The instrumented capture (cottage-112-capture1.log) + dat replay pinned
the transparent-cottage mechanism end to end:
1. The A9B3 cottage's entry cell 0x104 is a 0.22 m-wide THRESHOLD band
(x 184.68->184.46 at y~82). A running player (~13-16 cm/tick at
30 Hz) can cross it BETWEEN two physics ticks - the tick where the
centre is inside 0x104 never happens.
2. Our outdoor-seed branch ran CheckBuildingTransit over a landcell
snapshot and STOPPED - building-admitted entry cells were never
expanded. The tick after the skip (centre in 0x100, a deep room not
building-portal-adjacent) found no containing candidate -> the pick
kept the outdoor landcell FOREVER (absorbing): the user walked the
whole interior classified outdoor (render faithfully drew an outdoor
frame = transparent walls), promoting only on touching
portal-adjacent 0x102's own volume minutes later (captured:
0xA9B3003C -> 0xA9B30102 with no transitions in between).
3. Retail cannot strand: CObjCell::find_cell_list (0x0052b4e0) runs ONE
growing-array walk for EVERY seed (0052b576-0052b5ab,
cells[i]->find_transit_cells vtable dispatch over the GROWING array)
- the landcell's building bridge admits 0x104 (the foot sphere still
overlaps the band one tick after the skip) and the walk expands
0x104's portals to 0x100 where containment wins. Recovery fires one
tick after any skip.
Fix: BuildCellSetAndPickContaining now runs retail's single growing
walk for both seeds with per-cell-type dispatch (landcells ->
CLandCell::find_transit_cells 0x00533800 -> CSortCell 0x00534060 ->
check_building_transit 0x0052c5d0; envcells -> FindTransitCellsSphere
with the straddle gate + once-per-walk outside add). The old indoor
branch behavior is preserved (seed at index 0, hysteresis, straddle-
gated outdoor pick); the outdoor branch gains the expansion + the
indoor branch gains the retail landcell bridge dispatch for
straddle-admitted landcells.
Pins (dat-backed, Issue112MembershipTests): tick-skip recovery one tick
past the threshold (RED pre-fix); run-speed entry replay across tick
phases never strands outdoor; threshold-gap outdoor-seed keeps outdoor
(over-fix guard); entry-walk replay diagnostic prints the full
promotion chain (0x3C -> 0x104 -> 0x100 -> 0x103 -> 0x100 -> 0x102).
Suites: App 246+1skip / Core 1438+2skip / UI 420 / Net 294.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The user stood in the tower and logged out; the next login [snap] pinned
it: cell 0xAAB30107, AAB3 building[1] (model 0x01001117, NOT the #113
meeting hall 0x010014C3). Issue119TowerDumpTests decodes the dat truth:
- The tower interior cell 0x0107 has ZERO ramp polys - the stairs are
NOT cell geometry. They are cell STATICS: Setup 0x020003F2 at the
exact tower center = a 43-part spiral staircase (5 corner platforms
0x01000E2A + 38 steps 0x01000E2B/2C/2D/2F/31/32, placement frames
spiraling z 0.35..15.15, all parts fully drawable - 0 NoPos polys).
- The four 0x020005D8 statics (1 part, 0x01001774, 24 polys - barrel-
shaped) sit along the wall at ascending heights: legitimate dat
barrels on the stair landings. With the staircase missing, the
bottom one reads as "a barrel in the middle where it's not supposed
to be" - the barrel is NOT extraneous, the stairs around it are gone.
Pipeline reads (all correct by read, no errors logged):
BuildInteriorEntitiesForStreaming flattens Setup statics per part
(SetupMesh.Flatten -> 43 MeshRefs with placement transforms);
LandblockSpawnAdapter registers per MeshRef GfxObj id; the dispatcher
walks per MeshRef and composes PartTransform * entityWorld; the
ConsoleErrorLogger (wb-error) is wired and silent. Remaining suspects
are runtime-state: the #55 meshMissing population (parts never
finishing PrepareMeshDataAsync) or a draw-level drop - the saved
character now spawns INSIDE the tower, so a WB_DIAG launch at spawn
reads the dispatcher counters directly on the exact content.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Issue119UpNullGfxObjDumpTests pins the dat truth: 0x010002B4 = 9 polys,
ALL NoPos, all surfaces Base1Solid; 0x010008A8 = 1 poly, NoPos,
Base1Solid|Translucent. Retail's skipNoTexture never draws either model
(the BR-1 build-time-skip <=> draw-time-skip equivalence), so
ObjectMeshManager's empty render-data cache is the CORRECT terminal state
- the only defect was the alarming "permanently invisible" log line,
reworded into an honest tripwire pointing at the dump test.
Second fact, same test (ShellModel_NoTexturedPolyIsDropped): on the
hall/tower shell 0x010014C3, ZERO textured polys are dropped by the
extraction gates (137/149 draw; the 12 dropped are the known #113
no-draw orphans) - the per-poly GfxObj extraction is exonerated for
building shells, kept green as a regression pin.
Net for #119: the missing tower-stair parts are NOT the up-null pair and
NOT a per-poly extraction drop. Remaining hypothesis space (interior
stair-cell flood admission, or a different model than assumed) needs the
re-gate to identify the exact tower; then the cell set + flood replay
headlessly like #118. ISSUES.md updated.
Suites: App 232, Core 1419+2skip (1416+3 new), UI 420, Net 294.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The two remaining flagged workarounds retired, per the BR-7 plan +
the WF1 [MEDIUM] correction (re-gate, do NOT delete the outside-add):
1. A6.P5 hasExitPortal topology widening DELETED. Outdoor cells enter the
collision cell array ONLY on the retail straddle gate - |dist| <
radius + F_EPSILON against an exterior portal plane
(CEnvCell::find_transit_cells Ghidra 0x0052c820, gate 0052c9d6,
live-binary verified) - the same flag that already gated the
membership pick (#112 rider). The widening existed so outdoor-
registered doors stayed findable from indoor cells under the old flat
registry query; with per-cell shadow lists the door is found in the
straddle-admitted outdoor cell's own list (tick-13558 pin holds).
The hasExitPortal out-param + plumbing deleted from
FindTransitCellsSphere; the AddAllOutsideCells call in
BuildCellSetAndPickContaining re-gated on exitOutsideStraddle
(once-per-walk = retail CELLARRAY.added_outside).
2. #90 ResolveCellId sphere-overlap stickiness REMOVED (the 4ca3596
workaround, deferred-to-A6.P4 in the physics digest). It was dead
code: the method's only caller is FindEnvCollisions' cache-null TEST
fallback, and the indoor branch (where the stickiness lived) required
a non-null DataCache. Production membership flows exclusively through
the collide-then-pick advance whose ordered-array hysteresis (current
cell at index 0, interior-wins-break) is the retail mechanism the
workaround approximated. ResolveCellId reduced to the bare
prefix-preserving outdoor re-derive, documented test-only.
Test updates (pins of the deleted behaviors inverted to retail):
- A6P5_BuildCellSetFromIndoorStart_ReachesDoorOutdoorCell (asserted the
topology widening verbatim) -> DeepInteriorSphere_NoStraddle_
AddsNoOutdoorCells: a deep-interior sphere admits NO outdoor cells.
- A6P5_BuildCellSetFromAlcove... -> AlcoveSphere_StraddlesExitPortal_
ReachesDoorOutdoorCell (the captured alcove position genuinely
straddles - the retail-positive half).
- Issue112MembershipTests straddle pin + the second-sphere straddle test
updated to the single-flag signature.
Suites: Core 1416/0/2, App 225, UI 420, Net 294 - green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The plan's BR-1 ('implement the skipNoTexture draw-time surface gate')
died on its pre-check: acdream ALREADY suppresses every portal fill.
ReplicateProductionEmission_OnPortalFills replicates the exact emission
conditions of the production extractors on the hall/cottage fills:
pos=False neg=False for every one (Stippling.NoPos skips the positive
side at ObjectMeshManager.PrepareGfxObjMeshData:1046,
PrepareCellStructMeshData:1394, CellMesh.Build:44, GfxObjMesh.Build:71;
the fills have no negative surface). There is nothing to gate.
What ships instead: StipplingSurfaceEquivalenceTests - 2,607 polys across
13 building models + 13 environments, ZERO violations both directions:
NoPos <=> untextured-surface. Our build-time skip is proven equivalent to
retail's draw-time skipNoTexture rule (Ghidra 0x0059d4a4, default on
@0x00820e30) on this content. The pin fails loudly if future content
breaks the invariant - the cue to implement the draw-time gate then.
Corrections folded into the plan + comparison docs:
- The #113 phantom residual CANNOT be GfxObj fills (they never reach a
vertex buffer). Plausible true sites are cell-side: flood-admitted
cells drawn with the pass-all NoClipSlice when slot-less
(RetailPViewRenderer.cs:71), and/or cell statics drawn unclipped +
un-viewcone'd (object-lists-skip-portal-view-gate, confirmed).
BR-2 opens with the probe that pins which.
- The e46d3d9 user-gate observations (filter removed phantom/doors) were
confounded - the filter was a provable mesh no-op on shells AND doors.
- Ledger rows solid-surface-skip-missing + the acdream half of
portal-polys-baked-unconditional re-marked REFUTED-for-fills; the
retail mechanism descriptions and the un-consumed PortalIndex->
CBldPortal pairing (BR-4) stand.
Suites: Core 1398 green (1392 baseline + 6 new facts) + the 4 pre-existing
#99-era failures + 1 skip. No production code.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase A confirmation fact (DumpPortalFillSurfaceTypes): every portal-fill
polygon on the audited building models (hall 0x010014C3, cottages
0x01000827/0x0100082E/0x01000C17) carries an untextured surface
(Base1Solid, mostly +Translucent) with Stippling=NoPos and no negative
surface. Retail's skipNoTexture rule (D3DPolyRender inner draw 0x0059d4a0,
default on @0x00820e30) therefore skips ALL of them on the building/cell
pass - door fills, window fills, AND the phantom stair-ramp. Retail never
draws any baked fill; visible doors are door ENTITIES. acdream draws the
solid batches as colored geometry, which is both the phantom staircase AND
why dropping them read as 'doors disappeared'.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Charter open mystery #1 (docs/research/2026-06-11-building-render-holistic-
port-handoff.md "4.1): the e46d3d9 DrawingBSP poly filter made doors vanish
because the PosNode/NegNode walk only collected node.Polygons and never
node.Portals (List<PortalRef> {PolyId, PortalIndex}).
Dat-proven across all 13 Holtburg-area building models (A9B4/A9B3/AAB3/
A9B5/AAB4): TRUE-orphans = ZERO everywhere. Every dictionary poly the
filter dropped is a PORTAL POLYGON - the baked door-filling (1.9x2.5 m)
and window-filling quads at doorway/window apertures, AND the meeting
hall's phantom stair polys {0,1} (ramp-shaped portal apertures into the
interior stair cells).
Consequences for the holistic port:
- The door entities (setup 0x020019FF) were never affected: base parts +
every degrade variant have full BSP coverage, and doors don't take the
IsIssue47HumanoidSetup degrade swap. The vanished 'doors' were shell
portal polys.
- Retail draws portal polys CONDITIONALLY during portal-view traversal
(closed doors/windows draw a surface; open apertures and the hall's
stair apertures don't). The phantom staircase and the door rendering
are the SAME mechanism with opposite signs - there is NO correct
static filter; this is the dat-side proof the one-drawing-discipline
port is required.
- The exact retail conditional (BSP portal-node draw gate in
CPhysicsPart::Draw / BSPPORTAL) is a named Phase A question.
Diagnostic-only commit: new dump facts in
Issue113DoorVanishDiagnosticTests (door setup + degrade chains, control
models, Holtburg orphan sweep with portal discrimination). No production
code.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The user gate + bisect overturned the coincident-cell attribution: the
phantom staircase persists in the PRE-session build (bisect screenshot at
the hall wall) and is drawn by the ENTITY pipeline, untouched by any clip.
Root cause (dat-proven, DumpHallModel_PolyFlagHistogram): retail renders a
GfxObj by TRAVERSING its drawing BSP (D3DPolyRender); polygons present in
the Polygons dictionary but referenced by NO DrawingBSP node are never
drawn - they are physics/no-draw geometry. The Holtburg meeting hall
(0x010014C3) keeps its exterior stair-ramp as dictionary polys 0+1: in
the PhysicsBSP (ACE walks The Sentry on it at z 117-118; invisible-but-
walkable in retail) but orphaned from the draw tree (true at ALL degrade
levels - the LOD theory is dead, Degrades[0] IS the base model). The hill
cottage (0x01000827) carries 8 such orphans. Our extraction iterated the
dictionary -> drew the collision skeleton: the wall staircase up close,
the flying stairs over the cottage roofline from afar (orphan ramp spans
world 221-232 at z 116-124.5; visible over the cottage roof from the west).
Fix: PrepareGfxObjMeshData filters to CollectDrawingBspPolygonIds(gfxObj)
when a drawing BSP exists; models without one draw everything (unchanged).
Physics untouched (collision keeps the full physics set - retail parity).
CellStruct extraction not touched (different conventions; no orphan
evidence there yet).
Dat-backed pins: Issue113DrawingBspFilterTests (hall orphans == 0+1,
cottage orphans == 0..7). Suites: App 226 / Core 1392 + the 4
pre-existing #99-era failures / UI 420 / Net 294.
Note: the earlier shell-clip enable (927fd8f, scoped 9ce335e) remains
correct and orthogonal - it crops interior CELL geometry to apertures
outdoors; this commit removes the phantom SHELL geometry at its source.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The oracle read the #112 residual was waiting on, settled against the
LIVE 2013 client (cdb attach, CEnvCell::find_transit_cells @ 0052c820;
BN pseudo-C was ambiguous and partly wrong per
feedback_bn_decomp_field_names - it invented portal_side tests in this
branch): retail admits outdoor transit cells from an indoor cell IFF a
path sphere STRADDLES an exterior portal polygon plane,
|dist| < radius + F_EPSILON(0.000199999995, @ 007c8c70). The flag at
[esp+18h] (set 0052c925, x87 decode fcompp/test ah,41h +
fcomp/test ah,5/jp) gates the add_all_outside_cells call (0052c9d6 je).
Graph reachability alone NEVER admits outdoor cells in retail.
Port (CellTransit):
- FindTransitCellsSphere: exitOutside now carries the retail straddle
semantics; new hasExitPortal out carries the old topology-only flag.
- BuildCellSetAndPickContaining: the collision cell SET keeps the A6.P5
topology widening on hasExitPortal (outdoor-registered doors must stay
findable from indoor cells until #99/A6.P4 ships per-cell shadow
lists - the 2026-05-25 door capture scenario), but the membership
PICK's outdoor branch is gated on the retail flag. Membership is now
retail-identical in both regimes: straddle -> outdoor candidates valid;
no straddle -> outdoor ignored -> retail keep-curr. This is what stops
deep-interior containment gaps in ANY house from demoting to outdoor
(the #112 transparent-interior shape) - the systemic protection the
user asked for, without house-by-house verification.
The at-doorway A9B3 gap demote is RETAIL-FAITHFUL (gap point is 0.23m
from 0x104s door plane < 0.48 foot radius -> retail straddles + demotes
+ self-heals inward): DocumentsResidual renamed to
...DemotesRetailFaithfully, expectation unchanged. New conformance pins:
deep-gap keep-curr (A9B3Cottage_GapBeyondStraddleDistance_KeepsCurrCell)
+ function-level gate semantics on real dat geometry
(FindTransitCellsSphere_ExitPortalStraddleGate_MatchesRetail).
Tests: Core 1391 green (+2) / App 224 / UI 420 / Net 294; pre-existing
4 #99-era failures unchanged; P1 membership goldens + A6.P5 door-set
tests explicitly green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Attribution (dat-evidenced, supersedes the misplaced-cell hypothesis):
the phantom staircase is the Holtburg MEETING HALL (AAB3 building[0],
model 0x010014C3 at AAB3-local (36,84,116)), NOT an A9B3 building - the
user stood at the A9B3/AAB3 boundary (cell-transit trail in
issue112-gate1.log) and clicked through the hall to the NPC behind it.
The hall's interior stair cells (0x100..0x106, ring climbing z 116->124.5
to the deck hatch) have geometry coincident with the shell's west wall
(both at local x=29.0). Our outdoor per-building flood admits them with
CORRECT tight clip regions (4-6 planes, door-aperture NDC boxes -
Issue113MeetingHallFloodTests proves it), but DrawEnvCellShells drew them
WHOLE: mesh_modern.vert writes gl_ClipDistance from the routed CellClip
slot, and gl_ClipDistance is ignored unless GL_CLIP_DISTANCEi is enabled -
which no caller ever did for the shell pass (born inert in 1405dd8).
Interior staircase painted across the exterior wall; unpickable because
it is cell geometry, not an entity.
Retail oracle: cell geometry IS clipped to the accumulated portal view -
Render::set_view (:343750) installs the view polygon edge planes,
DrawEnvCell submits every cell polygon with planeMask=0xffffffff (:427922)
through ACRender::polyClipFinish. Characters/meshes are NOT poly-clipped
(viewconeCheck path) - entity routing stays cleared, comment scoped.
Fix: enable GL_CLIP_DISTANCE0..7 around exactly the shell pass
(self-contained per feedback_render_self_contained_gl_state; no early-outs
between set and restore). Slot-0 fallback slices (>8-plane regions) still
draw pass-all - the assembler's scissor fallback remains unimplemented and
documented; the new flood test pins 0 such slices at the hall.
Refuted along the way (full evidence in Issue113PhantomStairsDumpTests):
- ONE misplaced interior EnvCell unifying #113+#112+collision gaps: all 17
A9B3 cottage cells share an identical dat Position (nothing to misplace);
the #112 gap is a real 20cm doorway micro-gap 0.23m outside threshold
cell 0x104 (straddles its exterior portal plane at foot radius 0.48);
missing object collision remains #99/A6.P4.
- A9B3 dat content near the spot: no stair geometry in shell (balcony at
z119 + turret roof only), cells (flat 116/118.8), statics, or stabs.
Tests: Core 1389 green (+6 dump facts) / App 224 (+1 flood replay) /
UI 420 / Net 294; pre-existing 4 #99-era failures unchanged.
Visual gate pending: user re-check of the hall west face vs retail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause (oracle: CLandCell::point_in_cell :316941 = terrain-poly only;
find_cell_list null-result keep-curr pc:308788-308825; CEnvCell::
check_building_transit :309827 = sphere_intersects_cell per portal-adjacent
cell): retail KEEPS curr_cell when nothing contains the centre — including
inside a house's containment gaps. Our 6dbbf95 escape hatch instead demoted
any hydrated indoor claim the sphere no longer overlaps to the outdoor
column; at the A9B3 hill cottage's real interior gap this stranded the
player outdoor-classified deep indoors, where re-promotion is portal-
adjacent-only (retail-identical) -> the outdoor flood rendered the interior
transparent (the user's "sometimes transparent" walk).
The hatch's actual target - poisoned (cell, position) SAVES - has been
handled at the SNAP by PhysicsEngine.Resolve's AdjustPosition validation
since #107/#111, so the per-tick pick reverts to retail semantics:
1. lateral recovery first - when the sphere no longer overlaps the claim,
search the claim's stab list for a containing cell (retail
find_visible_child_cell :311444, the same recovery AdjustPosition uses);
the #111 adjacent-claim shape now self-heals laterally (dat-backed test:
pick(seed 0x172) at a 0x171-interior point -> 0x171);
2. else KEEP curr_cell (retail null-result).
Two old tests asserting the hatch demote rewritten to the retail semantics
(tests-can-codify-bugs); P1 retail-golden conformance gates explicitly green
(FindCellListConformance + ThresholdPortalCrossing + CottageDoorway +
CameraCornerSeal = 11/11). New Issue112MembershipTests: the lateral-recovery
fact + a DocumentsResidual fact pinning the remaining at-doorway gap demote
(via the NORMAL outdoor-candidate path; open oracle read = retail's
add_all_outside_cells gate in CEnvCell::find_transit_cells pc:317499 -
sphere-proximity vs graph-reachability). Core 1383 + 4 pre-existing #99
failures + 1 skip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gate-run finding (wedge-107-gate-indoor-login.log + dat scan): ACE saved the
cell one room off (claim 0xA9B40172, position inside 0xA9B40171 — adjacent
rooms). FindVisibleChildCell corrects this fine when hydrated (proven by the
new AdjacentRoomClaim regression test), but the live entry committed the raw
claim: IsSpawnCellReady's "any cell struct in the landblock => claim is bogus,
proceed" disambiguator observed the MID-POPULATION state (interiors hydrate in
id order on the background worker; the render-thread predicate read the cache
mid-loop) and opened the gate before the claim and its stab neighbors were
cached. AdjustPosition then saw a null cell struct and silently passed the
claim through; the first movement demoted the player to outdoor inside the
house — the user-visible "transparent interior, see straight through walls"
(render is downstream of membership: an outdoor-classified viewer only sees
the interior through the doorway flood).
Fix: the hold now waits for THE CLAIMED CELL's struct, full stop
(IsSpawnCellReady simplification; HasAnyCellStructInLandblock removed).
Claims that can never hydrate are filtered by GameWindow against the dat's
LandBlockInfo.NumCells range (memoized IsSpawnClaimUnhydratable), and
PhysicsEngine.Resolve carries a loud lost-cell-equivalent safety net: an
indoor claim with NO cell struct AND NO CellSurface floor data demotes to the
outdoor landcell with a [spawn-adjust] line instead of committing raw
(retail GotoLostCell :283418; documented divergence). Partial hydration
(CellSurface present, struct pending) keeps the legacy floor-snap behavior —
HasCellSurface uses the file's masked-low-word norm so bare-id fixtures and
full-id production both resolve.
Baseline restored: Core 1381 (+4 new #107 conformance tests) + 4 pre-existing
#99-era failures + 1 skip; App 223 / UI 420 / Net 294.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause (capture resolve-107-login1.jsonl + dat conformance scan): ACE
restored the player with a POISONED (cell, position) pair — cell 0xA9B40162
(one building) with a position inside 0xA9B40171 (a different building 55 m
away). Our entry snap trusted the claim verbatim: the player stood
fake-grounded for minutes (isOnGround passthrough, no contact plane, no
walkable polygon — zero-move resolves short-circuit), the FIRST movement input
ran a real transition, the pick demoted the indoor claim to outdoor
mid-building, and the player fell 2.4 m through the cottage floor onto the
terrain underneath — wedged inside the building shell. The second wedge shape
(flood-fix-gate2.log) was the PortalSpace freeze: the teleport-arrival
detection gated on `differentLandblock || farAway>100m`, an invented
heuristic — ACE's same-landblock short-hop corrections matched neither, so
PortalSpace never exited and movement input stayed frozen all session.
Four legs, all retail-anchored:
1. PhysicsEngine.Resolve (the player snap path: login entry + teleport
arrival) now runs AdjustPosition first — retail SetPositionInternal step 1
(acclient :283892, AdjustPosition :280009): validate/correct the claimed
cell from the foot-sphere center BEFORE any physics. Corrections log one
[spawn-adjust] line.
2. AdjustPosition's previously-deferred indoor seen_outside →
adjust_to_outside sub-fallback (:280037-280046) is completed; CellPhysics
gains the SeenOutside flag (dat EnvCellFlags.SeenOutside) cached in
CacheCellStruct. The camera path does not reach this sub-branch in the
gated scenarios (CameraCornerSealReplayTests green).
3. PortalSpace arrival = ANY player position update (holtburger PlayerTeleport
handler conformant; recenter still only on landblock change). Verified
live: ACE sent a same-lb dist=69.8 correction that the old gate would have
frozen on — it now completes.
4. Outbound wire (cell, position) pairs are now SELF-CONSISTENT: derive the
landblock frame from the resolver's full cell id instead of welding a
position-derived landblock onto its low word — the old composition could
write exactly the poisoned pair shape into ACE's character save. Plus the
#106-gate-2 hold extension: an indoor spawn claim waits for the claimed
cell's hydration (IsSpawnCellReady) so the validation can act — the async
equivalent of retail's synchronous cell load.
Live verification (wedge-107-verify1.log): entry clean; ACE's same-lb teleport
correction completed (old code: permanent freeze); the teleport destination
itself carried ANOTHER poisoned claim (0xA9B40150) which [spawn-adjust]
corrected to 0xA9B40019; player fully controllable, walking across landcells.
3 new dat-backed conformance tests pin the poisoned-pair facts
(Issue107SpawnDiagnosticTests). Baseline: 1380+4 pre-existing #99-era
failures+1 skip / 223 / 420 / 294.
Pending user gate: park indoors, log out gracefully, relaunch — expect a clean
indoor spawn standing on the interior floor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Settles the long-standing lore that DatCollection is not thread-safe for reads,
for Chorizite.DatReaderWriter 2.1.7: replays acdream''s real four-population
access pattern (render / streamer / decode-pool / raw) against the live dats —
golden FNV-1a fingerprints taken single-threaded, then 8 threads x 25 shuffled
passes over ~2900 files spanning the cell heightmap/LBI/EnvCell set and the
portal texture chain (Environment -> Surface -> SurfaceTexture -> RenderSurface
incl. highres probes). Two layers: raw TryGetFileBytes (BTree + ReadBlock, no
caching) and typed TryGet with FileCachingStrategy.Never (full production
unpack path: ArrayPool + DatBinReader + ObjectFactory).
Result: ~1.1M concurrent reads, ZERO anomalies — byte-identical to golden.
Matches the line-level audit of the release/2.1.7 source (ReadBlock keeps all
cursor state in locals over a stable read-only mmap view; locked LRU BTree
node cache; ConcurrentDictionary file cache; fresh DatBinReader per call).
The real crash bug was dispose-during-read at teardown (fixed in 8fadf77).
Keep this as the regression guard for any future dat-reader version bump.
Skips cleanly when the dats are absent (CI), matching suite convention.
Full evidence: docs/research/2026-06-09-dat-reader-thread-safety-investigation.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The P1 "doorway membership lags retail" premise is FALSIFIED. acdream's swept
ResolveWithTransition already matches retail's true per-frame curr_cell: the
production gate ProductionPath_IndoorCrossings reads 9/9 on the indoor 0170<->0171
crossings with NO code change, once fed an aligned retail golden.
Root cause of the false 0/11: CPhysicsObj::SetPositionInternal calls change_cell
(acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:283456) BEFORE set_frame writes m_position (:283458),
so the original golden (find-cell-list-capture.cdb, read at the change_cell BP)
paired each frame's NEW cell with the PREVIOUS frame's position — a one-frame skew.
Verified 3 ways: the decomp ordering; golden_picked[i] == geom(golden_position[i+1])
for all 22 rows; acdream's static pick == golden_picked[i-1] for all rows. Both
retail and acdream pick with center-only point_in_cell on global_sphere[0] (no XY
lead; cache_global_sphere @ pc:274196). curr_cell commits via validate_transition
(@ pc:272608, curr_cell = check_cell) = the find_cell_list pick, structurally
identical to acdream's RunCheckOtherCellsAndAdvance -> FindCellSet -> SetCheckPos.
There was nothing to port; a swept advance would make membership LEAD by a frame.
- tools/cdb/find-cell-list-capture-aligned.cdb: re-capture reads the committed
position from the set_frame that follows change_cell (cell+position same instant).
- Fixtures/find-cell-list-threshold.log: replaced with the aligned capture.
- ThresholdPortalCrossingReplayTests / FindCellListConformanceTests: rewritten from
documents-the-bug to assert retail truth (per-segment / per-indoor-pick equality).
- handoff + notes + README + memory: banners correcting the disproven premise.
Still open (NOT indoor membership, which is DONE): outdoor->indoor 0031<->0170 entry
conformance (needs landcell + building stab in the gate cache); master-plan cleanups
(delete CheckBuildingTransit, unify find_env_collisions, demote ResolveCellId) refactor
working retail-faithful code -> need explicit user approval.
Conformance 60 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail; full Core 1309 pass / 5 fail (pre-existing
2 BSPStepUp + 3 door-collision = P2) / 1 skip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replays the golden indoor 0170<->0171 segments through the real
PhysicsEngine.ResolveWithTransition (engine builds the global sphere + sweeps;
cells loaded from dats with real BSP). Result: 0/11 match retail. Every segment
restPos==target (the sweep completes the move) but CellId stays on the SOURCE
cell — acdream moves the body across the doorway yet NEVER advances curr_cell.
So the 'probe artifact' hypothesis is FALSIFIED: production membership genuinely
lags retail.
Refined mechanism: both retail and acdream PICK with center-only point_in_cell
(architect's radius-aware-pick hypothesis falsified, confirmed by reading
CEnvCell::point_in_cell -> BSPTREE::point_inside_cell_bsp). The gap is retail's
curr_cell ADVANCES across the portal mid-sweep (swept crossing / leading sphere
point) while acdream's swept advance keeps the source cell. P1 ports that advance.
ProductionPath_IndoorCrossings_DivergeFromRetail_PendingP1 is the RED gate the P1
fix must turn GREEN. Conformance 60 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
P0 Task 6 complete. Captured live retail membership at the 0031<->0170<->0171
doorway via cdb on CPhysicsObj::change_cell (symbol-driven; offsets verified by
discover-types.cdb; PDB MATCH). 22 transitions, clean monotonic sequence, NO
ping-pong (retail is correct-by-construction). Golden:
Conformance/Fixtures/find-cell-list-threshold.log.
ROOT-CAUSE FINDING (the central P1 work): retail transitions membership at the
PORTAL CROSSING (CEnvCell::find_transit_cells @ 0x52c820 pc:309968 — sphere crosses
the doorway polygon plane), while acdream's FindCellList re-picks by POINT-IN-CELL
containment at the foot. Retail commits room 0171 while the foot is STILL inside
vestibule 0170's BSP (in_0171=0); acdream lags. ALL 22 transitions diverge for this
one criterion mismatch — not a per-cell hysteresis or a building-entry-only split.
This is master-plan §0 'hysteresis gap' confirmed against the real client.
FindCellList_DoorwayThreshold_DivergesFromRetail_PendingP1 (documents-the-bug, GREEN)
+ ThresholdDivergenceDiagnosticTests (per-transition containment print) pin it; both
flip when P1 ports the directed portal crossing. Conformance 59 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail;
full Core 1308 pass / 5 fail (baseline) / 1 skip — no new failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
P0 Tasks 6 (autonomous half) + 7. FindCellList_DoorwayThreshold_MatchesRetailTrace
asserts acdream's pick == each captured retail pick; skips until the capture
fixture lands. PvsConformanceTests scaffolds the render visible-set golden
(skipped; filled in P4). ConformanceDats.FixturesDir resolves fixtures from the
source tree (issue98 pattern). Notes record: existing retail traces are
collision-only (no membership) so the strict P1 gate needs the one live capture;
plus the P1 re-scope finding (Stage-1 membership already on this branch).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
P0 Task 5. RetailTrace parses the [fcl] golden format (seed/pos/picked,
RetailCellPick); 4 TDD tests green. find-cell-list-capture.cdb targets
CPhysicsObj::change_cell (commit-on-diff) to capture retail's accepted
membership sequence at the doorway; README is the operator runbook
(dt offset verification + decode_retail_hex float decode). The live run
is P0's one user-gated step (Task 6 mines existing traces first).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
P0 Task 4. FindCellList resolves a sphere deep inside room 0171 -> 0171,
deep inside vestibule 0170 -> 0170, and re-picks 0170 from a stale 0171
seed (membership re-picks by containment, not the seed). Retail-faithful
by construction (candidate cells loaded from the real dats). The subtle
doorway-threshold pick is the trace-backed golden (Task 6).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
P0 (verbatim-spatial-pipeline-port) Tasks 1+2. ConformanceDats loads the
cottage-doorway cells from the real dats with their real ContainmentBsp;
CottageDoorwayCharacterizationTests maps the Holtburg 0140..017F indoor
neighborhood and pins the master-plan threshold building (origin
161.93,7.50,94.00): 0xA9B40170 vestibule (exit portal 0xFFFF + portal to
0171), 0xA9B40171 room. Grid math confirms the outdoor side is landcell
0xA9B40031 -> the 0031<->0170<->0171 ping-pong is verified real. Verified
interior points recorded for the point_in_cell/find_cell_list goldens.
Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-03-p0-conformance-apparatus.md
Notes: docs/research/2026-06-03-p0-conformance-apparatus-notes.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
