acdream/docs/plans
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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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(roadmap): mark Phase K + Phase L.0 shipped 2026-04-27 06:24:24 +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 feat(ui): Phase D.2a — VitalsPanel wired into GameWindow + backend pivot 2026-04-25 00:43:46 +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