<# .SYNOPSIS Campaign V self-differential pixel gate. Captures deterministic offline screenshots and optionally compares them against a baseline capture. .DESCRIPTION Every Campaign V renderer-port slice must prove it changed no pixels. The connected lifecycle gate needs a live ACE server and the user's attention; this gate needs neither. The client is launched WITHOUT ACDREAM_LIVE, so it renders the world straight from the DATs, no session is created, and no ACE state can be disturbed. Coverage: terrain, terrain blending, scenery, static world meshes, sky and fog, and the full retained UI (vitals, spell bar, toolbar, chat, radar). It does NOT cover EnvCell interiors, particles, or the paperdoll viewport — those still need the connected route, so slices touching them (V4e, V4g) must additionally be gated by the user. Determinism levers, all three forced here rather than left to the ambient environment, because a capture that inherits any of them is not comparable against one that did not: * ACDREAM_DAY_GROUP -- the sky day group, so weather and the keyframe do not drift between runs. * ACDREAM_WORLD_TIME -- the Dereth day fraction. This moves the SUN, so it moves every lit surface, not just the sky. Slice V7 measured 22.3% of the frame differing between two captures 45 s apart at one stop on one backend with this unpinned. * ACDREAM_SKY_PHASE_SECONDS -- the cloud sheet's UV scroll, which runs on wall time and is independent of the world clock by design. ACDREAM_MSAA_SAMPLES is forced to 0 because multisample resolve positions are explicitly unspecified across implementations, and at 4x they swamp the threshold ninety-fold with two drivers' sample patterns. See plan section 5.5.16. A fixed warm-up lets streaming settle before the frame is captured. .PARAMETER Out Directory to write this capture into. Created if absent, emptied if present. .PARAMETER Baseline Optional. A directory from a previous capture. When supplied, every PNG is compared against its namesake and the script fails on any mismatch. .PARAMETER WarmupMs Milliseconds to let the world stream and settle before capturing. Default 12000, which reliably reaches a fully populated view on the reference machine. .PARAMETER DayGroup Sky day-group index to pin. Default 0. .PARAMETER Tolerance Per-channel absolute difference allowed. Default 2, matching the project's pinned screenshot rule. .PARAMETER MaxDifferentFraction Fraction of differing pixels allowed. Default 0.001, likewise pinned. .PARAMETER WorldDayFraction Dereth day fraction pinned on the launch, in [0, 1). Default 0.5 -- noon, the brightest and flattest lighting the day has. .PARAMETER SkyPhaseSeconds Elapsed-seconds value the sky's UV scroll is pinned to. Default 0, the cloud sheet's authored origin. .PARAMETER MsaaSamples MSAA sample count forced on the launch. Default 0 -- off, which is what plan section 2's pixel-acceptance contract specifies. Pass -1 to leave the quality preset alone. .PARAMETER MaskTopPixels Height in pixels of the sky and treeline band excluded from comparison. Default 280. This is not a fudge factor, and slice V10 re-measured it rather than assuming the V7 clock pins had retired it. Two captures at the SAME commit once differed in 0.29% of pixels, essentially all of it in the top rows, because the sky legitimately animates: clouds scroll on wall time and the Dereth clock moves the sun, and therefore every lit surface. Pinning both clocks -- which this script now does -- shrinks that but does NOT remove it. Measured at V10, two launches of the same binary with all four levers pinned: whole frame, GL vs GL 1,011 px of 921,600 (1.10e-03) whole frame, VK vs VK 482 px of 921,600 (5.23e-04) top 280 masked, GL vs GL 10 px of 563,200 (1.78e-05) top 280 masked, VK vs VK 8 px of 563,200 (1.42e-05) So the band still moves between launches on both backends -- enough that an unmasked self-differential on GL fails the 0.001 threshold on noise alone -- and everything below it is bit-stable to about ten pixels. Masking the band is what makes the rest a strict identity check instead of forcing a loose tolerance that would hide real regressions everywhere else. Consequence, unchanged: this gate does NOT cover sky rendering. Do NOT reach for a LARGER value to make a failing gate pass: plan section 7.1 rule 2. Its legitimate use is diagnostic -- reporting a masked/unmasked split so a known, registered band (for instance AD-46's treeline) can be quantified separately from the rest of the frame. .PARAMETER SkipBuild Skip the Release build (use when the caller already built). .EXAMPLE # Capture a baseline at the parent commit, then gate the slice: git stash tools/run-offline-pixel-gate.ps1 -Out artifacts/gate-base git stash pop tools/run-offline-pixel-gate.ps1 -Out artifacts/gate-head -Baseline artifacts/gate-base #> [CmdletBinding()] param( [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)][string]$Out, [string]$Baseline, [int]$WarmupMs = 12000, [int]$DayGroup = 0, [double]$WorldDayFraction = 0.5, [double]$SkyPhaseSeconds = 0, [int]$MsaaSamples = 0, [int]$Tolerance = 2, [double]$MaxDifferentFraction = 0.001, [int]$MaskTopPixels = 280, [switch]$SkipBuild ) $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop' $repo = Split-Path -Parent $PSScriptRoot $exe = Join-Path $repo 'src\AcDream.App\bin\Release\net10.0\AcDream.App.exe' $cli = Join-Path $repo 'src\AcDream.Cli\bin\Release\net10.0\AcDream.Cli.dll' function Write-Step($message) { Write-Host "[pixel-gate] $message" } # --- 1. Build ----------------------------------------------------------------- if (-not $SkipBuild) { Write-Step 'building Release' & dotnet build (Join-Path $repo 'AcDream.slnx') -c Release --nologo -v q | Out-Null if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw "Release build failed with exit code $LASTEXITCODE." } } if (-not (Test-Path $exe)) { throw "Client not found at $exe. Build Release first." } # --- 2. Prepare the capture directory and probe script ------------------------ if (Test-Path $Out) { Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $Out } New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $Out | Out-Null $probe = Join-Path $Out 'offline.probe.txt' # The script runner reads one command per line. A single settled capture is the # whole gate: a second stop would need camera movement, which offline has no # deterministic way to drive. Set-Content -Encoding utf8 -Path $probe -Value @" sleep $WarmupMs screenshot world-offline 30000 sleep 500 "@ $log = Join-Path $Out 'client.log' # --- 3. Launch offline -------------------------------------------------------- $previousLive = $env:ACDREAM_LIVE Remove-Item Env:\ACDREAM_LIVE -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $env:ACDREAM_DAT_DIR = Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE "Documents\Asheron's Call" $env:ACDREAM_NO_AUDIO = '1' $env:ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI = '1' $env:ACDREAM_DAY_GROUP = "$DayGroup" $env:ACDREAM_UI_PROBE_SCRIPT = $probe $env:ACDREAM_AUTOMATION_ARTIFACT_DIR = $Out # The determinism pins, forced rather than inherited. See .DESCRIPTION. $invariant = [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::InvariantCulture $env:ACDREAM_WORLD_TIME = $WorldDayFraction.ToString($invariant) $env:ACDREAM_SKY_PHASE_SECONDS = $SkyPhaseSeconds.ToString($invariant) if ($MsaaSamples -ge 0) { $env:ACDREAM_MSAA_SAMPLES = "$MsaaSamples" } else { Remove-Item Env:\ACDREAM_MSAA_SAMPLES -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue } Write-Step "launching offline client (warmup ${WarmupMs}ms, day group $DayGroup, day fraction $WorldDayFraction, sky phase $SkyPhaseSeconds, MSAA $MsaaSamples)" $proc = Start-Process -FilePath $exe -RedirectStandardOutput $log ` -RedirectStandardError "$log.err" -PassThru -WindowStyle Minimized try { $shots = Join-Path $Out 'screenshots' $deadline = (Get-Date).AddMilliseconds($WarmupMs + 60000) $captured = $false while ((Get-Date) -lt $deadline) { if ((Test-Path $shots) -and (Get-ChildItem $shots -Filter *.png -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) { $captured = $true break } if ($proc.HasExited) { break } Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 1000 } if (-not $captured) { Write-Host (Get-Content $log -Tail 30 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) throw 'No screenshot was captured before the deadline.' } # Let the probe script finish its trailing sleep so the PNG is fully flushed. Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 1500 } finally { # Graceful close: WM_CLOSE runs the shutdown path, so the ownership ledger # converges the way the lifecycle tests expect. No ACE session exists here, # but keeping the habit means this script is safe to point at a live run too. $app = Get-Process -Name AcDream.App -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if ($app) { $app.CloseMainWindow() | Out-Null if (-not $app.WaitForExit(10000)) { Write-Step 'WM_CLOSE timed out; forcing' $app | Stop-Process -Force } } Remove-Item Env:\ACDREAM_MSAA_SAMPLES -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Remove-Item Env:\ACDREAM_WORLD_TIME -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Remove-Item Env:\ACDREAM_SKY_PHASE_SECONDS -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if ($previousLive) { $env:ACDREAM_LIVE = $previousLive } } $captures = Get-ChildItem (Join-Path $Out 'screenshots') -Filter *.png Write-Step "captured $($captures.Count) screenshot(s) into $Out" # The offline window is minimised but still focusable, so a stray scroll or key # press from whoever is at the keyboard can move the camera mid-capture. That # produces two screenshots of the same scene from different camera positions — # a huge, entirely spurious pixel difference. This actually happened during # slice V4b. Detect it and fail loudly rather than let a comparison be # interpreted as a rendering regression. $cameraInput = Select-String -Path $log -Pattern 'ScrollUp|ScrollDown|ZoomIn|ZoomOut|CameraZoom' ` -CaseSensitive -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if ($cameraInput) { Write-Host '' Write-Host '[pixel-gate] ABORTED: camera-affecting input reached the capture window.' -ForegroundColor Red Write-Host ' The capture is not comparable. Re-run without touching the machine.' -ForegroundColor Red $cameraInput | Select-Object -First 5 | ForEach-Object { Write-Host " $($_.Line)" -ForegroundColor Red } exit 2 } # --- 4. Compare against the baseline ----------------------------------------- if (-not $Baseline) { Write-Step 'no baseline supplied; capture only' exit 0 } if (-not (Test-Path $cli)) { throw "AcDream.Cli not found at $cli." } # Build the sky mask. The comparer skips any pixel whose mask alpha is non-zero, # so the band we exclude is opaque and everything compared is transparent. $maskPath = $null if ($MaskTopPixels -gt 0) { Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing $probeImage = [System.Drawing.Bitmap]::FromFile($captures[0].FullName) $width = $probeImage.Width $height = $probeImage.Height $probeImage.Dispose() $mask = New-Object System.Drawing.Bitmap($width, $height, [System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat]::Format32bppArgb) $graphics = [System.Drawing.Graphics]::FromImage($mask) $graphics.Clear([System.Drawing.Color]::FromArgb(0, 0, 0, 0)) $opaque = New-Object System.Drawing.SolidBrush ([System.Drawing.Color]::FromArgb(255, 255, 0, 255)) $graphics.FillRectangle($opaque, 0, 0, $width, [Math]::Min($MaskTopPixels, $height)) $graphics.Dispose() $opaque.Dispose() $maskPath = Join-Path $Out 'sky-mask.png' $mask.Save($maskPath, [System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat]::Png) $mask.Dispose() Write-Step "masking the top $MaskTopPixels rows (animated sky and treeline)" } $failed = @() foreach ($shot in $captures) { $expected = Join-Path $Baseline "screenshots\$($shot.Name)" if (-not (Test-Path $expected)) { $failed += "$($shot.Name): no baseline counterpart" continue } $report = Join-Path $Out "compare-$($shot.BaseName).json" if ($maskPath) { & dotnet $cli compare-screenshots $expected $shot.FullName $report $Tolerance $MaxDifferentFraction $maskPath | Out-Null } else { & dotnet $cli compare-screenshots $expected $shot.FullName $report $Tolerance $MaxDifferentFraction | Out-Null } $verdict = Get-Content $report -Raw | ConvertFrom-Json $fraction = $verdict.differentPixelFraction if ($null -eq $fraction) { $fraction = $verdict.DifferentPixelFraction } $passed = $verdict.passed if ($null -eq $passed) { $passed = $verdict.Passed } if ($passed) { Write-Step "PASS $($shot.Name) (differing fraction $fraction)" } else { $failed += "$($shot.Name): differing fraction $fraction exceeds $MaxDifferentFraction (report: $report)" } } if ($failed.Count -gt 0) { Write-Host '' Write-Host '[pixel-gate] FAILED:' -ForegroundColor Red $failed | ForEach-Object { Write-Host " - $_" -ForegroundColor Red } exit 1 } Write-Step 'all screenshots match the baseline' exit 0