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Erik
31f265d8ec docs(render): Phase U.4c — design spec (stabilize portal visibility / fix the flap)
Grounds the visible-cell SET in the stable per-cell PVS (stab_list) + seen_outside,
refreshed on cell entry, the way retail does (grab_visible_cells 311878, add_views
433382, DrawInside 433793). Our PortalVisibilityBuilder rebuilds the set per-frame
from a pose-brittle CameraOnInteriorSide walk, so a flipped side-test drops the exit
cell, empties OutsideView, and TerrainMode.Skip flaps terrain/shells off at the
doorway. Both stable inputs already live in-process (envCell.VisibleCells,
envCell.Flags & SeenOutside); U.4c is plumbing + grounding, not new dat parsing.

Apparatus-first: characterize the flap on a live ACDREAM_PROBE_VIS capture + port the
add_views/ClipPortals/AddToCell semantics to pseudocode before implementing; the
builder is not declared correct until a live [vis] shows non-empty + narrowing
OutsideView. No hysteresis band-aid (forbidden). Indoor rendering untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-31 09:44:14 +02:00
Erik
a3ecac5369 docs(render): Phase U.4 shipped (indoor rendering verified) + flap handoff
Phase U (U.1-U.4) shipped: the unified retail-faithful render pipeline replacing the
abandoned two-pipe split (#103). Indoor rendering VISUALLY VERIFIED — solid walls, no
terrain bleed, per-cell clip gating works. Two root-caused EnvCellRenderer
self-contained-GL-state fixes landed (uViewProjection stale-matrix; inherited
blend/depth-mask). Residual threshold "flap" (OutsideView instability from the per-frame
view-dependent portal BFS) is precisely root-caused via ACDREAM_PROBE_VIS and scoped to
U.4c (PVS / stab_list grounding, retail-faithful). Handoff captures the [vis] evidence,
the retail anchors, and the next-session pickup. U.5 (outdoor->building peering) + U.6
(dungeon scale) remain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-31 09:16:35 +02:00
Erik
9be9547ddc fix(render): Phase U.4 — EnvCellRenderer sets its own BLEND + DepthMask per pass
Second self-contained-GL-state fix (after uViewProjection): EnvCellRenderer.Render set
BlendFunc per-batch but never the BLEND enable or DepthMask. The opaque shell pass —
drawn after terrain (which sets neither) and after particles / last frame's transparent
pass — inherited whatever left GL_BLEND enabled, making opaque walls composite their
sub-1.0-alpha textures against the bluish clear color (terrain Skip'd indoors) →
"transparent walls / only background," flickering with per-frame ordering. Mirror the
working WbDrawDispatcher: Disable(Blend)+DepthMask(true) opaque, Enable(Blend)+
DepthMask(false) transparent, restore opaque defaults after the draw loop.

Does NOT address the threshold "flap" (OutsideView instability from the per-frame
view-dependent BFS) — that is a distinct, deeper root cause tracked separately.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-31 09:11:06 +02:00
Erik
d6d4671989 fix(render): Phase U.4 — EnvCellRenderer.Render uploads its own uViewProjection
Root cause of the indoor cell-shell SEAM flicker ("transparent walls, oscillating
when moving"): EnvCellRenderer.Render never set uViewProjection — it inherited
WbDrawDispatcher's. But the opaque shell pass draws BEFORE the dispatcher's Draw
(GameWindow ~7411 vs ~7418, the only other setter), so opaque shells rendered with
the PREVIOUS frame's matrix — a stale gl_Position against this frame's clip planes,
yielding pose-dependent clipping that's worst while moving. Make Render self-contained:
stash the view-projection in PrepareRenderBatches and upload it in Render (same matrix
the portal clip planes use). Same self-contained-GL-state precedent as the 2026-05-28
cull-state fix in this file.

Visual re-test confirms this removes the wall-seam flicker. A separate residual
("some houses show only background on interior walls; some flicker remains") is a
distinct root cause, under investigation — NOT this matrix bug.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 19:00:29 +02:00
Erik
354ca746ad test(render): Phase U.4 — cover ResolveEntitySlot clip-slot resolution
Code review flagged the gate-critical per-instance slot resolution as untested.
Add RED→GREEN cases (live=unclipped slot 0, cell-static→cell slot, non-visible→cull,
outdoor-stab→OutsideView/cull, routing-inactive→all slot 0). Note the full-cell-id-space
invariant at ResolveEntitySlot; fix a stale RenderInsideOut comment in EnvCellRenderer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 18:16:21 +02:00
Erik
7993e064a0 feat(render): Phase U.4 — unified gated draw pass (indoor root)
Wire the portal-visibility result through the clip pipeline: build a per-frame
ClipFrame (slot 0 no-clip, slot 1 OutsideView, slot 2..N per visible cell) +
cellIdToSlot from PortalVisibilityBuilder; call the (previously dormant)
EnvCellRenderer.Render for cell shells inside the clip bracket; assign per-instance
clip slots in WbDrawDispatcher (live-dynamic unclipped per retail, cell statics to
their cell slot, outdoor scenery to OutsideView, non-visible culled); gate/scissor/
skip terrain per OutsideView (empty ⇒ no terrain — the bleed fix). Emit ACDREAM_PROBE_VIS.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 17:59:21 +02:00
Erik
864fc5f94e fix(render): Phase U.3 — scope gl_ClipDistance enable to world-geometry draws
Code review caught a portability hazard: GL_CLIP_DISTANCE0..7 was enabled globally
at init, but sky/particle/ui/debug vertex shaders don't write gl_ClipDistance —
undefined behavior that could clip them away on some drivers (benign on the dev
driver, which is why the offline check passed). Bracket the enable/disable around
only the terrain+entity (mesh_modern/terrain_modern) draws; sky/particles/UI/debug
render with clipping off. U.4's EnvCellRenderer.Render belongs inside the bracket.
Also: ClipFrame is long-lived (??= NoClip()), so Dispose now deletes its GL buffers;
fix the stale per-frame-transient comments.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 17:42:27 +02:00
Erik
bf2e559369 feat(render): Phase U.3 — GPU clip-plane gate (gl_ClipDistance), no-clip default
Adds the GPU mechanism to clip drawing to a per-cell screen-space convex
region via gl_ClipDistance, consumed by the mesh + terrain vertex shaders.
This is the MECHANISM only — every instance defaults to slot 0 (no-clip /
pass-all) and terrain to count 0, so the running game renders IDENTICALLY to
pre-U.3 (verified: offline launch compiles both shaders and reaches steady
state; no GL errors). U.4 populates real clip data from portal visibility.

Binding contract (define once, both sides obey):
- mesh_modern.vert: SSBO binding=2 CellClip[] (shared per-frame regions, slot 0
  reserved no-clip) + SSBO binding=3 uint[] per-instance slot, indexed by the
  IDENTICAL gl_BaseInstanceARB+gl_InstanceID used for binding=0. binding=0/1
  untouched.
- terrain_modern.vert: UBO binding=2 TerrainClip { int count; vec4 planes[8]; }
  for the single OutsideView region (UBO namespace; SceneLighting is UBO
  binding=1, so binding=2 is free and does not collide with the mesh SSBO
  binding=2). count 0 = ungated.
- Both redeclare out gl_PerVertex { vec4 gl_Position; float gl_ClipDistance[8]; }
  and set unused planes (i >= count) to +1.0 so they pass everything.

CellClip std430 layout (144 bytes/slot): count@0, 3 pad uints@4/8/12,
planes[8]@16 (vec4 stride 16). Terrain UBO std140: count@0 (padded to 16),
planes[8]@16 → 144 bytes. Verified by ClipFrameLayoutTests (8 new tests).

Pieces:
- ClipFrame: per-frame container + uploader for the SHARED clip data (binding=2
  SSBO + terrain UBO). NoClip() = slot 0 + terrain count 0. AppendSlot /
  SetTerrainClip pack std430/std140 bytes for U.4. UploadShared binds both.
- WbDrawDispatcher + EnvCellRenderer: each owns its binding=3 zero buffer
  (all-zeros sized to its instance count → slot 0), re-binds binding=2 from the
  shared ClipFrame id (or an internal no-clip fallback if unwired) before MDI.
  gl_ClipDistance is per-vertex, so the single glMultiDrawElementsIndirect per
  group is preserved — no draw splitting.
- TerrainModernRenderer: binds the terrain clip UBO (shared or no-clip fallback)
  before its draw.
- GameWindow: glEnable(GL_CLIP_DISTANCE0..7) once at init (unused planes pass-all
  so always-on avoids per-draw thrash); per frame builds ClipFrame.NoClip(),
  UploadShared, and hands the buffer ids to the three renderers (tiny diff; U.4
  swaps NoClip() for the real portal-visibility frame).

Gate: dotnet build green; App suite 134/134; offline launch confirms both
shaders compile + link with no GL errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 17:27:30 +02:00
Erik
0b125830fe feat(render): Phase U.2d — ACDREAM_PROBE_VIS visibility probe in RenderingDiagnostics
Add the durable per-frame visibility probe apparatus that #103 lacked, so
the Phase U portal-visibility builder can be validated on live frames before
any GL/visual work.

EmitVis(rootCellId, visibleCells, outsidePolyCount, outsidePlaneCount,
perCellPlaneCounts, scissorFallbacks) prints ONE concise [vis] line gated on
root-cell CHANGE (private _lastVisRootCellId tracker; no-op when the root is
unchanged or ProbeVisibilityEnabled is false — one bool compare per frame when
off). Line format:
  [vis] root=0x… cells=N ids=[…] outside(polys=…,planes=…) percell=[0x…:N,…] fallbacks=…

Reuses the existing Phase A8 ProbeVisibilityEnabled flag (env ACDREAM_PROBE_VIS,
already DebugPanel-mirrored via DebugVM.ProbeVisibility) rather than adding a
parallel owner — Code Structure Rule 5 (one diagnostic owner per subsystem).
Property doc repurposed from the abandoned A8 two-pipe stencil semantics to the
Phase U unified pipeline.

Decoupling note: RenderingDiagnostics lives in AcDream.Core, which must not
reference AcDream.App (Code Structure Rule 2). The plan's EmitVis signature took
an App-layer CellView; this lands the equivalent as pre-computed primitives
(outsidePolyCount + outsidePlaneCount) so the owner stays in Core. The U.4a call
site supplies OutsideView.Polygons.Count and the OutsideView ClipPlaneSet.Count.

TDD: 3 new tests in RenderingDiagnosticsVisibilityTests (no-op when disabled,
fires-once-per-new-root + suppressed-on-unchanged, env-default contract), each
self-contained via internal ResetVisibilityProbeForTests + Console.Out capture
to avoid the documented static-leak flakiness. Core suite +3 tests, no new
failures (flaky physics/input static-leak set unchanged at 16, untouched area).

Courtesy: removed the dangling RenderInsideOutAcdream comment reference (deleted
in U.1) + the AcDream.App.Rendering.Wb doc cref (a Core→App layer inversion).

The emit SITE wiring (per-frame call from the render loop) lands in U.4a; this
task lands only the owner members + formatter + test. GameWindow untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 17:11:02 +02:00
Erik
a83b4306f8 feat(render): Phase U.2c — ClipPlaneSet (NDC convex region → gl_ClipDistance planes)
CellView convex polygon edges → clip-space planes (nx,ny,0,d) for gl_ClipDistance,
≤8 with collinear-edge merge. Multi-polygon or >8-edge regions degrade to the union
AABB scissor (over-include, never hide); empty regions are distinct (draw nothing).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 17:03:32 +02:00
Erik
65781f5768 fix(render): Phase U.2b — resolve reciprocal portal by other_portal_id (retail 433557)
Code review caught a CRITICAL under-inclusion: ApplyReciprocalClip scanned for the
first OtherCellId match, so a cell with two portals to the same neighbour clipped both
near-side openings against the FIRST reciprocal polygon — hiding geometry through the
second opening (real on Holtburg cellar cells 0x148<->0x149). Plumb the dat's
OtherPortalId back-link through CellPortalInfo + BuildLoadedCell and index the reciprocal
directly (retail arg2->other_portal_id, 433557). Skip (degrade to over-include) when the
index is unresolvable — never clip against a guessed polygon. Adds a disjoint two-back-
portal regression test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 16:56:00 +02:00
Erik
3916b2b23e feat(render): Phase U.2b — reciprocal OtherPortalClip (retail 433524)
Clip the portal opening against the neighbour's matching back-portal polygon
before propagating, so a cell's clip region is the intersection of the opening
seen from both sides. Closes the M-4 stub in ISSUES #102. Can only tighten,
never under-include; degrades to prior behavior when no back-portal is found.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 16:37:14 +02:00
Erik
306cdb069c docs(render): Phase U.2a review fixups — LIFO-on-ties comment + ISSUES #102
Code-review minor follow-ups: correct the CellTodoList comments (ties are LIFO,
not FIFO — an equal-distance newcomer lands at the tail and pops first, matching
retail's break-on-first-not-greater + pop-from-tail). Update ISSUES #102 to record
that U.2a closes I-1/I-2 (under-count + duplicate accumulation) via the enqueue-once
gate, narrowing the residual to diamond-topology clip-completeness (AddToCell onward
re-propagation, tracked under U.6).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 16:30:41 +02:00
Erik
d8807755ce feat(render): Phase U.2a — portal BFS ordering + fixpoint termination
PortalVisibilityFrame gains OrderedVisibleCells (closest-first). Replace the FIFO +
MaxReprocessPerCell cap with a distance-priority queue and a grow-watermark fixpoint
(retail InsCellTodoList 433183 / AddViewToPortals 433446) so cyclic dungeon graphs
converge without duplicate-cell blow-up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 16:22:06 +02:00
Erik
3fc77be5de refactor(render): Phase U.1 — delete two-pipe inside-out machinery
Remove IndoorCellStencilPipeline + portal_stencil shaders, RenderInsideOutAcdream,
RenderOutsideInAcdream, the A8-perf instrumentation, the cameraInsideBuilding /
ACDREAM_A8_INDOOR_BRANCH branch, and the dead EntitySet partition values. Collapse
the render branch to the default Draw(All) path (U.4a replaces it with the gated
unified pass). Keep all audited EnvCellRenderer / BuildingLoader / CellVisibility /
camera-collision fixes.

Also deleted with the partition: the two test-only walk helpers
(WbDrawDispatcher.WalkEntitiesForTest / WalkEntitiesForTestByCellIds) and their
test files (WbDrawDispatcherEntitySetTests, WbDrawDispatcherCellIdsOverloadTests),
which existed solely to exercise the removed IndoorPass/OutdoorScenery/
BuildingShells/LiveDynamic partition. EntityMatchesSet / IsShellScopedSet collapse
to the All-path constants; the set: parameter is retained as a seam for the
unified pass.

Note: the depth-clear-if-inside default-path workaround was removed per the
U.1 task list — any current indoor-wall degradation persists until a later
Phase U task lands the unified pass (expected, not a regression introduced here).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 16:05:19 +02:00
Erik
0f7b395be1 docs(render): Phase U — implementation plan (U.1-U.4 detailed, U.5/U.6 stubbed)
Ten bite-sized tasks to the first visual gate: U.1 delete two-pipe; U.2 GL-free
core (builder ordering+fixpoint, OtherPortalClip, ClipPlaneSet, ACDREAM_PROBE_VIS);
U.3 GPU gate (gl_ClipDistance in mesh_modern/terrain_modern + clip SSBO/UBO upload);
U.4 unified gated draw (EnvCellRenderer cell shells + WbDrawDispatcher All +
gated terrain; live-dynamic unclipped per retail) + per-instance slot assignment +
probe validation. U.5 outdoor-peering / U.6 dungeon-scale detailed after the gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 15:48:17 +02:00
Erik
8601137330 docs(render): Phase U — unified retail-faithful render pipeline design spec
One PView-faithful portal-visibility pass replacing the abandoned two-pipe
(inside/outside) split (#103). Settled in brainstorm 2026-05-30:
- Full Phase U in one spec (indoor BFS + outdoor building-peering + dungeon
  fixpoint + distance-priority ordering + reciprocal OtherPortalClip).
- Per-cell gate = hardware clip planes (gl_ClipDistance) + scissor pre-check
  (retail's two-level model); structurally immune to the #103 global-mask flood.
- Terrain stays its own path, gated to OutsideView (retail-faithful; NOT the
  handoff's "terrain as cells" sketch).
- Salvage = reuse the clip math (PortalView/ScreenPolygonClip/PortalProjection,
  ~36 tests), rework the builder (PortalViewBuilder), delete the stencil pipeline
  + GameWindow two-pipe orchestration. Audited keep-list preserves the real
  EnvCellRenderer / BuildingId / camera-collision fixes.

Staged U.1-U.6 with three visual gates. Retail anchors + acdream file:line
injection points catalogued in the spec.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 15:38:09 +02:00
Erik
48213c5b46 Merge claude/strange-albattani-3fc83c into main — M1.5 work + render-pipeline pivot
Brings ~9 days of post-Phase-O work onto main: A6 indoor physics fidelity, issues
#98/#100/#101, A7 indoor lighting, the A8/A8.F rendering arc, and the 2026-05-30
camera-collision + physics viewer-cap work. Also lands the decision to ABANDON the
two-pipe (inside/outside) render approach in favor of Phase U — a single unified
retail-faithful portal-visibility pipeline (see
docs/research/2026-05-30-unified-render-pipeline-decision-and-handoff.md). The dormant,
gated-off A8 two-pipe code (issue #103) rides along and is deleted as Task 1 of Phase U.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 11:37:45 +02:00
Erik
75b1df9cc3 docs: abandon two-pipe render approach; scope Phase U (unified retail-faithful pipeline)
Decision (2026-05-30, with user): the WB-inherited two-pipe (inside/outside) render
split is the root cause of the indoor seam bugs (flap, missing/transparent walls,
terrain bleed) and cannot be seamless. Abandon A8/A8.F (#103); build ONE unified
pipeline driven by retail's PView portal visibility — seamless by construction. The
2026-05-30 camera-collision + physics viewer-cap work is kept (retail-faithful, but a
detour from the seam fix). New Phase U scoped; #103 superseded; CLAUDE.md / roadmap /
milestones updated; full decision + scope + next-session pickup prompt in
docs/research/2026-05-30-unified-render-pipeline-decision-and-handoff.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 11:35:41 +02:00
Erik
aae5300fea fix(render): Phase A8.F — camera collision no longer corrupts the damped eye (wall-press vibration)
Visual verification showed the camera vibrating/bouncing when pressed against a
wall. Cause: the sweep wrote its clamped result back into _dampedEye, so the
next frame's damping lerped from the wall toward the target and the sweep
re-clamped it — a per-frame feedback loop. Retail keeps viewer_sought_position
(damped, uncollided) separate from viewer (the published collided eye). Fix:
collide into a separate publishedEye for Position/View/fade and leave _dampedEye
as the clean sought position. New regression test
Update_CollisionDoesNotCorruptDampedState (clamp-then-release → full recovery).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-30 09:40:08 +02:00
Erik
05161399de docs(render): Phase A8.F — sync plan Task 2 moverFlags to shipped 0x5c
The plan's Task 2 code block still showed moverFlags: ObjectInfoState.None; the
shipped code (fcea05f) and spec §5.1 use IsViewer|PathClipped|FreeRotate|
PerfectClip (retail init_object(player, 0x5c)). Update the stale snippet so the
plan matches reality (this stale block was the likely source of a re-report).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 21:42:03 +02:00
Erik
7a244b3291 fix(physics): Phase A8.F — viewer sweeps bypass the 30-step cap (retail-faithful)
Retail's CTransition::find_transitional_position (:273613) has no step
cap. calc_num_steps (:272149) has a dedicated viewer branch `if ((state
& 4) != 0)` at :272181 for sight/viewer objects (ObjectInfoState.IsViewer
= 0x4). The existing acdream cap correctly had a comment "Sight objects
bypass this" but the bypass was never wired — no IsViewer caller existed
until the A8.F camera spring-arm.

With radius 0.3 m the cap fires at ~9 m. The spring-arm sweeps up to
40 m (≈134 steps), so zoomed-out cameras snapped to the player's head
instead of sweeping through geometry. The fix adds `&& !ObjectInfo.IsViewer`
to the guard; non-viewers keep the 30-step safety net (player spheres
~0.48 m radius never exceed 14 m/tick).

Conformance test: radius=0.3, dist=12 (40 steps > 30 cap) over flat
terrain. Normal mover bails (Assert.False). Viewer proceeds to target
(Assert.True + CurPos.X > from.X). RED → GREEN.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 20:35:26 +02:00
Erik
53634b5089 docs(render): Phase A8.F — supersede the old "no camera collision" note
The 2026-05-18 retail-chase-camera spec scoped collision out citing "retail
doesn't raycast." Phase A8.F falsified that (SmartBox::update_viewer DOES sweep
viewer_sphere); mark the note superseded and point to the A8.F spec.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 19:46:53 +02:00
Erik
8f583ec894 feat(render): Phase A8.F — Camera menu toggle for spring-arm collision
Adds a checkable "Collide Camera (spring arm)" item to the Camera submenu.
Clicking it flips CameraDiagnostics.CollideCamera, matching the live A/B
toggle pattern used for UseRetailChaseCamera.  The checkmark reflects the
current flag value so state is always visible in the menu.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 19:39:24 +02:00
Erik
e37cc150a8 feat(render): Phase A8.F — wire camera-collision probe + cell/self id into GameWindow
Both RetailChaseCamera construction sites now supply CollisionProbe with a
fresh PhysicsCameraCollisionProbe(_physicsEngine).  The per-frame Update
call gains cellId: _playerController.CellId and selfEntityId:
_playerController.LocalEntityId so the probe has the correct spatial
context for sphere-sweep queries.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 19:38:58 +02:00
Erik
45a4218fab test(render): Phase A8.F — RetailChaseCamera test hygiene (try/finally reset; fade-on-pull-in)
Code-review follow-ups for Task 3: wrap the flag-off test's CollideCamera reset
in try/finally so an assert failure can't poison downstream tests; add
Update_ProbePullsEyeInClose_FullyFadesPlayer covering retail stage-3 (collided
eye 0.1 m from pivot → PlayerTranslucency 1); tighten probe.Calls assertion to ==1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 19:26:51 +02:00
Erik
319277a27b feat(render): Phase A8.F — RetailChaseCamera consumes the camera-collision probe
Add ICameraCollisionProbe? CollisionProbe { get; init; } to RetailChaseCamera.
Extend Update() with optional cellId/selfEntityId params (default 0) so all
existing callers compile unchanged. After the exponential-damping block (step 5)
and before publishing Position/View (step 6), sweep _dampedEye through the
probe when CameraDiagnostics.CollideCamera is true and a probe is wired in
(step 5b). The fade computation in step 7 then naturally uses the collided eye.
Null probe and cellId=0 both short-circuit cleanly. Three new xUnit tests
cover: probe-wired+flag-on publishes collided eye, flag-off skips probe,
null probe doesn't throw. All 30 RetailChaseCameraTests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 19:14:13 +02:00
Erik
fcea05f808 fix(render): Phase A8.F — camera sweep uses retail moverFlags 0x5c (PathClipped hard-stop)
Code review found the probe passed ObjectInfoState.None; retail's
SmartBox::update_viewer calls init_object(player, 0x5c) =
IsViewer|PathClipped|FreeRotate|PerfectClip (pseudo-C :92864). PathClipped makes
the sweep hard-stop at first contact (TransitionTypes.cs:811) instead of
edge-sliding around corners (which would re-trigger the A8.F camera-cell
instability); IsViewer lets the eye pass through creatures, colliding only with
world geometry. Resolves the spec's slide-vs-stop open question. Also reset
CollideCamera in the Defaults_AreRetailValues baseline test (review: maintenance
trap). Spec §5.1/§11.1 synced.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 19:11:53 +02:00
Erik
376e2c3578 feat(render): Phase A8.F — PhysicsCameraCollisionProbe (swept-sphere eye via ResolveWithTransition)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 19:01:21 +02:00
Erik
69c7f8db86 feat(render): Phase A8.F — add CameraDiagnostics.CollideCamera flag (default on)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 19:00:11 +02:00
Erik
77a6331ecd docs(render): Phase A8.F — camera-collision implementation plan
Bite-sized TDD plan for the swept-sphere camera collision: CollideCamera flag,
ICameraCollisionProbe + PhysicsCameraCollisionProbe (reuses ResolveWithTransition),
RetailChaseCamera slot-in, GameWindow wiring, Camera-menu toggle, visual
acceptance. Also refines the spec from planning findings: the InitPath +radius
sphere-center offset (ToSpherePath/FromSpherePath z-shift) and the deterministic
probe test scope (z-offset round-trip + cellId==0 guard; collision correctness
rides the existing sweep suite + visual).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 18:45:58 +02:00
Erik
9bdd50287b docs(render): Phase A8.F — swept-sphere camera collision design spec
Design for porting retail's stage-2 camera collision (SmartBox::update_viewer):
sweep a 0.3 m sphere from the head-pivot to the damped eye via the existing
ResolveWithTransition engine (collides both indoor cell walls and GfxObj
building shells, e.g. the cottage cellar per #98/#101), publish the stopped
position as the eye. Fixes the A8.F flap by keeping the eye out of walls so the
camera-cell + portal side-tests stay stable. Self-skip via LocalEntityId; gated
by CameraDiagnostics.CollideCamera (default ON). Corrects the prior
retail-chase-camera spec's "no camera collision" note.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 18:07:56 +02:00
Erik
9757818e95 docs(render): Phase A8.F — correct camera handoff; retail DOES collide the camera
Correction after the user (who has played retail and observed the camera pull in
at walls) flagged the prior "no camera collision" conclusion. Verified against the
decomp: retail's camera collision lives in SmartBox::update_viewer (0x00453ce0),
NOT CameraManager::UpdateCamera. The earlier research traced only the producer
(UpdateCamera computes the desired/damped eye -> viewer_sought_position) and missed
the consumer (update_viewer), which sweeps a 0.3 m viewer_sphere via
CTransition::find_valid_position from the head-pivot to that eye and uses the
stopped position (fallbacks: AdjustPosition, then snap to player). The player-fade
when super close (CameraSet::UpdateCamera -> SetTranslucencyHierarchical) is a
SEPARATE stage, already ported as RetailChaseCamera.ComputeTranslucency.

Implication: a swept-sphere camera collision is RETAIL-FAITHFUL, not a divergence —
no special sign-off needed, and acdream already owns the Transition swept-sphere
engine. Updated TL;DR, KEY FINDING, the fix section (was "design decision"),
slot-in (collide the damped eye, after RetailChaseCamera.cs:131), open questions,
pickup prompt, and reference index. Memory updated likewise.

Lesson recorded: when the decomp says "no X" but a domain expert says X exists,
trace the CONSUMER of the computed value, not just the producer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 17:51:44 +02:00
Erik
ce909ad0a8 docs(render): Phase A8.F — camera-collision root cause + handoff (session 2)
Root cause of the A8.F flap / missing-walls reframed (with the user's help):
the 3rd-person camera EYE passes through walls, and the A8.F renderer keys its
"am I inside?" (PointInCell) and portal side-tests (CameraOnInteriorSide) off
that eye position (camPos = invView translation, GameWindow.cs:7271). Eye clips
a wall -> those decisions flip frame-to-frame -> the flap.

Key finding from camera research (Opus agent + verified against the decomp):
retail's camera does NOT collide with walls either — it fades the player to
translucent (CameraSet::UpdateCamera @ 0x00458ae0 -> SetTranslucencyHierarchical),
which acdream already ports as RetailChaseCamera.ComputeTranslucency. So a
"spring arm that pulls the eye in on a wall hit" is a deliberate divergence from
retail, not a faithful port — needs user sign-off before coding.

Handoff documents: the eye->visibility coupling + flap mechanism, acdream's
current camera (the ported turn/jump input-lag = damping + velocity ring +
mouse filter; no collision), retail's camera (symbols+addresses), the reusable
swept-sphere collision machinery (BSPQuery.FindCollisions vs CellPhysics.BSP),
3 fix options (lead: modern spring arm), open design questions, apparatus, and a
pickup prompt.

Bug A (cellar terrain flood) already fixed + committed in 9417d3c; the
recursive-clip builder works (the prior "Bug B" framing was wrong).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 16:40:41 +02:00
Erik
9417d3c4ce fix(render): Phase A8.F — empty OutsideView draws no outdoor terrain (cellar flood fix)
First-fix from the visual-gate-failure handoff: an empty OutsideView means
"no outdoors visible from here," not "all outdoors." When inside a building
with an empty clipped mask, Step 4 now draws NO terrain/scenery instead of
disabling the stencil and flooding ungated terrain over the cell interior
(the Step-3 walls already occupy the framebuffer). Visual-confirmed: Holtburg
cottage cellar walls are solid now, no terrain bleed-through.

Also adds portal diagnostics that root-caused so-called "Bug B":
- PortalVisibilityBuilder: per-camera-cell CAMPORTAL census (polyLen +
  side-test result) emitted BEFORE the BFS guards, so an empty OUTSIDEVIEW
  can be traced to the exact gate.
- A8CellAudit `portals`: replicate BuildLoadedCell's polygon-vertex
  resolution so PortalPolygons[i] validity is checkable offline.

Finding: the builder is largely CORRECT — it produces narrowed clipped
OutsideView regions for most cells (0172/0173/0162/015E/0165/016F). The
empty cases are mostly legitimate (windowless cellar can't see out; the
3rd-person camera eye on the outdoor side of a front-door plane culls that
exit). The handoff's Finding 2 ("under-produces, never narrows") is
substantially not real. Remaining wall-missing regressions in OTHER
buildings live in the cross-building Step-5 enforcement, escalated separately.

All gated behind ACDREAM_A8_INDOOR_BRANCH=1; default play unaffected.
App tests 108/108.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 15:17:21 +02:00
Erik
cf3d49cbd7 docs: Phase A8.F visual-gate failure handoff + issue #103
A8.F (retail portal-frame port) shipped Tasks 0-8 but failed its visual gate:
indoor branch renders broadly wrong at runtime (terrain over walls, transparent/
invisible walls). Default game unaffected (branch gated behind
ACDREAM_A8_INDOOR_BRANCH). Two compounding root causes documented (OutsideView
under-produces; Job-A/B else-branch floods ungated terrain) + apparatus + a
first-fix hypothesis + pickup prompt. Filed #103.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 14:43:24 +02:00
Erik
7c3ee438bd diag(render): Phase A8.F — portal-frame visual-gate triage apparatus
Env-gated diagnostics (off by default; do not affect the default game):
- ACDREAM_A8_DUMP_PV=1: PortalVisibilityBuilder dumps local→NDC→clipped portal
  geometry + OutsideView poly count for the first 2 Build calls per camera cell.
- ACDREAM_PROBE_ENVCELL=1: [opaque] line dumps the opaque cell-render stats
  (cells/tris) BEFORE the per-cell transparent loop overwrites _envCellRenderer.Stats.
Used to diagnose the A8.F visual-gate failure (see handoff doc). Gated behind
ACDREAM_A8_INDOOR_BRANCH=1 like the rest of the indoor branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 14:40:23 +02:00
Erik
452ee5b9a1 docs(render): Phase A8.F — fix stale Step-5 exit-state comment (CullFace enabled, not disabled) 2026-05-29 13:04:11 +02:00
Erik
e0051e0764 feat(render): Phase A8.F — wire-in #3 cross-building via clipped bit-1 (ungate Step 5) 2026-05-29 13:00:22 +02:00
Erik
5a012c05f0 fix(render): Phase A8.F — restore DepthFunc.Less in bit-2 clip helpers (Opus review C1/C2)
DrawRegionBit2 set DepthFunc.Always and never restored it; EnvCellRenderer
and WbDrawDispatcher rely on ambient DepthFunc, so the leak made clipped
translucent cells, the camera cell + cells iterated after a clipped one, and
the IndoorPass building shells all render with Always instead of Less (walls
drawing through each other). DrawRegionBit2 now restores DepthFunc.Less on
exit; EnableBit2CellPass sets the per-cell render state (Less + depth-write
off) explicitly so the bug class can't silently recur. ColorMask matched to
the indoor pass (alpha-write off).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 12:55:35 +02:00
Erik
1c02a01298 feat(render): Phase A8.F — wire-in #2 per-cell translucent clip on stencil bit 2
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 12:45:56 +02:00
Erik
d581f4c549 fix(render): Phase A8.F — MarkAndPunchNdc sets [stencil] probe vert count (honest Task 9 gate evidence) 2026-05-29 12:36:46 +02:00
Erik
9e2eb909da feat(render): Phase A8.F — RenderInsideOut driven by clipped OutsideView + Job-A/B decouple
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 12:26:49 +02:00
Erik
08f6a0c1ce docs(render): Phase A8.F — note why MarkAndPunchNdc omits DepthClamp (NDC z=0) 2026-05-29 12:20:59 +02:00
Erik
d12892be90 feat(render): Phase A8.F — IndoorCellStencilPipeline.MarkAndPunchNdc (clipped-region stencil)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 12:18:34 +02:00
Erik
270c21f263 refactor(render): Phase A8.F — Task 4 review follow-up (honest cap comment, cycle guard test, file fixpoint fast-follow)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 12:16:11 +02:00
Erik
0ed462cb62 feat(render): Phase A8.F — PortalVisibilityBuilder recursive portal-clip BFS
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 12:03:50 +02:00
Erik
c665f3eef3 docs: A8.F plan — record Task 3 near-clip correction + Task 4 winding requirement 2026-05-29 11:59:04 +02:00
Erik
9ec83307fc docs(render): Phase A8.F — correct PortalProjection near-clip comments
The clip predicate (w+z>=0) is convention-agnostic, not GL-specific:
Matrix4x4.CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView (which all acdream cameras use) is
NDC z in [0,1], not [-1,1]. Comment said "GL near plane / z_ndc>=-1" which
is misleading though the code is correct (eye w=0 always excluded; divide
safe under both conventions). Also soften the ProjectToNdc CCW claim: it
preserves projected winding; the caller must feed camera-facing portals.
No behavior change. (Opus code-review I-1/M-1.)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 11:57:30 +02:00
Erik
a28a176ad6 feat(render): Phase A8.F — PortalProjection with GL near-plane clip (z>=-w) 2026-05-29 11:48:49 +02:00