Retail draws every cell's objects inside LScape::draw's far-to-near walk
(DrawSortCell @0x005A17C0) and drains the one delayed-alpha list at the
DrawCells boundary AFTER the finished walk (@0x005A4872). Our outdoor
frame drained at the landscape-stage end and then drew punches, interior
shells, cell objects, and ALL dynamics — every one of those opaque
passes overwrote the already-composited flames (the reopened#132
candle class: "the door draws over the candle", creatures at openings).
Depth and barrier A/Bs were no-ops because the eraser is opaque color
painted after the drain.
Two retail-cited ordering corrections, outdoor-node roots only:
1. The stage-boundary drain is skipped and FlushLandscapeAlpha() runs
after DrawDynamicsLast, where the frame's opaque world depth is
complete — the one far-to-near list composites over everything,
exactly like retail's boundary flush relative to its finished walk.
2. Before DrawExitPortalMasks, FlushLandscapeAlphaFartherThan(
ExitPortalMaskBarrierDistance(...)) drains everything at or beyond
the nearest cell whose exit-portal mask is about to write far-Z —
retail DrawBuilding @0x0059F2A0 runs FlushAlphaList(0f) BEFORE its
portal-only pass, so in the far-to-near walk nothing already drained
can meet a punched aperture's falsified depth. Without this, the
first correction let exterior waterfalls z-pass across punched
apertures whose true landscape depth the punch erased (found live at
the cathedral gate). Nearer content stays queued and legitimately
composites in front of punched structures.
Interior roots keep the pre-clear stage-boundary drain unchanged.
User-gated live: Holtburg sign candle whole in front of the sign and
tower door at the aligned pose; cathedral waterfalls contained at every
camera zoom, inside and outside. Register row AP-236 retired (the
walk-order outcome reconstruction is complete; AP-34 remains the
umbrella for the CYpt-sort reconstruction itself). Filed #456 for the
separate occluded-distant-building/creature admission residual this
session diagnosed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two retail-parity corrections on top of 684380d4, user-gated together
(no regressions; door/creature-through-opening rendering verified live
at Holtburg; cathedral waterfall and look-north casts pass):
1. Drawn-once look-in dynamics. Retail marks every drawn non-player
part for the frame (DrawMeshInternal @0x0059F360 GetDrawnThisFrame), so
an object draws once, with its cell. acdream drew a look-in cell's
dynamics twice under an outdoor root - once correctly with the look-in,
then again in dynamics-last after the boundary alpha drain, where the
second draw overpainted nearer flames. Both the accepted path
(_lookInCellIds) and the frame product (BuildDynamicLastRoute) now
exclude dynamics whose parent cell drew as a look-in.
2. Pre/inter-building barriers drain only content FARTHER than the
building they precede (FlushLandscapeAlphaFartherThan +
RetailAlphaQueue.FlushFartherThan + conservative anchor-origin
threshold). Retail's far-to-near walk guarantees a building's
FlushAlphaList(0f) @0x0059F2A0 has only farther content queued; a
nearer emitter composites at a later flush. AP-236 documents the
remaining barrier-order divergence.
The #132 candle-before-door overdraw is NOT yet fixed by these steps
and stays open: the current suspect is that houses without a
constructed look-in still draw their interior-parented door in
dynamics-last after the outdoor candle's boundary drain (see the
2026-08-29 ledger for the retail flush-after-objects hypothesis).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retail never clips a particle to a portal view: each emitter's polys
join the ONE alpha list during its owner cell's far-to-near walk turn
(LScape::draw @0x00506330 iterates block_draw_list reversed; DrawBlock
@0x005A17C0 walks cells; ShouldDrawParticles @0x0050FE60 gates by cell
and distance), and occlusion is the depth test at FlushAlphaList
@0x0059D2E0 (its float is a COUNT threshold - 0f = flush all). The
1d2f2f73 architecture instead re-submitted particles once per
OutsideView slice under that slice's hardware clip slot, which cut
effects at aperture boundaries and drew nothing when no outside slice
was in view (the cathedral look-north disappearance).
Now: unattached emitters submit once per frame by owner-cell kind
(outdoor landcells in the landscape stage, interior EnvCells in the
final world scope - new UnattachedEmitterCellScope filter); cell,
shell-route, barrier-static, and late-stage owners submit their
per-slice cone-cull UNION once with clipSlot 0; and particles emit in
the stage matching their PARENT CELL - an interior dynamic whose
sphere straddles an exit-portal plane keeps its mesh in both stages
(#118) but its particles move to the final pass, so the interior
stage can no longer repaint over them (the aperture-band star cut).
Also lands the inert Change-2 primitives for the AP-236 retirement
(candle-behind-door): RetailAlphaQueue.FlushFartherThan drains only
the far prefix without resetting sources, plus the executor
passthrough and the conservative look-in threshold helper - nothing
calls them yet.
User-gated 2026-08-29 round 2 at the Sanctuary Cathedral: spell and
recall stars cover the whole room at every camera direction including
north; waterfall containment holds on retail's depth/seal mechanism;
adjacent-room particles/lights, walls, Holtburg, recall unregressed
(paperdoll remains pre-existing intermittent #443). Register: AP-236
filed for the remaining barrier-order divergence.
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>
Route production meshes and attached particles from the exact retained PView frame ranges, while keeping the former WorldEntity partition only for standalone tests and explicit diagnostic/oracle probes. Copy retained source/count facts before arena release so world diagnostics no longer require the old partition. Record the accepted G4 visual gate and open the exact G5 production matrix.
Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <codex@openai.com>
Reuse the PView frame input, publish mutation-invalidated landblock views, and avoid constructing optional shadow iterators while preserving title and lifecycle visibility facts.
Make the incremental render scene the production entity source at the existing retail PView stages while retaining the accepted dispatcher upload and draw executor. Keep diagnostics consumer-gated, retain ordered indices across unchanged frames, refresh only dirty records, and preserve exact mesh-load, selection, alpha, lighting, and route lifecycle semantics.
Extend the non-drawing oracle through ordered PView routes, dispatcher visibility and final instance payloads, and accepted retail selection parts. Lifecycle artifacts can now referee the later shadow scene without influencing production visibility or draw decisions.
Move the complete update/render construction graph into a typed Phase-8 owner, explicitly carry the content dependencies it consumes, and publish both roots through one exact lease. Extract lifecycle resource sampling and frame-owned late bindings so partial startup and shutdown withdraw the same generation without window callbacks.
Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Move fallback and PView world drawing, shared alpha, particles, visibility, selection, and diagnostics behind focused frame owners. Make exceptional frames failure-atomic by restoring the shared GL baseline and preserving primary alpha failures through cleanup.
Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.com>
