Brainstormed design for the action bar's bottom strip: name + Health meter
on selection (mana deferred #140). Decisions: SelectionChanged via property
setter; send QueryHealth(0x01BF) on select. Grounded in retail
gmToolbarUI::HandleSelectionChanged (acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:198635) —
clear-then-populate, overlay state 0x1000000b, health gate
IsPlayer||pet||attackable. Render-bug fix is BuildMeter-only (single-image
back+fill meter; UiMeter already renders it).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Next D.2b-UI work after D.5.4. 3 streams (spell bar deferred): selected-object
meter, shortcut drag/add/reorder/remove, inventory+paperdoll window. Current-code
anchors + dependency graph + build order + brainstorm questions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Code-review follow-up from Task 2: align StackSizeMax with the other quantity
fields (int?, ACE PropertyInt convention) in Tasks 3/4/5; drop the (int) cast.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two guid-keyed tables (retail shape), CreateObject = canonical merge-upsert
for the data table (ACCWeenieObject-equivalent holding ALL server objects),
container membership index, retire _liveEntityInfoByGuid + EnrichItem. Settles
the handoff crux against the named decomp: retail is TWO tables, not one, so
acdream's WorldEntity + item-table split is already faithful — fix ingestion,
don't unify.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Roadmap: refresh the D.5.2 entry to its final shipped state (per-pixel gradient
surface overload 0x004415b0; AP-43/AP-44 retired by visual verification; range
419c3ac..fb288ad). Add an explicit D.5 sub-phase ledger: D.5.4 client object/item
data model (foundation, NEXT) -> D.5.3 selected-object + spell shortcuts -> window
manager -> D.5.5+ core panels. Handoff doc gains a paste-ready new-session prompt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Frames the root cause of the live-Coldeve 4/6-missing-hotbar-icons (acdream's
enrich-existing-only item model drops CreateObjects without a pre-seeded stub) and
the retail ClientObjMaintSystem model to port. CRUX to settle first: unify the
WorldEntity + ItemRepository tracks, or keep separate with shared ingestion.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Visual verification (Coldeve, Energy Crystal) showed acdream's Magical blue as a
flat tint vs retail's gradient. Root cause: RenderIcons calls the SURFACE overload
of SurfaceWindow::ReplaceColor (0x004415b0), which copies the textured effect tile
pixel-by-pixel into the icon's pure-white pixels — not the flat color->color overload
(0x00441530) I'd approximated with the tile's mean color. Port the surface overload
exactly (dst[x,y]=src[x,y] where dst==white); confirmed via clean Ghidra decompile +
named decomp. Retires AP-43 (mean-color approximation); IA-18 updated to the surface op.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Visual verification caught it: a no-mana scroll's icon edges are BLACK in retail
but rendered WHITE in acdream. Cause = the effects!=0 gate (registered AP-44) that
skipped retail's effects==0 recolor. Retail's effect tile is non-null even for
effects==0 (the 0x21 SOLID-BLACK fallback 0x060011C5), so RenderIcons recolors
pure-white pixels to black on mundane items and to the effect hue on magical ones.
Remove the gate (always recolor); retire AP-44 (now faithful). TryGetEffectColor
made internal + a golden test pins effects==0 -> ~black.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bite-sized TDD plan for the stateful item-icon system. Corrects spec 5.8:
the live 0x02CE event binds in GameWindow (next to VitalUpdated), not
GameEventWiring (which only handles the 0xF7B0 GameEvent dispatcher).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Research basis (clean Ghidra decompile via MCP + live-dat probe + ACE oracle)
overturns two handoff hypotheses:
- Appraise carries NO icon/UiEffects data (Icon/IconOverlay/IconUnderlay +
PropertyInt.UiEffects all lack [AssessmentProperty]); every icon input is
CreateObject-only. The "wire appraise -> enrichment" item is a no-op.
- The effect overlay (enum 0x10000005) is a ReplaceColor tint SOURCE, not a
blit layer (RenderIcons 0x0058d180 + ReplaceColor 0x00441530); effect tiles
are 32x32 fully-opaque colored squares.
Design (user-approved): capture UiEffects (weenieFlags 0x80, currently discarded)
-> ItemInstance.Effects; faithful 2-stage IconComposer recolor (white pixels ->
effect hue); live PublicUpdatePropertyInt(0x02CE) wire-up so the icon updates as
state changes ("item with mana vs out of mana"). Drops the appraise no-op.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extensive handoff for the next session to build the full stateful item-icon system (the 5-layer IconData::RenderIcons composite + effect layer 0x10000005 + overlay ReplaceColor tint + appraise-driven enrichment/re-composition). D.5.1 toolbar flipped to SHIPPED; D.5.2 (icon system) + D.5.3 (toolbar interactivity / selected-object display) registered as next.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First D.5 sub-phase: ship gmToolbarUI as the first data-driven game panel (18 slots from LayoutDesc 0x21000016, populated from the persisted PlayerDescription shortcuts, real composited icons, click-to-use). Minimal scope; faithful CPU icon pre-composite (IconData::RenderIcons port). Five bounded units: UiItemSlot, UiItemList, IconComposer, CreateObject IconId extension, ToolbarController. Roadmap registration of D.5.1 is plan step 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five report-only deep-dives + synthesis for the next D.2b UI panels, built on the shipped widget toolkit. Confirms LayoutDesc ids (toolbar 0x21000016, inventory 0x21000023, backpack 0x21000022, paperdoll 0x21000024, 3ditems 0x21000021), the shared item-slot/item-list spine (UIElement_UIItem 0x10000032 / UIElement_ItemList 0x10000031), the 5-layer icon composite (IconData::RenderIcons @407524), the cross-panel wire catalog with acdream parse-status, and the dependency-ordered build plan.
Produced via a multi-agent research workflow; the spine agent died on a transient API error and was re-run as a focused follow-up with its decomp anchors verified against source.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Deferred cosmetic polish after the widget-generalization landing: tune the
per-ChatKind transcript text colors against retail, and add pressed/hover state
feedback to the chat buttons (UiButton draws only its default state today; the
dat carries Normal/Pressed/Highlight). Not a regression — the generalized chat
matches the prior hand-made build (user-confirmed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Record the D.2b widget-generalization landing: generic Type-registered widgets
built by DatWidgetFactory, thin find-by-id controllers, the ConsumesDatChildren
leaf rule, Type-3-not-registered decision, and the centered-UiText vitals numbers.
Both visual gates user-confirmed; 404 tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The vitals cur/max numbers now render through the generic UiText widget — retail
gmVitalsUI uses UIElement_Text for them, not a meter-internal label. VitalsController
attaches a centered, non-interactive UiText child to each meter and stops the meter
drawing its own label (UiMeter.Label -> null). New UiText.Centered draws the first line
centered H+V with the SAME formula UiMeter's overlay used, so the numbers are
pixel-identical — user-confirmed in the live client.
This completes the D.2b widget-generalization pass: every chat + vitals widget is now
built generically and registered to its retail Type (Button/Field*/Menu/Meter/Scrollbar/
Text), with thin find-by-id controllers. (*Field is controller-placed; Type 3 stays
UiDatElement for chrome.)
Divergence register: AP-37 vitals-numbers-via-UiMeter.Label clause retired. Full suite:
404 passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Record the two execution-time corrections to the design's registration
assumptions: the editable input resolves to Type 12 (Variant B, controller-placed
UiField), and Type 3 is NOT factory-registered (acdream's Type-3 elements are
chrome/containers, kept on the UiDatElement fallback).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rename UiChatView -> UiText (the retail UIElement_Text class,
RegisterElementClass(0xc) @ acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:115655).
Factory changes (DatWidgetFactory.cs):
- Remove the Type-12 skip (was: no-media -> null, with-media -> UiDatElement).
- Add Type 12 -> BuildText() -> UiText in the switch.
- BuildText extracts the element's Direct/Normal sprite as BackgroundSprite
so any dat-media the element carried keeps rendering under the text.
UiText changes (renamed from UiChatView.cs):
- BackgroundColor default: (0,0,0,0.35) -> (0,0,0,0) (transparent).
An unbound UiText draws nothing; the controller opts in to the translucent bg.
- New BackgroundSprite + SpriteResolve: optional dat state-sprite background
drawn UNDER DrawFill+text (faithful UIElement_Text media support).
ChatWindowController.cs (Task 5 Step 8):
- Transcript property: UiChatView -> UiText.
- Bind() now uses layout.FindElement(TranscriptId) as UiText (factory-built)
instead of manually constructing + AddChild-ing a new UiChatView.
- Sets BackgroundColor = (0,0,0,0.35) on the found widget (retail translucent bg).
- Removes the tInfo null-check from the early guard (transcript is factory-built;
iInfo lookup kept for the input widget which is still manually constructed).
- BuildLines: UiChatView.Line -> UiText.Line throughout.
Vitals frozen: the Type-12 vitals number elements are meter children and are
never recursed by BuildWidget (the `if (w is not UiMeter)` gate), so they are
not built as widgets and keep rendering via UiMeter.Label. Vitals fixture
vitals_2100006C.json unchanged; LayoutConformanceTests + VitalsBindingTests green.
Tests:
- UiChatViewTests.cs -> UiTextTests.cs (class: UiTextTests, all UiChatView.* -> UiText.*)
- UiChatViewDatFontTests.cs -> UiTextDatFontTests.cs (same)
- DatWidgetFactoryTests: delete Type12_StylePrototype_ReturnsNull +
DatWidgetFactory_Type12WithMedia_Renders; add Type12_Text_MakesUiText +
DatWidgetFactory_Type12_AlwaysMakesUiText.
- LayoutImporterTests: BuildFromInfos_Type12Child_IsSkipped_Type3Present updated
to assert IsType<UiText> (element is now in tree, transparent, not skipped).
Divergence register: AP-37 amended -- removed the "standalone Type-0 text
elements skipped / dat-text widget is Plan 2" clause (now shipped as UiText);
kept the meter-collapse clause and the vitals-numbers-via-UiMeter.Label clause.
AP-38/AP-39/AD-28 file references updated UiChatView.cs -> UiText.cs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
UiChannelMenu → UiMenu: removed ChatChannelKind, the 14-item array, the
button-text map, and the availability default. Generic surface: MenuItem
(label + object? Payload), Selected (object?), OnSelect, EnabledProvider,
ButtonLabelProvider, RowsPerColumn/RowHeight/ColumnWidth (all settable).
All draw/event mechanics unchanged — same popup geometry, same click
coordinates, same 8-piece bevel, same 3-slice button face.
ChatWindowController gains ChannelItems[], ChannelButtonLabel(), and
ChannelAvailable() (verbatim from old widget), and populates the
factory-built Type-6 UiMenu via find-by-id rather than constructing a
replacement widget. The Menu property type is now UiMenu. OnChannelChanged
wrap replaced with the generic OnSelect wrap for the ReflowInputRow hook.
DatWidgetFactory registers Type 6 → new UiMenu().
Tests: UiChannelMenuTests → UiMenuTests (10 tests, all green); factory
Type6 test added; ChatWindowControllerTests updated to use OnSelect.
Divergence register: AP-42 added (flat item model vs retail nested-submenu
MakePopup @0x46d310 — latent, unreachable through the chat menu).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- git mv UiChatScrollbar.cs → UiScrollbar.cs; rename class + update doc summary to
"Generic scrollbar. Ports retail UIElement_Scrollbar (RegisterElementClass(0xb) @
acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:124137); thumb size = trackLen * ThumbRatio (min 8px); step ±1 line."
- git mv UiChatScrollbarTests.cs → UiScrollbarTests.cs; rename test class + replace
every UiChatScrollbar reference with UiScrollbar (bodies unchanged).
- DatWidgetFactory: register Type 11 → new UiScrollbar() before the _ fallback case.
- ChatWindowController: change Scrollbar property type to UiScrollbar; replace the old
"construct-remove-add" block with a "find factory-built UiScrollbar and bind in place"
block (no RemoveChild/AddChild); keep `var track` assignment in scope so the Max/Min
block's track.Left/track.Width reads still compile against UiElement?.
- AP-41 divergence register: update file:line to UiScrollbar.cs:35; narrow wording to
"fallback only — single-tile drawn only when cap ids are unset; the chat controller
passes all three cap ids so the 3-slice path is the active code path."
- Update inline UiChatScrollbar doc-comment references in UiScrollable.cs + UiChatView.cs.
- Full suite: 399 passed, 2 skipped (dat/tower fixture skips), 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Capture the 'why beyond chat' the user articulated: chat is the proving ground;
the real payoff is inventory/spell-bar/vendor/character-sheet/trade becoming
data-driven assembly + thin controller. Notes what carries forward (the generic
widget toolkit + the find-by-id controller pattern) vs what those windows still
need (ListBox/Panel + Field drag-drop, the window-manager half of Plan 2, and
per-domain item/container data).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Design for refactoring the hand-named chat widgets + Send/MaxMin click-wiring
into generic, Type-registered widgets built by DatWidgetFactory, collapsing
ChatWindowController (and, gated-last, VitalsController) to a thin retail
gm*UI::PostInit-style find-by-id binder.
Key finding that reframes the pass: the importer's base-chain Type resolution
is already retail-faithful, and Type 12 is UIElement_Text (a real behavioral
class), not a style prototype to skip — verified against
acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt:115655. The generalization is therefore a
registration task (register Types 1/3/6/11/12 -> generic widgets, delete the
Type-12 skip), not a new mechanism.
Approved scope: full registry (bounded to the Types chat+vitals use; rest stays
UiDatElement fallback), chat-first, vitals rewire as the final separately-gated
step. 7-step one-widget-per-commit migration; new chat_21000006.json golden
fixture; vitals fixture stays frozen through steps 1-6.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The live session + its LiveCommandBus are created after the retail-UI block in
OnLoad, so binding the bus by value captured NullCommandBus and silently dropped
outbound chat. Pass a Func<ICommandBus> resolved at submit time (mirrors how the
ImGui ChatPanel re-reads the bus each frame).
AP-41: scrollbar thumb drawn as single stretched tile (0x06004C63) instead of
retail's 3-slice top-cap/middle/bottom-cap — acknowledged in UiChatScrollbar.cs:37,
registered per the divergence-register rule.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the hand-authored chat block (UiNineSlicePanel + inline UiChatView
+ local BuildRetailChatLines/RetailChatColor statics) with
ChatWindowController.Bind(LayoutDesc 0x21000006) — the same LayoutImporter
path as the vitals window. The controller places UiChatView (transcript) +
UiChatInput (text entry, on-submit) + UiChatScrollbar + UiChannelMenu inside
the dat-authored chrome. The dead local statics are deleted.
Wired to _commandBus (same LiveCommandBus as the ImGui ChatPanel) so
type+Enter dispatches SendChatCmd server-ward. Transcript keyboard set from
_uiHost.Keyboard (set by WireKeyboard above the chat block) for Ctrl+C/Ctrl+A.
Divergence register: added AD-28 (two-widget split vs UIElement_Text),
AP-38 (no in-element word-wrap), AP-39 (per-line colour vs per-glyph runs),
AP-40 (no opacity fade / shared vitalsDatFont), TS-30 (tab buttons no-op),
TS-31 (no squelch); updated IA-15 to cover both vitals + chat importer paths.
Build: 0 errors/warnings. Tests: 392 passed, 1 skipped (expected).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs(D.2b): chat-window re-drive design spec + list-ui-layouts research tool
Plan-2 chat piece of the LayoutDesc importer. Identifies the chat window as
LayoutDesc 0x21000006 (gmMainChatUI, element class 0x10000041) and grounds a
faithful, data-driven re-drive in the named retail decomp (ChatInterface +
gmMainChatUI + UIElement_Text/_Scrollable/_Scrollbar/_Menu) plus a user-provided
retail screenshot.
Design (full-faithful scope, user-approved):
- transcript = UIElement_Text 0x10000011 (dat font, bottom-pinned, 10k behead cap,
pixel scroll, 1 line/wheel-notch)
- scrollbar = right-side track 0x10000012 + thumb 0x1000048c + up/down
- input = editable UIElement_Text 0x10000016 (caret, 100-entry history, Enter/Send)
- channel menu = UIElement_Menu 0x10000014 ("Chat" selector -> active channel)
- shared ChatCommandRouter extracted from ChatPanel
- screenshot correction: the four 0x10000522-525 left-edge elements are the
numbered CHAT TABS (1-4), not scroll buttons (a research-agent inference the
retail screenshot refutes)
- deferred (need non-UI plumbing, each gets a divergence row): tab switching/
filtering, squelch, clickable name-tags, in-element word-wrap, styled runs,
font config, opacity transition
Tooling: AcDream.Cli `list-ui-layouts <datdir> [0xRootType]` — read-only index of
every UI LayoutDesc by root element class + size + element-Type histogram; how the
chat layout was located (root type 0x10000041). Reusable for future panel re-drives.
Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-15-chat-window-redrive-design.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Captures: current hand-authored chat window (UiNineSlicePanel + UiChatView,
read-only, debug font), the importer toolkit to reuse, the retail gmMainChatUI
oracles, the open design questions (scope / behavioral widgets / dat font), and
the first research step (find the chat LayoutDesc id). Resume via brainstorming.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The earlier 'not resizable / fixed-size' note was wrong (inverted edge-flag
reading). Resize shipped: dat edge-anchors reflow per UIElement::UpdateForParentSizeChange.
Noted the two number-render fixes (submission-order + glyph pixel-snap).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ToAnchors was inverted vs retail UIElement::UpdateForParentSizeChange @0x00462640:
stretch is RightEdge==1 (not ==2/==4), LeftEdge==2 = track-right. Verified against
all 19 vitals fixture pieces. Enables Resizable/ResizeX on the importer vitals root
(the prior 'dat is fixed-size' conclusion was wrong). At-rest render unchanged
(anchors only fire on resize). Added a 160->200 resize conformance test.
Also fixed DatWidgetFactoryTests.RectAndAnchors_SetFromElementInfo which encoded
the old inverted model (Right=2 expecting Right anchor; corrected to Right=1).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The earlier 'git checkout --theirs' resolution of the register merge conflict
took main's whole file, which reverted two branch-only changes: IA-15 (re-added
in c100484) and the TS-30 retirement. TS-30 (flat-rect UI panels) was retired by
D.2b Spec 1 when UiNineSlicePanel shipped the 8-piece chrome and is doubly moot
now that vitals draw the dat chrome via the importer. Removed the TS-30 row +
its phase-gated reference; TS count 30->29. All section counts now match actual
rows (IA 15 / AD 27 / AP 37 / TS 29 / UN 5).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Roadmap: update D.2b LayoutDesc importer entry to record that the default
flip shipped 2026-06-15 (bf77a23) — importer is the default at
ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI=1; vitals.xml + ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI_IMPORTER flag retired;
window movable, resize deferred to Plan 2 (WindowManager).
Plan: update "After Plan 1" to mark the flip DONE, clean up the Plan 2
description now that vitals.xml is gone.
Register:
- AP-37 "Why" cell: replace "Gated opt-in (ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI_IMPORTER)"
with "Now the default vitals path (the hand-authored markup vitals was
retired)" — the flag is gone.
- IA-15: add row (was missing from this branch) — D.2b retail UI design
stance, updated to note that the vitals window is now rendered by the
LayoutDesc importer (dat chrome elements), not UiNineSlicePanel;
UiNineSlicePanel/RetailChromeSprites now back only chat window + plugin
panels. IA count header 14 → 15.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
main was 65 commits ahead of this branch's fork point. Only conflict was the
divergence register: both sides appended an 'AP-32' row. Resolved by keeping
main's AP-32..AP-36 (cell-shell lift, look-in cells, alpha deferral, dungeon
streaming, point lights) and renumbering the importer's row to AP-37; AP header
count -> 37. GameWindow.cs auto-merged cleanly. Verified: AcDream.App builds
0/0; AcDream.App.Tests 354 passed / 1 skipped / 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Process/quality items from the LayoutDesc-importer final review — no runtime
behavior change.
I1a — amend IA-15: the 8-piece chrome edge/corner→position mapping is no longer
a guess. The LayoutImporter (ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI_IMPORTER) reads real LayoutDesc
dat data and resolves positions + sprite ids directly; locked by the conformance
fixture vitals_2100006C.json. Residual risk trimmed to anchor resolution at
non-800×600 + controls.ini cascade. Pointers added to LayoutImporter.cs and the
format-doc.
I1b — add AP-32: the importer collapses the dat's nested meter structure
(Type-7 → two Type-3 containers → three image-slice grandchildren each) into
UiMeter's programmatic 3-slice fields instead of building those nodes generically
and porting UIElement_Meter::DrawChildren. Standalone Type-0 text elements are
also skipped (Plan 2). Retail oracles: UIElement_Meter::DrawChildren @0x46fbd0,
UIElement_Text::DrawSelf @0x467aa0.
I1c — AP section header 31 → 32.
N1 — ElementReader.cs: comment at the Type-merge line explaining that a derived
Type 0 (text element) inherits the base's Type 12 (style prototype), which
DatWidgetFactory skips; safe for Plan 1 because vitals numbers render via
UiMeter.Label. Format-doc §10: correct the "render as UiDatElement" sentence to
"skipped entirely" (Type-0 → inherits Type-12 via Merge → factory returns null).
N4 — new conformance test VitalsTree_TextLabel_InheritsFontDidFromBaseLayout:
walks the raw ElementInfo tree from the fixture and asserts at least one element
carries FontDid==0x40000000, proving Resolve()'s inheritance merge fired against
real dat data. FixtureLoader gains LoadVitalsInfos() that returns the raw tree
without calling Build.
Tests: 36 pass (was 35), 0 errors, 0 warnings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Resolves all 6 open unknowns for Tasks 2–6 of the LayoutDesc importer plan:
1. Edge-anchor flags: 1=near-pin, 2=far-pin, 3=float-center, 4=stretch.
The plan's assumption of 4="pinned to that side" is corrected — 1 is
the near-pin, 4 is stretch (both sides). Revised ToAnchors signature given.
2. ElementDesc members: all are public FIELDS (not properties). X/Y/Width/
Height/LeftEdge/etc. are uint. Type is uint (not enum). States is
Dictionary<UIStateId, StateDesc>. Children is Dictionary<uint, ElementDesc>.
3. StateDesc shape: Properties is Dictionary<uint, BaseProperty> with concrete
subclasses (ArrayBaseProperty, DataIdBaseProperty, IntegerBaseProperty, etc.).
Font DID (0x1A) is ArrayBaseProperty[ DataIdBaseProperty{Value=0x40000000} ].
Font color (0x1B) is ArrayBaseProperty[ ColorBaseProperty ]. Fill (0x69) is
NOT in the dat — pushed at runtime by gmVitalsUI::Update.
4. DrawModeType enum: Undefined=0, Normal=1, Overlay=2, Alphablend=3.
No "Stretch" value exists. Vitals uses Normal(1) and Alphablend(3) only.
5. Type values confirmed from RegisterElementClass: 3=Field/container,
7=Meter→UiMeter, 9=Resizebar, 0xC=Text, 2=Dragbar, 12=style prototype (skip).
6. Inheritance chain: vitals text labels (Type=0) inherit from base element
0x10000376 in layout 0x2100003F (Type=12), which carries font DID 0x40000000.
The full per-vital sprite id tables for 0x2100006C are confirmed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- #137: dungeon collision wrong at doors / wall openings (EnvCell collision; needs repro).
- #138: teleport OUT of a dungeon loads the outdoor world incompletely (missing trees/
scenery, broken collision) + a position desync (avatar moves but player position doesn't)
— hypothesised as the dungeon-streaming collapse→EXPAND gap (same machinery as #135).
- #135 marked DONE (user-verified FPS-steady dungeon login); #136 closed (editor-marker hide).
- CLAUDE.md current-state refreshed: #135/#136 shipped, A7 lighting + #137/#138 remaining.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrite the #136 entry with the definitive root cause (editor-only dat placement
marker hidden by retail's distance degrade, inherited as visible from the WB-derived
render path) replacing the earlier refuted texture-pipeline hypothesis; mark FIXED.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Investigated the user-reported divergence (a solid-red cone in the 0x0007 dungeon
that retail doesn't draw). Narrowed by elimination:
- geometry, not VFX (survives particles-off)
- object 0x70007055 / Setup 0x020019F0, physState=0x1C — NOT NoDraw/Hidden
- its distinguishing texture 0x06006D65 (DXT1 256x128) DECODES tan/opaque offline,
identical to a neighbour decoration (0x020019EE / tex 0x06006D63) that renders fine
- not a per-instance tint (hook dropped)
=> the red is introduced at runtime in the WB bindless texture-array upload/sampling
path (a #105-class "samples undefined until flushed" / layer-handle misassignment),
possibly lighting. Both WB-render-migration and sky/lighting are FROZEN phases, so the
fix awaits explicit sign-off. Full diagnosis + reusable diagnostic approach in the issue.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Roadmap: D.2b (custom retail-look backend) and D.4 (dat sprites + 9-slice +
DrawSprite) both shipped this session via the Spec-1 work — the UiHost-based
markup engine (MarkupDocument + ControlsIni + IUiRegistry) rendering a
markup-driven retail Vitals panel (8-piece dat chrome + red/gold/blue bars).
Records the direct-RenderSurface decode finding + the confirmed chrome sprite
ids. Remaining D.2b polish (gradient bar sprite, AcFont/D.3, input integration,
LayoutDesc importer, D.5 panels) noted inline.
Full suite green (2413 passed / 0 failed / 3 pre-existing skips).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two regressions from the pre-collapse (712f17f), found by live gate + a runtime
probe:
1) Login-into-dungeon stopped loading the dungeon. The login-hold streaming
observer fell through to the OFFLINE fly-camera branch once
_lastLivePlayerLandblockId was filtered to the player guid (a dungeon-local
NPC used to keep it pinned). A camera-derived observer far from the
pre-collapsed dungeon tripped ExitDungeonExpand and unloaded it. Fix: a LIVE
in-world session never uses the fly camera for the observer — it follows the
player's server landblock, falling back to the recentered spawn center
(_liveCenterX/Y). The fly camera is the OFFLINE observer only.
2) Even with the dungeon resident, auto-entry hung: the #106 "ground ready" gate
required SampleTerrainZ under the spawn, but a dungeon's negative-offset cells
place the spawn's WORLD position in a NEIGHBOUR terrain landblock the #135
collapse deliberately doesn't load (probe: cellReady=True, terrReady=False
forever). The terrain gate is wrong for an indoor spawn — the player lands on
the EnvCell FLOOR. Fix: gate an indoor (hydratable) spawn/teleport on
IsSpawnCellReady, not the terrain heightmap; outdoor (and unhydratable→demote)
spawns still hold on terrain. Applied to both isSpawnGroundReady (login auto-
entry) and TeleportArrivalReadiness (teleport). This is the faithful equivalent
of retail's synchronous cell load + place-on-floor; the pre-#135 terrain hold
only passed because the 25x25 window streamed the neighbour terrain.
Verified live: login into 0x0007 → auto-entered player mode, snapped to
0x00070145, dungeon renders, FPS steady. Register AD-2 amended.
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>
