Ports the user-verified #132 invariant (e102fb36 on the old pipeline)
walk-natively, on the owner''s direction: retail''s falls containment
is POSITIONAL - an outdoor emitter''s polys join the ONE alpha list
during its owner cell''s DrawObjCell in the far-to-near landscape walk
(DrawSortCell @0x005a17c0), so every nearer building''s pre-punch
barrier (DrawBuilding @0x0059f2a0''s FlushAlphaList @0x0059f30b)
drains the already-queued FARTHER content against still-true depth
BEFORE its punch stamps far-Z into the aperture. The walk path had
kept the per-building AlphaBarrier events but batched ALL landscape
static-owner submission into one lump at the pre-clear closure - after
every punch had run: the barriers fired over an empty queue and the
falls drained against punched-far aperture pixels (phase=pre in every
probe line, which is why six rounds of phase-staging repairs could
never see it - the phase was right, the position within the phase was
wrong).
New WalkFrameEventKind.StaticParticles: each landscape cell''s and
each building shell''s emitter owners now submit AT THAT TURN during
Replay (marked so the owner''s meshes flush first - retail''s
per-object order); the batched SubmitWalkLandscapeStaticParticles and
its closure/post-replay call sites are deleted for both root kinds.
Two driver sequence pins adjudicated to the new turn order.
Hermetic 6,762/0; InstalledDat walk conformance 40/1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements the synthesis plan''s Phase I (instrument-first, no rendering
edits): the [falls] watch printing EVERY particle submission carrying a
real falls owner (the outdoor landblock emitters 0xCF418000-13 the six
fix rounds never traced) with route + phase; [falls-adm] admission
verdicts for F418 emitters at the retail ShouldDrawParticles port
(owner, cell, distance, in-set, eligibility); the continuous
[walk-root] line now separating the TRUE root flood
(InteriorFloodCells) from the visited union (root + look-ins - the
conflation the review corpus indicted) and printing the walk''s own
exit-view count; [walk-cam] replayable camera dumps; and the restored
[walk-portal] per-portal side/clip decisions. All under the existing
ACDREAM_PROBE_WALK_ROOT flag; the depth-checkpoint readback is
deferred until these answers narrow the question (mid-pass Vulkan
depth reads need render-pass splitting).
Hermetic 6,762/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reverts 0d6cd5c0 (slice 5) and f3a03efc (slice 4). All three
independent cathedral reviews (fable, opus, external) plus the DAT
geometry ground truth condemned both:
- Slice 5 misidentified its targets: owners 0x4F418012-15 are cell
0xF4180106''s TORCHES + a prop + a plant (InteriorEntityIdAllocator
namespace), not the falls - the real waterfall emitters are outdoor
landblock objects in the 0xC namespace (0xCF418000-13). Moving torch
flames pre-clear is the owner-reported in-cathedral particle
regression.
- Slice 4''s straddle rule is invented (retail stages by actual
shadow-cell membership), and its "emit once" contradicts retail''s
deliberate mid-frame m_nFrameStamp re-arm @0x005a4886 (a part
overlapping both scopes legitimately draws twice).
The synthesis of all seven review reports and the adjudicated fix plan
live in docs/research/2026-08-30-cathedral-synthesis.md (next commit).
Hermetic 6,762/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five ordering repairs later the cathedral falls still bled, and the
final probe round proved why no ordering fix could ever land it: the
falls now submit pre-clear with depth test LESS - and STILL pass,
because the depth they test against is EMPTY. DrawWalkTerrainSlice
scissored + hardware-clipped the terrain to the walk''s exit-view
polygons, and at the #456 cathedral seam those authored portal polys
are thin BANDS far narrower than the real opening: most of the vista
never received terrain color or depth that frame (the visible scene
there was stale color), so unclipped alpha painted straight across.
Retail''s rule, per the PV campaign''s proven model and LScape::draw:
landscape content is view-CULLED, never view-CLIPPED - terrain blocks
draw whole, once per landscape turn (the views feed only CheckBlocks''
block visibility), and aperture exactness comes from the depth clear +
exit seals + interior repaint that follow in the walk''s own order.
This slice ports that: the driver fans exactly ONE terrain turn
(correcting slice 1''s per-view fan), and an interior root''s terrain
and sky draw unclipped/unscissored; the outdoor root keeps its single
full-screen slice (equivalent by construction). The walk''s views
still own the punch fans and dynamics apertures.
Hermetic 6,762/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cathedral falls'' true identity, pinned by the emitter/owner dumps
and the owner''s retail-vs-ACE oracle (retail renders them perfectly):
they are EnvCell STAB-LIST statics (interior-cell dat objects, ids
minted by InteriorEntityIdAllocator) whose geometry hangs out over the
lake. Our cell-statics route submitted every interior flood cell''s
static particle owners POST-clear ("walls own depth") - true for
content that stays inside, but a straddler''s outside half meets
seal/cleared depth and splats across the vista.
Retail''s mechanism is the outdoor shadow-cell draw: an object
overlapping outdoor landcells draws during LScape::draw (DrawBlock
pc:430056-430064, once per overlapped shadow cell), so its particles
submit in the landscape scope and drain at the pre-clear boundary
flush over true terrain depth; the cell''s own turn skips them
(drawn-once). This slice ports that rule for particles: after Collect,
the interior flood cells'' static records are classified by the shared
exit-plane straddle test (extracted as SphereStraddlesExitPlane from
the #118 dynamic split); straddlers'' owners submit in the pre-clear
closure and the post-replay cell-owners union subtracts them, so every
owner emits exactly once. Also adds the [walk-emit] probe dump that
falsified the unattached-route theory.
Hermetic 6,762/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cathedral falls shine-through (owner report at the #456 terrace
seam, toggling with the camera''s side of the seam): the probe''s new
phase tags pinned the falls emitters to the cell-owners route
submitting POST-depth-clear on interior roots - retail''s own timing,
safe only because seals own the aperture depth by the end-of-frame
alpha drain. Our seal SET still came from the old apparatus''s flood,
which misses exit portals at the #456 seam band (its never-drawn panel
family), so the drain z-passed across the unsealed opening.
DrawWalkExitPortalMasks now stamps the walk''s own ordered interior
flood (WalkFrameDriver.InteriorFloodCells, captured at
OnInteriorFloodDrawTurn - retail PView::DrawCells pc:432785-432786),
keeping the old assembly''s per-cell slice clips where present and
sealing unclipped where the old apparatus had no entry (benign: the
exact dat aperture polygon, z-tested). The legacy path keeps the old
seal draw. Also: ACDREAM_PROBE_WALK_ROOT gains [walk-part]/[walk-alpha]
phase-tagged submission/drain lines (the apparatus that pinned this).
Hermetic 6,762/0, Walk lane 213/1, InstalledDat walk conformance 40/1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The FW3 visual gate's stairwell/grass transition flash (grass briefly
covering floor openings at doorway crossings - the #119 family) was the
FW3 dual path leaking: the walk decided WHETHER terrain draws while the
old PortalVisibilityBuilder assembly decided WHERE (slice planes, count,
scissor), and punch fans indexed the old slice array with walk view
indices. The new ACDREAM_PROBE_WALK_ROOT apparatus pinned the boundary
frames: fat/degenerate old-apparatus exit views splash terrain over
interior pixels, the interior depth-clear preserves color, and cells
absent from the walk's flood never repaint. Retail has ONE visibility
structure and cannot produce this.
ClipFrameAssembler.ReassembleOutsideViewFromWalk now materializes the
walk's own outside_view (pixel screen points -> standard NDC -> the
existing ClipPlaneSet machinery) into the assembly's outside-view block
after Collect, ahead of the single PrepareClipFrame publication (moved
below the walk block). The Landscape event carries the walk's active
view count on the record's existing OutsideViewCount field (trace
mapping compares kind only - zero oracle-fixture churn) and the driver
fans exactly that many terrain slices; activeTerrainSliceCount is
deleted end to end. Outdoor roots keep the assembler's single
full-screen slice, asserted ==1.
Hermetic 6,762/0 (4 new materializer tests pin the y-flip and
plane-sign conventions), Walk lane 209/1, InstalledDat walk conformance
40/1. Seals/cell slices/look-in seeding stay on the old per-cell views
for the rest of FW4 (identical dat polygons; only the visible set can
differ).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The FW3.4 dense-Arwic pair triggered the +/-20% stop rule (+33.5% CPU
p50, 14x frame allocation). This slice removes the three measured
costs without changing GPU command order (the referee suites assert
identical recorded call sequences):
- WalkFrameDriver: Collect (ONE walk per frame - no GPU work; leaf
calls and flush points become a recorded event list; the driver
absorbed the renderer collection pass and exposes the visited sets)
+ Replay (prepare the whole stream once, then replay events,
interleaving DrawOrderedRange with leaf calls in the exact recorded
order). RunFrame = Collect+Replay for existing callers.
- WbDrawDispatcher: SubmitOrderedStream split into PrepareOrderedStream
(all sections + commands + merge runs uploaded once per frame) and
DrawOrderedRange (bind-once latch; per-run pipeline + DrawIdOffset +
DrawIndirectRangeRhi). Load-bearing correctness catch from the
implementation round: merge runs take FORCED BREAKS at the recorded
event marks - whole-stream merging must not fuse two segments that
retail separates with a leaf GPU call (shell, punch); the straddle
assert stays as a dead-code safety net.
- WalkProductionWorldData: WalkFrameStaticRecords carries an
ArraySegment into a per-frame grow-only arena; the per-cell
fresh-array copies (the 1.9 MB/frame alloc p50) are gone - zero
steady-state allocation after warmup.
Suites (lead-verified): full Release build 0 warnings; hermetic
6,758/0; Walk lane 209/1; InstalledDat Walk conformance 40/1
untouched. Next: the dense-Arwic re-measure against the same-session
baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The owner watched the first passing lifecycle run and reported most
outdoor scenery not rendering (terrain/buildings/interiors fine, no
seams). Root cause: retained-scene record positions are RENDER-ORIGIN-
RELATIVE (each landblock carries (lbX - CenterX)*192 offsets), but the
walk world data bucketed outdoor statics by treating them as absolute -
garbage landblock bytes, so the walk's landscape-cell turns read empty
buckets and trees/rocks/fences never drew. LandscapeCellId now adds the
frame's RenderCenterLbX/Y back to the relative block index, producing
the TRUE cell ids the walk's OnLandscapeCellTurn emits. Buildings and
cell statics were unaffected (id-keyed, not position-bucketed).
The same run confirmed the campaign thesis live: NO SEAMS at the
doorway class under walk order + retail depth, with the lift hack
still present (its retirement is FW3.3).
Suites: hermetic 6,750/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first connected gate run of the static cutover crashed at
Aerlinthe: WalkProductionWorldData grew its scratch by probing with an
undersized span, but ArchRenderScene validates destination size UP
FRONT and throws (5,040 outdoor statics vs the 1,024-record probe; the
sanctuary shadow run never had enough outdoor statics to trip it).
Presize from the query's own counts instead - IndexCounts.For for the
outdoor sweep, GetCellStaticCount for per-cell copies.
Suites: full Release build 0 warnings; hermetic 6,750/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The retail frame walk now drives every production static draw. In
RetailPViewRenderer.DrawInside, when the concrete executor + the
packed product + the FW3.1 walk registries are all wired (all
production compositions - anything less throws):
- A pre-walk events-only collection pass (the shadow sink generalized
to WalkVisitedSetCollector) gathers the frame's visited cells,
buildings, and landscape-cell turns; the visited cells union into
prepareCells so EnvCellRenderer prepares every shell the driver
draws.
- DrawWalkDrivenStatics runs the WalkFrameDriver over the production
world data (WalkProductionWorldData over RenderSceneQuery + the
building registry): sky, terrain slices, outdoor statics at their
landscape-cell turns, buildings (alpha barrier -> punch/look-in
passes -> shell) in retail order, interior clear+seals as leaf
closures (the old tail block's drain reasoning moves with them),
flood cells shell-then-contents. Landscape/cell-stage particle
owners re-source from the walk's visited sets - retail gates
particles per cell turn (ShouldDrawParticles @0x0050FE60), which
this is; the old sphere filter was the approximation.
- DrawLandscapeDynamicsPhase + DrawBuildingLookInDynamics carry the
dynamics-only remainder (LookInObject now dynamic-classified,
late outside-dynamics + weather, particle unions); DrawDynamicsLast
and the outdoor flush are unchanged.
- The product builder stops emitting LandscapeOutdoorStatic /
LandscapeBuildingShell / CellStatic (methods deleted, dead index
tracking removed); LookInObject loads cells with
includeStatics: false.
The old static path survives ONLY behind !walkActive for the
standalone/diagnostic executor-fake path that keeps 15 retail-ordering
regression tests exercising the barrier/punch/seal machinery; no
production composition can reach it. Its deletion is FW4 scope (the
plan's "deleting the patch apparatus") - recorded in the plan.
Transitional risks recorded in code/report: the two-pass walk cost
(FW3.4 measures), the interior slice-count reconciliation between the
old clip assembly and the walk's own exit-view survival, and the
outdoor merged-flood punch coverage now riding the walk's own
building-BSP punches (retail-faithful per FW1; the owner visual gate
verifies).
Suites (lead-verified): full Release build 0 warnings; hermetic
6,750/0 (baseline minus the three deleted route tests); Walk lane
201/1; InstalledDat Walk conformance 40/1 untouched. The two
IL-branch tests the implementation round reported failing pass in
every lead run - the recurring parallel-load flake pair.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Additive, nothing invokes it yet (the cutover flip is step 2):
- WalkProductionLeafRenderer + RetailPViewPassExecutor.WalkLeaf: the
walk driver's leaf turns over the SAME executor renderers the packed
path uses today - DrawWalkSky (the per-slice sky block looped under
one driver turn), DrawWalkTerrainSlice (the terrain block of
DrawLandscapeSlice), per-cell shells via EnvCellRenderer,
DrawWalkPunchFan (PortalDepthMaskRenderer far-Z, +ShellDrawLiftZ
matching today's DrawPortalDepthWrite until FW3.3 retires it), the
alpha barrier via FlushLandscapeAlphaFartherThan, and caller-supplied
clear/seal actions (the renderer owns the pass scope). The cutover
changes ORDER, never leaf mechanics.
- Punch fans now carry the ACTIVE VIEW INDEX end to end (retail pins
building_view = Render::portal_view_num @0x0059f3bf for the whole
two-pass walk; the fan clips by that view's slice planes):
PortalPassSink.ActiveViewIndex -> IWalkEventSink.OnPunchGeometry ->
IWalkFrameLeafRenderer.DrawPunchFan.
- The FW3.2b-2 rooting design is recorded in the plan (dual-compute
split, LookInObject route filtered to dynamics, consumer
re-pointing, gate list).
Suites: full Release build 0 warnings; Walk lane green; hermetic green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The oracle trace order DI|DC|LS is breakpoint-ENTRY order; retail's
actual DRAW order inside PView::DrawCells @0x005a4840 for an interior
root is LScape::draw FIRST (pc:432719, only when exit views survive),
then the depth clear (pc:432731-432732), the exit-portal seals
(pc:432785-432786), THEN the flood's own cells far-to-near. The
driver drew flood cells before the landscape - inverted.
RetailFrameWalk.DrawInside gains the additive
OnInteriorFloodDrawTurn(cells) hook firing after the conditional
landscape turn; the DC EVENT stays at its original point (conformance
untouched - 40/1 InstalledDat green). WalkFrameDriver records the
interior flood at the DC turn and draws it at the new turn:
flush -> ClearInteriorDepth -> flush -> DrawExitSeals -> per-cell
shell-then-contents. Building look-in floods still draw immediately at
their building turn (retail's reentrant DrawCells with no clear/seal).
Two new leaf members map to IWorldPassScope.ClearInteriorDepth and the
seal-fan machinery at FW3.2b-2. Reconciliation note recorded: the
driver clears unconditionally for interior roots while production
stages the clear on OutsideViewSlices>0 - observably equivalent at
ov=0, awaiting a firmer decomp read of the clear's gate.
Suites: full Release build 0 warnings; Walk lane 201/1 skip;
hermetic 6,753/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
WalkFrameDriver executes one full static-content frame from the walk's
turns so GPU command-buffer order equals retail's walk order. One rule
does the interleaving: the accumulated OrderedDrawStream flushes
through SubmitOrderedStream immediately before EVERY non-stream draw
(sky, terrain slice, cell shell, punch fan, alpha barrier).
Turn script, all decomp-cited and two of them corrected in review:
- Interior flood: per cell IN FLOOD ORDER, shell first then contents
(PView::DrawCells @0x005a4840: DrawEnvCell @0x005a4abe precedes
DrawObjCellForDummies @0x005a4b0d).
- Landscape: sky once, terrain per active slice, then blocks
far-to-near; per cell the building turn precedes the cell's outdoor
statics (DrawSortCell @0x0059f140).
- Building (DrawBuilding @0x0059f2a0): the BLD probe event stays at
entry, but the ENTIRE body - alpha barrier, portal passes, shell -
sits inside retail's gfxobj[deg_level]!=0 gate @0x0059f2d3, and the
order is FlushAlphaList @0x0059f30b -> the two-pass punch/look-in
walk -> THEN the shell draw @0x0059f345. The driver review caught
both the missing gate and a shell-before-punch inversion; fixed
with the addresses cited.
Walk seam: three additive default-implemented IWalkEventSink hooks
(OnLandscapeCellTurn / OnBuildingTurn / OnBuildingShellTurn /
OnPunchGeometry) - every existing sink and all FW1 conformance
fixtures unchanged. WalkLandBlock gains LandblockId for the cell-id
encoding. Leaf draws go through IWalkFrameLeafRenderer so FW3.2b-2
wires the real renderers and the referee suite runs on fakes +
RecordingGpuDevice.
Flagged for FW3.2b-2/FW4 adjudication (documented in code):
FlushFartherThan(building distance) vs retail flush-all
FlushAlphaList(0f); terrain-before-statics within the landscape turn.
Suites: full Release build 0 warnings; Walk lane 200/1 skip;
InstalledDat Walk conformance 40/1 untouched; hermetic 6,752/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The piece that turns walk-visited static content into draws, with no
production frame wiring (FW3.2b roots the frame):
- TryClassifyBatch: ONE shared per-batch classify core (the #426
untextured gate, #188 opacity promotion, texture resolve, foliage
classification, in the exact original order) extracted from
ClassifyBatches; the classic and packed classifiers now call it -
behavior-identical, proven by the full hermetic + InstalledDat +
Core Wb suites.
- ClassifyEntityForWalk / WalkClassifiedBatch: the per-entity seam
yielding per-batch keys + instance data WITHOUT InstanceGroup
bucketing, plus the per-part selection data (picking stays alive on
the walk path - the survey's unlisted-consumer fix).
- WalkStaticStreamPopulator: per-entity walk-ordered opaque appends
(under depth Less, opaque order is pixel-relevant only for coplanar
surfaces, which retail resolves first-drawn-wins in ITS order -
never material-grouped), translucent instances to the SAME
RetailAlphaQueue via SubmitWalkAlphaInstance (identical viewer
distances; walk-order submission improves retail's tie fidelity),
selection parts published per entity.
- SubmitOrderedStream now owns _orderedDrawCullModes, retiring the
FW2-recorded alpha-scope interleaving constraint;
DrawIndirectRangeRhi takes an optional cull array (all existing
call sites unchanged). The referee test was verified to FAIL
against the old shared-scratch behavior.
- WalkDrawStage.OutdoorStatic added for the landscape turn.
Suites: full Release build 0 warnings; Walk lane 195/1 skip;
hermetic 6,747/0 (the two failures the implementation round reported
were transient - both pass in isolation and in the full run).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The retail frame walk's world model now materializes from production
landblock-build owners through the legal IDatReaderWriter seam, with
zero frame wiring (FW3.2 roots the frame):
- WalkCellFactory: WalkCell built in the SAME pass as LoadedCell
(EnvCellLandblockBuild.BuildVisibilityCell) from the raw portal
Flags/polygons/planes/stab lists already parsed there; stored as
LoadedCell.Walk, committed atomically with the cell. The
fixture-pinned decodes (inverse-0x2 portal side, 0xFFFF->0xFFFFFFFF
exit widening) live here.
- WalkBuildingFactory + WalkBuildingRegistry: the production
WalkBuilding build (drawing BSP with PORT nodes, degrade ladder,
portal sides/stab lists, sort center, model frame) from the SAME
LandBlockInfo the streaming build already fetches, under the
factory's existing DAT lock - closing the gap where BuildingLoader
drops every walk field at load.
- WalkLandscapeAssembler: the retail 51x51 viewer-centred grid
(mid_radius 25) fed incrementally from landblock publish/retire;
per-block z-slab (heightTable[max]+200 / [min]-1) computed
worker-side in LandblockBuildFactory from the heights already in
hand. O(1) SetViewer on same-block frames.
- WalkProductionFrameContext: the walk's frame contexts over
CellVisibility + WalkBuildingRegistry with a generic
inverse-view-projection ray caster (rays feed cross products only -
scale-free) and the znear=0.1 CY plane.
- Publication: LandblockRenderPublisher owns both walk registries,
publishing in the same AdvanceCompleteOne step as BuildingRegistry
and retiring in RemoveBuildingRegistry - same commit, same
retirement, no new ticket stage.
Conformance: ALL TEN oracle fixtures replay identically through the
PRODUCTION builders (WalkProductionWorldConformanceTests) - same
signatures as the test adapter, first run. Known gap documented for
FW3.2: far-tier landblocks carry no EnvCell transaction, so their
z-slab never reaches the assembler.
Suites: full Release build 0 warnings; Walk lane 186/1 skip;
hermetic 6,738/0 (+24); RuntimeDatAccessArchitectureTests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The walk-order submission layer over the existing RHI (plan section FW2):
- OrderedDrawStream: append-only walk-ordered draw commands
(GroupKey + transform + per-instance data + WalkDrawStage + cell
provenance), struct-of-arrays with one lockstep Reset (#193 shape).
The PortalPunch stage exists but has no FW2 submission path - the
submitter throws on it; punch emission lands with FW3 wiring.
- WbDrawDispatcher.OrderedStream partial: per-instance-first emission
(the deferred-alpha shape - command i owns instance i, walk order
survives into the indirect array), each SSBO section written once,
then one DrawIndirectRangeRhi call per maximal merge run. Runs are
built by pure-CPU BuildOrderedMergeRuns and may never span a stage,
pipeline-bucket, or cull boundary; ValidateMergeRun re-checks every
emitted run and throws (the campaign fail-loud rule). Nothing is
sorted, reordered, or dropped: N commands in, N indirect commands
out, covered exactly once.
- WorldDepthContract: retail world depth verified verbatim from the
decomp - Render::zfuncVal @0x00820e1c = 0x2, SetDepthBufferMode
@0x005a2d10 writes the enum directly as D3DRS_ZFUNC so the value IS
D3DCMP_LESS, applied by the surface-state applier @0x0059c80a with
Z-write toggled by blend; the LESSEQUAL sites are GameSky::Draw-local.
Seven world pipeline sites now cite the named constant (no value
changes).
- Plan updated: FW1 status block + gate amendment (the ten pose-stamped
retail traces supersede re-expressing the old-builder replay
fixtures; those retire with the old builder at FW4 and their
scenario classes re-verify at the FW3/FW4 connected gates).
Known FW2 scope notes recorded in the code: the building-detail
overlay replay is production wiring (FW3); the _drawCullModes scratch
may not interleave with a mid-flight RetailAlphaQueue scope (FW3
sequencing constraint). The pixel A/B equivalence proof rides FW3's
cutover toggle where a walk-driven scene first exists.
Suites: full Release build 0 warnings; Walk lane 154/1 skip;
hermetic 6,714/0 (+27 new).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Render::deg_mul is auto-tuned by frame load and SWUNG between oracle
captures: doorway-still ran right after the heavy terrace-edge capture
with the multiplier depressed (mul <= 0 puts thresholds at/below ideal,
so 001e/0026/002f select the portless level 1 - retail's zero look-in
floods, reproduced exactly at mul = 0), while every other fixture pins
~ +0.99 (thresholds at max). The recon session's "-0.99" live dump was
real - taken under the same cdb load. RetailFrameWalk now exposes the
multiplier; the doorway test pins 0, the rest use the default.
foundry-entry: frames 1-66 reproduce exactly; the F67-F79 standing
segment diverges ONLY in building 0036's intra-building DC order
(retail 116,118,11d vs replay 11d,116,118). The BSP-traversal microscope
pins the flip to 0036's ROOT plane (N=(0,0,-1) D=2.8): replay eye z
2.33 (d=+0.47, NEG-first) vs retail behaving as d<0 (POS-first) - a
structural ~0.5 m frame question (positionPush(2)/part-scale), only
adjudicable live. Turnkey probe:
tools/walk-oracle/fw1-f67-viewpoint-probe.cdb.
Fixture status: nine of ten fully conformant; foundry-entry exact
through F66 with the 13-frame order segment parked on the probe.
Suites: Walk 127/1 skip; hermetic 6,687/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The moving-fixture divergence was the building degrade ladder:
GfxObjDegradeInfo::get_degrade @0x0051e4b0 (Ghidra-verified - BN's
FPU-flag pseudo-C misread BOTH arm selection and one formula) slides
each level's threshold from ideal toward MAX as the multiplier
approaches 1, and the live client runs the positive arm at ~0.99, so
level 0's portal-bearing BSP survives to ~max_dist (48 for the Holtburg
cottages), not ideal (24). The recon note's "deg_mul = -0.99" was a
sign misread; the negative arm's threshold slides toward MIN and
contradicts the fixtures from both directions. With the two-arm port,
holtburg-walkout, holtburg-transitions, and holtburg-walkabout pass
every pairable frame - the walkout-F2 microscope's prediction
(103,100 | 100x3 | 124 through the cottage exit views) landed exactly.
Also this round, falsified and reverted: a BN-driven swap of the
portal walker's negative/in-plane arms (Ghidra shows side 1 = negative
EMITS, side 2 = in-plane does not - the original port was correct; the
swap broke four fixtures). The walker docs and unit tests now pin the
Ghidra-verified truth table.
Parked with findings: foundry-entry F67 (right flood set, one
plane-side classification at the +/-eps boundary orders 11d before
116/118) and doorway-still (retail shows zero floods at a pose one
meter from walkout-F2's flooding pose; multi-portal clip boundary).
Suites: Walk 124/3 skips; hermetic 6,687/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three final pins complete the still-fixture set: (1) the CELL portal
side decode is the INVERSE of the 0x2 bit (uniform with the building
convention; the doorway-still flood proved it - ov=2 n=3 exact, and
foundry-deep stays green); (2) interior frames key the landscape order
off the OUTSIDE-projected landcell (get_outside_cell_id - derived from
the camera origin); (3) the outdoor pview has draw_landscape=FALSE so
look-in floods discard exit portals - the ov=0 pattern of every traced
look-in. CONFORMANT: foundry-deep (every frame), doorway-still,
street-outdoor, terrace-center, terrace-edge (the #456 acceptance
pose), cathedral-arrival - full frames identical to retail. The moving
four diverge only at punch-edge frames (walkabout F9, foundry-entry
F67) - pose-timing sensitivity parked in the driver Skip note.
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Three pinned corrections close the outdoor frame: (1) the camera basis
RE-pinned to +Y-forward - the terrace-edge fixture EXTERNAL ground
truth (the ledge faces the F518 vista, east) overrules the walkabout
motion sweep, whose camera was mouse-turned off the run line; (2)
alwaysDrawObjects (.data default 1 @0x00820ed4) drawn into the
DrawSortCell gate - cell contents draw for every cell of an in-view
block; (3) the building portal side decode data-pinned as the INVERSE
of the cell 0x2 bit (the sweep winning arm). Street result: all 13
buildings in retail exact order (a9b3003c in, aab50002 correctly
absent), punches at exactly 001a and 0022 opening the exact first
cells 16e/164. SOLE remaining delta: look-in flood depth (mine 1 cell,
retail 3-4) - the doorway-still fixture adjudicates the interior flood
in isolation next.
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UpdateViewerDistance @0x0050e030 + get_degrade @0x0051e4b0 ported with
live-pinned globals: distance measured to the part SCALED SORT CENTER,
effective = max(0, dist - s_rDegradeDistance [live 100]), level = first
with effective < IdealDist (the live auto_update_deg_mul<=0 arm), else
the last level. WalkBuildingDegradeLevel carries the full authored
bands; the adapter fills sort centers; the replay context measures to
the transformed sort center. Sweep state after the rule: the level-0
building set is now correct; the residual divergence is the per-portal
side/clip gate (my arms punch a near-complement of retail two) - the
sweep driver carries the next instrument in its Skip note.
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The offline degrade probe proved the mechanism: every Holtburg building
carries PORT nodes ONLY in its level-0 GfxObj (out to ~24-48 m); every
degraded level has zero. Retail walks the CURRENT degrade level BSP
(part->gfxobj[deg_level]) - that is what limits look-in punches to the
nearest buildings. WalkBuilding gains the degrade ladder +
SelectDrawingBsp (band pick; UpdateViewerDistance hysteresis is a port
TODO), the walk selects per viewer distance, the adapter builds
per-level BSPs, and the stab-list load rule (CLandBlock::init_buildings
@0052fd80: a full-res block loads exactly its buildings portal stab
cells) replaces load-everything in the landscape builder. The sweep now
shows clean rosters with all far-building punches gone; remaining
deltas: the near buildings 001a/0022 (50 m/28 m center distance vs the
48 m band edge - sphere-adjusted distance/hysteresis to port) and the
one ring-1 frustum boundary pair (aab50002/a9b3003c).
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RuntimeDatAccessArchitectureTests correctly flagged WalkWorldDatAdapter
taking raw DatCollection in production. The adapter is the conformance
harness world builder, so it moves into the test assembly; the FW3
production adapter will consume the content-owner seam. Hermetic suite
back to 6,687/0; adapter + conformance 10/10.
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The replay harness reconstructs the camera from a pose-stamped oracle
frame (Frame quaternion w,x,y,z storage order; +Y forward / +Z up;
landblock-local origin) and drives the ported walk over adapter-built
cells (cell transforms from EnvCell.Position now populated). The
foundry-deep fixture - the pure-interior frame shape - reproduces
retail EXACTLY on every complete frame: DI + DC(ov=0, [cell]) with no
landscape, 39/39. Conventions are now pinned by live retail output; the
remaining nine fixtures need the outdoor world build-out (landscape
blocks, terrain z-slabs, building transforms + active-view clip) and
join the same gate.
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WalkWorldDatAdapter builds WalkCell/WalkBuilding from real DATs: cell
portals with the PortalSide flag bit and signed OtherPortalId, portal
polygons + planes via the production formula, stab lists, building
position cells (24 m landcell math), building portals with stab lists,
and the drawing-BSP -> WalkBspNode conversion incl. PORT-node PortalRef
polygons (the previously missing consumers the 2026-08-30 survey named).
Lane=InstalledDat conformance: every BLD id the FW0 oracle traces saw
retail draw (26 buildings over 7 landblocks) resolves in the adapter
roster at its EXACT position cell; the traced look-in cells build with
portals/polygons/stabs; the sanctuary BSP carries portal refs. 9/9.
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RetailFrameWalk composes the ported machinery into retail frame shapes:
SmartBox::RenderNormalMode rooting (camera-cell low word < 0x100),
PView::DrawInside + the DrawCells event half (interior pview, the
traces pv=009d4a80), LScape::draw (per-view visibility, blocks
far-to-near, per-block cells far-to-near, buildings at their cell turn)
and RenderDeviceD3D::DrawBuilding (BLD at entry before the degrade
check; two-pass BSP portal walk per active view on the outdoor pview,
the traces pv=009d4b08). WalkLandscape ports the block grid +
draw_check_blocks/landcell_check visibility (192 m/24 m pitch,
viewer-relative, union across views, never downgrade). Six composition
tests: outdoor far-to-near emission, degrade-entry event, interior
ov=0/ov=1 shapes, rooting, complete view unwind.
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WalkBuildingPortals transcribes the portal-only drawing-BSP walk
(BSPTREE/BSPNODE::build_draw_portals_only @0x00539860/@0x0053c100,
BSPPORTAL::portal_draw_portals_only @0x0053d870 - opposite-child-first
= far-to-near emission, IN_PLANE PORT arm emits nothing),
PView::DrawPortal @0x005a5ab0 (stab add/remove_views around the
look-in, DrawCells on pass-2 success), and the CBldPortal
PView::ConstructView overload @0x005a59a0 (side must EQUAL the authored
portal_side, clip survival, Visible destination, punch on pass 1, flood
recursion on pass 2). Punch surfaces via the pass sink for FW1
conformance; the depth-fan submission itself is FW2. Six tests: BSP
emission order both viewer sides, in-plane suppression, pass-1
punch-no-flood, pass-2 flood + DC event, sidedness rejection, unloaded
destination skip.
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WalkPView transcribes ConstructView @0x005a57b0, InitCell @0x005a4b70,
InsCellTodoList @0x005a4f50 (nearest-first pop), ClipPortals @0x005a5520,
OtherPortalClip @0x005a5400 (inverted ==0 sidedness), AddViewToPortals
@0x005a52d0 (update_count watermark, duplicate-reach arm), AddToCell
@0x005a4d90, SetOtherSeen @0x005a4e30, FixCellList/AdjustCellPlace/
AdjustDrawList/AdjustCellView @0x005a5250/0x005a5010/0x005a4e90/
0x005a5770, plus set_view and PView::GetClip @0x005a4320 over the
WalkScreenClip chain. Resolves and documents the portal-flag convention
(inflag=1 = the portal FACES the viewer and feeds max_indist; inflag=0 +
armed seen = an opening — the same side condition building look-ins
require), which the PDB names obscure. WalkWorld supplies the cell model
and frame-context seam. Six synthetic-world flood tests pass on first
run: traversal, facing rejection with the exact distance key, exit-view
raising, entry-portal no-ping-pong, chain ordering, unloaded skips.
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WalkScreenClip ports PrimD3DRender::xformStart @0x0059b990 (homogeneous
viewport coords, y-flip, no divide) and ACRender::polyClipFinish
@0x006b6d00 (w>=cdstW plane then last-to-first edge passes, inside =
side<=0 homogeneous 2D cross, reverse-scan passes with original-winding
restore, <3 early-outs). WalkViews ports the view_type/portal_view_type
data model and Render::copy_view @0x0054dfc0 exactly: in-place divide,
the keep/last/stl/second pruning bookkeeping with all three closing
wrap checks, <3 reject leaving dest untouched, cap 31, pool-base reset
at view_count==0, retail fabs on copy, and edge planes
N=normalize(cross(ray[k+1],ray[k])), d=-dot(N,eye) behind an
IWalkRayCaster seam. Thirteen new tests; Walk namespace 85/85.
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The second decomp round (flood bookkeeping/propagation, view-clip
support, landscape visibility) is archived Ghidra-arbitrated - it caught
a load-bearing BN inversion (InsCellTodoList pops NEAREST-first, which
is what makes the draw list far-to-near) and three more traps (the 192m
elided constant, the min/max double positional swap, the copy_view
cross order - the walk doc section 6 is corrected). WalkVisibilityMath
ports get_pt_limit @0x0054b840, get_clip_height @0x0054cff0,
corner/block_plane_check @0x0054b930/@0x0054d060, block_check
@0x0054dc50, and viewconeCheck @0x0054c250 with retail boundary
semantics (strict cull, inclusive partial, touch-out=Outside /
touch-in=EntirelyInside) under 23 focused tests.
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WalkEvent mirrors the FW0 oracle-trace vocabulary one-to-one (Landscape,
Building, DrawInside, DrawCells) as the conformance surface RetailFrameWalk
emits; the FW2 ordered draw stream layers on later without changing it.
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LandWalkOrder ports LScape::get_block_order @0x00504c50 (near-to-far ring
list, walked backwards by LScape::draw), CLandBlock::calc_sq_draw_order
@0x0052f4a0 (cell array filled backwards from the closest cell),
LandDefs::get_dir @0x005a9aa0, and the 9-case closest-cell direction
switch. The shared 8-slot ring coefficient tables were byte-decoded from
the PDB-paired binary (block VA 0x0081cc6c.., cell VA 0x0081df88.. -
identical sets); the intra-ring visit order is preserved exactly because
it decides draw order between equidistant blocks and the oracle traces
pin it. Thirty focused tests cover coverage/ordering invariants, the
hand-expanded ring-1 pattern, and the direction/closest-cell contracts.
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