- a panning UI batch rides its Transform instead of rewriting its mesh, minimap tiles emit unclipped (the mask shader already zeroes the corners), and the blip layer's origin snaps to half a logical pixel — steady UI mesh writes while moving drop from ~183/s to 10–14/s, and three minimap quads stop arming change detection over ~40k world meshes
- the classify twin GC comes off the despawn edge: a part despawn schedules the full walk behind a 2 s deadline instead of running it that frame — 12–22 full walks a second while walking, gone
- the walking tax measured and banded at Goldshire: parked 10.7 → moving 14.1 ms/frame of process CPU, ~+2.5 after the two fixes above
- WOW_PART_CHURN and WOW_MESH_HOLDERS count part spawn/despawn frames and name which entities hold a churning mesh; the capture rig's `at:` pin learns a facing
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- with no WoW install the client boots to the login screen instead of panicking on frame one: three world systems demanded install-gated resources their own startup never inserts
- `WOW_DATA=` — set and empty — means there is no install, in any build; the cursor says "no client data" once instead of thirty-one times
- the per-frame `bevy_egui pass output has not been prepared` ERROR is gone: a gated context runs an empty pass itself, so the idle lane keeps its savings and the log stays silent
- ECS diagnostics name their system in a dev build — no more `<Enable the debug feature to see the name>` in a panic
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- the paper doll and the character-select stage animate again: a staged rig is fenced off the world's frustum parker, which had been freezing every booth half a second after its bake
- the char-select plaza stops pulsing dark and bright after a geared relog: the off-world lane now carries its authored batch order, so a ground decal and the street under it stop swapping on a sort tie re-broken every frame
- the perf HUD goes on a diet: two small numbers and a bare arrow, drawn from a 4 Hz snapshot instead of the live meters
- a missing file in a player's addon manifest logs WARN, not ERROR — a broken third-party package is the addon's defect, not the client's
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- the paper doll joins the collapsed rig lane and its body panes render every other frame while open, the pose still evaluating at full rate (boothHalfRate CVar) — the open character window's cost at Goldshire ~+2.7 → ~+1.0 ms
- the parked frame's idle diet: avian's dynamics pipeline goes (the world has zero dynamic bodies), the hidden dev overlay stops drawing an empty pass, and a unit's swim state is re-checked only when it moved — 12.8–13.3 → 12.0 ms parked at Goldshire
- the UI tick stops sweeping the whole frame arena three times over: OnUpdate frames and the message and cooldown kinds live on registries kept at their one write site — idle tick 530 → ~195 µs a frame
- the WOW_MEGA_STATIC bracket retires, past its recorded condition now that the retained pass carries its own
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- the eight heaviest UI feeds — spellbook, party, character, bags, talents, units, pet, player — rebuild only when an input moved instead of every frame: 216 → 12 µs a frame parked
- the character window's cost settles once it closes: enchant countdowns feed by the second instead of firing an inventory event into all 20 slots every frame, the paper-doll booth parks with its camera, and a window hidden under the cursor fires OnLeave so its tooltip goes with it — the reference's hover-hide law
- the walk stops paying for finished work: the loading-screen tally's per-placement walk latches off once the world is ready, the settled placement spawner is one integer compare, and billboards stop dirtying every card's transform
- never-rendering hierarchy nodes — rig anchors, joints, doodad hosts — keep the hide chain but leave the per-camera visibility sweep: 25,198 → 18,026 swept entities at Goldshire
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- the sun flare's terrain-occlusion march re-prices 2 grid cells a frame instead of 768 height queries, the retained pass's published regions go behind an Arc instead of two memcpys, and a unit's splash line is re-read only when its pose changed — −0.66 ms parked at Goldshire, pixels bit-identical
- PostUpdate and the render extract schedule run single-threaded by default — ~620 mostly no-op systems were paying the multi-threaded dispatch premium — −0.90 ms parked at Goldshire, −0.8 walking in Lower Blackrock Spire; WOW_MT_POSTUPDATE and WOW_MT_EXTRACT are the levers back
- GltfPlugin, AntiAliasPlugin and GilrsPlugin leave the boot — machinery for types nothing makes, 31 systems a frame fewer
- WOW_SCHED_CENSUS lists every schedule's systems with their executor-relevant flags, both worlds — the inventory the flips were priced against
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- the retained pass pays its churn debts: one shared texture-array pool with each layer encoded once, re-bakes that wait for a quiet window, killed placements leaving the draw runs — VRAM flat at 76 MB parked at Goldshire where it had climbed past 127, GPU 4.2 → 2.0 ms
- a building's furniture joins the pass in its own per-building region, so a prop's arrival never re-bakes the walls — submeshes 28,367 → 7,747 at the Stormwind gates, and Lower Blackrock Spire reads its first win, −0.37 ms
- WOW_STATIC_GX defaults on: negative at all four pins, −1.36 ms walking at Goldshire and −0.76 at the Stormwind gates; WOW_STATIC_GX=0 restores the entity path byte-for-byte
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- behind WOW_STATIC_GX=1, never-fade doodads leave the per-entity renderer for one cross-material draw per 133-yard cell, pixel-identical to the entity path at the 1/255 floor
- WMO group geometry joins the pass with the portal flood as CPU range selection — in Lower Blackrock Spire the entity lane's WMO draws drop 33 → 0, no leak
- the fading doodads ride it too: a doodad inside its feather band is punched out of the retained draw and respawned as an ordinary entity, so the fade is the current look by construction
- correctness banked, performance not yet: the first legs read +2.36 ms at the Stormwind gates and +7.27 parked at Goldshire — per-cell texture arrays rebuilt on every re-bake are the priced cost, WOW_GX_PERF=1 meters the lane
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- every run now merges the static world: never-fade doodads and interior props bake into per-cell blobs, −0.42 ms at the Stormwind gates and ~−0.2 at Goldshire; WOW_STATIC_MERGE=0 opts out
- the fading doodads stay individual — one translucent draw per cell depth-killed whatever feathered behind it, the lamppost popping in behind a Goldshire fence — and WOW_MERGE_FADERS=1 keeps the dev lane
- merged blobs sort at their own centre instead of the world origin, and their pipeline variants pre-warm so no blob compiles live mid-walk and steps the fade
- roaming converges on the parked shape: a quiet cell re-bakes its fragments into one blob, and a doodad straddling two tiles hands off to a loaded neighbour when its owner tile unloads
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- behind WOW_STATIC_MERGE=1, never-fade doodads, fading doodads and interior props bake into one mesh per 133-yard cell and material — −0.99 ms at the Stormwind gates, a wash in Lower Blackrock Spire, GPU flat
- the merged faders fade in-shader on the reference's own fading draw state, so the ramp is as smooth as an individual doodad's
- interior props carry their light-probe slot per vertex, and the arrival cover waits for every unbaked blob so a reveal never shows a hole
- a merge census (WOW_MERGE_CENSUS=1) prices each population before it is built — WMO group geometry merges nothing and stays individual
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- water and lava keep time in the shader: the 24 Hz CPU tick that re-uploaded every liquid material is gone, −0.28 ms at the Stormwind gates, and lava scrolls smoothly instead of stepping
- static transform tracking is pinned on — the adaptive check spent two full scans a frame to say yes in a world where movers are 1–3% of the rows
- WOW_MEGA_STATIC merges static geometry per material and 133-yard cell — an experiment lever, priced at −1.15 ms CPU for +0.3 ms GPU at the Stormwind gates
- WOW_GPU_MS times the whole frame on the GPU and reads 2.2 ms against 17.4 CPU at the Stormwind gates: the frame is CPU-bound, so the work ahead is on the CPU side
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- a text write names its own label, so the per-frame measure sweep drains a short ledger instead of hashing every font string twice — ~0.3 ms a frame at the Stormwind gates, gone
- the idle interface tick stops re-writing settled state: buff durations and the weapon-enchant frame write only on change, and the fade and unit-popup drivers park until woken
- the interface extract skips a hidden region before cloning its row, not after
- WOW_UPLOAD_BUDGET=<MB> brackets the arrival burst's upload pacing — a lever for measuring world entry, not a fix yet
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- Blackrock Mountain's lava bubbles animate at last: their sprite's flip-book channel was baked from a sequence they never play — UV and tint loops now bake per sequence, and a placement whose sequences disagree gets its own material
- a bonfire's logs were vanishing while its flame burned on: a body planted just under its own floor now claims the room above it, and the flame card and fire sound follow the body's cull instead of outliving it
- a WMO prop's animation host stops being cull-tested as an object in its own right
- WOW_TILE_RADIUS's doc now states its real default, 2, and why
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- the pet bar's autocast shine cost +4.25 ms a frame for one button: its 92 script-side SetPoints forced two whole-roster anchor solves every frame — the shine now draws from a native lane, re-measured at +0.03 ms with what is drawn bit-faithful to before
- an NPC that spawned under its own floor — a cellar wolf, a pet at login — now measures its ground clamp from the server's seat instead of its own last answer, and climbs out
- a running cast cost ~4 ms a frame in layout gate walks; a mutated frame now takes one walk, not three, and the settled interface is pinned at zero
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- a drawn animated material — scrolling texture, pulsing tint — is never mutated again: the animation rides delta rows in a shared region of the light buffer, folded branch-free in the shader, with zero as identity
- the churn that came with mutating assets dies by construction — no per-material modified ratchet, no far-twin re-inserts — and capture parity is bit-exact
- the portal flood's answer goes compare-then-write, clearing the ground for a static-visibility lane
- the single-threaded PostUpdate probe answered: cheaper on mean cpu, parked on a tail-latency class, kept as a documented lever
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- a single animating entry — the resting blink, a sweeping cooldown — now re-converts alone and stitches into last frame's interface quads instead of dragging the whole batch through conversion, and the staleness sweep stops allocating
- two physics levers measured and flipped: entity clusters and the pre-step transform propagation both default off, −0.28 and −0.40 ms at the Stormwind gates
- the per-frame hygiene basket: env lookups cached once, both mouseover walks filtered by archetype instead of touching every streamed object, ground-shade cards resolve to their nearest shaded root, the nameplate steady frame stops allocating and stops dirtying transforms
- new meters for what remains: an animation memo-sizing counter and a lever that prices the physics stack's rate
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- the full bevy 0.19 / avian 0.7 / egui 0.35 port landed and rendered at visual parity, then profiling matched the lanes honestly: +5.5 ms against 0.18 in our scenes, priced to three named buckets — so it was reverted the same day, with the pins mapped for a future release
- back on 0.18 the client is faster than 0.18 ever ran here, keeping both performance days' wins
- what the hunt left behind: the material-animation scan visits only rows that can be registry keys, and a capture that settles on an all-black image now says EMPTY instead of grading it
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- the resting player's blinking status glow was rebuilding the whole interface's batches every frame — a run whose bytes didn't move is no longer rewritten, worth 1.17 ms at Stormwind
- doodad skeletons collapse into the pose buffer and parked rigs skip the model pass; doodad and prop hulls weld into batched trimeshes
- the Update schedule runs on the single-threaded executor by default, measured faster than the multithreaded one for this frame
- a parked camera stops claiming to move every frame
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- UI layout solves what moved, not what exists — hovering a full bag no longer re-solves the whole interface
- world albedo textures stop keeping a second copy of themselves in RAM
- collision gets a coarse grid for oversized slabs (32x fewer triangles tested), idle units stop re-asking the ground every frame, and anchors spawn on first consumer instead of by the thousand
- aura and loot watchers scan when the store changes rather than on the clock, and static-transform tracking and plate reaping join the sweep
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- a teleport between cities on one continent could release you before the destination had streamed in and drop you under the map — the residency publish now waits for the snap and names the tile its facts are about, so the loading screen provably holds until the ground is real
- nameplates stop jittering: plates of units you cannot see no longer shove the visible ones around, and the snap rides the correct pixel grid
- unit-name text takes its first fix — a string fits the width its own measure reported, and a re-bake reaches the screen
- books and plaques render through a real SimpleHTML widget inside a real ScrollFrame — strict parse, per-element fonts, block layout, and a scroll range measured from the whole subtree
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- ReloadUI() tears the UI down and rebuilds it in place without leaving the world — the reference's own pair, one frame apart
- a model's particle clouds and ribbon trails are admitted by one rule — distance, far clip, frustum, window, room — and a building's light sources ride their rooms too, so torches stop lighting receivers through walls
- a mouse-wheel notch is a press and its release, dispatched in the same frame as the reference does
- the binding registry is checked against the install's own Bindings.xml and DefaultBindings.wtf, so its transcribed defaults cannot drift silently
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- the in-game UI ends at the character screen and is rebuilt at the next login, so addons that read the character at file scope stop being frozen on whoever logged in first
- everything the host remembers about a UI is keyed on that VM's identity — keybinds, macro icons and every feed survive the rebuild instead of silently pushing nothing
- a ribbon trail rides the room its model is drawn by: Caverns of Time's ninety energy trails stop burning through 200 yards of rock
- the visibility census gains the sky and ribbon lanes it could not see, and the logout leak probe measures after the release instead of accusing every run
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- GetStringWidth answers the moment the text is set — the client's width law is a per-glyph table, no shaping pass — so Bagnon's character dropdown stops collapsing to 40 pixels
- a chat channel keeps its number when another channel leaves: Trade stays /2 through a teleport
- the login splash, the zone music and the minimap label wait for the world under the player instead of announcing whatever tile happened to be loaded
- ending a session empties the chat window and the input box's history
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- the server picks the view and the mover independently — far sight moves the eye, client control moves the reins, and Mind Control sets both, which is why its camera works for free
- while you hold another body's reins your own stands still, so the server never smears your pose onto the creature you drive
- the Ornate Spyglass is a local 6x zoom, not a camera move — there was never a wire half to be missing
- the scene election fails closed: three classes of creature that escaped it are back under its verdict
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- lava and slime surfaces creep on the building path — the two liquid types the reference animates, and only those
- particle blend 1 is AlphaKey: the rock elemental throws tumbling chips instead of flat pale squares
- standing in a sealed room, outdoor creatures are never submitted to the scene at all — the reference's own election, not a hide
- an animation clip's arm frame fires no event keys, matching the client's walker rule frame for frame
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- the terrain's impassable-chunk flag is parsed and fenced the way the binary fences it — all four sides, floored, rising only — so movement stops exactly where 1.12.1 stops
- a vertex normal authored as all zeros is legal content: the normalize is guarded, and the flat-black sleeves and skirts get their lighting back — a corpus sweep found 73 affected models nobody had filed
- Caverns of Time's asteroid belts turn: a rigid bone needs no rig
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- forty files that carried the reference's literal Lua are rewritten as our own expression of the behaviour — worst identical run 61 lines down to 7 — and the README now says exactly that
- the overlap gate measures the code itself across all four reference corpora, and ratchets: the number may only go down
- a lost session ends at the login screen instead of silently re-authenticating and stealing the account back
- a building's skybox is a real model: Caverns of Time's white ceiling becomes its painted nebula and additive stars
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- an animated doodad is culled by its authored box, not its bind pose — the one-yard bird flying a 64-yard circuit stops vanishing with the camera angle — and the fix survives the engine's own bound recompute
- the logon proof answers the server's version challenge instead of sending zeros, so a strict realmd stops rejecting benilla as a modified client
- two instruments land: a frame-by-frame visibility trace for one model, and a probe that classifies whether a realmd enforces the version check
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- Lua 5.0's generic-for and nested long strings are restored in a forked VM — 60 corpus addons stopped dying on one deleted opcode
- a day of demand-driven carving takes the 218-addon corpus from 24 addons surviving a session start to 114, with 144 loading without a single error
- Bagnon draws a real bag and answers real gestures — hover tooltip, pickup, use, drag — because our frames wear the reference's names, and the reference's own ContainerFrame.lua runs off the player's install instead of being transcribed
- the physics broad phase leaves: nothing in the client reads a contact, and it was measured at up to 41% of main-thread samples in real sessions
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- a player build ships beside the dev one — dev chords and probe surfaces go dark, and a gate enforces what a player can still reach, by medium not by module
- the binary carries its own shaders and its shipped UI, finds the WoW folder by itself, and keeps its local state in one benilla-config folder
- the glue screens get a capture shutter, and the engine stops depending on the protocol crate
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- the world engine splits from the game into a benilla-world crate — 112 files, and the wall is ratcheted to zero names of the game inside the engine
- the engine's public doorway is counted and gated at 32 items, and the render materials, shaders and asset cache move down to benilla-assets
- the game's files leave the engine's asset root — game:// is its own space — and a spike binary boots the engine with no game attached
- weather rides along: snowfall emission is denominated in the reference's frame cap, and a long teleport retires the stranded precipitation field instead of leaving it behind
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