acdream/docs/research
Erik ec1bbb4f43 feat(vfx): Phase C.1 — PES particle renderer + post-review fixes
Ports retail's ParticleEmitterInfo / Particle::Init / Particle::Update
(0x005170d0..0x0051d400) and PhysicsScript runtime to a C# data-layer
plus a Silk.NET billboard renderer. Sky-PES path is debug-only behind
ACDREAM_ENABLE_SKY_PES because named-retail decomp confirms GameSky
copies SkyObject.pes_id but never reads it (CreateDeletePhysicsObjects
0x005073c0, MakeObject 0x00506ee0, UseTime 0x005075b0).

Post-review fixes folded into this commit:

H1: AttachLocal (is_parent_local=1) follows live parent each frame.
    ParticleSystem.UpdateEmitterAnchor + ParticleHookSink.UpdateEntityAnchor
    let the owning subsystem refresh AnchorPos every tick — matches
    ParticleEmitter::UpdateParticles 0x0051d2d4 which re-reads the live
    parent frame when is_parent_local != 0. Drops the renderer-side
    cameraOffset hack that only worked when the parent was the camera.

H3: Strip the long stale comment in GfxObjMesh.cs that contradicted the
    retail-faithful (1 - translucency) opacity formula. The code was
    right; the comment was a leftover from an earlier hypothesis and
    would have invited a wrong "fix".

M1: SkyRenderer tracks textures whose wrap mode it set to ClampToEdge
    and restores them to Repeat at end-of-pass, so non-sky renderers
    that share the GL handle can't silently inherit clamped wrap state.

M2: Post-scene Z-offset (-120m) only fires when the SkyObject is
    weather-flagged AND bit 0x08 is clear, matching retail
    GameSky::UpdatePosition 0x00506dd0. The old code applied it to
    every post-scene object — a no-op today (every Dereth post-scene
    entry happens to be weather-flagged) but a future post-scene-only
    sun rim would have been pushed below the camera.

M4: ParticleSystem.EmitterDied event lets ParticleHookSink prune dead
    handles from the per-entity tracking dictionaries, fixing a slow
    leak where naturally-expired emitters' handles stayed in the
    ConcurrentBag forever during long sessions.

M5: SkyPesEntityId moves the post-scene flag bit to 0x08000000 so it
    can't ever overlap the object-index range. Synthetic IDs stay in
    the reserved 0xFxxxxxxx space.

New tests (ParticleSystemTests + ParticleHookSinkTests):
- UpdateEmitterAnchor_AttachLocal_ParticlePositionFollowsLiveAnchor
- UpdateEmitterAnchor_AttachLocalCleared_ParticleFrozenAtSpawnOrigin
- EmitterDied_FiresOncePerHandle_AfterAllParticlesExpire
- Birthrate_PerSec_EmitsOnePerTickWhenIntervalElapsed (retail-faithful
  single-emit-per-frame behavior)
- UpdateEntityAnchor_WithAttachLocal_MovesParticleToLiveAnchor
- EmitterDied_PrunesPerEntityHandleTracking

dotnet build green, dotnet test green: 695 / 393 / 243 = 1331 passed
(up from 1325).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-28 22:47:11 +02:00
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data docs(research): commit named retail decomp + spells.csv (foundation) 2026-04-25 17:27:19 +02:00
decompiled research: full acclient.exe decompilation — 22,225 functions, 688K lines 2026-04-12 23:25:51 +02:00
deepdives docs+feat: 13 retail-AC deep-dives (R1-R13) + C# port scaffolds + roadmap E-H 2026-04-18 10:32:44 +02:00
named-retail docs(research): canonical retail keymap + dump-keymap tool 2026-04-25 23:01:58 +02:00
retail-ui feat(ui): Phase D.2a — VitalsPanel wired into GameWindow + backend pivot 2026-04-25 00:43:46 +02:00
2026-04-12-movement-deep-dive.md docs: movement deep dive — AC2D + holtburger cross-reference 2026-04-12 21:52:12 +02:00
2026-04-21-animation-audit.md docs(research): animation-pipeline decompile audit — no real gaps 2026-04-21 21:18:45 +02:00
2026-04-21-sky-deep-audit.md fix(sky): scale keyframe Luminosity/Transparent/MaxBright from percent → fraction 2026-04-22 17:38:44 +02:00
2026-04-22-sky-lighting-decompile.md sky(phase-1): revert speculative tint, add ACDREAM_DUMP_SKY diagnostic 2026-04-23 18:06:52 +02:00
2026-04-23-daygroup-selection.md sky(phase-3c): port retail FUN_00501990 DayGroup picker (uniform LCG) 2026-04-24 08:45:34 +02:00
2026-04-23-lightning-crossfade.md sky(phase-5a): remove DayGroup-name rain hack, ship retail-only Overcast mapping 2026-04-24 11:04:36 +02:00
2026-04-23-lightning-real.md sky(phase-8): retail-faithful night sky + README refresh 2026-04-24 20:34:36 +02:00
2026-04-23-physicsscript.md sky(phase-5a): remove DayGroup-name rain hack, ship retail-only Overcast mapping 2026-04-24 11:04:36 +02:00
2026-04-23-retail-memory-probe.md sky(phase-3g): fix LCG multiplier — 360 (DaysPerYear), not 7620 2026-04-24 10:17:38 +02:00
2026-04-23-sky-dat-schema.md sky(phase-1): revert speculative tint, add ACDREAM_DUMP_SKY diagnostic 2026-04-23 18:06:52 +02:00
2026-04-23-sky-decompile-hunt-A.md sky(phase-1): revert speculative tint, add ACDREAM_DUMP_SKY diagnostic 2026-04-23 18:06:52 +02:00
2026-04-23-sky-decompile-hunt-B.md sky(phase-8): retail-faithful night sky + README refresh 2026-04-24 20:34:36 +02:00
2026-04-23-sky-decompile-hunt-C.md sky(phase-8): retail-faithful night sky + README refresh 2026-04-24 20:34:36 +02:00
2026-04-23-sky-fog.md sky(phase-5a): remove DayGroup-name rain hack, ship retail-only Overcast mapping 2026-04-24 11:04:36 +02:00
2026-04-23-sky-material-state.md docs(sky): port plan for PhysicsScript/fog/lightning/crossfade 2026-04-24 10:53:46 +02:00
2026-04-23-sky-pes-wiring.md sky(phase-5a): remove DayGroup-name rain hack, ship retail-only Overcast mapping 2026-04-24 11:04:36 +02:00
2026-04-23-sky-references-crossref.md sky(phase-1): revert speculative tint, add ACDREAM_DUMP_SKY diagnostic 2026-04-23 18:06:52 +02:00
2026-04-23-sky-retail-verbatim.md sky(phase-1): revert speculative tint, add ACDREAM_DUMP_SKY diagnostic 2026-04-23 18:06:52 +02:00
2026-04-24-lambert-brightness-split.md sky(phase-8): retail-faithful night sky + README refresh 2026-04-24 20:34:36 +02:00
2026-04-26-chorizite-pr-draft.md docs(research): sky/weather investigation handoff + diagnostic tools 2026-04-26 21:40:34 +02:00
2026-04-26-datreaderwriter-reference.md docs(research): sky/weather investigation handoff + diagnostic tools 2026-04-26 21:40:34 +02:00
2026-04-26-sky-investigation-handoff.md docs(research): sky/weather investigation handoff + diagnostic tools 2026-04-26 21:40:34 +02:00
2026-04-28-pes-pseudocode.md feat(vfx): Phase C.1 — PES particle renderer + post-review fixes 2026-04-28 22:47:11 +02:00
2026-04-28-sky-cloud-material-trace.md feat(vfx): Phase C.1 — PES particle renderer + post-review fixes 2026-04-28 22:47:11 +02:00
acclient_animation_map.md fix(anim): implement adjust_motion — TurnLeft/SideStepLeft play backward 2026-04-13 12:17:26 +02:00
acclient_animation_pseudocode.md research: full animation pseudocode from decompiled acclient.exe 2026-04-13 12:43:44 +02:00
acclient_architecture_map.md docs: comprehensive architecture plan for acdream 2026-04-13 14:23:50 +02:00
acclient_decompiled.c research: decompile acclient.exe terrain/physics via Ghidra headless 2026-04-12 23:18:27 +02:00
acclient_function_map.md docs(research): #9 sweep acclient_function_map.md against PDB symbols 2026-04-25 17:44:07 +02:00
acclient_indoor_transitions_pseudocode.md research: indoor transition pseudocode from ACE + decompiled analysis 2026-04-13 13:56:16 +02:00
transition_pseudocode.md docs(research): collision transition system pseudocode from decompiled + ACE 2026-04-13 23:41:13 +02:00