C3E);
  header Sequence borrowed from highestIDSent_ without incrementing;
  cleartext or ACE ignores it (landmine #6, NetworkSession.cs:283-284) -
  and a NAK never refreshes ACE's 60 s timeout.
- Control-header rule decided once for BOTH ack and NAK: Time = the
  interval id, Iteration = the session iteration, matching retail's
  shared header build (FlowQueue::TransmitNewPackets @ 0x00547A60, the
  stack build at 0x00547A84). ACE reads neither field inbound.
- Gate ticks now round instead of truncate: 0.6 has no exact double
  form, and truncation opened the strict gate exactly AT the boundary.

RejectRetransmit reclaim (divergence register AD-51, ACE adaptation):
- ACE's RejectRetransmit consumes a FRESH sequence, cleartext, with NO
  keystream word, and is cached (ACE NetworkSession.cs:299-304,
  :722-725, :743-748) - the one place ACE breaks retail's gap-walk
  invariant that every missing id was word-bearing (retail cleartext
  always borrows live sequences). Unhandled, the gap walk parks a word
  for the reject's id and the inbound stream runs permanently one word
  ahead - the N2 desync class reintroduced through the reject path.
- Fix: on a VALIDATED cleartext reject, InboundSequenceTracker removes
  the mis-park, shifts every later-drawn parked word down one position
  (per-word draw ordinals; ascending wrap-safe id <=> ascending draw
  order), and pools the excess word, consumed lowest-draw-order-first
  ahead of fresh ISAAC draws. Exact for any number of interleaved
  rejects in ANY arrival order - a plain reclaim FIFO is not: a reject
  arriving after a higher encrypted arrival crosses the parked chain,
  and two out-of-order rejects pool their excess words out of draw
  order (both orderings pinned by tests).
- Reject BODY ids keep N2's discard: word-bearing server-side,
  consumed-in-place. The pool is provably empty against retail servers.

N3 advisories folded (all five): honest transitional-state wording (the
empty N3 NAK branch could silently disconnect a loopback session at
ACE's 60 s timeout, witness [net-tick] acks/s=0), the
ReceiverData::SharedInit @ 0x00548EF0 (from Init @ 0x00548FA0)
citation, the FlowQueue::Empty pump-order wording (TransmitNaks ->
TransmitAcks -> TransmitNewPackets with the interval increment LAST @
0x00548A9D; our clock-first Sweep is cosmetic vs ACE), the
Time/Iteration rule above, and the stale WorldSession budget-break
comment rewritten to the sweep reality.

Tests: 737 Core.Net green (14 new in NakEmissionTests + updated N3
pins): strict-gate boundary, shared timestamp both directions,
NAK-xor-ack exclusivity, full wire-shape + 114-cap pins, model-served
retransmission round trip, five tracker reclaim proofs, the 130 s
virtual prune -> fresh-sequence reject system test (victim abandoned,
later traffic decodes, pool drains to zero), 10 s long-loss survival
(NAKs on the gate cadence, zero acks, heal inside the window), and the
capstone soak: 2% seeded bidirectional loss x 10,000 messages -> zero
message loss both ways, ACE crypto headroom 256 at convergence, every
ledger drained (cache at the single watermark entry - retail's Flush
prunes STRICTLY below the ack). Full solution Release: 9,758 passed /
5 skipped. Connected world-lifecycle gate PASS
(logs/connected-world-gate-20260729-150238); canonical nine-stop soak
PASS (logs/connected-r6-soak-20260729-150856).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 15:20:35 +02:00
Erik
0265cc4236 feat(net): N3 - AckNakScheduler, retail 2.0s cumulative ack replaces per-packet acks
Campaign N slice N3. Retail never acks per packet: SharedNet::EnqueuePak
@ 0x00543B10 is the binary's only AckSequence (0x4000) construction site,
gated at >= 2.0 s on ReceiverData::timeStamp_ (@ +0x10), armed at
connection birth by ReceiverData::Init @ 0x00548EF0, and arbitrated
NAK-xor-ack per sweep by ClientNet::ProcessConnection @ 0x00545450
(m_SeqIDsWeNAKed non-empty -> EnqueueNaks, else EnqueuePak;
SharedNet::EnqueueNaks @ 0x00543BD0 shares the SAME timestamp -
campaign landmine #7).

- New Transport/AckNakScheduler: owns the one shared timestamp; a
  non-empty NAK set suppresses the ack (N4 emits RequestRetransmit in
  that branch; in N3 it emits nothing - a documented transitional state,
  safe for exactly one slice on loopback), else ONE cleartext exact-flags
  AckSequence carrying the tracker's HighestIdReceived, header sequence
  borrowed from HighestIdSent without incrementing, 4-byte LE body.
  Flags are an EQUALITY, never an OR (landmine #5 - ACE's dedup
  exemption NetworkSession.cs:342-343 and watermark-skip :474-476 both
  require the exact value).
- ReliableTransport.Sweep pump order per FlowQueue::Empty @ 0x00548A20:
  interval clock, NAK/ack arbitration, pending resends, prune. The sweep
  already runs in Tick and both handshake pump loops (landmine #8), so
  cumulative acks flow during the character-list/enter-world floods at
  ACE's own ~2 s cadence.
- WorldSession: the Phase 4.9 per-packet reflex ack in ProcessDatagram
  and SendAck are DELETED; the [net-tick] acks/s probe now reads
  Stats.AcksSent; new internal TransportClockSource seam drives the
  2.0 s gate on virtual time in the conformance suite.
- N1 Fable-review advisory retired (Time-stamp fold-in): fresh reliable
  sends now stamp Header.Time = the current interval id, matching retail
  FlowQueue::TransmitNewPackets @ 0x00547A60 (header build at
  0x00547A84); resends already re-stamped. ACE never reads inbound
  Header.Time, so the wire stays compatible.

Tests: 723 Core.Net (7 new) - gate cadence + watermark-at-emission,
flags-equality pin + model acceptance at the reused sequence without a
watermark advance, NAK suppression and resume after the gap clears, a
50-packet CreateObject flood collapsing to ONE ack, the quiet-session
keepalive property across a 120 s virtual horizon (the reflex ack's
keepalive role, replaced and proven against ACE's 60 s TimeoutDeadline),
the Time fold-in, and a full FakeAceTransport lifecycle with zero
CRC/state/duplicate drops. Full solution Release: 9,744 passed /
5 skipped / 0 failed. Connected world-lifecycle gate PASS (capped +
uncapped-reconnect, graceful exits, 0 failures); canonical nine-stop
route PASS (0 failures).

Campaign section 9 N3 row updated (complete; SHA recorded at N4
kickoff).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 13:51:57 +02:00
Erik
46d209d053 feat(net): N2 - inbound sequence-aligned ISAAC + NAK set
Campaign N Slice N2 (docs/plans/2026-07-29-network-transport-campaign.md
S2.2) - the second fatal #260 fix: the inbound keystream now aligns to
SEQUENCE order instead of arrival order. One lost S2C datagram no longer
desyncs the inbound cipher permanently - the missing id's pre-drawn key
parks in the NAK set, later packets keep decoding, and the retransmission
decodes with the parked key.

New src/AcDream.Core.Net/Transport/InboundSequenceTracker.cs - retail's
ReceiverData inbound half, ported rule for rule:
- Sanity window: drop when seq is wrap-safe newer than
  highestIDReceived_ + 0x7FFF (SharedNet::SeqIDSanityCheck @ 0x00543A20;
  the boundary itself is accepted).
- Duplicate/late arrival (encrypted, at/below the watermark): NAK-set
  hit -> decrypt with the PARKED pre-drawn key; miss -> silent drop at
  ZERO keystream cost (SharedNet::ProcessNewSeqNum @ 0x00544690, the
  AVL::Remove branch) - the dup-word-burn and double-dispatch bugs close
  together.
- Gap walk (SharedNet::ProcessNewestSeqNum @ 0x00541930): one inbound
  ISAAC word per missing id, drawn IN SEQUENCE ORDER BEFORE the arriving
  packet's own key (landmine #4), parked beside the id
  (ReceiverData::AddNakked @ 0x00549240, idempotent; id 0 skipped per
  retail's `if (esi_1 != 0)`). Cleartext walks to seq+1 - the borrowed
  id itself gets NAKed, so the real encrypted packet at that id can
  still decode later.
- Verify-failure re-park: a sequenced encrypted checksum failure parks
  the consumed key back beside its id so the retransmission decodes
  (SharedNet::ProcessPacket @ 0x00544790 tail, AddNakked(seq, &key)).
- Inbound RejectRetransmit -> silent NAK-set abandonment; parked keys
  discarded, alignment holds because the words were already drawn
  (SharedNet::HandleEmptyAck @ 0x005448F0).
- NAK set = SortedDictionary<uint,uint> seq -> parked key; ascending
  raw-uint enumeration matches retail's AVL walk for N4's <=114-id NAK
  emission (ReceiverData::GetNaks @ 0x005490C0).

PacketCodec split (campaign S4, retail's own factoring - the key is an
optional in/out of ReceiverData::Decrypt): TryParseBorrowed is the pure
parse + checksum-summand computation with NO keystream access anywhere;
VerifyChecksum(header, headerHash, payloadHash, uint? key) compares the
additive cleartext form (null) or headerHash + (key ^ payloadHash).
TryDecodeBorrowed(datagram, IsaacRandom?) - the consume-before-compare
site that WAS the bug - is deleted; the owned TryDecode stays
(test-only). RejectRetransmit ids are now exposed on both decoders
(borrowed RejectRetransmitBytes/Count like the Request pair; owned
RejectRetransmits list); the bytes were always inside the hashed span,
so parse-hash coverage is unchanged.

WorldSession: ProcessDatagram head is now parse -> sequence-0 split
(cleartext seq-0 = handshake/control, verified additively and processed
as before; encrypted seq-0 dropped before any keystream access, like
retail's ProcessPacket) -> tracker.Admit -> VerifyChecksum with the
admission key -> failure re-park -> unchanged flag handling, N1
transport consumption, reflex ack, and fragment loop. The
RejectRetransmit flag routes to the tracker beside the N1 NAK/ack
consumption. The handshake Connect loop moved to parse +
cleartext-verify (no tracker exists before ISAAC seeding; the
ConnectRequest is cleartext seq 0). ReliableTransport now takes both
Isaacs and exposes Inbound; the session's _inboundIsaac field is
deleted. No production caller constructed the N1 ctor outside
WorldSession, so no compatibility shape was kept.

TransportStats gains InboundDupsDropped, InboundSanityDrops,
ChecksumFailures, KeysParked (unconditional, like the N1 counters).

Watermark init = 1 is an ACE adaptation, register row AD-50 (watermark
INIT only, not a mechanism change; AD-49 stays reserved for the campaign
S5 blob-layer deferral): retail zero-inits ReceiverData, but ACE never
emits S2C sequence 1 - PacketSequence starts unprimed at uint.MaxValue,
the cleartext ConnectRequest takes NextValue 0, and the first ENCRYPTED
flush re-primes CurrentValue to 1 so the first encrypted sequenced
packet is 2 (ACE NetworkSession.cs:716-717 resolving to
UIntSequence(startingValue: 1), Sequence/UIntSequence.cs:9-13,30-41).
A zero-init watermark would gap-walk the permanent id-1 hole: one
spurious NAK, the first pre-drawn word mis-assigned to id 1, and the
keystream off by one from the first encrypted packet onward. holtburger
seeds the same value (crates/holtburger-session/src/session/api.rs:30,
last_server_seq: 1), mirroring ACE's own C2S-side
lastReceivedPacketSequence = 1 (NetworkSession.cs:57). The N0 model's
dance is pinned by the clean-lifecycle conformance test: min encrypted
S2C sequence == 2, zero NAKs, zero spurious drops.

Tests (+14; Core.Net 702 -> 716): the decisive gap test (10,11,13,14 -
13 and 14 decode with fresh words while 12's key parks with
KeysParked=1/NakCount=1, the late 12 decodes with the parked key, 15
takes the next fresh word - impossible pre-N2), zero-cost duplicate
drop (shadow ISAAC position unchanged), re-park -> byte-identical
retransmission decode, the cleartext borrowed-id rule, cleartext at the
watermark (no NAK/key/watermark change), sanity boundary +0x7FFF
accepted / +0x8000 dropped wrap-safe, skip-id-0 across the 32-bit wrap
with ascending NAK enumeration, RejectRetransmit abandonment with
alignment held, warm zero-alloc Admit; plus four real-WorldSession
conformance runs against the N0 ACE double: clean lifecycle (zero NAKs
at every stage), S2C loss of one packet of a Count=2 fragment set
(later packets STILL decode - the N2 win; late byte-identical
redelivery completes the split message intact), duplicate delivery
dropped BEFORE dispatch, and the seq-0 tracker bypass.

N3/N4 handoff notes are recorded in the campaign S9 N2 row: the interim
per-packet reflex ack acks the arriving sequence even while a gap is
parked (ACE prunes the lost id from its S2C cache before N4 could NAK
it - message recovery needs N3's retail NAK-xor-ack sweep), and ACE's
RejectRetransmit consumes a fresh CLEARTEXT sequence with no keystream
word, an ACE-vs-retail wrinkle N4's design must resolve.

Gates: dotnet build green; AcDream.Core.Net.Tests 716/716;
full-solution Release 9,732 passed / 5 skipped / 0 failed; connected
world-lifecycle gate vs local ACE RESULT=PASS (zero failures, one
pre-existing expected world-edge landblock-miss warning); canonical
nine-stop connected route RESULT=PASS.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 13:10:20 +02:00
Erik
43e60a6971 feat(net): N1 - outbound sent-packet cache + resend on NAK
Campaign N Slice N1 (docs/plans/2026-07-29-network-transport-campaign.md
S2.1) - the direct #260 fix: every sent reliable packet is now cached and
re-emitted, header-rebuilt, when ACE NAKs a client-sequence gap. One lost
C2S datagram no longer voids every subsequent action for the session's
lifetime.

New src/AcDream.Core.Net/Transport/:
- TransportClock: injectable monotonic source + retail's 0.5 s interval
  counter (ClientFlowQueue::IncrementLocalInterval @ 0x00547F10, tail
  `intervalID_ += elapsed`; the same function's ~3 s TimeSync/Echo cadence
  stays deferred per TS-58).
- SequenceMath: wrap-safe IsNewer/Max (TimeStampUtils::lhs_newer
  @ 0x00543890, reduced to the signed-difference form).
- SentPacketStore: FIFO of ArrayPool-rented wire buffers; Add asserts
  optionalLength == 0 (NetPacket::RemoveDisposableOptionalHeaders
  @ 0x00549510 pinned as a no-op under standalone-control); FlushOlderThan
  pops strictly-older wrap-safe (SentPacketStore::AddSentPacket
  @ 0x0054AB00, Flush @ 0x0054ACD0).
- OutboundFlowQueue: owns the outbound ISAAC, highestIDSent (starts 1,
  pre-increment, wrap 0xFFFFFFFF->1, never 0), the fragment sequence, the
  store, the wrap-safe sorted dedup pending-resend list
  (FlowQueue::EnqueueAcks @ 0x005488E0), and the flushNum_ ack watermark.
  Cache commit happens AFTER a successful send
  (FlowQueue::TransmitNewPackets @ 0x00547A60, commit site 0x00547C85).
  NAK ids[0] folds into the watermark as retail's implicit cumulative ack
  (RecipientData::ProcessNaks @ 0x00547010). A resend rebuilds ONLY the
  20-byte header: flags Retransmission|EncryptedChecksum (|BlobFragments
  with fragments), Time = current interval id, Sequence/Id/Iteration/
  DataSize verbatim, checksum = fresh header hash + stored sealed checksum
  (FlowQueue::TransmitAcks @ 0x005485B0, DequeueAck @ 0x005472F0). The
  original ISAAC key rides inside the sealed value - no new keystream word
  is ever drawn (CryptoSystem::EncryptData @ 0x0065FF40 non-null-key
  path; landmines #1/#2). Resend only on explicit NAK (landmine #3).
- ReliableTransport: composition + Sweep() (interval clock, resends,
  prune). The AckNakScheduler joins in N3/N4; ack behavior is untouched
  this slice.
- TransportStats: unconditional counters (ResendsSent,
  NakRequestsReceived, UncachedNakIds, AcksConsumed) + CacheDepth.

PacketCodec.FinalizeInPlace gains an overload returning (isaacKeyUsed,
sealedChecksum) where sealedChecksum is the pre-header-hash value -
payloadHash cleartext, isaacKey ^ payloadHash encrypted (retail
NetPacket::checksum_). The old signature forwards; encode bytes are
unchanged. Decode is untouched.

WorldSession integration is minimal: the transport is constructed at
ISAAC-seeding time (first reliable packet keeps sequence 2 / fragment 1,
byte-identical to pre-N1); SendGameMessage delegates (probe fseq/pseq now
read the transport); SendAck's borrowed sequence reads HighestIdSent
(identical value, behavior EXACTLY as-is this slice); ProcessDatagram
consumes RequestRetransmit + AckSequence BEFORE the unchanged reflex ack;
the sweep runs at the end of Tick() after the budget break AND inside
both blocking handshake pump loops (Connect step 4, EnterWorld
ServerReady - landmine #8), gated on _transportNegotiated; Dispose
returns the rented cache buffers.

Bookkeeping: TS-57 filed in the divergence register (uncached NAK ids
dropped silently + counted instead of retail's RejectRetransmit - ACE
no-ops the reject and the standalone unsequenced form would trip ACE's
watermark hole); TS-27 narrowed to the inbound direction in the same
commit; the stale WorldSession class-doc gap list corrected.

N0 fold-ins from the re-review: AceSessionModel.ProcessFragment split
into ACE's two literal branches (existing-buffer checks Complete,
NetworkSession.cs:495-507; new-buffer constructs + adds + TryAdds WITHOUT
checking Complete, :509-518), and the zero-count-fragment test now pins
the parked dead buffer (PartialFragmentBufferCount 0 -> 1). e3958610
recorded in the campaign ledger's N0 row.

Tests: 15 new in Transport/OutboundReliableTransportTests.cs - store
FIFO/strict/wrap-safe flush with rent/return balance via a counting
pool, interval-clock start/advance/wrap, resend header shape (flags
exactly 3 or 7, Time = interval, verbatim fields, checksum identity,
bit-identical body), resend-consumes-no-ISAAC-word, uncached-NAK
counting, ids[0] watermark fold + strict prune, wrap-safe ack max,
conformance resend verifying under AceCryptoModel with the ORIGINAL
parked key (Headroom 256, zero orphans, ordering restored), an
end-to-end FakeAceTransport lossy run (10 game actions, C2S #5 dropped,
all 10 dispatched in order, exactly one resend, session alive), and
zero-alloc steady-state SendGameMessage.

Gates: dotnet build green; AcDream.Core.Net.Tests 702/702; full-solution
Release 9,723 passed / 5 skipped / 0 failed; connected world-lifecycle
gate vs local ACE RESULT=PASS (0 failures, both sessions exit 0; one
pre-existing expected world-edge landblock-miss warning).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 12:21:37 +02:00
Erik
b2b5e3d54a diag(render): composite-warmup stall probe for the session-3 tunnel hang
The 2026-07-29 Coldeve session 3 stuck the player in the portal tunnel
forever: generation 2 (Town Network, 0x00070156) published render but
composites/collision never became ready, and the reveal latch correctly
held the tunnel. The composite warmup queue in WbDrawDispatcher has
exactly two permanent-stall shapes - a GfxObj id that never resolves
(silent load failure, e.g. custom-server content absent from the baked
pak) or an upload budget that never reopens - and they are
indistinguishable from the reveal log alone.

ACDREAM_PROBE_REVEAL=1 (NetDiagnostics.ProbeReveal) now emits one
[composite-warmup] STALL line per second while warmup blocks a reveal:
pending count, queue depth, scan state, upload-budget gate, and the
first four pending GfxObj ids. Zero cost when off.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 10:28:52 +02:00
Erik
d6a2e595c8 fix(diag): probe-owned inbound depth counter - SingleReader channels have no Count
The first armed ACDREAM_PROBE_NET launch died at exit 4 one second into
the world: the [net-tick] line read _inboundQueue.Reader.Count, but the
queue is built with SingleReader=true and that channel implementation
throws NotSupportedException from Count. The net thread now increments
and the frame thread decrements a probe-owned Interlocked counter
instead; behavior with the probe off is untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 08:56:17 +02:00
Erik
534bacbc23 diag(net): #260 outbound/command-gate probe + corrected issue framing
The two-agent investigation refuted #260's as-filed hypotheses: every
UseWithTarget was acked (the J5.2 use gate never latched), and the LOH
leak is bounded sawtooth churn - the real climb is ~2.25 GB of native/
GPU memory (WS 3,261 vs managed 1,015 MiB at wedge). The wedge evidence
also showed why it could hide: the live combat toggle routes through the
generation-gated runtime command seam, and every rejection exit in that
chain (Disposed / StaleGeneration / !IsInWorld at Validate, plus the
operations slot reading IsInWorld=false when unbound) is COMPLETELY
silent - no log, no event.

ACDREAM_PROBE_NET=1 (NetDiagnostics owner, PhysicsDiagnostics pattern)
now arms three probe families, all zero-cost when off:

- [net-out] per reliable send at the SendGameMessage chokepoint: opcode,
  GameAction type+sequence, fragment/packet sequence, managed thread id
  (two tids would prove the cross-thread ISAAC-desync hypothesis alone),
  and state; [net-out-EX] via an exception FILTER that logs without
  catching, so propagation is unchanged.
- [net-tick] 1 Hz cadence from WorldSession.Tick: inbound/s, queue
  depth, budget breaks, worst inter-tick gap (frame-stall witness),
  out/s, acks/s.
- [cmd-gate] every silent runtime-command rejection with expected-vs-
  view generation, lifecycle, and IsInWorld, plus the combat toggle
  result (whose Inactive exit reads a DIFFERENT IsInWorld source).

One walked-portal repro session with this probe distinguishes all
remaining #260 wedge hypotheses. ISSUES.md #260 rewritten to the
corrected two-root framing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 08:53:58 +02:00
Erik
39c1737bda feat(core): adopt retail's SoundType catalog; retire AC2D
SoundId was not a subset of retail's table, the way its comment claimed.
It was an invention: 23 acdream-local names on acdream-local values, and
the values were wrong in the way that matters. FootstepDefault = 0x02 is
retail's Random. SwingSword = 0x10 is retail's Death2. Death = 0x60 is
retail's Explode. Anyone who reached for one of those names to compare
against a wire or dat value would have got a different sound.

Nothing referenced any of them by name -- grep for `SoundId.` across src
and tests returns nothing -- so this was a trap rather than a live defect,
the same shape the enum campaign found in DamageType. All 22 invented names
are deleted and retail's 205 replace them.

Three oracles agree exactly, on every name and every value: retail
acclient.h:4569 enum SoundType, ACE's Sound, and DatReaderWriter's Sound.
The third matters most. AudioHookSink already resolves SoundTable lookups
through DatReaderWriter.Enums.Sound, so that is the enum acdream actually
reads at runtime; our catalog now agrees with the values already flowing
through the dat path, and a conformance test pins the two so they cannot
drift apart.

On the "206 sounds" figure: retail's block holds 207 entries, being 205
sounds followed by NUM_SOUND_TYPES = 0xCD and FORCE_SoundType_32_BIT. The
first is a count and the second a width pin. Counting the former is where
206 came from. Neither is a member here, matching how the campaign treated
NUM_ATTACK_HEIGHTS and Num_HoldKeys -- a count is not a value the wire can
carry.

Behaviour is unchanged and could not be otherwise: the enum had no
consumers. IAudioEngine's three SoundId overloads are no-op stubs and the
live path takes wave ids and DatReaderWriter values.

The user's separate report that sound is "not working that good" is a
triggering, selection and attenuation question rather than a catalog one,
and is filed as its own Bucket B row in the post-Vulkan intake.

Also in this commit, by user decision: AC2D is retired as a reference. Its
clone and directory are gone and it must not be re-cloned. Everything we
took from it still stands and is written down -- the FSplitNESW terrain
split constants, the 0xF61C movement packet layout, the finding that a
client need not compute terrain Z itself -- so CLAUDE.md's reference list,
its hierarchy table, and the architecture doc's protocol row now point at
docs/research/2026-04-12-movement-deep-dive.md rather than erasing the
history. The reference count drops from six to five.

Core tests 3907 passed / 2 skipped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 07:38:56 +02:00
Erik
f27ad9ee43 feat(core): adopt retail's full WeenieError code table
acdream carried 16 status codes, curated by hand out of the CMotionInterp
and MoveToManager decompilation passes. The other 362 were unnamed, which
made every one of them a cast site waiting to happen. This slice takes the
whole table: 372 values under 378 names.

The oracle set is finally complete. All six vendored reference repos were
empty when the 2026-07-29 enum campaign ran, which is why it deferred this
decision; they are re-cloned now, so ACE's WeenieError could be read
directly instead of leaning on the UtilityBelt catalog alone.

The two agree without a single conflict. ACE has 369 members, no internal
value collisions. The catalog has 372, shares all 369 ACE names, and
disagrees on none of their values. Its three extras -- IsNowOpenFellowship
(0x050B), IsNowClosedFellowship (0x050C), LockedFellowshipCannotRecruit
(0x0518) -- each turn up in ACE's separate WeenieErrorWithString enum with
a `_` marking the interpolated name, so the catalog is just the less-split
view of the same client enum. All three are adopted on agreement between
two oracles, not on one.

Retail cannot arbitrate any of this. acclient.h has no counterpart enum;
its charError (26) is character-creation only. Recorded, not guessed
around.

Six values keep two names. acdream's NotGrounded, CrouchInCombatStance,
SitInCombatStance, SleepInCombatStance, ChatEmoteOutsideNonCombat and
ActionDepthExceeded are each anchored to a retail decompilation site, where
ACE's names for those values are server-side coinages. Rather than pick,
both are declared, acdream's first so ToString() is untouched.

Behaviour is unchanged, and there is no way for it not to be: nothing in
the tree branches on a WeenieError member. MotionInterpreter's switch is on
a motion type and merely returns one of these; WeenieErrorText.For switches
on a raw uint; the chat translation table WeenieErrorMessages is keyed on
uint throughout, so naming a code does not make it render. The one site
that moved is RemoteTeleportHook, where the (WeenieError)0x3Cu cast becomes
the now-named WeenieError.ITeleported at the same value.

Register row AP-15 is narrowed rather than retired. Its code-catalog caveat
is superseded -- an unnamed code is no longer a way for it to bite -- but
the sentences are still ACE's doc comments rather than retail's
string_table.bin, and that part stands.

The enum moved out of MotionInterpreter.cs into its own file at the same
namespace. At 372 members it does not belong inside a physics class file.

Core tests 3903 passed / 2 skipped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 07:33:27 +02:00
Erik
ce9445b270 fix(render): the near plane is col3, not col4 + col3 (#248)
`FrustumPlanes.FromViewProjection` extracted the near plane with the
Gribb-Hartmann form written for OpenGL's `[-1,1]` clip-space z range. Every
acdream projection comes from `Matrix4x4.CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView` or
`CreateOrthographic`, whose range is `[0,1]`. Under `[-1,1]` the near plane is
the locus of `clip.z = -clip.w`, which is `col4 + col3`; under `[0,1]` it is
`clip.z = 0`, which is `col3` alone.

Concretely, the mismatch put the effective near threshold at `-n·f/(2f-n)` —
about 0.5 m where the retail chase camera asks for 1.0 m. That error only ever
kept geometry the true frustum would have dropped, never the reverse, which is
why it produced no visible defect and was filed instead of hot-fixed during
Campaign V. It is still wrong, and it is the same mistake that *was* visible in
`PortalProjection`, where it culled the cell behind a doorway the camera stood
close to.

The far plane is `col4 - col3` under both conventions and is untouched. A test
pins it anyway, so that a future edit to this function cannot drift it while
nobody is looking.

The acceptance criterion asked for a unit test pinning the extracted near
distance to the camera's near value, and that is what landed: a theory over four
near/far pairs asserting the plane is unit-length, faces down -Z, and stands off
the eye by exactly `nearDistance`, plus a kept/dropped pair straddling it. The
test was checked against the old formula before commit and fails all four cases
there — it measures the fix rather than merely accompanying it.

The other half of the acceptance criterion — unchanged culling in the offline
pixel gate and the connected route — could not be run: #259 has Win32 surface
creation failing machine-wide, so no gate that needs a window is available
tonight. Recorded as outstanding rather than assumed.

Solution build 0 errors; `AcDream.Core.Tests` 3,898 passed / 2 skipped / 3,900.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 03:33:20 +02:00
Erik
22ae7944b6 merge(net): the wire-stack audit, and one reconciled #255
Brings `github/overnight/wire-audit` (`41f74fcd`) forward onto the V11 tree.
Like the enum branch it was cut at `b70b9832`, and like the enum branch its
subject is disjoint from the deletion: the audit lives in `AcDream.Core.Net`
and its tests, V11 emptied `AcDream.App`. One conflict, in `docs/ISSUES.md`,
resolved below.

What it carries: three real parser fixes — ranged speech was carrying a range
float the parser ate, a chat type that is never sent was silently dropping every
transient string on it, and `xpSpent` is a dword on the wire where we were
writing eight bytes. Plus the transport flag word pinned against ACE across all
twenty-three bits, golden fixtures generated from ACE's own writer instead of
hand-typed hex, and the audit document covering all three hundred forty-nine
opcodes.

**The conflict, and how it was resolved.** Both this branch and V11's closeout
reopened #255 — the RetailDatLoader concurrency tests that measure the thread
pool rather than the loader — on the same day, from different trees, without
knowing about each other. Neither reopening is a duplicate of the other: the
V11 gate saw 2 failures in 5 complete-solution Release runs on the
post-deletion tree, the audit session saw 2 in 4 on the pre-deletion tree, and
both saw 124/124 in isolation every time. They independently reached the same
conclusion, that `TaskCreationOptions.LongRunning` is a hint rather than a
guarantee, and independently proposed the same fix, a rendezvous inside the read
stub.

So the two notes are merged into one issue with both evidence sets kept as
labelled subsections rather than one overwriting the other. Four failures across
nine runs on two trees is a materially stronger case than either half, and the
agreement between two blind observations is the part worth preserving. No
assertion was weakened and no retry was added; the fix itself remains open.

Verified on the merge result: Release build 0 errors, and
`AcDream.Core.Net.Tests` at 659 passed / 0 skipped, up exactly the 59 the branch
claimed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 03:31:25 +02:00
Erik
cd2f3feae2 merge(core): the enum verification campaign, onto the post-deletion tree
Brings `github/overnight/enums` (`c19680fd`) forward onto the V11 tree. The
branch was cut at `b70b9832`, before the OpenGL deletion, and the two lines of
work turned out to be disjoint: the enum campaign lives entirely in
`AcDream.Core` and its tests, while V11 emptied `AcDream.App`. The merge is
clean — no conflicting file on either side.

What it carries: names for AC's seven property tables verified against two
oracles, a correction to `DamageType`'s rotated bits and `ItemType`'s shifted
craft ladder, the retail members the equipment and physics enums were missing,
and names for `AmmoType`, `CombatUse` and `ItemUseable`. Five commits, seventeen
files, +3,767 / -27 lines.

Verified on the merge result rather than on the branch: Release build 0 errors,
no new warning attributable to any file the branch touches, and
`AcDream.Core.Tests` at 3,893 passed / 2 skipped / 3,895. The campaign's
claimed +597 is exact — the `Properties` namespace alone runs 597 tests, all
passing.

The campaign's open decision items — whether to adopt `WeenieError` wholesale,
whether the `SoundId` subset is the right cut, and the re-clone of the ACE and
Chorizite references that `references/` no longer holds — are not settled here.
They are carried into the morning report as questions for the user.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 03:30:11 +02:00
Erik
c265b52d4b docs(render): V11 closeout — register, architecture, code structure, issues
Retires the GL framing from the documents that described a two-backend,
two-UI-stack client, and files what the deletion left behind.

Divergence register:
  * AD-46 (anisotropic tap pattern in dense alpha scenery) is REFRAMED rather
    than retired. Its substance survives -- distant foliage may read denser
    than retail's -- but it was measured GL-vs-Vulkan, and with GL gone it is
    a Vulkan-vs-retail question against the D3D oracle it already cited. The
    measurement is kept as the evidence that the residual is a driver tap
    pattern; the row now records that it is no longer falsifiable by
    self-differential, which is a real loss the deletion causes.
  * AD-47 and AD-48 are NEW, and the campaign's own risk register scheduled
    them here: MSAA sample positions (measured at 8.83% of the frame at 4x,
    which is why every strict gate runs MSAA off -- and therefore why a
    regression confined to the multisample path would not be caught) and
    present pacing (#235 is the live instance).
  * AD-17's justification moves from a GL clip-plane citation to Vulkan's
    maxClipDistances floor, which is the same 8, so the divergence is
    unchanged and only its authority moves.
  * AP-92 keeps IUiViewportRenderer.TextureIsBottomUp rather than folding it
    flat, because it is what let the origin question be answered by data.

Architecture and code structure: the layer diagram, the frame order, the
residency vocabulary and the reference table all said OpenGL. The UI section
said two stacks. Rule 3's rationale is rewritten around what actually
happened -- ImGui was deleted and not one panel, ViewModel or command had to
change, because none of them had ever imported ImGuiNET. That is the rule
paying for itself, so it is recorded as evidence rather than removed as
obsolete.

Issues: #258 files the dev-panel host as a decision rather than an accident,
and #255 is REOPENED. Its TaskCreationOptions.LongRunning fix asks the
scheduler for a thread but does not promise two callbacks overlap; under nine
concurrent test assemblies it still failed 2 of 5 whole-suite runs. The
earlier evidence tested a narrower pool, not a contended one. The fix it
needs is a rendezvous inside the read stub -- not a weakened assertion.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 03:20:04 +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
f57db35cec fix(net): xpSpent is a dword on the wire, and we were sending eight bytes
RaiseAttribute, RaiseVital, and RaiseSkill each wrote a 64-bit xpSpent,
producing a 24-byte action where the server expects 20. ACE's
GameActionRaiseAttribute and its Vital and Skill siblings read
message.Payload.ReadUInt32(); holtburger's RaiseAttributeData declares
xp_spent: u32 and advances the offset by four. Both oracles agree, and the
four extra bytes were tail the server never reads.

These three are live-wired, from the character sheet through the command
router to SendRaiseAttribute, so this was shipping on every attribute, vital,
and skill raise. It has not caused a visible failure because ACE reads the low
dword and stops, and a single raise cost has never approached the dword
ceiling. That is luck about value ranges, not correctness about layout.

Worth noting the shape of the miss: the sibling builder BuildTrainSkill had
already been corrected to a 20-byte, 32-bit credits field, and its test is even
named U32CreditsNotU64. The same class of bug was found and fixed once in this
file and the other three cases were left behind.

The parameter stays ulong because the cost comes from 64-bit server XP tables
several layers up in the App and Runtime command chain; narrowing that end to
end is a separate change and is filed in the audit's open questions. Nothing is
lost at the wire: a cost that does not fit in a dword was never expressible
here.

The existing test asserted the 24-byte shape and is corrected, joined by a
theory that sweeps zero, one, a realistic cost, and uint.MaxValue across both
remaining builders.

Core.Net tests go 655 to 659.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 01:59:47 +02:00
Erik
f416c577d6 fix(net): stop dropping every transient string on a chat type that isn't sent
CommunicationTransientString (0x02EB) required a trailing u32 chat type after
the message. The server does not send one. Because the string is padded to a
four-byte boundary, the remaining length after reading it was always zero, the
guard tripped, and the parser returned null for every transient string the
server has ever sent. Not most. Every one.

Three oracles agree there is no such field. ACE's
GameEventCommunicationTransientString writes exactly one WriteString16L and
stops. Retail's ClientCommunicationSystem::Handle_Communication__TransientString
at 0x0057d460 takes a single PStringBase<char> argument. holtburger carries no
type field for the event either.

ParseTransient now returns the string. The wiring supplies chat type 0, which
is ACE's ChatMessageType.Broadcast and which ACE's own LogTextTypeEnumMapper
comment names "Default" — the honest stand-in for a message the server sends
untyped. What retail's transient strings should actually look like is a
rendering question and belongs with the chat colour work, not here.

The existing round-trip test was itself appending the phantom trailing dword,
which is exactly why the wrong guard looked correct for as long as it did. It
is corrected to the real payload and joined by a case sweeping string lengths
zero through four, so no future padding-residue assumption can hide here again.

Core.Net tests go 654 to 655.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 01:58:02 +02:00
Erik
7e95c45ece fix(net): ranged speech carries a range float our parser was eating
HearSpeech decoded 0x02BB and 0x02BC with one layout. They do not share one.
ACE's GameMessageHearRangedSpeech writes senderID, range, chatMessageType
where GameMessageHearSpeech writes only senderID, chatMessageType, and
holtburger's HearRangedSpeechData declares the same range: f32 that
HearSpeechData lacks. Two oracles, no ambiguity.

The consequence was quiet rather than loud. The tail is twelve bytes, our
guard demanded eight, so nothing ever failed to parse. We read the guid
correctly, then read range's float bits as the chat type and discarded the
real one. A shout at range 60.0f arrived with a chat type of 0x42700000
instead of 0x0B. Nothing downstream consumes ChatType for local speech today,
which is why this survived, but the record is public and any future consumer
would have inherited garbage.

TryParse now branches its tail size on the opcode and Parsed gains Range,
which stays zero for local speech because there is no such field on that
wire. The existing ChatTests ranged case was itself built on the misreading,
constructing a local-shaped tail; it is corrected to the oracle layout and
now asserts both range and chat type rather than only the ranged flag.

New golden tests drive both opcodes through AceWireWriter in ACE's write
order, covering empty strings, string lengths one through four so every
residue of the four-byte padding rule is exercised, CP1252 accented names,
and a regression pin asserting the chat type is not the range float's bits.
A ranged body four bytes short is now rejected instead of silently decoded.

Core.Net tests go 617 to 630, all green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 01:51:34 +02:00
Erik
3efa266a61 feat(core): name AmmoType, CombatUse, and ItemUseable
Three more fields acdream already pulls off the wire and then carries as bare
numbers. AmmoType and MaterialType ride PublicWeenieDesc through CreateObject and
land on ClientObject as ushort/uint; ItemUseable and CombatUse arrive as
PropertyInt 16 and 51. Nothing named them, so every site that reasoned about them
did it in hex.

AmmoType (acclient.h:4221) and CombatUse (acclient.h:6523) are small and
unsurprising. ItemUseable (acclient.h:6478) is neither: it is two 16-bit halves,
low for where the used object must be and high for where its target must be, and
retail names roughly thirty specific combinations rather than expecting callers to
compose them. They are transcribed rather than composed because at least one is
not the union it looks like - SOURCE_CONTAINED_TARGET_OBJSELF_OR_CONTAINED is
0x880008, where composing ObjSelf|Contained|(Contained shifted 16) gives 0x800088.
A test asserts that specific non-equality so the shortcut cannot be reintroduced.

ItemAppraisalTextFormatter's ammunition sentence now reads through AmmoType instead
of matching 0x08/0x40/0x10/0x80/0x20/0x100 literals. The fold it performs - crystal
and chorizite variants collapsing to their base arrow/bolt/atlatl kind - was
already exactly right against retail's bit layout; this only gives it vocabulary.
No behavior change, and the appraisal tests confirm it.

Core tests 3,836 -> 3,894. Full suite 9,759 passed / 5 skipped, no failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 01:31:01 +02:00