Dated 'VM4 correction' notes, not silent rewrites:
- AR plan: NoOpRenderPackProductionIntegrationTests is a 2x2 recording-
device fixture, not a production pin; the real invariance is VM0's.
Both '14,928/14,928 zero skips' totals qualified: hermetic lane filter.
- Stage-2 connected report: the dense-town CPU figures ran under the
automation observer (9.8 MB/frame alloc) and say nothing about the
owner's hitch on the product; clean numbers are VM0's.
- Track A report + findings doc: TerrainUtils.GetNormal only orients
scenery; the render normals were already smooth; A2 replaced central
differences with retail's incident-face average (the reviewer's own
premise error).
- Findings doc: 'retail brightens' is the fallback path only; real
hardware runs the single-pass lerp (VM2). LandscapeDetailTextures = 0
answers the landscape open question. VM0 production table added as the
baseline.
- Completion audit retail-path row and the review's F1/F2/F3/F5 headers
annotated with their closures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the independent Campaign AR review (docs/research/2026-08-22-campaign-
ar-review.md): architecture, technical correctness, performance, coverage.
Findings F1-F8; F1 (default-path invariance proven only on a 2x2 recording-
device oracle) blocks merge; F2 (10 m/50 m detail fade has no retail anchor);
F3 (the port is retail's two-pass fallback; single-pass stage path
undetermined); F4 (post stack runs in gamma space); F5 (four overclaiming
sentences, one premise error the reviewer owns).
Campaign VM plans the closure: VM0 masked pixel + production perf A/B vs
6c79d35c; VM1 removes the fade (retail attenuates by mips); VM2 one cdb read
of m_caps.bCanDoSinglePassDetailing; VM3 linear-light post stack with a
numerically neutral preset; VM4 truthful docs; VM5 volumetric jitter; VM6
weather-driven foliage wind - procedural-scenery (bit-31 id namespace) cutout
subsets only, three motions (lean/branch/flutter) with gusts and per-tree
phase, shadows share the displacement include; VM7 closeout + merge.
Roadmap gains the Campaign VM pointer beside Campaign AR.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
