Comments that pointed into the maintainer's private reverse-engineering notes (a note by name, a
path, a section or finding id, the analysis's own name for a client function, a process word) now
carry the fact itself, cited by the reference client's address, by vmangos file and line, or as
"the reference". Nobody outside could follow those pointers.
Comment text only, plus the test-assert and log strings that carried the same pointers. No claim
changes: a comment the notes have since corrected keeps its wording here, and correcting it is
separate work.
The two reference generators, `scripts/gen-reference-globals.py` and
`scripts/gen-reference-verb-events.py`, named the private notes' layout to find their inputs. They
now take the input files as arguments (`--capture`, `--framexml`, `--names`, `--extents`,
`--disasm`). Run on the same inputs, both write the committed tables row for row; only the two
header lines that named the old environment variable change.
Checked per file:
- the code is identical: each file with its comments stripped compares equal before and after; a
changed string literal is compared under a mask that proves only literal text moved and every
literal kept its line count;
- no client address the old text cited was dropped;
- a second reviewer checked every added address against its derivation;
- a detector for the notes' names, paths, ids, function names and process words finds none left;
- `scripts/gates.sh` is green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- the CVars are one engine-side table that outlives every interface reload: a change fires its observer, the eight latched rows wait for RestartGx, and /console gains set, cvar_reset, cvar_default, cvarlist and help (2303)
- every push into the interface runs in one feed phase after the net drain and before the tick, held by a structural test on the built schedule (2304)
- subsystems own their packet handlers, dispatched in packet order; the auction house is the first family out of the 273-arm drain (2305)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- a panic writes benilla-config/Diagnostics/crash-<time>.txt with the build id, the location, a backtrace and the last 200 log lines, and names the file as its last line, so a bug report can attach it (2266)
- every wire-count allocation hint is capped and the compressed update object reads through the cursor, so a malformed packet can no longer ask for gigabytes (2266)
- the 23 in-world run conditions are one set, the 45 probe variables one registry, the install-gated tests say when they skip, and every gate is timed (2266)
- one workspace-level lint allowance replaces 413 per-site attributes, and the decision corpus gets a lint in the gate (2266)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- entering the world builds its own Lua state instead of adopting the character screen's, so a login one-shot fired into the frameless glue VM is spent again against the interface (2226)
- after training, the trainer's detail pane moves on: the selection is the service's spell id, re-found by scan, and a filtered row is hidden, not removed (2231)
- a spell's miss or resist floats in spell gold, and a travelling spell's word waits for the projectile; only a white hit's miss is white (2229)
- a press that lands on a nameplate is the plate's: no freelook, no camera turn, the plate's own click slot (2233)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- a nameplate's name and level stop popping a pixel every other step as the plate slides, and the whole plate no longer jumps 19 px to the top of the screen on a rounding tie; the chat bubble takes the same fix (2172)
- creatures and other players stop sinking through the ground while the world is still streaming in, where a Stormwind patroller had been 31 yd under its street: a body our world cannot yet answer for holds the server's pose (2174)
- select and the string metatable are gone, as in 1.12's Lua 5.0: pfUI's heal prediction parses its messages with the right format, BuffCheck2's own select wins its fallback, and a method call on a string raises the reference's own error (2171)
- the camera's water collision comes back out for now: with the pivot a hair under the plane, a surface swimmer's camera snapped in and out against the waterline, so the boom ignores water again (2173)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- hovering a nameplate lights its unit and clicking one selects it, pfUI's click-through works, a drag that starts on a plate still turns the camera, and turning plates off with V clears them (2159)
- Auctioneer's XML documents open (the reference has no XML namespaces), a .toc line reaching Blizzard_AuctionUI's templates resolves for Auctioneer, BeanCounter and SpecialTalentUI, and a missing include logs rather than raising the red error dialog (2155)
- a .lua reached through <Script file=> carries the same Interface\AddOns\ chunk name as a .toc-listed one, so Ace2's debugstack split works and AtlasLoot keys its database; 26 more corpus addons load, 176 of 219 (2155)
- the floating combat numbers draw in whatever DAMAGE_TEXT_FONT holds at world entry, so MikScrollingBattleText and pfUI pick the font (2156); a dodged swing prints no line and floats no word, and happiness leech lines print (2157)
- an unknown frameStrata in XML logs and keeps the default instead of raising, so EQL3's log window loads; FrameXML_Debug is a real switch, so ImprovedErrorFrame loads (2160)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- mouse-look speed is cameraYawMoveSpeed and cameraPitchMoveSpeed, so pfUI's afkcam does what it asks and an addon driving the stock Interface Options window runs its load and Defaults walks to the end; the shipped feel does not move (2147)
- the eight combat-log range sliders are real settings, so BigWigs' Range plugin and DPSMate read and write them, and the Show Pet Melee Damage and periodic-spell settings genuinely silence what they gate (2147)
- the stock Sound Options window loads hidden beside ours for addons to find, and its three check-box settings are real: the listener sits at your character, emote voices can be muted, zone music can loop without its silence gap (2147)
- /assist with assistAttack set selects and starts swinging; /leave General survives a relog, a /join puts the channel back in its chat window's list, and SetGuildRecruitmentMode joins and leaves GuildRecruitment - City (2144)
- wipe, strsplit, strjoin, strtrim, strconcat and tostringall are gone: no 1.12 client has them, and the addons that call them are multi-client builds whose vanilla path raises on the real client too (2146)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Quiver works end to end (the reported nil-field error): 1.12's widget method tables are flat, so the 19 Region methods are ONE function per name — a frame's `GetHeight` IS the texture's — where we had two implementations behind two disjoint registries; `Button:SetFontString` and the Set/GetMin/MaxResize quad land with it, and the 219-addon survey moves loads-without-error 150 → 151 with every other addon byte-identical
- a teleport stops dropping you into a bare city: the reveal gate now waits on geometry that can actually draw (14 regions had sat undrawn for 630 ms with the cover already down), a relocating snap ≥100 yd raises the cover, and the pipeline warm pass runs once per process — a far same-map teleport's cover drops 3.8 s → 0.8 s
- the empty-world flash on a fully-resident teleport dies with it: the camera's world pose publishes before anything in Update reads it, so the visibility verdict stops being computed up to 644 yd from the eye — the lag reads 0 yd on every snap frame of every arm
- the camera follow becomes the engine's own curve — an edge-armed cosine smoothstep clamped to 0.1–2 s behind a 7-state input classifier, the enum 0/1/2 with Smart staying the default — and overlapping chat bubbles stack as whole cards, one frame level per bubble, nearest to the camera on top
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- text rasterizes every glyph at its exact on-screen size, on demand — the fixed size ladder and its rescale-after-snap are gone, the machinery that left names scrambled and lines off their baseline after a window resize
- the worldport ack now rides the load's completion the way the real client sends it, and the near-teleport echo stands alone as the whole handshake
- a floating combat number whose anchor leaves the screen is destroyed rather than dragged to the border, and a trailing line break ends its line instead of opening a new one
- entering the world, the loading cover provably presents before the UI builds behind it, holds the world's audio while it is up, and fails closed
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- the pet gets its own unit frame beside yours, and an Attack order no longer latches as the standing command
- five rooms that always read bone dry hold their water now, the Deeprun Tram's flooded stretches among them
- macros fire through the client's own chat door, and the macro window fits its tabs and scrolls its icon chooser
- the options window grows a Nameplates page and its first dropdown, and the name-display switches apply live in the world
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
