<# .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: ACDREAM_DAY_GROUP pins the sky day-group so weather and lighting do not drift between runs, and 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 MaskTopPixels Height in pixels of the sky band excluded from comparison. Default 280. This is not a fudge factor. Two captures at the SAME commit were measured to differ in 0.29% of pixels, and the differences were confined to the top ~180 rows: the sky legitimately animates (clouds scroll, the sun moves) and the Dereth clock advances with wall time, so the sky cannot be identical between two launches. Everything below the horizon — terrain, blending, scenery, static meshes, water, and the whole retained UI — was bit-stable. Masking the animated band is what makes the rest a strict identity check rather than forcing a loose tolerance that would hide real regressions everywhere else. Consequence: this gate does NOT cover sky rendering. Slice V4f must be gated by the user instead. .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]$DayGroup = 0, [int]$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 Write-Step "launching offline client (warmup ${WarmupMs}ms, day group $DayGroup)" $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' $app | Stop-Process -Force } } if ($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)" } $failed = @() foreach ($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