Three follow-up fixes from live testing of the L.2.3 step-height pass.
L.2.3d — StepUpSlide actually applies the slide
Previously SpherePath.StepUpSlide only set ci.SlidingNormal as a flag and
returned Slid; the CURRENT step's CheckPos was never adjusted, so the
sphere stopped dead at the wall. ValidateTransition's "default to UnitZ"
branch then propagated UnitZ into SlidingNormal, overwriting the wall
normal entirely. Net effect: stop-at-wall, no horizontal slide.
ACE's StepUpSlide (SpherePath.cs:309-317) calls Sphere.SlideSphere which
computes the actual slide offset against the contact-plane / wall-normal
crease and applies it to CheckPos. acdream already had the same logic in
Transition.SlideSphere as a private helper. Exposed as internal
SlideSphereInternal; routed StepUpSlide through it.
L.2.3e — step-down failure returns Collided (always-on edge block)
When walking forward off a balcony / cliff, the step-down probe in
TransitionalInsert searches stepDownHeight below CheckPos for a
walkable surface. On failure the previous code returned OK, which
ValidateTransition accepted — the player walked off the edge anyway,
with `RestoreCheckPos` reverting only to the position right after the
outer step's offset (still post-edge).
Per ACE Transition.cs:268-320 (EdgeSlide), retail's always-on default
for OnWalkable + !EdgeSlide-flag movers is to reject the move. Returning
Collided here makes ValidateTransition revert CheckPos to CurPos
(pre-step), giving the retail-faithful "stop at edge" behavior — both
on terrain cliffs and on building/balcony edges.
L.2.3f — diagnostic instrumentation for steep-roof investigation
GameWindow logs the player's actual StepUpHeight + StepDownHeight at
world-entry (along with the raw Setup.* values for comparison) so we
can confirm whether the dat-derived value matches retail's spec
(~0.4m) or is overriding to something larger.
Transition.DoStepUp logs the polygon's collision-normal Z (gated on
ACDREAM_DUMP_STEPUP=1 to keep cold-path noise low) so we can tell
whether step-up is being triggered against truly-walkable polygons
(Z >= FloorZ ≈ 0.66) or whether something steeper is sneaking through.
Tests: 825/825 still pass. The L.2 conformance fixtures cover the slide
path; D1 + D2 regression tests still pass with the StepUpSlide port.
Live verification needed for:
- #2 Wall slide: running close to a wall should slide along it.
- #4 Edge block: running off a balcony should stop at the edge.
- #3 Steep roof: launch with ACDREAM_DUMP_STEPUP=1 and report the
"stepup: normal=..." log lines when climbing the offending roof.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>