Fixes the three-lens review blockers against 671eb3ad4 (S3 section 9.6 F1-F6).
F1 - slot key (blocking, retail). TerrainModernRenderer.DrawLandCells
normalizes every incoming landblockId to (id & 0xFFFF0000u) | 0xFFFFu
before the _idToSlot lookup: the walk hands 0xXXYY0000
(WalkLandBlock.LandblockId) but AddLandblock stores under the DAT id
0xXXYYFFFF (LandblockRenderPublisher.LandblockId) - every walk lookup
was missing and the walk path drew NO terrain. Unit-tested end-to-end
through a real RecordingGpuDevice-backed TerrainModernRenderer
(TerrainWalkSlotKeyNormalizationTests): AddLandblock(0xA9B4FFFF, ...)
is found by a 0xA9B40000 lookup, an unknown landblock is a silent
per-entry no-op, and a batch mixing a known and unknown entry submits
only the known one.
F2 - deferred cross-block batching (blocking, driver). Retail's
DrawSortCell always follows DrawLandCell (LC/SC strictly alternate,
never two LC in a row - S3 section 9 R1), so chunk 3's "merge
consecutive same-landblock LandCell events" rule never actually
merged anything; the driver review flagged batching as inert.
WalkFrameDriver.Replay now keeps ONE pending terrain batch across
landblocks ((landblockId, side, cellIndex) entries, cleared at
Replay's own start); a LandCell event only appends; every OTHER event
kind that will itself submit GPU work (StreamMark, Sky, CellShell,
PunchFan, AlphaBarrier, LandscapeFlush, ClearInteriorDepth,
ExitSeals) flushes the pending batch first; a StaticParticles/
CellParticles turn asks the new ParticleSystem.
HasRenderableEmittersInCell (an allocation-free sibling of
CopyRenderableEmittersInCell) and, when the cell has no renderable
emitter, submits nothing and does NOT flush either - the whole point
of the deferred rule. The end of Replay flushes the remainder. This
is order-preserving by construction: a flush always lands at the
exact point the unbatched draw would have, so GPU submission order -
and therefore pixels - is identical to the unbatched baseline; only
the number of small terrain draw calls shrinks.
TerrainModernRenderer.DrawLandCellRuns becomes DrawLandCells(
viewProjection, IReadOnlyList<(uint LandblockId, int SideCellCount,
int CellIndex)>) - one MultiDrawIndexedIndirect over every entry's
runs, unknown slots skipped per-entry. IWalkFrameLeafRenderer.
DrawLandCellBatch drops its separate landblockId parameter to match
(a batch can span several landblocks now) and gains
HasRenderableEmittersInCell.
Batch-count demonstration: driven through a real WalkFrameDriver
Replay (OnLandCellTurn_MergesAcrossLandblocksOverAnEmptyParticleTurn_
RealSubmissionsSplit), 4 LandCell turns across 3 distinct landblocks,
separated only by an empty particle turn, a real StreamMark, and a
building's alpha barrier, submit as exactly 3 DrawLandCellBatch calls
(2+1+1) instead of 4 - the empty particle turn's non-flush merges two
otherwise-separate cross-landblock entries. At production scale the
same mechanism is expected to cut the terrace-edge frame's ~578
individual DrawLandCell events (S3 section 9's captured transcript
count) to "tens" of submitted batches, per the contract's own
expectation: most terrain cells have no particle owner nearby, so the
strict LC/[empty-SC]/LC/[empty-SC]/... run collapses into one batch
per region bounded by real content (a building, a StreamMark-worthy
cell, or a genuine emitter) rather than per cell.
F3 - per-frame terrain diagnostic (blocking, build/test). The walk
leaf no longer brackets each batch with TerrainDrawDiagnosticsController
.Begin()/Complete() (a per-batch Stopwatch Restart/Stop pair that was
pushing one timing SAMPLE per batch, not per frame).
RetailPViewPassExecutor.DrawWalkLandCellBatch instead times its own
call with a raw Stopwatch.GetTimestamp() delta (no allocation) and
hands the ticks to the controller's new AccumulateWalkBatch;
RetailPViewRenderer.DrawWalkDrivenStatics calls the new
CompleteWalkTerrainFrame() exactly once, immediately after
driver.Replay finishes - "the end of the walk replay", where the
deleted whole-stage terrain leaf's own Begin()/Complete() bracket
used to close - which pushes ONE elapsed-time sample (even a
zero-batch frame pushes a zero sample: one sample per frame, not per
landscape turn) and publishes on the existing 5-second cadence.
TerrainRenderDiagnosticFacts gains a Draws field alongside
VisibleSlots (both were the same field before); TerrainModernRenderer
tracks its own per-frame WalkVisibleSlotCount/WalkDrawCount (a
HashSet<int>/int cleared in BeginFrame, populated by DrawLandCells),
and the diagnostics source reports those whenever the walk drew at
least one batch this frame, falling back to the non-walk Draw()
path's VisibleSlots otherwise (the two paths never both run in the
same frame). The [TERRAIN-DIAG] line's meaning (cpu_us per frame) is
unchanged, so the S3 section 9.5 before/after compare stays valid.
F4 - driver pins for the LandCell position (major). Three RunFrame-
level pins replace the deleted TERRAIN:0 pins: an outdoor-root
sequence (SKY, then one LANDCELL, driving RetailFrameWalk.
DrawLandscape directly with a one-view/zero-vertex WalkPortalView so
WalkLandscape.CheckBlocks' admission stays the same deterministic
"CY-only" test RetailFrameWalkTests already relies on, while still
satisfying WalkFrameDriver's real >=1-active-view fail-loud guard);
an interior-root test with one real exit view and one populated
block (SKY, LANDCELL, LFLUSH, SEALS, SHELL...) built on the existing
RunFrame_InteriorFloodWithExitView_... fixture; and the T4 batching
pin re-expressed for the F2 rule (OnLandCellTurn_
MergesAcrossLandblocksOverAnEmptyParticleTurn_RealSubmissionsSplit,
described above). The fake leaf's DrawLandCellBatch now logs
LANDCELL:<lb>:<side>:<idx>[,...] per batch and gains
HasRenderableEmittersInCell backed by an opt-out CellsWithoutEmitters
set (default true - has-emitters - so every pre-existing pin in the
file keeps its old unconditional-submission behavior unchanged).
F5 - no code change: the walk's in-view gate is unchanged; no
whole-block terrain re-added.
F6 - minor/notes: DrawLandCells' own comment now states the walk's
CheckBlocks/landcell_check admission is the sole terrain culling
authority (retail has no separate terrain frustum test); the
HandleLandscapeTurn comment's inverted claim is corrected (a FARTHER
building's punch survived because NEARER terrain was drawn BEFORE
it, not after - the interleave now draws it after, matching retail);
the "flat/directional-shadow paths" claim is corrected to the one
actual caller, WorldScenePassExecutor.DrawFlatTerrain (a directional-
shadow receiver selects its pipeline inside the SAME DrawRhi call,
not through a second caller); the cathedral order-trace token gains
the LOD side/index (":LC<lb>/<side>:<idx>"); T2's vacuous "no
TERRAIN event" assertion in RetailFrameWalkTests is replaced by a
comment pointing at the F4 driver-level pins; and the stale
"Confirmed OH5 defect" row in oh1-construction-landscape-contract.md
is retired with "FIXED by S3 chunk 3 (commit 671eb3ad4 + fix round
1)".
App hermetic lane: 6,795/6,795 (up from 671eb3ad4's 6,786 baseline -
net +9 tests: 3 F1 slot-key tests, 2 F4a/b driver RunFrame pins, 3
TerrainDrawDiagnosticsController walk-frame tests, plus the T4->F4c
rewrite and the RetailPViewPassExecutorTests split are net neutral).
InstalledDat lane: 241 passed, the same 3 accepted failures (2
pre-existing #383 layout fixture-drift tests, 1 TowerAscent
Status=KnownFailure) - unchanged from baseline. Core Vfx tests:
109/109 (108 baseline + 1 new HasRenderableEmittersInCell lifecycle
pin mirroring CopyRenderableEmittersInCell's own add/move/remove
test).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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
GameWindowdecomposition slices, Modern Runtime Slices A–J, and the connected visual/lifecycle gates are complete.GameWindowis a 1,622-line composition/callback shell.AcDream.Runtime.GameRuntimeowns 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.Headlessis 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
66f114b2and11501d52. Native Windows passes the active modern-GL/audio/window smoke. WSLg X11/Wayland correctly reject their missingGL_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:
plans/2026-05-12-milestones.md— the active playable outcome, freeze boundaries, and visual gates.plans/2026-04-11-roadmap.md— strategic phase ledger: shipped, active, deferred, and future work.ISSUES.md— tactical defects and small follow-ups. The status inside an issue is authoritative; physical order is not.architecture/retail-divergence-register.md— every known place runtime behavior can differ from retail.architecture/acdream-architecture.mdandarchitecture/code-structure.md— ownership, dependency, update-thread, and extraction rules.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/andsuperpowers/plans/are per-slice design and execution records. Completed plans remain historical.ci-and-releases.mdis the SSOT for the Gitea CI pipeline, the self-hosted runners, and how alpha releases are published. Load-sensitive tests live inLane=Timing; seerelease-gate.mdbefore adding to it.launch-options.mdis the SSOT for every environment variable and command-line argument the client reads, including what each one changes about the run beyond its obvious effect. Read the side-effects column before trusting any measurement. Enforced byLaunchOptionsDocumentationTests: a flag without a row fails the build, and so does a row whose read site was deleted.audit/contains completion and conformance audits.reference/ace-commands.mdpreserves the local ACE server's complete in-game command catalog and points to the authoritative per-command help surface.
Durable memory
../claude-memory/MEMORY.mdindexes 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.mdis 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→R8architecture 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.