With the two wrong enums corrected, the remaining wire-adjacent families diff
cleanly against the retail header - same values everywhere they overlap, just
fewer members on our side. This adopts the gaps.
EquipMask gains retail's eleven INVENTORY_LOC composite slot groups (acclient.h:
3193). The 32 primitive slots were already exact and stay pinned by EquipMaskTests;
what was missing were the groups the wire and the UI actually reason in - Armor,
Jewelry, ReadySlot, Weapon, WeaponReadySlot, the wrist/finger/sigil pairs, and
All. These are transcribed as literals, not derived, for the reason the previous
commit documents at length.
That transcription immediately earned itself. A type remark on EquipMask claimed
retail's CLOTHING_LOC composite "also sets bit 31, 0x80000000, which is not a
named INVENTORY_LOC primitive". It does not. CLOTHING_LOC is 0x080001FF: the nine
wear slots plus bit 27, which is the perfectly well-named Cloak slot. No
INVENTORY_LOC member touches bit 31 at all - ALL_LOC stops at bit 30. The remark
is corrected and a test now asserts the actual decomposition.
TransientStateFlags gains WaterContact (0x8) and CheckEthereal (0x100), the two
retail bits acdream's transition never declared. Neither is produced or consumed
yet; they are named so those slots cannot be quietly reused for an acdream-local
flag and then collide.
PhysicsStateFlags gains ReservedUnused1 (0x2) and ReservedUnused2 (0x2000), which
retail declares as UNUSED1_PS/UNNUSED2_PS. Same reasoning: reserved is a fact
worth recording.
AttackHeight gains Undef = 0. The three real heights are 1-based and were already
right; retail reserves 0 and the wire sends it, so it is now named instead of
arriving as an undefined cast. The numeric values are unchanged, so this renames
nothing at runtime.
Also checked and found already correct, so left alone: ObjectInfoState (matches
ObjectInfoEnum exactly, None being DEFAULT_OI), AttackType (every primitive plus
both composites - Unarmed 0x19 and MultiStrike 0x79E0 - land on retail's
literals), RadarBlipShape, RadarBehavior, MovementType, HoldKey, ParticleType, and
PhysicsDescriptionFlag. AttackType is worth calling out because the campaign's
extraction tooling reported it as a conflict; the tool reads one line per member
and had truncated a multi-line composite. The enum was fine.
RetailEnumConformanceTests grows tables for each of the above, each citing its
acclient.h line.
Core tests 3,785 -> 3,836. Full suite 9,701 passed / 5 skipped, no failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two enums disagreed with the retail client, and both disagreements were the
quiet kind - nothing read the wrong members, so nothing was visibly broken. They
were traps armed for the first person to write a comparison against them.
DamageType had its four drain/restore bits rotated. acdream assigned
Nether/Mana/Health/Stamina to 0x80/0x100/0x200/0x400; retail's DAMAGE_TYPE
(acclient.h:3788) assigns Health/Stamina/Mana/Nether. The ACE weenie corpus
attests retail's order independently - 0x100 Stamina, 0x200 Mana, 0x400 Nether -
and so does the vendored client-side enum catalog. Tellingly, both of acdream's
live damage-type name tables, CombatChatTranslator.FormatDamageType (ported from
holtburger) and ItemAppraisalTextFormatter.TryDamageTypeName, already used
retail's order reading the raw wire uint directly. The enum was the only thing in
the tree that was wrong. Retail's BASE_DAMAGE_TYPE (0x10000000) was also missing;
CombatChatTranslator already knew about it.
ItemType had two separate problems. The craft ladder was shifted one bit:
CraftAlchemyIntermediate sat on 0x02000000, which retail leaves unused, and an
invented CraftCookingIntermediate occupied 0x04000000, which is retail's real
alchemy-intermediate bit. The weenie corpus attests 0x04000000 as
Craft_Alchemy_Intermediate 235 times and contains no cooking-intermediate at all -
there is no such item type. Separately, the composite masks were recomputed
locally from the bits above them instead of transcribed, which is exactly how the
ladder drifted in the first place. That made Weapon (retail 0x101, melee|missile)
an exact alias of WeaponOrCaster (0x8101), and left Item at 0x830F where retail's
TYPE_ITEM is 0x2DFBEF - a mask two orders of magnitude broader. The composites are
now transcribed as literals with retail's value, not derived, and the five
retail-only masks acdream never had (portal/lockable magic targets, the
enchantable and redirectable targets, and the two vendor masks) come along.
Note for the reader wondering why the campaign trusted retail over the catalog
here: on CraftFletchingBase the catalog is the one that is wrong (it says
0x02000000; retail and acdream both say 0x01000000). No single oracle was assumed
correct - retail's header decided, with the weenie corpus as the tiebreak.
Behavior: no production code reads any changed member. The only reference in the
tree is a test that wants a nonzero HookItemTypes and does not care which. So no
branch changes and no wire behavior moves - but the values did change, which is
why this is a fix commit and not a data commit. No divergence-register row: these
were unintentional errors, now retired, not deviations we chose.
RetailEnumConformanceTests pins both enums to the acclient.h tables, asserts
acdream declares nothing retail does not, and calls out the two specific traps -
that 0x02000000 stays unclaimed, and that Weapon and WeaponOrCaster are no longer
the same value.
Core tests 3,726 -> 3,785.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Treat combat-window visibility as gameplay-state owned so character layout restoration cannot replay a stale visible bit. Reset combat state to NonCombat at character-session entry, matching retail ClientCombatSystem::Begin.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Make the retained toolbar consume retail's payload-free selection notice from canonical live state so a reentrant Auto Target replacement cannot be erased by the outer clear. Restrict automatic acquisition to the requested hostile non-player monster policy and record the intentional PK edge divergence.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Mount authored gmCombatUI, share one press/hold/release request state machine across DAT buttons and keybindings, and recover the exact 1.0s/0.8s power timing from matching retail x86. The same timer fixes jump charge, while ready-stance, response queueing, auto-repeat, layout binding, migration, and conformance coverage keep behavior architectural rather than panel-local.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Select the default combat mode from ordered equipped objects so bows request missile stance. Parse CreateObject parent metadata and ParentEvent, then render held objects as separate children composed from setup holding locations and placement frames each animation tick.
Replace the toolbar's PWD-bit approximation with retail ObjectIsAttackable composed with the exact player and pet short-circuits. Carry second-header PetOwner through CreateObject, session, and ClientObject state so self, pet, and Free-PK cases match retail while friendly NPCs and attackable non-creatures remain name-only.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>
CombatAnimationPlanner.CombatAnimationMotionCommands hand-transcribed the
combat MotionCommand constants from the Sept 2013 EoR decomp. The whole
late-combat block (Offhand* / Attack4-6 / Punch*) is numbered +3 lower there
than in ACE/DatReaderWriter — a contiguous low-word shift that begins around
SnowAngelState (0x115). So against a live ACE server every one of those 40
commands misclassified: the resolver returned the correct ACE value (e.g.
wire 0x0173 -> 0x10000173 OffhandSlashHigh) but the planner's constant held
the 2013 value (0x10000170), so no switch case matched. Reload was worse —
hardcoded 0x100000D4, a value absent from DRW entirely; the real ACE/DRW
Reload is the 0x40000016 SubState.
Instead of re-transcribing 40 hex constants (exactly how the drift crept in),
derive each constant directly from DatReaderWriter.Enums.MotionCommand by
name: `= (uint)Drw.Name`. The value IS the oracle by construction, can never
drift from the wire again, and ~80 magic numbers are gone. Ground truth was
taken by reflecting over the same DatReaderWriter 2.1.7 assembly the runtime
binds (409 enum values). Blocks 1-2 (stances + single melee, 0x3C-0x12A) were
already correct and are unchanged in value.
Tests: new PlanFromWireCommand_LateCombatBlock_UsesAceDrwNumbering pins the
full wire -> resolve -> classify pipeline for 14 late-block ACE wire values
(both full value and kind), plus a Reload SubState parity fact. Fixed two rows
in ClassifyMotionCommand_RecognisesRetailCombatCommands whose literal values
change meaning under DRW numbering (0x1000018E is AttackLow6/CreatureAttack,
not PunchFastLow; Reload moves to 0x40000016). Core suite 2499 green.
Note: CombatAnimationPlanner is not yet wired into the runtime dispatch (the
live path is AnimationCommandRouter -> MotionInterpreter/AnimationSequencer),
so this is a latent-correctness fix — it does not by itself change the #170
Mite Scamp symptom (whose attacks 0x62-0x64 live in the already-correct block).
Ref: docs/research/2026-06-26-ace-vs-2013-motion-command-gap.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Visual gate against retail surfaced several fidelity gaps in the selected-object
strip; all fixed and user-confirmed. Faithful to gmToolbarUI::HandleSelectionChanged
(acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:198635) + RecvNotice_UpdateObjectHealth (:196213).
- UiMeter.DrawHBar: guard each slice on `id != 0` BEFORE resolve. resolve(0)
returns the 1x1 magenta placeholder with a non-zero GL handle, so the single-
image meter (caps id=0) was drawing 1px magenta caps at the bar's ends. The
3-slice vitals meter (all ids set) was unaffected. (the magenta-lines bug)
- SelectedObjectController: meter visibility is now UpdateHealth-driven (shown when
health is known for the selected guid — HasHealth at select or HealthChanged),
not shown-on-select; brief green selection flash via Tick revert; overlay floated
above the meter so the flash isn't hidden by the bar; name top-aligned into the
bar sprite's black band (NameBandHeight) with the bar below.
- GameWindow.IsHealthBarTarget: gate the health bar on the server PWD bits
BF_ATTACKABLE (0x10) | BF_PLAYER (0x8) — friendly/vendor NPCs and attackable
Doors (Misc type) are name-only; players/monsters get the bar. Replaces the
too-loose IsLiveCreatureTarget. Wired SelectedObjectController.Tick in OnUpdate.
- CombatState.HasHealth(guid): distinguishes a known health value from the 1.0
default, so a re-selected already-assessed target shows its bar immediately.
- TextureCache.GetOrUploadRenderSurface: resolve the surface's DefaultPaletteId
so paletted (P8/INDEX16) UI sprites decode instead of falling to magenta.
- ToolbarController.HiddenIds: also hide 0x100001A3 (stack-entry box) — retail
hides it in HandleSelectionChanged; it was rendering as a stray black box.
Divergence register: AP-47 (meter-visible timing) retired (now faithful); AP-46
rewritten to the BF_ATTACKABLE/BF_PLAYER gate approximation. Full suite green
(2,688 passed / 4 skipped). User-confirmed: name on top, NPC name-only, monster
bar on assess, green flash, no magenta.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Files four new issues created by the 2026-04-25 PDB-discovery sprint:
#8 (DONE 2026-04-25) — pdb-extract tool, shipped 69d884a#9 (OPEN) — function-map address-correction sweep
(Phase E will close)
#10 (DONE 2026-04-25) — wire KillerNotification (0x01AD); orphan
parser at GameEvents.ParseKillerNotification
existed but was never registered. This commit
adds CombatState.OnKillerNotification +
KillLanded event, registers the dispatcher
handler, and adds a regression test.
#11 (OPEN) — spell metadata loader (spells.csv → SpellTable)
(Phase F will close)
Code change is minimal — three lines of dispatch + a 12-line
CombatState method with a typed event for future killfeed UI.
818 tests passing (+1 KillerNotification).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Completes the client-side combat loop: send attacks, receive server's
damage broadcasts, maintain per-entity health state for HP bars +
damage floaters. All atop Phase F.1's GameEvent dispatcher.
Wire layer:
- AttackTargetRequest (0x0008 C→S, inside 0xF7B1): targetGuid +
powerLevel + accuracyLevel + attackHeight. 28-byte body.
- GameEvents parsers for all combat notifications from r08 §4:
- VictimNotification (0x01AC) — you got hit, full details
- KillerNotification (0x01AD) — you killed X
- AttackerNotification (0x01B1) — you hit X for Y (damage%)
- DefenderNotification (0x01B2) — X hit you
- EvasionAttackerNotification (0x01B3) — X evaded
- EvasionDefenderNotification (0x01B4) — you evaded X
- AttackDone (0x01A7) — attack sequence completed
Core layer:
- CombatState: per-entity health-percent cache + typed events
(HealthChanged, DamageTaken, DamageDealtAccepted, EvadedIncoming,
MissedOutgoing, AttackDone). Each event carries enough detail for
the UI to render damage floaters, HP bars, and a combat log panel.
Server is authoritative; client only mirrors state.
The server computes damage (armor, resist, crit, hit-chance); the
client only displays results. Predictive UI like "estimated damage
at 0.75 power" still works via the existing CombatMath helper class
that was in the scaffold (r02 §5 formulas).
Tests (13 new):
- AttackTargetRequest byte-exact wire encoding
- VictimNotification / AttackerNotification / EvasionAttacker /
AttackDone round-trip parse.
- CombatState: UpdateHealth caches + fires, Victim fires DamageTaken,
Attacker fires DamageDealt, Evasion routes to right event, AttackDone
carries sequence+error, Clear resets cache.
Build green, 544 tests pass (up from 532).
Ref: r02 §7 (wire formats), r08 §4 (event payloads), ACE
GameEvent*Notification.cs families.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>