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Erik
75664805f8 feat(rendering): port retail one-pass detail material
Replace the building and EnvCell detail replay with retail's exact single-pass stage result, including authored surface opacity, squared detail alpha, final-alpha clipping, and the original subset pipeline/order. Arm the ordered walk command in place to close #471, delete the replay pipelines/shaders, and advance prepared content to recipe 9.

Mutation witnesses (each restored before commit):
- X=a*qA: RetailDetailTextureContractTests.BothShaderFamiliesUseTheSharedOnePassSourceAndDebugPrecedesDetailSample line 174, missing materialAlpha * detail.a * detail.a.
- X*=base alpha: same test line 175, forbidden baseTexel.a found.
- CLIP against base alpha: EnvCellAlphaDrawSourceTests.ClipShaders_UseGreaterEqualForThePerRangeReference line 260, final-X conditional missing.
- second detail draw: EnvCellAlphaDrawSourceTests.DetailOn_EveryEnvCellFamilyDrawsOnceInPlaceWithAuthoredOpacity line 105, Assert.Single saw 2 MDI calls.
- straight-alpha substitution: WalkStaticStreamPopulatorTests.ImmediateBuildingDetail_RetainsOriginalFramebufferFamily line 1244, Additive first failed (only wb-mesh-alpha-1x recorded; InvAlpha also failed).
- omit ordered arm: OrderPreservingSubmitterTests.PrepareThenDraw_OrdinaryBuildingClipBuildingOrdinary_ArmsOnePassInPlace line 305, expected (77,3.5), got (0,0).
- omit atmospheric combine: RetailDetailTextureContractTests.BothShaderFamiliesUseTheSharedOnePassSourceAndDebugPrecedesDetailSample line 173, atmospheric shared include missing.
- drop serialized opacity: ObjectMeshDataSerializerTests.SurfaceOpacity_RoundTripsBitExactlyAndDeterministically line 288, first reported 0.5 bits 1056964608 vs 1065353216.
- stale detail arm: ordered adjacency test line 307, expected following ordinary (0,0), got (77,3.5).
- per-frame surface map: EnvCellAlphaDrawSourceTests.ProductionWholeLeaf_WarmedScanSubmitRhiAndFilteredReplayDoNotAllocate line 178, expected 0 B, got 147456 B.

Verification before commit: shader compiler 23/23; focused App 213/213; Content 75/75; Core Wb 10/10; launcher migration 6/6; Release solution build 0 warnings / 0 errors; git diff --check clean.
2026-09-05 02:03:13 +02:00
Erik
89c4494d05 fix(render): S3 review round 1 — punch fans clipped by their own view, seal pin through the producer, dead per-cell clip machinery deleted, EC/OC transcript exact
F1 (BLOCKING, punch-fan view alignment). ClipFrameAssembler.
ReassembleOutsideViewFromWalk now keeps exactly ONE outside-view slice per
walk view, index-aligned with RetailFrameWalk.DrawBuilding's own
ActiveViewIndex (retail building_view = portal_view_num @0x0059f3bf): a
collapsed view (ClipPlaneSet.IsNothingVisible — retail polyClipFinish under
a degenerate view leaves <3 vertices, 0x59BDBC-0x59BDBF) now appends its
own ClipViewSlice.NothingVisible=true slot instead of being skipped, which
used to shift every later view's slice down by one. DrawWalkPunchFan draws
NOTHING for a NothingVisible slice and throws ArgumentOutOfRangeException
when activeViewIndex is out of range (fail-loud; never draws unclipped).
New tests: WalkOutsideViewReassemblyTests.
FirstViewCollapses_SecondSurvives_SlicesStayIndexAligned and
PunchLeaf_UsesIndexAlignedSlice_DrawsNothingForCollapsed_ThrowsOutOfRange.
MUTATION M1 (revert the append-nothing-on-skip fix, restoring the old
skip): both new tests fail with
  Assert.Equal() Failure: Values differ
  Expected: 2
  Actual:   1
MUTATION M2 (restore the old ": default" unclipped fallback in
DrawWalkPunchFan): the punch-leaf test fails with
  Assert.Equal() Failure: Values differ
  Expected: 0
  Actual:   1
(both restored; verified clean afterward).

F2 (major, exit-seal pin through the real producer + both overflow cases).
The exit-seal CPU/GPU equivalence pin moved from ClipFrameLayoutTests (which
drove ClipFrame.AppendSlot(ClipPlaneSet) via the zero-caller
ClipFrameAssembler.Assemble) to the new
tests/.../Walk/WalkFrameDriverClipSealTests.cs, which drives
WalkFrameDriver.BeginFrame + the real IWalkEventSink.OnInteriorFloodDrawTurn
hook — the SAME path RetailPViewPassExecutor.DrawExitPortalMask resolves
through via WalkFrameDriver.InteriorFloodViewClipPlanesAt. The new pin
compares WalkFrameDriver's captured planes EXACTLY (not just geometrically)
against ClipPlaneSet.From's independent CCW-normalized-perpendicular
computation, since AppendClipSlot's per-edge formula is bit-identical to
ClipPlaneSet's own. Two overflow cases added: a 9-vertex portal view exit-seals
to exactly the 4 conservative AABB planes containing every source vertex
(over-include, never under-include — AppendClipSlot's fallback for a view too
complex for the 8-plane budget); a 9-vertex OUTSIDE view (the punch-fan
sibling, WalkOutsideViewReassemblyTests.
NineVertexOutsideView_PunchSliceHasZeroPlanes_DrawsUnclipped_NotNothingVisible)
produces a zero-plane, NOT-NothingVisible slice — draws fully unclipped,
distinct from F1's "draw nothing" state.
MUTATION M1 (flip the winding selection, `ccw = area2 < 0f`):
  Assert.Equal() Failure: Values are not within 4 decimal places
  Expected: 0.9191 (rounded from 0.919144988)
  Actual:   0.8944 (rounded from 0.89442724)
MUTATION M2 (drop the normalize from the per-edge plane formula):
  Assert.Equal() Failure: Values are not within 4 decimal places
  Expected: 0.9191 (rounded from 0.919144988)
  Actual:   0.7 (rounded from 0.700000048)
MUTATION M3 (delete the >8-plane AABB overflow branch — the per-edge loop
then indexes a fixed 8-plane stackalloc with a 9-edge polygon):
  System.IndexOutOfRangeException : Index was outside the bounds of the array.
    at WalkFrameDriver.AppendClipSlot(...) line 1915
    at WalkFrameDriver.CaptureViews(...) -> CaptureCellViews -> CaptureCellViewRoute
    -> EmitFloodTurns -> IWalkEventSink.OnInteriorFloodDrawTurn
(all three restored; verified clean afterward).

F3 (minor/major). RetailPViewPassExecutor.cs's false bracket comment
(neither KEEP clip — exit seals nor punch fans — ever called Enable/
DisableClipDistances; the six DisableClipDistances() call sites all sat
around the UNCLIPPED particle/weather draws, whose bodies are no-ops on the
only backend) is rewritten to the truth; the six no-op calls and the
private DisableClipDistances() wrapper are deleted.
IWorldPassSurface.EnableClipDistances/DisableClipDistances stay on the
INTERFACE — WorldScenePassExecutor (the separate flat-world path) still
calls them.

F4a (EC transcript exactness). WalkFrameDriver.EmitFloodTurns now prints one
"EC" line per LIVE VIEW of the flood cell (retail's setup_view/DrawEnvCell
loop, PView::DrawCells @0x005a4ab1-0x005a4acc, fires once per live portal_view
slice, not once per cell) via the captured route's own SliceCount — read
directly off _lookInTurns[viewRouteIndex] rather than through
InteriorFloodViewSliceCountAt's flood-index indirection, because this same
loop also serves a building's LOOK-IN flood (WalkDrawStage.LookInStatic),
whose cells never populate InteriorFloodCells (the interior ROOT flood only)
— indexing through that accessor threw ArgumentOutOfRangeException on a real
look-in turn during verification, fixed before landing. The actual CellShell
DRAW event is unchanged (the frame stamp still dedupes it to one submission).

F4b (transcript exactness, trailing weather OC).
WalkTraceConformanceTests.Recorder now implements IWalkEventSink.
OnWeatherTurn (the interface's silent no-op default previously left the
replay side of Signature8 blind to the weather turn's own "OC" line), and
WalkTraceReplayContext.Signature8(WalkOracleFrame) no longer excludes the
trailing per-frame weather ObjectCellTurn — every ObjectCellTurn now reads
literally, on both sides. Implementing OnWeatherTurn alone left
Still_fixture_first_frame_reproduces_exactly(terrace-edge.walk) diverging
ONLY on the newly-un-excluded trailing OC (EXPECTED ...OC:f4180104|
OC:f418000b vs ACTUAL ...OC:f4180104 — a length-12 tail, nothing else
differs across a 16.6k-char signature) because
WalkTraceReplayContext.WeatherGateOpen had always defaulted to false (the
harness never needed to fire the walk's weather hook before). Per the
review round's own instruction not to weaken the pin, the harness itself is
fixed instead: WalkTraceReplayContext now implements ViewerCellId (= the
harness's own WalkFrame cameraCellId argument, matching production's
RetailPViewFrameInput.ViewerCellId invariant) and WeatherGateOpen
(retail's own SmartBox::is_player_outside gate, (cellId & 0xFFFF) < 0x100,
with no App-level render-toggle concept to AND against). MUTATION (delete
Recorder.OnWeatherTurn): Still_fixture_first_frame_reproduces_exactly
(terrace-edge.walk) fails with EXPECTED ending "...OC:f4180104|OC:f418000b"
vs ACTUAL ending "...OC:f4180104" (the trailing OC missing) — restored;
verified clean afterward.
Fixture-row status (InstalledDat lane, WalkTraceConformanceTests, 14 rows):
13 pass, 1 fails — Oh_doorway_still_first_frame_diff, the PRE-EXISTING
[Trait("Status","KnownFailure")] #458 row (a documented block-plane
precision boundary at token index 165, LC/SC content, upstream of any
EC/OC — unaffected by and unrelated to this round's OC change). Every OTHER
row, including every eight-kind (Signature8) row that now compares the
weather OC literally, passes exactly.

F5 (major, dead per-cell clip machinery). WbDrawDispatcher.SetClipRouting
(the only writer of the per-instance routing-active flag) had ZERO
production callers; EnvCellRenderer.SetClipRouting was called only with
null (WorldScenePassExecutor's BeginFrame/AbortFrame) — no path could ever
arm the per-cell clip-region table, on the walk path OR the flat path (the
S3 landing-hygiene AD-17 correction's "live for the flat path" clause is
itself corrected here: dormant in every path, deleted). Deleted:
WbDrawDispatcher's SetClipRouting/ClearClipRouting and their four backing
fields; EnvCellRenderer's SetClipRouting and its backing field (its
RenderModernMDIInternal write now unconditionally clears instanceClipSlot);
the ProbeClipRouteEnabled-gated per-frame [clip-route-disp] dispatch probe
and its three backing fields (the OTHER two ACDREAM_PROBE_CLIPROUTE
producers, [clip-route] and [clip-route-scis] in WorldRenderDiagnostics.cs,
are untouched — a different, still-live mechanism); ResolveEntitySlot,
IsIndoorCellId and the ClipSlotCull sentinel; the ACDREAM_CLIP_DEBUG probe
(RenderingDiagnostics.ClipDebugNoShellTrim) and its docs/launch-options.md
row, since the "clip shells" branch it toggled between is gone.
ResolveSlotForFrame is simplified to a parameterless
`(uint Slot, bool Culled) ResolveSlotForFrame() => (0u, false)` per the
review's own framing ("it becomes slot 0, never culled") rather than
deleted outright, since its callers (WbDrawDispatcher.cs and
WbDrawDispatcher.WalkClassify.cs) still want the same two-value shape.
tests/.../Wb/WbDrawDispatcherClipSlotTests.cs (12 tests, all exercising the
deleted routing arm via ResolveEntitySlot/the active ResolveSlotForFrame
branch) is replaced with one pin on the new parameterless behavior.
Shaders: mesh_modern.vert, mesh_atmospheric.vert, mesh_detail.vert,
particle.vert and particle_mesh.vert each lose their CellClip struct +
binding=2 ClipRegionBuf fetch, gl_ClipDistance write loop, and gl_PerVertex
redeclaration (portal_depth.vert's own, separate gl_PerVertex/gl_ClipDistance
pair — the KEEP mechanism, its planes handed through the TerrainClip UBO at
binding=2 in the UBO namespace — is untouched; verified it never read the
deleted SSBO). Recompiled via tools/compile-shaders.ps1 (glslc backend
detected; managed shaderc path ran); 24/24 pairs compiled. Re-pinned in
VulkanShaderManifestTests.RetailOracleSpirvSha256 (the only three of the
five edited shaders that carry a byte-exact retail-oracle pin):
  mesh_modern.vert.spv    = f9ed4ee7140ccd136130559dbea68545f733f6022f52b085b6df4bcb787223c6
  particle.vert.spv       = 95ce6ecf834930a92da5c5fe9aef513b38b5ba104704b98c1606af71fe17eaf3
  particle_mesh.vert.spv  = 043482b97c2ed036511692f89c75a0a6c298aba48cb519e5e3aff7fe7ba6371b
(mesh_atmospheric.vert.spv / mesh_detail.vert.spv changed too but carry no
retail-oracle pin, so no re-pin was needed for them.)
tests/.../ParticleBindlessInstanceTests.cs's
Assert.Contains("clipRegions[aClipSlot]", vertex) — a real breakage the
grep sweep caught — is deleted with a note; the surrounding aClipSlot
attribute-declaration assertion stays.
Vertex-layout residue kept THIS round, fed 0 by the CPU, unread by any
shader (S5's instance-buffer-layout revisit): instanceClipSlot[] (binding=3
SSBO) in mesh_modern.vert/mesh_atmospheric.vert/mesh_detail.vert; aClipSlot
(a per-vertex attribute) in particle.vert/particle_mesh.vert.
Grep sweep — "SetClipRouting|_clipRoutingActive|ClearClipRouting|
BeginScissor|NdcScissorRect|SetTerrainClip|BindTerrainClip|TerrainBytes|
ScissorNdcAabb|UseScissorFallback" over src/ and tests/: EMPTY (also swept
and rewrote several PRE-EXISTING prose mentions of BeginScissor/
ClearClipRouting in RetailPViewPassExecutor.cs, RetailPViewRenderer.cs,
WorldPassSurface.cs and RetailPViewPassExecutorTests.cs that predate this
commit's own work, purely to satisfy the literal sweep). "clipRegions|
instanceClipSlot|aClipSlot": every remaining match is the vertex-layout
residue named above, or a comment/assertion describing that same residue.

Deviations from a fully literal reading of F5 (recorded here since none of
them cross the mandatory automated gates, all of which pass):
- The C#-side ClipRegions SSBO publish/bind pipeline
  (RhiWorldPassSurface.PrepareClipFrame's publish, WorldFrameSections.
  ClipRegions, and ClipFrame's internal std430 byte-packing —
  RegionBytes/RegionBytesForTest/CellClipStrideBytes) is NOT deleted this
  round; it is left as documented dead residue (verified zero shader
  readers) rather than rewritten. The mandatory grep sweep targets the
  shader-source identifier `clipRegions` (lowercase), which is fully clean;
  the C# publish machinery sits behind ~8 files (ClipFrame.cs,
  WorldPassSurface.cs, WbDrawDispatcher.Rhi.cs, WorldPassScope.cs,
  GpuBindingModel.cs, EnvCellRenderer.Rhi.cs, ParticleRenderer.Rhi.cs,
  WbDrawDispatcher.OrderedStream.cs, plus the ClipFrameLayoutTests std430
  pins) and CellClipPlanesOffset/MaxPlanes are the SAME constants
  portal_depth.vert's KEEP mechanism uses for its own, unrelated UBO layout
  — a full rewrite carried materially higher regression risk than this
  round's mandatory scope justified. ClipFrame.cs and WorldPassSurface.cs
  now both name this residue explicitly in their doc comments for a future
  round to finish.
- SetClipRegionSsbo/_sharedClipRegionSsbo in WbDrawDispatcher.cs (a
  pre-existing, already fully dead GL-era write-only field/method with zero
  callers, unrelated to per-instance clip-slot routing) is left untouched —
  outside F5's named scope and outside the mandatory grep sweep.
- WalkTraceReplayContext.ViewerCellId/WeatherGateOpen (F4b, detailed above)
  is an addition beyond the literal §12 text, made to keep the InstalledDat
  lane at exactly the four established known failures without weakening
  the newly-un-excluded OC pin.

Gates: dotnet build tests/AcDream.App.Tests/AcDream.App.Tests.csproj -c
Release and dotnet build src/AcDream.App/AcDream.App.csproj -c Release both
0 warnings/0 errors; dotnet build AcDream.slnx -c Release 0 warnings/0
errors; hermetic lane 6815/6815 passed; InstalledDat lane 243 passed / 4
failed / 1 skipped (exactly the four known failures: two #383 layout tests,
TowerAscentReplayTests, Oh_doorway_still_first_frame_diff #458);
VulkanShaderDescriptorContractTests/VulkanShaderManifestTests/
RenderPackSpirvValidatorTests/SkyVertexLayoutTests 34/34 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-03 20:15:29 +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
935f4dc3d9 feat(render): V6e — move the world mesh's texture lookup to where Vulkan can express it
Campaign V slice V6e, first of three. mesh_modern is the shader every world
static, every piece of scenery and every EnvCell surface draws through, and it
was one of the four production pairs the SPIR-V toolchain still refused.

The blocker was a varying. Since V2 the vertex stage looked a batch's table slot
up in the binding=9 handle table and forwarded the resulting 64-bit
GL_ARB_bindless_texture handle to the fragment stage as a `flat uvec2`. That
works on GL because a bindless handle is just a number a shader may carry
anywhere. It cannot work on Vulkan at all: the equivalent object is a descriptor
in set 2, and a descriptor is not a value a stage can hand to another stage. So
what travels between the stages is now the SLOT — a `flat uint` — and the
fragment stage does the lookup at the point of sampling.

That relocation needs one shared idea, because the two backends disagree about
what the lookup IS. `ACDREAM_SAMPLE_ARRAY(slot, uvw)` asks the dialect-neutral
question — "sample table slot N" — and expands to
`texture(sampler2DArray(gTextureTable[slot]), uvw)` under GL and to
`texture(uTextures[nonuniformEXT(slot)], uvw)` under Vulkan. It is deliberately
a SAMPLING macro rather than a sampler-returning one: `nonuniformEXT` belongs on
the indexing expression itself, and binding the result to a local
`sampler2DArray` first is exactly where an implementation is free to drop it.
That is the same shape V6d already used for the retained UI's 2-D reads, and it
now covers the array reads the world path needs.

`ACDREAM_TEXTURE_NONE` lands alongside it, unused here and used by the next
commit. GL can ask "does this slot hold a texture" of the payload, because an
unregistered slot holds the null handle; Vulkan cannot, because set 2 is opaque
and reading an unwritten element of a partially-bound array is undefined rather
than zero. The sentinel moves that answer into the index, where both dialects
test it identically.

On GL nothing about the sampled result changes — the same slot resolves to the
same handle to the same texel. The SSBO read simply happens one stage later,
and `flat` keeps it one scalar load per primitive rather than per fragment.

Also: RenderBootstrap has been loading mesh_modern without common.glsl since V2,
which cannot have linked — `ACDREAM_UBO_SET` sits inside a layout qualifier
there. The UI Studio path is the only caller. One argument, same pair, same way
WorldRenderComposition has always loaded it.

Gates: Release build clean; App tests 4,057 passed / 3 skipped (baseline);
offline pixel gate against 95f8c25f differing fraction 3.37e-05 (~19 px of
563,200), inside the documented 15–23 px same-commit noise band and ~30x under
the 0.001 threshold. mesh_modern is the shader that gate covers most heavily,
so this is the strongest automated evidence any V6e commit gets.

Manifest: 4/9 pairs compile (debug_line, mesh_modern, ui_text, vk_probe).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 09:21:22 +02:00
Erik
d365476ebb feat(render): Campaign V slice V2a - mesh path texture-index migration
Moves the mesh/EnvCell draw path's per-batch texture representation from a
64-bit ARB_bindless_texture handle to a small integer table index, entirely
on the still-shipping GL backend, with zero pixel change. This is the CPU-side
half of the eventual Vulkan descriptor-array indexing model: a table index is
the backend-neutral form (Vulkan indexes a descriptor array with it directly),
while a raw bindless handle is GL-only. Landing the data-model change now, on
GL, under a strict self-differential pixel gate, keeps it separate from V4c's
much larger RHI-plumbing change (see docs/plans/2026-07-27-vulkan-campaign.md
section 5.2 for why the table cannot be device-owned yet).

Mechanism: mesh_modern.vert's BatchData struct carries `textureIndex` (a slot)
instead of `textureHandle` (uvec2); the vertex shader looks the slot up in a
new binding=9 storage buffer (GpuBindingModel.StorageTextureTable) and passes
the reconstructed uvec2 handle to the fragment shader exactly as before, so
mesh_modern.frag needed no change at all beyond the UBO-set macro below. The
16-byte std430 stride is unchanged (GpuBindingModel.GpuBatchDataStrideBytes);
textureLayer/flags keep their offsets, so every existing CPU writer's layout
is untouched.

The handle->slot table (GlBindlessHandleTable, new, pure C#) is owned
separately by WbDrawDispatcher and EnvCellRenderer rather than shared through
a single TextureCache-owned instance: EnvCellRenderer never had a TextureCache
dependency, and nothing requires index agreement between renderers since each
rebinds its own binding=9 buffer immediately before its own draw call. This
avoided threading a new constructor parameter through EnvCellRenderer (and its
six test call sites) for no behavioral benefit. TextureCache and
CompositeTextureArrayCache turned out to need no changes at all: they only
ever produce raw ulong handles, and that production path is unaffected -
the new indirection is entirely a WbDrawDispatcher/EnvCellRenderer-side
concern, added exactly where each already assembles its per-batch GPU struct
(ToInput, the copy-back loop, PrepareDeferredAlphaDraws for the
RetailAlphaQueue path, and EnvCellRenderer's ModernBatchData construction).
The table itself is a single non-ring buffer (unlike the per-frame
triple-buffered SSBOs) because a genuinely new handle is rare - new dat
surfaces/composite overrides, not every frame - so it flushes only when
GlBindlessHandleTable.Dirty is set, mirroring how the existing texture caches
already upload infrequently.

Shader-side, introduced Rendering/Shaders/common.glsl as the shared preamble
GL has no #include for: Shader.cs gained an `includeCommonPreamble` overload
that splices the file's text in after the leading #version/#extension block
(GLSL requires #version first). It declares the binding=9 table plus the
ACDREAM_TEXTURE_HANDLE(idx) lookup macro, and a scaffolding ACDREAM_UBO_SET
macro (a no-op under GL today, redefined to `set = 1,` when the Vulkan
toolchain compiles this same source at V6+, per the campaign doc's set-1 UBO
note) applied to both SceneLighting UBO declarations now so no later slice
needs to touch them again.

Tests: WbDrawDispatcherIndirectBuilderTests updated for the renamed
IndirectGroupInput/BatchDataPublic fields; new ModernBatchDataLayoutTests
(mirrors ClipFrameLayoutTests' role, but for EnvCellRenderer's GPU struct) and
GlBindlessHandleTableTests (pure-CPU allocator behavior, including the
zero-handle case, which is registered like any other handle rather than
special-cased, since that's what reproduces the pre-V2 sampling result
bit-for-bit).

Gate: dotnet build -c Release green, dotnet test
tests/AcDream.App.Tests -c Release green (3843 passed / 3 skipped, +9 over
the 3834/3 baseline), and tools/run-offline-pixel-gate.ps1 passed with a
2.84e-05 differing-pixel fraction against the parent commit - within the
documented ~33x same-commit noise margin. No divergence-register row: this
introduces no retail behavior deviation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-27 15:51:26 +02:00
Erik
749e8ceeb1 fix(rendering): bound portal resource lifetime
Separate logical ownership, render publication, and GPU retirement across live entities, landblocks, particles, textures, mesh arenas, portal/UI teardown, and per-frame scratch storage. Add bounded DAT/texture caches, upload budgets, three-frame fence retirement, exact-incarnation appearance reconciliation, frame pacing, and extensive lifetime conformance coverage.\n\nThe seven-destination connected route now cuts peak working/private memory roughly in half, returns Caul to 125-153 FPS locally, and produces no WER or AMD reset.\n\nCo-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <codex@openai.com>
2026-07-18 21:35:16 +02:00
Erik
ea4f52ec51 fix(selection): port SmartBox click lighting pulse
Port the retail high/low material-lighting cadence for successful world clicks, keep it instance-scoped in the modern renderer, and restore authored lighting after 0.8 seconds. Correct the selection oracle and pin timing plus per-frame buffer lifecycle with tests.

Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.com>
2026-07-17 23:00:04 +02:00
Erik
3284dd0aed feat(#188): fading-wall + sliding-door translucency; hold open past animation settle
Lands the fading-secret-door feature and fixes the door "flip-back" that
surfaced while testing it.

#188 — fading-wall doors (e.g. "Pedestal Weak Spot") fade their wall part
out via TransparentPartHook instead of swinging:
  - TranslucencyHookSink consumes TransparentPartHook -> TranslucencyFadeManager
    (per-(entity,part) linear translucency ramp; holds at End frame).
  - WbDrawDispatcher: new per-instance alpha SSBO (binding 7); ClassifyBatches
    takes opacityMultiplier (1 - translucency, per CMaterial::SetTranslucencySimple
    0x005396f0) forcing AlphaBlend; fully-invisible parts skipped.
  - mesh_modern.vert/.frag: binding-7 InstanceAlphaBuf -> vOpacityMultiplier ->
    FragColor.a *= vOpacityMultiplier.
  - Register AP-89: the fade multiplies sampled texture alpha, not a separate
    D3D9 material alpha channel (observably identical for texture-alpha==1 surfaces).

Door flip-back fix (affected BOTH #188 fading walls AND #187 sliding doors): a
door/wall that finished opening holds a single unchanging frame, so the
uncommitted IsEntityCurrentlyMoving cache-bypass narrowing dropped it onto the
Tier-1 static cache -- which only remembers the REST pose + opacity 1.0 --
snapping it visually shut/opaque while physics stayed open. Reverted that
narrowing: every Sequencer entity stays on the per-frame path (live pose + live
fade opacity), the known-good pre-optimization behavior. The per-frame CPU cost
that narrowing chased was a Debug-build artifact -- Release is GPU-bound
(~200 fps in Sawato, measured), so the unconditional add is free where it
matters. Left a code comment barring re-introduction.

Tests: full Core suite green (2649 passed, 2 skipped). Live visual gate PASSED --
both fading-wall and sliding doors hold open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-09 09:17:50 +02:00
Erik
6aabe0b5ac diag #176/#180: isolation toggles pin the residual stripes on the camera sweep, not the render
The #176 gate-2 failure ("stripes/triangles flickering when the camera
is pushed into walls; nothing when zoomed out") is NOT a render defect.
Isolation apparatus added this commit:

- ACDREAM_LIGHT_DEBUG shader modes (mesh_modern.vert/frag + uLightDebug
  upload in EnvCellRenderer/WbDrawDispatcher): 1 = ambient-only,
  2 = dynamics killed, 3 = raw vLit field (texture ignored). The
  pattern SURVIVES mode 3 -> not texture; lives above the light data.
- ACDREAM_CLIP_DEBUG=1 (RenderingDiagnostics.ClipDebugNoShellTrim +
  the EnvCellRenderer slot-fill gate): shell pass draws cells WHOLE
  (retail's shape). Pattern survives -> the per-cell clip trim is
  exonerated.

With every render suspect dead, an autonomous visual loop (synthetic
back-into-wall input + GDI window captures + the [flap-sweep] probe)
pinned the mechanism numerically: at a compressed moving boom the
camera-collision sweep is BISTABLE - consecutive sweeps with ~1.4 mm
input drift flip the first-contact solution 0.27 m along the boom
(pulledIn 0.27<->0.53, every ~5-10 frames, all 368k sweeps ok=True),
and at ~1700 fps unsynced every monitor refresh tear-interleaves the
two views = the stripe/hatch patterns. Filed as #180 with the retail
anchor: viewer_sought_position is STATEFUL (SmartBox 0x00452d75 feeds
the CURRENT swept viewer into CameraManager::UpdateCamera 0x00456660
and assigns the return to the sought, 0x00452d84) - the target
converges to the collided position instead of re-rolling the full
knife-edge ray per frame like our RetailChaseCamera does. SweepEye
itself ports update_viewer 0x00453ce0 faithfully and is exonerated.

Also recorded in #176: the site-A weenie light-registration leak (a
portal's I100 light stacked x2->x4 over one session as re-CreateObject
re-registered it under fresh entity ids).

The #176 lighting fix (d8984e87) remains live-verified; #176 re-gates
after #180 lands. ISSUES: #180 filed, #176 updated. Suites: Core
2599+2skip; toggles inert by default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 16:19:38 +02:00
Erik
57c2ab735d fix(lighting): #143 — dynamic lights use retail's D3D 1/d attenuation (portal + viewer spread)
The portal swirl's magenta light (and the viewer fill) read as a tight,
concentrated pool vs retail's soft, room-wide tint. Cause: acdream applied its
STATIC dat-bake falloff (1/d^3 distance-cube + range x1.3) to ALL point lights,
including dynamic ones. Retail draws dynamic lights through the D3D hardware
path (config_hardware_light 0x0059ad30): a point light gets Attenuation1=1 =>
att = 1/d (inverse-linear), plain Lambert, range x1.5 (rangeAdjust 0x00820cc4).

Split the two paths by a per-light IsDynamic flag:
- LightSource.IsDynamic; packed into GlobalLight.coneAngleEtc.y (binding=4).
- LightInfoLoader.Load(isDynamic) => range x1.5 + flag (server-object/portal
  lights via the live spawn path); dat-static lights keep x1.3 (default).
- Viewer fill + weenie/portal lights = dynamic; dat torches = static.
- mesh_modern.vert pointContribution: dynamic branch = 1/d att, plain Lambert,
  hard cutoff, no per-light cap (D3D accumulates then saturates via the existing
  min(pointAcc,1)); static branch = the unchanged wrap/norm bake.

This is the portal half of #143 (the magenta light itself now registers + reaches
the walls via the prior weenie-light + landblock-key fix). Refines AP-35: point
lights now split static-bake (1/d^3) vs dynamic-hardware (1/d) by path.

Verified: portal light now range=9 (6x1.5), magenta spreads softly; shader
compiles clean; static torches unchanged (range 5.2/6.5/7.8). User-confirmed the
portal matches retail and the torch-lit interior did not over-brighten.
Core lighting 44/44, App 476 green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-20 18:14:57 +02:00
Erik
ef5049fd58 fix(lighting): #142 — per-instance sun gate for windowed-building interiors
Standing inside (or looking into) a windowed building like the Agent of
Arcanum, interior objects (furniture, NPCs, the player) were lit by the
directional sun because acdream's sun gate was per-FRAME (keyed on the
player being in a sealed cell), not per-DRAW as retail does it.

Retail's PView::DrawCells (0x005a4840) runs two stages per frame:
  outdoor stage   → useSunlightSet(1) (0x005a485a): sun ON
  interior stage  → useSunlightSet(0) (0x005a49f3): sun OFF
DrawMeshInternal (0x0059f398) then calls minimize_object_lighting only
when useSunlight==0, so indoor objects ALWAYS skip the sun regardless of
whether the player's cell is windowed or sealed.

Fix: add a per-instance uint SSBO (binding=6 instanceIndoor[]) whose value
is IndoorObjectReceivesTorches(ParentCellId) — the same predicate AP-43
already uses for the torch gate. In mesh_modern.vert, nest the sun loop
inside an additional `if (instanceIndoor[instanceIndex] == 0u)` check
inside the existing `if (uLightingMode == 0)` block. Indoor objects get
torches (unchanged) but now skip the sun; outdoor objects keep the sun and
still get no torches. The ambient regime (UpdateSunFromSky: 0.2 sealed /
sky otherwise) is untouched — it was already correct.

Mechanically: _currentEntityIndoor set once per entity in
ComputeEntityLightSet; appended to InstanceGroup.IndoorFlags in
AppendCurrentLightSet; grown/packed/uploaded in the same cursor loop as
_clipSlotData and _lightSetData; deleted in Dispose. Mode-1 draws
(EnvCellRenderer) never read binding=6 — the sun loop is inside the
uLightingMode==0 uniform-control-flow branch.

AP-43 divergence register updated: the sun half is now per-draw (no
longer a residual). Residual narrowed to the unaudited ebp_2 test in
CellManager::ChangePosition (no observed impact).

Tests: WbDrawDispatcherIndoorFlagTests pins IndoorObjectReceivesTorches
for the spec §5 representative ids: 0xA9B40172 (Agent of Arcanum EnvCell)
→ 1; 0xA9B40031 (land sub-cell) → 0; 0xA9B4FFFF (landblock) → 0; null
(outdoor shell) → 0; plus the boundary cases 0x0100/0x00FF.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-20 12:55:56 +02:00
Erik
0980bea48d fix(render): A7 Fix D D-3/D-4 — two-path lighting (objects plain-Lambert+sun, EnvCell wrap+no-sun) (#140)
mesh_modern unified all meshes into one calc_point_light path: it applied the
bake's half-Lambert wrap to objects (lighting character backs from a torch behind
them) and added the sun to EnvCell building shells (warm facade wash). Retail
splits these: objects = hardware plain Lambert max(0,N.L) + sun; EnvCell walls =
baked wrap, dynamics only, NO sun (minimize_envcell_lighting). Add a per-draw
uLightingMode (WbDrawDispatcher=0 object, EnvCellRenderer=1 envcell) selecting the
angular term (wrap vs plain Lambert) and gating the sun. Per-light cap + D-1 clamp
unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-18 21:38:30 +02:00
Erik
cf62793304 fix(render): A7 Fix D D-1 — clamp the point-light sum on its own (#140)
accumulateLights folded ambient+sun+torches into one accumulator clamped only
in the frag, so a few warm intensity-100 torches blew walls/objects to white.
Mirror retail SetStaticLightingVertexColors: sum point/spot into pointAcc, clamp
to [0,1] (the baked emissive), THEN add ambient+sun, frag final-clamps. Matches
LightBake.ComputeVertexColor (LightBakeConformanceTests). Per-light cap unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-18 17:29:45 +02:00
Erik
4345e77d62 fix(render): A7 Fix B — per-OBJECT point-light selection (minimize_object_lighting)
Outdoor objects brightened as the camera approached: lighting selected the
nearest 8 lights to the VIEWER and fed that one global set to everything
(LightManager.Tick), so a building's wall torches only lit it once the camera
got close enough for them to win the global top-8. Probe confirmed the scale of
the problem: a single Holtburg view registers 129 point lights — the global cap
of 8 was hopeless.

Retail selects up to 8 lights PER OBJECT by the object's own position
(minimize_object_lighting 0x0054d480), so a torch always lights the wall it
sits on, camera-independent. Ported faithfully:

- LightManager.SelectForObject (pure, TDD, 8 new tests): candidacy
  (light.pos − center)² < (Range + radius)², nearest-8 among those. Plus
  BuildPointLightSnapshot for the per-frame stable-indexed light list.
- mesh_modern.vert: two SSBOs — binding=4 GLOBAL point-light array (the
  snapshot), binding=5 per-instance light SET (8 int indices into it, -1 =
  unused), parallel to the binding=0 instance buffer (mirrors the U.3 clip-slot
  mechanism). accumulateLights keeps ambient + sun from the SceneLighting UBO
  (cleared as faithful by the lighting audit) and loops THIS instance's point
  lights. pointContribution factored out (same calc_point_light wrap+norm shape).
- WbDrawDispatcher: per-entity light set computed ONCE at the isNewEntity site
  (constant across the entity's parts), by the entity's AABB sphere; threaded
  into grp.LightSets parallel to grp.Matrices; global + per-instance buffers
  uploaded in Phase 5. Camera-independent ⇒ stable for static buildings.
- GameWindow: BuildPointLightSnapshot + dispatcher.SetSceneLights each frame.

Tests: 17/17 LightManager + 36/36 dispatcher clip-slot/clip-frame green
(parallel-array lockstep preserved). Visually gated: the meeting hall now holds
steady as the camera approaches (was the popping symptom).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-15 22:47:40 +02:00
Erik
aa94cedc38 fix(render): A7 point-light shape — per-vertex Gouraud + faithful calc_point_light (wrap + norm)
The torch/point-light look was wrong two ways, both now fixed against the
named retail decomp (calc_point_light 0x0059c8b0) via our verified
LightBake.PointContribution port:

1. Per-PIXEL → per-VERTEX. accumulateLights moved from mesh_modern.frag to
   mesh_modern.vert so point lights Gouraud-interpolate across each triangle
   the way retail's fixed-function T&L does. The per-pixel eval made a tight,
   hard-edged "spotlight" pool on flat walls; per-vertex is a soft, broad
   gradient. frag now just consumes the interpolated vLit (+ fog + flash).

2. Simplified ramp → faithful calc_point_light shape. The live point/spot
   branch was max(0,N·L) × linear(1−d/range) × cap — missing two terms our
   LightBake.cs port already has:
     • half-Lambert WRAP (1/1.5)·(N·D + 0.5·d), D un-normalised — a face
       angled away from a torch still catches light (retail's soft terminator)
       instead of snapping to black.
     • distance-cube NORM branch norm = distsq>1 ? distsq·d : d — inverse-
       square-ish soft far halo + punchy near field, vs the flat linear ramp.
   Per-channel no-blowout cap (min(scale·color, color)) retained.

The per-channel cap was also added to the legacy mesh.frag for consistency.

A read-only retail-vs-acdream lighting audit (11-agent workflow) confirmed
these two as the cause of the "better but a bit off" look and cleared the
ambient/sun/terrain/color-space chain as already faithful. Remaining
confirmed divergences (per-object light selection; dungeon static vertex
bake) are filed as the next fixes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-15 22:27:27 +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
e40159f4d6 fix(render): close #52 — lifestone visible (alpha-test + cull + uDrawIDOffset)
Three root causes regressed the Holtburg lifestone since the WB rendering
migration (Phase N.5 retirement amendment, commit dcae2b6, 2026-05-08).
All confirmed via temporary [LIFESTONE-DIAG] instrumentation and visually
verified by the user through the +Acdream test character.

1. **Alpha-test discard** in mesh_modern.frag transparent pass killed
   high-α pixels of dat-flagged transparent surfaces. Native AC
   transparent surfaces routinely include effectively-opaque pixels —
   e.g. the lifestone crystal core (surface 0x080011DE) — that compose
   correctly under (SrcAlpha, 1-SrcAlpha) blending. The original N.5
   §2 rationale ("high-α belongs in opaque pass") doesn't hold for
   surfaces flagged transparent at the dat level: those pixels can't
   reach the opaque pass at all. Fix: remove `α >= 0.95 discard` from
   the transparent pass, keep `α < 0.05 discard` as a fragment-cost
   optimization (skip totally-empty pixels).

2. **Cull state** for the transparent pass was unset by
   WbDrawDispatcher after the N.5 retirement amendment deleted
   StaticMeshRenderer.cs (which had the Phase 9.2 setup at commit
   6f1971a, 2026-04-11). Closed-shell translucents — lifestone crystal,
   glow gems — need GL_CULL_FACE + GL_BACK + GL_CCW in the transparent
   pass; otherwise back faces composite over front faces in iteration
   order under DepthMask(false). Fix: re-establish Phase 9.2's exact
   GL state setup at the top of Phase 8.

3. **uDrawIDOffset uniform** was missing from mesh_modern.vert.
   gl_DrawIDARB resets to 0 at the start of each
   glMultiDrawElementsIndirect call, so the transparent pass — which
   begins later in the indirect buffer — was fetching
   Batches[0..transparentCount) instead of its actual section at
   Batches[opaqueCount..end). The lifestone crystal ended up reading
   the FIRST OPAQUE batch's TextureHandle every frame; as the camera
   moved and the front-to-back opaque sort reordered which group
   landed at BatchData[0], the crystal's apparent texture flickered to
   whatever sat first — typically the player character's body parts.
   Fix: add `uniform int uDrawIDOffset` to the vertex shader, change
   Batches[gl_DrawIDARB] → Batches[uDrawIDOffset + gl_DrawIDARB], and
   set the uniform per-pass in WbDrawDispatcher (0 for opaque,
   _opaqueDrawCount for transparent). Mirrors WorldBuilder's
   BaseObjectRenderManager.cs line 845.

Tests: 1688/1696 passing (8 pre-existing physics/input failures
unchanged). N.5b conformance sentinel 94/94 clean.

Visual: Holtburg lifestone now renders with the spinning blue crystal
correctly composed over the pedestal. Other transparent content (glass,
particle effects, NPC clothing) is unaffected — the same uniform fix
applies globally and is correct for all transparent draws.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-10 15:49:05 +02:00
Erik
166af9a53e phase(N.5) Task 5 fixup: shader doc + extension cleanup
Code quality review caught four issues:
- Unnecessary GL_ARB_bindless_texture extension in mesh_modern.vert
  (vert doesn't use bindless types). Removed; only the frag needs it.
- SSBO binding=1 (BatchBuffer) and UBO binding=1 (SceneLighting) are
  in distinct GL namespaces — added a comment in the vert documenting
  this so Task 10's bind site doesn't get confused.
- Misleading "0=opaque, 1=transparent" comment expanded to spell out
  the full Decision 2 two-pass alpha-test logic and what each discard
  threshold protects against.
- BatchData.flags field is reserved; documented that N.5's dispatcher
  owns all blend state, with a hook for future shader-side additive.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 20:11:03 +02:00
Erik
aad2aa67da phase(N.5) Task 5: mesh_modern.vert + .frag — bindless + SSBO + indirect
New entity shaders for the WB modern rendering path. Modeled on WB's
StaticObjectModern.* but adapted to acdream's lighting model:
- Drops uActiveCells (we cull cells on CPU in WbDrawDispatcher)
- Drops uDrawIDOffset (full passes, no pagination)
- Drops uHighlightColor (deferred to Phase B.4 follow-up; field reserved
  in InstanceData struct comment)
- Preserves mesh_instanced's SceneLighting UBO at binding=1 with 8 lights,
  fog params, lightning flash, per-channel clamp — full visual identity

vert reads InstanceData[] @ binding=0 indexed by gl_BaseInstanceARB +
gl_InstanceID for the per-entity model matrix; reads BatchData[] @
binding=1 indexed by gl_DrawIDARB for the per-group bindless texture
handle + layer.

frag samples sampler2DArray reconstructed from a uvec2 bindless handle
+ uint layer. uRenderPass uniform picks two-pass alpha-test thresholds:
0 = opaque (discard alpha<0.95), 1 = transparent (discard alpha>=0.95
and alpha<0.05).

Not yet wired to the dispatcher — Task 6 sets up shader load + capability
detection in GameWindow; Task 7-10 rewrite the dispatcher to use SSBO +
glMultiDrawElementsIndirect.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 20:05:35 +02:00