The 'run into the last corridor window and pop up through its roof'
report: the live callers passed sphereHeight: 1.2f into
SpherePath.InitPath, whose head-sphere formula (height - radius) put the
head sphere center at 0.72 - the capsule top at 1.2m. The top 0.63m of a
1.83m character had NO collision, so at the corridor-end window alcove
(0x8A020179 -> 0x8A02017E: 0.70m sill face, 1.3m opening, sloped funnel
behind) the step-up's placement never saw the head overlapping the
lintel solids and let the player climb in head-through-roof.
Dat truth (HumanSetup_CollisionSpheres_DatTruth): Setup 0x02000001
spheres = (0,0,0.475) r=0.48 and (0,0,1.350) r=0.48 - capsule top 1.83 =
Setup.Height 1.835. Retail collides with that sphere list verbatim
(CPhysicsObj::transition 0x00512dc0 -> init_sphere(GetNumSphere,
GetSphere, m_scale)).
Fix: PlayerMovementController + the GameWindow remote resolve now pass
sphereHeight: 1.835f (capsule top; head center 1.355 vs dat 1.350).
InitPath unchanged - captured-input replay fixtures (recorded 1.2
inputs) stay byte-identical. Register TS-46: the (radius, capsule-top)
scalar approximation of the Setup sphere list (5mm foot/head offsets;
remotes use human dims) with the retire path (plumb the sphere list).
Pins: WindowOpening_HeadCannotFit_EntryBlocked (22-frame walked approach
wall-slides at the sill, never enters 0x8A02017E) +
WindowAlcove_RaisedPlacement_HeadInLintelSolid_Collides (Path-1
placement rejects the raised head in the lintel solids) + the
WindowShaft_FullPolyDump / HumanSetup dat inspections.
Suites: Core 2562 / App 713 / UI 425 / Net 385, 0 failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Structural capstone of the R5 movement-manager arc; zero behavior change.
Retail MovementManager (acclient.h /* 3463 */, 16 bytes / four pointers)
gives every CPhysicsObj ONE owner for its motion_interpreter +
moveto_manager. acdream carried them as loose per-entity objects wired by
hand at three sites. This slice:
- New src/AcDream.Core/Physics/Motion/MovementManager.cs — owns
MotionInterpreter + lazy MoveToManager (MakeMoveToManager 0x00524000 via
a MoveToFactory closure, the acdream stand-in for the physics_obj/
weenie_obj backpointers) + the relays with retail call shapes:
PerformMovement 0x005240d0 (types 1-5 -> minterp, 6-9 ->
MakeMoveToManager + moveto, (type-1)>8 -> 0x47), UseTime 0x005242f0
(moveto only), HitGround 0x00524300 (minterp FIRST then moveto),
HandleExitWorld 0x00524350 (minterp only), CancelMoveTo 0x005241b0,
HandleUpdateTarget 0x00524790, IsMovingTo 0x00524260.
- RemoteMotion.Movement + PlayerMovementController.Movement hold the ONE
facade; Motion/MoveTo become child views so the comment-dense call sites
read unchanged. The three wiring sites (EnsureRemoteMotionBindings,
EnterPlayerModeNow, the chase harness — same commit per the mirror rule)
construct through MoveToFactory + MakeMoveToManager(), preserving the
pre-facade eager timing (side-effect-free ctor = unobservable either way).
- Relay call sites repointed: both remote landing HitGround pairs + the
player landing pair, despawn HandleExitWorld, TickRemoteMoveTo + the
player Update UseTime, RouteServerMoveTo (takes the facade; routes via
the retail PerformMovement dispatch), InstallSpeculativeTurnToTarget,
host HandleUpdateTarget/InterruptCurrentMovement closures (retail
CPhysicsObj::HandleUpdateTarget @0x00512bf0 fan head + the TS-36
interrupt chain, now the literal facade relays).
- NOT absorbed per the slice spec: unpack_movement stays App
(RouteServerMoveTo + UM heads; Core.Net types stay out of Core.Physics);
TS-42 per-tick order untouched (R6); #170/#171 gate-passed machinery
untouched. PerformMovement's set_active(1) head not re-asserted (spawn
asserts Active; status quo — no new register row).
- Register: TS-41/TS-42 source wording freshened to the facade shape;
AD-36 retire note corrected (facade half closed; residue = entities
that never get a RemoteMotion). No new rows.
- Conformance: 15 new MovementManagerTests pin the dispatch table, lazy
create, relay targets/order, null tolerance. Suite 4052 green; the
183-case/funnel/moveto/chase/sticky suites UNMODIFIED (harness
construction mirrors production, test bodies untouched).
Decomp: docs/research/2026-07-03-r5-managers/r5-movementmanager-decomp.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Group-melee interpenetration + facing drift: the R5-V1-ported
StickyManager/PositionManager were Core-only — the StickTo/Unstick seams
were unbound and every arrival radius was 0, so ACE's Sticky|UseSpheres
melee chases closed ~one body-radius too deep and froze at stale arrival
poses until the next wire re-arm. Retires TS-39.
Wiring (anchors re-verified against the named decomp this session):
- EntityPhysicsHost owns a PositionManager; HandleUpdateTarget fans
MoveToManager then PositionManager (CPhysicsObj::HandleUpdateTarget
0x00512bc0 order).
- Seams bound remote + player: MoveToManager.StickTo (BeginNextNode
sticky arrival @0x00529d3a), Unstick (PerformMovement head), and
MotionInterpreter.UnstickFromObject (UM funnel head, 0x0050eaea).
- AdjustOffset at the retail UpdatePositionInternal slot (@0x00512d0e):
NPC branch composes pre-sweep (steer is swept by ResolveWithTransition);
remote-player branch chains the combiner offset through the shared
delta frame (the interp stage) so sticky OVERWRITES when armed
(0x00555430 assigns m_fOrigin, not accumulates); player inside the
30 Hz physics quantum before UpdatePhysicsInternal.
- UseTime (the 1 s lease watchdog) at the UpdateObjectInternal tail
(@0x005159b3): unconditional per remote; player gated on the physics
tick (retail's MinQuantum gate skips UseTime too).
- Real setup cylsphere radii (CPartArray::GetRadius/GetHeight
0x005180a0/0x005180b0 = setup radius/height x ObjScale from the spawn
record): own via EnsureRemoteMotionBindings + player wiring; target via
RouteServerMoveTo AND the speculative use-walk install (retail resolves
the target PartArray at EVERY MoveToObject site — ACE PhysicsObj.cs:951).
- Teardown parity: exit_world (0x00514e60) UnStick + ClearTarget before
the ExitWorld notify; player teleport fires teleport_hook's tail
(UnStick in SetPosition + EntityPhysicsHost.NotifyTeleported =
ClearTarget + NotifyVoyeurOfEvent(Teleported) @0x00514f1b) so mobs
stuck to the player drop their sticks on a recall.
- SERVERVEL arbitration also yields to a stuck entity (same starvation
class as the #170 fix — sticky owns the between-snap translation).
- StickyManager.UseTime aligned to retail's strict > deadline
(0x00555626; ACE >): two V1 tests had pinned the >= edge — corrected.
Register: TS-39 deleted; TS-41 narrowed (stickyArmed gate); TS-43 added
(remote teleport_hook gap — self-corrects within the 1 s lease); AP-23
narrowed (real radii at the speculative site; only the use-radius
buckets remain invented).
Conformance: 2 new full-stack sticky scenarios in
RemoteChaseEndToEndHarnessTests (arrive -> stick -> strafing-target
gap+facing track -> lease expiry; unstick-on-rearm -> re-stick).
Full suite 4038 green.
Pre-commit adversarial diff review (3 lenses + per-finding refuters)
confirmed and fixed 4 findings: ObjScale-dead radius read, player
UseTime order inversion, missing teleport voyeur notify, speculative-
site radius asymmetry.
Awaiting the user visual gate: pack melee side-by-side vs retail
(attackers reshuffle + keep facing; some overlap is ACE-server-side).
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>
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>
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>
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>
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.
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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>
The outbound MoveToState now sends the RAW forward_speed 1.0 (omitted by
default-difference packing) instead of the pre-computed runRate, matching what
retail's client sends.
Settled the open question with a live echo-test: acdream sends forward_speed=1.0,
ACE broadcasts back RunForward @ runRate (not 1.0), and a retail observer saw
+Acdream run at full pace. So ACE RECOMPUTES the broadcast run speed from the
character's run skill and auto-upgrades WalkForward+HoldKey.Run -> RunForward for
observers. The earlier PlayerMovementController comment citing ACE
MovementData.cs ("ACE relays the speed, so the wire must send run_rate") was
wrong; corrected.
Changes:
- PlayerMovementController section 6: forward wire command is WalkForward @ 1.0
(+ HoldKey.Run when running); LocalAnimationCommand still carries RunForward for
the local cycle. Backward already 1.0. The MotionStateChanged detection now
keys the walk<->run toggle off HoldKey + LocalAnimationCommand (forward_speed is
constant 1.0); the forward_speed comparison is retained but never fires.
- GameWindow: reverted the D6.2b echo-test one-liner; the wire RawMotionState
takes forward_speed from result (now 1.0).
The wire and the D6.2a local velocity are now both raw-1.0. Threading them onto
one shared RawMotionState (removing section-6's duplicate build) is a
behavior-neutral cleanup follow-up.
Full suite green (3255). Docs: roadmap + pseudocode doc updated with the
echo-test finding.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ports retail's raw->interpreted motion normalization and routes the local
player's velocity through it, so backward/strafe come from the retail source
instead of hand-mirrored controller code (retires register TS-22 + UN-5).
MotionInterpreter (decomp-verbatim, Ghidra/ACE-cross-checked):
- adjust_motion (0x00528010): WalkBackward->WalkForward (x-0.649999976),
TurnLeft->TurnRight (x-1), SideStepLeft->SideStepRight (x-1), sidestep scale
0.5*(WalkAnimSpeed/SidestepAnimSpeed), RunForward early-return, per-channel
holdkey fallback to CurrentHoldKey.
- apply_run_to_command (0x00527be0): WalkForward->RunForward when speed>0 +
UNCONDITIONAL *runRate; TurnRight *1.5; SideStepRight *runRate clamp +/-3.0.
- apply_raw_movement (0x005287e0): copy raw->interpreted, adjust the 3 channels
with per-channel hold keys.
- WalkAnimSpeed unified to the retail-exact 3.11999989f (was 3.12f).
PlayerMovementController: build ONE RawMotionState from MovementInput at
forward_speed=1.0 (apply_run_to_command applies the run rate — a pre-scaled
speed would double-scale), run apply_raw_movement, then take grounded + jump
velocity straight from get_state_velocity (now correct for all directions) and
drive the keyboard turn omega from the interpreted turn_speed (BaseTurnRate x
turn_speed = the same pi/2 formula the remote path uses; numerically identical
to the old TurnRateFor). Deleted the hand-mirrored backward(x-0.65) /
strafe(x+-1.25) formulas in both the grounded and jump blocks. Mouse turn and
the auto-walk path are untouched.
Retail-faithful behavior changes (confirm in smoke): strafe is now
1.25 * ~1.248 * runRate = ~1.56*runRate, clamped via SideStepSpeed<=3.0 so
|v.X|<=3.75 (was 1.25*runRate, no scale/clamp); backward is unchanged
(3.12*0.65*runRate); backward/strafe-left velocity now comes from the pipeline
instead of returning zero. Forward run pace unchanged (4.0*runRate).
Tests: MotionNormalizationTests (17, adjust_motion/apply_run_to_command) +
MotionVelocityPipelineTests (10, apply_raw_movement->get_state_velocity golden
velocities incl. the strafe clamp + turn speeds). Full suite green (3255).
Register: TS-22 + UN-5 deleted (retired); TS-34 added (adjust_motion creature
guard is a no-op — IWeenieObject has no IsCreature; correct for the only caller,
the player). Pseudocode: docs/research/2026-07-01-d6-motion-interp-pseudocode.md.
NEXT D6.2b: the echo-gated wire forward_speed=1.0 question (evidence suggests
ACE relays rather than recomputes; verified via the smoke echo).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SetPosition zeros the body velocity but the motion interpreter kept the
PRE-teleport ForwardCommand (RunForward), so the next Update() rebuilt that
run vector via get_state_velocity and the player sprinted off in the old
direction on arrival. DoMotion(Ready) makes the player arrive at rest. Not a
cascade fix anymore (Slice 3 closed that) — the last user-visible bit of #145.
All suites green: Core 1529 / App 480 / UI 425 / Net 313.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The outdoor membership pick derived the landblock origin from the terrain
registry, which returns (0,0) for an UNSTREAMED neighbour — so a fresh far-town
teleport at a landblock edge marched the cell id one block per physics tick
(the cascade; the 17410 ACE rejects is its wire artifact).
Fix: thread the CARRIED cell-relative frame anchor (body.Position -
body.CellPosition.Frame.Origin) into the pick via SpherePath.CarriedBlockOrigin.
That anchor IS the true landblock world origin, correct even for an unstreamed
neighbour, so the pick re-derives the SAME (consistent) cell and never marches.
- CellTransit.FindCellSet/BuildCellSetAndPickContaining: Vector3? carriedBlockOrigin
(null default = legacy TryGetTerrainOrigin → every existing caller/test untouched).
- PhysicsEngine.ResolveWithTransition: set the anchor from a SEEDED OUTDOOR body
whose carried landblock matches the resolve cell (else null → legacy).
- PlayerMovementController.SetPosition: 3-arg overload seeds CellPosition from the
wire's (cell, local) via SnapToCell; 2-arg delegates with cellLocal=pos (anchor
(0,0,0) == legacy → zero test churn).
- GameWindow.CellLocalForSeed: the placement seam (_liveCenter used ONCE here to
derive the cell-local; physics carries it forward without _liveCenter).
Regression: TeleportFarTownRunawayTests (south + east edge, unstreamed neighbour).
Core 1529 / App 480, zero regressions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause (pinned live, flap-churn.log at the Holtburg cottage doorway): the physics
body is byte-stable at rest (rawPlayer = 1 distinct value), but
PlayerMovementController.ComputeRenderPosition's Lerp(prev, curr, alpha) dithers the
render position by microns — the two physics-tick snapshots lag the settled body
(per-frame resolve edge-settles the resting sphere against the doorframe after the last
tick wrote curr) while the leftover-accumulator alpha varies every frame. The grazing-
doorframe camera-collision sweep (PhysicsCameraCollisionProbe.SweepEye) amplifies that
~1000x into a ~1.3 mm eye jitter (eye 17 distinct, RenderPosition 15 distinct) that trips
the PortalVisibilityBuilder clip -> the standing-still flicker (blue void / grass over the
cellar entrance) the user reported.
Fix: at rest (body velocity below RestVelocityEpsilonSq) render AT the authoritative
byte-stable body position instead of interpolating between two stale tick snapshots, so the
camera's pivot input is byte-stable and the sweep output stops jittering. Mirrors retail (a
resting object renders bit-stable) + the boom convergence snap
(RetailChaseCamera.ApplyConvergenceSnap, d2212cf), one layer earlier. Sub-tick interpolation
is preserved during motion (velocity above epsilon).
This SUPERSEDES the committed bounded-propagation plan: the live pin proved ZERO portal
re-enqueue churn during the flap (maxPop=1 across 13k oscillating frames; 0/63k reciprocals
ever clipped empty), so the flap was never the churn the spec hypothesized. The
ACDREAM_PROBE_PORTAL_CHURN apparatus did its job (refuted the hypothesis before the wrong
fix was built); plan/spec/memory updates to follow.
TDD: extracted the rest-snap into an internal-static pure ComputeRenderPosition; RED rest-
snap test (stale prev!=curr + varying alpha dithers) -> GREEN after the gate; motion test
guards interpolation; precondition test confirms a settled body's velocity is below the
gate threshold. 29 controller+cellar + 62 camera+portal tests green, no regression.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
THE doorway flap root cause, found via [flap-cam]/[shell]/[cell-transit] (2026-06-03):
the player spawned + stood still in the room (cell 0171, NO [cell-transit] after teleport),
yet the render rooted at the vestibule (0170) for all 77,951 frames — drawing only 0170's
~8-triangle shell, the rest = GL clear color = the bluish void.
CellGraph.CurrCell IS "the player's cell" (the render root), but it was written by
SetCurrAndReturn inside the PER-ENTITY ResolveWithTransition + ResolveCellId — so EVERY NPC
wrote it. A Holtburg NPC (0x000F4240) jump-looping near the doorway clobbered the player's
render root every tick. Standing still (player makes no resolve calls) the NPC's write wins
→ stuck blue void; moving, player/NPC writes fight → the flap. This is why the membership
pick fix (correct, kept) didn't change the visual — the render root was clobbered regardless.
Fix: CurrCell is now written ONLY by the player. New PhysicsEngine.UpdatePlayerCurrCell is
called from PlayerMovementController.UpdateCellId — the single player-only chokepoint for
CellId (teleport / server snap @ SetPosition + per-frame resolver). Removed the CurrCell
write from SetCurrAndReturn (inlined the 2 resolve call sites to sp.CurCellId) and the 4
ResolveCellId sites. NPCs no longer touch the render root. Teleport→UpdateCellId also covers
spawn/standing-still (CurrCell = the player's spawn cell immediately).
CellGraphMembershipTests rewritten to the new contract (3 tests): UpdatePlayerCurrCell writes
the render root; ResolveCellId does NOT (the blue-hole guard); stale-beats-null preserved.
Full Core suite: 1295 pass / 5 fail = the documented §10 baseline, zero new breakage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two related close-range bugs reported in #77 share a root in
PlayerMovementController.DriveServerAutoWalk + BeginServerAutoWalk:
1. **Walk-vs-run misclassification.** BeginServerAutoWalk decided
`_autoWalkInitiallyRunning = (initialDist - distanceToObject) >= 1.0f`,
forcing run at any chase past ~1.6 m. ACE's wire-level walk-vs-run
answer is the MovementParameters CanCharge bit (0x10), which
Creature.SetWalkRunThreshold sets when server-side player→target
distance >= WalkRunThreshold/2 (= 7.5 m default). Retail's
MovementParameters::get_command (decomp 0x0052aa00) gates the run
path on CanCharge first; the inner walk_run_threshold check
practically always walks given ACE's 15 m default. The hardcoded
1.0 m threshold pushed run into the 3-5 m walk-range the user
reported should walk.
2. **Velocity leak in turn-in-place phase.** When the auto-walked body
crossed the destination, desiredYaw flipped ~180°, walkAligned
dropped to false, and the `if (!moveForward) return true;` branch
returned without zeroing body velocity. The body kept the prior
frame's running velocity (RunAnimSpeed × runRate ≈ 11 m/s) and
slid 4-5 m past the target before the turn-around rotation
completed — the "runs and slides away, runs back, picks up"
symptom in #77 bug B.
Changes:
- `CreateObject.ServerMotionState.CanCharge`: new bool prop reading
bit 0x10 of MoveToParameters. Cross-ref ACE
MovementParams.CanCharge = 0x10.
- `PlayerMovementController.BeginServerAutoWalk`: replaces the unused
`walkRunThreshold` parameter with `bool canCharge`; sets
`_autoWalkInitiallyRunning = canCharge`.
- `PlayerMovementController.DriveServerAutoWalk` turn-in-place branch:
calls `_motion.DoMotion(Ready, 1.0)` and zeros body horizontal
velocity (preserving Z for gravity). No-op for case (a) initial-turn
with stationary body; fixes (b) overshoot recovery and (c) settling
cases.
- `GameWindow.OnLiveMotionUpdated`: passes
`update.MotionState.CanCharge` through; [autowalk-begin] trace
shows `canCharge=` instead of `walkRunThresh=`.
- `GameWindow.InstallSpeculativeTurnToTarget`: predicts ACE's
CanCharge from local distance using ACE's exact 7.5 m rule, so the
speculative install agrees with the wire-triggered overwrite that
arrives moments later.
Visual-verified at Holtburg 2026-05-18: walk-range NPC click walks +
fires Use, walk-range F-key pickup walks + no overshoot, far-range
(8-10 m) pickup still runs. Test baseline unchanged (8 Core pre-existing
failures, 0 net-new failures across Core/Net/UI/App suites).
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First application of CLAUDE.md's new Code Structure Rules §5
("Runtime probes belong in diagnostic owner classes"). Migrates the
four ACDREAM_DUMP_STEEP_ROOF call-site env reads into a single
PhysicsDiagnostics.DumpSteepRoofEnabled property initialized from the
env var at type init, with a runtime setter that follows the existing
ProbeResolveEnabled / ProbeCellEnabled / ProbeBuildingEnabled pattern.
Sites migrated:
- AcDream.Core/Physics/PhysicsEngine.cs:637 (KILL-VELOCITY-APPLIED log)
- AcDream.Core/Physics/TransitionTypes.cs:718 (PHASE3-RESET log)
- AcDream.App/Input/PlayerMovementController.cs:1117 (FRAME log)
- AcDream.App/Input/PlayerMovementController.cs:1199 (per-frame bounce log)
Behavior-preservation only. ACDREAM_DUMP_STEEP_ROOF=1 still produces
identical [steep-roof] log output. The class-comment in
PhysicsDiagnostics already anticipated this migration
("Future slices may fold the older ACDREAM_DUMP_* env vars into this
class for unified runtime toggling").
Not yet wired to a DebugVM checkbox — runtime toggling is available
via the property setter for future debugging sessions, but exposing
it on the panel is a 30-second future cut, not in scope here.
Build: green.
Tests: same pass/fail profile as before this commit (8 pre-existing
Core failures unrelated to physics-diagnostics; App.Tests / Core.Net.Tests
/ UI.Abstractions.Tests all green).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes#63, #69, #74, #75. Replaces the chain of Commit-B workarounds
that compensated for ACE's MoveToChain getting cancelled by a leaked
user-MoveToState packet during inbound auto-walk. The fix is
architectural — auto-walk drives the body directly from the
server-supplied path data, no player-input synthesis, no spurious
wire-packet transitions, no grace-period band-aid.
Architectural change (closes#75):
PlayerMovementController.ApplyAutoWalkOverlay → DriveServerAutoWalk.
- Steps Yaw toward target at retail-faithful turn rates.
- Computes desired forward velocity from path runRate.
- Calls _motion.DoMotion(WalkForward, speed) directly for the
motion-interpreter state (drives animation cycle).
- Sets _body.set_local_velocity directly when grounded.
- Returns true to gate the user-input motion + velocity section
in Update so user-input flow doesn't overwrite auto-walk
velocity or motion state.
Mirrors retail's MovementManager::PerformMovement case 6 (decomp
0x00524440) which never touches the user-input pipeline during
server-controlled auto-walk.
Wire-layer guard at GameWindow.cs:6419 retained as a SEMANTIC
statement (`if (result.MotionStateChanged && !IsServerAutoWalking)`):
user-MoveToState packets are for user-driven motion intent. During
server-controlled auto-walk, the motion-state transitions caused by
the animation override (RunForward / WalkForward / TurnLeft /
TurnRight cycles) must not leak as user-cancellation packets. This
is NOT the deleted 500ms grace-period band-aid; it's the wire-layer
expressing the user-vs-server motion split.
Animation plumbed for auto-walk phases (closes#69):
- Moving forward → WalkForward (speed=1.0) / RunForward (speed=runRate)
- Turn-first phase → TurnLeft / TurnRight (sign of yawStep)
- Aligned-but-pre-step / arrival → no override (idle)
Driven via _autoWalkMovingForwardThisFrame + _autoWalkTurnDirectionThisFrame
fields set in DriveServerAutoWalk and read in the MovementResult
construction at the bottom of Update. UpdatePlayerAnimation picks up
the localAnimCmd as the highest-priority animation source.
Walk/run threshold = 1.0m, retail-observed. ACE's wire-default of
15.0f is too generous; ACE's own physics layer uses 1.0f at
MovementParameters.cs:50 (with the 15.0f line commented out) and
Creature.cs:312 notes "default 15 distance seems too far". The
formula matches retail's MovementParameters::get_command at decomp
0x0052aa00: running = (initialDist - distance_to_object) >=
threshold, evaluated ONCE at chain start and held for the rest of
the auto-walk (matches retail "runs all the way / walks all the way"
behaviour). Wire-supplied threshold is ignored.
Pickup gate (IsPickupableTarget) now uses BF_STUCK
(acclient.h:6435, bit 0x4) to discriminate immovable scenery from
real pickup items that share a Misc ItemType. Sign (pwd=0x14 with
BF_STUCK) → blocked; spell component (pwd=0x10, no BF_STUCK) →
allowed. ACE's PutItemInContainer (Player_Inventory.cs:831-836)
responds with WeenieError.Stuck (0x29) on stuck items so the gate
prevents wasted wire packets + a UX dead-end.
R-key dispatch by target type. UseCurrentSelection's top-level
IsUseableTarget gate was wrong (blocked USEABLE_NO=1 items that
ARE pickupable). Reordered:
1. Creature → SendUse
2. Pickupable → SendPickUp
3. Useable → SendUse
4. Otherwise → "cannot be used" toast
Each handler keeps its own gate. Matches retail's per-action
server-side validation.
AP cadence revert (closes#74). With the MoveToChain race fixed,
the per-frame "send while moving" cadence is no longer load-bearing.
Reverted to retail's two-branch ShouldSendPositionEvent gate
(acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:700233-700285):
Interval NOT elapsed (< 1 sec): send if cell or contact-plane changed.
Interval elapsed (>= 1 sec): send if cell or position frame changed.
Adds _lastSentContactPlane field + ApproxPlaneEqual helper +
PlayerMovementController.ContactPlane public accessor. Extended
NotePositionSent(Vector3, uint, Plane, float) — both outbound sites
(MoveToState + AP) pass _playerController.ContactPlane.
Effective rates: 0 Hz idle, ~1 Hz smooth motion, per-event on
cell/plane changes, 0 Hz airborne.
CLAUDE.md updated with no-workarounds rule (commit `da126f9` on
the worktree branch). Saved as feedback memory at
memory/feedback_no_workarounds.md.
Tests: build green; Core.Net 294/294; Core 1073/1081 (baseline,
8 pre-existing Physics failures unchanged). Visual-verified
end-to-end on 2026-05-16 for far/near Use + PickUp on NPCs,
doors, items, spell components, signs (correctly blocked), corpses,
turn-first animation, run/walk thresholds, idle quiet, smooth-
motion 1Hz.
Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-16-phase-b6-suppress-movetostate-during-inbound-autowalk-design.md
Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-16-phase-b6-suppress-movetostate-during-inbound-autowalk.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retires divergences flagged in the 2026-05-16 faithfulness audit:
1. AP cadence. Replaces the 1 Hz idle / 10 Hz active flat heartbeat
with a diff-driven model gated on `Contact && OnWalkable`
(acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:700327 SendPositionEvent). Sends on
position or cell change while grounded on walkable, plus a 1 sec
heartbeat; suppressed entirely airborne. PlayerMovementController
exposes `NotePositionSent(pos, cellId, now)` which GameWindow stamps
after each AutonomousPosition / MoveToState send — mirrors retail's
shared `last_sent_position_time` between SendPositionEvent
(0x006b4770) and SendMovementEvent (0x006b4680). Known divergence
from retail: ours is per-frame-while-moving, retail's effective rate
is ~1 Hz during smooth motion (cell/plane checks). Filed as #74,
blocked by #63 — when #63 lands we revert to retail's narrower gate.
2. Workaround retirement. Removes TinyMargin (0.05 m inside arrival)
and the AP-flush before re-send (`SendAutonomousPositionNow`). The
diff-driven cadence makes both obsolete. Close-range turn-first
deferred Use is kept (it IS retail — ACE Player_Move.cs:66-87
mirrors retail's CreateMoveToChain pre-callback rotation), renamed
`OnAutoWalkArrivedSendDeferredAction` to clarify it's a FIRST send.
`isRetryAfterArrival` parameter dropped.
3. Far-range Use/PickUp retry. Restored — was load-bearing, not the
"redundant cleanup" the Group 2 audit thought. Issue #63 means ACE
drops the first Use as too-far without re-polling on subsequent APs;
the arrival re-send is what makes far-range Use complete. Logs
include `(queued for arrival re-send pending #63)` to make this
explicit. Removes when #63 closes.
4. Screen-rect picker. New `AcDream.Core.Selection.ScreenProjection`
helper shared by `WorldPicker` and `TargetIndicatorPanel`. The
`Setup.SelectionSphere` projects to a screen-space square (retail
anchor `SmartBox::GetObjectBoundingBox` 0x00452e20); picker
hit-tests the mouse pixel against the same rect the indicator draws,
inflated by 8 px (`TriangleSize`). Guarantees what-you-see is
what-you-click — including rect corners that were dead zones under
the old ray-sphere picker. Per-type radius (1.0/1.6/2.0 m) and
vertical-offset (0.2/0.9/1.0/1.5 m) heuristic lambdas retired;
`IsTallSceneryGuid` deleted; `EntityHeightFor` trimmed to 1.5 m × scale
defensive default. No defensive sphere synth — entities without a
baked `SelectionSphere` are skipped, matching retail's
`GfxObjUnderSelectionRay` (0x0054c740).
5. Rotation rate run multiplier (Commit A precursor). `TurnRateFor(running)`
helper applies retail's `run_turn_factor = 1.5f` (PDB-named
0x007c8914) under HoldKey.Run, matching `apply_run_to_command` at
0x00527be0 (line 305098). Effective: walking ≈ 90°/s, running ≈ 135°/s.
Keyboard A/D + ApplyAutoWalkOverlay both use it.
6. Useability gate (Commit A precursor). `IsUseableTarget` corrected to
`useability != 0` per `ItemUses::IsUseable` at 256455 — ANY non-zero
passes (USEABLE_NO=1, USEABLE_CONTAINED=8, etc.), not just the
USEABLE_REMOTE bit. Cross-checked against 4 call sites in retail
(ItemHolder::UseObject 0x00588a80, DetermineUseResult 0x402697,
UsingItem 0x367638, disable-button-state 0x198826). Added
`ProbeUseabilityFallbackEnabled` diagnostic
(`ACDREAM_PROBE_USEABILITY_FALLBACK=1`) to measure how often the
creature/BF_DOOR fallback fires for ACE-seed-DB entities with
null useability.
CLAUDE.md updated with the graceful-shutdown rule for relaunch:
Stop-Process bypasses the logout packet, leaving ACE's session marked
logged-in for ~3+ min. CloseMainWindow() sends WM_CLOSE so the
shutdown hook runs and the logout packet reaches ACE.
Tests: +3 ScreenProjectionTests + 6 WorldPickerRectOverloadTests = +9.
Core.Net 294/294 pass; Core 1073/1081 (8 pre-existing Physics failures
unchanged). Visual-verified 2026-05-16: rotation rate, useability,
screen-rect click area, double-click + R-key + F-key Use/PickUp at
short and long range — dialogue/door/pickup fire on arrival.
Filed follow-ups #70 (triangle apex/size DAT sprite), #71 (picker
Stage B polygon refine), #72 (cdb omega.z probe), #73 (retail-message
sweep pattern), #74 (per-frame AP chattier than retail — blocked by
#63). Old ray-sphere `WorldPicker.Pick(origin, direction, ...)`
overload kept for back-compat; no callers in acdream proper.
Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-16-retail-faithfulness-fixes.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two retail divergences fixed from the 2026-05-16 faithfulness audit
(Commit A of the plan at docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-16-retail-faithfulness-fixes.md).
1. Rotation rate ignored HoldKey.Run. Retail's CMotionInterp::
apply_run_to_command (decomp 0x00527be0 line 305098) multiplies
turn_speed by run_turn_factor (1.5, PDB-named symbol at 0x007c8914)
when input is TurnRight/TurnLeft under HoldKey.Run. Effective
running rotation is 50% faster (~135°/s vs walking ~90°/s).
Our keyboard A/D and ApplyAutoWalkOverlay used a fixed walking
rate.
New: RemoteMoveToDriver.TurnRateFor(running) helper. Keyboard
path passes input.Run; auto-walk overlay passes
_autoWalkInitiallyRunning. The walking-rate base
(BaseTurnRateRadPerSec = π/2) is unchanged; TurnRateRadPerSec
constant is preserved as the walking-rate alias for callers
that don't have run/walk state (NPC remotes).
2. IsUseableTarget gated on `useability & USEABLE_REMOTE (0x20)`,
which was stricter than retail. Per ItemUses::IsUseable
(acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:256455) cross-referenced with 4
call sites, retail's IsUseable() semantic is `_useability != 0`.
But visually retail's USEABLE_NO (1) entities don't approach
either, because ACE never broadcasts MovementType=6 for them.
Our client installs a speculative auto-walk BEFORE the server
responds, so we'd visibly approach + face signs before the
wire packet was rejected.
Pragmatic fix: block USEABLE_UNDEF (0) AND USEABLE_NO (1) in
IsUseableTarget — slightly stricter than retail's
IsUseable but matches retail's user-visible behaviour
("R on sign does nothing"). Documented in the doc-comment so
a future implementer knows the gap.
3. New IsPickupableTarget gate for F-key path — requires
USEABLE_REMOTE (0x20) bit. Null-useability fallback for
BF_CORPSE + small-item ItemTypes (preserves M1 ground-item
pickup flow when ACE seed DB doesn't publish useability).
4. R-key (UseCurrentSelection) upfront gate now ALWAYS uses
IsUseableTarget. R is conceptually "use" with smart-routing
to pickup as a downstream optimization. F-key (SendPickUp)
uses IsPickupableTarget directly.
5. Retail toast strings on block, centralised in new
src/AcDream.Core/Ui/RetailMessages.cs:
- "The X cannot be used" (data 0x007e2a70, sprintf 0x00588ea4)
fires on UseCurrentSelection / SendUse gate block.
- "The X can't be picked up!" (sprintf 0x00587353) fires on
SendPickUp non-pickupable block.
- "You cannot pick up creatures!" (data 0x007e22b4) fires on
SendPickUp creature block (was previously silent).
- Plus 4 inactive retail strings ready for future call sites:
CannotBeUsedWith (two-target Use), CannotBePickedUp (formal
pickup variant), CannotBeUsedWhileOnHook_HooksOff +
CannotBeUsedWhileOnHook_NotOwner (housing). All cite their
retail data addresses + runtime sprintf addresses.
6. ProbeUseabilityFallbackEnabled diagnostic (env var
ACDREAM_PROBE_USEABILITY_FALLBACK=1) logs every time the
null-useability fallback fires. Settles whether the
fallback for creature + BF_DOOR/LIFESTONE/PORTAL/CORPSE
entries in ACE's seed DB without useability is hot code
or theoretical defense.
Test coverage:
- +3 RemoteMoveToDriverTests cover TurnRateFor walking/running/back-compat.
- +7 RetailMessagesTests cover each retail string with retail anchor.
- +1 CreateObjectTests TryParse_WeenieFlagsUsable_ReadsUseableNoValue
pins parser correctness for USEABLE_NO=1.
- 294/294 Core.Net pass; 24/24 new+touched Core tests pass.
- Pre-existing baseline of 8 Physics test failures unchanged
(BSPStepUp + MotionInterpreter regression noise from prior
sessions; out of scope here).
Deferred to a separate session per user direction:
- Click area = indicator-rect retail fidelity. Retail's picker
uses per-part CGfxObj.drawing_sphere + polygon refine
(0x0054c740); ours uses single Setup.SelectionSphere ray-
intersect. The rect corners are dead zones today. Three fix
options analyzed: screen-space rectangle hit-test, sqrt(2)
sphere inflation, polygon refine Stage B.
Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-16-retail-faithfulness-fixes.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
User report: 'quick snap at like 30 degrees to the last position. Not
a smooth turn. Did you verify with retail?'
Verified against retail decomp at MoveToManager::HandleTurnToHeading
(0x0052a0c0). Retail's pattern:
- Body rotates continuously via a TurnLeft/TurnRight motion cycle.
- The ONLY snap is set_heading(target, 1) after heading_greater()
detects we've passed the target (overshoot protection).
- No 'snap when close to target' tolerance band — that's purely
a sparse-update fudge in RemoteMoveToDriver (the remote-creature
path with ~1Hz UpdatePosition broadcasts).
I'd copied the snap-on-approach tolerance from RemoteMoveToDriver to
ApplyAutoWalkOverlay. Wrong: local player rotates at per-tick
resolution, no sparse-update problem to compensate for. Removed.
The MathF.Min(|delta|, maxStep) clamp naturally lands the body on
the target heading without overshoot in the final partial tick, so
no separate snap-on-overshoot branch is needed for our integrator
either.
Visible effect: 1.8m humanoid rotating ~180° at π/2 rad/s takes ~2 s
of smooth turn now, instead of ~1.3 s of turn + instant 20° snap at
the end.
User report: 'You should be face to face with the NPC before sending
use. So first is rotation, when you are facing, then using.' and
'it does not face it completely.'
Two changes:
1. Split alignment thresholds in ApplyAutoWalkOverlay:
walkAligned (30°) — gate for synthesised Forward+Run motion
during far-range approach; body walks
while finishing residual turn within 30°.
aligned (5°) — gate for arrival-fire. Final facing
before the auto-walk ends and the action
re-sends. Matches retail's tight pre-Use
rotation tolerance.
Within-arrival check still requires alignment; without alignment
the body holds in turn-only mode regardless of distance.
2. Defer wire Use/PickUp packet for CLOSE-range targets. SendUse
and SendPickUp now check IsCloseRangeTarget(guid): if the player
is already within the target's use-radius, we install the
speculative overlay, set _pendingPostArrivalAction, and RETURN
without sending the wire packet. AutoWalkArrived fires after the
local rotation completes (alignment within 5°); the existing
re-send handler then fires SendUse with isRetryAfterArrival=true,
sending the wire packet at that moment. Effect: rotate first,
THEN Use — the NPC/door/item only sees the action after the
character has turned to face it.
Far-range path unchanged: send immediately, ACE auto-walks,
arrival re-sends.
Filed #69: turn animation (leg/arm cycle while pivoting). The body
now rotates but doesn't play the TurnLeft/TurnRight cycle the user
wants to see. Separate scope — needs motion-interpreter integration.
User report: 'It should always face the NPC. When I'm close I'm not
facing. But now it turns if I'm far away.'
Cause: ACE skips MoveToChain when the player is already within
WithinUseRadius (Player_Move.cs:66 shortcut) — it rotates the body
server-side via Rotate(target) but doesn't broadcast a MovementType=6
to us, so our auto-walk overlay never installs. The local body never
turns; the player remains facing wherever the camera/mouse last left
them.
Fix has two pieces:
1. PlayerMovementController.ApplyAutoWalkOverlay: arrival is now
gated on BOTH within-radius AND aligned. Previously a body that
started already in-range ended the overlay before turning. Now
it turns in place, then ends once facing.
Also: forward motion stays suppressed while withinArrival (we
just need to finish the turn, no point stepping forward into a
target we're already touching).
2. GameWindow.SendUse / SendPickUp: install a speculative auto-walk
overlay at send time via new InstallSpeculativeTurnToTarget
helper. For far targets ACE's MovementType=6 arrives moments
later and overwrites with its wire-supplied use-radius. For
close targets our overlay is the only thing that runs — body
turns, then ends.
The per-type use-radius mirrors the picker's heuristic (3 m
creature / 2 m large flat / 0.6 m item).
10 Hz heartbeat (301281d) made ACE see us in-radius before its
MoveToChain timeout; user confirmed doors work now. Closing #67 — root
cause was 1 Hz position outbound on our side, not anything door-
specific. Same fix unblocked door + NPC.
Two visible refinements:
1. Turn-first gate. User report: 'when I use from far range, I should
face that object and then start moving. Now it starts running
before facing is complete.'
ApplyAutoWalkOverlay now suppresses Forward motion when the
heading delta to the target is > 30°. Body turns IN PLACE first,
then walks forward once roughly aligned. Within the 30° band the
body walks while finishing the residual turn. Matches the user-
observed retail rhythm.
2. Arrival margin shrunk 0.2 m → 0.05 m. User report: 'NPC dialogue
fires, but still a bit too close. In retail it fires from a longer
range.' With the 10 Hz heartbeat the server-side Player.Location
tracks us within ~100 ms, so the bigger safety margin is no longer
needed — only a tiny epsilon to absorb the sub-tick race between
local arrival fire and the next outbound packet.
Filed #68: remote players' running animation doesn't transition to
Ready on auto-walk arrival when observed from acdream. Separate
visual bug — server-side action completes correctly; just the cycle
on the dead-reckoned remote body doesn't flip back to idle.
User correctly called out: 'why workarounds? Nothing wrong with ACE,
our client is wrong.' Three of the four workarounds in B.6/B.7
(arrival margin, re-send-on-arrival, AP flush on arrival) exist
because our client sends 1Hz position heartbeat. Retail sent every
tick. ACE's CreateMoveToChain polls WithinUseRadius every ~0.1 s
using the latest Player.Location — at 1Hz we leave up to 1 s of
stale position data on the server, so ACE rejects re-sent actions
as still-out-of-range.
Fix: bump heartbeat to ~10 Hz when the body is actively moving
(auto-walk OR user pressing W/A/S/D). Idle still 1 Hz.
ACE sees us approach in near-real-time; server-side MoveToChain
converges normally; CreateMoveToChain's own callback fires the
action when in radius — no client-side re-send needed.
This SHOULD make the existing workarounds redundant:
* Arrival margin (0.2m) — can shrink toward 0 since position
drift is bounded by 100ms instead of 1s
* Re-send on arrival — ACE's chain completes on its own
* AP flush on arrival — included in normal heartbeat
Plan to retire them in a follow-up commit once we verify the
heartbeat bump alone is enough.
Margin trim:
Previous: min(0.5, threshold * 0.4) — for 3 m NPC arrived at 2.5 m
New: min(0.2, threshold * 0.2) — for 3 m NPC arrives at 2.8 m
User feedback: 'compared to retail, it fires too close. In retail
it fires from a longer range.' Smaller margin matches that — still
safely inside ACE's strict WithinUseRadius but closer to the boundary.
Tight pickup radii (0.6 m item) now arrive at 0.48 m (was 0.36 m).
Filed issues:
#67 Door Use action doesn't complete after auto-walk arrival.
NPC dialogue fires correctly post-flush-AP+re-send, but
doors still go silent — need to investigate door-specific
state requirements in ACE's Door.ActOnUse or our wire
payload differences.
#66 Rotation: local player flips back after auto-walk arrival
(observed from retail observer); NPCs don't turn to face
the player when used. Both rooted in missing MovementType=8
TurnToObject handling. Supersedes #65 (which was local-only)
with a unified rotation-handling phase scope.
Trace showed local arrival landing at 3.025 m from a target with
objDist=3.00. The previous arrival used ArrivalEpsilon=0.05 to
EXPAND the threshold (dist <= 3.05), so the body stopped right at
the boundary. ACE's server-side WithinUseRadius is strict
(dist <= radius), so 3.025 > 3.00 — ACE rejected the re-sent
action and looped back to MoveToObject. User had to manually
re-press R because auto-arrival kept landing just-outside-range.
Fix: walk INSIDE ACE's radius by a safety margin (0.3–0.5 m, capped
at 40 % of threshold so tight pickup radii like 0.6 m stay
reachable).
arrivalThreshold = wire's distanceToObject or minDistance
safetyMargin = min(0.5, arrivalThreshold * 0.4)
effectiveArrival = max(arrivalThreshold - safetyMargin, 0.1)
Examples:
objDist=3.00 (NPC) → walk to ≤2.50 m (ACE happy at 3.0)
objDist=2.00 (door) → walk to ≤1.50 m
objDist=0.60 (item) → walk to ≤0.36 m
objDist=0.50 (small) → walk to ≤0.30 m
Flee case (moveTowards=false) keeps its original predicate with
+ArrivalEpsilon — that's the boundary check semantics for fleeing
to a min-distance, not a max-distance use radius.
User report: 'It still however just approach it and does not use it.'
Root cause: local auto-walk arrives at the target visually, but ACE's
server-side MoveToChain may have timed out before our position was
recognised as in-range (we don't echo authoritative position back to
ACE during the walk yet). The action never fires.
Fix (re-send on arrival):
* PlayerMovementController.AutoWalkArrived event fires once when
EndServerAutoWalk(reason='arrived') is called.
* GameWindow tracks _pendingPostArrivalAction = (guid, isPickup)
on each SendUse / SendPickUp.
* OnAutoWalkArrivedReSendAction (subscribed at EnterPlayerModeNow)
re-sends the action with isRetryAfterArrival=true. The retry
flag prevents the re-sent action from itself setting a new
pending action — breaks any potential re-fire loop.
* The re-sent action is close-range from the local body's
perspective, so ACE's CreateMoveToChain hits the WithinUseRadius
shortcut (Player_Move.cs:66) and completes immediately —
dialogue opens, item picks up.
User report: 'items dropped on the ground now have a smaller triangle
box, perhaps too small. Also now other stuff like signs also have a
very small triangle box, should not have it should scale to the size
of the object.'
Fix (scale-aware indicator height):
* TargetIndicatorPanel.TargetInfo now carries entity Scale.
* EntityHeightFor multiplies the per-type base by Scale so an
upscaled NPC / sign / lifestone gets a proportionally larger box.
* Per-type table refined:
Creature : 1.8 m * scale
Door/Lifestone/Portal : 2.4 m * scale
Small carry items (weapon/armor/clothing/jewelry/food/money/
misc/missile-weapon/container/gem/spellcomp/writable/key/
caster — most pickup-able): 0.8 m * scale (up from 0.5 m)
Everything else (signs / scenery interactables / untyped):
1.5 m * scale (up from 0.5 m default)
Deferred to follow-up: exact mesh-AABB-derived box (need to read
each entity's actual rendered bounds at registration time).
Three user-reported fixes:
1. (B.6) Run-vs-walk decision lifted out of the per-frame overlay
into BeginServerAutoWalk. Once set at auto-walk start, the
character runs (or walks) the full way to the target instead of
transitioning. Matches user-observed retail behaviour:
'if its far away it should run all the way to the object and
then stop'.
_autoWalkWalkRunThreshold → _autoWalkInitiallyRunning (bool,
sampled once from initial distance vs the wire's WalkRunThreshold).
2. (B.7) TargetIndicatorPanel now picks EntityHeight per-type:
Creature (NPC/player) → 1.8 m
Door / Lifestone / Portal (tall structures) → 2.4 m
Default (small ground item) → 0.5 m
Items now get a small box hugging the silhouette instead of a
humanoid-tall rectangle floating around them.
3. (Interact) R-key (UseCurrentSelection) now dispatches by target
type:
Item (no Creature flag, no BF_DOOR|LIFESTONE|PORTAL|CORPSE)
→ SendPickUp (PutItemInContainer 0x0019)
Everything else → SendUse (0x0036)
Single hotkey to interact with whatever's selected.
Deferred (separate phase): turn-to-face on close-range use. ACE
server-side does Rotate(target) before the close-range pickup
callback (Player_Move.cs:71), but our local body doesn't echo
the turn yet — needs a synthesized client-side rotation or
MovementType=8 TurnToObject handling. Filing as follow-up.
User-observed behaviour: 'When at a distance X it should start running
towards the double clicked target and then stop close to it. When at a
shorter distance it should walk to it.' That's retail's MoveToManager
behaviour driven by the wire's WalkRunThreshold field, which Slice 2
ignored (it always synthesised Run=true regardless of distance).
ACE's defaults (MoveToParameters.SetDefaults): WalkRunThreshold=15.0 m
for Use/PickUp paths — so close-range auto-walks are walks, not runs.
ACE's combat-charge override: 1.0 m — chase runs until the last metre.
Both retail and ACE compute Run vs Walk per-frame from remaining
distance vs threshold.
Wire WalkRunThreshold:
- Already parsed into CreateObject.MoveToPathData.WalkRunThreshold.
- Now plumbed through to PlayerMovementController.BeginServerAutoWalk
as a new parameter, stored in _autoWalkWalkRunThreshold.
- ApplyAutoWalkOverlay sets Run = (dist > _autoWalkWalkRunThreshold)
per frame. The synthesised input flips Run as the body approaches.
The motion-interpreter pipeline downstream picks RunForward vs
WalkForward from input.Run, so the animation cycle naturally switches
as the body crosses into the walk band. Run rate falls back to the
local PlayerWeenie.InqRunRate as before (ACE sends mtRun=0.00 for
Use/PickUp, so we never read mtRun; this is unchanged from Slice 2).
[autowalk-begin] diagnostic now includes walkRunThresh={x:F2} so the
threshold is visible alongside dest/minDist/objDist in the trace.
Retail-faithful per MovementManager::PerformMovement (0x00524440 case 6,
decomp 300628-300648): when ACE broadcasts MoveToObject for the local
player, the local client runs its OWN auto-walk on its OWN body —
heading correction toward the target, run-forward velocity, arrival
detected via the wire's min_distance / distance_to_object predicates.
Implementation:
PlayerMovementController:
+ IsServerAutoWalking property (read-only)
+ BeginServerAutoWalk(destWorld, minDist, objDist, moveTowards)
+ EndServerAutoWalk(reason) // idempotent, logs to [autowalk-end]
// when ACDREAM_PROBE_AUTOWALK is on
+ ApplyAutoWalkOverlay(dt, input) — called at the top of Update.
- User movement key (Forward/Backward/Strafe/Turn) cancels.
- Arrival predicate matches RemoteMoveToDriver / retail.
- Heading steered toward destination at ±20° snap-on-aligned
tolerance / π/2 rad/s rotation rate (same constants the
remote-creature path uses).
- Synthesizes input as Forward+Run; the rest of Update's
MotionInterpreter + body-velocity pipeline runs unchanged.
GameWindow.OnLiveMotionUpdated (local-player branch):
+ when update.MotionState.IsServerControlledMoveTo and MoveToPath
is populated: translate origin to world via RemoteMoveToDriver
.OriginToWorld, call _playerController.BeginServerAutoWalk.
+ when a non-MoveTo motion arrives and auto-walk is active:
EndServerAutoWalk(reason="motion-non-moveto").
+ [autowalk-begin] trace line under ACDREAM_PROBE_AUTOWALK.
The mtRun=0 case from the spec trace is handled implicitly: this
slice doesn't read MoveToRunRate at all — it relies on the existing
input.Run path which uses the player's local InqRunRate (env-var
defaulted to 200). Future slice can layer in mtRun!=0 honor if needed.
Slices 3 (animation cycle source while auto-walking) and 4 (local
pickup animation echo for #64) deferred to follow-up commits.
New static `AcDream.Core.Physics.PhysicsDiagnostics` holds two
runtime-toggleable flags initialized from env vars:
- ACDREAM_PROBE_RESOLVE=1 — emit one [resolve] line per
PhysicsEngine.ResolveWithTransition call: input/target/output
position+cell, ok-vs-partial, grounded-in, contact-plane status,
wall normal if hit, walkable-polygon valid, moving entity id.
- ACDREAM_PROBE_CELL=1 — emit one [cell-transit] line per
PlayerMovementController.CellId change: old → new cell, current
world position, reason tag (resolver / teleport).
Both also exposed as runtime-toggleable checkboxes in the DebugPanel
"Diagnostics" section. Unlike the existing four Dump-* checkboxes
(which only mirror sticky-at-startup env vars), the two new ones
forward directly to PhysicsDiagnostics — toggling on/off takes
effect on the next physics resolve, no relaunch.
Why now: L.2's plan-of-record (docs/plans/2026-04-29-movement-collision-
conformance.md) explicitly says "Land L.2a diagnostics first. Do not
make another physics change blind." This slice closes the most-load-
bearing gap in L.2a — a general-purpose probe on the resolver outcome
and a cell-transit log — so that later L.2b/c/d/e physics changes can
be evidence-driven instead of guessed. Foundation for the indoor /
dungeon walking trajectory (G.3 unblock).
Pure additive: when both flags are off (default), the probes collapse
to a single static-bool read per resolve, zero log cost. PlayerMovement
Controller's two CellId-mutation sites are now routed through a
private UpdateCellId(reason) helper for diag chokepoint.
Build green, 1032/1040 unit tests pass. The 8 failing tests are
pre-existing on the branch base (verified by stash-and-rerun);
none touch resolver or cell-transit code; all fail identically with
this slice stashed. Investigation deferred to a follow-up.
Refs: docs/plans/2026-04-29-movement-collision-conformance.md (L.2a
shipped-slice note added in same commit).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Keep local physics authoritative at the retail 30 Hz MinQuantum, but expose a render-only position that lerps between completed physics ticks for the player mesh and chase-camera target. Network outbound continues to use the discrete physics position.
Also make the visually confirmed #47 humanoid close-detail DIDDegrade path default-on, with ACDREAM_RETAIL_CLOSE_DEGRADES=0 left as a diagnostic opt-out.
Verification: dotnet build AcDream.slnx -c Debug; focused #38 interpolation tests passed; visual confirmed smooth 2026-05-06. Full dotnet test AcDream.slnx -c Debug --no-build still has the known 8 AcDream.Core.Tests baseline failures.
Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Root cause confirmed via two-run diagnostic and the named-retail decomp:
the airborne sweep was colliding with the moving entity's OWN ShadowEntry
because FindObjCollisions had no self-skip filter. Live entities (local
player, remotes) register a Cylinder in ShadowObjectRegistry on spawn
(GameWindow.cs:2545) and UpdatePosition tracks its world position each
tick, so the moving sphere's own cylinder is always at the body's
position. Without a gate, CylinderCollision sees the sphere overlapping
its own cylinder volume and slides the sphere ~1m horizontally on every
frame the path produces non-zero motion.
Why grounded mostly hides it and airborne exposes it:
- Stationary grounded → numSteps=0, TransitionalInsert never runs.
- Walking grounded → push fires but motion escapes the cyl radius and
the deflection blends into normal motion.
- Stationary airborne (jump) → pure +Z motion; the cyl push is the
only horizontal contribution and manifests as a clean ~1m drift.
Run-2 evidence (launch-42-r2.log) — 152 [SWEEP-OBJ] events, every one
with type=Cylinder, gfxObj=0x02000001 (humanoid setup), R=0.679,
H=1.835, at obj.Position EXACTLY matching the body's pre.Position. Run
1 had already ruled out H1 (cpN=(0,0,1) flat, no slope projection).
Retail does the same skip — CObjCell::find_obj_collisions at
named-retail acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:308931:
if ((physobj->parent == 0 && physobj != arg2->object_info.object))
`arg2->object_info.object` is the OBJECTINFO::object self-pointer set
by OBJECTINFO::init at acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:274435. Our port
mirrors this with an EntityId-based filter:
- ObjectInfo gains a SelfEntityId field (default 0 = no filter).
- ResolveWithTransition gains an optional `uint movingEntityId = 0`
parameter that sets it.
- FindObjCollisions skips entries whose EntityId matches
SelfEntityId when the id is non-zero.
- PlayerMovementController gains a LocalEntityId property; GameWindow
refreshes it per-tick from `_entitiesByServerGuid[_playerServerGuid]`.
- GameWindow's airborne-remote ResolveWithTransition call site passes
`movingEntityId: kv.Key` (kv.Key is the local entity id keying
`_animatedEntities`, same id used at the spawn-time
ShadowObjects.Register).
Default 0 keeps tests and one-shot callers (no registered ShadowEntry)
working unchanged.
Lock-the-fix unit test:
`PhysicsEngineTests.ResolveWithTransition_SelfShadowEntry_NotPushedWhenIdMatches`
registers a humanoid Cylinder at the body's exact position (matching
GameWindow's spawn pattern), then asserts that:
- movingEntityId=0 (control) → unfiltered XY drift > 0.5m
- movingEntityId=registered id (fix) → XY drift ≈ 0
Diagnostic wiring (a36369d + this commit's [SWEEP-OBJ] addition) stays
in tree, env-var gated (ACDREAM_AIRBORNE_DIAG=1) so it produces no
output in normal use but lets us verify the fix on the live client and
debug future regressions.
Build: green. Tests: 355 pass, 6 fail (all pre-existing per the handoff
prompt — verified by stashing this change; the BSPStepUp C3 failure is
on the prior commit too).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes a multi-bug knot in player motion outbound + remote inbound,
discovered via cdb live trace of retail (2026-05-01) and follow-up
visual verification.
Outbound (acdream → ACE):
- JumpAction velocity is BODY-LOCAL, not world (per retail
CPhysicsObj::get_local_physics_velocity at 0x00512140 + ACE
Player.HandleActionJump's set_local_velocity call). Was sending
world; observers saw jump rotated by player yaw.
- Capture get_jump_v_z BEFORE LeaveGround() — the latter resets
JumpExtent to 0, after which get_jump_v_z returned 0. Was sending
Z=0 in every JumpAction.
- Backward/strafe-left jumps lost their horizontal velocity because
LeaveGround → get_state_velocity returns zero for non-canonical
motion (faithful to retail's FUN_00528960; retail papers over via
adjust_motion translation, not yet ported). Compute the correct
body-local launch velocity from input directly and push it back
into the body so local prediction matches what we send.
- IsRunning HoldKey was gated on `input.Run && input.Forward`, so
strafe-run and backward-run incorrectly broadcast as walk to
observers — ACE then animated walk + dead-reckoned at walk speed
while server position moved at run speed (visible as observer
lag). Fixed: gate on any active directional axis.
- AutonomousPosition heartbeat 0.2s → 1.0s to match holtburger's
AUTONOMOUS_POSITION_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL and the ~1Hz observed in
retail trace.
- Heartbeat now fires while in-world regardless of motion state
(matches holtburger + retail's transient_state-based gate, not
motion-based). Pre-fix the at-rest heartbeat was suppressed.
Inbound (ACE → acdream, remote retail player):
- Remote backward walk arrives as cmd=WalkForward + speed=-1.91
(retail's adjust_motion'd form). Two bugs were stacking:
1. AnimationSequencer fast-path returned without updating when
sign(speedMod) flipped while motion stayed equal — kept playing
forward at old positive framerate. Fixed: bypass fast-path on
sign change so the full re-setup runs.
2. GameWindow clamped negative speedMod to 1.0 when stuffing
InterpretedState.ForwardSpeed, making get_state_velocity
produce forward velocity. Fixed: pass speedMod through verbatim
so the dead-reckoning body translates backward.
Issue #38 filed: 30Hz physics tick produces a chase-camera smoothness
regression at 60+ FPS render. Standard render-time interpolation is
the recommended fix (separate phase).
Findings + comparison vs retail/holtburger:
docs/research/2026-05-01-retail-motion-trace/findings.md
docs/research/2026-05-01-retail-motion-trace/fixes.md
TODO: port retail's adjust_motion (FUN_00528010) properly so
get_state_velocity works for all directions natively — would let us
drop the workaround in PlayerMovementController jump path and the
clamp in GameWindow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three intertwined changes from a single investigation session driven by
attaching cdb to a live retail acclient.exe (v11.4186, Sept 2013 EoR
build) and tracing what retail actually DOES on the steep-roof wedge
scenario the user reported in acdream.
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1. L.5 — physics-tick MinQuantum gate (PlayerMovementController)
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Retail's CPhysicsObj::update_object subdivides per-frame dt into 1/30 s
sized integration steps and SKIPS entirely when accumulated dt is below
MinQuantum. Live trace evidence:
update_object = 40,960 calls
UpdatePhysicsInternal = 25,087 calls (61%)
i.e., 39% of update_object calls return early via the MinQuantum gate.
Retail's effective physics tick rate is 30Hz even at 60+ Hz render.
acdream's PlayerMovementController bypassed the existing PhysicsBody.
update_object and called UpdatePhysicsInternal(dt) directly each render
frame, which compressed bounce-energy / gravity-tangent accumulation
into half the time and amplified our steep-roof wedge dynamics.
Fix: add `_physicsAccum` accumulator. Integrate only when accumulated
dt ≥ MinQuantum (clamped to MaxQuantum to bound stale-frame jumps).
HugeQuantum drops accumulated time to discard truly stale frames
(debugger break, GC pause). Render still runs at full rate; only the
physics step is gated.
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2. Phase 3 reset retail-faithful kill_velocity (TransitionTypes)
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Retail's reset path (acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:273231-273239) gates
kill_velocity on `last_known_contact_plane_valid`:
if (last_known_valid == 0) {
set_collision_normal(step_up_normal); return COLLIDED;
}
kill_velocity(this);
last_known_valid = 0;
return COLLIDED;
Earlier in this session I deviated to "unconditional kill_velocity" as
a hypothesis-driven wedge fix. The live trace then showed the
deviation CAUSED a different wedge by zeroing V every frame, leaving
the body with no tangent momentum to escape (V = (0,0,0) for 169
consecutive frames while position pre/resolved frozen). The retail-
faithful gate is restored.
Note: the gate rarely fires in normal airborne play because our L.2.4
proximity guard clears last_known_valid soon after the body separates
from its remembered floor. Live retail trace also showed
kill_velocity = 0 hits over an entire play session — same behavior. So
acdream's kill_velocity is correct as ported now.
The supporting ObjectInfo.VelocityKilled flag + StopVelocity wiring +
PhysicsEngine.ResolveWithTransition consumer that actually zeros
body.Velocity when the flag is set — these were a no-op stub before
this session and are now correctly wired. Retail anchor:
OBJECTINFO::kill_velocity → CPhysicsObj::set_velocity({0,0,0}, 0) at
acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:274467-274475.
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3. Retail debugger toolchain (#35)
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When the question is "what does retail actually DO at runtime?" — not
"what does retail's code SAY" — the decomp at docs/research/named-retail/
is invaluable but doesn't capture state interactions across frames.
This commit ships infrastructure to attach Windows' cdb.exe to a live
retail acclient.exe with full PDB symbols and capture state at any
breakpoint.
- tools/pdb-extract/check_exe_pdb.py — reads any PE's CodeView entry
and reports MATCH / MISMATCH against refs/acclient.pdb's GUID.
Always run before attaching cdb. The matching v11.4186 build's
GUID is 9e847e2f-777c-4bd9-886c-22256bb87f32.
- tools/pdb-extract/dump_pdb_info.py — dumps a PDB's expected
build timestamp + GUID + age. Used to figure out which acclient.exe
build pairs with our PDB.
CLAUDE.md gets a Step -1 in the development workflow ("ATTACH cdb
TO RETAIL when behavior is the question, not code") and a full
"Retail debugger toolchain" section with the workflow, sample .cdb
script structure, and watchouts (PDB names use snake_case for some
classes / PascalCase for CPhysicsObj; ; is cdb's command separator;
killing cdb kills the debuggee; high-hit-rate breakpoints lag the game).
memory/project_retail_debugger.md captures the workflow + key findings
so future sessions inherit the toolchain by reading project memory.
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4. BSPQuery Path 6 slide-tangent restored (b1af56e behavior)
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After this session's retail-strict experiments showed that retail-
faithful Path 6 (SetCollide + Phase 3 reset chain) produces a
"lands on roof in falling animation, can't slide off" half-state in
acdream — because our acdream port of step_up_slide / cliff_slide is
incomplete for grounded-on-steep movement — the L.4 slide-tangent
deviation from commit b1af56e is restored as the pragmatic ship state.
The deviation: when an airborne sphere hits a polygon whose normal Z
is below FloorZ (≈ 0.6642, slope > ~49°), project the move along the
steep face to remove the into-wall displacement, set CollisionNormal +
SlidingNormal, return Slid. Body never gets ContactPlane on the steep
poly, never gets the half-state, slides off the slope under gravity's
tangent contribution.
Retail-strict requires the deeper step_up_slide / cliff_slide audit
(filed under #32). Until that lands, slide-tangent is the right
deviation — produces user-acceptable "slide off the roof" behavior.
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Test status: 833/833 green.
Refs:
acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:283950 (CPhysicsObj::update_object)
acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:273231-273239 (Phase 3 reset path)
acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:274467-274475 (OBJECTINFO::kill_velocity)
acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:323783-323821 (BSPTREE::find_collisions Path 6)
Closes#35. Updates #32 with L.4/L.5 status.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase L.4 closes the "stuck in falling animation on a steep roof" bug
the user reported on 2026-04-30 ("I jump up, I land on it. It should not
even let me land, should just slide with a falling animation"). After
this commit the body no longer sticks to a steep roof when jumping
into it — it slides along the slope while keeping the falling animation.
Two pieces:
1. BSPQuery Path 6 steep-poly slide
When an airborne sphere hits a polygon whose world normal Z is below
FloorZ (≈ 0.6642, slope > ~49°), the previous flow was:
Path 6 SetCollide → Path 4 set_walkable → ContactPlane committed →
body "lands" on the steep poly with Contact bit + falling animation.
This left the player stuck mid-slope because OnWalkable was cleared
but Contact stayed set.
The new branch detects the steep normal in Path 6 BEFORE SetCollide
is called. Instead of entering the landing path, it removes the
into-wall component of the move (project onto the steep face), sets
CollisionNormal + SlidingNormal, and returns Slid. Same shape as
Path 5's step-up fallback and CylinderCollision. The resolver retries;
the sphere is now outside the poly; FindCollisions returns OK;
ValidateTransition commits the slid position. ContactPlane is never
set, so the body stays airborne with falling animation.
2. PlayerMovementController L.3a-bounce carve-out + Inelastic stop
Re-enables the velocity-reflection bounce when the contact normal is
upward-facing but steeper than walkable (0 < N.Z < FloorZ). The base
L.3a rule suppresses bounce on landing transitions to avoid micro-
bounce on flat terrain; that suppression also stuck the player to
too-steep roofs they shouldn't land on. This carve-out re-enables
the reflection specifically for the steep upward case.
Also lands related L.2c precipice / edge-slide work that was in flight:
- TransitionTypes EdgeSlideAfterStepDownFailed: walkable-poly-steep
cliff route + steep-ContactPlane cliff route ordering, so that
CliffSlide fires when the stored walkable polygon itself is too
steep (Path 4 had previously accepted it as a "landing" via the
permissive LandingZ threshold).
- CliffSlide reference-normal selection: prefer LastWalkable, fall back
to LastKnownContactPlane only when walkable, else use world-up. This
prevents the cross(steepN, steepN) = 0 degenerate case that left the
cliff slide as a no-op when both current and last-known were steep.
- Phase 2 / step-down branch / edge-slide branch / cliff-slide
diagnostic helpers gated on ACDREAM_DUMP_EDGE_SLIDE / ACDREAM_DUMP_STEEP_ROOF.
- Two new airborne-mover regression tests in BSPStepUpTests +
PhysicsEngineTests covering wall-slide and edge tangent motion.
DEVIATION FROM RETAIL — DOCUMENTED FOR FOLLOW-UP
The Path 6 steep slide is NOT what retail does. Retail's flow on the
same hit is:
Path 6 SetCollide (no steep check) → Path 4 find_walkable returns
nothing for steep → Phase 3 reset path: restore_check_pos +
kill_velocity → return COLLIDED → validate_transition reverts CheckPos
to CurPos and forces OK.
Net retail behavior: position reverts to pre-failed-move (typically
just below the roof in the common jump-up case), velocity zeroed,
gravity rebuilds Z next frame, body falls back down naturally with
the falling animation. The "freeze" framing I used earlier was wrong;
in the typical case retail just bounces the body off and lets gravity
take over.
Strict retail behavior would match the user's intent better in the
common case AND avoid the bounce-energy-accumulation we saw with the
slide-tangent approach (V grew to ~50 m/s in continuous-contact frames).
However, retail's behavior degenerates in the edge case of an overhead
landing onto a steep slope (body would freeze mid-air above the roof).
This commit ships the slide-tangent fix as an interim "much better"
state per user verification on 2026-04-30. Follow-up work to match
retail strictly: revert Path 6 steep-slide, audit Phase 3 reset to
ensure kill_velocity (matching OBJECTINFO::kill_velocity ->
CPhysicsObj::set_velocity({0,0,0}, 0)) actually fires, and re-test.
Refs:
- acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:323784-323821 (Path 6 SetCollide)
- acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:273191-273239 (Phase 3 reset path)
- acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:272563-272596 (validate_transition revert)
- acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:274467-274475 (kill_velocity)
- acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:282699-282715 (handle_all_collisions bounce)
Tests: 833/833 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three independent research agents converged: retail's "bouncy walls"
feel comes from CPhysicsObj::handle_all_collisions (acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:
282699-282715, ACE PhysicsObj.cs:2692-2697) which applies the canonical
reflection v_new = v - (1 + e) * dot(v, n) * n to the body's velocity
after every transition resolves. Player elasticity = 0.05 (5% bounce);
INELASTIC_PS = 0x20000 zeros velocity entirely (used by spell projectiles).
acdream had the data plumbed (PhysicsBody.Elasticity = 0.05 was already
set, ci.CollisionNormal was being populated in 8+ code paths) but
ResolveWithTransition discarded the normal before returning. Hence
"sticky walls on jumps" — perpendicular velocity got removed by
SlideSphere's geometric resolution, but never reflected back, so
hitting a wall mid-jump zeroed forward motion entirely instead of
producing a small push-back.
Files:
- PhysicsBody.cs: add PhysicsStateFlags.Inelastic = 0x20000.
- ResolveResult.cs: surface CollisionNormalValid + CollisionNormal.
- PhysicsEngine.cs:599-624: copy ci.CollisionNormal into ResolveResult
before returning (both ok and partial paths).
- PlayerMovementController.cs:445-503: after position commit, apply
reflection per the retail formula. Inelastic → zero velocity;
else → reflect with v += n * -(dot(v,n) * (e + 1)).
apply_bounce rule (more conservative than retail by design):
- Sledding: retail's strict rule — bounce unless both grounded.
- Otherwise: bounce ONLY when both prev and now airborne. Suppress on
landing (prev air, now ground) to avoid micro-bouncing on floor —
the post-reflection upward Z defeats the controller's Velocity.Z<=0
landing-snap gate. Retail's elasticity 0.05 makes the artifact
visually imperceptible there; acdream's per-frame architecture
amplifies it.
Tests: 1491 → 1491 still pass (existing AirborneFrames + WalkOffLedge
tests confirmed the conservative apply_bounce rule keeps landings
clean).
Live verification needed: jump into a wall mid-air — should produce a
visible bounce-back rather than sticking. Walking along corridor with
side-clip should still slide. Landing should still settle without
micro-bounce.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two values were producing weird live-test behavior:
- PlayerMovementController.StepUpHeight default = 5.0f (5 meters) and
GameWindow's fallback = 2.0f. With these, walking horizontally into
a steep slope let the step-up scan find walkable polygons up to 5m
away, which often included a small building's flat top. The player
visually "teleported" up onto the roof and then could walk on
surfaces they should have just slid off.
- stepDownHeight was hardcoded 0.04f (4 cm) in two ResolveWithTransition
call sites. A typical stair step is 15–25 cm tall, so when the player
walked off the top of a stair onto level ground, the step-down probe
didn't reach the next surface. For one frame the contact plane was
invalid → ValidateTransition cleared OnWalkable → animation flickered
to falling → next frame gravity dropped + terrain found. Visible 1-frame
flicker reported as "small falling animation when reaching stair top."
Retail's Setup.step_up_height and Setup.step_down_height for human
characters are both ~0.4 m. Sourcing them from the player's Setup
(already cached in PhysicsDataCache) with a 0.4 m fallback when
the field is missing.
Files:
- PlayerMovementController.cs:104 — StepUpHeight default 5.0 → 0.4
- PlayerMovementController.cs (new) — StepDownHeight property, default 0.4
- PlayerMovementController.cs:414 — pass StepDownHeight from controller
- GameWindow.cs:7019-7036 — read Setup.StepDownHeight + reduce fallbacks
- GameWindow.cs:5759 — remote dead-reckoning: 2.0/0.04 → 0.4/0.4
No test changes; existing 12 BSPStepUp tests still cover the value flow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The retail-faithful exemption block at the top of
CPhysicsObj::FindObjCollisions
(acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:276782-276839,276971), ported line-for-
line as a small static helper.
Behaviour now matches retail:
- Two non-PK players walk through each other.
- Two PK players collide.
- Two PKLite players collide.
- Mismatched PK status (PK vs non-PK, PK vs PKLite) — exempt.
- Impenetrable target ("Free" PK status) — always collides.
- Player vs creature/NPC — always collides (this is what closes the
user-facing complaint that walking into a Holtburg vendor was
walking through them).
- Mover with IGNORE_CREATURES — walks through creature targets.
- Viewer (camera ray) — walks through creatures.
- Target with ETHEREAL+IGNORE_COLLISIONS — universally exempt.
CollisionExemption.ShouldSkip(targetState, targetFlags, moverState)
- new file src/AcDream.Core/Physics/CollisionExemption.cs.
- 13-test matrix covering every documented case
(CollisionExemptionTests.cs).
- Static + pure → cheap to call from the hot path.
Wiring:
- TransitionTypes.FindObjCollisions: after broadphase distance
reject, call ShouldSkip on the obj and ObjectInfo.State; on true,
`continue`. Static landblock entries (State=0, Flags=None) fall
through cheaply — no behavior change for static collision.
- PhysicsEngine.ResolveWithTransition: new optional moverFlags
parameter (default None for back-compat). PlayerMovementController
passes ObjectInfoState.IsPlayer; remote dead-reckoning leaves it
None (matches non-player movers, no PvP exemption applies).
- PK/PKLite/Impenetrable bits for the LOCAL player are not yet
sourced from PlayerDescription's PlayerKillerStatus property —
that's a follow-up. Default "non-PK player" matches ACE's
character-creation default and the user's +Acdream test
character.
Cross-checked against ACE PhysicsObj.cs:381-405 (line-for-line C# port
of the same retail block). Only intentional divergence: ACE adds
state.HasFlag(IsImpenetrable) (mover-impenetrable) to the collide list;
retail's pseudo-C only checks the target — acdream follows retail.
dotnet build green, dotnet test 1467 passing (+13 new). Live test:
+Acdream walking into Holtburg vendors now stops at their cylinder;
walking through small plants still passes (Commit B's phantom skip).
Closes the live-entity collision arc: A (plumbing) + B (registration)
+ C (exemption).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Diagnostic from K-fix10 confirmed our local jump physics is
mathematically perfect — every full-charge jump produces
formulaPeak = actualPeakDz = vz²/19.6 to four-digit precision
(3.11 m for Jump skill 208). Yet the user observed retail
clients seeing the SAME character jump much higher than ACdream
sees of itself.
Root cause: ChaseCamera tracked player.Z 1:1. When the player
rises 3 m the camera rises 3 m too — the player's screen
position never changes during the arc, so the jump is visually
invisible. Retail's chase camera lags the Z follow, so an
observer sees the player visibly rise on screen.
Fix: low-pass filter the camera's Z target.
ChaseCamera.Update gains a dt parameter and an exponential
smoother:
alpha = 1 - exp(-dt / ZFollowTimeConstant)
smoothedZ += (player.Z - smoothedZ) * alpha
ZFollowTimeConstant defaults to 0.15 s — slow enough that a
~1 s jump arc shows up clearly on screen, fast enough that
slope walking still feels glued. The look-at point still uses
the raw player Z so the camera tilts up to keep the airborne
character in frame.
Drive-by: stripped K-fix10 jump diagnostic logging now that the
math has been confirmed correct.
Tests stay 1222 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
User report:
1. ACdream watching retail-client jump shows no animation at all
(legs don't fold during the arc).
2. Local jump arc in ACdream is shorter than what retail observes
for the same character — formula mismatch somewhere.
Item 1 (animation): K-fix9 wired the body velocity but didn't
swap the sequencer cycle. The remote kept playing whatever
locomotion cycle was active (Ready/RunForward/etc.) through the
arc, so the legs stayed running while the body went up.
OnLiveVectorUpdated now also calls
ae.Sequencer.SetCycle(currentStyle, MotionCommand.Falling, 1.0f)
when the velocity has +Z > 0.5 m/s. Mirrors the local-player
UpdatePlayerAnimation path that forces animCommand=Falling
whenever !IsOnGround. Style defaults to NonCombat (0x8000003D)
when the sequencer hasn't established one yet (rare on remotes).
Landing transitions back to the locomotion cycle naturally via
the next UpdateMotion the server sends after HitGround.
Item 2 (height): added per-jump diagnostic so we can compare
the formula-predicted peak (sentVz²/(2g) = sentVz²/19.6) with
the actually-rendered peak Δz. Logs:
[jump.send] extent=... sentVz=... formulaPeak=...m startZ=...
[jump.peak] sentVz=... formulaPeak=...m actualPeakDz=...m
startZ=... peakZ=... landZ=...
Strip after the height-mismatch root cause is found.
Drive-by: previous diagnostic left an if/else hijack in the
resolve branch that broke 3 PlayerMovementControllerTests. Fixed.
Tests stay 1222 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two animation/movement issues from live verification:
1. Walk-backward leg twitches forward two times before the cycle
reverses (X key glitch).
Root cause: AnimationSequencer.GetLink only implemented the
forward-direction lookup path. ACE's MotionTable.get_link
(MotionTable.cs:395-426) takes BOTH the substate and the new
motion's speeds, and switches lookup branches when EITHER speed
is negative:
* Forward path: Links[(style<<16) | substate][motion]
* Reversed path (any negative speed): Links[(style<<16) |
motion][substate]
For Ready → WalkBackward we adjust_motion to WalkForward at
speed -0.65 (negative). Our previous code looked up
Links[Ready][WalkForward] — the "start walking forward"
transition. Played in reverse, the cursor stranded at the
wrong cycle frame and produced the user-visible "left leg
twitches forward two times" before the cycle stabilized.
With the reversed key Links[WalkForward][Ready] (the "stop
walking → ready" anim) played at the cycle's negative speed,
the link smoothly transitions Ready → start-of-cycle, then
the cycle reverses cleanly.
GetLink signature changed from (style, fromMotion, toMotion)
to (style, substate, substateSpeed, motion, speed). Both
call sites updated: SetCycle passes CurrentSpeedMod +
adjustedSpeed; the Action-overlay path passes 1f, 1f
(action overlays are always forward).
2. Jump too low.
Two changes after deep investigation in named-retail decomp:
a) Charge rate sped up from 1.0/s → 2.0/s. Retail's PowerBar
charge constant is illegible in the named decomp (the
divisor was clobbered in GetPowerBarLevel's FPU stack
reordering at 0x0056ade0). 2.0/s (full charge in 0.5s)
matches retail muscle memory better — a tap gives a
noticeable hop, half-hold a meaningful jump, full-hold
the maximum.
b) Default jumpSkill bumped 200 → 300. Retail formula:
height = (skill / (skill + 1300)) × 22.2 + 0.05
At extent=1.0:
skill=200 → 3.01m max (felt too low)
skill=300 → 4.21m max (closer to retail mid-tier "I
can clear that fence" hop)
Override via ACDREAM_JUMP_SKILL env var.
Long-term fix is issue #7 — parsing PlayerDescription's
skill block to apply the server's authoritative skill
values. Until then, this default is the right baseline.
(Velocity formula sqrt(height × 19.6) is unchanged and
matches retail byte-for-byte; we only changed how much
extent-feeding skill we default to.)
Tests stay 1222 green. The walk-backward fix has no new test
because GetLink is private; the cycle-transition behavior
will be exercised live.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
User report: when running backward (X) or strafing (Z/C) at run
speed, the visual moves faster but the animation cycle continues
playing at walk pace, looking disjointed.
Root cause: GameWindow's player-anim driver fed the sequencer's
SetCycle speed from result.ForwardSpeed, but PlayerMovementController
intentionally pins ForwardSpeed = 1.0 for WalkBackward (ACE expects
this for the auto-upgrade) and SidestepSpeed isn't used by the anim
path at all. So Forward+Run played the RunForward cycle at runRate ×
(correct), but Backward+Run + Strafe+Run used speedMod = 1.0 even
though the body was moving at runRate × velocity.
Fix: split the visual-pacing field from the wire-correctness field.
Added MovementResult.LocalAnimationSpeed — runRate when any
directional input is held with Run, else 1.0. GameWindow's
SetCycle path now uses this instead of ForwardSpeed. The wire
output stays unchanged; only the local animation cycle pace
shifts.
Effect:
- Forward+Run: runRate × cycle pace (unchanged behavior).
- Backward+Run: runRate × cycle pace (was 1×; now matches
velocity).
- Strafe+Run: runRate × cycle pace (was 1×; now matches
velocity).
- Anything not in Run: 1× (unchanged).
Tests stay 1222 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four issues from the K-fix2 launch (2026-04-26 user report):
1. Can't return from free-fly to player view.
CameraController.ToggleFly only swaps Fly↔Orbit, so a user who
flew out of player mode landed in orbit (Holtburg) on
toggle-back instead of the chase camera. Added
ToggleFlyOrChase() helper that prefers Fly→Chase /
Chase→Fly when _playerMode is true and a chase camera is
available; falls back to the original Fly↔Orbit toggle for
offline / pre-login flows. Wired into all three free-fly
entry points: keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+F), Camera menu
item, and DebugPanel button.
2. Shift while moving STOPS instead of dropping to walk.
Root cause: InputDispatcher.IsChordHeld required
_keyboard.CurrentModifiers to match chord.Modifiers EXACTLY.
So with W bound as (W, None), holding W and then pressing
Shift made CurrentModifiers=Shift mismatch chord (None) →
IsActionHeld(MovementForward) returned false → Forward flag
dropped → player stopped. Fixed by relaxing IsChordHeld:
when chord.Modifiers is None, Shift is allowed to coexist
(it's the retail walk-modifier). Other modifiers
(Ctrl, Alt, Win) still mismatch strictly so Ctrl+W stays a
distinct chord from W.
+2 tests pinning the new permissive-Shift / strict-Ctrl
semantics.
3. Backwards too slow when running.
forwardCmdSpeed for the WalkBackward branch was hardcoded
to 1.0; localY was hardcoded to -(WalkAnimSpeed * 0.65).
Neither honored input.Run. With Run=true (default),
backward now scales by runRate (~2.4×) so X = "run
backwards" matches the forward run pace × the 0.65
backward animation cycle ratio.
4. Strafe too slow when running.
localX for SideStepLeft / SideStepRight was hardcoded to
±SidestepAnimSpeed regardless of Run. Same fix: when Run
is held, scale by runRate so strafe at default speed
matches the run-forward pace.
Tests: 1220 → 1222 (the two new IsChordHeld tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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