From b8fea8e78c70e838c011d8a95bfeeb5c2c627eec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pkuzic Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:04:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] MONKEY (fix-wind): document the static shadow under swaying leaves (review W6) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- LIGHTING.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/LIGHTING.md b/LIGHTING.md index fa4812c5..c1ccefe1 100644 --- a/LIGHTING.md +++ b/LIGHTING.md @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ behind each constant. | Sky quality | Enhanced: the five Light.dbc sky stops through a smooth monotone curve in linear light (no bands at the rings), a soft sun glow tinted by sun and fog colour (fades at night and under cloud), a procedural star field with twinkle and a faint Milky Way over the stock `Stars.m2`. High adds domain-warped cloud detail and sun-lit clouds (self-shadow, silver lining; technique from WarcraftXL, see `THIRD-PARTY.md`). Classic is the reference sky unchanged | Advanced Graphics → Sky Quality, cvar `skyQuality` 0 Classic / 1 Enhanced / 2 High, env `WOW_SKY_QUALITY` | | Modern fog | MONKEY (fog): radial distance fog with a gradual exponential curve, a daylight sun lobe, and an end colour shared by the world, WDL hull, sky horizon and volumetric haze. Each zone keeps its authored fog end up to the reference view-distance limit; optional `LightFogBand.dbc` rows provide height, sun and end-fog controls. Interior WMO fog stays classic | Advanced Graphics → Modern Fog, cvar `fogModel` 0 Classic (default) / 1 Modern (High = 1), env `WOW_FOGMODEL=0\|1`; `fog_hook.wgsl`, `lighting/fog_model.rs`, `light/fog_band.rs` | | Rain on surfaces | MONKEY (wet): rain gradually darkens and saturates exposed terrain and models, adds puddles and a sky/sun sheen, and produces rings on exterior Enhanced water. Wetness rises over roughly 90 seconds and dries over roughly four minutes; phase 1 has no rain-occlusion map, so shelter is classified only by interior/unlit state and surface facing | Advanced Graphics → Wet Surfaces in Rain, cvar `rainSurfaces` 0/1 (default and High 1), env `WOW_RAIN_SURFACES`, `WOW_WETNESS`, `WOW_WET_T`; `weather/wetness.rs`, `wet_hook.wgsl` | -| Foliage wind | one weather-fed gust/veer field drives grass and classified tree/bush foliage; grass also parts around the player and nearby units | Advanced Graphics → Foliage Wind, cvar `foliageWind` 0 Off / 1 Grass / 2 Grass + Trees (High = 2), capture override `WOW_FOLIAGE_WIND`; field and benders in `benilla-world/src/wind/`. The wave phase is the CPU-integrated travel (speed integrated over time, wrapped seamlessly), and the waves' spatial term uses the fixed profile heading; the veer turns only the bend. Tree exile copies sway through material marker bit 14 (`FOLIAGE_WIND_MARKER`). Capture offset `WOW_CAPTURE_WIND_T` (s) | +| Foliage wind | one weather-fed gust/veer field drives grass and classified tree/bush foliage; grass also parts around the player and nearby units | Advanced Graphics → Foliage Wind, cvar `foliageWind` 0 Off / 1 Grass / 2 Grass + Trees (High = 2), capture override `WOW_FOLIAGE_WIND`; field and benders in `benilla-world/src/wind/`. The wave phase is the CPU-integrated travel (speed integrated over time, wrapped seamlessly), and the waves' spatial term uses the fixed profile heading; the veer turns only the bend. Tree exile copies sway through material marker bit 14 (`FOLIAGE_WIND_MARKER`). Capture offset `WOW_CAPTURE_WIND_T` (s). Known: shadow casters (world-shadow proxies, `torch_depth.wgsl`) do not apply the sway, so leaves sample a static shadow; a future world-camera DepthPrepass must call the same offsets | | Night and interior level | global dimming of the night sky term and of interior ambient | `nightGain`, `interiorGain`, `interiorBakeFloor` | Players reach all of it from **Options -> Advanced Graphics** (a Lighting Quality preset Off / Low / Medium / High plus the individual rows; Off is the original client look). The dev build has a panel for all of it: **Ctrl+Shift+D → Lighting & shadows**, with Dim / Default /