erik/acdream
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases 6 Packages Wiki Activity Actions
acdream/docs/plans
History
Erik 663129c340 docs: Campaign CT — chat text tags, researched and planned 
Six parallel research lanes on retail's chat text and window behaviour, plus a
plan. The headline: the green clickable speaker name is not a chat feature and
not a colour, it is a missing capability in the TEXT stack.

Retail's client sprintfs literal tag markup into the chat line, and the text
element parses the brackets while appending, attaching a ref-counted tag PER
GLYPH. A tagged run is emergent: adjacent glyphs whose tag pointers are equal.
A glyph takes the tag colour (property 0x1D) only when a tag is open and its
type is 0x10000001; otherwise the ordinary line colour (0x1B).

The colour itself was the one thing the decomp could not settle — it is
authored, not runtime-built — so it was MEASURED out of the installed dats
rather than assumed from a screenshot: P0x1D = RGB(0,178,0). That also exposed
a trap: the tag colour is per-ELEMENT and authored while the line colour on the
same element comes from the runtime chat table, so filing "tag green" into the
LogTextType table would put it in the wrong place.

Our own audit found the gap is narrower than feared. UiText ALREADY draws
multi-coloured runs (the character stat panel uses it); the path is just gated
to single-line elements. The draw path needs no renderer work, and HitChar
already resolves a click to line+column. The real blocker is that sender
identity is destroyed before it reaches the renderer: ChatEntry carries
Sender/SenderGuid the whole way, and ChatVM.RecentLinesDetailed drops both.

Two findings beyond the original question. Retail BOUNDS its transcript
(10,000 chars, trimmed to ~7,500 at a newline) and splits auto-scroll from an
unread indicator by sampling "was at bottom" before the line lands — a naive
port auto-scrolls forever and leaks for the life of a session. And the chat-UI
audit turned up an untracked bug: Escape in the chat input does nothing at all,
because UiField has no Escape case and a focused field also suppresses the
input dispatcher's fallback.

Every lane was instructed to write "UNKNOWN — needs X" rather than guess, and
they did; the carried unknowns are listed in the plan rather than papered over.

Seven slices proposed, nothing implemented yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 06:52:05 +02:00
..
2026-04-10-phase-1-terrain-and-plugin-scaffold.md docs: phase 1 implementation plan 2026-04-10 09:17:49 +02:00
2026-04-10-phase-2-static-meshes-design.md docs(phase-2): refine design after DatReaderWriter spike 2026-04-10 17:18:43 +02:00
2026-04-10-phase-2-static-meshes-plan.md docs: phase 2 implementation plan (tasks 1-10 full, 11-18 sketch) 2026-04-10 17:27:53 +02:00
2026-04-10-phase-2b-design.md docs: phase 2b design — atlas textures, neighbors, dual cameras, plugin api 2026-04-10 20:00:23 +02:00
2026-04-10-phase-2b-plan.md docs: phase 2b implementation plan (9 tasks) 2026-04-10 20:13:03 +02:00
2026-04-10-phase-3c-terrain-blending-plan.md docs(plan): Phase 3c terrain blending plan 2026-04-10 23:43:04 +02:00
2026-04-10-phase-4-networking-design.md docs(plan): Phase 4 networking design 2026-04-10 22:31:26 +02:00
2026-04-10-plugin-architecture-design.md docs: plugin architecture design 2026-04-10 09:11:52 +02:00
2026-04-11-roadmap.md docs(launcher): prepare Campaign LA user gate 2026-08-15 02:16:41 +02:00
2026-04-13-rendering-rebuild.md fix(movement): jump works locally (airborne velocity preserved) 2026-04-14 00:12:11 +02:00
2026-04-23-sky-weather-lightning-port.md docs(sky): port plan for PhysicsScript/fog/lightning/crossfade 2026-04-24 10:53:46 +02:00
2026-04-24-ui-framework.md docs(ui): align architecture with retained runtime 2026-07-10 16:57:44 +02:00
2026-04-27-phase-c1-pes-particles.md feat(vfx): Phase C.1 — PES particle renderer + post-review fixes 2026-04-28 22:47:11 +02:00
2026-04-29-movement-collision-conformance.md docs(phys L.2g): slice 1 shipped handoff + B.4 gap discovery + plan-of-record 2026-05-12 23:17:05 +02:00
2026-04-30-sky-pes-port.md docs(plans): #36 sky-PES dispatch port plan + .gitignore for retail-debugger scratch 2026-04-30 23:00:46 +02:00
2026-05-08-phase-n5-perf-baseline.md phase(N.5): retirement amendment — InstancedMeshRenderer + StaticMeshRenderer + WbFoundationFlag deleted 2026-05-08 22:01:36 +02:00
2026-05-09-phase-n5b-perf-baseline.md docs(N.5b T10): roadmap + ISSUES + CLAUDE.md + perf baseline updates 2026-05-09 13:03:14 +02:00
2026-05-10-perf-tiers-2-3-roadmap.md docs(perf): roadmap for Tier 2 + Tier 3 entity-dispatcher optimizations 2026-05-10 09:38:38 +02:00
2026-05-11-phase-n6-perf-baseline.md docs(perf #N6.1): apply final-review fixes — spec, baseline doc, issue #55 2026-05-11 12:51:10 +02:00
2026-05-12-milestones.md docs: hand off placement campaign finish 2026-08-03 12:54:47 +02:00
2026-05-12-phase-c1.5b-handoff.md docs(vfx #C.1.5b): handoff for next slice (issue #56 + EnvCell statics) 2026-05-11 18:22:01 +02:00
2026-06-11-building-render-port-plan.md test: separate diagnostic apparatus from release gates 2026-08-18 11:06:08 +02:00
2026-07-02-retail-motion-animation-rewrite.md fix(motion): restore retail object manager order 2026-07-19 21:40:14 +02:00
2026-07-20-automated-world-lifecycle-gate.md docs(runtime): close deterministic world lifecycle gate 2026-07-21 00:00:31 +02:00
2026-07-21-gamewindow-slice-1-selection-interaction.md docs(architecture): close selection extraction slice 2026-07-21 09:04:31 +02:00
2026-07-21-gamewindow-slice-2-live-animation-presentation.md docs(architecture): close live animation slice 2026-07-21 10:03:20 +02:00
2026-07-21-gamewindow-slice-3-live-session.md docs(architecture): close live-session ownership slice 2026-07-21 12:44:48 +02:00
2026-07-21-gamewindow-slice-4-live-entity-integration.md docs(plan): complete GameWindow slice 4 2026-07-21 19:29:04 +02:00
2026-07-21-gamewindow-slice-5-landblock-presentation.md docs(architecture): close GameWindow slice 5 2026-07-21 23:45:45 +02:00
2026-07-21-gamewindow-slice-6-update-frame-orchestration.md docs(architecture): close GameWindow slice 6 2026-07-22 03:54:11 +02:00
2026-07-22-gamewindow-slice-7-render-frame-orchestration.md docs(architecture): close GameWindow render slice 2026-07-22 08:40:52 +02:00
2026-07-22-gamewindow-slice-8-checkpoint-g-runtime-settings.md refactor(settings): own two-phase runtime settings 2026-07-22 13:30:22 +02:00
2026-07-22-gamewindow-slice-8-checkpoint-h-resource-ownership.md refactor(lifetime): own render resource prefixes 2026-07-22 14:42:14 +02:00
2026-07-22-gamewindow-slice-8-checkpoint-i-ordered-composition.md refactor(app): close ordered startup composition 2026-07-22 19:20:20 +02:00
2026-07-22-gamewindow-slice-8-checkpoint-i6-ui-live-presentation.md refactor(app): compose live presentation startup 2026-07-22 17:55:15 +02:00
2026-07-22-gamewindow-slice-8-checkpoint-i7-session-player.md refactor(app): compose session and player startup 2026-07-22 18:28:32 +02:00
2026-07-22-gamewindow-slice-8-checkpoint-i8-frame-roots-session-start.md refactor(app): make session start terminal 2026-07-22 19:06:00 +02:00
2026-07-22-gamewindow-slice-8-checkpoint-j-lifetime-shutdown.md refactor(app): extract focused window lifetime 2026-07-22 19:43:52 +02:00
2026-07-22-gamewindow-slice-8-checkpoint-k-canonical-soak.md docs(architecture): record GameWindow automated closeout 2026-07-22 20:52:25 +02:00
2026-07-22-gamewindow-slice-8-checkpoint-l-closeout.md docs(architecture): record GameWindow automated closeout 2026-07-22 20:52:25 +02:00
2026-07-22-gamewindow-slice-8-composition-lifecycle.md docs(architecture): record GameWindow automated closeout 2026-07-22 20:52:25 +02:00
2026-07-23-world-interaction-completion.md docs: world-interaction program CLOSEOUT — all six slices complete, vendors user-accepted end to end 2026-08-08 17:56:42 +02:00
2026-07-24-modern-runtime-architecture.md docs: reconcile project state and refresh README 2026-07-27 12:53:31 +02:00
2026-07-24-modern-runtime-slice-b-envcell-dedup.md docs(perf): close Slice B with full-bake evidence 2026-07-24 14:10:50 +02:00
2026-07-24-modern-runtime-slice-c-prepared-assets.md perf(content): close prepared asset cutover 2026-07-24 15:49:24 +02:00
2026-07-24-modern-runtime-slice-d-unified-residency.md docs(render): close unified residency slice 2026-07-24 17:06:17 +02:00
2026-07-24-modern-runtime-slice-e-cost-budgeted-streaming.md fix(streaming): preserve portal destination ownership 2026-07-25 08:35:12 +02:00
2026-07-24-modern-runtime-slices-f-g-render-scene.md docs(rendering): close retained-scene G5 2026-07-25 13:55:38 +02:00
2026-07-25-modern-runtime-slice-h.md fix(streaming): preserve portal destination ownership 2026-07-25 08:35:12 +02:00
2026-07-25-modern-runtime-slice-i.md fix(physics): traverse prepared indoor portal topology 2026-07-27 00:02:44 +02:00
2026-07-25-modern-runtime-slice-j.md docs(runtime): close Slice J and activate Slice K 2026-07-27 01:01:41 +02:00
2026-07-25-modern-runtime-slice-j2.md docs(runtime): close J2 session lifetime gate 2026-07-25 19:46:47 +02:00
2026-07-25-modern-runtime-slice-j3-object-table.md docs(runtime): close J3.4 and plan J3.5 2026-07-26 06:09:28 +02:00
2026-07-25-modern-runtime-slice-j3-projection-store.md docs(runtime): close J3.3 and hand off J3.4 2026-07-25 22:29:34 +02:00
2026-07-25-modern-runtime-slice-j3.md docs(runtime): close canonical entity object lifetime 2026-07-26 07:35:42 +02:00
2026-07-26-modern-runtime-slice-j3-delta-stream.md docs(runtime): close J3.5 and plan J3.6 2026-07-26 06:54:47 +02:00
2026-07-26-modern-runtime-slice-j3-hardening.md docs(runtime): close canonical entity object lifetime 2026-07-26 07:35:42 +02:00
2026-07-26-modern-runtime-slice-j4.md docs(runtime): close gameplay-state ownership 2026-07-26 10:17:39 +02:00
2026-07-26-modern-runtime-slice-j5.md docs(runtime): close simulation ownership 2026-07-26 16:29:28 +02:00
2026-07-26-modern-runtime-slice-j6.md docs(runtime): close exact world host ownership 2026-07-26 18:41:24 +02:00
2026-07-26-modern-runtime-slice-j7.md docs(runtime): close the accepted J7 visual gate 2026-07-27 00:12:26 +02:00
2026-07-26-modern-runtime-slice-j8.md docs(runtime): close Slice J and activate Slice K 2026-07-27 01:01:41 +02:00
2026-07-26-modern-runtime-slice-k.md docs(headless): close modern runtime slice K 2026-07-27 11:31:19 +02:00
2026-07-26-modern-runtime-slice-l.md docs(linux): park Slice L at L1 checkpoint 2026-07-27 12:35:47 +02:00
2026-07-27-vulkan-campaign.md docs(render): Campaign V is closed - the deferred reruns pass on the GL-free tree 2026-07-29 07:49:29 +02:00
2026-07-29-network-transport-campaign.md docs: Campaign N CLOSED - user-accepted; #260 closed; #262 filed 2026-07-29 17:48:45 +02:00
2026-07-29-physics-parity-campaign.md test(physics): harden TS-4 production chronology 2026-07-31 14:08:51 +02:00
2026-07-29-post-vulkan-work-intake.md docs: VTank requirements research - the plugin-automation milestone model 2026-07-29 16:29:49 +02:00
2026-07-30-physics-parity-visual-matrix.md docs(physics): close Campaign P visual matrix 2026-07-31 10:20:48 +02:00
2026-08-02-placement-cutover.md docs: close the placement cutover ledger — #280 user-passed, remaining gates NOT RUN 2026-08-06 11:05:49 +02:00
2026-08-03-recent-regression-cleanup.md docs: close the recent-regression cleanup plan 2026-08-03 14:34:07 +02:00
2026-08-06-collision-fidelity-campaign.md test(physics): S6 — the camera provably reaches both PerfectClip TOI tails; contained, not dormant 2026-08-07 09:21:40 +02:00
2026-08-07-morning-gate-checklist.md docs: morning gate G1 user-passed — AD-65 downhill slope feel accepted 2026-08-07 06:50:58 +02:00
2026-08-08-audio-parity-campaign.md feat(audio): Ctrl+M instant mute + inn-chatter investigation closed as server content 2026-08-09 14:09:24 +02:00
2026-08-09-chat-parity-campaign.md fix(ui): restore retail vitals and window interactions 2026-08-20 13:26:35 +02:00
2026-08-10-options-panel-campaign.md docs: park Campaign OP — gate-4 fixes committed, user re-check owed at resume 2026-08-11 23:11:43 +02:00
2026-08-11-fellowship-allegiance-campaign.md docs: FA7 closeout — Campaign FA CODE-COMPLETE 2026-08-12 10:30:19 +02:00
2026-08-14-launcher-campaign.md Merge campaign-cc2: CC2 CharacterCreate wire, review-closed 2026-08-15 13:39:08 +02:00
2026-08-15-character-creation-campaign.md docs: Campaign CC connected gate PASSED — campaign CLOSED user-accepted 2026-08-16 2026-08-16 19:13:36 +02:00
2026-08-18-release-stabilization.md docs: record stabilization merge handoff 2026-08-18 17:49:09 +02:00
2026-08-19-launcher-usability-campaign.md docs: close Campaign LU with its ledger and the four gate traps 2026-08-20 08:13:29 +02:00
2026-08-21-chat-text-tag-campaign.md docs: Campaign CT — chat text tags, researched and planned 2026-08-21 06:52:05 +02:00
animation-system-audit.md docs(anim): Phase L.1a animation system audit 2026-04-28 10:38:58 +02:00