- every build off macOS has been silent since the 09-02 snapshot (B356): the non-macOS device layer was a stub that opened nothing, and nothing had ever compiled the client for another target; that layer is now the same output stream over cpal — one seam, not two stacks: the ring, the render thread and the rebuild-on-device-change loop are one code on every platform, only the device file differs; the audio thread never allocates, a lost or changed default device is noticed at kira's own cadence, and realtime is `SCHED_FIFO` on unix and MMCSS "Pro Audio" on Windows, either refusable, the ring turning a refusal into a degradation; and the two instruments this bug says were missing exist — a Linux and Windows cross-compile under `clippy -D warnings`, and a live output test that opens the real device and asserts the ring never ran dry, because compiling is not sounding (1920)
- an emote that requires standing still now refuses on the move: `CheckEmoteEligible`'s `0x4000` arm writes an out-param that `DoEmote` turns into a red "You can't do that while moving!" and aborts; 20 emotes of 78 can raise the line, read off the shipped `Emotes.dbc`; SWIMMING is not in the mask, so a swimmer holding still emotes fine, and `IsSelfControlled` is TRUE for an ordinary player, so a feared or confused player emotes away happily (1904); and the cast path gains its equipped-item rung — the button greyed and pressing it still sent: the reference short-circuits to "fits" on four gates, not one, the miss being a zero `EquippedItemSubClassMask`, which means no item required at all, and the rung sits above the crowd-control validator, so a player both stunned and missing the weapon is told about the weapon; that ladder has six arms, not three — CHARMED, FLEEING and CONFUSED join (1925)
- the quest reward's money is the reference's own widget: the tail of the shared `QuestFrameItems_Update` drives `questState.."MoneyFrame"` through `MoneyFrame_Update`, and the two hand-built coin trios become one `MoneyFrameTemplate` instance each at the reference's anchors, which our coins already used; the progress panel stays on coins, being the required-money flow, not the reward one (1928); and the flight master's `!` joins the questgiver sweep, because the green `!` and the gold `!` are the SAME slot, `unit+0xb2c`, torn down once before both queries re-issue; the mouseover re-ask is refuted — the only taxi-status sender has one live caller — and the two queries are not symmetric: the questgiver's goes out on every sweep, the taxi one only when the unit's key moves or on a full sweep, as the wire shows at Dungar Longdrink: 68 questgiver status queries against 1 taxi-node one (1918)
- `GetSpellTabInfo` out of range answers `nil, nil, 0, 0` — the reference returns four values on every path that returns (`0x4b3ce0`), and ours answered a single nil copied from another binding's shape; it matters because stock `SpellBookFrame_OnLoad` calls it unconditionally and then does `id > (offset + numSpells)`, which a nil raises on and (0+0) makes true, hiding every button on the page — the behaviour to match; the argument raises the reference's usage string when absent, and the index truncates toward zero THEN decrements (1931); the perf probe gains a `WOW_PROBE_UNCAP=vsync` arm, because the uncapped present mode is a request, not a schedule — measured, it taxes the number it was meant to pin (11.80 `cpu_ms` uncapped against 14.65 under it), so the default stays uncapped; and the last three test temp paths are keyed on the pid, after concurrent runs raced on one fixed shared file
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- the four world broadcasts decode and land — a shutdown countdown, the civilian-kill alarm, a defense-tower capture and the whisper-cap refusal all reached benilla as unhandled opcodes; `SMSG_SERVER_MESSAGE` carries a row id and a fill, never a finished line, so `ServerMessages.dbc` ships (the five sentences a shutdown has, plus the client's own `[%d]: %s` row-missing fallback, which is mechanism, not an error path); the two defense broadcasts are CHANNEL lines, not system lines — delivered once per joined channel whose row carries DEFENSE, the LocalDefense copy zone-matched against the PARENT area while the text names the packet's own — so a character in neither channel sees nothing, faithfully, and since nothing auto-joins WorldDefense in 1.12 an Eastern Plaguelands tower capture reaches only players standing there unless they typed /join; the wow-re cross-check then made the length prefix load-bearing — the client borrows a pointer into the receive buffer and composes NULL on an overrun, so an overrunning length is a refusal here too: the packet drops with a log line, nothing displayed
- `BankButtonIDToInvSlotID` is carved: `isBag` is a TYPE test, not truthiness — `lua_isnumber` refuses every non-number tag without ever loading the payload, so `true` takes the same arm as `nil` while `0` and `"1"` take the bag arm — the function is TOTAL (our out-of-range 0 was an invention; the only compares in all 118 bytes are on `lua_isnumber`'s return), and the +59/+39 arithmetic stands confirmed, byte-identical to `ContainerIDToInventoryID`'s second arm
- a deliberate right-drag turn no longer stands you while seated — the observation was right and our attribution was wrong: the body-facing commit is refused by two independent gates and the stand arm is skipped outright while the button is held; what stands you is the RELEASE, a press under 200 ms with under 2.25 degrees of yaw dispatched as a right-CLICK whose interact reaches `SetStandState(0)` — this lands the deletion half, with the click's own stand held for one more wow-re answer
- a ghost walks through closed doors — the whole mechanism is one instruction image-wide, reading bit 15 through the sign flag to answer "not a collision candidate" for a DOOR when the traced body is a player in ghost form; the bit is a property of whose trace it is, not of the door, so the exclusion rides the two mover-only casts and the set is empty on every living frame — the particle snap, the precipitation probe, the mouse pick and the creature conform keep the door's collider untouched, exactly as the binary leaves them
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- the combat log's last eight wire bodies decode — PARTYKILLLOG, SPELLINSTAKILLLOG, PROCRESIST, SPELLORDAMAGE_IMMUNE, SPELLDISPELLOG, DISPEL_FAILED, ENCHANTMENTLOG, SPELLLOGEXECUTE — each layout read off vmangos's own writer and pinned by a byte-exact golden (DISPEL_FAILED carries no count, the list runs to the end of the body; SPELLLOGEXECUTE's POWER_DRAIN row is (amount, power, multiplier), verified at the client's bytes as well as the server's); with the eleven chat types that were waiting on them, 44 chat types become 55 — 29 sentence families, the death pair and the aura rows riding descriptor diffs because 1.12 has no "unit died" opcode, plus the six trailers ((glancing), (30 blocked), (12 absorbed) and kin) that had been missing from every family; also corrected: the durability-death line was going to the red error frame with hard-coded English, and SMSG_SPELLNONMELEEDAMAGELOG lacked its split-damage branch and its blocked wording
- PlayerModel is its own frame kind: SetUnit, RefreshUnit and SetRotation were published on Model, but they belong to the <PlayerModel> method table (0x84f1fc), and the client's lookup chains derived → base only, so a plain <Model> can never reach them — they got there from a strings scan read as ownership, and a strings hit answers whether a name EXISTS, not who owns it (SetUnit's one pooled string is referenced by the PlayerModel and GameTooltip tables and by no Model entry); the new PlayerModel → Model → Frame → Region chain unblocks CreateFrame("PlayerModel"), which is how pfUI builds every unit-frame portrait — and through pfUI, pfQuest and ShaguDPS
- a nil where a number goes is four shapes, not one law: a census of all 408 widget-registrar entries found 62 numeric positions that validate-or-raise, 43 that gate then stage an alternate, 64 that silently coerce to 0.0 and 5 that gate then store nothing — so SetMaxLetters(nil) completes and stores 0, "no limit" (the argument COUNT is checked exactly, the type is not), and the backdrop colour setters are asymmetric on purpose: a nil r/g/b channel is 0.0 but a nil alpha is OPAQUE, and reading every nil as 0.0 would have turned those borders transparent; both setters now also quantize ×255 into the packed 0xAARRGGBB byte quad the client actually stores, so 0.09 reads back as 23/255
- two more addon-killers: LIGHTYELLOW_FONT_COLOR_CODE was the one missing line of Fonts.xml's seven-line colour block (aux-addon concatenates it at file scope and died on its own first line), and the guard now enumerates the whole block l.4-20 instead of the names an earlier round had noticed absent; and the unit frames publish the reference's names — 1.12 has no *PowerBar anywhere, every bar is ManaBar and the colour table is ManaBarColor (8 of the top-20 addons read it by name), so ManaBarColor is the published table our own bars index into, with 22 more regions renamed to the reference's own
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- right-click a chat tab for its menu: background colour and alpha through the colour picker, font size — three of GetChatWindowInfo's nine values are real state now, persisted per character in benilla-config/chat, and the hover fade interpolates from the window's own stored alpha as the reference's guard does (the default look is unchanged, pinned)
- the Social page becomes the Chat page 1.12 has, in the reference's anchor order: Remove Chat Hover Delay and Detailed Loot Information join, and `showLootSpam` off collapses the roll chatter to the winner line with its number; Guild Member Alert is registered at the reference's default, off
- two guild-line defects found while settling that CVar: the sign-on line's fourth conjunct is a friends-list test (an ignored guildmate was silenced, a guildmate who is also a friend announced twice), and vmangos broadcasts your own sign-on, which benilla announced to you at every login
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- the world map's landmarks: city icons and the Eastern Plaguelands towers, from AreaPOI.dbc through the reference's own three gates (level flags, exploration, world state) — the tower rows are one per (tower, owner, state), so the server flipping a world state swaps which icon exists; and the always-up PvP readout ("Towers Controlled: n") over a new WorldStateUI.dbc loader, the init clearing the table on a zone change as the client does
- the character-select scene holds its authored 4:3 view box: the diagonal-FOV relation was fed the display's aspect, so every extra pixel of width came out of height (1.55× zoom at 21:9, head and feet gone) — now width grows and height never shrinks; the reference does the same and is wrong on the same panel
- a trail particle is stored in world space and drawn raw: Sprint's trail was welded to the chest bone (turn and it swings, run and it wobbles) because the trail was faked by subtracting translation inside a bone-local store; the correction machinery deleted itself, gravity is plain world down, and the emitters' live attach frame is retired
- the spellbook can shrink: `SMSG_REMOVED_SPELL` had no handler, so a talent wipe took the points back and left every rank drawn; and the chat dock's hover driver rides a frame the dock cannot hide, so selecting the Combat Log no longer freezes the tab alphas
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- the client synthesises its combat-log chat lines: 44 chat types over 34 GlobalString families from 7 packets, the reference's own four hops (classify both endpoints → chat type → string key → format), text resolved out of the player's own GlobalStrings — so damage meters and Quiver's TranqAnnouncer have something to parse; wow-re's byte round corrected six gates (owner is charmed-by then created-by, "party" is your subgroup, friend-or-foe is CanAttack, the range gate, the miss defaults, the damage-shield chat type)
- the collision prism follows the NATIVE display, not the rendered one: a druid in bear form keeps the druid's swim, splash and wade lines and a morph keeps the human's — worst divergence on shipped data 0.72 yd (tauren moonkin), the sign flipping by form
- the creature swim gate is on both legs: a unit that loses its flag mid-water is driven out of swim at any depth, as the reference drops a charmed creature to the seabed on the next tick
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- opposite-faction speech garbles client-side now, the way 1.12.1 actually does it: the wire carries plaintext plus a language id, and the client substitutes per word — a word survives iff `SStrHash(word) % 300 < skill` (300 copies verbatim) — reimplemented from `0x49b560` over the LanguageWords pool, 35 golden vectors passing; a Horde character also stops seeing a spurious `[Orcish]` tag on every line of their own faction's chat, and the talk gesture reads the plaintext, not the garbled line
- a mid-session wgpu validation crash is gone: `NoIndirectDrawing` rides the camera's spawn instead of a per-frame sweep — 18 cameras were being flagged after spawn, and one whose first extraction beat the sweep latched indirect buffers forever; the census now reads zero late inserts with the direct-draw optimisation fully intact
- the 20-yard overhead-name cap is withdrawn: it read the V-key nameplate frame's law onto the overhead name lane, which the bytes show carries no distance term at all — a distant name just gets small; V-plates keep their 20 yd, which is correctly theirs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- the zone-channel walk waits for real ground under the player, so login stops joining and leaving channels for zones you were never in
- the channel session ends with the character: a character switch no longer replays the old channels into the new session
- emoting at yourself goes out untargeted — "You wave.", exactly as the client sends it
- a body that is not in the scene casts no shadow, names nothing and cannot be clicked; and being attached to a body is not the same as being allowed to move it
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- a channel line renders in the channel family's color, not the grey notice row the client consults and throws away
- a text emote composes its sentence — gender and target picked from the game's own tables — so a /wave is a line in chat, not just an animation
- a FontString's `font=` resolves a font object by name and gates the whole block, `<Gradient>` tints the art it sits on, and buttons' state fonts read `font=` too — Bagnon's white boxes and bare stack counts are fixed
- the money frame sizes its coins from the digits themselves, so Bagnon's gold stops opening cramped
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- every addon VM runs under an instruction bound, so a non-terminating loop becomes a report — and the bound promptly caught a landed fix that had been left switched off
- an unrecognised unit token raises the client's own "Unknown unit name" error instead of answering nil
- GetBindLocation answers from a real bind point, and RequestTimePlayed round-trips with TIME_PLAYED_MSG — both halves or neither
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- SendAddonMessage sends on the real 1.12 lane — an ordinary chat message wearing the addon-language sentinel — across the party, raid, guild and battleground channels, byte-verified in the client binary
- the receive half fires CHAT_MSG_ADDON with the client's own four-argument shape, and the two halves are round-tripped against each other so they cannot drift apart silently
- the `|`-escape scan is carved from the binary: colour escapes inside a message survive exactly as the real client allows them
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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
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>
- 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>
