The Facility Hub corridor dead-stop's second half: after one seam hit,
every forward resolve returned ok=False hit=no with zero advance. The
body-persisted SlidingNormal (-1,0,0) projected the exactly-anti-parallel
corridor push to zero in AdjustOffset and the step loop aborted at step 0
before any collision test could refresh the state.
Audit (docs/research/2026-07-06-137-sliding-normal-lifecycle-audit.md):
retail's only in-transition sliding-normal writer is validate_transition
(0x0050ac21); the whole sphere/BSP layer writes NONE (grep-verified), and
the body persistence (SetPositionInternal 0x005154c2, SLIDING_TS bit sync
0x005154e1) runs only on transition success. Our BSPQuery Contact-branch
full-hit responses were stubs (SetCollisionNormal + SetSlidingNormal +
return Slid) where retail dispatches the real slide_sphere — so the seam
hit (a SUCCESSFUL full-advance resolve per the live log) persisted the
phantom wall's normal, which retail's lifecycle structurally cannot do.
- BSPQuery Contact foot full-hit fallback + head full-hit now route
through Transition.SlideSphereInternal (CSphere::slide_sphere
0x00537440 — in-frame slide, no sliding-normal write; ACE
BSPTree.cs:202,310-316). The dead stub is rewritten as the faithful
BSPTREE::slide_sphere wrapper.
- PhysicsEngine sliding writeback gated on ok (retail success-only
placement; behaviorally latent, removes the failed-frame leak class).
- Register: TS-4 amended (Path-6 steep-tangent sites still write the
normal — now documented), TS-45 added (SphereCollision's write — same
leak class, left for a follow-up out of #171's blast radius).
- Pins: Issue137SlidingNormalLifecycleTests — both site pins RED->GREEN,
plus the retail persist/absorb/clear wall lifecycle (validate-write
persistence, faithful absorbed anti-parallel frame, oblique escape
clears the bit). BSPQueryTests full-hit pin updated to the real slide.
Mechanism 1 (PortalSide portal polys solid in the physics set) stays
OPEN - #137 not closed; the corridor re-test rides that session.
Suites: Core 2545 / App 713 / UI 425 / Net 385, 0 failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CCellStruct::UnPack loads physics polys + BSP verbatim (no portal
stripping); the CPolygon test chain is pure geometry; CCellPortal
carries portal_side/exact_match but nothing in the BSP tests consults
it. Retail's PortalSide passability is therefore not a load filter or
poly flag — remaining candidates are the transit/membership test
order or a stippling/sidedness interaction. Next: cdb-attach retail
at the 0x8A02016E corridor per the step -1 protocol.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Facility Hub corridor repro (probe + dat evidence, both mechanisms
pinned):
1. PortalSide portal polygons live IN CellStruct.PhysicsPolygons and
acdream collides with them as plain solid geometry. Cell
0x8A02016E's portals to 0x011E (polys 1/3/5, flags=PortalSide) are
present in the physics set while every ExactMatch portal in the
same cell is absent — the cell's rotation maps those portal planes
to the world -X wall the player hit mid-corridor
(launch-175-verify2.log:42858, n=(-1,0,0)). Retail must honor the
portal side; oracle grep required before fixing.
2. After the single seam hit, the body-persisted SlidingNormal
projects every subsequent forward offset to exactly zero in
AdjustOffset - the step aborts BEFORE any collision test can
update state (ok=False hit=no, zero advance), an absorbing wedge
escaped only by strafing ("push through on the side"). The #116
slide-response family: retail re-derives slide state per frame
(get_object_info pc:279992).
Inspection fixture: Issue137CorridorSeamInspectionTests (dumps
physics-vs-portal polygon membership for the two corridor cells).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Facility Hub double door (Setup 0x02000C9D) embeds the player into
the visual panel from one side and blocks with a phantom slab on the
other: its Setup PLACEMENT frames pose the two panels AJAR (yaw
-150/-30 deg, 0.44 m behind the doorway plane — dat-confirmed by the
Issue175 inspection) while the rendered door poses them CLOSED from
the wire-supplied motion table via the sequencer. ShadowShapeBuilder
read placement frames, so the 1.66x0.29x2.95 m physics slabs
registered at the ajar pose. Retail tests each part's LIVE
CPhysicsPart pose — for an idle door, the motion table's default
(closed) state.
Fix: ShadowShapeBuilder.FromSetup gains partPoseOverride (BSP part
shapes only); RegisterServerEntityCollision derives it from the spawn
MotionTableId via GameWindow.MotionTableDefaultPose (default style ->
first cycle -> LowFrame part frames). Null/short poses fall back
per-part to placement frames — table-less entities and landblock
statics unchanged. One-shot snapshot vs retail's per-frame live pose
is register row AP-84 (equivalent for the door lifecycle: closed ==
default pose; open == ETHEREAL bypasses collision, #150).
Pins: FromSetup_PartPoseOverride_ReplacesPlacementFrames /
_NoOverride_KeepsPlacementFrames / _ShortOverride_FallsBackPerPart.
Suites: Core 2539 / App 713 / UI 425 / Net 385 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
User report at the Facility Hub double door (Setup 0x02000C9D): embed
into the visual panel from one side, phantom wall on the other. Dat
inspection (Issue175HubDoorPoseInspectionTests, kept as the evidence
fixture) confirms the mechanism: the Setup's Default PLACEMENT frames
pose the two panels AJAR (yaw -150/-30, origin (+-0.88, -0.44, 1.37))
while the rendered door poses them CLOSED from the wire-supplied
motion table via the sequencer. ShadowShapeBuilder reads placement
frames, so the 1.66x0.29x2.95 m physics slabs register at the ajar
pose — displaced behind the visual door. Retail tests each part's
LIVE pose (closed == motion-table default; the open swing is ETHEREAL,
#150). Fix shape filed: BSP shadow shapes for sequencer-bearing
entities must use the sequencer's part transforms, placement frames
only as the no-animation fallback. Holtburg's single door never
surfaced this because its placement pose ~= closed pose.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retail CPhysicsObj::RemoveLinkAnimations (0x0050fe20) is a tailcall to
CPartArray::HandleEnterWorld (0x00517d70) -> MotionTableManager::
HandleEnterWorld (0x0051bdd0): remove_all_link_animations PLUS a full
pending_animations drain (while (head) AnimationDone(0)), each pop
relaying MotionDone so CMotionInterp pops its pending_motions node in
lockstep. acdream bound the seam to the bare sequence strip, so every
jump's LeaveGround removed the animations that queued manager nodes
were counting down on — orphaning them (NumAnims>0, anims gone) and
permanently damming BOTH queues. MotionsPending() then never drained
(probe round: last player pending=False at the first MovementJump
press; old jump motions still completing at rest minutes later) and
BeginTurnToHeading/BeginMoveForward's verbatim motions_pending gates
starved every armed moveto: ACE's mt-6 walk-to-door armed but the body
never walked (wire-proven, seqs 98-101); the close-range use turn
never completed so the deferred action was silently eaten. Doors only
worked on a fresh session (shallow queue).
Rebind both production sites (remote EnsureRemoteMotionBindings +
the player's EnterPlayerModeNow block) to Manager.HandleEnterWorld();
the sequencer wrapper was a pure passthrough so the manager call is a
strict superset. All six interp seam sites (LeaveGround, HitGround,
Dead, and the detached-object guards) are the same retail chain.
Harness mirrors updated; pins: Issue174LinkStripDrainTests (the seam
drains both queues; fresh motions queue and complete after). Suites:
Core 2535 / App 713 / UI 425 / Net 385 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Probe round (ACDREAM_PROBE_AUTOWALK) discriminated the candidates: the
local player's pending-motion queue drains at ~1 node/sec and backs up
minutes deep during active play (last pending=False at the first
MovementJump press; old jump motions still completing at rest minutes
later). MotionsPending() then starves BeginTurnToHeading/
BeginMoveForward (verbatim retail gates): far-range Uses ARE sent and
ACE replies mt-6 walk-to-door but the body never walks; close-range
Uses park on a turn that never completes — both faces of "door does
not work", while a fresh session (shallow queue) works perfectly.
Retail's queue stays shallow (the #170 cdb drain trace: adds == dones)
— this is the #170 pending_motions family, local-player DRAIN-rate
edition. Fix path: decomp CheckForCompletedMotions (0x0051bfd0) pop
semantics + queue-dump probe first; no MotionsPending bypass, no
deferral-skipping band-aids.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Facility Hub door investigation evidence: retail's byte-identical
UseItem works on the same ACE (door F74C/F74B captured, broadcast to
both clients; acdream renders the observed swing), while acdream's
later attempts never reach the wire — the AP-23 close-range deferral
parks the action on MoveToComplete(None) and the player's speculative
TurnToObject never completes after the first use of the session.
Candidates: per-attempt user-input cancel vs MotionsPending starvation
(the #170 class, local edition). Also noted: GameEventType.UseDone is
parsed nowhere, so ACE rejections are invisible. Captures:
door-use3/4.pcapng (session scratchpad). Next: ACDREAM_PROBE_AUTOWALK
round, then fix per the retail client use flow (§9a/§9b) — no
deferral-skipping band-aid.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An observed character jumping into a dungeon ceiling hovered at the
roof until its ballistic arc decayed, landing visibly late (user
report, 0x0007). The remote DR tick sweeps collision (position pinned
at the ceiling — no clip-through) but retail's post-transition velocity
response, CPhysicsObj::handle_all_collisions (pc:282699-282715:
v -= (1+elasticity)*dot(v,n)*n), was only ported for the LOCAL player
(L.3a). The remote body kept its +Z launch velocity and re-integrated
it into the roof every tick — the position was clamped but the
timeline was pure ballistics.
Retail runs handle_all_collisions after every SetPositionInternal for
every physics object, remotes included. Mirror the local reflection
block in the remote sweep's post-resolve path: same formula, same
AD-25 airborne-before-AND-after suppression (corridor slides and
landings don't reflect; the landing snap's Velocity.Z <= 0 gate stays
intact), same Inelastic zero-out for future missiles. AD-25 register
row extended to cover both sites.
Suites green: Core 2533 / App 713 / UI 425 / Net 385.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Holtburg town-network portal platform (stab 0xC0A9B465, Setup
0x020019E3, CylSphere r=2.597m h=0.256m) blocked the player with an
endless rim slide instead of retail's step-up-onto-top — gating the
whole #137 dungeon repro. Surfaced when #149 started registering
BSP-less stab CylSpheres: the collision SHAPE became right while the
RESPONSE was still the hand-rolled AP-6 approximation (step-up gate +
radial wall-slide only).
Root cause: no cylinder-TOP support anywhere. DoStepUp's internal
step-down probe needs retail's step_sphere_down (0x0053a9b0) to land on
the flat top — a cylinder has no polygons for the walkable search — so
every step-up onto a wide cylinder failed into StepUpSlide and the
player orbited the rim (probe-confirmed: [cyl-test] result=Slid with
horizontal rim normals, launch-137-repro.log).
Port the full family verbatim: dispatcher intersects_sphere 0x0053b440
(placement/ethereal detection, step-down cap landing, walkable probe,
grounded step_sphere_up 0x0053b310, PathClipped collide_with_point
0x0053acb0, airborne land_on_cylinder 0x0053b3d0, Collide-flag
exact-TOI cap rest) + collides_with_sphere 0x0053a880 +
normal_of_collision 0x0053ab50 + slide_sphere 0x0053b2a0. Pseudocode +
settled BN x87 ambiguities (via ACE cross-ref) + two ACE bugs found and
NOT copied (head-slide foot-disp; see doc §8):
docs/research/2026-07-05-ccylsphere-collision-family-pseudocode.md
Ethereal cylinders now flow through retail's Layer-2 override
(pc:276961) instead of the early-OK consume — same net #150 behavior,
plus retail placement-blocked-by-cylinder semantics. SlideSphere gains
a sphereNum param (retail slides the head sphere by its own
displacement, 0x0053b843).
Register: AP-6 retired; AP-83 added (PerfectClip TOI tail decoded per
ACE, dead code until missiles). Tests: CylSphereFamilyTests (grounded
step-up onto the exact platform shape, tall-cylinder block, airborne
top landing, ethereal guard); the #42 self-shadow control assertion
updated to the retail observable (denied movement — the old ~1m radial
self-push was the approximation's artifact, not retail). Suites: Core
2533 / App 713 / UI 425 / Net 385 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three unpack_movement parity items (facade deferred per the handoff's
own optional clause — see r5-wiring-handoff §V4 status):
1. HEAD style-on-change (0x00524440 @00524502-0052452c): both GameWindow
routing heads (remote + player) now dispatch DoMotion(style, ctor
defaults) when the UM's stance differs from the interp's current
style, BEFORE the movement-type routing — for EVERY type. Previously
style applied only through the mt-0 funnel copy, so a chase/turn UM
(mt 6-9) carrying a stance change started the move in the OLD stance
(a monster charged in NonCombat posture until the next mt-0). The
RetailObserverTraceConformanceTests exclusion note updated — the
trace filter stays (head calls can't appear in a
MoveToInterpretedState replay) but the production gap it pointed at
is closed.
2. #164 (closes): the action-replay loop threads each action's autonomy
into the dispatch params (Autonomous = the 0x1000 splice, raw
305982) — replayed actions enter the interpreted actions list with
their real autonomy instead of ctor-default false.
3. mt-0 wire flags consumed (UpdateMotion parsed them since R4-V3):
0x1 StickToObject → CPhysicsObj::stick_to_object port (0x005127e0:
resolve target, PartArray radii — 0 when shapeless, guid-as-is for
acdream's flat entity table — → PositionManager.StickTo; unresolvable
target → no stick), at BOTH case-0 tails in retail order
(@00524583-0052458e: funnel apply → stick → longjump flag);
0x2 StandingLongJump → Motion.StandingLongJump, UNCONDITIONAL write
(absent flag clears — retail @0052458e). ServerMotionState gains the
StandingLongJump field.
Conformance: ChaseArm_WithStanceChange_AppliesStanceBeforeTheChase
(harness mirrors the routing-head dispatch) +
Actions_ReplayCarriesAutonomyIntoTheInterpretedList. Suite 4041 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gate 1 (2026-07-04): "better in general" + three residuals — monsters
pushed INTO the player, attacks with stale facing, position
"flashing/flapping instead of gliding". All three are ONE mechanism:
the legacy NPC UpdatePosition handler hard-snaps position, orientation,
and velocity/cycle UNCONDITIONALLY, fighting the armed sticky every UP
(ACE's authoritative rest pose sits ~0.6 m out and its server-side
facing lags the strafing target; the client stick holds 0.3 m + live
facing — oscillation at UP cadence).
Retail is immune by architecture, not by tuning: UP corrections flow
through the InterpolationManager into the SAME per-tick
PositionManager::adjust_offset chain where StickyManager::adjust_offset
OVERWRITES them while armed (0x00555190 chain order; 0x00555430 assigns
m_fOrigin). A server correction can never fight an armed stick
frame-by-frame. The remote-player branch already has exactly that
(queue -> combiner -> sticky overwrite); the legacy NPC path snaps
outside the chain.
Fix: suppress the NPC UP position/orientation/velocity-adoption snaps
while the entity is stuck (PositionManager.GetStickyObjectId() != 0) —
the retail chain semantics translated to the snap architecture.
LastServerPos/Time + cell bookkeeping still record; server truth
reasserts on the first UP after unstick, bounded by the 1 s sticky
lease. Register row TS-44 (same commit); retires with the S6/R6
interp-queue unification of the NPC path.
Apparatus: ACDREAM_PROBE_STICKY=1 — per-guid [sticky] lifecycle lines
(STICK / UNSTICK / LEASE-EXPIRE / TARGET-status teardown), per-armed-
tick steer lines (signed gap dist, applied delta, heading delta, live
resolve), and [sticky-snap-skip] at the suppressed-snap site.
PhysicsDiagnostics.ProbeStickyEnabled owns the flag (rule #5).
Full suite 4038 green. Awaiting gate 2 (pack melee vs retail).
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>
User report during the #170 gate: pack-melee monsters partly inside each
other with slightly stale facings vs retail on the same ACE. Investigation
(report-only) pinned two code-grounded causes, both already-tracked R5-V3
scope, fix APPROVED by the user:
1. TS-39 — sticky melee is a no-op: ACE arms melee chases with Sticky
(Monster_Navigation.cs:416); retail's arrival hands off to
PositionManager::StickTo -> StickyManager::adjust_offset (0x00555430,
per-tick 0.3m edge gap + facing tracking); acdream's StickTo/Unstick
seams are unbound so attackers freeze at stale arrival poses.
2. Arrival radii are zero: getOwnRadius () => 0f (the R5-V3 pin) and
RouteServerMoveTo never sets MovementStruct.Radius/Height — retail/ACE
arrive edge-to-edge with setup-derived radii (ACE PhysicsObj.MoveToObject
reads the TARGET's PartArray radius/height).
Ruled out: the between-snap collision sweep (remotes run full
ResolveWithTransition; CollisionExemption keeps creatures collidable).
Caveat recorded: ACE has no server-side monster avoidance — acceptance is
retail PARITY, not zero overlap.
ISSUES #171 filed; handoff docs/research/2026-07-04-171-sticky-melee-handoff.md
+ pickup docs/research/2026-07-04-171-pickup-prompt.md; memory index updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gate result: user side-by-side vs retail — "looks good, as close to retail
now as I can see". Telemetry from the gate session (launch-170-gate2.log):
BeginMoveForward ~1:1 with MoveToObject arms for every chasing creature
(pre-fix capture was 16:1), ZERO "SERVERVEL skips UseTime while armed"
occurrences, pending_motions depth 1 at last sample.
Stripped per the #170 close-out plan: s_mvtoDiag + all [mvto] prints
(MoveToManager), s_drainDiag + [drain]/[drainq] (MotionInterpreter), the
[npc-tick] branch prints and the "UM actions" inbound-action dump
(GameWindow). The durable ACDREAM_DUMP_MOTION family stays. The
RemoteChaseEndToEndHarnessTests + RemoteChaseDrainBisectTests conformance
suites stay as the permanent regression net for this pipeline.
ISSUES: #170 -> DONE + Recently-closed entry (fix SHAs 427332ac, d2ccc80e,
1051fc83). Memory topic + index flipped to CLOSED.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "sustain the run" residual. The handoff's "Ready stop-node backlog
drains a beat slower than retail" framing was DISPROVEN: a new full-stack
offline harness (RemoteChaseEndToEndHarnessTests — real MoveToManager +
MotionInterpreter + AnimationSequencer + MotionTableDispatchSink + the
manual omega integration, wired field-for-field like
EnsureRemoteMotionBindings and ticked in TickAnimations' exact phase
order) proves the Core turn/run/drain pipeline healthy: the chase turn
completes in <1 s both directions, BeginMoveForward installs per arm, the
run sustains across re-arms and attack swings, and pending_motions fully
empties (retail cdb invariant add_to_queue == MotionDone).
The real mechanism (launch-drainq.log, corrected per-guid attribution —
the previous session's timeline mis-attributed [mvto] lines that fire in
the network phase): funnel per chasing scamp was 16 mt-6 arms -> 11
dispatched turns -> ONE BeginMoveForward. Any NPC receiving
UpdatePositions gets HasServerVelocity=true (synthesized from position
deltas even when the wire carries no velocity), and the grounded per-tick
branch routed those to the SERVERVEL leg, which SKIPS
MoveToManager.UseTime — [npc-tick] literally logged
"branch=SERVERVEL (skips UseTime) mtState=MoveToObject". The armed
moveto was starved for exactly the duration of the server-side chase:
legs stayed in Ready while the body glided on synthesized velocity (the
#170 slide); the manager only woke in UP-silent gaps (creature stopped
server-side) and its stale-heading turn was interrupted by the next UM
before reaching BeginMoveForward.
Retail runs MovementManager::UseTime UNCONDITIONALLY every tick
(CPhysicsObj::UpdateObjectInternal 0x005156b0, call @0x00515998) and has
no wire-velocity leg-driver anywhere; between UPs a moveto-driven body
translates from the motion state (get_state_velocity) with UP hard-snaps
correcting drift. Fix: an armed moveto (MovementTypeState != Invalid)
always takes the MOVETO leg; SERVERVEL remains only as the legacy
fallback for entities without a moveto (scripted paths / missiles).
Register: TS-41 (the narrowed SERVERVEL stopgap), TS-42 (drain-order
divergence also pinned this session: acdream drains AnimDone->MotionDone
AFTER HandleTargetting/MoveTo.UseTime; retail's process_hooks
@0x00512d3d runs BEFORE TargetManager/MovementManager in
UpdateObjectInternal — one frame of extra latency, R6 scope).
New conformance: RemoteChaseEndToEndHarnessTests (3 scenarios + theory)
+ RemoteChaseDrainBisectTests (the drain-chain pin; its first run also
demonstrated the TS-40 InWorld=false link-strip wedge shape — harness
bodies must replicate the live RemoteMotion construction).
ISSUES #170 updated (awaiting user visual gate; probes stay until then);
handoff doc superseded-note added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Detailed handoff (docs/research/2026-07-04-170-creature-run-handoff.md) + paste
prompt (2026-07-04-170-pickup-prompt.md) for continuing #170 in a fresh session.
Records the full root-cause chain (retail cdb + acdream probes), the landed partial
fix (427332ac: per-frame apply_current_movement flood deleted → pending_motions
1.3M→~1, run installs, stuck-attack gone), the one residual (Ready-stop drain lag →
run not fully sustained), the exact next steps (cdb the retail Ready-stop drain), the
apparatus (env-gated probes + cdb scripts), the file:line map, and the DO-NOT-RETRY
list (superseded MovementManager-coexistence hypothesis; keep the velocity fix; don't
patch the retail-faithful motions_pending guard). ISSUES #170 updated to PARTIAL.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Traced the live remote path: the mt-6 chase runs through the verbatim
MoveToManager, but every inbound mt-0 attack UM fires the unpack_movement head
interrupt (bound to MoveTo.CancelMoveTo) AND installs the UM's ForwardCommand
(Ready/idle for an attack-only UM), so the chase MoveTo is cancelled and the run
legs are replaced by idle while the body keeps dead-reckoning -> glide + repeated
idle/attack. The 15-bit ServerActionStamp gate is faithful (uniform-anim is not a
stamp bug). This chase+attack coexistence is R5/MovementManager scope, so #170
sub-bugs 2/3 are downstream of the incomplete MovementManager port (R5-V4), not
#159. Recorded as a hypothesis pending a live ACDREAM_DUMP_MOTION capture + retail
side-by-side (no guessing a fix in this revert-prone path).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mark ISSUES #159 done (2de5a011) and record the key finding for #170: the
CombatAnimationPlanner numbering fix is latent (the planner isn't wired into
the live dispatch) and the Mite Scamp's 0x62-0x64 attacks were always in the
correct block — so #170's visible symptom is sub-bug 2 (the pending_motions
MOTIONDONE loop), not command misclassification. Roadmap L.1b note updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both root-caused live + fixed this session (315af02f, 9b06a9b8). NOT R5 —
pre-existing streaming bugs surfaced while visual-gating R5-V2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All four visual-pass items confirmed by the user's eyes (jump/ledge
momentum, run-in-circles blend, stop settle, retail-observer view of
+Acdream). Two observations filed from the pass:
- #165: retail movers observed from acdream penetrate walls a bit
("swallowed") instead of stopping flush - remote-DR collision class,
PROBE_RESOLVE capture is the first investigative step.
- #166: downhill-jump landing glide+bounce (retail sled) absent - the
register predicted this exact gap (AD-25 risk column) - composite of
AD-25 + AP-7 + TS-4, retire together post-R6 per the user's
"polish later" call.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#163: remove [autowalk-gate] (+ _lastAutowalkGateLogTime throttle clock,
PlayerMovementController), [autowalk-feed] (GameWindow player tracker
feed), and the short-lived [MOVETO-CANCEL] #162 capture probe. The
durable ProbeAutoWalk family (PhysicsDiagnostics owner + DebugPanel
toggle + the permanent [autowalk] probe sites) stays.
#162 closed WITHOUT adaptation: user A/B says retail does not glide, and
post-#161 acdream matches (user-verified walk/run-by-distance movetos +
clean mid-chain key takeover). Head-interrupt + CancelMoveTo re-audited
retail-verbatim against the raw (unpack_movement 0x00524440,
interrupt_current_movement 0x005101f0, MoveToManager::CancelMoveTo
0x00529930 armed-gate); the launch-162 capture shows ACE's mt-0
reflections carry the mover's real locomotion, so cancels never strand
the legs. The old glide was killed by the R4-V5 stack + #161's
apply-pass params fix. Evidence trail in ISSUES Recently-closed #162.
Suite 3,964 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retail's apply_interpreted_movement (0x00528600) does NOT dispatch with
ctor-default MovementParameters: the BN decomp smears the bitfield store
into the mush expression at raw 305778 - (word & 0x37ff) | cancelMoveTo<<15
| disableJump<<17 - which CLEARS SetHoldKey/ModifyInterpretedState/
CancelMoveTo. ACE MotionInterp.cs:444-449 confirms independently. Three
legs fixed, all retail decode, no adaptations added:
1. ApplyInterpretedMovement now builds the pass params retail actually
uses (ModifyInterpretedState=false is load-bearing): no dispatch in the
pass writes InterpretedState, so the airborne Falling substitution
PRESERVES the wire's forward command and HitGround's re-apply
dispatches it - the motion table plays the Falling->X landing link.
The W6 entry-cache (built on the wrong "retail self-heals via hoisted
registers" theory) is deleted; live reads are retail semantics. Raw
arg3 decoded as DisableJumpDuringLink -> every (N,0) caller means
allowJump=true; all 9 caller polarities fixed. copy_movement_from's
current_style copy (raw 0051e757) added to the UM flat-copy.
2. Both GameWindow landing blocks cleared the Gravity state bit BEFORE
Motion.HitGround(), whose verbatim state&0x400 gate then no-opped the
whole retail re-apply; the UP-driven landing block never called
HitGround at all. Both now run HitGround (minterp then moveto,
MovementManager::HitGround 0x00524300 order) with Gravity still set,
then do the DR bookkeeping clear (register row AP-81 added for the
remaining flag dance, retire in R6).
3. K-fix17's forced SetCycle (both copies) deleted: it executed every
landing but read the leg-1-clobbered ForwardCommand (0x40000015) and
re-set the very Falling cycle it meant to clear.
Tests: new HitGround_AfterFall_RedispatchesPreservedForward_ExitsFalling
lifecycle pin; AirborneBody state assertion flipped (it had pinned the
bug value). Suite 3,964 green incl. the 183-case retail-observer trace.
Filed #164 (action-replay Autonomous bit, no current consumer).
Awaiting live verify: stand-still landing must exit the falling pose with
zero wire input.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
S0 wire probe (live capture, retail actor via ACE) refuted the premise
the #39 machinery was built on: walk<->run Shift toggles arrive as
EXPLICIT UMs (0x0005 <-> 0x0007@runRate) because retail's default-
difference packing baselines forward_command against Ready — W-held is
always packed, and ACE re-emits it unconditionally with the holdKey
upgrade (MovementData.cs:104-119). The frequent flags=0 autonomous UMs
are genuine keys-released / heading-only states; retail applies them as
full stops (InterpretedMotionState ctor 0x0051e8d0 defaults Ready +
move_to_interpreted_state 0x005289c0 flat copy).
Retail has NO pace->animation adaptation anywhere in its inbound
pipeline (two decomp dives + ACE cross-check, deviation map DEV-2), and
the refinement layer's 0.2s-grace re-promotion after legitimate Ready
UMs was itself the observed Ready<->Run thrash / rubber-band component.
Deleted: ApplyPlayerLocomotionRefinement, UmGraceSeconds,
PlayerRunPromoteSpeed/PlayerRunDemoteSpeed, RemoteMotion.LastUMTime,
the synth-player refinement call in OnLivePositionUpdated. Player-remote
cycles are now UM-driven only, exactly like retail. NPC PlanFromVelocity
path untouched (S6 unifies).
S0 findings + S1 live validation (0 false UM_STALE drops across 280 UMs)
recorded in docs/research/2026-07-02-inbound-motion-deviation-map.md.
fix#39: closed — root-cause narrative corrected, machinery removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Splits MotionCommandResolver's single ACE-modern lookup into an
IMotionCommandCatalog seam with two implementations:
- AceModernCommandCatalog (runtime default): built cleanly from the
DatReaderWriter MotionCommand enum (mirrors ACE + local DAT MotionTables)
with a documented class-priority tiebreak. The old blind 0x016E-0x0197
per-range override is DELETED — verified the ACE matrix (LifestoneRecall
0x0153 to 0x10000153, MarketplaceRecall 0x0166, AllegianceHometownRecall
0x0171, OffhandSlashHigh 0x0173) resolves correctly straight from the enum
with no override. Stale shift-start comment corrected to SnowAngelState
(0x43000115 to 0x43000118), not AllegianceHometownRecall.
- Retail2013CommandCatalog (conformance/reference): full verbatim extraction
of command_ids[0x198] at 0x007c73e8 (acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:1017259-1017667),
direct wire-low to full index lookup. 408 entries, anchors verified against
source ([0x150]=0x10000150, [0x153]=0x09000153, [0x197]=0x10000197).
MotionCommandResolver.ReconstructFullCommand stays a static facade delegating
to an AceModern singleton — all ~10 runtime callers unchanged.
Removing the override exposed a pre-existing bug: CombatAnimationPlanner's
late-combat command block uses 2013 numbering, not ACE/DRW. Corrected the one
catalog test assertion pinned to the override's output (wire 0x0170 to
0x09000170 IssueSlashCommand, its true DRW identity) and filed the planner bug
as #159 rather than silently patching out-of-scope code.
Tests: +catalog matrices (ACE/2013), class-priority collisions, boundary
cases, real-DAT availability (gap-doc hit counts reproduced). Build + full
suite green (Core.Tests 1718, no regressions).
Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-30-movement-wire-parity-design.md (1)
Research: docs/research/2026-06-26-ace-vs-2013-motion-command-gap.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
UI Studio (preview panels through the production renderer), importer dat-fidelity (Fix A/B/C/4/5:
the importer carries dat font/justification/color; boundary look=importer / state=runtime), and the
Character window Attributes tab (reads as retail). 3062 tests green.
Handoff: docs/research/2026-06-26-mockup-stage-handoff.md.
# Conflicts:
# docs/ISSUES.md
# docs/architecture/retail-divergence-register.md
Roadmap: extend D.5-remaining ledger with three new shipped entries (UI Studio,
importer Fix A/B/C, Character window 0x2100002E). Milestone M5: update D.2b
status paragraph to name all shipped sub-phases including the studio, importer
boundary discovery (look=importer / state=runtime), and Character window with
deferred polish pointer (#151).
ISSUES: add #151 (Character window deferred polish — LOW, filed 2026-06-26;
user accepted Attributes tab as good-enough, polish items to be enumerated later).
Issues #149 (studio inventory all-black) and #150 (GameWindow font resolver) were
already present.
Divergence register: add AP-69 (per-element dat-font resolver is studio-only;
GameWindow passes null to the four Import sites until #150 lands). No row for
Fix-4 UIState-group activation (runtime-faithful, not a deviation) or for the
tab-sprite injection / footer-state hiding (same).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to Fix C (a0d3395): the per-element FontDid resolver is studio-only; GameWindow
passes null. Captured the turnkey fix (ConcurrentDictionary + GetOrAdd closure over UiDatFont.Load,
mirroring RenderStack.ResolveDatFont) + the 4 import sites + the CharacterStatController auto-benefit note.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gap 1 — Header captions:
- 0x1000023A ("Character Level") above the level value: bound via LabelLeft().
- 0x10000234 ("Total Experience (XP):") left of total XP: bound via LabelLeft().
- 0x10000237/0x10000238 (XP-to-level label + value) are children of the UiMeter
(0x10000236, ConsumesDatChildren=true) and cannot be bound — documented in
code comments; XP meter fill still bound via Fill=XpFraction.
Gap 2 — Tab bar sprites:
- Tab group elements 0x10000228/229/538 are Type-12 UIElement_Text in the dat
(ConsumesDatChildren=true), so the three button children (left-cap, center,
right-cap) are consumed at import and absent from the widget tree. Old
SetTabState/SetButtonStateRecursive found no UiButton children to set.
- Fix: AddTabSprites() injects three UiText sprite-children per group using
the known RenderSurface ids confirmed from the retail UI layout dump:
Open (active) 0x06005D92/0x06005D94/0x06005D96
Closed (inactive) 0x06005D93/0x06005D95/0x06005D97
Source: dump nodes 0x10000439/0x100000E9/0x10000215 in layout 0x2100002E,
state_id 11=Closed, 12=Open per gmTabUI::SetActive(bool).
Gap 3 — Footer legibility:
- The shared footer child ids (0x1000024E etc.) appear in THREE footer-state
groups (A/B/C). ImportedLayout._byId stores the LAST duplicate = narrower
State B/C copies (145px labels). Fix: hide State B/C groups (footerB/footerC
Visible=false), walk State A container (0x10000240) positionally to bind the
wider State A labels (195px). FooterLine1Label now reads "Skill Credits
Available:" and FooterLine2Label reads "Unassigned Experience:" at full width.
Tests: 3 old tab-state tests (SetButtonStateRecursive expectation) replaced by
4 new sprite-injection tests + 2 caption-binding tests. Full suite: 676 pass,
0 fail (was 673 pass after 3 failures).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Verified root cause (oracle-first) of the user's "stretched + less-detailed"
outdoor terrain: acdream tiles the base ground texture once per 24m landcell
(terrain_modern.frag TILE=1.0) and never applies retail's landscape DETAIL
texture overlay (dat TerrainTex.DetailTextureId / DetailTexTiling).
Decomp-cited mechanism (landPolyDraw detail UV = curr_detail_tiling*baseUV
pc:702299; 10->50 depth fade pc:702263; TEXOP_MODULATE pc:425099; single
landscape scalar via TexMerge::GetDetailTiling pc:263852). Filtering + 512^2
resolution ruled out.
Fix attempt (parallel detail texture array + MODULATE2X + distance fade) built
and ran but rendered the ground black (detail array sampled ~0); reverted.
Handles verified NOT swapped -- the bug is detail-texture DATA (gray fill /
DetailTextureId decode). Filed with full debugging steps for a fresh pass.
Also recorded the DO-NOT-RETRY: the first investigation agent FABRICATED a base
`TexTiling` dat field that does not exist (only DetailTexTiling).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brings the 134 D.2b UI commits onto the physics/collision development line so
main can fast-forward. Today's #149 (BSP-less static collision) + #150 (open
doors fully passable) + the full collision/streaming/dense-town-FPS arc meet
the paperdoll/inventory work.
# Conflicts:
# docs/ISSUES.md
# docs/architecture/retail-divergence-register.md
An OPEN door (ETHEREAL_PS 0x4 set on Use) still stopped the player with a
residual threshold block after the collision sweep, despite swinging open
visually.
The resolver runs two collision passes per step: the main sweep and a
step-down (foot-sphere "is there floor?") sub-pass. acdream tested the
ethereal door in BOTH; the main pass cleared it (BSPQuery Path 1 + the
Layer-2 override) but the step-down pass had no escape, leaving a Collided
result at the sill -- the "can-sized cylinder on the ground threshold".
Retail's CPhysicsObj::FindObjCollisions (pc:276795-276806) SKIPS an ethereal
target when sphere_path.step_down != 0 -- it only tests it in the main pass.
So an open door is fully passable everywhere; the swung panel's position is
irrelevant (ethereal = no collision; the swing animation is purely visual).
Port that branch verbatim: an ethereal-for-this-test target (target state &
0x4, OR mover-ethereal vs a non-static target) is `continue`d when
sp.StepDown is set.
Live-verified (user confirmed): the door now blocks 0x while open (0x1000C),
still blocks while closed (0x10008); pre-fix it blocked 217x while open.
Core suite green (1595/0).
(An earlier "animate the door collision" theory was wrong and dropped -- if
collision tracked the swung panel you'd bump the panel in its open position,
which retail does not do. The user caught it.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Town props placed as landblock stabs whose ONLY collision is a Setup
CylSphere/Sphere (no physics BSP) registered ZERO collision shapes and were
walk-through -- torches, braziers, lamp-posts, candle-stands, posts.
Root: the ISSUES #83 / A1.6 gate `!_isLandblockStab` skipped Setup
cyl/sphere registration for ALL landblock stabs, on the false assumption
"landblock stabs collide via BSP only (retail CBuildingObj)." That
over-broadened -- it also killed collision for BSP-less stabs.
Retail's CPhysicsObj::FindObjCollisions (@0x0050f050) uses binary dispatch:
the object's physics BSP if it HAS one (HAS_PHYSICS_BSP_PS 0x10000), ELSE its
CSetup CylSpheres/Spheres -- never both. Confirmed via live retail cdb on the
Holtburg torch (Setup 0x020005D8 at world (105.99,17.17)): FindObjCollisions
target num_cylsphere=1, cyl h=2.2 -- a cylsphere, exact-matching the dat
(cylSphere r=0.2 h=2.2); the StabList confirms stab[95]=0x020005D8 there.
Fix: gate the Setup cyl/sphere registration on `entityBsp == 0` instead of
stab-ness. Preserves #83's anti-doubling (stab WITH a BSP -> BSP-only) while
restoring collision for BSP-less stabs. Other landblock entities on this path
(scenery -- tree-trunk cylspheres) are unaffected.
Live-verified: torch + candle/brazier family block now; ~115 cyl/sphere
Setups register across streamed landblocks. Core suite green (1595/0).
The earlier selection-sphere hypothesis was WRONG and is reverted -- the cdb's
r=0.48 sphere was the player/NPC body (every body sphere is ~0.48), not the
torch. The correct cdb method: capture the TARGET at FindObjCollisions (not
`this` in CSphere::intersects_sphere) and confirm by position + Setup-id.
(Issue numbered #149 to stay clear of main's #148; this worktree branched
before main's #145-148 were added.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "#145 far-town frame" premise was wrong: #146's bldOrigin probe proved
Arwic buildings are correctly framed. The walls were portal-less buildings
skipped by the collision cache; the terrain-3%-grounded sub-question is
re-scoped LOW (no fall-through observed; likely a contactPlaneValid nuance).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Issue A ("no collision after death/portal") investigated capture-first and
confirmed to be TWO distinct bugs (user-corroborated + ACDREAM_CAPTURE_RESOLVE
data, 255,832 player resolves):
- #147 (HIGH) far-town (Arwic): grounded only 3% of resolves vs 100% at
Holtburg/dungeon; city/perimeter walls never block even on a fresh login —
the #145 streaming-relative-frame family. Scope as a brainstormed #145
sub-phase, not a one-commit fix.
- #146 (MEDIUM) Holtburg: building/house-wall collision works on fresh login
but is lost after portaling in. The [bldg-channel] probe fires post-portal
(building is cached + reached) yet result=OK as the foot-sphere walks into
the wall — the building WorldTransform is baked from _liveCenter at cache
time and CacheBuilding is idempotent, so the recenter leaves a stale offset.
Also recorded against #138 that symptom B (avatar vanish) was root-caused and
fixed in afd5f2a (RelocateEntity-during-PortalSpace), not just the pending-
bucket rescue candidate.
No guess-patches applied to the collision code (DO-NOT-RETRY area).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Report: OUTCOME section (the two shipped fixes, the glFinish-artifact correction,
the deliberately-unpursued scenery-CPU/terrain-GPU headroom). ISSUES: recently-
closed entry with SHAs + pointers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Faithful port of retail UIElement_UIItem::UpdateCapacityDisplay (0x004e16e0):
each container cell (side bags + main pack) shows a vertical UIElement_Meter
(element 0x10000347, back 0x06004D22 / fill 0x06004D23) filled to
GetNumContainedItems / ItemsCapacity, clamped [0,1]; hidden for non-containers
(CapacityFill=-1). Drawn procedurally on UiItemSlot like the triangle/square
overlays (back full + front clipped bottom-up). Right-anchored flush to the cell
edge (visual gate: the dat X=26 sat ~5px off the right edge). Visually confirmed
2026-06-22. Divergence AP-59; polish deferred to ISSUES #146 (exact rect/anchor,
fill direction vs m_eDirection 0x6f, closed-bag lazy-load).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
User confirmed the container column reads correct after the inheritance-resolved
fix (22d9231). Status: inventory empty-slot art FIXED + VISUALLY CONFIRMED.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Visual gate (2026-06-22) showed the side-bag/main-pack empty cells drawing yellow
triangles. Root cause: the frame-first heuristic grabbed the 36x36 container
prototype's DirectState child 0x06005D9C — which is the open/SELECTED-container
triangle indicator, NOT a background frame — and stamped it onto every empty cell.
Fix: drop frame-first; FindIconEmpty resolves the inner m_elem_Icon ItemSlot_Empty
THROUGH BaseElement inheritance (0x1000033F -> 0x10000340 -> base 0x1000033E ->
0x1000033B -> 0x06000F6E), so containers get the dark slot background matching the
inventory. Pin test now asserts exact ids (0x06004D20 contents / 0x06000F6E
containers) — the old structural-only assertion let the wrong-but-valid 0x06005D9C
pass (Opus review Minor 2, now vindicated). The triangle + green/yellow selection
square is deferred to container-switching (AP-56 reworded). Full suite green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Inventory contents grid / side-bag / main-pack empty cells now dat-resolve their
art via ItemListCellTemplate (0x1000000e -> 0x21000037). Paperdoll equip
silhouettes + main-pack icon remain open (Sub-phase C / AP-51).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
