Three apparatus-confirmed fixes from the world-load/FPS deep-dive (all live-verified).
1. trees-in-sky — scenery ground-Z now samples THIS landblock's OWN heightmap
(TerrainSurface.SampleZFromHeightmap, lock-step with the physics terrain) instead
of the global PhysicsEngine.SampleTerrainZ query. At build time the landblock isn't
registered in physics yet, so that query could only return null OR a STALE
neighbour's height — the previous location's terrain, still registered after a
teleport recenter — planting scenery at the old altitude (+250..500m, confirmed via
the [scenery-z-stale] probe). Own-heightmap is correct in every case; the query is
removed. (GameWindow.BuildSceneryEntitiesForStreaming)
2. FPS per-hop — TickAnimations recovered each animated entity's server guid via an
O(N) ReferenceEquals reverse scan over ALL _entitiesByServerGuid (which never
evicts, so N climbs every teleport — the drops-with-each-hop sink). Replaced with
ae.Entity.ServerGuid: O(1), exact-equivalent (the dict key IS entity.ServerGuid).
(GameWindow.TickAnimations)
3. teleport arrival + bulk floating terrain — two streaming fixes:
- Near-ring eager-apply: a teleport applies the destination's 3x3 surroundings
(StreamingController.PriorityRadius) and holds the fade until they're resident
(PhysicsEngine.IsNeighborhoodTerrainResident), so the player arrives in a loaded,
collidable world instead of one landblock in the void.
- Immediate unloads: DrainAndApply no longer throttles UNLOADS at the per-frame
load budget — they're cheap (free GPU buffers, no upload). A teleport produced
~600 unloads draining at 4/frame, leaving the previous region resident for
seconds (floating terrain) and accumulating across rapid hops (951 resident vs a
625 window). Only GPU-upload LOADS are metered now. Cut out-of-window resident
650 -> 63 and resident 951 -> 688 (live-verified via [resid-audit]).
Includes gated-off diagnostic probes (ACDREAM_PROBE_SCENERY_FRAME / _BLDG_REACH /
_STREAM_RESID) used to root-cause the above — zero-cost when unset, same pattern as
the committed tp-probe.
The pre-existing teleport-induced "terrain arcs in the sky" (present in the dd2eb8b
baseline too, with NONE of this work) are a SEPARATE bug — investigated next.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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