Applies the Opus dual-lens review corrections to CT1's DAT ground-truth
research (docs/research/2026-08-24-campaign-ct-dat-ground-truth.md):
- Window constraints (BLOCKER): replaced the "likely a hardcoded
ResizeTo/SetMinSize" guess with the verified mechanism —
UIElement::ResizeTo clamps only via element attributes 0x3C-0x3F,
nothing writes them at runtime, and retail resizes the SHARED
gmPanelUI host (LayoutDesc 0x2100006E, slot 0x1000018E) rather than
0x2100002E's own content root. Flags the unresolved 300x600-vs-300x362
size tension for CT3/CT6 and marks the host elements NOT PROBED by
CT1.
- RowHighlightSprite upgraded from a flagged hedge to a SEALED VERDICT:
the stat row's selected-state media is 0x06000F93
(gmAttributeUI::UpdateSelection -> InfoRegion::SetState on template
0x10000248), not 0x06001397 (which is legitimately the spellbook
row's separate selected-overlay mechanism). Falsifies the matching
comment in CharacterStatController.cs and dated-corrects the older
2026-06-26 doc at the spot that originated the wrong sprite id.
- Replaced the "18px gutter + 7px = 25px" derived story with the bare
authored rectangles (the numbers don't compose cleanly: 300-281=19,
and the 282px row overlaps the 281px scrollbar band by 1px) — CT5
must implement the authored numbers directly, never a derived
listWidth-18 formula.
- Plan doc: corrected the UpdateButtons ghost rule (no selection ->
Ghosted, not "ghosts when selected == current") and added the
AddTitleToList row-write contract for CT3.
- Pins: CharacterPanelLiveDatTests now honors ACDREAM_DAT_DIR first
(matching InstalledDatFactAttribute and its sibling live-DAT test
classes), hoists five vacuous bare-foreach assertions to counted
.ToList() pins, and adds the stat ListBox + scrollbar rect pins that
CT5/CT6 depend on.
- Doc hygiene: marked several probe-session observations (header
geometry "identical" claim, 0x06004CC2 characterization, the
master-map/category-map dump) as unpinned inference vs. committed
fact, corrected the 0x1000052D "throwaway container" mislabel, and
stated the header table's parent-relative coordinate frame.
- Recorded the CT5 gold this round found: InfoRegion::InfoRegion's
icon-DID lookup (a third GetDIDByEnum consumer, category
0x10000002) and gmSkillUI::RebuildSkillList's section-header order
confirmation, plus the RowHeight=22-vs-authored-20 divergence for
attribute rows.
Verified: ACDREAM_RUN_INSTALLED_DAT_TESTS=1 CharacterPanelLiveDatTests
filter 9/9 green; hermetic App suite filter (CI's Lane exclusion list)
6111/6111 green. No production code changed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Campaign CT slice CT1 (docs/plans/2026-08-24-character-panel-parity-campaign.md):
establishes the authored ground truth for LayoutDesc 0x2100002E that CT2-CT6
build against, so those slices port against verified DAT facts instead of
guessing. No production code changed.
Header findings: the PK line is authored pure white (the CT4 bug is in
CharacterStatController's runtime color choice, not a DAT gap); the level
color is a pale-gold (1, 0.949, 0.498) WITH an authored outline, diverging
from the current hardcoded Gold constant. The stat ListBox's row-template
list (LayoutDesc 0x21000045) is unreachable via the whole-layout
ImportInfos overload (the #375 same-layout template-list skip filter) --
the targeted ImportInfos(dats, layoutId, elementId) overload is required,
same as UiTemplateListBox's TemplateResolver already uses. The shared
attribute/skill row template (0x10000248) authors a 20x20 icon flush at
X=0 (current code: 16x16 at X=4), fixed 150px/100px name/value columns at
X=25/X=175 (current code: a width-fraction split), and a 7px gap between
the value's right edge and the row's own edge -- the scrollbar-gutter
margin the owner reported missing. The Titles page roster, row template
(LayoutDesc 0x2100005E), and window constraints are also pinned; the
character window's root authors NO min/max size properties at all (unlike
chat's self-contained window layout), and RetailUiRuntime.MountCharacter
never wires DatConstraintSource -- correcting the plan's "already in-tree"
claim for CT6.
Also derives and pins the full CharacterTitleTable::GetCharacterTitleFromID
chain (title id -> EnumMapper(0x22000041) canonical name -> compute_str_hash
-> StringTable(0x2300000E) localized text), resolved via the two-level
DBObj::GetDIDByEnum master-map indirection (0x25000000 -> category map ->
target DID) and verified end to end against ACE's CharacterTitle.WarMage=13
-> "War Mage". This independently cross-validates RetailKeyNames' existing
0x2300000A/0x2300000B/0x23000007 constants, which turn out to be the same
category-4 map's enum 4/5/3 entries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Name via AllegianceData::GetFullName, heritage line composed with the
display title, level fallback literal, PK line from StringTable
0x23000001 ID_StatManagement_Header_PKStatus_* keys (the chat-label
mechanism).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Owner screenshot pair (2026-08-24): retail centers 'Chat' in the whole
46x17 face; we drew it at the synthetic 20px left indent. The caption
child (0x10000015) spans the full button with H=Center/V=Center and no
margins (live-DAT probed) — the controller now derives
ButtonTextCentered from the authored HJustify instead of leaving the
indent default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Owner report (2026-08-24, post gate-pass): the chat channel button was
bigger than retail and both its caption and the Send caption were warm
gold instead of retail's near-white.
Size: retail never resizes the talk button — HandleSelection
@0x004cd540 only swaps the caption string; the authored 46x17 element
stands, and the authored SHORT captions ('Gen', 'Fell', ...) fit it —
that is why retail abbreviates. Our content-widening reflow (grow the
button to its label, shift the input) was a compensation for the
now-retired invented long captions, measured with the wrong font on
top. Deleted; the authored row layout stands.
Color + font: the button caption child (0x10000015) and the Send
button (0x10000019) both author pure white text with their OWN FontDid
0x40000002 (live-DAT probed) — different from the transcript font,
which is the other half of why 'Chat' fits 46px. UiMenu gains a
ButtonDatFont for the caption (popup rows keep the menu font);
the controller reads both elements' authored FontColor/FontDid instead
of the invented (1,.92,.72) constants.
The old widening pin is rewritten to the retail contract; a new
conformance test pins authored width, white captions, and the authored
font DID being requested for both buttons.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four of the five owner-reported chat deltas (2026-08-24), each traced to
its retail mechanism:
1. Missing gold separator left of the input: the chat input authors two
1px Type-3 rail CHILDREN (0x10000017 at X=0, 0x10000018
right-anchored) whose only media is Normal_focussed (0x06004D67,
live-DAT probed). UiField consumes its DAT children, so the rails
were swallowed and never drawn. The factory now folds them into the
field, which draws both while focused.
2. Button says "General", retail says "Gen": the talk button's short
caption comes from per-target ID_Chat_ChatTargetMenu* strings
(HandleSelection @0x004cd540, StringTable 0x23000001 via
compute_str_hash — recovered from the raw binary after BN elided the
ids into name-hash globals). Authored set: Chat/Tell/Fell/Pat/Mon/
Vas/Alg/Gen/Trade/LFG/RP/Soc/Olt. Menu rows + squelch/tell specials
resolve from the same table (ID_Chat_TellTo*); production resolves
through DatStringResolver, fallbacks ARE the authored EoR English.
ChatStringsLiveDatTests pins the whole set against the installed DAT.
3. Channel button stayed green while the popup was open: retail's
pressed face is the momentary physical press ("flicks"); the OPEN
state drives only the arrow-cap child's StateDesc swap
(UIElement_Menu::UpdateState @0x0046cad0 writes attribute 0xe).
UiMenu now keys the face on the press, not on IsOpen.
4. Window-title/button text "vibrates" while dragging windows:
DrawStringDatPass snapped glyphs with MathF.Round — banker's
rounding. A centered label with a constant .5 fraction alternates
round-up/round-down across successive integers, double-stepping then
sticking while the background glides. Half-up Floor(v+0.5) snaps
every tie one way: uniform 1px steps in lock-step with sprites.
The fifth report (input row sticking out on window resize) did not
reproduce: a controller-bound fixture resize at 220/300/600px keeps the
whole input row inside the window (test added) — awaiting the owner's
exact gesture.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Owner report + live [ui-hover] probe (2026-08-24): hovering a
content-fits scrollbar did nothing because IsModelDisabled made the
whole bar hit-TRANSPARENT — every hover over it reported
widget=<none>. Retail's arrows and thumb are real child elements whose
Normal_rollover hot-tracking keeps running while the scrollbar is
disabled (UpdateLayout @0x004710d0 only hides the page-click regions,
children 4-7, and — with attribute 0x79 — the whole bar); scrolling
stays inert through geometry, not an input gate: a full-track thumb has
zero travel and the line/page steps clamp against nothing.
OnHitTest and the input path now gate on presentation visibility only.
A visible disabled bar hover-highlights and consumes clicks without
scrolling; a HideWhenDisabled bar stays inert. New root-level hover
tests drive real UiRoot hit-test dispatch (bare widget + the mounted
production character fixture) so this class of "state machine green,
pointer never arrives" bug fails loudly.
User-verified live 2026-08-24 ("bar works now").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Owner report (2026-08-24): our scrollbar arrows pointed the wrong way,
the thumb vanished when there was nothing to scroll, and neither the
thumb nor the arrow buttons reacted to hover/press.
All three are one retail mechanism we had not ported:
1. Seating: UIElement_Scrollbar::UpdateScrollingArea @0x00470AA0 moves
the INCREMENT designee (attribute 0x77) to the top/left corner and
the DECREMENT designee (0x78) to the bottom/right, ignoring authored
positions. The vertical base skin (0x10000455 in layout 0x2100003E)
authors the DOWN-arrow decrement at Y=0 and the UP-arrow increment
at Y=32 (live-DAT probed; sprite art visually verified from decoded
PNGs), so our authored-Y ordering drew both arrows upside down.
DatWidgetFactory now seats by designation; the hand-wired sites
(CharacterStatController, ExternalContainerController, the
Config/Vendor menu chrome) share the new RetailScrollbarChrome
catalog instead of local constants.
2. Full-track thumb: UpdateLayout @0x004710d0 sizes the thumb from
proportion attribute 0x88, which DEFAULTS to 1.0 — a content-fits
bar shows a thumb filling the whole track; disabled only removes
input and the page regions. Our draw skipped the thumb entirely on
!HasOverflow.
3. States: every arrow button and thumb slice authors Normal (red gem /
dark navy), Normal_rollover (amber gem / bright blue) and
Normal_pressed (gold highlight / dark) media. The widget now tracks
thumb hover and selects rollover media on hover and pressed media
while dragging; the factory extracts the thumb-state media for both
the 3-slice and single-sprite thumb shapes.
ScrollbarSkinLiveDatTests pins the designations and state media against
the installed DAT so a revision or importer regression fails loudly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Third owner-screenshot round: acdream fit one more word per line than
retail and drew glyphs flush against the popup's right border. Retail's
InqSizewMargins @0x00469660 wraps the glyph list at
(bound - m_margL - m_margR) and adds the margins back into the measured
width; the popup skins' shared text child 0x10000396 authors margins
L=2/R=2 (U=2/D=2 on three of the four skins — live-DAT probed). The
presenter now subtracts the horizontal margins from both wrap passes,
re-adds them into the measured width used for root sizing, and counts
the vertical margins in the measured/re-wrapped heights; the widget's
own draw already insets by all four margins (UiText ContentOffsetX +
the top/bottom inset), so the right-side spacing returns for free.
TooltipSkinLiveDatTests pins the authored margins per skin alongside
the P0x3D=256 wrap bound; a new presenter test proves margins shrink
the wrap bound and survive onto the widget.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Owner screenshots vs retail at the CA5 re-check caught both:
Wrap width: the popup skins' shared TEXT CHILD (0x10000396) authors
P0x3D=256 on all four skins — live-DAT probed, now pinned by an
installed-DAT test. Retail's InqSizewMargins UITS_MAX_WIDTH reads the
text element's 0x3D BEFORE the display-width fallback, so retail wraps
tooltip text at 256px; our measure pass used the display width because
TS-85's 'zero elements author P0x3D' sweep had only covered hover
TARGETS, never the popup skins. ApplyTooltipText now measures and
re-wraps at the text child's authored bound, falling back to the display
width only when none is authored.
Alignment: tooltip text rendered centered where retail hugs the left
edge. The skin authors no justification; retail's unauthored default is
Left, our importer's ElementInfo default is Center — the same
wrong-default class as #410's VJustify finding, now recorded there as the
horizontal sibling. Point-fixed in the presenter exactly as the chat
transcript already does; the client-wide default flip stays #410's scope.
The two-pass sizing test now models the real skin (max width on the text
child) and asserts left alignment. Full hermetic suite 15,332 passed / 0
failed; the new live-DAT pin passes against the installed DATs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two corrections from the owner's retail-render oracle at the CA5 re-check,
both against readings the TS-85 register row had recorded as settled:
Compose (skill tooltips): retail is formula + newline + description —
GetTooltip @0x004f1fe0's operator+ has the InqSkillFormula output as the
LEFT operand; the old '"\n" + formula, no separator' reading had the
operand order backwards and produced a leading blank line with the formula
and description glued on one line. A formula-less skill (Salvaging) shows
the bare description, matching the failed-InqSkillFormula branch.
Sizing (ALL tooltips, per the owner's direction): retail sizes a tooltip
in TWO passes (StartTooltip @0x0045DE90) — measure-wrap at the max width,
resize the root through the authored ResizeTo clamps, then
RecalculateGlyphList RE-WRAPS the text at its final clamped width and a
second resize grows the root's HEIGHT for the extra lines. The branch the
register called 'a structural no-op' IS that second pass; without it a
description longer than the clamped popup stayed one clipped line, where
retail shows three. ApplyTooltipText now ports the full chain, so every
tooltip surface (items, options rows, character panel, world hover, map)
wraps and grows exactly as retail.
Pinned by BuildTooltip_FormulaFirstThenNewlineThenDescription,
BuildTooltip_FormulaLessSkillShowsBareDescription, and
LongTooltip_RewrapsAtTheClampedPopupWidth_AndGrowsHeightForTheExtraLines.
TS-85 carries both dated corrections. Owner visual re-check owed: skill
tooltip shows formula on line one, description below, long descriptions
wrapping to three-plus lines inside the parchment. Full hermetic suite
15,332 passed / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two defects the owner found at the CA5 drive, one shared theme: the data
was right and the presentation seam was dead.
#430 (tooltips): the TS-85 Batch-B port set runtime TooltipText on the
runtime-built attribute/vital/skill rows but never gave them a popup
locator, and RetailTooltipPresenter.OnTooltipShow refuses any widget with
AuthoredTooltipRootElementId == 0 — the tooltip could never mount, on any
row, ever. (The register's 'live-verified on the Character tab' was the
OPTIONS panel's Character tab — authored elements with authored locators;
a different surface.) Rows now carry the shared popup skin
0x10000395/0x21000041 — live-DAT probed as the ONLY locator pair the
character layout references, and the same inference UiItemSlot already
ships for runtime-built widgets. TS-85's row carries the dated correction.
#440 (train row stuck): training a skill debited credits on screen but
left the row in the untrained section until the NEXT click — because the
sheet-changed subscription only refreshed the captured sheet, and row
STRUCTURE rebuilt exclusively in click handlers (the raise 'completed'
callback runs after SEND, before the server answers; the owner's second
click was simply the first rebuild after the record landed, and ACE's
rejection of that second train — 'Failed to train', no credit change —
matches the owner's report exactly). The same gap kept CA4's
awaiting-ghost from visually releasing. CharacterStatController.Bind now
returns the data-changed refresh and MountCharacter invokes it on every
authoritative sheet change, mirroring retail's quality-change broadcast
(InfoRegion::OnQualityChanged @ 0x004F0EB0).
Pinned by DataChangedRefresh_MovesATrainedSkillToItsSection_WithoutAClick
and Rows_CarryTheSharedTooltipPopupLocatorAndDescriptionText. Owner
visual re-check owed next session (hover-dwell a row; train a skill and
watch it move immediately). Full hermetic suite 15,329 passed / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The user-driven verification matrix for the whole advancement chain on a
scratch character: live run-speed change under a Quickness raise, the
Endurance single-record stamina fan-out, the deliberate raise-10 failure
probe that resolves the narrowed AP-73 ghost question, skill raise/train,
gem-driven specialize/lower with the confirmation dialog, and a
regression sweep. CA1-CA4 are committed and pushed; this script is the
campaign's remaining gate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retail sends a raise and WAITS: one request in flight, the raise
controls ghost, and displayed state changes only when the authoritative
quality-change record lands (gmStatManagementUI @ 0x004F03F0 family,
pinned in docs/research/2026-07-10-retail-panel-behavior-pseudocode.md
§5, whose own conclusion names ApplyLocalRaise as the thing to remove).
The optimistic layer predates the inbound parsers — it existed so the
panel showed anything at all — and with CA2 delivering server truth it
became strictly harmful: against ACE, a wrong TrainSkill cost fails
SILENTLY, so the optimistic promote-and-debit could show a trained
skill the server refused with nothing to ever correct it.
Deleted: CharacterSheetProvider.ApplyLocalRaise + both spend helpers,
and LocalPlayerState's six optimistic mutators (ApplyAttributeRaise,
ApplyVitalRaise, ApplySkillRaise, ApplySkillTraining, DebitIntProperty,
DebitInt64Property) with their tests. Added: the one-in-flight latch in
HandleRaiseRequest, CharacterSheet.AwaitingRaise ghosting all raise
controls, and gate release on every authoritative quality signal
(attribute/character/player-property events unconditionally; vital
events only release-and-refresh while a raise is in flight, so regen
ticks stay out of the sheet-rebuild path). Panel unmount resets the
gate — retail's awaiting flag lives on the panel instance.
AP-73 NARROWS rather than retires: retail's release on a rejection that
produces NO quality change is statically unverifiable, and ACE sends
chat-only (Raise*) or nothing (RaiseSkill/TrainSkill) on failure; until
the CA5 live check, a silently-rejected request leaves the controls
ghosted until panel reopen — recorded with its observable symptom.
Also verified for CA4: the train button sends the DAT-exact TrainedCost
(ACE's silent exact-match rule), and there is correctly NO panel
specialize send — retail/ACE specialize only via the SkillAlterationDevice
item-use + confirmation round-trip, whose client seams
(SendConfirmationResponse 0x0275, the 0x028B WeenieErrorWithString chat
routing) already exist. Provider tests now pin the retail contract:
send-without-mutation, one-in-flight, release-on-record, release-on-
unmount, and the regen-tick rebuild guard. Full hermetic suite 15,327
passed / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The recompute half of #431, on the CA1 verdict that retail computes
derived values LIVE at inquiry (Set* writes raw; InqSkillBaseLevel
0x00592140 -> SkillFormula::Calculate 0x00591960 re-derive per call;
InqRunRate 0x00592800 runs every motion tick; UI notifications carry no
value and widgets re-pull):
- LocalPlayerState gains the SkillTable formula resolver — the same
delegate shape (and App-side implementation, RetailSkillFormula over
the loaded SkillTable) the PlayerDescription path already uses. An
attribute write re-derives every skill snapshot's cached formula
contribution; recomputing at the only write that changes the inputs
yields values identical to retail's compute-on-read at every read. A
freshly TRAINED skill unseen at login derives its contribution live
instead of defaulting to zero forever.
- The router pushes movement-skill totals down the SAME seam
PlayerDescription uses (UpdateMovementSkillBase -> vitae/enchantment
recompute -> OnSkillsUpdated -> the App stats applier) after an
attribute update, and after a skill update for Run (24) / Jump (22)
only. This is what turns a Quickness raise into visible run speed
mid-session; the server's own movement-packet echo
(HandleRunRateUpdate -> ApplyServerRunRate) remains the correcting
authority.
- Vitals maxima needed no new plumbing: GetMaxApprox reads attribute
currents live and the vitals window binds getter lambdas re-read per
frame, so CA2's attribute fan-out completes that path. The character
panel already subscribes to AttributeChanged/CharacterChanged.
Tests: router behavior test drives the real WorldSession events through
the real router and asserts the full chain (state write, live 160/2=80
re-derivation, movement push totals, and that a non-movement skill does
NOT push); the subscription-count contract now includes the two new
events; Core tests cover the fresh-train resolver derivation. Full
hermetic suite 15,335 passed / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The server's authoritative answers to a raise were dropped on the floor:
only the vitals pair (0x02E7/0x02E9) had parsers, so after any
RaiseAttribute/RaiseSkill/TrainSkill the client's stat model stayed
frozen at login's PlayerDescription — the root cause of #431's stale
derived skills and run speed. The GUI looked alive only because the
panel applies optimistic local raises.
New parsers with three-source-verified layouts (CA1 research doc §2.5/
§2.8): PrivateUpdateAttribute (0x02E3) and PrivateUpdateSkill (0x02DD —
the wire's ushort ranks + hardcoded adjustPP=1 pair and f64
lastUsedTime preserved exactly). WorldSession dispatches both as typed
events; LiveSessionEventRouter routes them into the J4 character owner's
LocalPlayerState like every other private update. The vestigial
PrivateUpdateSkillLevel (0x02DF) is deliberately unparsed — ACE has no
producer (verified).
OnAttributeUpdate now fans out to the derived-value observers, mirroring
retail's live-at-inquiry model (CACQualities::InqSkill 0x00592660 —
Set* writes raw, Inq* recomputes, notification carries no value): an
Endurance write notifies the Health AND Stamina vital observers (ACE
pushes only a Health record and its own comment says the client must
refresh both), Self notifies Mana, and every attribute write notifies
character-sheet consumers whose formula contributions just changed.
OnSkillWireUpdate preserves the login FormulaBonus — the wire record
carries no attribute contribution; CA3 replaces the cached field with
the live computation.
Also corrected while in the neighborhood: PropertyString.cs's comment
claimed opcode 0x02DD for PrivateUpdatePropertyString; ACE's enum says
0x02D5/0x02D6 (doc-only — nothing dispatched on either).
Conformance tests cover both layouts (including holtburger's golden
skill fixture with adjustPP=1), truncation/wrong-opcode rejection, the
Endurance/Self/Quickness fan-out contract, and FormulaBonus
preservation. Full hermetic suite 15,333 passed / 0 failed (one
load-sensitive transport flake observed on the first run, passed alone
and on the clean re-run — filed as #439 rather than chased).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two parallel research passes assembled with a hand-verification ledger on
every load-bearing claim.
Wire (ACE + Chorizite + holtburger, field-for-field agreement on all six
inbound layouts): PrivateUpdateAttribute 0x02E3, PrivateUpdateVital 0x02E7
(always Max-family vital ids 1/3/5), PrivateUpdateAttribute2ndLevel 0x02E9
(always current-family ids 2/4/6 — a parser must NOT treat the two as one
id space), PrivateUpdateSkill 0x02DD (ushort ranks + the hardcoded
adjustPP=1 pair, f64 lastUsedTime), PrivateUpdatePropertyInt 0x02CD
(AvailableSkillCredits=24) and Int64 0x02CF (AvailableExperience=2).
Ordered action->response chains for all four raise/train actions,
including the retail quirk that an Endurance raise pushes only a HEALTH
full-vital record and the client is expected to refresh stamina from it
too. Specialize/untrain/reset have NO dedicated opcode — item-Use plus a
confirmation round-trip reusing the same update messages. 0x02DF has no
ACE producer (verified); CA2 skips it.
Recompute (named-retail + live Ghidra): retail computes skills, vitals
maxima and run rate LIVE at inquiry time — Set* are raw-storage writes,
InqSkill re-derives from the attribute formula every call (verified in
the decompile, including the z==0 early-out that IS the attribute-less
Salvaging handling and the +10 augmentation adds), InqRunRate runs every
motion tick, and UI refresh is a value-less observer notification.
Two corrections to our own tree surfaced: PropertyString.cs's comment
claims 0x02DD (it is 0x02D5 — doc-only, nothing dispatches on it), and
SkillSnapshot.FormulaBonus is frozen at PlayerDescription parse — the
stale-cache half of #431 that CA3 replaces with the live computation.
RetailSkillFormula.TryCalculate already ports 0x00591960 exactly, so CA3
reuses it rather than porting anew.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The owner widened #431 into the full advancement family: real-time
refresh of vitals maxima (attribute AND direct vital raises), derived
skills, run speed under Quickness, attribute-less skills like Salvaging,
and the untested train/specialize/respec flows. The promotion survey
pinned the root cause: every outbound raise action (0x0044-0x0047) is
wired — which is why the GUI 'works' — while the inbound private
attribute/skill update family is parsed nowhere (only the vitals pair
0x02E7/0x02E9 is), so the server's post-raise truth never reaches
LocalPlayerState and no recompute ever triggers. Plan doc carries the
oracle targets (message family from ACE/Chorizite/holtburger, retail's
recompute chain in named-retail, specialization/respec semantics) and
five slices ending in a user-driven connected gate. #430 tooltips are
explicitly sequenced after, on the #409 tooltip system.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#438 records the design agreed with the owner: launcher-owned opt-in WER
LocalDumps key (HKCU, minidump, capped count), crash bundle assembled on
the next launch from the dump + log tail + version + capability report,
and an explicit NO-auto-upload line — dumps can hold the plaintext
session password, so sharing stays a user action until there is real
infrastructure and a consent flow. The owner's own machine is already
armed manually for the #422 hunt; this productizes it for alpha users.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The r6 soak hard-fails without 'move-truth OUT' lines, yet the only
automated guard was a text assertion that the SCRIPT sets the env var —
it stayed green while #435 part 2 deleted the emitter, and the breakage
would have surfaced as a misleading connected-gate failure. The new
contract test asserts all four links of the chain in one place: the
script greps the pattern, MovementTruthDiagnosticController still emits
it, RuntimeOptions still parses the flag, and GameWindow still wires it
through. Deleting any link fails here, at build time, with the reason.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Attacking with no valid target has told the player nothing since Campaign V
slice V11 orphaned the DebugVM toast the message was wired to (#434 found
the drop; this closes it retail-faithfully).
Ground truth from the Ghidra decompile of
ClientCombatSystem::ExecuteAttack (0x0056bb70): retail writes
"You must select a valid combat target before attacking" via
ClientSystem::AddTextToScroll(..., 0x1A, true, 0) — the ClientLocal
SpewBox channel this codebase already routes every other client-local
refusal through. And retail has ONE message, not the two we carried:
attacking outside melee/missile modes is silent (ExecuteAttack is
unreachable there), so the invented "Enter melee or missile combat first"
text is deleted rather than rerouted, and the invented "No monster
target" is replaced by the retail string, which joins ClientTextRefusals
with its decomp citation.
Wiring: CombatFeedbackSlot gains the sibling BindOwned session-lifetime
shape, and SessionPlayerComposition.CompleteSessionPlayer binds it to
RuntimeCommunicationState.AddText(ClientLocal) with session-owned
teardown — a torn-down session's slot returns to its silent unbound
state. A binding-seam test
(CompleteSessionPlayerBindsCombatFeedbackToTheClientLocalSpewBoxRoute)
inspects the compiled composition for the BindOwned call and its
AddText-routing lambda, so the slot can never again pass its unit tests
while production leaves it unbound — the exact failure mode that hid
this defect. The two tests that pinned the invented strings now pin the
retail contract (exact string; silence for the unsupported-mode case).
Full hermetic suite 15,325 passed / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The part-2 commit message and the callout said 40; the 8 reclassified
rows had left the Temporary table, so the true count is 31 (and the
previous commit's '40 temporary probes remain' line is corrected by this
note).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Part 1 deleted probes whose owning issues were closed. These 14 named no
issue at all, so each was traced to its introducing commit
(git log -S) instead of guessed at. Attribution split them three ways:
DELETED (7, investigations closed): ACDREAM_A8_DUMP_PV and
ACDREAM_DUMP_LIVE_SPAWNS (Phase A8), ACDREAM_DUMP_CLOTHING (#37),
ACDREAM_DUMP_EDGE_SLIDE (#32), ACDREAM_DUMP_STEPUP (L.2.3d-f),
ACDREAM_DUMP_VENDOR (the vendor campaign, 25 call sites across 8 files),
ACDREAM_DUMP_VITALS (#5, four independent read sites). VendorDiagnostics.cs
went entirely.
RECLASSIFIED (8, tools misfiled as probes): the DUMP_CELLS/DUMP_GFXOBJS
fixture-extraction family (replay-harness tooling with a roundtrip test),
PROBE_CELL (standing cell-transit tracer, pair of the permanent
PROBE_RESOLVE), DUMP_SKY and HIDE_PART (generic isolation tools), and
DUMP_STEEP_ROOF — which looked like an L.4 relic but observes LIVE
divergence-register row AD-56; deleting it would have removed the only
runtime lens on an active divergence. All moved to Permanent diagnostics
with their attribution recorded.
RESTORED (1): ACDREAM_DUMP_MOVE_TRUTH was deleted and un-deleted the same
day. It is not a probe — the canonical nine-stop soak
(run-connected-r6-soak.ps1) hard-fails every destination without its
'move-truth OUT' records, with a message that would misdirect the next
operator. Under the no-workarounds rule the gate's mechanism is restored,
not left broken with an IOU (#437, closed). Process lesson recorded on
both issues: a closed owning issue is NOT sufficient to delete a probe —
grep tools/ and the contract tests for consumers first.
Also lands the owner-requested default-off invariant: every diagnostic in
the codebase is inert until its env var is explicitly set. Exactly four
flags default ON and none is a diagnostic — RETAIL_CHASE, CAMERA_COLLIDE,
CAMERA_ALIGN_SLOPE, RETAIL_CLOSE_DEGRADES are retail behaviors wearing an
A/B off-switch. That set is now FROZEN by
LaunchOptionsDocumentationTests.OnlyTheFourRetailBehaviorFlagsDefaultOn;
docs/launch-options.md's Conventions and CLAUDE.md state the rule, and
CLAUDE.md now binds future probes to a documented row in the same commit.
The client reads 137 environment variables (161 at audit start); 40
temporary probes remain, every one attributed. Full hermetic suite 15,322
passed / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each of these was temporary apparatus added to chase one bug, and each was
supposed to be deleted in the commit that fixed it. Fourteen closed issues
later they were still here: #337's support/wire-mesh trio, #171's sticky
timeline, #119's viewer and entity dumps, #113's phantom probe, and a dozen
more. 3,493 lines removed; the client now reads 144 environment variables
instead of 161, and 47 temporary probes remain instead of 64.
This is not only tidying. Every probe leaves a branch on its hot path when
unset, several re-read the environment per call rather than caching, and
the volume buries the diagnostics that are actually load-bearing. It is
also a headless correctness matter: HeadlessStaticStateAudit reflects over
PhysicsDiagnostics' flags to refuse a multi-session host when any is set,
and cannot see probes that live outside that owner.
Four files went entirely — WalkMissDiagnostic.cs, CollisionMeshWireframe.cs
and two test files whose only subject was a deleted probe.
TransitionTypes.SetContactPlane also sheds its CallerMemberName /
CallerLineNumber parameters, which existed solely for #337's cpSrc=
attribution and carried the instruction to strip them with the probe
family; no call site passed them, so no behavior changes. F2's collision
overlay survives and reverts to its proxy-cylinder form, which is what
removing the ACDREAM_WIRE_MESH upgrade means.
LaunchOptionsDocumentationTests earned its keep here: it refused the
deletion until docs/launch-options.md moved the 17 rows into Retired and
the frozen direct-read counts came down (PhysicsEngine.cs to zero,
TransitionTypes.cs 3 to 2). The documentation could not drift during a
cleanup this wide.
The 14 probes that name no owning issue are deliberately NOT deleted.
Nothing records when they became safe to remove, and guessing is how a
future investigation loses apparatus it needed; #435 stays open for their
attribution.
Full hermetic suite 15,321 passed / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DebugPanel and DebugVM have not been constructible since Campaign V slice
V11 removed the ImGui frontend that hosted them: nothing in src/ ever
called their constructors, only a test did. Two consequences, both fixed
here — 35 environment reads inside them were unreachable, and roughly forty
XML doc comments across the diagnostics owners promised a runtime checkbox
that no longer exists. A flag documented as runtime-toggleable when it is
startup-only sends the next investigation down a path that cannot work.
Deleted DebugPanel.cs (340 lines), DebugVM.cs (548) and DebugVMTests.cs
(327). Corrected the surviving claims in PhysicsDiagnostics,
RenderingDiagnostics, CameraDiagnostics, PhysicsEngine and GameWindow to say
what is actually true: these flags are set from the environment at startup
or by direct assignment.
The one real dependant was CombatFeedbackSlot, whose binding target was
DebugVM. It now takes a plain Action<string>, which removes the dependency
without changing behavior — and makes visible that there is no behavior:
nothing binds the slot, so the combat refusals it carries ("No monster
target", "Enter melee or missile combat first") have been discarded all
along. Filed as #436 and pinned by a test, rather than papered over with an
invented chat message; the retail text and channel need the oracle first.
Deliberately untouched: F1's AcdreamToggleDebugPanel binding, which
GameplayInputCommandController consumes as a documented no-op so the key
does not fall through to a lower input scope; and the
DebugVmRenderFactsPublisher / DevToolsRuntimeSources chain, which is still
wired into production composition and deserves its own dead-code pass
instead of being pulled into this one.
Full hermetic suite 15,333 passed / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The client reads 161 ACDREAM_* environment variables across 79 files. Only
about 25 were written down, and the audit found the documentation drifting
in both directions: CLAUDE.md still advertised ACDREAM_RUN_SKILL /
ACDREAM_JUMP_SKILL (deleted; skills are server-authoritative now, and the
jump fallback is 300, not the documented 200), while flags with real
side effects had no description at all.
docs/launch-options.md documents every one by lifecycle — production,
command line, measurement, automation, permanent diagnostics, temporary
probes, deprecated, retired — with a mandatory side-effects column. That
column is the point: #432 cost three days of taxed measurements because
ACDREAM_AUTOMATION_ARTIFACT_DIR reads like an output path and also builds
a per-frame diagnostics referee, and ACDREAM_STREAM_RADIUS silently
measures a streaming window production never uses. Rows now say so. Other
surprises the audit surfaced and recorded: ACDREAM_DUMP_SCENERY_Z swaps in
a duplicate scenery-placement path rather than only logging,
ACDREAM_PROBE_VIS silently also enables ACDREAM_PROBE_ENVCELL, and
ACDREAM_DUMP_ENTITY's id list doubles as an unrelated probe's watchlist.
LaunchOptionsDocumentationTests enforces it, because a hand-maintained list
of 161 flags is stale within a week: an undocumented flag fails, and so
does a documented row whose read site was deleted. It scans string literals
rather than GetEnvironmentVariable call shapes — the startup path reads
through an injected delegate, so a call-shaped pattern silently missed
ACDREAM_LIVE, ACDREAM_PAK_PATH and every other production flag. A third
test freezes per-file direct-read debt by exact count (20 files outside the
owner classes), so structure rules 4 and 5 can be paid down but not
regressed.
CLAUDE.md's 94-line env-var section becomes a 16-line pointer, and its
stale test-character paragraph is corrected.
Also fixed, all doc-vs-code mismatches the audit proved:
- RenderingDiagnostics.FrameProfEnabled described a GPU-query self-disable
that Campaign V slice V11 deleted.
- Two comments named ACDREAM_RENDER_BACKEND as a live co-requisite; it died
with the OpenGL backend.
- EnvCellRenderer.CollectCellAuditLines and its ACDREAM_A8_AUDIT doc: the
method had no caller anywhere and its documented caller never existed.
Filed rather than fixed, to keep this a documentation change: #434 (the
DebugPanel/DebugVM surface is never constructed, so ~40 "runtime-toggleable"
comments are false and 35 env reads are unreachable) and #435 (17 temporary
probes outlived their closed investigations; 14 more name no owner).
Full hermetic suite 12,202 passed / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Second instance of the #429 (ad695589) boxing-comparer defect class, this
time in the measurement harness rather than production:
ACDREAM_AUTOMATION_ARTIFACT_DIR (with retained-UI screenshots) constructs
CurrentRenderSceneOracle, whose presence as partition observer re-enables
the G5-retired legacy InteriorEntityPartition every frame with per-entity
fingerprinting. Complete() then sorts one fingerprint per RESIDENT entity
(~60k across the streaming window), and the comparer's first key bound
x.ProjectionClass.CompareTo(y.ProjectionClass) to Enum.CompareTo(object),
boxing both operands. The 3-value enum almost always ties, so the boxing
ran on essentially every comparison: a measured ~6.2 MB and ~14 ms per
frame, everywhere — not town-specific and not view-triggered, which is
also why it appeared to "latch" (the resident set drives it, not the view).
Comparing the underlying integral value keeps the identical order. Hermetic
gate: one warmed observed partition of 20,000 entities allocated 15,876,088
bytes before, and passes a <64 KiB bound after
(OracleObservedPartitionAllocationTests).
Ordinary play never constructs the oracle, so no player-visible behavior
changes; what changes is that captures taken with the automation artifact
directory set are no longer taxed. The #429 acceptance data is unaffected
(owner drives and the deciding A/B arms ran with the artifact dir null).
The temporary [pview-alloc] attribution probe that localized this is
retired in the same commit; the gate test now guards the defect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The directional-shadow topology rebuilt on every streaming-churn frame
and was the measured body of the run-hitch stalls (701 of 708 baseline
stalls alloc-correlated):
- The draw sort comparer's enum-vs-enum CompareTo bound to
Enum.CompareTo(object) and boxed BOTH operands on every comparison —
a constant ~38.9 MB of garbage per topology rebuild (~4M boxes),
handing the GC a forced gen0 collection mid-frame. The full ~100k-draw
sort is replaced outright: draws hash-group by exact DrawKey in one
O(n) pass over retained chained-index arrays, and only the
few-thousand DISTINCT group keys sort (order-preserving packed
material|cull|firstIndex|baseVertex + count|slot|layer|foliage keys,
first-appearance tie-break) — bit-identical emission order to the old
stable sort, near-zero allocation, and no per-draw comparisons at all.
- The caster frame sorts 4-byte indices keyed on SortKey.Value instead
of shuffling multi-hundred-byte records through a boxing comparer.
- Owner-approved pipelining: on a frame whose shadow inputs just changed
(the same frame already paying frame-view/landscape rebuilds), the
caster-frame and prepared-draws topology rebuilds defer to the next
quieter frame, capped at two consecutive deferrals — inside the GPU
fence depth, so retained draws never reference a released arena range.
First build, generation change, caster BuildSequence change, and
journal overflow force the immediate path; deferred refreshes skip
identity-mismatched journal rows.
Owner-accepted in both presentation modes: stall frames 5.8/s -> ~0.45/s
uncapped (0.49/s capped), median stall 20.3 -> 13.7 ms, >25 ms frames
near zero, 275 fps uncapped baseline restored. Allocation gate: a warmed
topology rebuild must allocate <2 KiB (DirectionalShadowPreparedDrawTests).
docs/ISSUES.md carries the full evidence trail; the residual
content-proportional rebuild milliseconds are filed as the
incremental-topology successor, and the pre-existing town-view scaling
latch is filed as #432.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two halves of the felt run-hitch (the visible one-frame player lurch):
- The presentation lerp normalized the pending object-clock time by the
fixed 30 Hz MinQuantum, but retail's object clock simulates
VARIABLE-length quanta (CPhysicsObj::update_object 0x00515D10: capped
at MaxQuantum, everything above MinQuantum runs as ONE step). After a
long frame the view froze for the quantum and then fast-replayed it.
ComputeRenderPosition now spans the ACTUAL last quantum
(_lastQuantumSeconds), and PresentedDeltaSeconds accounts continuous
presented time across quantum boundaries.
- The chase camera damped toward the presented player using wall dt
while the player presents on the object clock, so a long frame
stepped the camera far past the under-advanced player — measured up
to ~1 m of camera/player decoherence in a single frame. Retail ties
camera update to the physics-update callback
(SmartBox::PlayerPhysicsUpdatedCallback 0x00452d60), i.e. the same
clock as the body; both chase cameras now integrate
PresentedDeltaSeconds. Manual zoom/pitch adjustment stays on wall dt
(a user-input rate, not target chasing).
Owner gate: camera-vs-player boom-length change fell from ~1 m spikes
to 0.2-1.2 cm median on long frames; teleports settle clean. Two
Runtime tests updated to pin the continuous-rate contract. The
temporary PlayerPresentationProbe apparatus that measured this is
retired with the fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
UploadGfxObjMeshData built every completed mesh's index data three-plus
times over in LINQ transients (per-batch Indices.ToArray copies plus an
unsized SelectMany growth) on the render thread, up to the per-frame
upload budget. The conversion now fills one exact-size retained
CPUIndices array (the same one the B.4b pick path keeps) and hands the
shared arena (offset, count) segments of it; CPUPositions fills by a
direct pre-sized loop; the Sum/Any/FirstOrDefault transients are gone.
GlobalMeshBuffer.UploadMesh takes the segment form — the staged bytes
per batch are unchanged. Gate: a warmed completion must allocate near
its retained-copy size (MeshPipelineDeviceSeamTests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Local commit for the implementation handoff; push withheld per owner
direction until the fix session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the TEMPORARY PlayerPresentationProbe (ACDREAM_PROBE_PLAYER_PRESENT)
per the #429 apparatus plan and records the measured two-arm evidence in
the issue. Probe strips with the fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars() is platform-dependent: on Linux it is
only '/' and NUL, so a backslash in a server or character name survived
sanitisation there and JournalFileTests.TheFileNameFollowsRetailsPattern
failed on the Linux runner while passing on Windows. Sanitise against a
fixed set (Windows' printable invalid chars plus all control chars) so
one name maps to one file name on every platform.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The owner measured 63% GPU at night vs 28% by day: the starfield
lattice was the whole difference. Three lossless cuts:
- one packed-multiply hash round per cell instead of ~9 chained PCG
rounds (position/presence bit-sliced from one result, brightness/tint
from a second);
- the 3x3x3 neighbourhood sweep becomes the 2x2x2 block around the
sample — a star's visible footprint (a few px) is far smaller than a
lattice cell on screen, so any star outside that block is over a full
cell (>=15 px) away and contributes nothing;
- background mottle drops its invisible third octave.
Same densities, sizes, colours, and look; star positions reshuffle
(procedural layout, not authored). sky.frag.spv re-pinned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rotation (user-directed): the procedural starfield rotates once per
Dereth day (~2 real hours - constellations visibly wheel through a
night) about a celestial pole ~41 deg above the northern horizon, plus
dayOfYear/360 of seasonal drift so the 360-day year changes the night
sky. One SkyParams float (272-byte block, layout test re-pinned)
carries dayFraction + dayOfYear/360 from the world clock; sky.frag
applies a Rodrigues rotation to the sample direction so stars and
mottle turn together. Impossible with retail's static stretched layer.
Fade rework (the 2026-08-23 two-screenshot gate finding): the
per-vertex vTint signal carried the sun-facing product and blanked
stars across the entire twilight half of the sky. The fade now reads
the UNIFORM ambient term - identical star visibility in every compass
direction, same dusk-to-dawn schedule - with one deliberate exception:
a thin suppression band hugging the low sky toward the sun's azimuth
while the sun term is strong, so stars still wash out inside the
actual twilight glow.
Guards updated (rotation anchor, uniform-fade anchor, 272-byte layout);
both sky SPIR-V hashes re-pinned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The enhanced sky multiplied the full 4-tier star lattice by a night
factor of 0.0 all day long. Early-out when the star layer's lighting
product says daytime, so the pack's night sky costs nothing outside
dusk-to-dawn. sky.frag.spv re-pinned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first night-sky gate (2026-08-23 screenshot) showed three defects:
glowing beams along the cube-face boundaries (fwidth blowup where
adjacent pixels land on different faces lights every neighbourhood star
solid), diffraction-spiked standouts the user rejects ('that is in a
photo only, not in real sky'), and ellipse-stretched stars from scalar
length(fwidth) sizing at oblique view angles.
One rewrite removes all three: stars now live on a seamless 3D lattice
over the unit sphere (no faces, so no seams by construction), each star
resolved through an exact tangent-plane -> screen-pixel 2x2 solve of
the direction derivatives (perfectly round, true pixel sizing at every
view angle, sharper cores), spikes deleted in favour of a soft round
halo on the bright tiers. Guard test updated to pin the new anchors and
forbid both fwidth-face grids and spikes; sky.frag.spv re-pinned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
User-directed enhancement ('I want the night sky to look very good'):
retail's star layer is one small texture stretched over a 10-poly dome
cap, so stars smear regardless of source-image quality. With the
Atmospheric render pack active, sky.frag now renders the star layer
(GfxObj 0x010015EF, identical in all 20 Dereth day groups) as a fully
procedural sky computed from the view direction: hash-derived stars on
a cube-face grid in three density tiers plus sparse diffraction-spiked
standouts, sized in SCREEN pixels via derivatives so they stay crisp at
any resolution and FOV, over the user-approved 0.4-1.3% cool mottle
(gen_starfield2.py seed 11, approved 2026-08-23). The draw is forced
additive; the day/night fade rides the star layer's existing retail
lighting product so the schedule matches the authored keyframes. Pack
inactive = retail look byte-untouched.
EnhancedNightSkyRuleTests pins the uParamA gate, the exact star-layer
id, the forced-additive draw, and the pack-runtime wiring; sky shader
SPIR-V recompiled and re-pinned. Hermetic App suite green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The aurora was never missing data — it was a missing mechanism plus a
misread. New decompile evidence closes the April-2026 contradiction:
retail plays the sky carriers' PES through the Setup's own DefaultScript
(GameSky::MakeObject @0x00506EE0 -> CPhysicsObj::makeObject @0x00513970
sets state|=0x80000; animate_static_object @0x00513DF0 ticks
ScriptManager + ParticleManager). The pes_id column stays dead — that
half of the April finding stands; the ids are byte-equal mirrors.
- SkyPesFrameController is now the production owner (ACDREAM_ENABLE_SKY_PES
deleted): script ids resolve from the Setup DefaultScript
(SkyObjectData.DefaultScriptId; the pes_id column is a one-time-logged
cross-check), slots persist by (index, gfx id, properties) per
CreateDeletePhysicsObjects @0x005073C0 — a day-group swap keeping the
carrier no longer restarts its emitters — and stale slots stop before
replacements claim the slot-derived owner id.
- RetailParticleFacing ports calc_draw_frame @0x0050DFA0: degrade mode 2
faces the viewer roll-free (set_vector_heading) instead of the camera
plane; modes 3/4/5 spin the authored frame around one local axis
(rotate_around_axis_to_vector) — Dereth authors 54 mode-5 emitters that
previously got no facing at all; 1,583 mode-2 emitters get the exact
law; authored/mode-1 paths are unchanged.
- The 2026-08-23 'whole-sky tint' was the Rainy-group lightning/thunder
PES playing at the debug anchor inside their 0.03-0.19 window, not the
aurora: the aurora is nine faint viewer-facing glows pulsing on
6.7/15/55-minute rebirth cycles, in every day group, all day.
Research: docs/research/2026-08-23-sky-default-script-port.md.
Register: AD-112 filed (camera-anchored synthetic owners vs sky-cell
physics objects). ISSUES #2 corrected (the playback ban is lifted by the
new evidence); #28 fix landed pending the connected night gate.
Tests: RetailParticleFacingTests (16), SkyPesFrameControllerTests (6);
hermetic suites App 6,076/0, Core 4,905/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
