Per docs/research/2026-07-30-ts4-116-oracle-plan.md §1, §4 item 2 (the
decisive TS-4 confirming run). Retail's BSP layer has NO steepness test at
all (acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:323783-323821, 0x0053a793) — every airborne
hit, steep or shallow, falls through to the same unconditional
`SetCollide` + `Adjusted`. The L.4 slide-tangent shortcut (worldNormal.Z <
FloorZ -> project-and-Slid, with its own SetSlidingNormal write) is deleted
from both BSPQuery.cs's and FlatBspQuery.cs's Path 6 sphere0 branch.
Fixing FlatBspQuery.cs (the flat/indexed engine Slice I6/I7 made
production-authoritative) was necessary in this same commit: it carried an
exact structural duplicate of the shortcut, caught by
FlatBspQueryDifferentialTests.InstalledDat_LargeRandomizedSweep_HasZeroBitMismatch
(graph=Adjusted vs flat=Slid) once the graph side was fixed alone. Its
sphere1 branch is also brought in line with the #116 shape-1 fix landed
in db2889af (direct Collided + SetCollisionNormal instead of the deferred
SetCollide/shortcut treatment) — that parity gap existed since shape-1's
commit only touched BSPQuery.cs and the randomized differential sweep
didn't happen to exercise the narrow foot-clear/head-hit case until this
session's broader change surfaced it.
DECISIVE CONFIRMING RUN (Ts4SteepRoofWedgeCaptureTests, per the plan's own
required test-first order): added
FallOntoSteepSlope_WithHorizontalVelocity_NeverFreezesForOverHalfASecond_AndReachesFloor
— the same steep-roof drop as the existing pure-vertical fixture, but with
a small residual horizontal velocity (vx=-0.3 m/s), matching the realistic
live-play input (WASD, jump momentum) that validated the shortcut on
2026-04-30. With the shortcut removed, this variant converges cleanly to
the flat floor with zero freeze. The pure-vertical fixture, run
shortcut-removed, DOES still freeze — per the oracle plan's root-cause
trace (§1.2 Step E), this is the DEGENERATE case: AdjustOffset's crease
projection (Cross(ContactPlane.Normal, SlidingNormal)) is mathematically
orthogonal to a purely-Z gravity offset, crushing it to zero every tick
before TransitionalInsert can run again — present identically in the raw
decomp, ACE's port, and this port. Renamed and re-asserted as a PINNED
known-degenerate test
(FallOntoSteepSlope_PureVertical_FreezesAtDegenerateFixedPoint_RetailParity)
rather than treated as a bug. Filed as register row AD-56.
BSPStepUpTests.C3_Path6_AirborneMoverHitsSteepSlope_ReturnsSlid pinned the
OLD shortcut's Slid-no-Collide behavior directly; renamed to
...ReturnsAdjustedAndSetsCollide and corrected to the retail-faithful
Adjusted/Collide=true outcome.
Register: TS-4 row retired (struck through, retirement note); AD-56 filed
for the pure-vertical degenerate case; the retire-next shortlist's TS-4
entry removed and renumbered.
Full AcDream.Core.Tests suite: 4060 passed / 2 skipped (D4 stays Skip-tagged
in this commit; its own un-skip is a separate, dependent test-only commit
for #116 shape-2), no regressions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Campaign P Slice P2 step 2-3
(docs/research/2026-07-30-response-layer-edge-family-pseudocode.md §4, §6
Step 3). Per the research doc's own port order, TS-4's Path-6 steep-poly
shortcut may only be removed after a fixture reproduces the original
"stuck in falling animation on a steep roof" symptom cleanly with the
shortcut disabled. No surviving live-session fixture exists from the
2026-04-30 L.4 commit (b1af56e); this adds a dat-free multi-frame capture
(Ts4SteepRoofWedgeCaptureTests) using BSPStepUpFixtures.SlopedUnwalkable's
63.4 degree slope, replayed at 30 Hz with gravity integrated between
PhysicsEngine.ResolveWithTransition calls -- the same idiom as
Issue185OutdoorStairsSeamReplayTests.
Against today's baseline (shortcut active) the capture is green, as
expected (the shortcut's explicit AddOffsetToCheckPos keeps the body
moving every tick by construction).
Scratch-removed the shortcut (both BSPQuery.cs sphere0/sphere1 branches,
not committed -- reverted after capture) and re-ran the same test: the
body falls and lands cleanly on the steep polygon at tick 17 (InContact,
OnWalkable=false, via retail's own permissive CTransition::check_walkable
LandingZ gate, pc:273202), then freezes at that exact position for the
rest of the run -- the exact historical wedge shape, tripping the test's
own >0.5s-frozen threshold at tick 33.
Root-cause diagnosis via ACDREAM_DUMP_EDGE_SLIDE=1: the freeze is upstream
of EdgeSlideAfterStepDownFailed/CliffSlide entirely (none of that
dispatch's diagnostics fire). TransitionalInsert's Phase 2 object-collision
check returns Adjusted on every retry attempt because Path 6's retail-
faithful SetCollide returns ADJUSTED_TS without repositioning the sphere
(unlike the interim shortcut, which explicitly pushes the sphere off the
face) -- the same steep polygon re-triggers Path 6 on the immediate retry,
forever, and Phase 3 (the sp.Collide handling that contains DoCheckWalkable,
the Placement re-test, and the TS-1 CliffSlide chain) is gated on Phase 1
AND Phase 2 both returning OK, so it is structurally unreachable from this
state. TS-1's completeness is moot here -- the code path that would call
into it never runs.
Per the mission's explicit escape valve: STOP here, keep the shortcut, and
report -- do not improvise a third variant. Full diagnosis, the exact
capture, and the concrete next research question (does retail's own
transitional_insert loop check sphere_path.collide on every iteration
regardless of Phase 2's own return value, or only when Phase 2 returns OK?)
are recorded in the research doc's §7 item 6 and the doc's headline; the
campaign plan's P2 section gets a matching status note.
Physics test suite: 1841 passed, 1 skipped (D4, pre-existing/unrelated), 0
failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
