User report during the #170 gate: pack-melee monsters partly inside each
other with slightly stale facings vs retail on the same ACE. Investigation
(report-only) pinned two code-grounded causes, both already-tracked R5-V3
scope, fix APPROVED by the user:
1. TS-39 — sticky melee is a no-op: ACE arms melee chases with Sticky
(Monster_Navigation.cs:416); retail's arrival hands off to
PositionManager::StickTo -> StickyManager::adjust_offset (0x00555430,
per-tick 0.3m edge gap + facing tracking); acdream's StickTo/Unstick
seams are unbound so attackers freeze at stale arrival poses.
2. Arrival radii are zero: getOwnRadius () => 0f (the R5-V3 pin) and
RouteServerMoveTo never sets MovementStruct.Radius/Height — retail/ACE
arrive edge-to-edge with setup-derived radii (ACE PhysicsObj.MoveToObject
reads the TARGET's PartArray radius/height).
Ruled out: the between-snap collision sweep (remotes run full
ResolveWithTransition; CollisionExemption keeps creatures collidable).
Caveat recorded: ACE has no server-side monster avoidance — acceptance is
retail PARITY, not zero overlap.
ISSUES #171 filed; handoff docs/research/2026-07-04-171-sticky-melee-handoff.md
+ pickup docs/research/2026-07-04-171-pickup-prompt.md; memory index updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gate result: user side-by-side vs retail — "looks good, as close to retail
now as I can see". Telemetry from the gate session (launch-170-gate2.log):
BeginMoveForward ~1:1 with MoveToObject arms for every chasing creature
(pre-fix capture was 16:1), ZERO "SERVERVEL skips UseTime while armed"
occurrences, pending_motions depth 1 at last sample.
Stripped per the #170 close-out plan: s_mvtoDiag + all [mvto] prints
(MoveToManager), s_drainDiag + [drain]/[drainq] (MotionInterpreter), the
[npc-tick] branch prints and the "UM actions" inbound-action dump
(GameWindow). The durable ACDREAM_DUMP_MOTION family stays. The
RemoteChaseEndToEndHarnessTests + RemoteChaseDrainBisectTests conformance
suites stay as the permanent regression net for this pipeline.
ISSUES: #170 -> DONE + Recently-closed entry (fix SHAs 427332ac, d2ccc80e,
1051fc83). Memory topic + index flipped to CLOSED.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "sustain the run" residual. The handoff's "Ready stop-node backlog
drains a beat slower than retail" framing was DISPROVEN: a new full-stack
offline harness (RemoteChaseEndToEndHarnessTests — real MoveToManager +
MotionInterpreter + AnimationSequencer + MotionTableDispatchSink + the
manual omega integration, wired field-for-field like
EnsureRemoteMotionBindings and ticked in TickAnimations' exact phase
order) proves the Core turn/run/drain pipeline healthy: the chase turn
completes in <1 s both directions, BeginMoveForward installs per arm, the
run sustains across re-arms and attack swings, and pending_motions fully
empties (retail cdb invariant add_to_queue == MotionDone).
The real mechanism (launch-drainq.log, corrected per-guid attribution —
the previous session's timeline mis-attributed [mvto] lines that fire in
the network phase): funnel per chasing scamp was 16 mt-6 arms -> 11
dispatched turns -> ONE BeginMoveForward. Any NPC receiving
UpdatePositions gets HasServerVelocity=true (synthesized from position
deltas even when the wire carries no velocity), and the grounded per-tick
branch routed those to the SERVERVEL leg, which SKIPS
MoveToManager.UseTime — [npc-tick] literally logged
"branch=SERVERVEL (skips UseTime) mtState=MoveToObject". The armed
moveto was starved for exactly the duration of the server-side chase:
legs stayed in Ready while the body glided on synthesized velocity (the
#170 slide); the manager only woke in UP-silent gaps (creature stopped
server-side) and its stale-heading turn was interrupted by the next UM
before reaching BeginMoveForward.
Retail runs MovementManager::UseTime UNCONDITIONALLY every tick
(CPhysicsObj::UpdateObjectInternal 0x005156b0, call @0x00515998) and has
no wire-velocity leg-driver anywhere; between UPs a moveto-driven body
translates from the motion state (get_state_velocity) with UP hard-snaps
correcting drift. Fix: an armed moveto (MovementTypeState != Invalid)
always takes the MOVETO leg; SERVERVEL remains only as the legacy
fallback for entities without a moveto (scripted paths / missiles).
Register: TS-41 (the narrowed SERVERVEL stopgap), TS-42 (drain-order
divergence also pinned this session: acdream drains AnimDone->MotionDone
AFTER HandleTargetting/MoveTo.UseTime; retail's process_hooks
@0x00512d3d runs BEFORE TargetManager/MovementManager in
UpdateObjectInternal — one frame of extra latency, R6 scope).
New conformance: RemoteChaseEndToEndHarnessTests (3 scenarios + theory)
+ RemoteChaseDrainBisectTests (the drain-chain pin; its first run also
demonstrated the TS-40 InWorld=false link-strip wedge shape — harness
bodies must replicate the live RemoteMotion construction).
ISSUES #170 updated (awaiting user visual gate; probes stay until then);
handoff doc superseded-note added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Detailed handoff (docs/research/2026-07-04-170-creature-run-handoff.md) + paste
prompt (2026-07-04-170-pickup-prompt.md) for continuing #170 in a fresh session.
Records the full root-cause chain (retail cdb + acdream probes), the landed partial
fix (427332ac: per-frame apply_current_movement flood deleted → pending_motions
1.3M→~1, run installs, stuck-attack gone), the one residual (Ready-stop drain lag →
run not fully sustained), the exact next steps (cdb the retail Ready-stop drain), the
apparatus (env-gated probes + cdb scripts), the file:line map, and the DO-NOT-RETRY
list (superseded MovementManager-coexistence hypothesis; keep the velocity fix; don't
patch the retail-faithful motions_pending guard). ISSUES #170 updated to PARTIAL.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Live retail cdb tracing + acdream probes root-caused the creature chase "slide"
end-to-end, SUPERSEDING the earlier MovementManager-coexistence hypothesis
(eb423fb7):
Chase run cycle is manufactured client-side from mt-6 MoveToObject:
HandleUpdateTarget -> MoveToObject_Internal -> (TurnToHeading node completes
via UseTime) -> BeginMoveForward -> _DoMotion(RunForward) sets substate.
BeginTurnToHeading (MoveToManager 0x00529b90) bails while
CMotionInterp.motions_pending is non-empty (retail-faithful).
acdream's pending_motions EXPLODED to ~1.3M entries (live: add=1.37M vs
done=5.7K) because the NPC per-tick called rm.Motion.apply_current_movement
EVERY FRAME, which for a remote (has a DefaultSink) re-ran
ApplyInterpretedMovement and re-dispatched the WHOLE interpreted state (stance
0x8000003C + forward=attack + sidestep/turn stops), each appending a
pending_motions node that barely drains. => MotionsPending() permanently true
=> the chase turn never started => BeginMoveForward/RunForward ~never fired =>
the creature slid in an idle+attack pose. Retail dispatches per MOTION EVENT
(per UM), never per frame — cdb drain trace: retail add_to_queue == MotionDone.
FIX: delete the per-frame apply_current_movement call in the grounded remote-NPC
dead-reckon path (GameWindow ~9992). The motion is already dispatched per UM by
the funnel (MoveToInterpretedState) + by the MoveToManager per node; body
velocity is refreshed directly by the existing get_state_velocity line.
RESULT (verified live): pending_motions depth 1.3M -> ~1 (add~=done); "stuck in
attack animation" GONE (user-confirmed); run cycle now installs (BeginMoveForward
1->10, RunForward held 0->7). PARTIAL: still not fully sustained — BeginTurnToHeading
still blocked motionsPending=True 256/272 (94%) because a residual Ready
(0x41000003) stop-node backlog keeps the queue from fully emptying between swings
(retail hits add==done exactly). acdream gets ~10 run-starts vs retail's ~21, so
it now twitches+glides instead of a clean run-then-stop. Residual = the R2/R3
Ready-stop drain (next session; see docs/research/2026-07-04-*-handoff.md).
Also includes the env-gated #170 diagnostic probes used to find this
(ACDREAM_MVTO_DIAG=1: [mvto]/[npc-tick]/[drain]/[drainq]) — TEMPORARY, strip when
#170 closes. No effect on normal runs. Core suite green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause (confirmed by a live ACDREAM_DUMP_MOTION capture of Mite Scamp
0x80000244 + the retail decomp): a chasing+attacking creature's attacks arrive
as the ForwardCommand of frequent mt-0 InterpretedMotionState UMs (66 attack UMs
0x62/63/64 vs 2 mt-6 chase MoveTos in the capture). Retail's get_state_velocity
(0x00527d50) computes the body's translation velocity from the current forward
command: WalkForward→3.12×spd, RunForward→4.0×spd, and 0 for everything else
(an attack) — so the creature plants its feet. acdream ALREADY has a faithful
get_state_velocity (returns 0 for a non-locomotion command; cross-checked vs
holtburger grounded_local_velocity's `_ => zero`), but it was never WIRED to the
remote body for entities with an animation sink: apply_current_movement's sink
path (all remotes have a DefaultSink) dispatches the animation and early-returns
BEFORE the set_local_velocity(get_state_velocity()) write, which lives only in
the no-sink fallback (MotionInterpreter ~1702). So a remote NPC's body.Velocity
was never recomputed from its motion state and kept the STALE run velocity from
the last chase — the body dead-reckoned forward at ~4 m/s while playing an
idle+attack pose ("glides after me").
Fix: after apply_current_movement in the grounded remote-NPC dead-reckon path
(GameWindow ~9992, restricted to remotes by serverGuid != player and to grounded
by OnWalkable), refresh rm.Body via set_local_velocity(get_state_velocity()) —
the exact write retail's apply_current_movement performs, reusing the verbatim
ported get_state_velocity. An attack forward command now resolves to 0, so the
creature stops and swings in place; RunForward still yields the run velocity.
Narrowest safe seam: the local player (which also has a sink) is excluded by the
loop's player guard, so its PlayerMovementController velocity path is untouched.
The earlier suspicion (#159 combat-command numbering) was a red herring — the
scamp's 0x62/63/64 were always in the correct block and the planner is unwired;
the wire even carries full attack variety, so "uniform" was the visual artifact
of rapid attacks over a gliding idle base, not a classification bug.
Tests: MotionVelocityPipelineTests.AttackForwardCommand_ZeroVelocity (4 cases)
pins get_state_velocity → 0 for the attack forward commands the fix depends on.
Core suite 2503 green. Visual gate pending (retail side-by-side: creature should
plant + step, not glide).
Ref: docs/research/named-retail get_state_velocity 0x00527d50; ISSUES #170.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The existing UM dump shows only ForwardCommand; the [CMD_LIST] dump is local-
player only and omits stamps. For a remote creature (the #170 Mite Scamp) nothing
logged the attack action stream, so a capture couldn't answer "do the attack
stamps advance (variety) or repeat (uniform)?". Add one env-gated line in the
remote funnel branch dumping each inbound action (full command + route + stamp +
autonomous + speed). Temporary #170 capture aid — strip once the mechanism is
confirmed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Traced the live remote path: the mt-6 chase runs through the verbatim
MoveToManager, but every inbound mt-0 attack UM fires the unpack_movement head
interrupt (bound to MoveTo.CancelMoveTo) AND installs the UM's ForwardCommand
(Ready/idle for an attack-only UM), so the chase MoveTo is cancelled and the run
legs are replaced by idle while the body keeps dead-reckoning -> glide + repeated
idle/attack. The 15-bit ServerActionStamp gate is faithful (uniform-anim is not a
stamp bug). This chase+attack coexistence is R5/MovementManager scope, so #170
sub-bugs 2/3 are downstream of the incomplete MovementManager port (R5-V4), not
#159. Recorded as a hypothesis pending a live ACDREAM_DUMP_MOTION capture + retail
side-by-side (no guessing a fix in this revert-prone path).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mark ISSUES #159 done (2de5a011) and record the key finding for #170: the
CombatAnimationPlanner numbering fix is latent (the planner isn't wired into
the live dispatch) and the Mite Scamp's 0x62-0x64 attacks were always in the
correct block — so #170's visible symptom is sub-bug 2 (the pending_motions
MOTIONDONE loop), not command misclassification. Roadmap L.1b note updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CombatAnimationPlanner.CombatAnimationMotionCommands hand-transcribed the
combat MotionCommand constants from the Sept 2013 EoR decomp. The whole
late-combat block (Offhand* / Attack4-6 / Punch*) is numbered +3 lower there
than in ACE/DatReaderWriter — a contiguous low-word shift that begins around
SnowAngelState (0x115). So against a live ACE server every one of those 40
commands misclassified: the resolver returned the correct ACE value (e.g.
wire 0x0173 -> 0x10000173 OffhandSlashHigh) but the planner's constant held
the 2013 value (0x10000170), so no switch case matched. Reload was worse —
hardcoded 0x100000D4, a value absent from DRW entirely; the real ACE/DRW
Reload is the 0x40000016 SubState.
Instead of re-transcribing 40 hex constants (exactly how the drift crept in),
derive each constant directly from DatReaderWriter.Enums.MotionCommand by
name: `= (uint)Drw.Name`. The value IS the oracle by construction, can never
drift from the wire again, and ~80 magic numbers are gone. Ground truth was
taken by reflecting over the same DatReaderWriter 2.1.7 assembly the runtime
binds (409 enum values). Blocks 1-2 (stances + single melee, 0x3C-0x12A) were
already correct and are unchanged in value.
Tests: new PlanFromWireCommand_LateCombatBlock_UsesAceDrwNumbering pins the
full wire -> resolve -> classify pipeline for 14 late-block ACE wire values
(both full value and kind), plus a Reload SubState parity fact. Fixed two rows
in ClassifyMotionCommand_RecognisesRetailCombatCommands whose literal values
change meaning under DRW numbering (0x1000018E is AttackLow6/CreatureAttack,
not PunchFastLow; Reload moves to 0x40000016). Core suite 2499 green.
Note: CombatAnimationPlanner is not yet wired into the runtime dispatch (the
live path is AnimationCommandRouter -> MotionInterpreter/AnimationSequencer),
so this is a latent-correctness fix — it does not by itself change the #170
Mite Scamp symptom (whose attacks 0x62-0x64 live in the already-correct block).
Ref: docs/research/2026-06-26-ace-vs-2013-motion-command-gap.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both root-caused live + fixed this session (315af02f, 9b06a9b8). NOT R5 —
pre-existing streaming bugs surfaced while visual-gating R5-V2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause (confirmed live via the landblock-load probe): the streaming window
marks every landblock "resident" at bootstrap (MarkResidentFromBootstrap) BEFORE
their async loads land. When a character spawns far from the startup center
(0xA9B4 Holtburg), the login-spawn recenter runs RecenterTo against that stale,
half-loaded window — and RecenterTo trusts _tierResidence, so it never
re-enqueues the old/new window overlap. The overlap band is marked resident but
its loads never completed, leaving a permanent HOLE of landblocks that are never
requested (zero BUILD-NULL — they're simply skipped). The player spawns in the
hole: its landblock never loads, so terrain/NPCs/player never draw — the
"world not loading / invisible / scenery behind" symptom.
Probe evidence (spawn at 0xADAF): the player's column 0xAD loads Y=0xA3-0xAA and
0xB0-0xC0 but is MISSING Y=0xAB-0xAF — and the player is at 0xADAF (Y=0xAF), dead
in the gap. 0xADAFFFFF: never [lb] ADD'd, never BUILD-NULL'd.
Fix: a far login-spawn moves the render origin exactly like an outdoor teleport
(which already calls StreamingController.ForceReloadWindow to drop the stale
window + re-bootstrap fresh around the new origin — GameWindow.cs ~5725). The
login-spawn recenter now flags the same rebuild; because the spawn handler runs
on the network thread and ForceReloadWindow is render-thread-only, the flag is
set there and consumed in OnUpdateFrame's streaming block before the Tick.
Verified live: 0xADAFFFFF now `[lb] ADD entities=216`, full world draws
(flatCount=12807), and the player transitions PENDING(hidden) -> DRAWSET PRESENT
(composes with the RelocateEntity pending-recovery fix, 315af02f). No-op for a
normal Holtburg login (spawn == startup center → guard false). Full suite 4007
green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause (confirmed live via ACDREAM_PROBE_ENT): a persistent server-spawned
entity that spawns into a not-yet-loaded landblock is parked in
GpuWorldState._pendingByLandblock. RelocateEntity — called every frame to keep
the player homed to its current landblock so it draws — scanned ONLY _loaded, so
it silently no-op'd on a pending entity. The player then fell through ALL of the
recovery paths: the AddLandblock pending-drain had already run (empty) before the
cold-spawn churn re-parked the player; the server-object re-hydrate excludes the
player by design ("persistent-rescue owns it"); and RelocateEntity couldn't reach
a pending entity. Net: the player stayed stranded in pending, hidden forever.
Probe evidence (cold-spawn at 0xADAF): `[ent] APPEND guid=0x5000000A
lb=0xADAFFFFF -> PENDING(hidden)`, no later `DRAWSET PRESENT` — while the sibling
NPCs `re-hydrated 3 server object(s) into landblock 0xADAFFFFF` and drew fine.
This is the mechanism behind BOTH reported symptoms: cold-spawn "everything gone
/ invisible" AND "character disappears running out of Holtburg far enough" — both
are "player parked in pending, never recovered" (run-out crosses into a
still-streaming landblock; cold-spawn spawns into one).
Fix: RelocateEntity now removes the entity from whichever bucket it occupies
(_loaded OR _pendingByLandblock) via RemoveEntityFromAllBuckets, then re-appends
to its current landblock — promoting a stranded pending entity to drawn as soon
as its landblock is loaded. Keeps the fast-path early-return for a settled
entity (no per-frame churn).
NOT R5-V2: verified line-by-line that the voyeur/target wiring is read-only w.r.t.
position/cell/landblock/streaming — this is a pre-existing streaming bug. The
separate cold-spawn `cells=0` (outdoor spawn placed before Near-tier cells load,
no re-snap) is benign for outdoor placement (terrain-Z is used) and filed
separately; it does not block visibility, which this fix restores.
Test: GpuWorldStateTests.RelocateEntity_StrandedInPending_MovesToLoadedTarget
(red before, green after). Full suite 4007 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the AP-79 P4 TargetTracker poll adapter with the ported retail
TargetManager voyeur subscription system, wired per entity. Behaviorally a
faithful no-op refactor for the common cases (server-directed creature chase
+ auto-walk-to-object), now driven by the retail mechanism instead of the
GameWindow poll.
New: EntityPhysicsHost (App) — the per-entity IPhysicsObjHost (retail
CPhysicsObj stand-in), owning a TargetManager. Delegate-injected accessors so
it stays free of GameWindow internals (code-structure rule #1).
Wiring (GameWindow):
- _physicsHosts registry (guid → host) = retail CObjectMaint::GetObjectA,
backing the voyeur round-trip's cross-entity delivery.
- ResolvePhysicsHost lazily creates a minimal position-only host for ANY known
entity — retail lets every CPhysicsObj host a target_manager, so a STATIC
object (chest/corpse) still answers add_voyeur; without this, auto-walk to a
never-animated object would arm the moveto but never receive the immediate
target snapshot and never start.
- MoveToManager set_target/clear_target/quantum seams repointed at the host's
TargetManager (remote + player).
- HandleTargetting ticked unconditionally per entity BEFORE UseTime (retail
UpdateObjectInternal order): per-remote loop for remotes, pre-Update block for
the player. The player's tick is load-bearing for creature-chase — the player
as a watched target pushes its position to the chasing NPCs' HandleUpdateTarget
each frame, ahead of their UseTime.
- Despawn (RemoveLiveEntityByServerGuid): NotifyVoyeurOfEvent(ExitWorld) to the
entity's watchers before pruning the host — the only cleanup for a watcher
whose target already sent an Ok (past Undefined, the 10s staleness never fires).
Deleted: RemoteMotion.TrackedTarget* fields + _playerMoveToTarget* GameWindow
fields + the two manual poll blocks. AP-79 register row retired same commit
(AP section 73→72).
Delivery is now synchronous-on-set_target (retail: set_target is last in
MoveToObject, so the immediate snapshot lands with all moveto state in place)
vs AP-79's next-frame poll — more faithful. Full suite 4006 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The retail movement-manager family the R4 MoveToManager port left as
do-not-invent seams (decomp §9f/§9g). Faithful C# ports of retail's
PositionManager facade + StickyManager + ConstraintManager + the
TargetManager voyeur system, with full conformance tests. NO wiring yet
— purely additive, no behavior change. Wiring (retiring TS-39 sticky +
AP-79 target adapter) is R5-V2/V3.
New Core classes (src/AcDream.Core/Physics/Motion/):
- StickyManager (0x00555400): follow-a-target steering. adjust_offset's
dense x87 mush decoded via ACE (StickyRadius 0.3, StickyTime 1.0,
follow speed ×5 / fallback 15) — speed-clamped signed-distance steer +
bounded turn-to-face; 1 s watchdog; Ok→initialized / non-Ok→teardown.
- ConstraintManager (0x00556090): the server-position rubber-band leash.
90% IsFullyConstrained jump gate + grounded linear brake taper.
Structural only — acdream never ARMS it (retail arms from
SmartBox::HandleReceivedPosition, which acdream lacks, with two x87
constants BN elided). IsFullyConstrained stays false = TS-35 behavior;
leash-arming + the unknown constants are a deferred issue.
- PositionManager facade (0x00555160): lazy Sticky/Constraint + fan-out.
- TargetManager (0x0051a370) + TargettedVoyeurInfo: the peer-to-peer
voyeur subscription system (0.5 s throttle, 10 s staleness,
send-on-drift-past-radius, dead-reckon GetInterpolatedPosition). A
faithful superset of the AP-79 adapter — SetTarget subscribes ON the
target; the target's HandleTargetting pushes updates back.
- IPhysicsObjHost: the CPhysicsObj back-pointer seam (position/velocity/
radius/contact/GetObjectA + target-tracking fan-out) the App wires per
entity in V2/V3. MotionDeltaFrame: mutable retail-Frame delta accumulator.
Supporting:
- TargetInfo extended to the full retail 10-field struct (additive
defaults keep the R4 4-arg call sites compiling).
- MoveToMath: signed CylinderDistanceNoZ, NormalizeCheckSmall,
GlobalToLocalVec.
- Rename: the misnamed AcDream.Core.Physics.PositionManager (a remote
anim+interp per-frame combiner, NOT the retail facade) → RemoteMotion
Combiner, freeing the name and removing the ambiguity that breaks every
file importing both Physics + Physics.Motion (GameWindow will in V2/V3).
Tests: 42 new conformance cases (Sticky/Constraint/Position facade +
TargetManager incl. the full cross-entity voyeur round-trip). Full suite
4006 green (+2 skipped), no regressions.
Decomp + ACE cross-ref + port plan: docs/research/2026-07-03-r5-managers/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All four visual-pass items confirmed by the user's eyes (jump/ledge
momentum, run-in-circles blend, stop settle, retail-observer view of
+Acdream). Two observations filed from the pass:
- #165: retail movers observed from acdream penetrate walls a bit
("swallowed") instead of stopping flush - remote-DR collision class,
PROBE_RESOLVE capture is the first investigative step.
- #166: downhill-jump landing glide+bounce (retail sled) absent - the
register predicted this exact gap (AD-25 risk column) - composite of
AD-25 + AP-7 + TS-4, retire together post-R6 per the user's
"polish later" call.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#163: remove [autowalk-gate] (+ _lastAutowalkGateLogTime throttle clock,
PlayerMovementController), [autowalk-feed] (GameWindow player tracker
feed), and the short-lived [MOVETO-CANCEL] #162 capture probe. The
durable ProbeAutoWalk family (PhysicsDiagnostics owner + DebugPanel
toggle + the permanent [autowalk] probe sites) stays.
#162 closed WITHOUT adaptation: user A/B says retail does not glide, and
post-#161 acdream matches (user-verified walk/run-by-distance movetos +
clean mid-chain key takeover). Head-interrupt + CancelMoveTo re-audited
retail-verbatim against the raw (unpack_movement 0x00524440,
interrupt_current_movement 0x005101f0, MoveToManager::CancelMoveTo
0x00529930 armed-gate); the launch-162 capture shows ACE's mt-0
reflections carry the mover's real locomotion, so cancels never strand
the legs. The old glide was killed by the R4-V5 stack + #161's
apply-pass params fix. Evidence trail in ISSUES Recently-closed #162.
Suite 3,964 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retail's apply_interpreted_movement (0x00528600) does NOT dispatch with
ctor-default MovementParameters: the BN decomp smears the bitfield store
into the mush expression at raw 305778 - (word & 0x37ff) | cancelMoveTo<<15
| disableJump<<17 - which CLEARS SetHoldKey/ModifyInterpretedState/
CancelMoveTo. ACE MotionInterp.cs:444-449 confirms independently. Three
legs fixed, all retail decode, no adaptations added:
1. ApplyInterpretedMovement now builds the pass params retail actually
uses (ModifyInterpretedState=false is load-bearing): no dispatch in the
pass writes InterpretedState, so the airborne Falling substitution
PRESERVES the wire's forward command and HitGround's re-apply
dispatches it - the motion table plays the Falling->X landing link.
The W6 entry-cache (built on the wrong "retail self-heals via hoisted
registers" theory) is deleted; live reads are retail semantics. Raw
arg3 decoded as DisableJumpDuringLink -> every (N,0) caller means
allowJump=true; all 9 caller polarities fixed. copy_movement_from's
current_style copy (raw 0051e757) added to the UM flat-copy.
2. Both GameWindow landing blocks cleared the Gravity state bit BEFORE
Motion.HitGround(), whose verbatim state&0x400 gate then no-opped the
whole retail re-apply; the UP-driven landing block never called
HitGround at all. Both now run HitGround (minterp then moveto,
MovementManager::HitGround 0x00524300 order) with Gravity still set,
then do the DR bookkeeping clear (register row AP-81 added for the
remaining flag dance, retire in R6).
3. K-fix17's forced SetCycle (both copies) deleted: it executed every
landing but read the leg-1-clobbered ForwardCommand (0x40000015) and
re-set the very Falling cycle it meant to clear.
Tests: new HitGround_AfterFall_RedispatchesPreservedForward_ExitsFalling
lifecycle pin; AirborneBody state assertion flipped (it had pinned the
bug value). Suite 3,964 green incl. the 183-case retail-observer trace.
Filed #164 (action-replay Autonomous bit, no current consumer).
Awaiting live verify: stand-still landing must exit the falling pose with
zero wire input.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
User observation (acdream observing a retail player's server MoveTo):
walk-distance approaches correct; run-distance plays the run cycle AND
moves toward the target in slow motion.
Root cause, raw-verified (apply_run_to_command 0x00527be0, raw
305062-305076): retail's rate chain is
weenie ? (InqRunRate() ?: my_run_rate) : 1.0
Every placed retail object HAS a weenie; a REMOTE's weenie fails
InqRunRate (no local skill data) and the chain lands on my_run_rate -
the exact field retail's mt-6/7 unpack writes with the wire's
MoveToRunRate (M13; observed 4.50). Our port had the branch verbatim
but remote interps carried NO weenie at all, taking the else-1.0
branch retail reserves for weenie-less detached objects: observer-side
run dispatches went out at speed 1.0, so the run cycle's pace AND
get_state_velocity's chase speed both crawled. Walk was unaffected -
walk speed is never rate-scaled (the discriminating symptom).
Fix: RemoteWeenie (Core) - the minimal stand-in for retail's
per-object ACCWeenieObject: InqRunRate fails (-> my_run_rate),
InqJumpVelocity fails, IsThePlayer default false (also ends the
fragile "null weenie counts as the player" reading of the A3 dual
dispatch for remotes), IsCreature default true (doors carry it too;
their force-asserted Contact keeps the creature ground-gate moot -
documented on the class). RemoteMotion's interp now constructs with
it.
Tests: RemoteWeenieRunRateTests pins both branches against the raw -
RemoteWeenie + MyRunRate=4.5 promotes WalkForward->RunForward @ 4.5;
weenie-less keeps the verbatim degenerate 1.0. Full suite green: 3,963.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause (pinned by the worktree investigation + verified against
source): CMotionInterp's dispatch tails strip link animations for
DETACHED objects only (retail `if (physics_obj->cell == 0)
RemoveLinkAnimations`, raw @305627, three ported sites:
DoInterpretedMotion / StopInterpretedMotion / StopCompletely). The R3
port proxied retail's cell pointer with CellPosition.ObjCellId == 0 -
but that #145 field is seeded ONLY by SnapToCell, whose single
production caller is the LOCAL PLAYER's SetPosition. Every REMOTE body
therefore read "detached" forever, and every dispatch stripped the
transition link the motion table had just appended: a used door's
swing link died the same tick (pose snapped closed<->open - the live
symptom), and remote walk<->run link poses have been silently eaten
since the guard landed (masked: locomotion cycles resemble each other;
a door's two poses don't). The dispatcher itself (GetObjectSequence
link path) was verified retail-verbatim end-to-end - not the bug.
Fix: PhysicsBody.InWorld - an explicit "placed in the world" flag
carrying exactly the guard's retail meaning (register row TS-40,
replacing the previously UNREGISTERED ObjCellId proxy). Set by
SnapToCell (retail: enter_world/set_cell assigns the cell) and by
RemoteMotion construction (a RemoteMotion exists only for a world
entity). All three guard sites now test !InWorld. Default false =
retail's pre-enter_world detached state, preserving the guard for
genuinely unplaced bodies (bare-harness interps unchanged).
Tests: InWorldLinkGuardTests pins the polarity at all guard classes
(in-world dispatch keeps links; detached strips; StopCompletely same).
Full suite green: 3,961.
If the door still snaps after this, the open question is DATA (does
the door's table author an On<->Off link at all) - next step per the
investigation: dump the real table's Links/StyleDefaults via a
DoorSetupGfxObjInspectionTests extension.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two more live findings from the user's verify pass (the walk-up itself
works since 24569fd2):
GLIDE (a retail player using an object slides to it with no legs):
remote PLAYERS' MoveToManagers were armed by mt-6 but never TICKED -
the V4 UseTime slot lived only in the NPC/legacy per-tick branch,
gated !IsPlayerGuid (inherited from the deleted RemoteMoveToDriver's
NPC-only scope). Retail's UpdateObjectInternal has no entity-class
fork. The P4 tracker feed + UseTime is extracted into a shared
TickRemoteMoveTo(rm) and now also runs in the grounded player-remote
pipeline (L.3 M2): the manager's dispatches produce the locomotion
cycle through the funnel sink (the legs) while position stays
queue-chased per the M2 spec - the same composition an NPC gets.
DOORS (used doors flip ETHEREAL but never animate; a door opened by a
retail client does not animate either): static animated objects never
receive an UpdatePosition, so they never got a RemoteMotion (created
only in the UP handler) - and since the L.2g S2b funnel cutover the
UM motion apply is rm-only (the old direct SetCycle became the
funnel), so their On/Off forward-commands were parsed and dropped.
Confirmed live: door UMs arriving with cmd=0x000B/0x000C while the
door sequencer stayed frozen. Fix: create the rm on first UM (the
retail one-pipeline-for-every-entity-class shape), with a
LastServerPosTime>0 gate keeping UP-less entities OUT of the
dead-reckoning tick block (it force-asserts ground contact and
ground-resolves the body - position machinery for entities the server
moves; a wall-mounted door must not be terrain-snapped). Their cycles
play via the sequencer's own TickAnimations advance.
Remote jump-landing pose (third user report) not addressed here -
instrumentation next if it survives this build's retest.
Full suite green: 3,958.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The c2dc1a88 wedge fix paired every StopCompletely A9 node with a
completable motion-table type-5 entry via DefaultSink?.StopCompletely()
- but EnterPlayerModeNow called the initial SetPosition (whose teleport
idle is StopCompletely, R3-W6) BEFORE the sequencer/DefaultSink bind
block, so the login A9 node dispatched against a NULL sink and stayed
an orphan. Head-pop-any semantics mean a queue with one orphan never
reaches empty again (later completions just relabel the backlog), so
MotionsPending stayed true at every UseTime and the MoveToManager's
retail wait-for-anims gate (BeginTurnToHeading) never opened: every
server MoveTo armed (movingTo=True, Initialized=True, tracker fed,
node plan built) and the body never moved.
Pinned live by the [autowalk-gate] probe: type=MoveToObject init=True
contact=True motionsPending=True pm=[0x41000003] nodes=[TurnToHeading,
MoveToPosition] curCmd=0 - identical every half-second, forever.
Fix: the sequencer/sink bind block in EnterPlayerModeNow moves ABOVE
the initial physics Resolve + SetPosition (no data dependency - the
block only needs playerEntity/_animatedEntities). Teleport-arrival
SetPositions were already safe (sink long bound). Test rigs
(PlayerMoveToCutoverTests.MakeRig, W6EdgeDrivenMovementTests) mirror
the fixed order, and a new LoginQueue_DrainsToEmpty_UnderProductionFeed
test pins the invariant the probe caught: after login, pending_motions
must reach EMPTY under the production completion feed.
The [autowalk-gate]/[autowalk-feed] diagnostics stay in for the live
verify pass (TEMPORARY-tagged; strip when #5 closes). Full suite
green: 3,958.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Live bug (2026-07-03, user door test): a server MoveTo armed
(movingTo=True) but the local body never moved; the retail observer saw
ACE walk the server-side player to the door; the next local input
reasserted the stale position (rubber-band). Log evidence: the player's
pending_motions queue was non-empty on 92/94 MotionDone pops (remotes:
0/40) - MoveToManager's retail wait-for-anims gate
(BeginTurnToHeading's MotionsPending check) never opened.
ROOT CAUSE (found via a production-faithful repro test - the original
suite force-drained the queue, masking it): the R3 port MISIDENTIFIED
retail's StopCompletely_Internal body. It is NOT a physics velocity
zero - CPhysicsObj::StopCompletely_Internal (0x0050ead0) tailcalls
CPartArray::StopCompletelyInternal (0x00518890) which is
MotionTableManager::PerformMovement(type 5): an ANIMATION-side full
stop whose UNCONDITIONALLY-queued pending_animations entry is the
completable partner of the A9 pending_motions node
CMotionInterp::StopCompletely enqueues (raw @00527e90 between the
state writes and add_to_queue). Without the dispatch, every
StopCompletely (login/teleport SetPosition + every MoveToManager
PerformMovement head) left an orphan node with no completion - the
queue never drained at idle. (The R3 code comment claimed a register
row for the stand-in; none was ever added - porting the real mechanism
closes that violation without a row.)
Fix set (all retail-anchored):
- IInterpretedMotionSink gains StopCompletely() (default true = the
null-sink posture); MotionTableDispatchSink routes it to the R2
manager's already-ported type-5 op (StopObjectCompletely +
Ready-sentinel entry) + TurnStopped for the ObservedOmega seam.
- MotionInterpreter.StopCompletely calls DefaultSink?.StopCompletely()
at the exact retail slot (after the state writes, before
add_to_queue); the immediate set_velocity(Zero) is kept as the
documented physics-effect stand-in.
- PlayerMovementController ticks CheckForCompletedMotions after
UseTime - retail's per-tick CPartArray::HandleMovement slot
(0x00517d60 = MotionTableManager::UseTime = CheckForCompletedMotions
tailcall, called every tick from UpdateObjectInternal @005159a4).
NOTE: a first-cut per-tick apply_current_movement pump was tried and
REVERTED - retail's apply callers are all event-driven (hold-key,
HitGround/LeaveGround, ReportExhaustion), not per-tick; the remote
block's per-tick apply is a pre-existing adaptation outside this
fix's scope.
- The P1 autonomous-store family, completing the pin's port shape
(the gate landed in V5; the STORE side was missing):
(a) the unpack store (00509730: last_move_was_autonomous = wire
byte) in the GameWindow player branch - local player only for now
(remote interps have no WeenieObj, which A3 reads as IsThePlayer;
storing a remote's autonomous byte would mis-route their per-tick
apply onto the raw branch);
(b) input edges store =1 at the controller edge block - retail's
CPhysicsObj::DoMotion @00510030 / StopMotion @005100e0 /
TakeControlFromServer @006b32f4 input-boundary stores;
(c) section 2's per-frame velocity write now PRESERVES the flag
(V5's first cut stamped it per frame, the wrong altitude - retail
stores it at event boundaries only);
(d) InstallSpeculativeTurnToTarget stores false (models the wire
mt-6's unpack store; part of the AP-23 adaptation) so the
event-driven applies (e.g. HitGround mid-moveto) route interpreted
and cannot clobber the manager's dispatched motions with idle raw
state.
Tests: new ServerMoveToPosition_ProductionCompletionFeed_WalksToArrival
drives the controller under the PRODUCTION completion feed
(sequencer.Advance -> MotionDoneTarget) instead of force-draining -
this is the test that reproduced the live wedge (queue stuck at the
two A9 Ready orphans) and now proves the drain. Existing cutover tests
mirror the wire-path autonomous store before PerformMovement. Full
suite green: 3,957.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Register:
- Verified retired: AD-8/AD-9/AP-8/AP-9 (V4), TS-36/AD-26 (V5) - all gone.
- AD-34 widened: MoveToManager.pending_actions joins the managed-LinkedList
row, with the MoveToNode rename note (retail MoveToManager::MovementNode,
renamed to avoid colliding with R2's MotionNode) - V2 owed this note.
- NEW TS-39: MoveToManager.StickTo/Unstick are unbound no-op seams - a
sticky MoveTo (wire bit 0x80) completes-and-stops instead of sticking;
PositionManager/StickyManager bodies are R5 scope (call shapes only in
the R4 extraction). Retires with R5.
- Re-anchored after the V5 controller deletion shifted lines: AD-25
(:1212->:874), AP-24 (:170->:176), AP-30 (:1503->:1110), TS-21
(:362->:311, stale-comment clause updated - V5 fixed the comment).
- AP-79 (widened in V5's commit) and the PlanFromVelocity row (V4)
verified present.
Roadmap: Phase R entry - R4 SHIPPED 2026-07-03 (V0-V6 trail), R2+R3+R4
share the ONE pending user visual pass; next code stage R5 (MovementManager
facade + Sticky/Constraint/TargetManager).
Plan of record: R4 stage entry filled in with the full V0-V6 commit trail
+ expected-diffs for the visual pass (retail cylinder-distance stop, real
turn cycles during corrections, CanCharge walk/run legs).
Handoff doc: postscript - R4 complete, V4 smoke log analyzed clean and
deleted; memory index updated (animation deep-dive map: MoveToManager gap
CLOSED, the "three approximations" pattern retired).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The local player now runs server MoveTos through the same verbatim
MoveToManager remotes got in V4. One commit, GameWindow + controller,
per the no-fan-out rule for coupled slices.
P1 gate (V0-pins.md P1, ported verbatim): CPhysics::SetObjectMovement
(0x00509690 @0050972e) drops any movement event whose wire autonomous
byte is set when the addressed object IsThePlayer - ACE's self-addressed
MoveToState reflection (MovementData.cs:162 IsAutonomous=1) never
reaches unpack_movement, which is what makes the retail unconditional
unpack-head interrupt safe. Gate placed AFTER the sequence gates
(retail order). The stale "ACE follows every mt=0x06 with an mt=0x00"
comment block dies with the code it excused (its causal story was
pre-#75; refuted in V0-pins P1).
Run-rate re-anchor (P1 contingency NOT needed - no AD row): the echo
tap ApplyServerRunRate is deleted outright. Both retail feeds already
exist: PlayerDescription skills via SetCharacterSkills (K-fix7) into
InqRunRate (preferred by apply_run_to_command/get_state_velocity), and
the mt-6/7 my_run_rate wire write (M13) now performed for the player by
the shared RouteServerMoveTo. The tap's InterpretedState.ForwardSpeed
overwrite was a pre-R3 mechanism that fought the ported machinery.
B.6 auto-walk deleted wholesale (~330 lines): fields, Begin/End/
DriveServerAutoWalk, IsServerAutoWalking, AutoWalkArrived, the
autoWalkConsumedMotion gates, the #69 turn-dir edge synthesizer, and
the relocated AutoWalkArrivalEpsilon/AutoWalkTurnRateFor constants
(AD-26 retired - the invented 5/30-degree bands are gone; arrival is
retail's distance predicate; turn-first is the TurnToHeading node).
TS-36 retired: Motion.InterruptCurrentMovement binds to
MoveTo.CancelMoveTo(ActionCancelled). Movement-key edges (ctor-default
params carry the 0x8000 CancelMoveTo bit), Shift (set_hold_run
interrupt:true), jump(), StopCompletely, and teleport all cancel a
running moveto through the retail chain - verified by controller-level
tests, not assumed.
MoveToComplete seam WIDENED to natural completion (Core): retail's
BeginNextNode empty-queue completion is inline CleanUp+StopCompletely
(raw @00529d47) and notifies nothing - the client-addition seam had to
fire there (both sticky and non-sticky exits) or AD-27's deferred
close-range Use/PickUp re-send never fires. Never fires on CancelMoveTo.
AD-27 re-anchored from the deleted AutoWalkArrived event.
InstallSpeculativeTurnToTarget rewired through the player's manager
(retail 9a/9b client-initiated shape): close-range -> TurnToObject,
far -> MoveToObject; AP-23 radius buckets + the #77 CanCharge
prediction survive as the params source (row re-anchored).
Per-tick: MoveTo.UseTime() at the old DriveServerAutoWalk slot
(provisional until R6, per the plan's placement decision); the P4
player-side TargetTracker twin (fields + pre-Update feed) mirrors the
remote adapter (AP-79 row widened). HitGround dual-call added on the
player landing edge AND the remote landing site - the latter closes a
V4 wiring-contract gap the adversarial review caught (retail 2d order:
minterp then moveto; without it a landing NPC's moveto never re-arms).
Also from the adversarial review: the mt-8 unresolvable-target degrade
now performs retail's params.desired_heading = wire_heading
substitution (decomp 2f case 8; invisible against ACE per P6, required
for the verbatim degrade); the V4 remote MoveToManager binding gets a
real curTime clock (the ctor stub advanced 1/30s per READ, skewing the
progress/fail-distance windows - note: the pending V4 NPC smoke ran on
the skewed clock); TS-33 row extended with the orientation-diff gap
(ApproxPositionEqual vs retail Frame::is_equal full-frame compare - a
stationary heading snap does not reach the wire; masked against ACE,
R7 outbound scope owns the fix).
MoveToMath gains HeadingFromYaw/YawFromHeading (the P5 scalar bridge
for yaw-authoritative bodies - the player's heading snap must write
Yaw, not the quaternion the controller re-derives every frame).
Tests: 3,956 green (+8). New: MoveToManagerCompletionSeamTests (arrival
fires once with None, no refire, cancel never fires, sticky handoff
order) + PlayerMoveToCutoverTests (EnterPlayerModeNow-shape rig: walks
to arrival with zero user input and zero MotionStateChanged frames -
the #75 invariant by construction; TurnToHeading rotates Yaw and snaps
exact; W-edge and jump cancel without firing complete). W6 edge suite
retargeted from the deleted echo tap to a direct apply pass (the
regression lives in ApplyInterpretedMovement, not the wire trigger).
Spec: docs/research/2026-07-03-r4-moveto/r4-port-plan.md section 3 V5.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every remote's server-directed movement now runs the verbatim retail
MoveToManager. EnsureRemoteMotionBindings constructs it per remote with
the full V2 seam set (position/heading/velocity providers, the P4
TargetTracker adapter via setTarget/clearTarget storing the tracked
guid on RemoteMotion) and binds InterruptCurrentMovement ->
CancelMoveTo(0x36) - the retail interrupt chain (TS-36 remote side).
UM routing is retail's unpack_movement dispatch (0x00524440): the
head-interrupt + unstick fire for EVERY movement type, then mt 6/7
build MovementParameters.FromWire(raw bitfield - now surfaced by the
parser) + a MovementStruct (mt 6 resolves the target guid against the
entity table, degrading to MoveToPosition at the wire origin per the
plan's 2f; my_run_rate written from MoveToRunRate per @300603) ->
MoveTo.PerformMovement; mt 8/9 likewise via FromWireTurnTo; ONLY mt 0
flows through the interpreted funnel (the PlanMoveToStart seed is
DELETED - retail never routes MoveTo types through the interpreted
state copy).
Per tick: the P4 tracker feeds HandleUpdateTarget(Ok/ExitWorld) from
the live entity table, then UseTime runs the manager's steering/
arrival/fail handlers, then apply_current_movement recomputes velocity
- the same shape ordinary locomotion uses. The legacy driver branches,
the stale-destination timer, and the ClampApproachVelocity band-aid
are gone; arrival now uses retail cylinder distance (watch melee-range
stop distance in the visual pass).
DELETED: RemoteMoveToDriver.cs + its tests (OriginToWorld relocated
verbatim to MoveToMath; the B.6 auto-walk's two surviving constants
inlined into PlayerMovementController, dying with it in V5);
ServerControlledLocomotion.PlanMoveToStart + tests (PlanFromVelocity
survives - new AP-80 row); the RemoteMotion MoveTo capture fields.
Registers: AD-8/AD-9/AP-8/AP-9 retired; AP-79 (TargetTracker adapter,
retire R5) + AP-80 added.
Full suite green: 3,948 passed. Live smoke launched - NPC
chase/wander behavior pending user verification (recorded in the
session handoff).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
UpdateMotion now parses TurnToObject (mt 8: guid, standalone wire
heading, 3-dword UnPackNet) and TurnToHeading (mt 9: 3-dword UnPackNet)
into a new TurnToPathData sibling record (the two wire forms genuinely
diverge - 7-dword move UnPackNet with Origin head vs 3-dword turn
UnPackNet with guid+heading head; every consumer switches on
MovementType first, so no polymorphic shape was invented). mt 6/7
exposure widened additively so ALL UnPackNet fields reach
MovementParameters.FromWire. The mt=0 motionFlags sticky-guid trailer
(bit 0x1) is parsed for cursor honesty and carried unconsumed until R5
- scoped to mt=0 ONLY per both ACE's writer (MovementInvalid.Write) and
the decomp's case-0 read, tighter than the plan sketched; the
StandingLongJump bit (0x2) doc-noted as the R5 unpack_movement item.
MoveToRunRate doc-pointered as the V4/V5 MyRunRate write.
11 new golden-byte tests hand-assembled from ACE's writers
(MovementData/TurnToObject/TurnToParameters/TurnToHeading/
MoveToParameters/MovementInvalid) incl. flag-permutation round-trips
and the trailer cursor-honesty case; the existing 12 mt 6/7 fixtures
pass unchanged. Full suite: 3,972 passed.
Implemented by a dedicated agent against the V0-pinned spec (P6 order
confirmed exactly); scope + suite independently verified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The retail server-directed-movement brain (0x00529010-0x0052a987),
Core-only with every App dependency as a ctor/property seam for the
V4/V5 cutovers: node-plan builders for all four movement types
(TurnToObject's desired-heading clobber quirk VERBATIM; TurnToHeading's
immediate BeginNextNode - ACE's one-tick-late gap not copied),
PerformMovement (cancel 0x36 + unstick first), BeginNextNode with the
sticky handoff order (radius/height/tlid read BEFORE CleanUp),
BeginMoveForward (GetCommand walk/run cascade + stored-params
write-back + progress-clock seed), HandleMoveToPosition (chase arrival
dist <= distance_to_object per the adjudicated BN inversion; fail
distance -> 0x3D; progress >= 0.25 units/s over >= 1 s, incremental AND
overall; fail_progress_count write-only - retail has NO give-up
threshold and none was invented), HandleTurnToHeading (20/340 aux
deadband; the Ghidra-confirmed heading_diff mirror), HandleUpdateTarget
0x0052a7d0 (deferred-start: object moves wait for the first Ok
callback; retargets reset the progress clock without requeueing),
UseTime's initialized gate, InitializeLocalVariables per retail (flags
word + context_id zeroed, floats stale, FLT_MAX resets - not ACE's
transpositions).
TDD catch: default(Quaternion) is the ZERO quaternion, not identity -
a fresh manager's heading computations would silently read 90 degrees;
explicit IdentityPosition resets match the decomp's identity-Frame
semantics. Also pinned: retail's explicit double adjust_motion in
_DoMotion/_StopMotion; entry points never drain pending_actions (only
PerformMovement's cancel does) - re-issues must route through
PerformMovement, documented + tested.
101 new conformance tests incl. three end-to-end scripted drives
(chase turn->run->walk-demote->arrive; flee; frozen-heading
TurnToObject through retarget). Full suite: 3,961 passed.
Implemented by a dedicated agent against the V0-pinned spec; scope +
suite independently verified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MovementParameters gains the verbatim selection family:
GetCommand 0x0052aa00 (the walk-vs-run cascade INCLUDING the CanCharge
0x10 fast-path ACE dropped - retail's default can_charge=false + the
fast-path present, the A13+A15 canceling-pair trap avoided; inclusive
threshold edge per the raw), TowardsAndAway, GetDesiredHeading per the
live Ghidra decompile (fwd-towards 0 / fwd-away 180 / back-towards 180
/ back-away 0), FromWire/FromWireTurnTo (UnPackNet semantics, all 18 A4
masks round-tripped).
New MoveToMath: HeadingDiff per the live Ghidra decompile of 0x00528fb0
(the 360-diff NOT-TurnRight mirror + F_EPSILON 0.000199999995f - the
BN "arg unused" artifact corrected), HeadingGreater (the visible
TurnRight idiom), PositionHeading/Get/SetHeading reusing the codebase's
single yaw-heading convention (P5), CylinderDistance (PDB arg order;
planar-minus-radii shape documented as the interpretation - the raw's
x87 body is garbled; seam noted).
MovementType gains Invalid + retail 6/7/8/9; MovementStruct widened
(ObjectId/TopLevelId/Pos/Radius/Height/Params, additive); WeenieError
+= 0x0B/0x36/0x37/0x38/0x3D with retail-meaning doc comments.
148 new conformance tests. Full suite: 3,860 passed.
Implemented by a dedicated agent against the V0-pinned spec; scope +
suite independently verified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
P1 (BLOCKER -> RESOLVED, no adaptation needed): retail's
CPhysics::SetObjectMovement (0x00509690) drops any movement event whose
wire AUTONOMOUS byte is set when the addressed object IsThePlayer -
BEFORE unpack_movement's unconditional head-interrupt ever runs. ACE's
mt-0 MoveToState echo is IsAutonomous=1 HARDCODED (MovementData.cs:162)
and only exists when the client itself sends a MoveToState (the
2026-05-14 'echo kills auto-walk' trace was the pre-#75 build whose
overlay leaked outbound packets - post-#75 there is no echo at moveto
start). acdream parses isAutonomous (UpdateMotion.cs:129) and consumes
it NOWHERE; MotionSequenceGate cites 0x00509690 in its own doc but
omitted this final branch. V-commits port the missing gate tail and the
verbatim head-cancel lands cleanly; the informal GameWindow
no-cancel-on-non-MoveTo note retires.
P3 (Ghidra-confirmed live, textual verdict independently identical):
heading_diff 0x00528fb0 HAS the TurnLeft mirror - 360-diff whenever the
turn command != TurnRight; the extraction's 'arg unused' was a BN
x87-setcc artifact (the W6b class). P2 Ghidra-confirmed:
get_desired_heading = fwd-towards 0 / fwd-away 180 / back-towards
180 / back-away 0. ghidra-confirmations.md holds both raw decompiles.
P4-P7 pinned per V0-pins.md. RemoteMoveToDriver's stale chase/flee
class-doc claim corrected (retail and ACE AGREE on the predicates).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Workflow-produced R4 research (3 docs, 2,541 lines):
- r4-moveto-decomp.md: all 33 MoveToManager members verbatim
(0x00529010-0x0052a987) + the MovementManager type-6/7/8/9 relay +
MovementParameters::get_command. HandleUpdateTarget CONFIRMED on
MoveToManager (0x0052a7d0 — closes the R3 negative result; object
moves are DEFERRED until the first target-update callback). Walk-vs-
run = the CanCharge rule exactly (can_charge OR can_run && dist-gap >
walk_run_threshhold, riding hold_key_to_apply into DoInterpretedMotion
— MoveToManager never calls set_hold_run). Sticky handoff located
(empty queue + 0x80 → StickTo). fail_progress_count is WRITE-ONLY in
retail (no give-up threshold — do not invent one). 8-class BN
artifact ledger.
- r4-ace-moveto.md: 16 flagged ACE-isms, all retail-verified — incl. a
stale-member read (MoveToPosition checks the PREVIOUS move's
UseFinalHeading), a field transposition (InitializeLocalVars zeroes
DistanceToObject where retail zeroes the flags word), a dropped
BeginNextNode (ACE turns start one tick late), a UseTime gate
inversion, and the canceling CanCharge default+fast-path pair.
Blast radius: acdream has THREE independent approximations of this
one mechanism (DriveServerAutoWalk / RemoteMoveToDriver /
ServerControlledLocomotion) + an outdated chase/flee claim in
RemoteMoveToDriver's class doc.
- r4-port-plan.md: 7 pins (P1 blocker: retail interrupts current
movement on EVERY UM but ACE sends a companion mt-0 echo after each
MoveTo — needs a discriminator pin before V5; P3: heading_diff's
TurnLeft mirror needs one Ghidra decompile of 0x00528fb0; P4:
type-6/8 moves need a minimal TargetTracker adapter until R5),
17 gaps M1-M17, commits V0-V6. Retires AD-8/AD-9/AP-8/AP-9 + TS-36.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
User live report (the R3 visual pass): pressing W stopped the local
player instantly (retail observers saw run + rubber-band back — our AP
never moved); S/strafe appeared to work. The edge tracer + a
harness-with-echo repro converged on the funnel:
ApplyInterpretedMovement live-read InterpretedState.ForwardCommand
AFTER the style dispatch. The style dispatch SUCCEEDS against the real
MotionTableDispatchSink (GetObjectSequence Branch 1 style==target →
success — verified in the raw @298636), which gates the
ModifyInterpretedState write → InterpretedMotionState::ApplyMotion's
style branch resets forward_command to Ready UNCONDITIONALLY (raw
0051ea6c — our port is verbatim). Retail SELF-HEALS: its compiled
apply pass reads the axis fields into registers BEFORE the style call,
so the fwd dispatch re-applies the pre-reset command and the field
recovers within the pass — proven by our own 183-case live-retail
observer trace (the fwd dispatch carries the wire's RunForward after
the style dispatch on the same UM). The BN pseudo-C's apparent
post-style field reads at 0x528687 are decompiler rendering of hoisted
registers — the same artifact class as the A1 polarity inversion.
Under the live-field read, every apply pass (the ~10Hz ACE UM echo via
ApplyServerRunRate included) dispatched Ready and left the field
permanently Ready; the controller's per-frame get_state_velocity then
zeroed the body. The 183-case suite could not catch it: its
RecordingSink's return value doesn't mirror the real sink's
style-success, so the resetting state-write never ran under test.
Fix: entry-cache fwd/sidestep/turn commands+speeds (and the my_run_rate
read) before the style dispatch — restoring the S2a funnel's original
semantics through the W5 merge.
3 new regression tests bind the REAL sink over a real sequencer
(the masked condition): a full apply pass self-heals forward; 2 seconds
of held-W with echo cadence covers meters not centimeters; Shift
walk↔run toggling survives mid-transition echoes. Full suite: 3,734
passed. Temp diagnostics removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
AP-78 retired (its condition — App seam bindings + K-fix18 deletion —
landed in W4); TS-21/TS-23/AP-30 anchors re-pinned to the post-W6
controller lines; roadmap + plan record the full W0-W7 trail; the
memory index notes the 2026-06-04 sequencer-deep-dive divergence map
CLOSED by Phase R1-R3. R2+R3 share ONE pending user visual pass; R4
(MoveToManager) is next.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The local player now drives the SAME pipeline remotes use. The
controller's per-frame RawMotionState rebuild (level-triggered D6.2) is
replaced by retail's CommandInterpreter altitude: key EDGES fire
DoMotion/StopMotion (0x00528d20/0x00528530) and the Shift edge fires
set_hold_run (0x00528b70, caller-0x006b33ca shape) — the interpreter's
own RawState mutates via ApplyMotion/RemoveMotion and every dispatch
routes the funnel + DefaultSink into the sequencer. GameWindow's
UpdatePlayerAnimation (169 lines) is DELETED with both
LocalAnimationCommand/LocalAnimationSpeed MovementResult fields and all
three synthesis sites (K-fix5 pacing, Walk→Run cycle selection, the
auto-walk overrides): run pacing now comes from apply_run_to_command's
my_run_rate promotion — the same source remotes use; airborne-Falling
falls out of contact_allows_move (the funnel's second dispatch).
Auto-walk's #69 turn-phase legs re-expressed as DoMotion(Turn*) edges;
teleport idle = StopCompletely (retail's full stop) + an edge-tracker
reset so held keys walk straight out of a portal.
Map discovery R1 fixed: ChargeJump() now fires at charge START (the
0x0056afac input-boundary site) — StandingLongJump had NEVER armed in
production despite the W3 port.
TWO root-cause fixes the cutover surfaced (each would have been
invisible under the old synthesis layer):
- CurrentHoldKey was a shadow FIELD synced only on the raw dispatch
branch; set_hold_run writes RawState.CurrentHoldKey, so an edge-driven
Shift toggle followed by DoMotion read a stale None and lost the run
promotion. Now an alias of RawState.CurrentHoldKey (retail's
adjust_motion reads raw_state.current_holdkey directly).
- The controller's grounded velocity + jump-launch writes used
set_local_velocity's default autonomous:false, silently clearing
LastMoveWasAutonomous and flipping the A3 dual dispatch to the
interpreted branch for the local player. Both marked autonomous.
EXPECTED-DIFFS (map §6, for the R3 visual pass): #45's 1.248x sidestep
factor + ACDREAM_ANIM_SPEED_SCALE died with UpdatePlayerAnimation —
local sidestep pacing now matches how remotes have always played;
auto-walk-at-run plays walk-pace legs until R4; ApplyServerRunRate's
apply_current_movement goes live (Branch-2 fast re-speed absorbs the
echo — retail's own mid-run speed-change mechanism).
Wire: outbound values stay input-derived (the L.2b-verified byte
stream untouched; RawState-sourcing needs the map §2b cdb TODO and R7
owns outbound). MotionStateChanged = the old comparison minus the dead
localAnimCmd leg, OR any edge fired.
Full suite green: 3,731 passed. Live smoke: in-world, user-driven
input through the new path (walk/turn/strafe), 12k entities, zero
exceptions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five discoveries beyond the plan text: ChargeJump never called by
production code (StandingLongJump has never armed — W6 must wire the
charge-start call); the DefaultSink→sequencer path already exists
end-to-end (W6 = bind one property + delete UpdatePlayerAnimation +
the edge detector); skipTransitionLink already gone (stale plan
bullet); the #45 sidestep factor + ACDREAM_ANIM_SPEED_SCALE have no
equivalent in the shared sink path (decision required); ApplyServerRunRate's
apply_current_movement goes live once DefaultSink binds (fast re-speed
absorbs it — retail's own mid-run speed-change mechanism).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The two parallel DoInterpretedMotion implementations MERGE into one
verbatim pair (0x00528360/@305639): contact gate, StandingLongJump
state-only branch, Dead → RemoveLinkAnimations, the jump_error_code
double-check WITH the DisableJumpDuringLink 0x20000 leg (W2's TODO(W5)
resolved — MovementParameters now flows), ModifyInterpretedState
gating, CurCell-null tail, AddToQueue with the real ContextId;
StopInterpretedMotion's post-stop Ready node + raw-mirror RemoveMotion.
Legacy overloads + ApplyMotionToInterpretedState DELETED. The funnel's
public surface unchanged (183-case suite compiles + passes as-is).
DoMotion 0x00528d20 verbatim: cancel_moveto interrupt; SetHoldKey(key,
cancelMoveToBit) BEFORE adjust_motion; params re-default for the
interpreted call; combat-stance gates on the ORIGINAL id (Crouch/Sit/
Sleep → 0x3f/0x40/0x41; & 0x2000000 → 0x42 outside NonCombat); action
depth cap ≥6 → 0x45; raw mirror ORIGINAL id. StopMotion 0x00528530
mirror shape. StopCompletely 0x00527e40 with the A9 snapshot quirk
(motion_allows_jump on the OLD forward command, stashed in the queued
node) + the J9 fix (sidestep/turn SPEEDS untouched — the 1.0 resets
were a divergence). PerformMovement flushes zero-tick completions after
every dispatched op via the new CheckForCompletedMotions seam
(0x0050fe30) — bound App-side per entity (remotes via
EnsureRemoteMotionBindings, player at the sequencer bind site).
PORT DISCOVERY (not in the W0 pins): retail's DoInterpretedMotion
RESULT gates both add_to_queue AND the state write — a void sink let
the style dispatch's apply-only failure clobber ForwardCommand before
the forward axis read it, regressing 74/183 live-trace cases.
IInterpretedMotionSink.ApplyMotion/StopMotion now return bool
(documented on the interface with the raw anchors); one funnel
assertion corrected with raw-line citations (airborne ForwardCommand
ends at Falling under the fully-wired verbatim algorithm).
62 new gate-table tests. Full suite: 3,729 passed.
Implemented by a dedicated agent against the W0-pinned spec; seam
bound + suite independently re-verified by the orchestrator.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Core (dedicated agent, independently reviewed): HitGround 0x00528ac0 /
LeaveGround 0x00528b00 verbatim (creature+gravity gates, the
RemoveLinkAnimations seam — K-fix18's retail mechanism — velocity via
GetLeaveGroundVelocity with the autonomous flag, jump-state resets,
apply_current_movement re-sync); enter_default_state 0x00528c80 per A8
(fresh states, InitializeMotionTables seam, sentinel APPENDED without
draining pending_motions — pinned, Initted=1, LeaveGround tail);
Initted gates; the A3 IsThePlayer dual dispatch in
apply_current_movement / ReportExhaustion / SetWeenieObject /
SetPhysicsObject (a remote player routes INTERPRETED — the
ACE-divergence pin); set_hold_run 0x00528b70 + SetHoldKey 0x00528bb0
(XOR guard, None-only-from-Run); adjust_motion creature guard wired
(TS-34 retired); PhysicsBody.LastMoveWasAutonomous +
set_local_velocity(autonomous). Port discovery: retail's
apply_raw_movement 0x005287e0 / apply_interpreted_movement 0x00528600
ARE the already-shipped D6.2a/funnel functions — the dual dispatch
composes them instead of duplicating.
App cutover (orchestrator): the skipTransitionLink flag + both K-fix18
call sites DELETED (AP-74 retired). MotionInterpreter.DefaultSink routes
apply_current_movement's interpreted branch through the REAL funnel
dispatch when a sink is bound — so a remote's LeaveGround engages
Falling via the contact-gated funnel, replacing the forced SetCycle
(J19); the per-remote MotionTableDispatchSink is now PERSISTENT
(EnsureRemoteMotionBindings: DefaultSink + RemoveLinkAnimations +
InitializeMotionTables seams, idempotent from both the UM and
VectorUpdate paths; wire velocity re-applied after LeaveGround so it
stays authoritative). Player: seams bound to the player sequencer; the
controller's grounded→airborne EDGE now fires LeaveGround (jump()
clears OnWalkable and the same frame's transition detection fires it —
retail's order; walk-off-a-ledge gets the momentum fallback + link
strip it never had); the manual jump-block LeaveGround deleted;
LastMoveWasAutonomous set at the controller chokepoint (W6 refines).
Trace S8 re-expressed as the retail mechanism (Falling dispatch +
RemoveAllLinkAnimations = same final state the flag produced). 43 new
lifecycle tests. Registers: TS-34 + AP-74 retired; TS-38, AP-77, AP-78
added. Full suite: 3,665 passed. Live smoke: in-world clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
JumpChargeIsAllowed 0x00527a50 (CanJump→0x49 before posture; Fallen +
Crouch..Sleeping→0x48), ChargeJump 0x005281c0 — now the ONLY place
standing_longjump arms (grounded Contact+OnWalkable + forward Ready +
no sidestep/turn, raw @305453-305466); the S2a-flagged side effect
inside contact_allows_move is DELETED (J6) with regression pins that
contact checks never touch the flag (the funnel's StandingLongJump
branch is local-player scope; the controller wires ChargeJump in W4/W6
— remotes never charge client-side, no interim regression).
jump_is_allowed 0x005282b0 full chain replaces the 15-line
approximation: IsFullyConstrained→0x47 (new PhysicsBody stub, TS-35)
BEFORE the pending-head peek (A2 ordering, pinned); head peek fires
whenever the queue is non-empty (no ACE Count>1 gate; nonzero
jump_error_code short-circuits the whole chain — test proves
JumpStaminaCost is never consulted); retail entry shape verbatim
(non-creature-weenie and gravity-off skip the ground gate; null
physics obj → 0x24 NOT 8 per A10); charge → MotionAllowsJump(fwd)
double-check → JumpStaminaCost gate (new IWeenieObject member,
always-affordable PlayerWeenie stub — TS-5 extended).
GetJumpVZ/GetLeaveGroundVelocity: epsilon corrected to retail's
0.000199999995f (was 0.001 — regression-pinned at extent 0.0005);
A5 shape (clamp 1.0, weenie-null 10.0f); A6 momentum fallback fires
only when ALL THREE components are sub-epsilon and overwrites all
three with global→local(m_velocityVector).
Jump 0x00528780: InterruptCurrentMovement no-op seam (TS-36, →R4
cancel_moveto), fires unconditionally; standing_longjump cleared ONLY
on failure (success keeps it — pinned). IWeenieObject.IsThePlayer()
(PlayerWeenie true) lands for W4's A3 dispatch.
51 new tests + 1 re-pin; superseded pre-W3 jump tests removed. Full
suite: 3,623 passed. Registers: TS-5 extended, TS-35/36/37 added.
Implemented by a dedicated agent against the W0-pinned spec; arming
gates + entry shape verified against the quoted raw text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MotionInterpreter implements IMotionDoneSink: pending_motions
(LinkedList<MotionNode>, AD-34 wording) + add_to_queue 0x00527b80 +
motions_pending 0x00527fe0 + MotionDone 0x00527ec0 verbatim (action-class
head → UnstickFromObject no-op seam (→R5 StickyManager) + BOTH states'
action-FIFO pops; head popped UNCONDITIONALLY — A7: never match-by-id,
params unread in this build) + HandleExitWorld 0x00527f30 (the raw
decompile's null-physics-obj branch would infinite-loop if translated
literally — adjudicated as retail dead code, documented on the method) +
is_standing_still 0x00527fa0 + MotionAllowsJump 0x005279e0 with the
A1-pinned literal blocklist (28-case boundary table test: Fallen blocks,
Falling passes — ACE's transposition NOT copied).
Queue producers wired into the funnel per the decomp anchors
(re-verified from the raw text): DispatchInterpretedMotion's success
path computes jump_error_code via retail's double-check shape
(motion_allows_jump(motion), then forward_command when non-action;
the DisableJumpDuringLink params leg is TODO(W5) — no MovementParameters
threaded yet) + add_to_queue; apply_interpreted_movement's turn-stop
re-queues the Ready node (@305766-305785 — the plan's producer #2 and #3
are the SAME site; StopInterpretedMotion's internal add_to_queue @305657
is W5 scope). ContextId=0 with TODO(W5): retail's own compiled code
reads an UNINITIALIZED local for it at this call site.
GameWindow: MotionDoneTarget now binds the entity's REAL consumer —
player via PlayerMovementController.Motion (new internal property),
remotes via RemoteMotion.Motion — resolved AT FIRE TIME (a remote's
RemoteMotion can be created after its first anim tick; an eager capture
would drop completions forever). Despawn runs BOTH layers' exit-world
drains (manager then interp) per §4. AD-36 narrowed (consumed for
creature-class; doors/statics recorder-only until R5).
51 new conformance cases incl. the end-to-end chain test:
MotionTableManager.AnimationDone → sink → interp pending head pops in
step. 183-case observer-trace + funnel suites green unchanged (queue
side effects additive). Full suite: 3,582 passed.
Implemented by a dedicated agent (MotionInterpreter side) against the
W0-pinned spec; producer placements + MotionAllowsJump branch algebra
independently reviewed against the raw decomp; GameWindow wiring by the
orchestrator.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
