TextRenderer batched sprites per-texture and drew each texture's whole buffer at
its FIRST-insertion point. The dat-font glyph atlas is one shared texture used by
all three vital numbers; it first appeared at the health bar, so all three numbers
were emitted right after the health bars — then the stamina + mana bar sprites
painted over their own numbers (only health survived). Replaced the per-texture
dictionary with submission-ordered segments (consecutive same-texture quads still
batch); each meter's number now draws after its own bars. The renderer's own
comment had predicted this break once bars became sprites (importer did that).
Removed the temporary UiMeter label diagnostic.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retail repeats the bar's "fill-tile" graphic at native width (verified:
the dat element 0x100000E9 is literally the fill-tile; the engine fills via
ImgTex::TileCSI; and a widened side-by-side shows retail tiling, not
stretching). acdream was stretching one copy of the middle slice across the
whole span, so the bevel/bead pattern smeared as the window widened.
UiMeter.DrawHBar now UV-repeats each slice at its NATIVE width: caps span one
native width (a single 1:1 copy), the wide middle spans many (it tiles, last
copy UV-cropped). This works because the UI textures are already GL_REPEAT-
wrapped (TextureCache.UploadRgba8) — the exact mechanism UiNineSlicePanel's
chrome border already uses, so the border edges were ALREADY tiling and need
no change. One draw call per slice; composes with the existing fill-fraction
clip (the partial last tile shows a partial bead).
render-vitals-mockup now renders a widened window twice (stretch vs tile) so
the difference is verifiable headless. Confirmed the tile repeats seamlessly
(no seams).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The vitals cur/max overlay rendered with the consola TTF debug font,
which is wrong for the retail look. Port the retail dat-font render
path so the numbers use Font 0x40000000 (Latin-1, 16px, with outline
atlas) — the same font retail draws on the vitals window.
UiDatFont (new): loads the Font DBObj from the DatCollection and
uploads its two RenderSurface atlases (foreground glyph pixels
0x06005EE5 + background outline 0x06005EE6) through
TextureCache.GetOrUploadRenderSurface — the same direct-RenderSurface
path the D.2b chrome sprites use. Builds a char->FontCharDesc lookup
and exposes MeasureWidth + LineHeight. The per-glyph advance
(HorizontalOffsetBefore + Width + HorizontalOffsetAfter) is a pure
static so the pen math is unit-testable without GL or the dat.
UiRenderContext.DrawStringDat (new): two-pass per-glyph blit mirroring
SurfaceWindow::DrawCharacter (acclient 0x00442bd0) — the BACKGROUND
atlas sub-rect tinted black (outline) first, then the FOREGROUND
sub-rect tinted the text color (fill), with the pen accumulating the
retail advance the way the string loop does at 0x00467ed4. Respects
the UI transform stack. Skips the outline pass for fonts with no
background atlas.
No shader change was needed: the foreground atlas decodes A8 ->
(255,255,255,a), and ui_text.frag's RGBA-sprite path already
MULTIPLIES the texel by the per-vertex tint (texture(uTex,vUv)*vColor),
so tinting white+alpha by a color gives color+alpha (black outline,
text-color fill).
UiMeter: new DatFont property; the label renders via DrawStringDat
(centered with DatFont.MeasureWidth) when set, falling back to the
debug BitmapFont when null.
GameWindow: loads one UiDatFont for the vitals panel (under _datLock)
and assigns it to each UiMeter child; logs + falls back to the debug
font if the Font fails to load (never crashes).
Tests: 6 pure-logic UiDatFontTests for GlyphAdvance + MeasureWidth
(synthetic glyphs, negative bearings, missing chars, empty/null). Full
App UI suite green (84 passed).
DatReaderWriter member names verified via reflection on the 2.1.7
package: Font.{MaxCharHeight,BaselineOffset,ForegroundSurfaceDataId,
BackgroundSurfaceDataId,CharDescs} and FontCharDesc.{Unicode,OffsetX,
OffsetY,Width,Height,HorizontalOffsetBefore,HorizontalOffsetAfter,
VerticalOffsetBefore}.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The vitals bars were rendered from the WRONG layout. The ids in vitals.xml
(0x0600113x) belong to LayoutDesc 0x21000014 -- the 800x28 floaty side-vitals
ROW. The stacked vitals window the user sees is LayoutDesc 0x2100006C
(160x58), which uses a different sprite set and geometry. Dumped the real
tree (new dump-vitals-layout CLI, reflective) and ported it:
- Sprites (#2): the stacked-window set 0x0600747E-0x0600748F (health/stamina/
mana, each back+front 3-slice; caps 10px, mid 130px).
- Right cap (#1) + fill model: retail UIElement_Meter::DrawChildren draws the
back 3-slice full then the front 3-slice CLIPPED to the fill fraction (its
own right-cap shows at 100%, the back's shows through when partial). UiMeter
now clips the front per-slice (UV-crop) instead of growing a capless slice.
- Spacing (#5): three flush 150x16 bars at y=5/21/37 in a 160x58 window
(16px pitch, zero gap), per the dat rects -- not the old 20px-apart guess.
- Border (#3): the window is the 8-piece chrome frame (corners 0x060074C3-C6,
edges 0x060074BF-C2, 5px) -- dat-confirmed identical to RetailChromeSprites.
The headless render-vitals-mockup now composites this exact window
(0x2100006C) from the real sprites with the same clipped-fill model, so the
look was verified before launch. Font (#4, dat Font 0x40000000) is the next
commit.
Decomp refs: gmVitalsUI::PostInit @0x4bfce0; UIElement_Meter::DrawChildren
@0x46fbd0 (scissor-fill); geometry from LayoutDesc 0x2100006C.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Render each vital bar as a horizontal 3-slice from the real retail
RenderSurface sprites (authoritative ids from the vitals LayoutDesc
0x21000014 via dump-vitals-bars): a fixed-width bevelled left-cap, a
stretched glassy-gradient middle, and a fixed-width right-cap. The
empty back track draws full width; the coloured front fill grows from
the left to the value (the track owns the right end, so the fill omits
its own right-cap). Replaces the flat single-sprite Alphablend overlay
that read as the old UI - this is the bordered gradient look from the
retail screenshot (red HP / gold stamina / blue mana).
UiMeter gains the six 9-slice ids (BackLeft/Tile/Right +
FrontLeft/Tile/Right) and a DrawHBar helper; MarkupDocument parses the
backleft/backtile/backright/frontleft/fronttile/frontright attrs;
vitals.xml carries the 18 per-vital ids. The temporary
ACDREAM_BAR_PROVEOUT component grid is removed.
Adds AcDream.Cli render-vitals-mockup: a headless ImageSharp composite
that assembles the bars with the SAME DrawHBar logic, so the sprite
assembly can be verified by eye (Read the PNG) without launching the
client + server - the fast UI-iteration loop the user asked for.
export-ui-sprite dumps a single RenderSurface to PNG for HTML mockups.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
UiMeter gains SpriteResolve/BackSpriteId/FrontSpriteId; when both are
set, OnDraw draws the empty-track sprite full-width then the colored-fill
sprite UV-cropped to the live fill fraction (left-to-right drain). Falls
back to solid rects when sprite ids are absent, keeping existing behavior
and tests intact.
MarkupDocument.Build() parses `back`/`front` hex attrs on <meter> and
passes `resolve` into every UiMeter. vitals.xml wires the authoritative
LayoutDesc 0x21000014 sprites (Health 0x06005F3C/3D, Stamina 3E/3F,
Mana 40/41). The bar prove-out block in GameWindow.cs was already gone.
If the sprites decode as 1x1 magenta at runtime they are paletted
(INDEX16/P8) — the solid-color fallback will display instead and can be
investigated separately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wires the dormant AcDream.App/UI retained-mode tree into GameWindow under
ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI=1: an 8-piece dat-sprite UiNineSlicePanel framing three
UiMeter vital bars bound to the existing VitalsVM. Render-only (UiHost input not
yet bridged to the InputDispatcher — next sub-phase). Coexists with the ImGui
devtools path; no regression there.
Visually verified against a live retail client: the bars match retail's vitals
structure (three stacked horizontal bars, current/max numbers centered) — so the
earlier "orbs" assumption was wrong (retail vitals ARE bars), and stamina is GOLD
not cyan (the #10F0F0 research note was wrong). UiMeter gains a centered numeric
Label (stub debug font for now). Spec §8 + the markup example corrected to match.
Bookkeeping: retired divergence row TS-30 (flat-rect panels -> real dat chrome)
and added IA-15 (our UiHost/markup engine vs keystone.dll's LayoutDesc tree).
Remaining polish (filed, §15): glassy gradient bar fill sprite + the retail dat
font for the numbers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds UiMeter, the horizontal vital-bar widget for the D.2b retail-look
UI toolkit. Solid-color fill for Spec 1; the retail orb sprite + scissor
crop path is reserved for a later sub-phase. Five unit tests (1 Fact +
4 Theory) cover half-fill geometry and clamping at -1/0/1/2 fractions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
