- the player, party, target and pet frames are the reference's own files (`BuffFrame`, `UnitFrame`, `CombatFeedback`, `PlayerFrame`, `PartyFrame`, `TargetFrame`, `PetFrame`, in the reference's toc order) — our 2741-line `UnitFrames.xml` and our `PartyFrame.xml` are deleted; four engine verbs built for them (`PartialPlayTime`, `NoPlayTime`, `UnitPlayerControlled`, `UnitIsCivilian`, each answering 1/nil), the whole-UI load bracketed in the counted sound-suppression scope `0x48fbf0` self-brackets (the reference fires a `PlaySound` during load and throws it away), and `GetBillingTimeRested` read off `SMSG_AUTH_RESPONSE`'s third billing field rather than hardcoded; the differences the stock files bring are pinned rather than papered — `PlayerFrame` never hides, an unresolved name is BLANK not "Unknown", the target frame has no numerals at all (a bar hover pops the unit tooltip instead)
- what the swap surfaced, each a hard break under the stock files: `UnitBuff`/`UnitDebuff` returned the Classic Era ten-value tuple, name first, where 1.12 returns two and three values TEXTURE first (`0x519500`/`0x5198f0`) — a raise twice per `UNIT_AURA` on any debuffed target, and all 184 corpus call sites bind the 1.12 shape; the power events are named per resource (`UNIT_MANA`/`RAGE`/`FOCUS`/`ENERGY`/`HAPPINESS` and their MAX twins) and we fired the Era pair, so no mana, rage or energy bar could live-update; `SetRaidTarget` is the engine verb and `SetRaidTargetIcon` the FrameXML toggle wrapper — we had registered the wrapper's name on the engine's body, so every raid mark in the unit popup raised
- the underwater drift cloud: the reference draws a fixed 4000-mote field whenever the camera eye is inside a liquid — not a particle system, nothing spawns, ages or dies; a population scattered once into a 30 yd camera-relative cube, advected by the camera's own motion plus a gust and wrapped, so the field stands still in the world; benilla had the murk and nothing in it; a dry frame commits no draw, and the submerged one is bounded by the reference's own 666-quad cap (633–644 of 4000 measured live, which is the expected survivor count of a uniform cube through the 90° cone — an independent check on population, distribution and cone at once)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- a setting's default is the reference's, enforced: eight player-facing options booted at something a stock client does not — `UnitNameNPC`, `UnitNameOwn`, `nameplateShowEnemies`, `ChatBubblesParty`, `cameraDistanceMaxFactor`, `QUEST_FADING_DISABLE`, `SHOW_BUFF_DURATIONS`, `SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT` — each a defensible "turn this on so I can see it while you build it" on its day and invisible as a set; the CVar table grows a mandatory `Reference` column (Same / Overridden / Deviates-with-reason) that a test checks in both directions, the FrameXML saved-variable store is compared against the reference's own `UIOptionsFrame.lua` off the chain (which found `SHOW_COMBAT_TEXT`, declared inside a table walked by a loop where a grep could not see it), and the wow-re census of all 214 `CVar::Register` sites folded in — `WorldDetail` back to `same`, since `GetWorldDetail` reads only `SmallCull` and the reference's own slider reads Medium at boot
- looting on a cold item cache raised `LootFrame.lua:85: attempt to index local 'color'` out of the stock window: `GetLootSlotInfo` answered nil where the reference answers cache-miss SENTINELS — quality −1 (which is exactly why stock `UIParent.lua` builds `ITEM_QUALITY_COLORS` over `for i = -1, 6`), "" for a name in flight, `INV_Misc_QuestionMark` for a display-info miss — and four values on every leg (`mov eax,4` at `0x4c2d07` is unconditional); `GetLootRollItemInfo` takes its own miss tail (`nil, nil, 1.0, 1.0, nil`), `GetItemQualityColor(-1)` reads Common because the compare is unsigned, and the window now WAITS for every item template before opening as `0x4c1cb0` does — there is no repaint path in 1.12 to fall back on, so deferring IS the mechanism
- the coin row is quality 0 (grey), not white — `0x4c23a0`'s coin leg falls to `xor eax,eax` before the item-cache read — and its icon walks the reference's six-step ladder (`0x6c6307`: one icon per decade of copper; two of the six were not in our set at all, and the pairs do not fall where "highest nonzero denomination" put them)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- benilla loads real 1.12 addons from Interface/AddOns — TOC, XML and Lua through one loader, with per-addon saved variables, Bindings.xml and the lifecycle events addons expect
- both AddOns screens are in: the character-select list with per-addon enable state, and the ESC menu's in-game list
- the API surface is measured, not guessed — a corpus harness runs hundreds of real 1.12 addons and ranks exactly which globals, templates and verbs they demand
- the Lua dialect is the client's own, read off the binary — 5.0 semantics with the 1.12 additions, and UI source files are bytes, not UTF-8
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- minimap zoom and the camera's distance and pitch persist across sessions
- the trainer's point-filter is a saved variable now and survives a relog, resetting per packet like the reference
- the options window gains its Combat page, over rows that can write the UI's own saved globals
- the step-up is a rise, not a jump forward — and the descent cone's cap belongs to the body, on every leg
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>
