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Erik 49a7e90652 probe(physics): ACDREAM_PROBE_SUPPORT + ACDREAM_WIRE_MESH — separate #337's three candidates 
The user is wedged at the top of Neftet rock plateaus, jumps sink into the
mesh, and a corpse falls straight through. ACDREAM_PROBE_REACH already ruled
out its own domain: blocked=0, every candidate tested-ok. Three candidates
remain — terrain support, a collision mesh not where its visual is, or the
transition wedging on an unobstructed path.

ACDREAM_PROBE_RESOLVE alone cannot separate them. It prints a three-value
contact-plane token, no plane normal, no plane height, no terrain sample and
no plane provenance, so all three produce the same line. Two additions:

[support] — one line per resolve for EVERY body, not just the player. A corpse
is a plain physics body with no player-specific logic, so its fall-through is
the cheapest available control on "movement code vs geometry data", and it is
invisible to any player-filtered probe. The line samples the outdoor terrain
INDEPENDENTLY at the body's own out-XY and prints the contact plane's own
height at that same XY. Two heights at one point make support=terrain /
object / none a measurement rather than an inference, and cpSrc= names the
site that asserted the plane so provenance and classification cross-check.

[geom] — once per GfxObj that comes near a mover: the object's physics-BSP
vertex cloud against its visual mesh AABB in the same local frame, through the
same prepared accessors the resolver queries. verdict=coincident REFUTES the
working hypothesis for that object outright; no-physics-bsp / empty-physics-bsp
/ displaced / extent-mismatch each name a specific data defect. Built to
refute, not to confirm — two diagnoses on this defect's lineage have already
been refuted by measurement.

ACDREAM_WIRE_MESH upgrades the existing F2 overlay, which drew a broadphase
proxy cylinder for BSP objects and so could not answer the question at all, to
the real physics-BSP polygon edges (cyan) beside the visual mesh box (magenta)
and the terrain surface (yellow). Own class per code-structure rule 1.

The provenance latch lives on PhysicsDiagnostics, not on CollisionInfo. Two
fields there first — the obvious home — broke the flat/graph differential
referee and the scratch-reset poison test, both of which compare CollisionInfo
member-for-member. Teaching either to skip a member is a one-line green fix
that puts a permanent hole in a referee whose whole job is comparing
everything. Captured as feedback_probe_state_off_compared_types.

Seven tests cover the support classifier's boundaries: a wrong classifier does
not fail to answer, it answers confidently wrong.

Gates: Release build 0 errors; complete suite 11,225 passed / 4 skipped / 0
failed from a cleaned tree — baseline 11,218/4/0 plus exactly the seven new
tests, skips unchanged.

Issue #337 filed with the symptom set, what is ruled out, and a table of what
each possible output means. All of this is TEMPORARY and recorded for
stripping with the physics-probe family.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 19:49:59 +02:00
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architecture fix(physics): port retail's find_bbox_cell_list outdoor extent walk (#334) 2026-08-06 19:07:06 +02:00
audit docs: update audit — Sprint 1 items verified (sequence counters + scenery LCG) 2026-04-13 13:51:39 +02:00
plans docs: close the placement cutover ledger — #280 user-passed, remaining gates NOT RUN 2026-08-06 11:05:49 +02:00
reference docs(reference): preserve local ACE command catalog 2026-07-27 00:03:58 +02:00
reports docs: the overnight consolidation report, open questions first 2026-07-29 03:54:43 +02:00
research fix(physics): port retail's find_bbox_cell_list outdoor extent walk (#334) 2026-08-06 19:07:06 +02:00
superpowers fix(world): remove non-retail portal exit fade 2026-07-15 23:20:52 +02:00
bugs.md docs: reconcile project status and navigation 2026-07-20 13:00:41 +02:00
ISSUES.md probe(physics): ACDREAM_PROBE_SUPPORT + ACDREAM_WIRE_MESH — separate #337's three candidates 2026-08-06 19:49:59 +02:00
README.md docs: reconcile project state and refresh README 2026-07-27 12:53:31 +02:00

README.md

acdream documentation map

This page is the entry point for project documentation. It distinguishes current sources of truth from implementation history so an old plan or issue banner cannot silently override the current program state.

Current snapshot — 2026-07-27

  • Milestone state: M3, “Cast a spell,” landed 2026-07-21. M4, “Live in the world,” is active.
  • M4 gameplay program: resume the pre-M4 world-interaction completion program. Favorite-spell overflow, status Use/Assess, and the complete assessment surface are user-accepted. Equipped-child picking and vendor browse/transactions remain Slices 4–6.
  • Structural/runtime state: all eight GameWindow decomposition slices, Modern Runtime Slices A–J, and the connected visual/lifecycle gates are complete. GameWindow is a 1,622-line composition/callback shell. AcDream.Runtime.GameRuntime owns canonical session, entity/object, gameplay, movement, physics, projectile, environment, and portal state; graphical and no-window hosts borrow the same owner graph.
  • Headless state: Slice K is complete. AcDream.Headless is a presentation-free Windows/Linux host with deterministic commands/events, shared immutable content, multi-session isolation, reconnect, resource telemetry, and 1/5/10/30-session gates. The final two-account native-Linux soak completed ten minutes, logged out through ACE, and converged every ownership ledger.
  • Linux graphical state: Slice L0 and the L1 implementation checkpoint are complete at 66f114b2 and 11501d52. Native Windows passes the active modern-GL/audio/window smoke. WSLg X11/Wayland correctly reject their missing GL_ARB_bindless_texture. Physical-Linux validation and L2–L6 are explicitly deferred; resume at the supported AMD/NVIDIA L1 gate.
  • Completed gameplay gates: R6 locomotion/collision/projectile/teleport/ radar, two-client portal-out/materialization, indoor prepared collision, loot ordering, local/remote ground drops, and selection-marker lifetime.
  • Separate visual verification: issue #225, the shared-alpha lifestone/particle result; its connected resource-lifetime and performance routes pass.
  • Carried behaviour debt: issue #153 (far teleport onto an unstreamed edge), #116 (narrowed slide response), #235 (capped/RDP jump cadence), and the active temporary-stopgap rows in the divergence register.
  • Divergence audit: 189 active rows — IA 18, AD 38, AP 91, TS 38, and UN 4 — plus retained struck/retired historical rows such as TS-37.
  • Latest automated baseline: the Release build succeeds with the 17 test-project warnings tracked by issue #228; 8,826 tests pass and five are intentionally skipped. App passes 3,763 / 3 skips. The L1 Windows supported smoke and WSLg X11/Wayland negative-capability reports all end with zero window/GL/input/audio ownership.

Sources of truth

Read these in this order when deciding what to do next:

  1. plans/2026-05-12-milestones.md — the active playable outcome, freeze boundaries, and visual gates.
  2. plans/2026-04-11-roadmap.md — strategic phase ledger: shipped, active, deferred, and future work.
  3. ISSUES.md — tactical defects and small follow-ups. The status inside an issue is authoritative; physical order is not.
  4. architecture/retail-divergence-register.md — every known place runtime behavior can differ from retail.
  5. architecture/acdream-architecture.md and architecture/code-structure.md — ownership, dependency, update-thread, and extraction rules.
  6. architecture/worldbuilder-inventory.md — rendering/DAT code already owned in-tree versus mechanisms still ours to port.

If these disagree, milestones control the current outcome, the roadmap controls work ordering, the issue status controls the individual defect, and the architecture documents control implementation shape. Reconcile the stale document in the same change; do not leave both claims standing.

Research and implementation records

  • research/named-retail/ is the primary retail oracle: named pseudo-C, headers, symbols, and types from the Sept 2013 build.
  • research/decompiled/ is the older Ghidra fallback.
  • research/ contains focused pseudocode, traces, fixtures, and gate reports. A dated research note records evidence; it does not become a new roadmap.
  • superpowers/specs/ and superpowers/plans/ are per-slice design and execution records. Completed plans remain historical.
  • audit/ contains completion and conformance audits.
  • reference/ace-commands.md preserves the local ACE server's complete in-game command catalog and points to the authoritative per-command help surface.

Durable memory

  • ../claude-memory/MEMORY.md indexes the live subsystem memories and the render/physics digests. Read a domain digest before changing that subsystem, especially its DO-NOT-RETRY table.
  • ../memory/ contains stable engineering references such as the modern rendering pipeline, two-tier streaming, and toolchain notes.

Memory accelerates recall; it does not outrank the canonical documents above. When current truth changes, update the relevant canonical document and distill only the durable lesson into memory.

Historical and deprecated documents

  • bugs.md is the April 2026 bug snapshot. It is preserved for archaeology and is not an active ledger.
  • Dated plans and specs describe the decision at that time. Their completion wording is historical unless the current milestone/roadmap explicitly links the item as active.
  • Old R1→R8 architecture sequencing is superseded. Current execution comes from the milestones and strategic roadmap.

Documentation maintenance rules

  • Update milestone, roadmap, issue, divergence, architecture, and memory claims in the same commit when a shipped change affects them.
  • Keep one issue ID per defect. Narrow an issue in place; do not reuse another issue's number as a shorthand.
  • Mark automated, connected, and visual gates separately. An automated pass is not a visual acceptance, and an RDP throughput sample is not a local-display visual comparison.
  • Preserve research history, but remove stale “current/next” claims from living documents once the state advances.