Ports retail ACRender::polyClipFinish (0x006b6d00, pc:702749) near-eye
semantics into PortalProjection.ProjectToClip - the fundamental fix for
the in-plane portal clip family (climb strobes, tower-top roof/floor
flap while turning; live-corroborated this session: [viewer-diff]
0xAAB30108 strobing 27x mid-climb, whole interior dropping at the top).
Pseudocode: docs/research/2026-06-11-polyclipfinish-w0-clip-pseudocode.md.
Three legs, all decomp-driven:
1. ProjectToClip clips at w >= 0 EXACTLY (was EyePlaneW=1e-4), with
retail's any-negative-w gate. Boundary intersections land at w == 0
(homogeneous directions), so a portal the eye is CROSSING yields the
correct unbounded half-region that the bounded view-region clip cuts
to the screen. A w=0 vertex cannot survive a bounded region clip
into the divide (direction fails some edge of any bounded convex
region); the measure-zero corner case is guarded non-finite->empty.
2. CellView.CanonicalKey keys ALL-COLLINEAR (zero-area) views as their
snapped segment ("L:" + extremes) instead of rejecting them - retail
PROPAGATES degenerate views (ClipPortals decomp:433651-433711
forwards any count!=0 GetClip output, no area gate anywhere), keeping
the cell behind an exactly-in-plane portal in the draw list (cells
draw whole; onward floods die naturally). Rejection dropped the
whole chain for the frame - the parked-eye knife-edge band. Finite
key space unchanged -> dedup + strict-growth convergence intact.
3. The EyeInsidePortalOpening rescue is DELETED (the T2-documented
compensation for the 1e-4 divergence) along with EyeStandingPerpDist
+ PointInPoly2D. Empty clip = no flood, period (retail's rule).
CornerFloodReplay - the gate that REFUTED the previous deletion
attempt - passes WITHOUT the rescue under the W=0 port.
Harness criterion corrected to retail's rules (it codified the rescue):
cells fully BEHIND the camera are not required (all-behind portals clip
empty in retail); monotone area holds per root regime; the two
manufactured exact-on-plane steps assert root-only (boundary root pick
is ambiguous; the in-plane portal there is ~perpendicular to the gaze =
genuinely off-screen). Build_CollapsedInteriorPortalNearEye test
inverted to pin the retail empty-clip rule (it pinned the rescue).
New pins: eye-crossing portal -> w==0 boundary verts + half-region (not
sliver); gaze-along-plane degenerate view accepted + segment-key dedup;
non-finite guard. Replay harnesses (CornerFloodReplay, Issue120,
TowerAscent, HouseExit, Issue127) all green.
Suites: App 246+1skip / Core 1430+2skip / UI 420 / Net 294.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pinned (flap-sidechk.log): the indoor doorway flap is a 0171<->0173 flood cycle. Back portals show camInterior=False (our side test already agrees with retail) but were traversed when eyeIn=True because the side-cull had an bypass (added 2026-06-05 for the void). Within 1.75m of a doorway that bypass kept the BACK portal alive -> mutual re-contribution -> re-enqueue churn (maxPop=16) -> eye-sensitive flood depth -> grey flap + dropped floor.
Fix (Option B1): drop the bypass from the side-cull in Build + BuildFromExterior so back portals cull by the side test alone, exactly like retail PView::InitCell (:432962, no eye-in-opening bypass). The forward-portal clip-empty void rescue is a SEPARATE branch and is untouched (Build_EyeStandingInInteriorPortal_FloodsNeighbour stays green). New RED->GREEN test Build_BackFacingPortal_EyeStandingInOpening_StillCulled; full App suite 218 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Apparatus + handoff for the indoor flap. Confirmed (primary evidence): the flap is the
portal-flood clip being µm-sensitive at the threshold, driven by a ~1-8µm jitter in the
player RenderPosition (physics resting position not bit-stable; Lerp surfaces it). REFUTES
the 2026-06-07 see-through/EnvCell/outdoor-node diagnosis (ModelId GfxObj 0x01000A2B IS the
solid exterior) AND an enqueue-once attempt (retail propagates late slices via AddToCell;
the existing PropagatesNewSlicesToExit test caught it; reverted). Adds: Build determinism
test, A8CellAudit gfxobj dump, [pv-input] 6dp probe + [render-sig] outRoot/bshell fields.
No functional fix shipped. Next: higher-precision physics rest trace -> port retail
kill_velocity/contact rest-stability. Canonical: docs/research/2026-06-08-flap-rootcause-physics-rest-handoff.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Checkpoint of the unified retail-faithful indoor render. The two-week HANG/grey is fixed and the
interior seals (live-verified by the user). Commits the session render-rewrite foundation together
with the fixes that made it functional.
- HANG fix: PortalVisibilityBuilder.Build portal flood did not terminate (the faithful ProjectToClip
near-side clip drifts per round, defeating the CellView dedup; the BFS had no bound after U.2a removed
MaxReprocessPerCell). Fix = drift-tolerant snapped/canonical CellView.Add dedup (PortalView.cs) plus
restored MaxReprocessPerCell=16 bounded re-enqueue (PortalVisibilityBuilder.cs). Re-enqueue is kept
(load-bearing for late-slice propagation, Build_ViewGrowthAfterDoneCell_PropagatesNewSlicesToExit);
only its count is capped. CellViewDedupTests added.
- Seal (DrawCells Task 2): RetailPViewRenderer.DrawEnvCellShells draws EVERY visible cell via
IndoorDrawPlan.ShellPass (was gated on the ClipFrameAssembler slot filter, leaving slot-less cells grey).
- Look-in FPS: GameWindow exterior look-in candidates limited to the player landblock +-1 (was all ~81
loaded LBs iterated every outdoor frame). No behaviour change (far cells were >48m, already culled).
Remaining dominant issue = the FLAP at transitions: viewer-cell metastability (render roots at the
camera-eye cell, which oscillates outdoor-indoor as the 3rd-person boom drifts across the doorway,
confirmed in render-sig). SEPARATE fix, NOT the DrawCells port. Full handoff + flap fix plan + tracked
follow-ups (#78 terrain, look-in-from-inside, look-in FPS, L-spotlight):
docs/research/2026-06-07-indoor-render-session-handoff.md.
Baselines: build 0 err; App.Tests 210/210; Core.Tests 1331 pass / 4 fail (pre-existing) / 1 skip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When the chase camera roots in a thin doorway cell and the eye stands in an interior portal opening (live capture: vestibule->room portal D=0.16m, proj=0), the 2D projection degenerates and the neighbour was culled (cells=1) -> only the thin cell drew -> bluish void / transparent ceiling. Retail's 3D clip imposes no constraint for a portal the eye is inside, so the neighbour is fully visible. When the clipped region is empty but the eye stands in the opening (EyeInsidePortalOpening: within 0.5m of the portal plane AND point-in-opening), flood the neighbour with the current view. Guarded so an off-screen degenerate portal stays culled (no #95 blowup; over-include is mesh-frustum-culled at draw). Visual-verified: cellar ceiling now solid.
Band-aid for thin-cell-root coverage; likely superseded by the boom-stability + viewer-cell dead-zone + w=0 near-plane clip fix next session (reassess / maybe revert). 2 RED->GREEN tests; cyclic/hub termination guards unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The visibility root + portal-side test now use the PLAYER position (visRootPos) in
player mode instead of the camera EYE; the eye still drives the per-frame projection
(envCellViewProj). Live ACDREAM_PROBE_FLAP evidence: the flap was the 3rd-person eye
drifting out of the player's cell -> FindCameraCell returning the STALE cell for its
grace frames -> the doorway portal culled as behind-the-eye -> exit cell + terrain +
shells dropped (res=Grace eyeInRoot=n terrain=Skip on every flap frame). Retail's
CellManager::ChangePosition (0x004559B0) tracks curr_cell by the player; acdream
already roots lighting at the player (GameWindow:7152) for the same chase-cam reason
— visibility was the lone holdout on the eye. Removed the earlier synthetic builder
flap test, which modeled a disproven (side-test) hypothesis; the fix is integration-
level, validated by the visual gate + [flap] probe. App tests 151/151.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Synthetic C0->C1->C2(exit) chain; two camera poses straddle the C0->C1
side-test boundary by a few cm. Pre-fix, pose B hard-culls C0->C1 and the
exit cell drops -> OutsideView empties (the flap). Gates the U.4c fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Code review caught a CRITICAL under-inclusion: ApplyReciprocalClip scanned for the
first OtherCellId match, so a cell with two portals to the same neighbour clipped both
near-side openings against the FIRST reciprocal polygon — hiding geometry through the
second opening (real on Holtburg cellar cells 0x148<->0x149). Plumb the dat's
OtherPortalId back-link through CellPortalInfo + BuildLoadedCell and index the reciprocal
directly (retail arg2->other_portal_id, 433557). Skip (degrade to over-include) when the
index is unresolvable — never clip against a guessed polygon. Adds a disjoint two-back-
portal regression test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clip the portal opening against the neighbour's matching back-portal polygon
before propagating, so a cell's clip region is the intersection of the opening
seen from both sides. Closes the M-4 stub in ISSUES #102. Can only tighten,
never under-include; degrades to prior behavior when no back-portal is found.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PortalVisibilityFrame gains OrderedVisibleCells (closest-first). Replace the FIFO +
MaxReprocessPerCell cap with a distance-priority queue and a grow-watermark fixpoint
(retail InsCellTodoList 433183 / AddViewToPortals 433446) so cyclic dungeon graphs
converge without duplicate-cell blow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
