- The voidwalker's eye glow vanished whenever the camera rose above eye level.
Three investigations said depth; measuring the depth buffer inside the live
quads said otherwise — the fragments reached the framebuffer every frame, and
the body's own transparent batches painted over them. The real client draws a
model's particles after that model's batches, always. Ours now does: every
effect carries a draw-order rung sized to clear exactly its own model.
- Widened to every effect family after asking "what else does this fix": ribbon
trails (a wisp's streamers wove six batches deep into its own body and
flickered as the head whipped) and 3-D model particles (Cone of Cold's
shards). A census over all 9,691 models found 967 whose own body could paint
over their effects; all take the rung now.
- The skinning lane is ours end to end: every rig's joint matrices live in our
shared GPU buffer, written only when a rig actually moved, and our shader
reads them. The engine's lane rewrote the entire joint buffer every frame and
swept every entity in the world for changed transforms — that machinery now
runs against empty sets. Another 6.7 CPU ms off the worst reported dungeon
spot, which now holds a flat 60 fps with p99 under 19 ms.
- Getting around while developing: Ctrl+Cmd+G lands your character where the
free-fly camera is, and Alt-clicking the world map teleports you there (both
ride the server's own teleport, GM-gated). The frozen-body coordinates the
panel used to copy while flying now follow the camera.
- A stuck main thread now diagnoses itself: a watchdog samples our own stacks
and prints where the time went, and a hung teardown names its last system
instead of hanging the window.
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- The dungeon framerate reports were right about the mechanism: the cost is
CPU-side and it scales with NPC count, not with what's drawn. Two per-unit
lanes were each 30–100x more expensive than the work they do. Measured at the
reported Lower Blackrock Spire spot: 29.7 ms/frame, 72 CPU ms, before.
- "Which room is this NPC in" scanned whole dungeon groups triangle by
triangle — a spire stacks several 15k-face groups into any vertical column,
so 37 moving NPCs cost 1.2 million triangle tests per frame. Each group's
faces now sit in a column index built at load; same verdicts (pinned by
exactness tests), 88k tests, the lane drops from 11.3 ms to 1.1 ms.
- Animating one creature cost ~190 microseconds per frame in generic per-bone
animation machinery — hash lookups and boxed curves per bone, mostly to
produce constants. A direct pose evaluator now does the same math into the
same joints for ~16 microseconds per rig, checked bone-for-bone against the
old output across crossfades, overlays and masks. The reference animates
every in-range unit with no view cull, and now so can we: a raid's worth of
animating rigs (~450) costs ~4 CPU ms where it used to cost ~85.
- Net at the reported spot: a flat 60 fps. The performance probes also learned
to report CPU work (ms and %) instead of wall-clock fps, which is what makes
these numbers repeatable on a busy machine — and comparable to the Mac
report's own units.
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- One text-input law for every field. Login, character create and the delete
dialog each improvised their own tiny keyboard handling — no caret movement,
no selection, no clipboard, and Ctrl/Cmd+V typed a literal "v" into the
password box. All of them now run the same byte-verified edit-box law as
chat: clipboard, select-all, word moves, shift-selection, the real 0.5 s
caret blink. The password box masks what you copy off it, like the original.
- Copy/paste on Linux had two independent causes, one per direction: our window
is Wayland but the clipboard backend spoke X11 only, and a copy relinquished
the X11 selection the moment it returned (an X11 clipboard lives only as long
as its owning connection). Both fixed — Wayland windows get a real Wayland
clipboard, X11 keeps a held handle. AltGr is not Ctrl anymore either, so
Polish and German layouts can type ą, ć and ź in chat instead of triggering
select-all. Compile-checked on Linux; wants a real-session retest.
- The exterior sun keeps its colour. A per-channel clamp saturated the warm
continental sun to pale yellow-white on every sunlit fence, post and doodad;
the clamp now happens once, at the sum, so the fiery orange survives — the
reported Silverpine fence and Blackrock steps match the reference's own
arithmetic.
- A pool has a floor. Undercity's upper slime channels claimed the dry room a
storey below them — 115 yards down still read as submerged. A pool now stops
at its own room's floor; a sweep of every building in the shipped world found
51 such stacked sites across 6 buildings, all closed.
- Ctrl/Cmd+Z hides the whole UI layer for clean screenshots, and instrumented
debug runs open their window in the background instead of stealing focus.
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- Other players walk the world. A watched player's motion between server updates now runs through
the same grounded movement resolve as your own character — same capsule, same colliders, same
step-up and ground election — so they follow terrain every frame instead of every packet, and
stop at a wall instead of walking into it and being snapped back. Their jumps are swept against
the world too, and a standstill jump steered mid-air reports that steer, the one mid-air press
the reference client broadcasts rather than defers.
- The move relay rebuilt: relayed moves ride a per-unit chain on real time, a due move never jumps
ahead of its unit's queue, and SMSG_COMPRESSED_MOVES — the batched carrier the server sends under
load — is decoded rather than skipped. Our own send path now matches the reference client's:
facing streams while moving, Nagle is off so each packet is one write, and the strafe axis nets so
left and right can never ride the same packet.
- NPC and quest text speaks the whole $-macro grammar, carved from the reference bytes — your name,
class and race, the gendered forms, and the server's live world states — and the same
substitution feeds gossip, quest text, the quest log and unit frames. Greetings are a weighted
draw, rolled per NPC per open, and a quest giver with no quest to give is no longer clickable,
where it used to open a dialog holding nothing but a placeholder greeting.
- Spell tooltips finish the reference's line law: cast time and cooldown behind the real passive
gate, the required tool or form, the reagents block, the chance-to-X line, a multi-bit
equipped-item requirement named properly instead of by raw bits, and a buff's dispel class.
- The UI layout engine got a dense, reusable anchor solver, and a change gate that skips the resolve
entirely on frames where no layout input moved — in practice, almost every idle frame. Pets are
named by their pet number rather than a creature-template entry, so the client asks the query the
server can actually answer. And the asset extractor grew a stray-geometry census for tracking
down geometry that renders where it should not.
This snapshot replaces the six dated `sync` commits that stood here before it, whose subjects said
nothing but the date. If you cloned before now: `git fetch && git reset --hard origin/main`.
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