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Erik
4f26067755 docs(physics): implementation plan — unified verbatim-collision (5 slices)
Task-by-task plan for the unified collision-inclusion fix: D1 DAT-only shape
authority + delete mesh-AABB, D3 sphere primitive, D2+D5 obstruction_ethereal
port, D8 RemoveCellsForLandblock, D4+W1 entry-restrictions + dispatch wiring.
Each task: grep-named -> pseudocode -> port -> conformance-test, build+test
green, commit; visual gates batched to the end.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-24 18:51:01 +02:00
Erik
2d9e0cf424 docs(physics): collision-inclusion audit + unified verbatim-collision design
19-agent verified audit of how retail decides which objects collide vs
acdream's per-channel filters. Confirms the user's "1 fix for all collision"
intuition: acdream already has retail's two-layer shape (per-cell shadow
registration + query-time exemption); the divergences are now narrow and
enumerable, not a scattered filter mess.

Audit (docs/research/2026-06-24-collision-inclusion-audit.md): 6 confirmed
deviations (D1 mesh-AABB phantom HIGH, D2 ETHEREAL-alone, D3 no sphere
primitive, D4 entry-restrictions, D5 obstruction_ethereal absent, D8 cell-
transform stale cache) + 2 refuted by the adversarial pass (D6 placement-
insert present in BSPQuery; D7 terrain pass-through is the #135/#138
streaming-gap, retail does it too). Loader verified faithful: CacheGfxObj
reads PhysicsBSP gated on HasPhysics; the mesh-AABB is a pure additive
non-faithful layer.

Design (docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-24-unified-collision-inclusion-design.md):
"1 fix" = one DAT-only shape authority (delete mesh-AABB), one query
predicate, four faithful channels kept distinct (retail keeps find_env/
find_building/find_obj separate), one per-apply rebase invariant. 5
independently-gated slices. Retires register rows AP-2 + AD-7.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-24 18:43:13 +02:00
Erik
6491798edf docs(perf): dense-town FPS attribution (CPU-bound, GPU=0.5ms) + cellobject-batch spec
Attribution report: the handoff's "~12ms GPU" was a glFinish artifact; the clean
split measures GPU=0.5ms and a ~96% CPU-bound frame whose cost scales with visible
buildings. [CPU-PHASE] ranks it: cellobjects 3.5 / landscape 2.6 / partition 2 /
dynamics 1.2 ms; floods, punch-seal, clip-allocs, shells all <0.3ms (refuted).

Spec: iteration-1 fix = batch the per-cell WbDrawDispatcher.Draw calls in
DrawCellObjectLists into one cross-cell draw (the proven cells-shell pattern),
two-loop structure to keep particle-after-statics depth ordering. Target: dense
town solidly 144+.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-23 20:41:45 +02:00
Erik
fd9354f69e docs: implementation plan — EnvCell shell batching
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-23 15:49:18 +02:00
Erik
fcf60d868a docs: spec — batch EnvCell shell draws (dense-town FPS root cause)
Live profiling found the dense-town (Arwic 29fps) bottleneck: EnvCellRenderer
.Render called ~94x/frame (per-cell x opaque+transparent) = 24.75ms = 75% of
the GPU frame. Render is a heavy per-frame method (state reset + SSBO upload +
MDI) invoked per-cell for far->near transparency order. Eliminated, with
evidence, every other suspect incl. the handoff's distance-degrade theory
(entities 0.22ms; resolution-independent => not fill; update 0.1ms).

Spec: batch the shell draws into one Render per pass. Opaque needs no order
(z-buffer) + lighting is per-instance (CellId-keyed SSBO) => safe to batch.
Transparent: skip opaque-only cells, preserve order for the rest.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-23 15:46:19 +02:00
Erik
5ab5d3910e docs: datLock-contention FPS fix implementation plan
5-task TDD plan: PhysicsDatBundle on LoadedLandblock; worker pre-reads the
apply's six Get<T> sites into it; ApplyLoadedTerrainLocked reads from the
bundle; drop the apply's lock(_datLock); verify lockwait->0; strip probes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-23 09:29:46 +02:00
Erik
c715e55937 docs: datLock-contention FPS fix design spec
The 30↔200 FPS swing is _datLock contention: the streaming worker holds
the global dat lock for the full per-landblock build (lockwait measured
24ms median / 88ms p95), stalling the update thread's ApplyLoadedTerrain.
Fix (A1): the worker pre-reads the apply's six Get<T> sites into a physics
dat bundle so ApplyLoadedTerrainLocked makes zero DatCollection calls and
its lock(_datLock) is removed. Approved design; implementation next.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-23 09:22:20 +02:00
Erik
b869128df3 docs(teleport): TDD implementation plan — priority residency + fade cover
6 tasks: (1) StreamingController priority-apply, (2) PhysicsEngine residency
query, (3) TAS drives transit + outdoor hold-until-resident (retire the
TeleportArrivalController driver), (4) fullscreen fade overlay, (5) cell-march
lbX hardening, (6) verify + strip the tp-probe. Reuses the dormant
TeleportAnimSequencer as the transit driver; worldReady gates on the
priority-applied destination landblock.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-22 12:51:07 +02:00
Erik
31602c6a24 docs(teleport): spec — retail residency + fade-cover (refutes _datLock starvation)
Live tp-probe capture refuted the handoff's _datLock-starvation hypothesis:
worker BUILD is fast + uncontended (waited=0ms); the 10-14s 'long transition'
is render-thread APPLY latency, and 'dropped at wrong position' is the
per-frame resolve corrupting the outbound cell frame (lbX zeroed) while the
player sits on an empty world. Design: priority-apply the player's dest
landblock + hold-until-resident behind a retail fade cover (reuse the dormant
TeleportAnimSequencer) + cell-march landblock-id hardening. Foundation-first,
not a hold over slow streaming. Flood-timeslicing + 3D swirl deferred.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-22 11:18:16 +02:00
Erik
82462ff153 docs(teleport-flow): implementation plan — 22 TDD tasks across 5 slices (Work item B)
Bite-sized TDD plan for the retail teleport flow. Slice 1: pure
TeleportAnimSequencer (7-state TAS) + golden-timing tests. Slice 2: the
#145 readiness-gate fix (IsLandblockLoaded + Decide outdoorReady axis +
apparatus probe) — ships independently of the visuals. Slice 3:
TeleportFlowController (delegate-injected, unit-tested) + TeleportFadeOverlay
+ portal wiring (PlaceTeleportArrival split: place vs InWorld so the input
lock persists the whole animation). Slice 4: one yaw-freeze + portal sounds
via the EnumIDMap chain. Slice 5: de-dup login readiness onto Decide, route
login/death through the controller, logout (Shift+Esc) + 0xF653 + disconnect,
remove dead _teleportArrival plumbing. Slice 6 (literal 3D swirl) is a
follow-up plan gated on a cdb asset trace.

Drafted via two research + drafting workflows; slices 3-5 redrafted as one
cohesive unit against a pinned controller API after the first parallel pass
produced cross-slice inconsistencies (missing controller task, triplicated
yaw-freeze, a fabricated PlayerMovementController.Update signature). All
load-bearing signatures personally verified against the tree.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-21-retail-teleport-flow.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-21 19:42:28 +02:00
Erik
aab9ddaf6b docs(teleport-flow): design — unified retail TeleportAnimState flow (Work item B keystone)
Brainstormed + decomp-researched the retail teleport flow, the keystone of
the #138/#145 teleport cluster. Five oracle calls locked: full retail TAS;
hold-until-landblock-loaded readiness (folds in the #145 residual / Work
item A); unify all four entry points (login/logout/death/portal); build the
literal portal swirl this pass; logout = animation + 0xF653 + disconnect
(char-select UI deferred).

Grounded in a verified 5-agent decomp pass (workflow wf_f0c07c93-7aa): the
7-state TeleportAnimState machine + golden constants (FADE=1s, MIN/MAX
CONTINUE=2/5s, FPS=40), the teleport_in_progress hold gate, per-entry start
states, sounds, input lock, exit (LoginComplete 0xA1). Load-bearing acdream
facts re-verified personally: AddLandblock atomicity, streaming-progresses-
during-hold, outdoor place-immediately.

Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-21-retail-teleport-flow-design.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-21 19:03:10 +02:00
Erik
865aae8876 docs(#145): Slice 3 — capture cellId/anchor-consistency + indoor-staleness edge cases + sweep threading map
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-21 11:08:13 +02:00
Erik
9e184eb861 docs(#145): Slice 3 design — carried-anchor (body.Position - CellPosition.Origin) replaces TryGetTerrainOrigin
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-21 11:05:54 +02:00
Erik
7cae03951e docs(#145): plan — split Slice 2 into 2a (Core, shipped) + fold 2b seeding into Slice 3
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-21 10:57:04 +02:00
Erik
c980763322 refactor(physics #145): Slice 1 — rename Frame->CellFrame to avoid DatReaderWriter.Types.Frame collision
The new value type collided with DatReaderWriter.Types.Frame (used in
physics-adjacent code like ShadowShapeBuilder), which the structural fix
(per-file using-aliases across 6 files) would have re-incurred in every
later physics slice. Renamed the TYPE to CellFrame; the Position.Frame
MEMBER keeps retail's name. Restored the 5 alias-only files to their
pre-Slice-1 state; synced spec + plan. Core 1522 passed / 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-21 10:34:36 +02:00
Erik
ed32db70d7 docs(#145): implementation plan — cell-relative physics frame (7 slices)
Bite-sized, TDD-structured 7-slice plan for subagent-driven execution:
(1) Position/Frame types + GetBlockOffset, (2) PhysicsBody carries
Position, (3) membership via AdjustToOutside — closes the cascade,
(4) inter-tick collision state cell-relative + validate_transition
lockstep, (5) wire off Position, (6) _liveCenter render-only, (7)
teleport velocity-idle. Conformance via transform-on-read.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-21 10:23:37 +02:00
Erik
fd1f86b771 docs(#145): Option B design spec — cell-relative physics Position frame
Approved design for the cell-relative physics frame port: retire
_liveCenter from physics (render-only), carry Position{ObjCellId,
Frame{local in [0,192), quat}} as the source of truth, port
get_block_offset (verified 0x0043e630 nets to delta-landblock * 192 m),
translate inter-tick collision state per-cell like retail (0x0050a592).
7-slice parallel-frame migration; conformance via transform-on-read (no
fixture re-capture).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-21 10:18:18 +02:00
Erik
cd024377a0 docs(lighting): #142 spec — per-instance sun gate for windowed interiors
Decomp + in-game probe (agent-arcanum-probe.log) show the ambient regime
is already retail-faithful (CellManager::ChangePosition 0x004559B0); only
the sun is wrong — acdream gates it per-FRAME, retail per-STAGE
(useSunlight 0x0054d450). Fix = a per-instance indoor flag (reusing
IndoorObjectReceivesTorches, the AP-43 predicate) gating the sun off for
indoor mode-0 objects. No second ambient, UpdateSunFromSky + EnvCellRenderer
unchanged. User pre-approved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-20 12:49:35 +02:00
Erik
31d7ffd253 merge: bring main (A7 lighting Fix A–D + UN-7 + #140 Fix D) into the D.5 branch
Integrates main's 19 commits (A7 outdoor/indoor torch lighting Fix A/B/C/D,
GlobalLightPacker, shader updates, UN-7) under the D.5 toolbar/item-model stack
(D.5.1/D.5.2/D.5.4/D.5.3a). Auto-merged cleanly except docs/ISSUES.md.

Conflict resolved: both lineages used #140 for different issues. Kept main's
#140 = "A7 Fix D" (resolved); renumbered the toolbar/selected-object issue to
#141 (note added; this branch's commits/spec still reference #140 — immutable).
The register auto-merged (AP-46 cites file:line, not #140; UN-7 keeps #140=Fix D).

Build + full suite green on the merged tree (2,713 passed / 4 skipped).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-20 12:01:20 +02:00
Erik
c83fd02642 merge: bring main (UN-7, #140 filing, D.2b UI rows) into A7 Fix D round-2 branch
Resolves the divergence-register conflict: kept the accurate per-VERTEX AP-35
(Fix A shipped per-vertex; main's row was the stale pre-Fix-A per-pixel text),
kept main's UI rows AP-37..AP-42, and renumbered this branch's torch-gate row
AP-37 -> AP-43 (AP-37 was taken by main's LayoutDesc row). AP count 41 -> 42.
Retargeted the AP-37 references in WbDrawDispatcher + the CHECKPOINT to AP-43.
Marked ISSUES #140 RESOLVED (b7d655b) with the corrected root cause.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-20 09:29:53 +02:00
Erik
6636e50c2a feat(D.5.3a): selected-object meter — Health bar + name on the action bar
Port of gmToolbarUI::HandleSelectionChanged (acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:198635).
When the player selects a world object the action bar's bottom strip shows the
object name + (for player/pet/attackable targets) a live Health meter; deselect
clears it. Mana (#140) + stack slider deferred.

- SelectedObjectController (new): clear-then-populate on selection change; sets
  name (UiText child, VitalsController pattern), overlay state (ObjectSelected /
  StackedItemSelected via UiDatElement.ActiveState), shows the health meter and
  sends QueryHealth for health targets. Subscribes via a delegate seam (no
  GameWindow coupling).
- GameWindow: _selectedGuid field -> SelectedGuid property + SelectionChanged
  event (fires on actual change only); 3 write sites converted, reads untouched.
  All selection-write paths (LMB pick, Tab/Q, despawn-clear via Tick()) run on
  the render thread, so the event-driven UI mutation is single-threaded.
- WorldSession.SendQueryHealth (0x01BF) — wraps SocialActions.BuildQueryHealth.
- DatWidgetFactory.BuildMeter: handle the single-image toolbar meter shape
  (back-track on the element's own DirectState, fill on one Type-3 child). The
  sprites go in the TILE slot (DrawMode=Normal tiles to full bar geometry per
  UIElement_Meter::DrawChildren) — a left-cap assignment would gap/clamp a
  sub-140px sprite. Vitals 3-slice path unchanged.
- ToolbarController.HiddenIds: A1 (health) now owned by SelectedObjectController;
  A2 (mana) + A4 (stack) stay hidden (deferred) so their dat back-tracks don't
  render as stray empty bars.

Adversarial Opus review found + fixed: the mana-meter orphan (A2 left unhidden)
and the meter tile-vs-cap render bug (C1). Divergence rows AP-46 (health gate
approximation: IsLiveCreatureTarget vs IsPlayer||pet||attackable) + AP-47
(meter shown on select vs on UpdateHealth reply). Spec §5 corrected.

Build + full test suite green (2,684 passed / 4 skipped). Health meter render
fidelity (full-width fill + fraction mapping) pending the user's visual gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-18 22:47:24 +02:00
Erik
e8562fc4e2 docs(D.5.3a): spec + plan — selected-object meter (Stream A)
Brainstormed design for the action bar's bottom strip: name + Health meter
on selection (mana deferred #140). Decisions: SelectionChanged via property
setter; send QueryHealth(0x01BF) on select. Grounded in retail
gmToolbarUI::HandleSelectionChanged (acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:198635) —
clear-then-populate, overlay state 0x1000000b, health gate
IsPlayer||pet||attackable. Render-bug fix is BuildMeter-only (single-image
back+fill meter; UiMeter already renders it).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-18 22:19:14 +02:00
Erik
ad53180190 docs(plan): A7 Fix D implementation plan — 5 tasks (#140)
Task-by-task TDD plan: (1) extract GlobalLightPacker (Core, pure) + test + refactor
WbDrawDispatcher; (2) lock the bake contract via LightBake conformance test on the
captured golden torches; (3) D-1 clamp the point-light sum on its own in
mesh_modern.vert; (4) D-2 EnvCellRenderer binds its own per-cell light set (SSBO 4+5)
via SelectForObject over cell bounds; (5) correct register AP-35 + reconcile Fix B.
Concrete code + exact insertion points; visual verification is the acceptance gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-18 17:15:36 +02:00
Erik
c407104ab9 docs(lighting): A7 Fix D investigation RESOLVED + implementation spec (#140)
Resolve the Fix D contradiction with decomp (workflow wf_f660eb88 + adversarial
verify) + 4 live cdb captures. The D3D-FF model was the WRONG oracle: retail has
TWO light systems — STATIC torches BAKE into wall vertices (calc_point_light,
triple-clamped: range gate + per-channel min(scale*color,color) + per-vertex
[0,1] from black), DYNAMIC lights go D3D hardware. The captured intensity=100 is
the purple PORTAL (magenta, dynamic), not a wall torch. Ground truth: 38 static
warm torches (orange (1,0.588,0.314)/cream, intensity=100, falloff 3-5) + 2 dynamic.

acdream over-brightness = two confirmed bugs: D-1 mesh_modern.vert folds
ambient+sun+torches into one UNCLAMPED accumulator (single frag clamp) -> warm
blowout; D-2 EnvCellRenderer never binds SSBO 4/5 so the cell shell reads a leaked
light set. Spec: D-1 in-shader clamp-split (clamp the torch sum on its own before
ambient/sun); D-2 bind the shell's own per-cell light set (mirror WbDrawDispatcher);
LightBake.cs is the C# conformance oracle. Adds the 4 reusable cdb capture scripts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-18 17:08:27 +02:00
Erik
e4dd37a3b8 docs(D.5.4): plan — StackSizeMax int? for downstream type consistency
Code-review follow-up from Task 2: align StackSizeMax with the other quantity
fields (int?, ACE PropertyInt convention) in Tasks 3/4/5; drop the (int) cast.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-18 15:51:29 +02:00
Erik
2fc253d9ff docs(D.5.4): implementation plan (12 tasks, TDD, green-per-task)
Rename -> field capture -> EntitySpawn plumb -> ClientObject/WeenieData ->
Ingest merge-upsert -> container index -> ObjectTableWiring (off GameWindow) ->
PD manifest -> delete EnrichItem -> retire _liveEntityInfoByGuid -> toolbar
guid-filter -> bookkeeping+live run. Sequenced so every task builds green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-18 15:19:15 +02:00
Erik
969e55350b docs(D.5.4): client object/item data model design (brainstorm spec)
Two guid-keyed tables (retail shape), CreateObject = canonical merge-upsert
for the data table (ACCWeenieObject-equivalent holding ALL server objects),
container membership index, retire _liveEntityInfoByGuid + EnrichItem. Settles
the handoff crux against the named decomp: retail is TWO tables, not one, so
acdream's WorldEntity + item-table split is already faithful — fix ingestion,
don't unify.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-18 15:06:00 +02:00
Erik
52306d9268 docs(D.5.2): implementation plan (9 TDD tasks) + spec wiring fix
Bite-sized TDD plan for the stateful item-icon system. Corrects spec 5.8:
the live 0x02CE event binds in GameWindow (next to VitalUpdated), not
GameEventWiring (which only handles the 0xF7B0 GameEvent dispatcher).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-17 18:19:26 +02:00
Erik
419c3ac40c docs(D.5.2): stateful item-icon spec + RESOLVED research
Research basis (clean Ghidra decompile via MCP + live-dat probe + ACE oracle)
overturns two handoff hypotheses:
  - Appraise carries NO icon/UiEffects data (Icon/IconOverlay/IconUnderlay +
    PropertyInt.UiEffects all lack [AssessmentProperty]); every icon input is
    CreateObject-only. The "wire appraise -> enrichment" item is a no-op.
  - The effect overlay (enum 0x10000005) is a ReplaceColor tint SOURCE, not a
    blit layer (RenderIcons 0x0058d180 + ReplaceColor 0x00441530); effect tiles
    are 32x32 fully-opaque colored squares.

Design (user-approved): capture UiEffects (weenieFlags 0x80, currently discarded)
-> ItemInstance.Effects; faithful 2-stage IconComposer recolor (white pixels ->
effect hue); live PublicUpdatePropertyInt(0x02CE) wire-up so the icon updates as
state changes ("item with mana vs out of mana"). Drops the appraise no-op.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-17 18:12:45 +02:00
Erik
44fabd350e docs(D.5.1): toolbar phase-1 implementation plan (+ spec wiring-delta note)
12-task TDD plan: register D.5.1 -> CreateObject IconId capture -> ItemRepository.EnrichItem -> spawn-event icon wiring -> persist shortcuts -> IconComposer (CPU composite) -> UiItemSlot -> UiItemList + factory branch -> ToolbarController -> GameWindow mount -> visual gate -> bookkeeping. Concrete call sites pinned (WorldSession.cs:701 EntitySpawned, GameEventWiring.WireAll, GameWindow Items@598, BuildUse 0x0036). Synced the spec's CreateObject section with the wider-than-expected wiring found during planning.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-16 21:27:49 +02:00
Erik
0b5e849325 docs(D.5.1): toolbar phase-1 design spec
First D.5 sub-phase: ship gmToolbarUI as the first data-driven game panel (18 slots from LayoutDesc 0x21000016, populated from the persisted PlayerDescription shortcuts, real composited icons, click-to-use). Minimal scope; faithful CPU icon pre-composite (IconData::RenderIcons port). Five bounded units: UiItemSlot, UiItemList, IconComposer, CreateObject IconId extension, ToolbarController. Roadmap registration of D.5.1 is plan step 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-16 21:05:04 +02:00
Erik
83076cdbb6 docs(D.2b): spec correction — input is Variant B, Type 3 not registered
Record the two execution-time corrections to the design's registration
assumptions: the editable input resolves to Type 12 (Variant B, controller-placed
UiField), and Type 3 is NOT factory-registered (acdream's Type-3 elements are
chrome/containers, kept on the UiDatElement fallback).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-16 17:54:52 +02:00
Erik
34e79096f3 docs(D.2b): widget-generalization implementation plan
8-task TDD plan: chat golden fixture + resolved-Type conformance (Task 1,
empirically resolves the input's Type), then one-widget-per-commit migration —
UiScrollbar(11), UiButton(1), UiMenu(6), UiText(12)+the Type-12 flip,
UiField(3) — then thin the controller (Task 7, visual gate) and the gated
vitals UiText rewire (Task 8). Each task: failing test, register in the
factory switch, controller find-by-id binding, build+test green, commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-16 16:47:32 +02:00
Erik
56f5bc7aa1 docs(D.2b): add strategic-purpose section to widget-generalization design
Capture the 'why beyond chat' the user articulated: chat is the proving ground;
the real payoff is inventory/spell-bar/vendor/character-sheet/trade becoming
data-driven assembly + thin controller. Notes what carries forward (the generic
widget toolkit + the find-by-id controller pattern) vs what those windows still
need (ListBox/Panel + Field drag-drop, the window-manager half of Plan 2, and
per-domain item/container data).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-16 16:33:14 +02:00
Erik
b7f7e2b4ef docs(D.2b): widget-generalization design (Plan 2 widget piece)
Design for refactoring the hand-named chat widgets + Send/MaxMin click-wiring
into generic, Type-registered widgets built by DatWidgetFactory, collapsing
ChatWindowController (and, gated-last, VitalsController) to a thin retail
gm*UI::PostInit-style find-by-id binder.

Key finding that reframes the pass: the importer's base-chain Type resolution
is already retail-faithful, and Type 12 is UIElement_Text (a real behavioral
class), not a style prototype to skip — verified against
acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:115655. The generalization is therefore a
registration task (register Types 1/3/6/11/12 -> generic widgets, delete the
Type-12 skip), not a new mechanism.

Approved scope: full registry (bounded to the Types chat+vitals use; rest stays
UiDatElement fallback), chat-first, vitals rewire as the final separately-gated
step. 7-step one-widget-per-commit migration; new chat_21000006.json golden
fixture; vitals fixture stays frozen through steps 1-6.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-16 16:26:32 +02:00
Erik
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docs(D.2b): chat-window re-drive implementation plan (8 tasks A-H)

TDD task breakdown for the data-driven chat window: ChatCommandRouter extraction
(A), UiChatView dat-font (B), UiScrollable + wire-in (C/C2), UiChatScrollbar (D),
UiChatInput (E), UiChannelMenu (F), ChatWindowController bind/route (G), GameWindow
cutover + divergence rows (H). Each ported widget cites its retail class::method.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-15-chat-window-redrive.md
Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-15-chat-window-redrive-design.md

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2026-06-15 22:04:35 +02:00
Erik
26cb34f126 @
docs(D.2b): chat-window re-drive design spec + list-ui-layouts research tool

Plan-2 chat piece of the LayoutDesc importer. Identifies the chat window as
LayoutDesc 0x21000006 (gmMainChatUI, element class 0x10000041) and grounds a
faithful, data-driven re-drive in the named retail decomp (ChatInterface +
gmMainChatUI + UIElement_Text/_Scrollable/_Scrollbar/_Menu) plus a user-provided
retail screenshot.

Design (full-faithful scope, user-approved):
- transcript = UIElement_Text 0x10000011 (dat font, bottom-pinned, 10k behead cap,
  pixel scroll, 1 line/wheel-notch)
- scrollbar = right-side track 0x10000012 + thumb 0x1000048c + up/down
- input = editable UIElement_Text 0x10000016 (caret, 100-entry history, Enter/Send)
- channel menu = UIElement_Menu 0x10000014 ("Chat" selector -> active channel)
- shared ChatCommandRouter extracted from ChatPanel
- screenshot correction: the four 0x10000522-525 left-edge elements are the
  numbered CHAT TABS (1-4), not scroll buttons (a research-agent inference the
  retail screenshot refutes)
- deferred (need non-UI plumbing, each gets a divergence row): tab switching/
  filtering, squelch, clickable name-tags, in-element word-wrap, styled runs,
  font config, opacity transition

Tooling: AcDream.Cli `list-ui-layouts <datdir> [0xRootType]` — read-only index of
every UI LayoutDesc by root element class + size + element-Type histogram; how the
chat layout was located (root type 0x10000041). Reusable for future panel re-drives.

Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-15-chat-window-redrive-design.md

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2026-06-15 19:38:27 +02:00
Erik
0474feb6ca docs(D.2b): correct roadmap/plan — vitals window IS resizable (resize shipped 8aa643f)
The earlier 'not resizable / fixed-size' note was wrong (inverted edge-flag
reading). Resize shipped: dat edge-anchors reflow per UIElement::UpdateForParentSizeChange.
Noted the two number-render fixes (submission-order + glyph pixel-snap).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-15 18:35:29 +02:00
Erik
c1004847a2 docs(D.2b): record vitals default-flip shipped (importer is now the default vitals)
Roadmap: update D.2b LayoutDesc importer entry to record that the default
flip shipped 2026-06-15 (bf77a23) — importer is the default at
ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI=1; vitals.xml + ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI_IMPORTER flag retired;
window movable, resize deferred to Plan 2 (WindowManager).

Plan: update "After Plan 1" to mark the flip DONE, clean up the Plan 2
description now that vitals.xml is gone.

Register:
- AP-37 "Why" cell: replace "Gated opt-in (ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI_IMPORTER)"
  with "Now the default vitals path (the hand-authored markup vitals was
  retired)" — the flag is gone.
- IA-15: add row (was missing from this branch) — D.2b retail UI design
  stance, updated to note that the vitals window is now rendered by the
  LayoutDesc importer (dat chrome elements), not UiNineSlicePanel;
  UiNineSlicePanel/RetailChromeSprites now back only chat window + plugin
  panels. IA count header 14 → 15.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-15 16:36:47 +02:00
Erik
5ac9d8c19c merge: bring main into claude/hopeful-maxwell-214a12 (LayoutDesc importer branch)
main was 65 commits ahead of this branch's fork point. Only conflict was the
divergence register: both sides appended an 'AP-32' row. Resolved by keeping
main's AP-32..AP-36 (cell-shell lift, look-in cells, alpha deferral, dungeon
streaming, point lights) and renumbering the importer's row to AP-37; AP header
count -> 37. GameWindow.cs auto-merged cleanly. Verified: AcDream.App builds
0/0; AcDream.App.Tests 354 passed / 1 skipped / 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-15 16:19:15 +02:00
Erik
07cf120939 docs(D.2b): mark LayoutDesc importer Plan 1 shipped; defer default-flip to Plan 2 (drag/resize)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-15 15:03:31 +02:00
Erik
a7875cde22 docs(D.2b): LayoutDesc importer implementation plan (Plan 1 — vitals conformance) 2026-06-15 12:46:55 +02:00
Erik
64146bfc2a docs(D.2b): LayoutDesc importer design spec (data-driven retail windows) 2026-06-15 12:38:34 +02:00
Erik
b18403da02 feat(D.2b): wire UiHost + live retail Vitals panel (render-only); retire TS-30
Wires the dormant AcDream.App/UI retained-mode tree into GameWindow under
ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI=1: an 8-piece dat-sprite UiNineSlicePanel framing three
UiMeter vital bars bound to the existing VitalsVM. Render-only (UiHost input not
yet bridged to the InputDispatcher — next sub-phase). Coexists with the ImGui
devtools path; no regression there.

Visually verified against a live retail client: the bars match retail's vitals
structure (three stacked horizontal bars, current/max numbers centered) — so the
earlier "orbs" assumption was wrong (retail vitals ARE bars), and stamina is GOLD
not cyan (the #10F0F0 research note was wrong). UiMeter gains a centered numeric
Label (stub debug font for now). Spec §8 + the markup example corrected to match.

Bookkeeping: retired divergence row TS-30 (flat-rect panels -> real dat chrome)
and added IA-15 (our UiHost/markup engine vs keystone.dll's LayoutDesc tree).

Remaining polish (filed, §15): glassy gradient bar fill sprite + the retail dat
font for the numbers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 16:56:57 +02:00
Erik
35152248f1 docs(D.2b): implementation plan — retail panel frame + live Vitals
9-task TDD plan against the re-grounded spec, building on the existing
AcDream.App/UI scaffold: RuntimeOptions toggles, textured-sprite path in
TextRenderer (+ frag uUseTexture=2, + TextureCache size overload), Step-0 chrome
prove-out, UiNineSlicePanel + UiMeter widgets, wire UiHost + live Vitals
(render-only) retiring TS-30, controls.ini loader, MarkupDocument (XML ->
UiElement tree), and the IUiRegistry plugin surface. Exact code per step; pure
parsers TDD'd in AcDream.App.Tests, GL/visual bits user-verified.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 14:21:56 +02:00
Erik
d50023f6d9 docs(D.2b): re-ground spec onto existing AcDream.App/UI scaffold
A direct read of src/AcDream.App/UI/ found a complete (dormant) retained-mode
toolkit the grounding workflow missed: UiRoot (input routing, focus, capture,
drag-drop, tooltip, click detection, world fall-through), UiElement,
UiPanel/UiLabel/UiButton, UiHost (Tick/Draw + WireMouse/WireKeyboard),
UiRenderContext, retail-faithful UiEvent codes. It's never wired into GameWindow,
and UiPanel.cs is the exact file divergence row TS-30 cites.

So the retail UI is this existing UiRoot tree — NOT an IPanelHost/IPanelRenderer
backend. Rewrote the architecture sections: Spec 1 now WIRES the dormant UiHost
and adds only the gaps (DrawSprite + frag uUseTexture=2, UiNineSlicePanel,
UiMeter, MarkupDocument that builds a UiElement subtree, ControlsIni). Input
machinery already exists in UiRoot; deferring it is now about integrating two
input consumers, not a missing contract. Plugin contract becomes a UiElement/
markup subtree added to UiRoot (IUiRegistry on IPluginHost), not IPanel.

Net: strictly less new code, more faithful, retires TS-30 by subclassing the
file it cites. Added §0 documenting the correction + the process lesson
(subsystem-discovery must glob by directory, not by the parent's framing).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 14:13:30 +02:00
Erik
de9229eed5 docs(D.2b): design spec — retail panel frame + live Vitals (Approach C)
Brainstormed design for the D.2b retail-look UI backend: our own KSML-style
markup + controls.ini stylesheet + retained-mode toolkit on Silk.NET (no
embedded browser, zero external deps — Approach C, chosen over Ultralight/CEF
and RmlUi for memory/dep-weight/faithfulness).

Spec 1 scope: an 8-piece dat-sprite window frame + live Vitals bars bound to
the existing VitalsVM, gated behind ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI=1, rendered via a reused
TextRenderer batch. Render-only (input/hit-test, AcFont glyphs, anchor solver,
LayoutDesc importer all deferred).

Grounded by a read-only research workflow (7 readers + gap-critic). The critic
corrected several stale memory/plan-doc facts now baked into the spec's
do-not-trust list: VitalsVM is a sealed class (not the old record); chrome
sprite IDs are unverified (Step-0 dat prove-out resolves them empirically);
controls.ini exists and #FFDBD6A8 is editbox text not a bg; DatCollection reads
are thread-safe; KSML is rich-text not the layout language (we mirror
ElementDesc).

Phase D.2b / Milestone M5 (parallelizable with M3/M4 — opened as a parallel
track while M1.5 stays the active critical-path milestone). Retires divergence
row TS-30 + adds one IA row when the chrome ships.

Also gitignores the /.superpowers/ visual-companion scratch dir.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 14:00:14 +02:00
Erik
70c559c1ba docs(G.3): gate correction — G.3a core landed; #95 CONFIRMED LIVE (not superseded)
The G.3a visual gate ran a real PlayerTeleport into the 0x0007 dungeon. The core
hold+place worked (grounded on the dungeon floor, no ocean) and Bug A (landblock-
prefix mis-stamp) is fixed (2ce5e5c). But the gate proved #95 (portal-graph
visibility blowup, ~9.1M instances/frame) is LIVE under the current pipeline — my
plan's "likely superseded / conditional G.3b" premise was wrong. Spec §2.5/§3.2 +
ISSUES #133/#95 updated: G.3b (grab_visible_cells stab_list bounding) is REQUIRED,
needs its own grounding/brainstorm. Also noted: the render-only hydration decouple
was reverted (e7058ca) for making the player invisible at Holtburg.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-13 18:30:43 +02:00
Erik
c9650bd3bd plan(G.3a): core teleport-into-dungeon implementation plan (#133)
TDD plan for the gated G.3a core: a pure TeleportArrivalController state machine
(hold-until-hydration + force-snap on impossible/timeout) + its GameWindow wiring
(replace the unconditional arrival snap with recenter + deferred BeginArrival;
per-frame Tick; readiness predicate reusing the #107 login triplet) + the EnvCell
physics/visibility hydration decouple + the visual acceptance gate. G.3b/c/d get
their own plans after the gate.

Also syncs the spec: the readiness predicate reuses SampleTerrainZ + IsSpawnCellReady
+ IsSpawnClaimUnhydratable (the validated #107 login gate) rather than a new
IsLandblockApplied query — strictly more faithful, less new surface.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-13 17:02:03 +02:00
Erik
6680fd42b2 spec: G.3 dungeon support design (M1.5 exit-gate) — phased, retail-faithful
Brainstorm outcome for #133/G.3. Grounds the corrected root cause (dungeon
landblock = flat terrain + EnvCells, streams via the existing pipeline; the
blocker is the teleport-arrival snap firing BEFORE the dest landblock hydrates)
against the current code (5 verified seams) and lays out Approach C:

  G.3a  core teleport-into-dungeon: hold-until-hydration on the arrival path
        (reuse #107 IsSpawnCellReady + IsSpawnClaimUnhydratable) + #111
        validated-claim EnvCell placement + dest-ready streaming query +
        dest-coord validation + timeout safety + decouple EnvCell
        physics/visibility hydration from the render-mesh guard.  -> VISUAL GATE
  G.3b  #95 stab_list bounding — CONDITIONAL on the gate showing the blowup
        (its repro is stale, from the T4-deleted WB path; the current flood is
        landblock-confined + enqueue-once, so #95 is likely superseded).
  G.3c  faithful TeleportAnimState portal-tunnel FSM (decomp 004d6300 /
        219405-219774); the TAS_TUNNEL hold-exit gates on G.3a's same readiness
        predicate (the tunnel IS the hold's visual form).
  G.3d  recall game-actions (/ls etc.) — same arrival flow; doubles as the test
        lever.

Supersedes the §12 port-plan of r09 (most of it already shipped); r09 stays the
wire/format/recall contract reference. Resolves the handoff's 4 open questions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-13 16:43:39 +02:00