acdream/tools/run-backend-differential-gate.ps1
Erik a99f517ec2 feat(tools): Campaign V slice V6m commit 2 - the backend differential gate
tools/run-backend-differential-gate.ps1 is V7's instrument, plus the route it
runs. It executes the SAME connected route twice - ACDREAM_RENDER_BACKEND=gl
then =vulkan - pairs the screenshots by name, compares each pair with
compare-screenshots at the plan's pinned tolerance 2 / fraction 0.001, and
prints one verdict table with a JSON report beside it.

ACDREAM_MSAA_SAMPLES=0 IS FORCED ON BOTH LAUNCHES. Plan section 5.5.16 measured
what leaving it on costs - 8.83% of the frame at 4x, essentially all of it
hugging foliage and silhouette edges, which is two drivers' sample patterns and
not a renderer divergence. Forcing it on one side only would be worse than
either. ACDREAM_DAY_GROUP is pinned on both, and the route additionally pins the
client-only time-of-day override so the Dereth clock cannot drift between two
launches minutes apart.

The desktop witness and its three guards are lifted from the repeat-run gate
rather than reinvented, because that gate learned them the hard way: a blank
frame reads back as a valid PNG (section 5.5.2), so a second instrument that
shares nothing with the renderer decides whether a run is worth comparing at
all; a locked screen or an overlapping window is caught by the grab's size; and
stray input into a foregrounded window moves the camera off the pinned stop, so
the client log is scanned for camera-affecting actions and the run is aborted
rather than reported. Both runs close through WM_CLOSE - a hard kill leaves ACE
holding the session about three minutes and the second launch is the one that
pays for it.

connected-backend-differential.route.txt is written for two-launch determinism,
which is stricter than either existing route needed to be: identity quaternions
on every teleloc so heading is pinned, no movement between arrival and capture,
and no checkpoint verb (the ownership ledger has its own gate). Three stops -
Holtburg town, an interior EnvCell at the Facility Hub, Aerlinthe's island and
water edge. The interior stop is the durable fix section 5.1 names for the
campaign's oldest coverage gap: no connected route has ever visited one, which
is why EnvCellRenderer had no automated coverage on either backend.

ONE SMOKE PAIR was run, on the first stop, and it is reported honestly rather
than tuned. GL versus Vulkan at Holtburg with MSAA off: 170,697 of 921,600
pixels differ, 18.52%, maximum channel delta 255. Attributed with a difference
map:

  * 89% of it is in the top 240 rows. Masking the offline gate's top 280 rows
    takes the pair to 11,480 of 563,200, 2.04%. That band is the scrolling
    cloud sheet, which advances with WALL time and not with the pinned Dereth
    clock, plus the treeline behind it.
  * Masking the animated portal beside the character as well takes it to 6,190
    of 529,450, 1.17%, mean channel delta 0.49. A portal's scrolling texture is
    phase, like an emitter's age.
  * What remains is thin outlines on silhouette edges throughout the frame,
    plus the vitals readouts, whose stamina and mana genuinely advanced between
    the two logins.

So the distance to V7's 0.001 is about 12x with the two known phase populations
removed, and V7 owns closing it. -MaskTopPixels exists for that conversation and
DEFAULTS TO 0: the gate is a strict identity check on the whole frame unless
someone deliberately asks otherwise, per section 7.1 rule 2.

Both files are ASCII with CRLF, matching the other tools. That is not cosmetic:
PowerShell 5.1 reads a BOM-less .ps1 as ANSI, so a UTF-8 em dash inside a
double-quoted string is a parse error, which is how the first version failed.

Gates. Release build green; App tests 4,132 / 3 skips. No product code changed,
so commit 1's pixel, connected and validation gates stand unchanged - and the
smoke run is this commit's own evidence, since it drove a complete connected
Vulkan session end to end with a graceful exit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 18:34:43 +02:00

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<#
.SYNOPSIS
Campaign V slice V7 instrument: the GL-versus-Vulkan connected differential.
.DESCRIPTION
Runs the SAME connected route twice against the local ACE server -- once with
ACDREAM_RENDER_BACKEND=gl, once with =vulkan -- pairs the screenshots by name,
compares each pair with the `compare-screenshots` CLI at the plan's pinned
tolerance, and prints one verdict table.
This is the instrument for plan section 2's pixel-acceptance contract:
compare-screenshots expected.png actual.png out.json
channel tolerance 2, maximum differing fraction 0.001,
MSAA off, ACDREAM_DAY_GROUP pinned,
at every deterministic checkpoint of the connected route.
THREE THINGS ARE FORCED, and each is load-bearing.
1. ACDREAM_MSAA_SAMPLES=0 ON BOTH LAUNCHES. Multisample resolve positions
are explicitly unspecified across implementations. Plan section 5.5.16
MEASURED what leaving them on costs: 8.83% of the frame differed at 4x,
81,359 pixels of 921,600, essentially all of it hugging foliage and
silhouette edges. That is two drivers' sample patterns, not a renderer
divergence, and it swamps the 0.001 threshold by ninety-fold. Forcing it
off on both runs is what makes the remaining difference attributable.
Note that it must be forced on BOTH -- matching a GL run at 4x against a
Vulkan run at 0 would be worse than either.
2. ACDREAM_DAY_GROUP pinned. The sky animates and the Dereth clock advances
with wall time; two launches minutes apart cannot agree about either.
The route additionally pins the client-only time-of-day override.
3. A DESKTOP WITNESS per run, with the guards the repeat-run gate
(run-repeat-connected-gate.ps1) learned the hard way. The client's own
capture is the differential's subject, but a blank frame reads back as a
valid PNG (plan section 5.5.2), so a second instrument that shares
nothing with the renderer decides whether the run is worth comparing at
all. Its failure modes are the same three that gate documents:
* an overlapping window or a locked screen -- CopyFromScreen grabs
whatever is composited at those coordinates, so run this with
nothing else on the primary monitor and the desktop unlocked;
* stray input -- a foregrounded window takes keystrokes and scrolls,
which moves the camera off the pinned stop and produces an enormous
spurious difference. The client log is scanned for camera-affecting
input afterwards and the run is aborted if any arrived;
* a hard kill -- ACE holds the session about three minutes and the
SECOND launch of this gate is the one that pays for it, so both runs
close through WM_CLOSE.
.PARAMETER Out
Directory for both captures, the comparison reports and the verdict JSON.
.PARAMETER Route
The route both backends run. Defaults to the differential route, which is
written for two-launch determinism -- see its header before substituting one.
.PARAMETER Smoke
Compare only the FIRST stop. The route is truncated after its first
`screenshot` verb, so the run is short and the artifact records exactly what
ran. Use this to measure the distance between the backends without paying
for the whole route; the full route is the V7 gate.
.PARAMETER Tolerance
Per-channel absolute difference allowed. Default 2, the plan's pinned value.
.PARAMETER MaxDifferentFraction
Fraction of differing pixels allowed. Default 0.001, likewise pinned.
.PARAMETER DayGroup
Sky day-group index pinned on both launches. Default 0.
.PARAMETER MaskTopPixels
Height in pixels of a top band excluded from every comparison. DEFAULT 0 --
nothing is masked, and the gate is a strict identity check on the whole
frame.
It exists because the V6m smoke run measured what the band costs and the
number belongs where the next reader will find it. With the world clock
pinned by the route and MSAA off, a GL-versus-Vulkan pair at Holtburg
differed in 18.52% of the frame -- and 89% of that difference sat in the top
240 rows, which is the scrolling cloud sheet plus the treeline it sits
behind. The cloud sheet advances with WALL time, not the Dereth clock, so
two launches minutes apart can never agree there; this is the same
population the offline pixel gate masks its top 280 rows for. Rows 300-720
-- terrain, blending, roads, buildings, the character and the whole retained
UI -- contributed about 9,500 differing pixels between them.
Whether V7 accepts a mask, pins the cloud phase, or fixes something the
smoke was actually seeing is V7's decision, not this script's, which is why
the default is off. Do NOT reach for this to make a failing gate pass: plan
section 7.1 rule 2.
.PARAMETER MinRenderedBytes
Desktop-grab PNG size below which a run is called blank and the comparison
is refused. Default 500000, the repeat gate's measured separator.
.PARAMETER CooldownSeconds
Wait between the two launches so ACE clears the first graceful logout.
Default 15.
.EXAMPLE
tools/run-backend-differential-gate.ps1 -Out artifacts/v7-differential -Smoke
tools/run-backend-differential-gate.ps1 -Out artifacts/v7-differential
#>
[CmdletBinding()]
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)][string]$Out,
[string]$Route,
[switch]$Smoke,
[int]$Tolerance = 2,
[double]$MaxDifferentFraction = 0.001,
[int]$DayGroup = 0,
[int]$MaskTopPixels = 0,
[int]$MinRenderedBytes = 500000,
[int]$CooldownSeconds = 15,
[int]$RouteTimeoutSeconds = 600,
[switch]$SkipBuild
)
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
$repo = Split-Path -Parent $PSScriptRoot
$exe = Join-Path $repo 'src\AcDream.App\bin\Release\net10.0\AcDream.App.exe'
$cli = Join-Path $repo 'src\AcDream.Cli\bin\Release\net10.0\AcDream.Cli.dll'
if (-not $Route) { $Route = Join-Path $repo 'tools\connected-backend-differential.route.txt' }
function Write-Step($message) { Write-Host "[differential] $message" }
# --- Preconditions ------------------------------------------------------------
if (Get-Process -Name AcDream.App -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {
throw 'AcDream.App is already running. This gate uses the shared test account and must not steal its session.'
}
if (@(Get-NetUDPEndpoint -LocalPort 9000 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).Count -eq 0) {
throw 'local ACE is not listening on UDP port 9000.'
}
if (-not (Test-Path $Route)) { throw "Route not found: $Route" }
if (-not $SkipBuild) {
Write-Step 'building Release'
& dotnet build (Join-Path $repo 'AcDream.slnx') -c Release --nologo -v q | Out-Null
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw "Release build failed with exit code $LASTEXITCODE." }
}
if (-not (Test-Path $exe)) { throw "Client not found at $exe." }
if (-not (Test-Path $cli)) { throw "AcDream.Cli not found at $cli." }
if (Test-Path $Out) { Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $Out }
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $Out | Out-Null
# The route both runs execute. -Smoke truncates after the first capture; the
# truncated file is written into the artifact directory so what ran is on record.
$routeLines = Get-Content -LiteralPath $Route
if ($Smoke) {
$firstShot = -1
for ($i = 0; $i -lt $routeLines.Count; $i++) {
if ($routeLines[$i].TrimStart().StartsWith('screenshot ')) { $firstShot = $i; break }
}
if ($firstShot -lt 0) { throw "The route has no screenshot verb to truncate at: $Route" }
$routeLines = @($routeLines[0..$firstShot]) + @('sleep 3000')
Write-Step "smoke mode: route truncated after its first capture ($($firstShot + 1) lines)"
}
$effectiveRoute = Join-Path $Out 'route.txt'
Set-Content -Encoding utf8 -Path $effectiveRoute -Value $routeLines
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing
Add-Type @'
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
public static class DifferentialGateSurface {
[DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern bool SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr hWnd);
[DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);
[DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern bool GetClientRect(IntPtr hWnd, out RECT r);
[DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern bool ClientToScreen(IntPtr hWnd, ref POINT p);
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] public struct RECT { public int L, T, R, B; }
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] public struct POINT { public int X, Y; }
}
'@
function Invoke-BackendRun([string]$Backend) {
$dir = Join-Path $Out $Backend
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $dir | Out-Null
$log = Join-Path $dir 'client.log'
$grab = Join-Path $dir 'desktop-grab.png'
$env:ACDREAM_DAT_DIR = Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE "Documents\Asheron's Call"
$env:ACDREAM_LIVE = '1'
$env:ACDREAM_TEST_HOST = '127.0.0.1'
$env:ACDREAM_TEST_PORT = '9000'
$env:ACDREAM_TEST_USER = 'testaccount'
$env:ACDREAM_TEST_PASS = 'testpassword'
$env:ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI = '1'
$env:ACDREAM_DEVTOOLS = '0'
$env:ACDREAM_DAY_GROUP = "$DayGroup"
# Both launches, always. See the .DESCRIPTION note 1.
$env:ACDREAM_MSAA_SAMPLES = '0'
$env:ACDREAM_RENDER_BACKEND = $Backend
$env:ACDREAM_UI_PROBE_SCRIPT = $effectiveRoute
$env:ACDREAM_AUTOMATION_ARTIFACT_DIR = $dir
Write-Step "launching $Backend (MSAA off, day group $DayGroup)"
# Normal window style: the desktop witness needs a composited frame.
$proc = Start-Process -FilePath $exe -WorkingDirectory $repo `
-RedirectStandardOutput $log -RedirectStandardError "$log.err" -PassThru
$completed = $false
$deadline = (Get-Date).AddSeconds($RouteTimeoutSeconds)
while ((Get-Date) -lt $deadline) {
if (Select-String -Path $log -SimpleMatch '[UI-PROBE] UI probe script complete' `
-ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { $completed = $true; break }
if ($proc.HasExited) { break }
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 1000
}
# The desktop witness, taken while the client is still in its trailing sleep
# and therefore still rendering the last scene of the route.
$grabBytes = 0
if (-not $proc.HasExited) {
try {
$proc.Refresh()
$h = $proc.MainWindowHandle
if ($h -ne [IntPtr]::Zero) {
[DifferentialGateSurface]::ShowWindow($h, 9) | Out-Null # SW_RESTORE
[DifferentialGateSurface]::SetForegroundWindow($h) | Out-Null
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 1200
$r = New-Object DifferentialGateSurface+RECT
[DifferentialGateSurface]::GetClientRect($h, [ref]$r) | Out-Null
$p = New-Object DifferentialGateSurface+POINT
[DifferentialGateSurface]::ClientToScreen($h, [ref]$p) | Out-Null
$w = $r.R - $r.L; $ht = $r.B - $r.T
if ($w -gt 0 -and $ht -gt 0) {
$bmp = New-Object System.Drawing.Bitmap $w, $ht
$g = [System.Drawing.Graphics]::FromImage($bmp)
$g.CopyFromScreen($p.X, $p.Y, 0, 0, (New-Object System.Drawing.Size $w, $ht))
$bmp.Save($grab, [System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat]::Png)
$g.Dispose(); $bmp.Dispose()
$grabBytes = (Get-Item $grab).Length
}
}
}
catch { Write-Step "desktop grab failed on ${Backend}: $_" }
}
# Graceful close, always: a hard kill leaves ACE holding the session about
# three minutes, and the second launch is the one that would pay for it.
$app = Get-Process -Name AcDream.App -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ($app) {
$app.CloseMainWindow() | Out-Null
if (-not $app.WaitForExit(20000)) {
Write-Step "WM_CLOSE timed out on $Backend; forcing"
$app | Stop-Process -Force
}
}
Remove-Item Env:\ACDREAM_RENDER_BACKEND -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Remove-Item Env:\ACDREAM_MSAA_SAMPLES -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$strayInput = @(Select-String -Path $log -Pattern 'ScrollUp|ScrollDown|ZoomIn|ZoomOut|CameraZoom' `
-CaseSensitive -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)
$witness = if ($grabBytes -ge $MinRenderedBytes) { 'RENDERED' }
elseif ($grabBytes -gt 0) { 'BLANK' }
else { 'NO-CAPTURE' }
return [pscustomobject][ordered]@{
Backend = $Backend
RouteCompleted = $completed
GrabBytes = $grabBytes
Witness = $witness
StrayInputLines = @($strayInput | Select-Object -First 5 | ForEach-Object { $_.Line })
Screenshots = Join-Path $dir 'screenshots'
Log = $log
}
}
$gl = Invoke-BackendRun 'gl'
Write-Step "cooldown ${CooldownSeconds}s so ACE clears the graceful logout"
Start-Sleep -Seconds $CooldownSeconds
$vk = Invoke-BackendRun 'vulkan'
# --- Sanity, before any pixel is compared ------------------------------------
$aborts = @()
foreach ($run in @($gl, $vk)) {
if (-not $run.RouteCompleted) { $aborts += "$($run.Backend): the route did not complete" }
if ($run.Witness -ne 'RENDERED') {
$aborts += "$($run.Backend): desktop witness says $($run.Witness) ($($run.GrabBytes) B) -- locked screen, an overlapping window, or a blank frame"
}
if ($run.StrayInputLines.Count -gt 0) {
$aborts += "$($run.Backend): camera-affecting input reached the window; the capture is not comparable"
}
}
$pairs = @()
if ($aborts.Count -eq 0) {
$glShots = @(Get-ChildItem $gl.Screenshots -Filter *.png -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)
if ($glShots.Count -eq 0) { $aborts += 'gl: no screenshots were captured' }
# The comparer skips any pixel whose mask alpha is non-zero, so the excluded
# band is opaque and everything compared is transparent. Same construction as
# the offline pixel gate's sky mask; off unless -MaskTopPixels was given.
$maskPath = $null
if ($MaskTopPixels -gt 0 -and $glShots.Count -gt 0) {
$probeImage = [System.Drawing.Bitmap]::FromFile($glShots[0].FullName)
$mw = $probeImage.Width; $mh = $probeImage.Height
$probeImage.Dispose()
$mask = New-Object System.Drawing.Bitmap($mw, $mh, [System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat]::Format32bppArgb)
$graphics = [System.Drawing.Graphics]::FromImage($mask)
$graphics.Clear([System.Drawing.Color]::FromArgb(0, 0, 0, 0))
$opaque = New-Object System.Drawing.SolidBrush ([System.Drawing.Color]::FromArgb(255, 255, 0, 255))
$graphics.FillRectangle($opaque, 0, 0, $mw, [Math]::Min($MaskTopPixels, $mh))
$graphics.Dispose(); $opaque.Dispose()
$maskPath = Join-Path $Out 'mask.png'
$mask.Save($maskPath, [System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat]::Png)
$mask.Dispose()
Write-Step "masking the top $MaskTopPixels rows of every pair"
}
foreach ($shot in $glShots) {
$counterpart = Join-Path $vk.Screenshots $shot.Name
if (-not (Test-Path $counterpart)) {
$pairs += [pscustomobject][ordered]@{
Stop = $shot.BaseName; Verdict = 'UNPAIRED'
DifferentPixels = $null; Fraction = $null; MaxChannelDelta = $null
}
continue
}
$report = Join-Path $Out "compare-$($shot.BaseName).json"
if ($maskPath) {
& dotnet $cli compare-screenshots $shot.FullName $counterpart $report $Tolerance $MaxDifferentFraction $maskPath | Out-Null
}
else {
& dotnet $cli compare-screenshots $shot.FullName $counterpart $report $Tolerance $MaxDifferentFraction | Out-Null
}
$verdict = Get-Content $report -Raw | ConvertFrom-Json
$outcome = if ($verdict.passed) { 'MATCH' } else { 'DIVERGED' }
$pairs += [pscustomobject][ordered]@{
Stop = $shot.BaseName
Verdict = $outcome
DifferentPixels = $verdict.differentPixels
Fraction = $verdict.differentPixelFraction
MaxChannelDelta = $verdict.maximumChannelDelta
}
}
}
# --- Verdict ------------------------------------------------------------------
Write-Host ''
if ($aborts.Count -gt 0) {
Write-Host '[differential] ABORTED before comparison:' -ForegroundColor Red
$aborts | ForEach-Object { Write-Host " - $_" -ForegroundColor Red }
}
else {
$pairs | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-String | Write-Host
}
$diverged = @($pairs | Where-Object Verdict -ne 'MATCH')
$report = [pscustomobject][ordered]@{
Passed = ($aborts.Count -eq 0 -and $diverged.Count -eq 0)
Smoke = [bool]$Smoke
Commit = (& git -C $repo rev-parse HEAD).Trim()
Route = $Route
EffectiveRoute = $effectiveRoute
ChannelTolerance = $Tolerance
MaxDifferentPixelFraction = $MaxDifferentFraction
MsaaSamples = 0
DayGroup = $DayGroup
MaskTopPixels = $MaskTopPixels
Runs = @($gl, $vk)
Pairs = @($pairs)
Aborts = @($aborts)
}
$reportPath = Join-Path $Out 'differential.json'
$report | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 8 | Set-Content -LiteralPath $reportPath -Encoding utf8
Write-Step "report: $reportPath"
if ($aborts.Count -gt 0) { exit 2 }
if ($diverged.Count -gt 0) {
Write-Host ("[differential] FAILED: {0}/{1} stop(s) diverged." -f $diverged.Count, $pairs.Count) -ForegroundColor Red
exit 1
}
Write-Step ("PASS: {0}/{0} stop(s) match at tolerance {1} / fraction {2}." -f $pairs.Count, $Tolerance, $MaxDifferentFraction)
exit 0