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SamandClaude Fable 5.1 c3555b4eea the cooldown goes stock, early-Z comes back, and lists reach the end
- a size-less `<Model>` pane's rect is its file's box in layout units: the reference's geometry overrides (`0x76d080`/`0x76d0d0`) answer the bbox extent whenever no size is authored, `bboxExtent · 768·√(a²+1) · layoutScale` FrameXML units (`1280 · extent` at 4:3), written into the pane's layout input when the file's facts land, re-derived on an aspect change, and ended for good by any authored size; `SetPosition` is the same unit, which is how `0x4a7b20` centres the arrow at `½·GetWidth, ½·GetHeight` through the override — so the map arrow's sprite arm and its hand-sized 33.6 px footprint go (its rect is `0.0262 × 0.0263` layout units, 33.5 × 33.7 FrameXML units at 4:3, 41.0 × 41.2 at 16:9), and the stock `ItemAnim` pane plays the item push unadapted (`ReplaceIconTexture` on the type-14 batch, the 1000 ms clamp, the stock `OnAnimFinished`), `ContainerFrameAdapters.xml` losing 0887's Lua card and its hand-measured 42.41 × 124.72 rect — the implicit one at 16:9 — and keeping the keyring fork and the three bag verbs (2015); and the cooldown is the reference's own model: the texture-transform law `uv' = R_q((uv + t − p) ⊙ s) + p`, `p = (½, ½)`, the raw quaternion component-lerped and never normalised, is one function (`uv_transform`) with the shader's UV fold as its twin — rotation and scale tracks bake per file sequence slot beside the translation, the mat-anim table gains an affine row `[cos − 1, sin, sx − 1, sy − 1]` on `anim_slots.z` whose identity is the zero row so every static batch reads exactly what it did, and a UI tile clones the twin material per animated batch and writes both rows every frame off the pane's play head, never the world clock; the stock `Cooldown.xml` runs off the chain on 2007's two handlers, the file's four quadrant quads turned by their own rotation tracks (`0 → −90°` over each quadrant's 250 ms window, clockwise from 12 o'clock) and its alpha tracks revealing the star for the flash; retired: the native `Cooldown` widget and `SetCooldown` (an Era API 1.12 never had — `CreateFrame("Cooldown")` is the reference's unknown-type refusal now), the loader's `Model → Cooldown` substitution, the app's hand-built pie and star, and our `Cooldown.xml`; `assets/ui` is eight files (2019)
- `UpdateMapHighlight` gets its zone-level exits (B360): at zone zoom ours returned the nil tail for every cursor position, so hovering Deadwind Pass from Duskwood showed no label where 1.12 shows "Deadwind Pass"; the reference's `0x4a7fa0` runs two lookups at zone level and answers a NAME only — first the current zone's exploration-gated overlay list (the builder at `0x4a6ad9` gating on the explored byte), each row's HitRect scaled by 1/1002 and 1/668 against the normalized cursor, edges inclusive, the first hit naming its Area1, then the continent grid re-windowed through the displayed zone's own rect, naming the neighbouring zone or city and nothing for the displayed zone itself — and only the name-only tail is reachable from there, fileName nil and the six coords zero, so the stock frame hides the highlight quad, as the director's own 1.12 shot shows; and `SetVerticalScroll` stores the offset as given (B370, B363): the reference's `0x786db0` compares the new offset against the old and writes it to `[+0x328]` verbatim, `0x787100` re-anchors the scroll child off it, and the range at `[+0x320]` is never read on that path — every clamp the reference exhibits is FrameXML's, through the scroll bar's `[min, max]`; ours clamped into `[0, GetVerticalScrollRange()]`, the child's overflow past the FRAME, which is 40 px short of where `FauxScrollFrame_Update` sends the bar on the 220-tall skills list (three rows lost) and 15 px short on the 287-tall who list (one); the setter fires `OnVerticalScroll` only on a change, as the bytes do, `BenillaScroll_Step` bounds its wheel in Lua where the reference's handler does, and the ScrollFrame kind's prose stops calling its offset unpinned (2017)
- overdraw's cheap half, the sky first: since 0588 every sky element wrote `frag_depth = 0.0`, which costs a pipeline its early-Z, so on an outdoor frame every full-screen dome fragment under the ground and the buildings was shaded in full (the gradient's `asin`, `atan2` and eight table lookups at dawn and dusk) and thrown away; one shared `sky_vertex.wgsl` — bevy's mesh vertex verbatim plus `out.position.z = 0.0` — is now the vertex stage of the gradient dome, the cloud dome, the star patches and the celestial discs and glares, and the model lane's `WOW_SKY_DEPTH` branch moves from its fragment to its vertex, so no sky fragment declares `frag_depth` and the rasterizer rejects the covered screen before the shader runs; every sky `specialize` zeroes the rasterizer bias constant the `sky_order` rung had been leaking into `DepthBiasState::constant`, harmless only while the fragment overwrote its depth, and the prose beside the pin follows it; then the retained `static_gx` pass draws BEFORE bevy's opaque pass (`StartMainPass → static_gx → MainOpaquePass`) — buildings and doodads are the frame's best occluders and a terrain fragment its dearest, six samples a pixel — so walls reject the terrain behind them instead of the reverse, the pass taking the first-use clear with it and the dev depth probe ordered after it; measured on 16 capture scenarios: 14 bit-identical, `northshire-dusk` 1 px and `water-night` 11 px, attributed to exact depth ties on static/terrain silhouettes and last-bit interpolation noise; a depth prepass and near-to-far bins are declined until a journal says where the time goes (2016)
- the grass cut goes per pixel because of a quarter-mip: `0x6813d0` sets `D3DSAMP_MIPMAPLODBIAS = +0.25` on stage 0 (`0x6813f4`) once per frame before the detail-doodad pass — capture-confirmed on all 29 doodad batches, and outside the `[0x6b1000, 0x6b3200)` scan 2004 had called complete; it decides the whole look because the `clutter_cut` probe finds 6 of 31 shipped detail atlases carry a BINARY alpha pyramid (mip 0 has DXT3's 16 levels, every level below exactly two, both starting zones among them), so `a × ramp` degenerates to a global on/off and every texel of a leaf crosses at the same depth — Elwynn's survivor coverage is flat at 47.6 % across the whole 52.5–61.1 yd band, then 0.0 %, while the probe's box-filtered control erodes 47.7 → 20.9 over the same band, so the art has the gradient the shipped pyramid threw away, and `clutter_size` puts the median tuft at 0.92 yd tall, 1.03 yd deep, a full yard for the boundary plane to sweep; the escape is bilinear: full alpha needs a 2×2 all-opaque texel neighbourhood, and those run out between mip 2 and 3 (179/56/10/0/0/0 on the dominant Elwynn cell), so the reference's λ ≈ 2.9–3.3 sits past the cliff and the tuft erodes continuously — 2.2 % of a tuft's pixels leave in the last half-yard with the bias, 11.6 % without, 24.2 % one mip sharper; wgpu has no sampler LOD bias, so the clutter lane re-samples base colour at `view.mip_bias + 0.25`, keeping the sampler every other model batch shares at the reference's 0; ruled out on the way: our BLP decoder (all nine uploaded levels byte-identical against the archive's 52 793 BLP2s), mip regeneration, the `has_mipmaps` byte's value 2 (a plain boolean, an authoring marker), anisotropy and geometry; what it does not fix is resolution-dependent, and so is the reference's own look — λ with the bias is 3.22 at the capture's 648p but 2.48 at 1080p and 1.48 at 2160p, so at a modern resolution the reference itself pops leaf by leaf, and scaling the bias with the viewport is one reversible line left for a look call (2021)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 19:35:31 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 c92ca1b8ec the autocast shine goes stock, and a disabled button keeps its art
- the autocast shine is the reference's own Model: `UI-AutoCastButton.mdx` has no batch at all — four bones walking the corners of a 0.02-unit square on a 2 s loop, each with a spline emitter pouring 300 `GlowStar` sparks a second — and the tile renderer plays exactly that off the file's own tracks, so the hand-transcribed lane retires whole: `autocast_shine.rs` (the token texture, the extract's parked shine sites, the append-lane producer and its motion goldens), the extract's shine side channel, and `PetActionBarAdapters.xml`, since the pet button's numbers are the reference's (`setAllPoints` at `scale="1.2"`) and nothing was left to adapt; what stays is the director's two look calls, re-seated onto the reference's own objects — `SpellBookAdapters.xml` puts the stock `$parentAutoCast` Model at 37×37 CENTER (0,0) with `SetModelScale(1.48)` and the overlay at 71.53, the two tests that pin them reading the live panes, and deleting that file is the exact reference (36×36 at CENTER (1,1), 1.22, overlay 60); `assets/ui` is nine files (2014)
- a button's shown state texture is latched on the transition, not resolved at paint (B369): `ReputationDetailAtWarCheckBox` has a `<NormalTexture>` and no `<DisabledTexture>`, and once `ReputationFrame_Update` `Disable()`d it ours drew nothing — `ButtonState` resolved the shown texture as a pure function of (enabled, pushed, held+hovered); the client's `SetState` `0x779790` gates both its hide-old and show-new steps on the NEW state's slot being non-null, with no Normal fallback anywhere in the function, and the ctor `0x7786a0` ends in `SetState(NORMAL)`, so every button reaches its first `Disable()` (`0x77ffd0`) already wearing its normal art and keeps it; `ButtonState` now carries the client's two words, `shown` (`+0x4c4`) and `state` (`+0x328`), written only by `set_state` and the `0x778fd0` setter family's conditional push, with transitions applied where the client applies them — `Enable`/`Disable`/`SetButtonState` and the four mouse edges — and the old `pushed.or(normal)` special case was this rule seen from one side; the stock corpus has 70 such declarations, so empty spellbook slots wear their `UI-Quickslot2` ring again, which 0227 had removed on a premise the shipped Lua falsifies in one line (`SpellButton_UpdateButton` calls `Disable()` at runtime); and `Disable()` switches off the whole HIGHLIGHT draw layer — `0x779160` follows `SetState` with `push 4; call 0x76a730`, the per-layer enable on the same `[frame+0x198]` array `Enable/DisableDrawLayer` writes — so a `<Layer level="HIGHLIGHT">` region no longer draws over a disabled button and the `enabled &&` term on the HighlightTexture alone is gone; the reputation tests' header stops claiming the page and the watch bar were ours (2011)
- the world's mouse buttons are latched, not read raw (B364): right-clicking a Who-list row swung the camera round to behind the character — ~180° over nine seconds on a body that never turned — because the click was the UI's but the camera's input command word (`[InputControl+0x4]`) built its two mouse bits straight off `ButtonInput` with no pointer-over-UI term, `RIGHT_MOUSE` alone classifies as `Turn`, and Smart's Turn row is `(0.0, 1.0)`, so the return armed on the press edge and ran to completion; 1.12 never reads the mouse for any of this — it reads two bindings, `TurnOrAction` and `CameraOrSelectOrMove`, and a press a UI frame captured dispatches neither — so `camera::WorldMouse` latches each primary at the press and holds it to that button's own release, written in its own system ordered ahead of every reader (latched rather than re-tested, because a level test would hand a button back to the UI mid-drag the moment a frame appeared under the locked cursor, and an edge is what arms a return); five readers move onto it — the follow word's mouse bits, the both-button run, `/follow`'s both-button cancel, the look session's engage, chord cancel and other-primary tests, and the both-button → single-button handoff — and `control` drops its `PointerOverUi` and `&Camera`, the viewport-vs-UI question no longer being its to ask
- the clutter onset is the cutout, and it gets the reference's own dial: the ramp runs 52.64 → 69.86 yd but the draw alpha-tests `texel.a × ramp` against `detailDoodadAlpha` = 128/255 with the ramp capped at 252/255, so nothing survives past 61.11 yd — grass appears there already at 50.2 % opacity with 8.5 yd left to reach full, and the last third of the ramp is spent where nothing is drawn, which is exactly the "started before it became visible from another gate" the director saw; `detailDoodadAlpha` is a console command in the reference (`0x6739a0`, registered through the command table `0x63f9e0`, not `CVar::Register` `0x63db90`, so it never persists), and we had it only as the boot-time `WOW_CLUTTER_ALPHA`, which cannot be A/B'd against a running client — `/console detailDoodadAlpha <0-255>` now sets it live, bare reports, and out of range is rejected rather than clamped (`0x6739b9: cmp eax,0xff; jbe`), classified in the console drain of 2008's `ConsoleExec` seam so it never reaches the CVar store, the bubble re-cut on a change because the ref is baked into the material; at 128 grass appears at 61.11 yd at half opacity, at 8 the onset walks out to ~69.8 yd and fades in from nothing; a late-build tripwire in the streamer — a warning whenever a chunk is built whose box is already inside the fade horizon, naming whether the distance gate or the per-frame cap was the cause — fired at once on the second: the build budget was spent in query order, so a chunk 90 yd out where the ramp is already zero took a slot ahead of one at 48 yd in plain view; candidates are sorted by distance now, and a 30 s Elwynn run reports one late-build frame, the cold first, then silence (2012)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 19:34:43 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 73ead4e4d2 grass fades on a plane, model panes render, and the FPS journal ships
- the grass fade is a plane across the view, not a ring around the player: `0x6b2b80` texgens the camera-space position through `T(0,0,−52.5)·Ry(π/2)·S(1/17.5)`, so the fade coordinate is view-space depth, `u = (z_eye − 52.5)/17.5` — we measured `distance(eye, fragment)`, a sphere, which meets the ground as a circle centred on the player that slides as they walk and bites a piece out of every tuft it crosses, and that was the hard border; the ramp is `0x6b2320`'s quantised 64×8 table, `alpha = 4·(63 − col)`, read bilinearly as `(254 − 256·u)/255` and capped at `252/255` — plateau to 52.64 yd, zero at 69.86 yd, near grass 98.8 % opaque and never 100 — where we had a clean 1 → 0 line; the product `tex0.a × ramp` is what the 128/255 `detailDoodadAlpha` cutout tests (both stages MODULATE, `[0xc7b2fc]`, confirmed verbatim in all four apitrace captures), so the tuft eroding out at 61.11 yd is the reference's own behaviour and the "fix" that would have removed it never landed; the pass owns its render state — blend mode 2, ALPHAREF 128, cull off, depth-write on, the per-slot draw `0x6b2d60` binding nothing but the texture — where we passed the batch's authored blend and cull through, and the `clutter_state` probe counted the cost: of 322 detail batches, 2 author Opaque (no cutout, their margin drawn as a solid card) and 5 single-sided; the build gate measures the chunk's box against the frustum corner ray derived from the live projection (≈1.31× at 16:9, ≈1.45× at 21:9), not its centre plus a 24 yd margin that popped whole chunks in on relief (2004)
- a `<Model>` widget's animation state is Lua-observable and lives in the engine: a private scene clock its own `OnUpdate` advances by `trunc(elapsed·1000)` ms on visible frames only (`0x76d7f0`), an arm with an anchor the sampler re-reads every frame (`0x7121a0`), `OnUpdateModel` at the top of every paint (`0x76d1a0`) and `OnAnimFinished` from the completion callback (`0x76cdc0`); the file's sequences and bounds are facts the host hands over, `SetModel` seeds Stand now or when they land (`0x70ebd0`) with a queued arm replaying after the seed, and the XML `scale=` on a model pane is the model's scale (`CSimpleModel::LoadXML` `0x76cac0`), which the loader had never read (2007); and the pane renders its M2 — every visible pane with a file gets a cell of one render-target atlas at its device size through one orthographic camera, the root at `1280·modelScale·layoutScale` FrameXML units per model unit, the tile's `AnimationPlayer` paused and seeked to the engine's play head, the light black, particles in their own unit (`768·√(a²+1)` per model unit, neither scale), composited as one premultiplied quad at the callback rank; two corrections off the bytes: `OnUpdateModel` fires only with a model installed (`[widget+0x318] ≠ 0`) and `OnAnimFinished` fires once per arm for a looping sequence too (`0x719370`); the loader now applies a `<Model>`'s `file=` at all, which every XML-declared pane had lacked; retired: the minimap ping's byte-measured sprite, since `MiniMapPing` and `WorldMapPing` draw their own file on the pane's clock (2013)
- the stance feed fires `UPDATE_SHAPESHIFT_FORMS` only for a list change: the reference fires it at `0x4b28ff`/`0x4b2e43` from learn, unlearn and rank-replace alone, while ours fired on any change of the pushed view, and every fire runs the stock `ShapeshiftBar_Update`, which shows `ShapeshiftBarMiddle` unconditionally past two forms and `Show()`s an already-shown frame — no `OnShow`, no manage pass — so a stance switch or the category-47 cooldown arming and expiring left the middle strip drawn alone over a raised bottom-left bar; castability now rides `SPELL_UPDATE_USABLE` (`0x4b31c0`), active/texture/cooldown are pushed silently and repainted on `PLAYER_AURAS_CHANGED` and `SPELL_UPDATE_COOLDOWN`, the feed ordered before both handler sets so they read the fresh list (2009); and the loot-roll frame waits for its item template (B371): `GroupLootFrame_OnShow` paints once and nothing repaints it, and we fired `START_LOOT_ROLL` on the frame the packet arrived, against a snapshot whose name, texture and quality were still `None` — the reference's `0x61b310` ends in the item-template cache lookup `0x55ba30`, a hit firing the event there and a miss firing it from the arrival callback `0x61b460`, so the feed holds a fresh roll's event until the template answers, with two releases that are ours: a negative answer (a frame that never opens cannot even be passed on) and a 2 s deadline paid out of the roll's minute; `arg2` stays the wire's countdown, as `0x61b430` pushes it (2010)
- the FPS journal ships to players: it had registered inside the dev-only `DevToolsPlugin` and been armed by an environment variable, so nothing we shipped could have written a row on the one GPU-bound frame in the corpus, a Steam Deck's at 94 % busy; `/console fpsJournal 1` — a CVar of our own, persisted like every CVar — opens `benilla-config/Diagnostics/fps-journal.csv` and appends one row a second, `0` closes it mid-run, and `WOW_FPS_JOURNAL=<path>` stays as the harness lever; eight GPU columns appended, `gpu_ms` then `gpu_opaque, gpu_static, gpu_transp, gpu_glow, gpu_post, gpu_ui, gpu_other`, read off bevy's `RenderDiagnosticsPlugin`, which times passes where the device offers `TIMESTAMP_QUERY_INSIDE_PASSES` (Vulkan and DX12) and leaves the cells empty on an Apple GPU, empty being the honest value; `static_gx`, the four `ffx_glow_*` passes and `ui_gamma_decode` open diagnostic spans so a city's own draw is named in the split; a fresh file opens with the adapter, backend, driver and `gpu_spans yes|no` line; and a probe's `/console` line, which skips the stock `ChatEdit_ParseText` and had landed in a parser arm that knew only `reloadUI`, now forwards to `ConsoleExec` and writes a CVar the way the typed line does (2008)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 19:33:58 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 6b812913f4 the lamppost halo stops stacking, and the stance bar seats on login
- the lamppost halo stops stacking after a short-range teleport: bevy registers `add_visibility_class::<Mesh3d>` as an add hook that pushes the mesh's class id onto the entity's `VisibilityClass` list on every (re)add, nothing dedups the list, the required component survives a `Mesh3d` removal, and `check_visibility` queues an entity once per entry — so 1949's parking, which removes `Mesh3d` after thirty hidden frames and re-adds it the frame the part is shown, drew a part one more time per hide-then-show cycle; opaque parts hide it at the same depth and colour, an additive glow card adds itself to itself (×2 after the first teleport that hid the lamp for half a second, ×3 after the next), and a loading screen despawns the tiles and respawns fresh entities, which is why a far teleport and a relog never showed it; the unpark queues one dedup after the hook, the test registers bevy's own hook and requirement in a bare world and reads 2 entries without it and 1 with, and on the rig, with the away camera facing the lamp past a 177 yd far clip, a build without the dedup read `stacked_parts=278` after one hop back where the landed build reads 0 (2003, 2005); the instruments that excluded the other mechanisms stay — the inspector's glow-card line names the material's additive bit, fade/unlit flags, depth write, texture residency, tag alpha and live scale, `STACKED n` on the card and `stacked_parts=` on the probe line count the duplicated class lists, and screenshot and pick bursts now keep the rig window awake, because an occluded window recaptures one stale drawable and a day of A/Bs had read identical to the decimal
- `perf::blend_check` reads the half of a glow card's look the material cannot: per `Transparent3d` item, the pipeline descriptor's colour blend against the material's additive marker — the marker folds the radial alpha into the colour in the shader and gives the pipeline its pure (ONE, ONE) add, and 0071's wrong-pipeline class was immunised only for opaque batches; mismatches count into the perf pill as a red `blend xN` the frame they happen, ride the probe line as `blend_mismatch=`, and are tracked across frames and named — object, texture, which pipeline, PERSISTING; its own first harvest was the tracker: an additive material realized this frame is extracted, prepared and drawn this frame, and a tracker reading the `Added` event a frame late called every first draw a mismatch, so it runs after `AssetEventSystems` like bevy's own specialization check; and the hook-accumulation sweep states the class so it can be swept: bevy 0.18.1's insert path fires `on_add` only when the component was absent, `on_replace` on every outgoing value, `on_remove` on removal only — a push on `on_add` accumulates across remove→re-add, a free on `on_remove` leaks across an insert-overwrite; every hook in the bevy crates we link (the visibility class on `Mesh3d`/`Mesh2d`/`Sprite`/`Text2d`/`MeshletMesh3d`, the cluster class on every bevy light) and every removal of a hooked component in our tree was read, parking's `Mesh3d` is the only accumulating pair, the UI quad pools reuse entities by insert-over and fire no add hook, and the one asymmetric freer, `PropProbeSlot`, freed its probe slot on `on_remove` — an insert over a live slot leaked it for the session, held off by a remove-then-insert discipline at the one re-seat site; it frees on `on_replace` now (`RigSkin`'s shape), the re-seat is a plain insert, and a test overwrites a live slot and reads it freed (2005)
- the stance bar loads after everything the managed-position pass reads: the stock `ShapeshiftBar_OnLoad` shows the bar, its OnShow runs `UIParent_ManageFramePositions`, and the stock pass indexes `ReputationWatchBar` unguarded — our manifest seated the bar beside the other bar files where the reference's toc has it at l.74, after the reputation frame at l.57, so the pass raised at `UIParent.lua:1618` on every login and never reached the arm that seats the shelf: the red login error and the sliver above Defensive Stance (the shelf's plate at its XML anchors, a few pixels off its seat, healed by any bottom-bar toggle re-running the pass) were one defect from 1988, whose retired copy of the pass had guarded every read — and the three-form case 2000 could not reproduce; the bar sits at the manifest's tail right before `WorldStateFrame.xml`, whose own OnLoad runs the pass and indexes the shelf textures the stance bar declares — the reference's own reason for l.74 before l.89; a manifest test states the law with the pairs read off the pass's body, and `load_default_ui` now folds the VM's handler errors into its failures, because a raise one call below an OnLoad landed only in the VM's error list and shipped through the manifest test, the full-manifest harnesses and the smoke's WARN alike (2001)
- `UnitName` answers `UNKNOWNOBJECT`, never nil, for a resolved unit whose name is still in flight: a hunter casting Call Pet with the stable window closed got `PetStable.lua:129: attempt to concatenate a nil value`, because stock `PetStable_OnEvent` repaints on `UNIT_PET` without asking whether the frame is shown and the paint concatenates `UnitName("pet")` the instant `UnitExists("pet")` is true, while the pet's name is a `CMSG_PET_NAME_QUERY` round trip away; the reference's `UnitName 0x517020` pushes nil in exactly two cases — the `"player"` fast path (`0x517083`) over an empty name buffer, and a token that resolves to GUID 0 (`0x5170c0`) — and every other path ends in a string: `CGUnit_C::GetUnitName 0x609210` looks the pet up in `petnamecache.wdb` by `UNIT_FIELD_PETNUMBER`, re-sends the query on a miss or a stale stamp, and falls to `0x609324`, the GlobalString `UNKNOWNOBJECT` ("Unknown") read through `0x703bf0`, or the literal `"Unknown Being"` at `0x860fa4` when the global is missing or empty; the binding now reads the global out of the VM's `_G` at call time, so a translated `GlobalStrings.lua` translates this too, the stock file is untouched, and 1688's "nil for an unresolved name is faithful" is corrected — the reference paints `Unknown Level 58 Boar` into the hidden frame and the next repaint reads the name; `GameTooltip:SetUnit` still titles a pending-name unit with an empty line, a next move (2002)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 19:32:13 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 a9b613c85a the gossip window stops flashing, and the chat plate fades in again
- the gossip window stops flashing on a first-visit sub-menu: a guard's "Where is …" option answers `CMSG_GOSSIP_SELECT_OPTION` with a new `SMSG_GOSSIP_MESSAGE` on the same NPC whose text id is a first visit, and 1508's hold made the snapshot `None` while the greeting query was in flight, which the feed read as `Some → None` — `GOSSIP_CLOSED` (`HideUIPanel`) at the select, `GOSSIP_SHOW` (`ShowUIPanel`) when the text landed, the window gone for a server round trip, once per text id because the record cache serves every later visit; the reference's `0x4e2010` on a cache miss sets its select latch (`[0xbbb670] = 1`) and returns with no greeting write and no event, `0x4e1fa0` closes only on a zero guid, and `SelectGossipOption` (`0x4e2320`) is refused while the latch holds — so `GossipState::text_pending` names that latch, `feed_gossip` returns before touching the VM while it holds, both drains refuse on it, the NPC name query is asked ahead of the gate so a first visit's name rides beside its text query, and the landing repaints in place (1994); and the ready check is read off the bytes: `0x4ba40e` stores the constant 0 for any guid-matched answer, the wire byte only gates the `RAID_MEMBER_NOT_READY` print ("%s is not ready") on a 0, `ConfirmReadyCheck` sends one byte, 1 or 0, only while the deadline is armed and unexpired, `DoReadyCheck` sends an empty body, the summary lists only members who never answered, and the early close fires iff no member is both pending AND online (`[entry+0x18]` bit 0) — an offline member who never answered no longer holds the check open and is still listed as AFK when it closes; the `SMSG_GROUP_LIST` leg's close predicate (`0x4ba5f0`) keeps 1989's reading, with no online term (1997)
- the chat menu's rows hug their left edge: a `UIMenuButtonTemplate` row has no `<ButtonText>` — `UIMenu_AddButton` labels it with `SetText` — and the only thing placing the label is `<NormalFont inherits="GameFontNormal" justifyH="LEFT"/>`; the reference's lazy creator (`SetText 0x778dc0`) hands the fresh string to the adopter `0x778d20`, which anchors an unanchored label by the BUTTON's normal embedded font's justify word (`[button+0x390]`: LEFT→LEFT / RIGHT→RIGHT / else CENTER) and links it to that font, where ours anchored by the string's own ctor-default word (CENTER) and the loader wrote the justify onto a force-created label after the anchor was already decided — so every row sat centred in its fixed 104-wide slot and "Macro" ran into "/macro" (1.12's `UIMenu` does not auto-size; `UIMenu_AutoSize` is a later client's); `ButtonState` now carries each state font's own justify, one adopter (`button::adopt_label`) is the tail of both `SetText`'s lazy creation and `SetFontString`, the loader never touches the label, and paint follows the current instance's justify behind the severance mask like every other axis (1996); and the chat plate's hover fade survives a quick exit and re-entry: the stock `FCF_OnUpdate` queues the tabs' fade-out with `FCF_ChatTabFadeFinished` as its finished callback, which nils `chatFrame.oldAlpha` unconditionally 0.15 s later — re-enter inside `CHAT_FRAME_FADE_TIME` and it lands under a live hover, the plate arm's gate never passes again, no later leave clears `hover`, the hover-start re-read never runs, and only `FCF_SetWindowAlpha` (the tab menu's opacity slider) reseats it, which was every clue in the report; the flick from the text to a scroll button and back is the gesture, so an existing window looked broken from a session's first hover; the repair is the smallest guard at the one line — the finished callback leaves `oldAlpha` alone while `hover` is set — installed from Rust after the manifest loads (`manifest::install_chat_plate_guard`), never written into the stock file, and named as a deviation from the reference's own Lua (1998)
- a layer drains its quads, then its text, then its model scenes: `ZKey`'s one font-string bit becomes a two-bit batch rank (Quad, Text, Callback) — the client's layer batch (ctor `0x772e80`) carries its quads at `+0x10`, its `CGxStringBatch` at `+0x18` and a `RENDERCALLBACKNODE` list at `+0x1c`, `0x76fb00` drains them in that order, and `0x76d160` registers a `Model` frame's scene for the ARTWORK batch only — so a `ModelPane` quad takes `ZKey::callback(Artwork)`, after every texture AND every font string of its (strata, level, layer) whatever their link stamps and before anything in the next layer, closing the residual 1992 named on the world map (the arrow is linked first under `WorldMapFrame`, the area label and the overlays later); two scenes in one bucket keep registration order, and the link stamp gives up one bit (19 → 18), which the arena's renumbering at the cap makes unobservable (1995); and the two full-screen vignettes are dead code in 5875: the string `PlayerStatus_OnUpdate` occurs zero times in `WoW.exe`, the per-frame pump runs a frame's OnUpdate by registry reference (`0x70518c lua_rawgeti`, `0x705199 lua_pcall`), the whole `lua_pcall` census has exactly two by-name calls from C, and the only `UIFrameFlash` sites for `LowHealthFrame` and `OutOfControlFrame` in the chain are inside that uncalled function, while the `PLAYER_CONTROL_LOST` arm only sets `UIParent.isOutOfControl` — so 1988's "losing control flashes the vignette" is withdrawn, the two `.blp`s ship and are never loaded, nothing in code changes, and the manifest's note on the two frames says why no driver exists (1999)
- a tiled UI sprite wraps only the axis whose mapping runs past the texture: at four forms `ShapeshiftBar_Update` maps the stance shelf's middle strip `SetTexCoord(0, numForms-2, 0, 1)` — tiling along u, spanning exactly `[0, 1]` in v — and the repeat-sampled image it was served from wrapped BOTH axes, so bilinear at the strip's top pixel row reached `v < 0` and wrapped to the texture's last row, opaque grey on the 32×32 `ShapeshiftBarMiddle.blp` whose rows 0–7 are transparent: a one-device-px hairline along the strip's top edge over the world, reading 0.81–0.84× its neighbours' luma against 1.00 over the clamp-sampled caps (predicted 75 over a world of 100, measured 74–77); 1608's `uv_clamp_window` skipped an axis spanning the whole texture because "the sampler's own clamp already is this", true for the plain sprite and false for the tiled one; `tiling_axes` now decides the wrap per axis with the same tolerance, `WorldAssets::sprite_texture_wrapped` bakes `Repeat` where asked and `ClampToEdge` elsewhere, cached by (path, u, v), and the backdrop pieces and the chat bubble's edge keep both axes on; `WOW_DEMO_BOTTOM_BARS=0` leaves the action-bar demo's bottom bars down, the only state the shelf draws in (2000); the duplicate-placement census rides the probe line (`orphan_parts=`, `tiles=`) and the inspector card (parts alive, parts drawn this frame, each glow card's live world scale): a placed doodad or WMO part is spawned by exactly one placement, so a part alive outside every placement's entity list outlived a respawn, with the retained pass's fader exiles named as the one population legitimately outside the registry

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2026-09-06 19:31:38 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 7a825111ab the world map's arrow shows on zone sheets, and UIParent goes stock
- the world map's arrow shows on every zone sheet, and alt-clicking a town jumps there: the stock file creates the player arrow as a `Model` child of `WorldMapFrame` and lays a zone sheet's explored-area overlays as ARTWORK textures on `WorldMapDetailFrame` — one `(strata, level)` bucket, where the draw layer outranks the frame — and benilla drew a model's scene at the frame's own layer-0 slot, so every overlay painted over it (the continent sheet has no overlays, which is why it was the only sheet with an arrow); wow-re's carve: a layer batch carries three sub-arrays — quads, the string batch, a render-callback list — that `0x76fb00` drains in that order, and `0x76d160` registers a model's callback only for layer 2 (`0x76d17f cmp ebx,2`), so a model's scene is ARTWORK content, neither a separate pass nor a layer-0 slot; a `ModelPane` quad now keys at the ARTWORK content rank, which re-orders the pet page's happiness icon (a sibling's BACKGROUND quad) under the pane's scene — the reference's own order, harmless because the bake is transparent where the model is not; a model against a LATER-linked ARTWORK font string in the same bucket is still ordered by link stamp, named not built; and the alt-click jump, which required the topmost frame under the cursor to be `WorldMapButton` itself while the stock file parents every POI icon and blip to that button, now walks up from whatever was hit to the button and takes its rect — the map's own chrome still answers nothing (1992)
- `UIParent` is the reference's own: `UIParent.xml` loads off the chain at its toc's slot, right after `WorldFrame.xml`, sourcing `UIParent.lua` and `LocaleProperties.lua` itself, and our `UIParent.xml` + `UiPanels.xml` — 3086 lines of transcribed `UIParent.lua` — are deleted; the one unbound verb the stock file ticks, `CheckReadyCheckTime`, was already 1989's; back from the reference: all sixty-six registered events and their arms (`PLAYER_CONTROL_LOST`/`_GAINED`, `RAID_ROSTER_UPDATE`, the trade-request pair, `PLAYER_SKINNED`, `GOSSIP_ENTER_CODE`), the ESC ladder as written — StaticPopup, the options window's Cancel, the game menu, `CloseMenus`, `SpellStopCasting`, `SpellStopTargeting`, `CloseAllWindows`, `ClearTarget`, else open — so ESC no longer clears a held cursor item or cancels the colour picker, two arms ours had grown that the reference does not have; the fade/flash/pulse kits walked from `UIParent`'s own OnUpdate in place of three 1×1 driver frames of ours, so a cinematic's `UIParent:Hide()` stops the walks as it does there; the managed bottom-stack positions without our `UIParent_RegisterManagedPositionListener` extension, which no shipped file registered any more; `LowHealthFrame`/`OutOfControlFrame`; and the `firstTimeLoaded` close on re-show; what stayed ours moved out — the window tab template and its OnUpdate settle (1004's async-measure adapter) and `BENILLA_FALLBACK_ICON` to `ScrollTemplates.xml`, 0561's bag verbs to `ContainerFrameAdapters`, the script log's slot row to its own file, `OptionsFrameCancel = OptionsFrameCloseButton` beside the two options aliases — and the Auction/Inspect/Macro/Talent panel rows, verbatim copies of the LoadOnDemand addons' own registrations, go; the reference also decides that the area spirit healer's dialog accepts on show with one CANCEL button, that losing control closes every window bar the reference's exceptions, and that the bottom-bar clearance reads the saved globals `SHOW_MULTI_ACTIONBAR_1`/`_2` rather than the bars' shown state; three integration binaries that kept private copies of the manifest loader use the shared one now (1988)

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2026-09-06 19:30:54 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 bc1a2428dd the loading screen lets nothing through, and the micro buttons go stock
- units could be hovered through the loading screen — the sword cursor gave it away: the world pick chain has no state gate, one of fifty-one input sites, so a gate per consumer is a rule that regresses; the cut is at the source instead — one `PreUpdate` system empties the button planes, drains the raw queues, zeroes the accumulators and blanks the window's cursor position while the cover is up (the alt-tabbed-away state every consumer already handles); a press under the cover never happened, a held button is released once, a gesture in flight is cancelled, and a wall test counts the channels; the reference does the same — its raise registers a veto stub (`0x406a50`) on five event-bus categories — and one gap closed with it: the reference parks the plain arrow and drops any item overlay before the screen goes up, where benilla kept a held item's icon over the loading art (1986, 1990)
- the micro-button row is the reference's own `MainMenuBarMicroButtons.xml`, our transcription deleted — no engine verb was missing, and the whole engine-side cost is one alias, `SoundOptionsFrame = OptionsFrame`, because the stock file reads the reference's three options windows and ours is the one window for all three; what the stock file brings back: `UpdateTalentButton`'s own −2 re-seat (the five buttons after the talent button sit 1 px further right — the reference's own pixel), the raw binding token in the hover label (`(C)`, `(SHIFT-P)`), the sixty-second talent-button pulse on a ding while the sheet is closed (0304's scope-out retired), the keyring arm, and "Abilities" on the spellbook hover for a character with no spells; `BenillaActionBarArt_SeatAbove` goes with the file — a child is born one level above its parent (`SetParent` `0x76ab65`), the seat it set by hand (1987)
- hovering the player arrow on the stock world map showed an empty tooltip: narrower than 4:3 the map is scaled under 1, and our `MouseIsOver` had dropped the reference's division by `GetEffectiveScale` as "always 1" — the frame getters answer in the frame's own units, `GetCursorPosition` in the screen's; the division is back, and the region getters divide by their owner's scale too; and the ready check times out: the stock `UIParent.xml` ticks `CheckReadyCheckTime` every frame, the one unbound name in that file's way, so the mechanism behind it is built — a 30 s deadline and a "has not answered" flag per roster entry, the leader getting no popup while members print "%s has initiated a ready check" and get it, and on expiry `RAID_MEMBERS_AFK` with the unanswered names or `READY_CHECK_NO_AFK`, the last answer closing the check at once (1985, 1989)
- a review of the floor grind closed eight stale-input and bypassed-side-effect siblings the gates had left open: a never-placed card places on a still frame, the dormant-emitter skip sits below the emitter's lifetime blocks, PVS changes (not only spawns) un-still the gates, the appear ramp's retirement and a far-side unmark come due, a host born under a parked camera is judged, the projection counts as a still input, a fresh palette range is zeroed, the stable feed runs once more after a close, the unit publisher's viewer query is filtered, solo UI materials are reused by key, and the draw-list cache compares exactly; and three doc links the chat window's stock move (1948) left dangling point at what replaced them — the colour table and the tell ring are the stock Lua's now — which is what had the doc-links gate (1925) red on main

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2026-09-04 21:01:38 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 e800974806 still frames skip settled work, and a guild can design its tabard
- on a still frame the world stops redoing settled work — each cut an exact gate, measured with the process pinned to the efficiency cores, where the main thread IS the frame: point lookups go through the water index, a terrain column tests its cell's four fan triangles, not the chunk's 256 (−1.3 ms), the flare march resolves its tile once, the static-world publish and light blob write only on change, billboards, emitter gates (off the new-portal edge), doodad-anim verdicts, the visibility walk, the unit publisher (its filter a named type), a rampless unit's alpha and the stable feed skip when nothing moved, the rig evaluator reuses its scratch, dormant emitters skip their step, child wiring visits pending emitters only, the shade map persists, and the terrain streamer skips its walk once settled; alone parked 25.4 → 21.6–22.8 ms of main thread, 32 → 36–38 fps there with nothing on screen (1979, 1982)
- the UI tick got the same treatment: a solo run's colour rides the material, not the mesh — the glow pulse's one `Assets<Mesh>` write a frame had armed bevy's asset-changed probes over ~44 k `Mesh3d` rows (−1.0 ms); script object ids index a dense map instead of a hash, where every scripted method call starts (−0.7 ms); the draw list is fingerprint-cached, walked every frame and sorted only when it changed (the list a named type); and the instrument that made the gates count at all: the first battery read flat until the probe printed how many frames each gate input had read as changed — `noisy=[cam:0,dbg:299,view:0,win:0,claim:0]` — one dev system took `&mut` on `DebugState` every frame to test a flag, so bevy marked it changed on 299 of 300 frames and silently disarmed every gate reading `debug.is_changed()`; it reads the flag first now, and the counters stay on the probe line (1982)
- two of the new gates were wrong the day they landed and are fixed in the same snapshot: the streamer's settled skip engaged the frame `complete` flipped, with the retained pass still baking the new cells, and froze the undrawn count `presentable()` reads above zero — the loading screen stayed up for good after a `.tele`; it now waits for a paced, presentable, complete world and keeps that count fresh; and the still-frame gates read the camera's `GlobalTransform`, which moves only after propagation — which runs after them — so a teleport frame carried every host's pre-snap verdict across the snap (a lamppost glow due to park kept its clock, over-bright after the `.tele`); the gates read the seat's own `Transform` write too (1982)
- a guild master can design the guild's tabard: the reference's own `TabardFrame.xml` joins the manifest (benilla never had the window), opened only from the wire — the click ladder's TabardDesigner arm now sends `MSG_TABARDVENDOR_ACTIVATE` and the Battlemaster arm its own hello (1861's two deviations retire); the `TabardModel` method table runs over five ints bounded by the `.rdata` table `{170, 17, 6, 17, 51}`, the design previews on the player's own body so the pane and the world show one look, and `Save` runs the fourteen pre-flight checks in the reference's order; the world frame is the reference's own `WorldFrame.xml` too — the framerate readout is live on CTRL-R — and the carve settled its kind: a `Frame` to Lua, a one-shot type, the sole tenant of stratum WORLD, and not "over the UI" when hovered, so world clicks and camera look stay live while its scripts fire (1977, 1983, 1984)

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2026-09-04 21:00:42 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 e7ac8b94f3 the minimap and world map go stock, and the chat loses its white plate
- the minimap cluster and the battleground list are the reference's own `Minimap.xml` and `BattlefieldFrame.xml`, ours deleted, and the sixteen engine names the static probe found unbound are built, not stubbed: the battleground list and queue family (the as-group join refused client-side with no packet when the map's `MaxPlayers` is below the group), the bodyless `CMSG_BATTLEFIELD_STATUS` on world enter — benilla never sent it, so a queue joined before a reconnect was invisible — the 5.5556 yd `BATTLEFIELDS_CLOSED` leash, and the meeting-stone pair over the `0x295` five-way table with both asymmetries; the ping's lifetime is the stock Lua's now (held 5 s, faded 0.5 s), `GetPingPosition` answers two numbers always — our nil was a Lua error on every frame of the stock `Minimap_OnUpdate` — and the map-change drop the reference never had is gone (1974)
- the world map is the reference's own `WorldMapFrame.xml`, our transcription deleted; built for it: the arrow-frame family (an anonymous `Model` child at its 33.6 px footprint, drawn app-side as the minimap's own arrow sprite through one shared constant), the battleground position family over `MSG_BATTLEGROUND_PLAYER_POSITIONS` both ways (the reference's 5000 ms request throttle), and `GetPlayerMapPosition` resolving `raid1..raid40` where it knew only the party (B320); `SetupFullscreenScale` — the engine binding `0x48c270` the map's and the cinematic frame's OnShow call, which our map had stood in for with Lua — is bound to the carved law `min(0.75 · aspect, 1)` off the configured aspect, written through the frame's own `SetScale` (1.0 at 4:3 and wider, 0.9375 at 5:4); a hovered POI writes the map's own area label, not the tooltip; named gap: `WorldMapPing` draws nothing yet (1980, 1981)
- the tutorial frame is the reference's own `TutorialFrame.xml`, over a tutorial system benilla never had: two bit banks filled from `SMSG_TUTORIAL_FLAGS` — the fire-once bank `TriggerTutorial` reads and sets (never a send) and the acknowledged bank `FlagTutorial` writes and sends; there is no tutorial CVar in the binary (210 `CVar::Register` sites censused), so "disable tutorials" is every bit acknowledged; the sites this app can produce are wired (the world-enter Welcome cascade, the level-up arm, item pushes, the loot sparkle, the meeting-stone and battleground arms), the rest named; the loader learned `<TitleRegion>` — the stock frame's drag handle, a region that emits no quad; and the `TabardModel` widget kind arrives ahead of its window, five ints bounded by the `.rdata` table `{170, 17, 6, 17, 51}` and the constant 100 000 tabard cost (1976, 1977)
- the chat window drew as an opaque white plate: the chat-cache loader, gated on `InWorld` alone, restored into the boot VM 130 ms before the deferred entry load filled it, and its per-VM memo then blocked the restore that would have reached the real frames — the plate the stock Lua tints black stayed the XML's white; between the entry edge and the load there is now no VM in the world (the edge parks the boot VM, the load takes it back), so no in-world feed pushes into a VM with no interface; the perf pill reads `59 fps  7.0 ms  17.3 cpu` — the MAIN thread's milliseconds in full text and the process-wide sum dim, because the sum of every thread's CPU time had been read as a frame time (a raid read 17 on it at a solid 60 with the main thread at 7); and `WOW_PROBE_UI_ONE_TEX=1` is a pricing lever, never a look, for the draw-count ceiling a UI atlas would reach before one is built (1978, 1954)

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2026-09-04 20:59:53 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 c965b5425d the tooltip and five windows go stock, and the battleground keeps score
- the tooltip is the reference's own file: `GameTooltip.xml` loads off the chain, ours is deleted, and every verb it calls was already bound, so this is a plain swap; retired with it: the `$parentThicken` plate fill that thickened the plate from the art's ~73% to ~84% opacity — the reference's plate is the raw `UI-Tooltip-Background` tint, and that is what ships; the one engine fact the transcription had been hiding: the reference's instance declares no size, and a frame with one anchor and no size resolves to NO rect under the reference's own layout law — our declared size had been a harness crutch (1968); and the dressing room goes stock with `<DressUpModel>` as a widget kind (factory `0x495c00`): a `PlayerModel` plus its own `Undress`/`Dress`/`TryOn`, where `Undress` strips the body and not the hands, and Close is read off the window since the stock OnHide queues nothing (1969)
- the mail window and the auction house are the reference's own: `MailFrame.xml` loads off the chain and brings the stationery picker, invoice pane and autocomplete ours had left out; the stationery family is built off wow-re's carve over a list computed off `Stationery.dbc` rows × the player's bags (`0x622270`, not the bank); the selection rides `CMSG_SEND_MAIL` field 6 and a send with none silently aborts; its two events fire where the client fires them (1970); `Blizzard_AuctionUI` loads on demand from the `AUCTION_HOUSE_SHOW` arm, and three root fixes its Lua surfaced: `GetAuctionItemClasses()` is static — read at the addon's load, before any session, so the class tree is a login-scoped push; `SetAuctionCompareItem` (`0x535d70`) on the vendor compare's one body; `NEW_AUCTION_UPDATE` resets the create form; its dressing-room pane shares the app's one room (1971)
- the battleground keeps score: `WorldStateFrame.xml` loads off the chain and ours is deleted; the stock file is three things where ours was one: the readout, the capture bars, and the battleground scoreboard this client never had, built off wow-re's round — `MSG_PVP_LOG_DATA` both ways (throttled to 5000 ms client-side, `0x4aa170`) and `CMSG_LEAVE_BATTLEFIELD`; eleven score verbs over a board the app pushes, where the filter is a SORT, not a compaction — team first, killing blows descending, deaths ascending, honor descending, name — so the filtered count shrinks while `GetBattlefieldScore` still reaches every wire row; `HIDE_OUTDOOR_WORLD_STATE` joins the options uvar block, a capture point is a bar, and the scoreboard and battlefield-minimap toggles become bound specs at the install's own `SHIFT-SPACE`/`SHIFT-M` (1972)
- the trade skill and craft windows go stock as `Blizzard_TradeSkillUI`/`Blizzard_CraftUI` on demand, from the reference's own UIParent arms; our two transcriptions are deleted; the four item-link verbs are built off wow-re's carve on the client's link builder (`0x52adb0`) — zero values on any miss, `GetTradeSkillReagentItemLink` raising Blizzard's own typo'd Usage, kept, and `GetCraftItemLink` the `|Henchant:` link in fixed white; `SetTextColor`'s channels coerce nil to 0 on FontString, Font and Button where ours had raised (1973); and the Inspect, Talent, Macro and Raid addons load on demand — `benilla.toc` lists no `Interface\AddOns` row, and below level 10 the talent addon is never even loaded; the gates walk every reached addon and found `Blizzard_GMSurveyUI`'s four engine verbs nothing answers, reachable only through `GMSURVEY_DISPLAY`, which nothing fires (1889; 1967)

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2026-09-04 20:59:04 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 f4951470a3 coins ride the cursor, and the trade window and combat text go stock
- coins ride the cursor: `MoneyFrame.lua`/`.xml` load off the player's chain, and the stock kit reads the cursor's coins at load, so the money cursor — payload mode 2, the copper at `[0xb4e2f0]` — is the engine's: `PickupPlayerMoney` puts coins on the cursor and the purse is never debited, and `CoinPickupFrame.xml`, the shift-click coin dialog nothing of ours had ever answered, joins; wow-re's round then set the law: the pickup raises on a non-number and refuses silently on zero, lost control and more than the purse; `AddTradeMoney` folds the coins into the offer as an absolute `CMSG_SET_TRADE_GOLD` gated on the purse; the send-mail setters and `GetCoinIcon` answer as the bytes do; the coinage-change reflex trims an offer the purse no longer covers; and the four send-mail pickup/drop verbs the stock table names do not exist in 5875, so they are not built (1962, 1965)
- the trade window is the reference's own file: `TradeFrame.xml` + `TradeFrame.lua` off the chain, ours deleted; `GameTooltip:SetTradePlayerItem`/`SetTradeTargetItem` (`0x5341e0`/`0x534410`) render the slot's item the way the loot slot's is, and `TRADE_PLAYER_ITEM_CHANGED`/`TRADE_TARGET_ITEM_CHANGED` — which the stock file repaints one slot on, and nothing had fired — fire per changed slot beside `TRADE_UPDATE`; the stock file brings the chain's own `MoneyInputFrame`, a TARGET_TRADE `SmallMoneyFrame`, `ItemButtonTemplate` slots and the enchant slot's own wording — "Item not yet modified" where ours had read "Will Not Be Traded"; the wire's enchant id is not carried into the slot yet, so the tooltip shows the item without its enchant (1966)
- the dialogs' verbs, as the bytes define them: nine of the ten stock `StaticPopup.lua` bindings 1960 had left named are built off wow-re's round with their packets, events and UIParent arms — the bare trade pair, `ForceLogout`, the instance-boot timer (whole seconds), the area spirit healer's accept/cancel/time, `AcceptBattlefieldPort` out of a three-slot queue `SMSG_BATTLEFIELD_STATUS` fills, `CancelMeetingStoneRequest`, and the pet trainer's pair as the talent wipe's twin, latch for latch — `SMSG_PET_UNLEARN_CONFIRM` latches and asks, `ConfirmPetUnlearn` sends behind the money gate, `CheckPetUntrainerDist` reads the leash; not built, named: the healer's proximity scan (`0x4923b0`: 20 yd to acquire, 22 to retain), so no healer is cached yet, and `ReplaceTradeEnchant`, which rides trade-slot enchant targeting this engine does not build (1963)
- the scrolling combat text is the reference's own `Blizzard_CombatText`, LoadOnDemand off the chain: our transcription is deleted, and the addon loads through `UIParentLoadAddOn` at the reference's own sites; the family's fourteen defaults move to the options file where the reference keeps them, because a LoadOnDemand addon cannot define the options that decide whether it loads (1964); and the Looking-for-Group pair is what the bytes define, correcting 1959's flag: `SetLookingForGroup` takes three (type, entry) pairs and a comment, packs each slot as `(type << 24) & entry` — an AND (`0x4e9713`), so every admissible input stores zero — and sends `CMSG_SET_LOOKING_FOR_GROUP` only when the commit changed something; `GetLookingForGroup` answers three nilable slot names then the comment, never 1|nil; and the stock 1.12.1 UI never calls either — both call sites sit in an XML comment (1961)

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2026-09-04 20:58:15 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 058ca4b6c8 every dialog is the reference's own, and the trainer loads on demand
- every dialog is the reference's own: `StaticPopup.xml` + `StaticPopup.lua` load off the player's chain, and 0308's engine with its 37 dialogs leaves `UiPanels.xml`; all 76 of the reference's dialogs are the stock table's, 28 of which no file of ours had ever registered (the resurrect family among them); the nine hidden listener frames that existed only because benilla once had no `UIParent_OnEvent` come home to it verbatim from UIParent.lua, and the seven files that were nothing but a dialog and its driver are deleted; what the swap surfaced: the reference capitalises the countdown's unit word ("5 Minutes until release") where ours had lowercased it, and ESC in the typed delete confirm's box is swallowed — the entry names no escape handler; arms for events this engine never fires (PLAYER_SKINNED, TRADE_REQUEST) wait on their feeds rather than being armed blind (1960)
- the social window and the unit menus are the reference's own files: `FriendsFrame.xml` loads off the chain and our transcription is deleted — its twelve dialogs re-homed, `FRIENDLIST_SHOW` fired as the answer to an explicit `ShowFriends()`, and `Get`/`SetLookingForGroup` a client-side flag until their bodies are carved; `UnitPopup.xml` loads off the chain, our row catalogue and its driver frame go, and nine verbs are built for it — `HasFullControl` off the player-control flag the reference reads at `0x51a158`, `UnitPlayerOrPetInParty`/`InRaid` over a new unit owner, and the six pet one-shots, each pressing the bar's own reaction or command slot word through the same latch and `CMSG_PET_ACTION`, confirmed by wow-re's carve; the Guild Leave/Promote confirms 1958 believed nothing registered were our social file's all along, and the duplicate went with it (1958, 1959)
- the trainer loads on demand: our `TrainerFrame.xml` is deleted and no row replaces it — `Blizzard_TrainerUI` loads off the player's own chain through the reference's `ClassTrainerFrame_LoadUI`, and the LoadOnDemand `Blizzard_*` addons are registry rows read off the chain; the timing IS the mechanism: the list builder writes the state-filter mask to 3 on every `SMSG_TRAINER_LIST` (`0x4d75d9`) and the stock addon pushes its saved filters exactly once, on its own ADDON_LOADED — which fires on the session's first trainer, after that packet, so the saved filters win that open and an eager load would never have applied them; the loader holds an anchor to a sibling not built yet and applies it once the subtree exists; and `UNIT_FLAGS` fires only on a change between two snapshots — wow-re's trio found the per-field watch bridge runs no notify pass on the create leg, correcting 1953 (1957)
- the additive window, built and withdrawn the same hour: under `BLEND_ADD` every additive particle draw commutes with every other, so same-key additive draws can be regrouped exactly — built in the effect lane's merge walk and measured on the crowd rig (Stormwind, forty partybots): the adjacency merge already folds about half the effect items and the regroup found two more folds in a frame of ninety-three, so the pre-regroup walk is what runs; what stays: an `fx=` items/merged census on the FPS probe line, a `DRESS_PART` line per drawn part of the self body on the dress census, and the regression the A/B uncovered: 1948's stock chat migration dropped the drain's plain-line sender, so every `WOW_PROBE_CHAT` rig — the crowd rig's forty `.partybot add`s among them — had gone silent on the server; a probe's slash-less line reaches the wire as SAY again (1955)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:57:24 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 43efac0a6e the pet bar and skills tab go stock, and the raid's profile is flat
- the pet action bar is the reference's own `PetActionBarFrame.xml`; our 559-line transcription is deleted, and the reference's bar brings what it had left out — the slide, the Ctrl-held and locked gates on show/hide, the hotkey pass whose string-versus-number comparison leaves every corner empty — with the three pet dialogs moved verbatim into the popup slice; one adapter draws the autocast shine (the reference's `<Model>` draws nothing in this engine, so each button gets the token-texture shine at the reference's own 1.2); the stock file registers four events nothing fired, built rather than listed — `PET_BAR_UPDATE_COOLDOWN` when the ten cooldown triples alone move, `PLAYER_CONTROL_LOST`/`GAINED` on the edge of the control flag (`0x4958e0`'s change-gated fire), `PLAYER_FARSIGHT_FOCUS_CHANGED` on the edge of the farsight descriptor, and `UNIT_FLAGS` on a change of the raw flags (its exact fire law a dispatched question) (1953)
- the skills tab is the reference's own `SkillFrame.xml` at its slot between ReputationFrame and HonorFrame; our 874-line transcription is deleted, the `UNLEARN_SKILL` dialog moves verbatim into the popup slice, and `CancelSkillUps` is built — the page's live Close button calls it before hiding, so every close reaches it; it is the reset leg of the temp-point table (`0x4d3e30`, no arguments, no returns) over a table this client keeps empty by construction, so the reset moves nothing, which is the binding's whole effect on this data; `AddSkillUp`, `RemoveSkillUp` and `BuySkillTier` sit on buttons the reference shows only for skill points or step/rank costs no 1.12 server sends and stay named as open gaps; and the expand tab's fit is the reference's load-time law (`GetTextWidth()+45` once, in OnLoad), so the transcription's zero-measure guard and re-fit are gone (1956)
- a 45-bot Blackrock raid circling with sound on holds 60 fps with the main thread at 6–7 ms while the HUD's ms readout says 17–18: that number is the sum of every thread's CPU per frame (main, render, compute pool, audio), not the frame time — the raid costs +6 ms spread over four threads with no thread owning it; two suspects refuted by measurement: mimalloc as the process allocator (interleaved: no change on any thread, reverted the same hour) and page faults (59 a frame on the probe, tens of microseconds, not the render thread's 2.1 ms of kernel time, which is the Metal driver's own work and scales with draws); so the probe counts draws per phase family (transparent outnumbers opaque, mostly the buff wave's particles and nameplates) and `WOW_PROBE_SHARED_SKIN=1` prices cross-body instancing before it is built: nothing moved, because bevy instances only identical meshes and a geared body's merged geoset set is its own mesh (1954)
- three fixes, each removing work a 15 s sample named: booth cameras skip cluster assignment (no bevy light ever reaches a booth, and the default config rebuilt an empty cluster grid per booth view per frame — 0.2 ms of the raid's main thread), the rig palette's watermark clone reuses the row buffer from two publishes ago instead of calloc'ing the 650 KB table every publish (safe because the GPU only ever receives dirty ranges), and prop probes upload the dirty span rather than every allocated row (circling a city streams props in and out most frames, and each change re-sent hundreds of KB for one row); no bucket of the main thread's profile is above a millisecond — the raid's +2.5 ms there is forty-five bodies' worth of every per-entity lane at ~55 µs a body, and the one lever left that is all ours, one texture array per body folding ~9 draws to ~3, is sized at ~1.5 ms and not started (1954)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:56:17 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 2fed249252 the chat and spellbook go stock, and hidden props park their meshes
- the chat window is the reference's own `ChatFrame.xml` and `FloatingChatFrame.xml`, run off the player's chain; our 2216-line transcription is deleted, the feed fires `CHAT_MSG_*` and the reference's `ChatFrame_OnEvent` prints — no app-side composition into the windows, no routing table, no whisper chime or flash of ours, and the transcribed edit-box machine (sticky type, tell ring, Tab cycle) retires with it; the verbs the two files call are built to the bytes — the whole `0x98` chat-window record and its eight verbs, the 94-entry chat-type colour registry, the language walk, the channel verbs as a command queue, the slash handlers' emote/roll/assist/uninvite/console/logging verbs; `chat-cache.txt` is written and read in the reference's whole grammar, the 68-entry message-group table in flag order and the no-file boot included, and the chat bindings and macro lines run through the reference's own arms (1948)
- the spellbook is the reference's own `SpellBookFrame.xml`; our 965-line transcription is deleted, and two quirks it reproduced by hand (the pet page ignores its page number, its arrows write the spell book's counter) now come from the reference's lines; one adapter remains because the reference's autocast shine is a `<Model>` that draws no pixels in this engine — the script puts the token-texture shine beside each button's model and carries it with the model's shown state; the nine spell-slot bindings (`GetSpellName`, `CastSpell`, `PickupSpell` and their kin) now parse their arguments the way the reference's shared marshaller `0x4b3ec0` does — a numeric arg 1, a mandatory arg 2, the index gated to [0, 0x400) with "Invalid spell slot in <Verb>" on a miss, "pet" matched without case — where ours raised mlua's own message on a negative id, answered nil for 0 and above 1024, and read the wrong book for "PET" (1952)
- a long-hidden world model part parks its `Mesh3d`: the entity path keeps the batches the retained pass declines resident — 5.3k hidden submeshes at any instant at the Stormwind auction house — and Bevy's sweeps walk every `Mesh3d` whether it draws or not, so a part parks after 30 consecutive hidden frames and unparks the frame its verdict turns visible; every world model part takes part, units' bodies included, while a booth's mirror parts stay out; interleaved pairs read an alone Stormwind 0.1–0.4 ms lighter, and `WOW_NO_MESH_PARK=1` is the A/B; the audio thread's realtime class was the standing suspect for the raid's `cpu_p99` spikes with sound on, and `WOW_AUDIO_NO_RT=1` across two interleaved Blackrock pairs read no difference, so the lever stays as an instrument (1949); and a no-merge prop batch now says which rule declined it — animated (1551 at the auction house) or transparent, not order-free (340) (1951)
- the probe reads CPU per thread across its window (user and system split, because a user-mode sampler never sees kernel time) and the main thread's CPU inside the app's frame beside its whole-frame CPU; together they place the vsync tax every player pays by default — cpu_ms 10.7 uncapped against 12.5 under vsync, alone in Stormwind, with no system growing and no thread spinning: it lands on the main thread, in user time, inside the schedules, the same systems each running slower, and a low-priority spinner holding one core busy erases it to the last decimal (vsync + spinner 10.18 against uncapped 10.17), which is frequency scaling — under vsync the cores idle deeper between frames and the next burst starts at a lower clock; nothing in the client is the cause and nothing in the client changes for it (1950)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:55:55 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 fd595b7119 the quest windows go stock, and the 20 ms frames were mis-split pairs
- the quest giver's dialog and the quest log are the reference's own `QuestFrame.xml` and `QuestLogFrame.xml`, run off the player's chain at the reference's own toc seats; our 1366-line and 1999-line copies are deleted, and the verbs the stock files call are built — the four `GameTooltip` quest-item and reward-spell setters, the reward spell itself (parsed on all three packets and dropped by the model until now), and two verbs; the detail pane could never scroll because `UpdateScrollChildRect` measured a frame late where the reference's measure is synchronous, so it measures through the installed font engine now; and ten things the reference does that ours did not, each found by a test that had enshrined ours — a shift-click never selects, an empty log hides the whole detail pane and says "No Active Quests", the abandon confirm lives in the popup registry (1944)
- the quest bindings' law, read off the binary and folded back: no 1.12 packet carries a quest background material — `GetQuestBackgroundMaterial` (`0x502230`) forks on the dialog's SOURCE object, an item answering its template's PageMaterial, a GameObject its template data, a creature nil (FrameXML's "Parchment"), the id naming a `PageTextMaterial.dbc` row whose six words are nowhere in the binary; its twin `ItemTextGetMaterial` has the same body, so the reader window already held every piece and the giver's feed runs the same resolve; `QuestChooseRewardError` is game-error row `0x98`, and the row plays `igQuestFailed` first, which the verb now queues; the reward-spell getters' third return is `Spell.dbc` Attributes bit 5 (1161 of 22357 rows set — craft-cast spells set, `Pattern:` teaching spells clear), read off the catalog now (1946)
- the "20 ms frames" of a raid, chased to their number: the probe's worst frames now carry their churn (entities, assets, first-play sound decodes, live particles, the GPU reading) and in a Blackrock raid with sound on every one of those read flat; then the same window on the PACED clock — under vsync with pipelined rendering the raw delta is mis-split into long/short pairs that sum to exact refresh multiples, so an alone Stormwind leg read 115 of 300 frames over budget with cpu and gpu both at their means, while the paced clock read 0 skipped frames in every leg; what remains real in the raid is `cpu_p99` at 22–23 ms with sound on; and every submesh the streamer spawns now carries why it is an entity, counted per reason — 5.8k resident ADT-doodad submeshes at the Stormwind auction house, 5.3k of them hidden, three prop families the retained pass declines by rule, each riding every per-`Mesh3d` sweep for ~0.4 ms of the alone frame (1947)
- a raid's dozen voices cost the mixer ~1.5 ms of every 60 Hz frame: upstream kira spatializes every frame — normalizes, the attenuation curve and a dB→amplitude `powf` per frame per spatial track, two more `powf`s for the volume tween, ~1.7 M `powf`s a second at 48 kHz × 12 tracks for gains that change imperceptibly across a chunk — so kira 0.12.1 is vendored with one patch: the spatial gains and the volume × fade amplitude are evaluated at the chunk's two ends and interpolated across its ~10.7 ms, the granularity FMOD 3, the reference's own mixer, updates them at; nothing a listener can name changes (1945); and rig poses are evaluated in parallel over rigs — each reads its shared clips and writes only its own pose, and a raid's ~400 live rigs were 0.4 ms of one thread walked serially on the main thread's critical path (1947)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:55:12 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 2f7cfcabf5 the action bars are the reference's own, and a gift can be wrapped
- the action-bar cluster is the reference's own: `MainMenuBar.xml`, `ActionBarFrame.xml`, `MultiActionBars.xml` and `BonusActionBarFrame.xml` run off the player's own chain, and our `ActionBar.xml` (2047 lines), `MultiBars.xml` and `StanceBar.xml` are deleted — three, since the stock bonus-bar file declares the shapeshift bar too; one engine verb, `ChangeActionBarPage`, fires `ACTIONBAR_PAGE_CHANGED` and nothing else; one load blocker: stock `MultiActionBars.lua` writes the options window's table from its OnLoad, the reference's own load-order hack, so our options window moves to the reference's toc slot; and ten things the reference does that ours did not: an empty button is HIDDEN while showgrid is 0, the bonus overlay sits one pixel right of the main buttons, every slide takes one frame more than its time, and `ActionButton_ShowGrid` ghosts EVERY ring, occupied included (1938)
- a gift can be wrapped: right-clicking wrapping paper fell through to plain use and sent `CMSG_USE_ITEM`, so nothing happened — you could receive a gift and never give one; the wrap is a displayed-cursor MODE plus a stashed slot, never a payload, so `CursorHasItem()` stays false and every stock gate on it stays shut: right-click arms it, a left-click on a bag slot sends `CMSG_WRAP_ITEM`, and the client applies no eligibility test — the server's `ERR_CANT_WRAP_*` reasons are the error line (1934); a duration-limited item counts down: `SMSG_ITEM_TIME_UPDATE` parks a deadline and the tooltip's `ITEM_DURATION` line runs the enchant countdown's bucket ladder, so "Duration: 1 days" is what the reference renders; an update for an item we do not hold is DROPPED, no queue (1933); and a renamed crowd-control refusal names its mechanic — "Can't do that while stunned" — off `SpellMechanic.dbc` (1943)
- a creature paths on a boat: `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE_TRANSPORT` carries the transport's guid and deck-local coordinates, and is the attach/detach edge; a deck sample lands on the rider or nowhere, never as a world write a few yards from the map origin; and "there is no terrain under a boat" turned out wrong: the ground probe admits GameObject meshes — a boat's `.wmo` is a GameObject, so the probe hits the deck (1936); `MSG_MOVE_TIME_SKIPPED` is read, not dropped — the reference adds the lag to the observed unit's last-wire stamp, so dropping it scheduled their next packet `lag` ms late, a hitch for every player who stalled zoning in near us; and our own settle hold reports once (1935); and the tradeskill tool order was backwards — focus FIRST, so every two-tool recipe had read "Blacksmith Hammer, Anvil" for the reference's "Anvil, Blacksmith Hammer"; the focus's `hasTool` is 1.0 in the reference too (1942)
- the crowd's second sitting, instruments first: the probe line carries the tail — cpu p95/p99 and the six worst frames — because a mean under budget hides the one frame in twenty over it (raid legs railed at 16.67 with p95 at 18–20 ms) and whether that frame was work or a wait is the first question about a stutter, and the visible meshes are counted by lane; then two cuts — a terrain tile furnishes as 4×4 cells of 4×4 chunks, one mesh, one entity, one draw per 133-yd cell instead of per 33-yd chunk (a city horizon is over a thousand chunks a frame, and a cell changes nothing a pixel can see; Stormwind 10.55 → 10.32 `cpu_ms`), and an authored point light is our own `WorldPointLight`, not Bevy's `PointLight`, which was only a data carrier while Bevy ran its whole light lane over every lamp, ~2 % of the alone frame; the sitting's record is 1945, and the code says so (1945)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:54:27 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 72e78ebc92 a 40-man raid costs less per frame, and the money frames go stock
- a 40-man raid cost +5 to +8 ms of CPU per frame — a population, not a hot function — and three cuts landed where it was measured: the rig palette upload sends one `write_buffer` per run, bridging the gaps parked bodies leave between live rigs (calls 93 → 3); a built material becomes an asset when something visible binds it, not when a spawner builds it — 9.9k material assets were alive for 36 drawn batches, so a material is realized only once bound and visible, readers that clone before binding doing it themselves through one new function in the engine's wall (172 → 173): a 17× cut in live GPU objects; and a body's batches spawn as material groups — a geared body stood as 12–27 mesh parts, its skin composite drawn as five separate batches, and two visible batches now join when nothing downstream can tell them apart: parts per body 17 → 12, the Stormwind raid leg 17.0–21.0 → 15.65–15.82 `cpu_ms` (1929, 1940)
- the instruments that priced it, all on the probe line: wgpu's own resource census, because a sampled profile put roughly half of the pass encoder in usage trackers sized to the device's live buffer and texture counts — a term that scales with residency, not with what is drawn, and nothing printed the number; the active camera count, since every view is its own pass set; the UI's live texture-identity runs, one 2D draw each, which is the number a UI change moves, not the quad count; and parts and materials per dressed body on the dress census, the ceiling on merging a body's batches read off a real body instead of guessed from a model's batch table (1940)
- the coin kit retires: every remaining money display — quest progress, the mail purse and postage, the trade recipient, the tooltip, the quest log, the trainer's purse and cost — moves onto the reference's `MoneyFrameTemplate`, each seat already matching ours; the progress panel's required-money flow is ported in full — `QuestFrame.lua:168-190` colours the FRAME red/white AND the LABEL black/dark-grey when the quest costs more than you hold, where ours had neither colour; the mail postage takes the reference's name and label, trade and mail issue no explicit update because the frames repaint on their own events, and the trainer's cost label is shown or hidden with its `local COSTS_LABEL` shadow deleted; with the trainer converted the hand-built coin trios have no consumer, so their templates and the `BenillaMoney_*` helpers are deleted and `MoneyFrame.xml` is the only money kit (1937)
- the crowd-control ladder's aura exemption exists, and it is a join between two `Spell.dbc` records — each arm asks whether the spell being cast is itself an immunity covering the aura that blocks it (Ice Block cast while stunned), the school arm shifting because `School` is an index and `EffectMiscValue` a mask; what the scan mostly decides is WHICH message a refusal carries — a blocking aura the cast does not counter renames the reason to "Can't do that while %s" (1941); bevy_audio leaves the build — its plugin had been disabled since 0530, but disabling a plugin does not remove a crate, and rodio, a second cpal and an Ogg/Vorbis decoder were still linked into a client that mixes through kira (1932); and cpal has four stream errors, not two — a routine ALSA underrun was treated as "the device is gone", tearing the stream down on every hiccup; now only a lost or invalidated device rebuilds (1939)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:53:37 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 b41acbf98a Linux and Windows get their sound back, and emotes refuse while moving
- 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>
2026-09-04 20:52:22 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 9f204d894b a bot walks on the ground, and a stunned cast never leaves the client
- a bot floating a body-height above the ground in mid-stride (B357): cmangos's Playerbots moves its bots as Player objects under `SMSG_MONSTER_MOVE`, and our ground clamp skipped anything that was not a Unit, so a splined Player kept the wire Z verbatim — and a spline is a straight chord, which over a hollow leaves the body in the air; kind is not a question the reference asks (`0x616620` runs every registered mover once per frame, reading only its own flag word), so one rule grounds every Unit plus a Player from the moment a server spline first moves it, never the body we steer; and a re-sent identical wire pose no longer leaves a unit floating (1921); the body we STEER is a mover too — the reference hands a ride's spline displacement to the same vertical-zeroing step as walking, so the spline owns XY and facing and the ground owns Z, closing a +0.47 yd gap at mid-chord on an Elwynn slope, endpoint included (1927)
- the client refuses a stunned, silenced or pacified cast itself, in the requirement validator `0x6094f0` whose mounted and moving legs we already model, before any packet — and the three arms are not symmetric: STUNNED refuses everything, SILENCED and PACIFIED run only where `Spell.dbc PreventionType` declares them, so a silence stops casts and leaves melee abilities alone and a pacify does the reverse; the leg sits above the mounted block and below the equipped-item requirement, so stunned and missing the weapon you are told about the weapon; `PreventionType` is column 165, Auto Shot alone telling it from its look-alike neighbour; the preflight banner splits movement blockers from ability blockers, since a disarm or a pacify touches no movement gate; and the refusal sink is an explicit parameter rather than a ladder field, because a resource reachable twice from one system panics on the first live frame (1903)
- a disarm greys what needs the hidden hand: the spell equipped-item test is `0x5f0c50`, walking all 23 equipment slots, rejecting a deprecated or genuinely broken item, and taking its slot mask from `AttributesEx3` (main-hand-only, off-hand-only, else every slot) — DISARMED strips the hidden hand's bit out of that mask, so a main-hand-only ability whose one allowed hand is the one the disarm took has an empty mask and dies, Heroic Strike greyed with its tooltip line red; using a worn weapon while disarmed answers `ERR_CANT_USE_DISARMED`, the client's own refusal at rung 15 of the item-use ladder's 20, above the bind-confirm arm and never a bag click (1903); and two stale claims go — `UNIT_FLAG_STUNNED` no longer says the idle selectors bail on it (0889 had refuted that at the bytes), and the charter's `ShowPetition` arm is rung #9 of that same ladder, read rather than reasoned
- `UpdateSpells()` is twelve bytes and all of them are the event: it ends in a jump into the event signal with 0x104 = `SPELLS_CHANGED` in hand, whose repaint is FrameXML's alone, so a no-op would not have been faithful and our own repainting stand-in was wrong in both directions at once; it fires synchronously as the reference's does, at the cost of a fire-path refactor rather than a next-tick queue; `PlayerHasSpells()` is a hard-coded 1, no branch, no store read, pinned to answer 1 on an empty spellbook, where a plausible implementation diverges silently (1924); and three integration harnesses loaded every document against an empty base, so a self-sourcing chain file loaded as an empty shell with every handler missing — none of their lists could fail, so the fix lands with a guard watched failing first, `FadingFrame.xml`, one relative script reference and nothing else (1923)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:51:44 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 ef7140c294 an item on the cursor is a sale, and an animation's sound has a place
- right-clicking a vendor with an item on the cursor sells it: `0x5df5d0` asks `GetCursorItem` before anything else and a non-zero answer takes the arm to `CMSG_SELL_ITEM` instead of `CMSG_LIST_INVENTORY`, where benilla sent the list unconditionally — the whole stack, to the clicked vendor, with no merchant-window gate anywhere in the arm; the clear is `SetCursorItem(0, …)` rather than `ClearCursor`, which fires `CURSOR_UPDATE` and leaves the source slot greyed until the server's inventory update (1914); and the NPC you are talking to is not clickable: `0x5f0130` refuses a right-click on the NPC whose window is already open, against a global with exactly two writers — the interaction setter, whose fourteen callers are every one a window opener, and its clear — so the first click always gets through and no double-click is eaten, where benilla re-sent the arm's opcode on every click (1866)
- a Hated or Hostile questgiver's `!` now disappears, every `!` blinks off and back on when you resurrect, and the minimap no longer dots a corpse, your own pet or an untrackable unit: the sweep tears down on HOSTILITY, not on the flag — `0x5eb134` is a convergent block reached from two branches, so three incompatible readings had each seen one path — and an escort giver's `!` clearing with its flag is the field watch instead, which B257 now rests on; the dots gain `0x4eaa90`'s three preconditions (1906); the quest log's rebuild is all-or-nothing — the reference makes every rebuild a no-op until its template misses are answered, so a cold log shows empty and then lands in one step, never our `"..."` row per in-flight quest — sorted level then title, case-insensitively, with the `id == 0` group first under the reference's own "Missing header! (quest designers)"; and `GetQuestLogTitle`'s `isHeader`/`isCollapsed` answer 1/nil, not booleans
- an animation event has a place, not just a time: the M2 event kernel (`0x719370`) places each fired key through its bone, and benilla carried the when and the what and never the where, so every animation-event sound played at the model root — 149 of 244 `$DSL` records sit off their model's origin, out to 67.6 yd on `Maraudon_Waterfall01.m2` — and the point belongs to the record, not the tag, since 75 models author one tag twice; doodad, GameObject and shake sounds now sound where the key is (1904); and the unit dispatcher's arms do not agree about the point they are handed — footsteps and emotes at the event point (the footstep's material foley stays at the origin), `$TRD` at the origin, `$CSD` at attachment 17 rather than its head-mounted records, `$CSS` at the event point on a hit and attachment 1 on a miss — with `0x623b90`'s attachment-else-bias resolver transcribed table and all (1915)
- `GetSkillLineInfo` out of range answers the reference's thirteen-value tuple, numbers in the rank slots, not a single nil — the stock skill window adds two of those slots unguarded straight off `SetSelectedSkill(0)`, so one nil raises the moment it drives us; one shape serves every out-of-range case because the bounds test at `0x4d3675` is a single unsigned compare, and our source had asserted the opposite (1919); the outbound wire is traced by name (`out`, mirroring `in`), a line pushed only after a successful write — a 5-second visit to the Goldshire poster reads as 87 lines (1901); the binding shape gate seats a player and checks the `Unit*` verbs it had been skipping, coverage 220 → 249, all agreeing with the reference (1911); and a UI capture scenario opts the UI in itself instead of photographing a UI-less world and exiting 0, the opt-in answering `false` in a player build that has no harness

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:51:17 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 f0d1bacf0a the help window is the reference's own, and a ding carries nine gains
- the help window is the reference's own `HelpFrame.xml`, and ours was less than half its size, so this is mostly arrival: the category list, the per-category GM and harassment pages, the stuck page, the bug report, the PvP policy line; four things we had built go with the swap — one-click filing from Home, the Home unstick button, the downed-queue refusal message, and ticket abandonment, a capability loss rather than a look change, since `AbandonTicket` exists in neither the binding table nor the 1.12 FrameXML corpus and any return of it goes on top of the stock window; `GMSURVEY_DISPLAY` arrives with no producer, a real 1.12 event (`SignalEvent` `0x5e797b`) whose whole UI is a LoadOnDemand addon not on our chain; and the stock file needs two orderings ours did not, the micro-button row before its GM status ask and the buff frame before its repoll timer (1889, superseding 1687)
- the cast bar, the action-button regions and the font registry are the reference's own files too: our `CastingBar.xml` was `CastingBarFrame.xml` under another name, with the literal "Failed" where the reference reads the `FAILED` GlobalString (1886); `ActionButtonTemplate.xml` seats above our `ActionBar.xml` because the later-registered template wins, and it declares zero scripts, so the regions migrate while the handlers stay ours until `ActionButton.lua`'s verbs do (1887); `Fonts.xml` is manifest entry 0, all 51 fonts match by name, and its one real difference, `ITEM_QUALITY_COLORS`, moves to UIParent where the reference declares it (1888); the harnesses were the real cost — those reading our files off disk could not name a chain file and now read through the manifest's own rule — and the event-producer gate, having cried wolf at the cast bar's `SPELLCAST_INTERRUPTED` fired through a variable, now matches the fired tuple's shape
- of the 189 events benilla fires, three are not in the client — `BAG_UPDATE_DELAYED` (a Classic Era name), `LOOT_UPDATE` and `UPDATE_LOOT_ROLL` (invented here, no listener anywhere) — found against the reference binary's own string table, and a gate now fails any fire of a name the client cannot dispatch unless it wears a `BENILLA_` prefix (1883); two payloads the reference gives that we did not: `UNIT_HAPPINESS` carries its unit token, without which no `UNIT_*` consumer reads it, and `CHARACTER_POINTS_CHANGED` carries the point deltas `ChatFrame.lua` compares unguarded, so nil raised (1884); and `PLAYER_LEVEL_UP` carries all nine — level, health and mana gain, talent points (not on the wire: the client derives `(newLevel >= 10) ? 1 : 0` at `0x5e407c`) and the five stat gains — matched to the ding by level, a demotion's absent gains sent as zeros since a nil raises where a zero reads as no line
- the chain gap report could not run — one of its six probes had no player seated where a stock addon formats `UnitName("player")` at load, the other five each carrying an identical copy-pasted seed — and the repaired instrument prices each window's cost: 13 stock files load clean with nothing missing (the action bars, the cast bar, the fonts, the help, friends, game-menu and sound-options windows among them) and the near ones name their missing verb, with "loads clean" still not "swapped" (1885); and `UpdateNameplates`, recorded as the missing engine verb blocking the UIParent keystone, is FrameXML — defined in `UIOptionsFrame.lua`, absent from the binding table, its whole body four nameplate verbs that are already ours — so it is twelve lines transcribed into our options frame, the reference's own Show-then-Hide no-op included (1890 corrects 1878)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:50:36 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 7e68267395 the raid and reputation panes go stock, and a faction header folds
- the raid and reputation panes are the reference's own files: two manifest lines replace our `RaidFrame.xml` (83 of 84 frame names were already the reference's; the tear-off pullouts arrive) and one replaces our `ReputationFrame.xml`; the raid swap surfaced a loader defect (a font object inherited one level down was the 26 unexplained warnings), rehomed `RaidFrame_LoadUI` and two popup dialogs, and reproduces one reference DEFECT: an emptied lockout list keeps its last row painted (1874); the reputation swap moved the WATCH BAR out of `ActionBar.xml`, where it would have shadowed the chain's own, and exposed an ENGINE gap: `CollapseFactionHeader`/`ExpandFactionHeader` fire `UPDATE_FACTION` (`0x4d5dab`) and ours fired nothing, so with the stock pane repainting on that event alone, a fold painted nothing and the header kept its minus — invisible while our own file repainted itself (1875)
- a wanted poster is a questgiver on the wire as a creature is, and benilla never asked about one; the RE round came back in two halves: the reference DOES send `CMSG_QUESTGIVER_STATUS_QUERY` for a GameObject, gated on `GAMEOBJECT_FLAGS` bit 2, seen in 20 of 62 sniffed sessions — and it can never render the answer (the status handler's typemask excludes a GameObject, its status slot lies past the object's end, and no poster, sign or plaque carries attachment 18); vmangos DOES answer, so the sweep gains a GameObject arm on the reference's own gate and the apply side refuses a non-unit guid, without which a gold `!` would hang over a poster no 1.12 client draws; two shipped claims fall with it (`0x5eb3c0` is the FULL re-query sweep; a status never suppresses a GameObject's minimap dot), and `WOW_PROBE_GOQUEST` at the Goldshire wanted poster reads the server's 1 then 5, both refused (1872)
- the money entry comes off the chain: Trade, Mail and Auction switch to the reference's `MoneyInputFrameTemplate` and its verbs, and our `BenillaMoneyInput_*` kit retires — it was the exact answer while benilla fired `OnTextChanged` synchronously inside `SetText`, and the engine now raises it deferred and coalesced, matching `0x77d3e0` (1831), so the reference's `expectChanges` guard works and our bracket flag was a duplicate; most of the 430 deleted lines are verbatim art — all three windows carried an inline copy of the template's three edit boxes, AuctionFrame a whole second copy; one visible change: TradeFrame now makes the reference's own `MoneyInputFrame_SetMode(this, "compact")` call, which tightens the trade money boxes (Gold 58→56 wide, Silver's offset 26→22, Copper's 16→11), and two stale claims in the kit's comments are corrected, and a verb nothing called goes (1882)
- the `UIFrameFlash` family is transcribed — six FrameXML names from `UIParent.lua`, which we do not load — unblocking SpellBookFrame and HelpFrame, which called it into silence; re-arming a flashing frame is a RETURN and `-1` flashes forever (1879); UIParent is recounted — `UpdateNameplates` and the `*_Show`/`*_Hide` family around it are FrameXML, not engine, missed by a survey that skipped the LoadOnDemand addons — so its engine surface is four verbs, not a wall: `GetLocale` answers `enUS`, `IsMacClient` answers nil (the whole verb on the PC build), and `CheckReadyCheckTime` and `RequestBattlefieldPositions` are the two it waits on (1880); and `BasicControls.xml` comes off the chain by pure deletion — ours differed by nothing but line-wrapping and one comment — with `FailedAddOnLoad` and `UIParentLoadAddOn` moving to `UIParent.xml`, their reference home, below their four callers (1881)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:50:12 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 766395116c a disarmed fighter punches, and the quest log tags its elite rows
- a disarmed fighter swings bare-fisted: `UNIT_FLAG_DISARMED` was read nowhere but a dev banner, and the reference applies it inside `GetWeapon` on the `visFlag == 0` path, so the swing lands on AttackUnarmed; the RE cross-check (nine workers converging byte-for-byte) corrected the first reading twice — disarm hides exactly ONE weapon, main hand first (`5ec28d je 0x5ec2aa`), so a disarmed dual-wielder keeps swinging its dagger; and the weapon comes OFF the hand: the field-change reflex `0x5ff580` detaches a drawn main-hand weapon when the bit goes up, while a stowed one stays frozen on the back; one pure ladder feeds every unarmed-view site of the 82-site `visFlag` census — parry, the sheath machine, the melee sounds (a disarmed punch does not clang like a sword), Heroic Strike greying out, and the Attack button showing `Spell-Reset` with the weapon still equipped (1863)
- a quest-log row reads `(Elite)`, `(Dungeon)`, `(Raid)` or `(PvP)`: `QuestInfo.dbc` was never parsed and `GetQuestLogTitle`'s third return was a literal nil; the table is seven rows read out of `patch-2.MPQ`, SPARSE (1 Elite · 21 Life · 41 PvP · 62 Raid · 81 Dungeon · 82 World Event · 83 Legendary — vanilla's 1 is "Elite", not TBC's "Group"), and the base `dbc.MPQ` copy has only four, so a chain stopping short would lose Dungeon, World Event and Legendary; the row gains the reference's own right-flush tag string and its precedence — a finished quest's FAILED/COMPLETE word OVERWRITES the tag — replacing the " (Complete)" we appended to the title; the RE round confirmed the tag path and found the arity bug: six values ALWAYS (`mov eax,6`), the level a NUMBER 0 even on a header, where we gave one nil; the reference's title shrink stays out: an explicit width is a WRAP width here (1873)
- the death thud is silent indoors, and that is the content: BOTH the footstep and the thud lookups key on `TerrainType.SoundID`, and TerrainType 10 "None" has SoundID 0 — the footstep table has a row there for 17 classes and `DeathThudLookups` has none, so the floor that creaks underfoot swallows the body that lands on it; 10 075 of 10 299 WMO materials (97.8%) are TerrainType 10 and 694 of 815 WMO roots have no surface that can thud, every inn and tavern among them, the Kharanos inn included — the code was always right and the prose was not; the RE round also confirmed the strict `depth > 2.0` sense and the size-class column, pinned a sound id of 0 as silence, and placed `0x6005d0` as the loot sparkle, not a second sound; `thudcensus` prints all 121 buildings that do thud rather than a head, because a truncated list cannot answer "does THIS one" (1870)
- a questgiver's overhead marker follows its rider on and off the mount: the reference re-runs the attach from the `UNIT_FIELD_MOUNTDISPLAYID` watch handler, and benilla picked the slot once at build, relying on a teardown the reseat rework no longer does (B199), so the seat rode at the WRONG slot; `overhead_slot` is now the one definition of the pick (`0x6074c0`) and the marker rebuilds when it moves (1871); and the chat menu's kit was ours overwriting the reference's — `UIMenu.xml` loads earlier on the chain and our `ChatFrame.xml` carried the same kit under the SAME ten names, faithful enough that deleting it changes nothing; nothing ever opened the chat menu, and now a test does; an event census holds the gap between registered and fired events at exactly eighteen, failing on a surprise AND on a quietly gained producer — features not yet built, none a split pair (1869)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:49:33 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 0535fe9097 a body lands with a thud, and twelve lists scroll again
- a dying body lands with a sound: the `$DTH` marker makes three calls in the reference (`0x624a94`) and benilla had built only the middle one, so the screen shook and nothing landed; the thud is a two-axis join — size class against terrain sound, through `DeathThudLookups.dbc` to a land or water kit — behind exactly three gates: more than 2.0 yd of liquid over the feet is complete silence, a size class outside 0..=4, and no terrain, no row or a kit of 0; it plays on bus 0, uncapped, so a battlefield's worth of bodies all land — the shake is the rare thing (49 of 430 models name a preset), the thud the universal one (329 key a `$DTH`, players included); the size axis had sat in our `CreatureDisplayInfo` schema labelled a string column 5875 does not have, and `StringLookups` stays unparsed on purpose — 9 rows benilla already resolves (1866)
- twelve faux-scroll lists showed their bar, moved their thumb and never moved their list: the reference's kit writes `frame.offset` from one handler the OWNER declares, and ours were wired to a `frame.updateFunc` field the reference does not have — Skill, Craft, TradeSkill, ScriptLog, the auction and the social panes are rewired, and a gate fails any faux frame without a handler of its own, because a list only scrolls when something drives it (1868); and the macro window's "Change Name/Icon" raised on a nil offset: `MacroPopupScrollFrame` inherits a template the manifest never loaded, and a missing template is a warning, so the frame was built BARE — no scroll bar, no scripts, no `offset = 0` — and the reference's offset read has no `or 0` cushion; the line is in the manifest, and a static gate fails any `inherits=` the manifest declares nowhere (1862)
- the character geoset selector's missing eighth branch is the tabard designer: B6 of `0x477520` is gated on "the guild registrar's tabard designer is open", not an ItemDisplayInfo column, and wears the tabard flap with an EMPTY tabard slot; dormant until `TabardFrame` migrates, but reading the whole function turned up three branches wrong since their first pass: B4-short never disabled [501,599], so the bare foot — a real submesh on 11 of the 18 character models — rendered inside every boot; B3 asked "is a chest equipped?" where the reference asks whether anything but the shirt paints the ArmLower tile, wrong more often than right (533 of 637 chest displays leave it empty, 566 of 570 wrist displays fill it); and B7 had no tabard guard, an ungated doublet arm, and a leg arm read off chest-or-legs where the reference reads the chest's bit alone (1864)
- a GameObject's display sounds have one trigger and two lanes: `GameObjectDisplayInfo.Sound[0..9]` has one reader (`0x5f4010`), reached only from the anim-event dispatcher, so benilla's state-transition arm — 19 Open and 4 Close rows the reference leaves silent, 80 Open and 38 Close doubled against the clip's own `$GO1`/`$GO3` — is deleted; and the kit's `0x200` flag is a LANE SELECT, not a loop flag: set means the ambient pool, which every campfire, brazier, torch and fountain names (37 live slots), and which had been starting untracked forever-channels (1867); and `WOW_PROBE_SERVICE=1` reads the NPC-service ladder back off a live server — four real NPCs, reporting the arm taken, the opcode sent and the window opened — with every hop inside the reference's own service reach, after a first run parked ~29 yd from Deputy Willem and blamed the client for a dropped packet (1865)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 20:48:52 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 a8c9bc37a2 the audio crackle is gone, and a trainer answers a click as a trainer
- the audio crackle was our own stall sampler: `/usr/bin/sample` suspends every thread of the task for each of its snapshots, CoreAudio's realtime IO thread included, and coreaudiod times the client out — every HAL overload of the session sat inside a sample of our own process (three for three by timestamp), and the watchdog fires on exactly the stalls the crackle lands on (a desktop switch's `nextDrawable` block, a world entry's compile burst); in-frame sampling now waits for a run nobody can hear; and the output stream is ours — kira's renderer runs 256-frame chunks on a realtime render thread (time-constraint policy, joined to the device's IO workgroup) into a lock-free ring, the IOProc copies one device buffer and touches nothing else (≤ 0.01 ms), the device buffer goes 2048 → 512, a lost or changed default device rebuilds the stream (cpal's no-op error callback on macOS had paused it forever), a debug allocator aborts on any allocation inside either realtime path, and per-cycle meters name a skipped cycle's layer; `SoundBufferSize` is registered at the reference's own FMOD dial, and `audiowatch.py` puts the OS side — thread bands, coreaudiod's overload verdicts — on the same timeline
- right-clicking a trainer, questgiver, innkeeper, spirit healer, petitioner, tabard designer or battlemaster sent `CMSG_GOSSIP_HELLO` — eight of the reference's fourteen service arms collapsing into one packet, because the dispatch keyed on the CURSOR kind and Speak covers eight bits; the reference runs two structurally identical ladders over `UNIT_NPC_FLAGS` (one for the cursor at `0x482336`, one for the send at `0x5f0289`), so the ladder is transcribed, first match wins low to high: questgiver → `CMSG_QUESTGIVER_HELLO`, trainer → `CMSG_TRAINER_LIST`, petitioner → `CMSG_PETITION_SHOWLIST`, and the spirit healer and innkeeper send NOTHING on the click — they cache the guid and raise the confirm, whose Lua accept sends with a zero guid — both ghost-gated at entry, so a living player clicking a menuless spirit healer now gets exactly what the reference gives: nothing; the stable-master conjunct and the banker/auctioneer fork fall out of the bit order for free
- the -1 blood id is unfilled, not none, and the tests now name the creatures: -1 splits families that share a directory (QuillBoar beside QuillBoarWarrior, GnollMelee beside GnollCaster) and splits single creatures shipped under two rows (a Baby Murloc is both), so a "bloodless" reading would put non-bleeding quilboar beside bleeding quilboar warriors in one Razorfen room; `violenceLevel` 2 IS the reference's default — formatted out of a per-region cap table at `0x86c3f8`, and the one capped locale is koKR, whose green-blood row the table predicts from bytes alone; a spurt whose victim authors no attachment point is dropped, not relocated, and no creature-keyed suppression exists anywhere on the spurt path (ten stop conditions, none keyed on the creature)
- twenty dead copies of ours (`PanelTemplates_*`, `TabButtonTemplate`, `FauxScrollFrame_*`, `ScrollFrame_OnLoad`, `ScrollingEdit_*`) that a later chain entry had been shadowing are deleted under a gate that fails any such shadow, and deleting them turned 141 tests red on four bugs live since the kit swap: lists populated before showing (the reference gates every scroll-bar write on `IsVisible()`, so both arrows were dead on every faux list), every faux window wired to a `frame.updateFunc` the reference does not have (the bar moved, the list did not follow), a trainer pitch declared `local` where an `<OnVerticalScroll>` chunk cannot see it, and the armed-wheel guard bypassed by the template's own `<OnMouseWheel>`; nine faux windows (Skill, Craft, TradeSkill, Auction, QuestLog, Friends, ScriptLog) are still on `updateFunc` and their lists do not scroll until each is rewired

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 17:09:38 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 dd7de2aa41 a corpse is not a shop, and Darnassus draws through its doorways
- mounted, over a dead wolf, a right-click answered "That merchant doesn't like you." three times: the click was sending `CMSG_LIST_INVENTORY` — a vendor packet — at the corpse, because the unit block was an if/else-if chain whose LAST arm was the NPC-service dispatch, and the mounted-loot fall-through gave it a newly reachable state — dead target, no leg taken, so the click fell into the arm that means "live friendly service NPC", which dispatched on the CURSOR, and a lootable corpse wears the same pouch a vendor does; the reference splits on death first and never rejoins (`0x60bf80`), so the fork is now `Attack / Dead / Service`, matched exhaustively, with a test over all sixteen combinations of its inputs
- Darnassus draws through its doorways: the reference's Pass 2 ends in the portal RECURSION (`0x6b3d39 call 0x6b41c0`), not a mark — a doorway admits everything the walk reaches through it, and in a city whose outdoor areas are stitched together by portals that is most of it (standing in a shop, 36 groups the marking pass had culled); the narrowness reject turns out to be the open-world walk's entry gate alone, not the shared volume builder (applying it to both had blanked the containing building's shell for every window in the [0.001, 0.02) NDC band), and the depth cap is `[0x86b6b8]` = 10, not a guessed 64; `WOW_PIN_SITE=darnassus` replays the report offline in 0.2 s
- the tab clamp was reading a return the reference's `PanelTemplates_TabResize` does not have, so since the panel kit came off the chain the rule that a tab never grows past its window's drawn right edge raised `attempt to compare number with nil` once per tab per width change on all seven windows built from `CharacterFrameTabButtonTemplate`; it reads the fit back off the art the reference's own verb just wrote (a Texture's width is its authored size, no resolved rect consulted)
- footfalls have one gate, one origin, one kernel: the 50 yd camera-distance cut (`0x5fc00a`) is measured from the CAMERA EYE, unconditional (no self exemption — an earlier slice reused a predicate it had just derived for the ring pools, and no RE note ever recorded one), rounded once with a strict compare — and it sits above the decal, the camera shake AND the 25 yd spray, not copied per consumer; the shake's second suspend arm is the shared fly-or-swim spline bit read off the FOLLOWED unit, so under Mind Vision or Eye of Kilrogg the shake frames on the right body and suspends on the right swim state

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 17:08:31 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 1646addd6c a rider cannot loot from the saddle, and other swimmers tilt
- a rider does not loot: a corpse was looted from horseback, and the client-side mounted gate built for casts and attack-start had left interaction out of scope — `0x60bf98` reads the PLAYER's mount field and skips the loot leg into skin, a silent fall-through rather than a refusal; the stand-state gate (`ERR_LOOT_NOTSTANDING`), player bones, skin/insignia/key-turn (all through TryCast's 0x39 block, asked after the reagent check) and GameObjects (gated only when NO `Lock.dbc` row exists — nodes and herbs refuse loudly via their cast, signs and chairs in silence, the mailbox exempt) follow the RE; and the world right-click shows no attack-refusal text under any condition, since `0x5ecb70`'s extent holds no `DisplayError` at all — a correction to the earlier record; the cursor is untouched, so the pouch still lights from the saddle
- 595 creature displays were dropping their blood spurt: the `UnitBloodLevels` row resolve has a THIRD tier — display `BloodLevel`, else model `BloodID`, else the records base (`0x60b117`'s branchless `setle/dec/and`: file row 0, RED) — and `BloodID == -1` (122 of 430 shipped models: crocolisks, quilboar, gnolls, murlocs, pigs, deer) is a tier-2 MISS, not a bloodless marker; replayed over the shipped tables here and in the wow-re round with the same numbers (36 · 9903 · 595 of 10534 displays); the ground-splat textures are read (four per row) and the RE verdict on their trigger is dead code — `"BloodSplat"` occurs nowhere in the image, though all twelve `.blp` ship
- other swimmers tilt on arrival: `SMSG_UPDATE_OBJECT`'s LIVING block carried the mover's live flags and swim pitch and benilla threw both away (`let _pitch = read_f32_le(r)?;` — the director's own citation, exact), so a player who swam into view rendered LEVEL until their next relay packet, and an idle floater — who sends none while unmoving — stayed level as long as they floated; the create apply `0x619320` merges the block's flags under the same mask a relayed move uses and copies the pitch unconditionally, before the model is even built; one render law (`swim_body_rotation`) now serves both pose owners, the relay trace prints the pitch beside a guid that joins, and `WOW_PROBE_PITCH` can aim a scripted swimmer so a two-client probe of the lane can be written at last

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 17:07:48 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 46c7cf2b80 spells shake the camera, and the sound keeps playing in the background
- spells shake the camera: `SpellEffectCameraShakes.dbc` loads beside `CameraShakes.dbc` as the group table, `SpellVisualKit` field 14 is the shake column (58 of 1772 kits carry one — War Stomp, Thunder Clap, Kodo Stomp, the ~50 Knockdown/Slam/Charge impacts, every summon, Sapper Charge, Earthquake, Sapphiron's death), and the kit shake fires exactly once per play from the first effect node's one-time arm pass (`0x620e11`), the same leg that plays the kit sound one field over — the older "fires only if nothing else did" reading would have silenced every kit with a populated effect slot; `$SHK` markers fire from GameObject and DynamicObject hosts only (the titan chest, the bomb wagon); one deliberate deviation — the reference reads a bone-attached node's position twelve instructions before it is written, so 26 of its 58 shake kits shake at the world origin and are culled by the 80 yd cut, which is an uninitialised field, not a design; 21 of 24 presets now have a live producer, up from 6
- the sound keeps playing when the window loses focus, if you want it to: 1.12 mutes everything on `WM_ACTIVATE` and offers no way out, so benilla ships that as the default (`Sound_EnableSoundWhenGameIsInBG` "0") and puts an Audio-page checkbox on it — a gate appended LAST in the main-track chain, downstream of every tap, so an unattended capture still records; wow-re's round settled that music is not exempt and that it is a mute, not a pause
- a building's far side no longer draws through its own walls: the camera-inside leg has three passes and we had one and a half — Pass 2 admits an exterior-shell group only against a frustum clipped to ONE deferred window (we marked every such group visible against the full view, under a comment calling it a benign over-draw), and Pass 3, which we had none of, draws the 24 `0x10000` groups (14 in Stormwind, 6 across Dire Maul, Razorfen's four 450–520 yd shells) from anywhere, frustum-tested on both legs by byte-identical setup; there is no antiportal branch in 5875 and no such flag in its data (815/815 roots and 5220/5220 groups censused, no bit above 18 ever set)
- the macro window is the reference's own `Blizzard_MacroUI`, and `GlobalStrings.lua` — line 1 of the reference's own toc — was missing from our manifest entirely (the app loaded it out of band at startup, so the client was right and every harness that loaded the manifest was not); exactly one `<OnLoad>` runs, the most-derived, because `SetScript` releases the slot before it looks at the new body — which is why the reference re-states the template's width line in tab 1 and not tab 2

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 17:07:15 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 b45bce8184 bindings answer the reference's shapes, and the panel kit goes stock
- four return shapes were wrong — `UnitPowerType` returns ONE value in 5875 (the Era `(type, "RAGE")` pair does not exist, and its miss arm pushes the NUMBER 0, which `UnitFrame.lua:122` indexes `ManaBarColor` with), `UnitName` returns `(name, server)`, `GetTexCoord` returns EIGHT (ours four — a shape that exists nowhere, with zero call sites in FrameXML, so only the binary could have caught it), `GetLootMethod` answers `freeforall` ungrouped — the fifth right-name-wrong-arity finding in two days, so wow-re's `binding-shapes.tsv` (1722 rows over all 82 registrar tables) is vendored and a gate probes every binding's arity against it: 313 probes, eight divergences (seven global, one widget); `GetBuildInfo` pushed a fourth value no 1.12 client does (458 corpus sites take one, the four that destructure a fourth read nil on the real client), `GetAddOnInfo` RAISES on a numeric index, `Model:GetFogColor` is a packed `0xAARRGGBB` dword with no unset state, and the five miss branches are the reference's exact tuples
- the panel-template kit is the reference's own `UIPanelTemplates` pair (our 18 templates were a strict subset — `TabButtonTemplate` and the `ScrollingEdit_*` family arrive, which unblocks the macro window and HelpFrame), and the swap found two structural facts: `FauxScrollFrameTemplate` is a `<ScrollFrame>` while every instance we declared was a `<Frame>` (fifteen elements across twelve files), and an instance `<OnLoad>` REPLACES the template's — four FriendsFrame lists set `updateFunc` in their own OnLoad, so `ScrollFrame_OnLoad` never ran and guild/friends/ignore/who had been silently painting nothing behind a `frame.offset or 0`
- the options widget kit (`OptionFrameBoxTemplate`, `OptionsButtonTemplate`, `OptionsCheckButtonTemplate`, `OptionsSliderTemplate`) comes off the chain too, giving back the reference's own per-widget hover; one template of ours stays because `UIOptionsFrame.xml` is not built here, and the lesson is general — when a file SHRINKS rather than dies, every harness that named it gains the chain entry beside it, not instead of it

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 17:06:36 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 2bebb94471 the inspect and talent windows are the reference's own
- the inspect and talent windows are the reference's own: `Blizzard_InspectUI` and `Blizzard_TalentUI` are LoadOnDemand addons whose real `.xml`/`.lua` live inside `patch.MPQ` — the loose `Interface\AddOns` folder holds only a `.pub` signature, which three notes in this tree had read as "packed, no source to migrate from", one wrong inference that kept five windows on hand-written transcriptions; 2300 lines of ours out, no engine work needed, and three things our talent transcription had quietly invented fell out (there was no level-10 gate, every tree scrolled where a shallow one does not, and a nil `TalentMicroButton` threw out of OnShow before the window painted)
- a nil unit token RAISES in 53 of 83 bindings: wow-re censused the registrar table at `0x850438` — `UnitName(nil)` raises and `UnitIsVisible(nil)` is quiet, one line apart in stock files, so there is no rule to derive, the table is the rule; ours answered a default and our own test had pinned it; both token positions of the seven two-token predicates are gated, `GetRaidTargetIndex` too, and `UnitIsAFK`/`UnitIsDND` are confirmed not to exist in 5875 at all (zero occurrences under a positive control) — we invented them, and they stay deliberately ungated
- `EditBox:SetNumber` did not exist (the only chain file calling it is `MoneyInputFrame.lua`, on the chain since the money kit): it is byte-identical to `SetText`, formats through `%.14g` in MSVC's CRT (`1e+020`, `1.#INF`), and `OnTextChanged` never fires from an edit — it fires from the dirty-word drain inside the box's own OnUpdate, coalesced to one per box per frame, where ours fired synchronously and `MoneyInputFrame_SetCopper` raised on it; `PanelTemplates_TabResize`'s `tab` argument is optional as the reference's is (stock macro tabs call it with `0`)
- the skull or star on your CURRENT target never appeared or cleared until you re-targeted — `RAID_TARGET_UPDATE` was never fired, and stock `TargetFrame.lua` hangs its repaint off it; a raid-to-party conversion now empties the mark board as `0x4ba550` does; and the group-loot roll popups were already on the chain inside stock `LootFrame.xml` — our 546-line `GroupLootFrame.xml` had been shadowing all four of them

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2026-09-02 17:06:18 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 7308046d60 the screen warps underwater, and the ocean darkens with depth
- the screen warps underwater: submerged, the reference runs a second pass list whose third pass is `FFXGlowWave` (`0x6cb1f0`), binding a 128×128 two-channel sine bump map that displaces both the screen and the blur texcoords by 3.0 full-res pixels — uv rotated 10°, scaled W/128 × 0.88·H/128, two phases at 3174 and 2805 ms; wow-re had carried the swap as "GlowWave, or a duplicate Glow" and the cross-check settled it (the two arms are mutually exclusive and the plain-Glow arm is unreachable on both backends; lava and slime warp too, and a ghost's death pass replaces the glow outright); a dry frame binds the same pipeline object as before this existed, and the phases advance live at 0.313/s and 0.355/s against a predicted 0.315 and 0.357
- ocean is a fifth submersion state — 96.8% of every wet sub-tile in the shipped corpus, so essentially all open water — and it alone runs a depth ramp on the light: `t = clamp(eye.z, −30, 0)`, ambient at `(k+1)/2`, diffuse at `k/4 + 3/4`, exactly k = 0 at −30 yd, gated on the full dword `== 1` at `0x6d2821` (the ramp does NOT drive the fog colour — that store is dead, overwritten before submit); the sun and moon glare fade over a 10-yard depth ramp applied to the slew TARGET, not the drawn alpha — a read one indirection out that two notes had published a verified negative on; the MCLQ fishable bit (0x40) is deliberately unread, since `0x69b5d0` has zero callers in the image and fishability is the server's verdict
- the dropdown kit is the reference's own `UIDropDownMenu.xml` (one manifest line for 1150 lines of ours, `DropDownList3` gained, and two fixtures that only worked because our copy was more forgiving); `UnitFactionGroup` returns the English name AND the localized one — ours returned the localized string twice, and the first return names a TEXTURE in every stock consumer (`UI-PVP-`..factionGroup), so on a non-English client every one of them named a file that does not exist

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2026-09-02 17:05:57 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 9105fa72a4 the flight map goes stock, and vendors refuse in 1.12's own words
- the pet stable and the flight map are the reference's own files: `TaxiRouteFrame` maps to a plain Frame (factory `0x495ba0` allocates the base size, the ctor adds no field, no new virtual, no method table — and `GetObjectType` is not overridden, so its own kind would have been the divergence), and the swap found three silent behaviours — the close button did nothing (an unknown `inherits=` is a WARNING, so it loaded as a bare button), the "no paths" line drew empty, and the title is READ off `UnitName("npc")`, not received; the WMO skybox rides the interior crossfade — one weight (`[0xce9bdc]`, the same number the MFOG lerp rides), a 4 s alpha fade, so a skybox the flood publishes through a doorway draws at weight 0 instead of popping in whole
- a widget predicate answers the NUMBER 1 or nil, never a boolean: eleven of them (`IsShown`, `IsVisible`, `IsMovable`, `GetChecked`…) move to the 1.12 shape — the reference proves it in its own source (`tostring(this:GetChecked())` saved and read back `== "1"`; `tostring(true)` would never match and buff timers would never appear), 21 corpus sites compare directly (`IsVisible() == nil`, `GetChecked() == 1`), and one of our own tests had the guild rank editor sending `true` where a real client sends 1
- the vendor's refusals are the reference's table: `SMSG_BUY_FAILED`/`SMSG_SELL_ITEM` route through `0x5dcd60`/`0x5dd1f0`'s switches, six lines were wrong (code 3 printed "That vendor can't be found." — vmangos's identifier — where 1.12 prints "That merchant doesn't like you."), silence is now expressible, and keying them gives the vendor a voice (`ERR_NOT_ENOUGH_MONEY` carries error-speech line 0x28); the bank's three ids were right and its "purchase failed (n)" an invention; the logout refusal is one key, `ERR_LOGOUT_FAILED`, for every non-zero reason; the two mail codes we said had no string have one (`ERR_PLAYER_WRONG_FACTION`, `ERR_RESTRICTED_ACCOUNT`) and a sent mail says `ERR_MAIL_SENT` in yellow; a test runs the chain's own `GlobalStrings.lua` and requires non-empty text for all 193 `ERR_*` the workspace names
- a clicked quest timer no longer raises — stock `QuestTimerFrame.lua` calls `QuestLog_SetSelection`/`QuestLog_Update`, which existed nowhere in this tree; our quest log owns the reference's two names now, which also shrinks the delta when that window itself migrates

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2026-09-02 17:05:15 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 7e3a67a02e the unit frames are the reference's own, and the water has motes in it
- 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)

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2026-09-02 17:04:32 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 6bafea0919 your character speaks its refusals, and clicks land on the right frame
- your character speaks its refusals: `VocalUISounds.dbc` gets an adapter, `sound::vocal` transcribes `0x4580f0`'s per-race table and `0x458250`'s play cycle — four plays of one line arm the annoyed variations, and the bus cap of one keeps the annoyed and ordinary lines from playing at once; a displayed message now carries its catalog RECORD, so its sound comes off the same row (tag 0x44 plays the named cue, anything else speaks the line), and 36 of the keys benilla raises have a voice — cast failures, inventory refusals, the quest/auction/petition lines, taxi, bank, stable, mail, the talent wipe; `EnableErrorSpeech` joins the CVars at the registrar's own default and the Audio page grows 1.12's fourth Sound checkbox with the dependency ours was missing (the master greys Ambience AND Error Speech, not Music); seven of the twelve taxi refusals turn out to be the YELLOW info line, not the red one they all took
- at equal (strata, level) the hit sweep takes the EARLIER-linked frame: `0x764aa0` inserts with a strict `ja`, so equal keys are appended, and `0x7660d0` sweeps each bucket from index 0 upward — the reverse of the reverse-draw-order walk we had, so draw order is unchanged and only the hit sweep reorders within a plane; the wheel becomes its own index, and the five full-area wheel-catcher Buttons (Craft, QuestLog, Skill, TradeSkill, Trainer) are deleted, since under the true tie law each would have swallowed its whole window's clicks — a bug the Skill window's own comment had already recorded once
- one rasterizer settle for the whole ground-decal family, and it is the measured one: the shipped client constructs `CGxDeviceD3d`, so the OpenGL arm holding the −4.0 slope factor is never executed (factor 0 on 2485 of 2485 captured `glPolygonOffset` calls), and every number derived from it was 256× too small; the reference groups the blob shadow with the selection RING and the footprints on their own at 10×, the reverse of ours — but ours is reversed-Z float where the bake residual is millimetre-scale and constant with distance, so `DECAL_RASTER` collapses to one value (32768: the ring and the reticle had been under their own conflict at 8192 and simply never walked on a slope)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 17:03:50 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 9d2ffd71d8 the foam stops at the waterline, and skill bonuses show the right halves
- the foam still washed past the waterline onto the sand after the shore fix: the slope-scaled depth bias ported from the reference's `glPolygonOffset(-4.0, …)` pulls toward the eye as the square of view distance, and what it spends is the wet-cell skirt — whole cells are the unit of liquid geometry, so a shoreline carries liquid-lattice triangles over dry sand (23 cells, up to 7.1 yd inland at the reported beach) held back by nothing but the terrain having drawn first; the tie it would settle does not exist here (our foam patch IS the liquid surface's own triangles — same cells, same winding, identity transform — so the depths agree exactly), and −4.0 is a hardcoded immediate every consumer of that state gets, not the foam lane's number; the slope term is disarmed with an `== 0.0` assert, reproduced three ways at the director's pin (slope 0 stops dead at the waterline, 4.0 washes onto the sand, 64.0 does it wide)
- weapon and defense skill bonuses showed the halves the wrong way round: the reader every skill-shaped binding goes through (`0x5ea460`) writes `value + permBonus` and `tempBonus`; ours returned `(value, temp + perm)` — right total, wrong split, which is why no fixture caught it — so a 300 weapon skill with a +5 talent and a +10 aura read 300 (+15) where the reference prints 305 (+10), on the sheet's Attack row and in the Defense tooltip's `(base +x)`; `UnitRangedAttack` is also pinned as a direct call gated on the PLAYER typemask alone, so a pet gets `(0, 0)`
- instruments: `water_here` also reports WET cells the ground climbs out of (the skirt a depth bias spends), the foam wake can be laid along a bank (`WOW_WFX_HEAD`) since no shoreline in the game is axis-aligned, `fxview` can stand its subject at any world point (`WOW_FX_AT`) so a blob shadow can be photographed on any terrain, and `WOW_MAP` refuses a name instead of silently falling through to Eastern Kingdoms — `WOW_MAP=Kalimdor` had produced a subject floating in empty ocean that read as a renderer bug

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 17:03:14 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 c34ea85c1b the character sheet is the reference's own file
- the character sheet is the reference's own — `CharacterFrame.xml`, `PaperDollFrame.xml` and `PetPaperDollFrame.xml` off the player's chain in the reference's own order, 2800 lines of ours deleted — and the one engine verb it needed had no pixels: a bare `<PlayerModel name="CharacterModelFrame">` drew nothing here, so the swap as written would have replaced a working paper doll with an empty rectangle, invisible to every loader and gap check; a `<Model>`/`<PlayerModel>` widget now draws its window's booth, keyed on the reference's own frame names, and the booth mirrors take their yaw off `PlayerModel:SetRotation`'s own state, which is what the reference's `Model_Rotate*` write
- what the stock file calls that was not there: `MicroButtonTooltipText(text, action)` (all five tab hovers), the two scripts `CharacterFrameTabButtonTemplate` carries — without them the five tabs are DEAD, since the reference's `PaperDollFrame` is `enableMouse` with a hit inset the tabs sit inside — `GetGuildInfo` on a recognised-but-unresolvable token answering `(nil, nil, 0)` rather than raising (`0x4c9330`), and `UnitAttackBothHands` pushing four values not two (`0x518810` calls the hand accessor twice; the reference's own Lua destructures two and says `FIXME` about the off hand, so no amount of running the sheet could expose it) — both skill verbs clamp a debuff deeper than the skill to zero as `0x5188a7` and `0x519298` do
- a gate for the question that bites AFTER a swap: for every chain window, census the bare `name(` call sites across it and its `.lua`, subtract what those define, keep what the reference's own `_G` carries, and require every survivor non-nil in a VM with the whole interface up — `LootFrame.xml` had shipped load-clean and raised at line 85, and the stock character sheet would have raised on the first tab hover; the stock sheet is driven end to end over a level-60 body with a +105 buff, a −12 debuff and a resistance school whose debuff outweighs its buff, at the rendered strings

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2026-09-02 17:02:55 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 cac6e88145 settings boot at 1.12's defaults, and a cold loot no longer errors
- 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)

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2026-09-02 17:02:34 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 24fbb706f9 the waterline stops stepping, and mobs in far rooms lose the keep's fog
- the step in the water at the shore, which travelled with you as you walked: `WATER_BIAS` (−2e4) exists to give the water pass its sort slot, and bevy's `StandardMaterial` also packs that f32 into the rasterizer's depth bias, so every water surface in the game shipped with a −20000 depth pull — on the one world surface that meets the ground at a grazing angle over tens of yards that does not settle a tie, it moves the waterline, and a float depth buffer's bias unit doubles at every exponent boundary, so two water triangles either side of one stopped agreeing about where the shore is, at a fixed distance from the eye; the bias is out of the rasterizer (a ~17 px jog at the reported Stranglethorn beach, present before and absent after)
- the foam wake went dull under the next water chunk and painted onto dry sand: it sorted against ONE water surface with a coplanar epsilon (the chunk 33 yd nearer the eye outranked it thirty times over, while the reference drains every liquid queue before it draws foam, `0x6816d0`), and its coplanar settle was a 0.03 yd geometric LIFT, which on a 29% beach is 0.10 yd of dry sand painted and proportionally more on every flatter shore; it is a rung above the whole water band now and sits exactly on the plane, and the RE on its depth state came back: a depth-buffer bias (`footstepBias × [0x810390]`), depth-tested LEQUAL with write off — the "−2048 GL units polygon offset" our comment justified the lift with existed nowhere in wow-re
- a unit standing in a room the camera's chain does not reach wore the building's fog while the walls around it wore the scene's: the reference's unit test has a second conjunct (`[P+0x98]`, the same `[0xca7f00]` chain gate the walls use), so the attach ray now returns the room it claimed and the gate is re-read every frame because it moves with the CAMERA — at Shadowfang, from inside the pinned room, three true interiors are in frame across the courtyards and a mob in g13, 91 yd out, wore the keep's teal at ~84% against a scene fog of ~3%
- two instruments for the shore class of report: `water_here <map> <x> <y>` reads a shoreline offline (the wet-cell lattice, the plane on it, the terrain under it, and the four scans that tell an authored defect from a rendered one), and `WOW_CAPTURE=waterfx WOW_WFX_AT=x,y,z` wades the foam rig in the REAL streamed water at a pin, where the synthetic square had no bank to clip against

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 17:02:04 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 feca23de3f the numerals kit goes stock, and a chat link is its own mouse target
- the status-bar numerals kit (`TextStatusBar.xml` + `.lua`) is the reference's own, and the attempt found a class of silent failure: `TextStatusBar_Initialize()` takes no argument in 1.12 and acts on `this`; ours took an optional bar, our unit frames passed one, and the reference's version ignores it — so the numerals would simply never appear, no error, nothing missing; seventeen of our signatures differ from the reference's that way (Lua drops a surplus argument in silence), written down before their files migrate, and the three "ours narrower" ones — `StaticPopup_Hide(which, data)`, `StaticPopup_FindVisible`, `WorldMapButton_OnClick(button, frame)` — closed now, because that direction bites when a STOCK file arrives and calls our version
- a chat link needs no mouse on its frame: wow-re read the client's ctors as mouse-enabling Button, CheckButton, Slider, ColorSelect and EditBox and NOT the scroll frames; the objection ("something makes a 1.12 chat link clickable") resolved as the engine synthesising one mouse-enabled `CSimpleHyperlinkButton` per link span (`0x7a3240`) — so a link span is a hit-test candidate on its own, the chat window is inert everywhere else, and the wheel is its own predicate rather than a borrowed mouse bit; seven `*ScrollFrame` known divergences retire
- the relic fit rule: `IsValidForSlot`'s slot-17 leg is an EQUALITY — `(InventoryType == RELIC) == hasRelicSlot` — so a relic lights the ranged slot for a druid and a bow does not, on the bag bar and the paper doll alike; closing it half-right would have lit the highlight for a druid dragging a bow
- a chain `.xml` whose `.lua` never loaded: `MoneyInputFrame.xml` had been on the chain without its `.lua`, so the template loaded and all ten `MoneyInputFrame_*` verbs read nil, silently — a gate now fails any chain `.xml` whose `.lua` sibling is neither sourced nor listed; the gap report's LOAD column carries the probe's collision caveat, its fx column stops crying wolf (it follows `<Script file=>`, stops reading `.Field(` as a global, subtracts a file's own locals), and a window is its xml PLUS the lua it sources

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 17:01:18 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 112e82d276 the vendor and gossip windows are the reference's own
- the vendor window is the reference's own `MerchantFrame.xml`, which took three things in order: the vendor cursor, the coin kit's move, and `GameTooltip:SetMerchantCompareItem` — where `offset` is the ordinal among CANDIDATE slots (empty ones skipped without decrementing) and a candidate matches by item CLASS and never by entry (two of four RE workers read it as an entry match, which would have fired the compare tooltip only when you already wear the identical item, i.e. never, with the window looking finished); two visible changes ride with the reference's rows — the coin columns take `SmallMoneyFrameTemplate`'s own geometry, and only the ICON takes the mouse, so hovering a row's name shows nothing, which is the client's behaviour
- the gossip window is the reference's own, and its deferral was wrong: the "2px rows" were a harness gap (a bare test VM with no text measurer, while the app always installs one), not an engine one; four things the reference does that ours did not are pinned — a hidden SPACER row between the quest groups, coded options are NOT greyed (a coded row is clickable, and the send path's missing code is named as its own gap), the row label is the Button's own text, and the scroll child is not grown
- the CAMP/QUIT dialogs and the PARTY_INVITE dialog move to `StaticPopup`'s home — the fourth such rehome of a dialog that had lived in whichever window first needed it — and moving them found a real bug: `button1 = CANCEL` captured a nil at load because `CANCEL` was declared below the insertion point, so the popup engine fell back and put "Yes" on the camp dialog's cancel button
- three instruments: the gap report stops counting commented-out calls (`ShowInventorySellCursor` blocked the character sheet on three commented lines — a whole RE round spent on an over-report), it runs the load itself and answers in ONE table (29 "free" became 24 actually unblocked), and a shadow report predicts which swaps will fail by intersecting the names our files define with the names the chain files in our own manifest define — 38 collisions across 5 files, ours winning every one

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2026-09-02 17:01:00 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 f01a964e6e druids get their relic slot, and the loot window is the reference's own
- `UnitHasRelicSlot` is real in 1.12 and benilla had no binding for it: `0x519e50` reads `ChrClasses.dbc` field 16 — set for Paladin, Shaman and Druid in `patch.MPQ`'s 17-column copy (the base `dbc.MPQ` copy has 16 columns and no such field, which is how the "always false in vanilla" belief survived twice in decisions and seven times in code) — and stock `PaperDollFrame.lua` calls it unconditionally, so the character sheet would have raised for EVERY class; a druid, paladin or shaman's sheet now hides the ammo slot, shows the relic plate where the bow was, tooltips "Relic", and reports ranged Attack/Damage/Power as N/A, all four branches transcribed from the reference
- the loot window is the reference's own `LootFrame.xml`: `LootButton` is built as a real widget type rather than aliased (a Button plus one slot dword and one overridden OnClick — right-click loots exactly like left, no shift/ctrl/alt takes, a row whose Lua handler errored still loots, a fast double-click takes two slots), `LOOT_SLOT_CLEARED` fires per row again because the stock file hangs hide-in-place AND the emptied-page auto-advance off it, `EditBox:Insert(nil)` is a no-op as `lua_tostring` makes it, and an alias `GameTooltip.xml` had quietly become a reader of would have turned every item tooltip white, silently, had it just gone nil
- the vendor cursor: `PickupMerchantItem` is two verbs behind one name, decided by what the cursor holds and never by the caller — a held bag item SELLS (index ignored, no merchant-open gate), otherwise the vendor row is grabbed as cursor mode 5, which is invisible to `CursorHasItem` (modes 1 and 9 only) so all thirteen stock gates stay closed while it is held; the drop is the buy, `CMSG_BUY_ITEM_IN_SLOT`, count 1, into a bag or an equipment slot, and every refusal is silent and clears the cursor; the four `Model_*` rotation handlers land in UIParent where the reference keeps them
- the gap report reads `:Method(` sites now — it found `SetMerchantCompareItem`, which would have raised on the first vendor-row hover with every check green, and `LootButton:SetSlot`, and 28 "free" windows became 25; the shared coin kit moved out of the merchant window into `MoneyFrame.xml` so the eight windows that draw coins through it can reach it without loading a vendor

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 17:00:40 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 d961d0bc06 Shadowfang's far rooms lose their cyan, and the street lamps hum
- Shadowfang Keep's far doorways no longer fill with flat blue-cyan at distance: it was never a hole — the room behind the arches is in the visible set at every camera distance — it was the building's own MFOG record (rgb 40,68,79 at end 106.9 yd, ~95% saturated at 70 yd) painted over a room the reference shows under the scene fog, because benilla picked the fog lane STATICALLY per batch (`flags & 0x48`) where the client's `[0xca7f00]` gate decides it per frame per group along the portal walk; the flood publishes that bit now and all three lanes (entity, retained, WMO liquid) read it, and the wow-re carve confirmed the predicate verbatim and added the conjunct we lacked — the MFOG target exists only when one of the camera's own containing groups is a true interior, so in a courtyard the interior triple decays to the scene triple, which is what a unit standing in the keep reads
- every world-placed M2 was silent — the street lamp's hum, the campfire, the waterfall, the windmill: no doodad ever wrote into the anim-event stream (three producers, none a terrain placement), and the sound clock was gated on the RIG, which is rightly never built for a model whose idle is the static mesh — `KalidarStreetLamp01.m2` is one looping 3.3 s Stand keying no bone at all, carrying one `$DSL`; the census (`benilla-extract soundeventscan`) counts 273 carrier models, 108 on tiers no rig gate arms; a sound-carrying placement now gets a clock-only host, `$DSL` is a sustained emitter, and the RE foldback settled three laws: `$DSL` ALWAYS loops and consults no flag (the kit's 0x200 bit is a lane select and 0x400 is random pitch — a neat four-row correlation of ours refuted), `$DSE` is the stop token, and a doodad holds ONE registration slot, which is why `bellows.m2`'s two loops alternate rather than drone
- the reference voices sound IDS, not doodads: `$DSL` registers the doodad's position as one record in a 32-entry pool keyed by SoundEntries id (`0x461d80`), each entry runs one channel at whichever of its records is nearest the listener — moved, not restarted (`0x7a5b10`), so one hum follows you down a row of lamps — the pump admits the first four entries by claim order and fades the rest over 3.0 s; the per-id duplicate suppressors turn out to be the one-shot lane's and were being applied to every lane (a three-second dropout every time a loop came back under the cap); three 76 yd hops between two Darnassus lamps now produce ONE play, and Darnassus runs 12 entitled ambiences with 8 withheld by the cap
- the selection ring joins the decal band too, and it draws UNDER the shadow: the RE found the ring emitted from inside PHASE 1's own M2 node drain (`[node+0xb4] = 0x481540` → the `+0x38` tick → `0x608e00`), the same iteration that then draws that node's blob shadow — the reverse of the tie-break this ladder had asserted since both rungs existed, a rule invented here and never read anywhere; `WOW_EFFECT_TRACE` names every rung of the band and prints its index in the sorted transparent phase, which is the ladder read straight off a live frame

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 17:00:01 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 0e83531e8c shadows go under the water, and the ping meter measures the server
- your shadow no longer reads through the Stranglethorn river or the Stormwind mage-tower portal (in the reporter's own shot the crocolisk casting it was invisible under the surface and its shadow was not): the reference draws the blob shadow in PHASE 1 among the opaque drains (`0x6812c5`), before the footprints, the M2 opaque pass, the water surfaces and both M2 transparent passes — ours rode a +4096 sort rung above the whole world band (item 81 of the sorted transparent phase, now item 4); the footprints and the ground-target reticle move with it into a pre-water decal band at their own byte-known slots, and the print/shadow order was inverted too — the reference draws a print one slot AFTER the shadow
- the ping meter was measuring a client frame, not the server: the RTT was computed in the ECS drain, one frame or more after the pong had landed, so it read high exactly when the client was slow — the world-enter hitches inflated the first sample by hundreds of ms and the 30 s averaging ring carried it for minutes, a meter that opens at ~600 ms and sinks toward the truth over two or three minutes, as reported; the read thread measures where the packet lands now, the way `OnData 0x537b10` hands `SMSG_PONG` to `HandlePong 0x537d60` inline, the ring is 15 usable slots not 16, the average is the reference's unsigned truncating divide, and the keepalive is per-connection from the last SEND, so the first ping is a full 30 s after world enter instead of anywhere inside the load storm; localhost reads 0–3 ms where it read 58
- an extra bar's empty slot no longer loses its hotkey label (E/R/C showing in one screenshot and not the next): one line left behind by the slice that shipped the multibars with no bindings cleared the corner outright, which became a wipe of a live label the day those wells got real `MULTIACTIONBAR` bindings — painted by `UPDATE_BINDINGS`, wiped by the next repaint; the empty arm repaints the corner now, as the reference's `ActionButton_Update` never touches the text there, pinned by a test that drives the reporter's shape through the real shipped `ActionBar.xml`
- an unattended probe run opened focused and borderless over the director's work — `WOW_UNATTENDED` joins the background-window prefixes — and the world-API wall was measuring a prefix of every file: a `#[cfg(test)]` guard switched the scan off from the first test module to the end of the file, so the ceiling moves 166 → 172 as a measurement correction, not six crossings

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 16:59:20 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 c5df478c51 the buff bar goes stock, and gossip quests show their level
- the buff bar is the reference's own `BuffFrame.xml`, and the swap found an engine defect: an empty `<OnLoad>` in 1.12's XML is a BLANK that takes an inherited handler away again (seven such sites across four stock files), which our loader read as "none given" — so the two enchant slots would have painted the player's first buff in the corner and cancelled it on right-click; the first fix then had to be corrected at the bytes (`SetScript 0x7025c0` tests only NULL and empty, and nothing trims, so `<OnLoad>↵</OnLoad>` compiles to a valid empty function rather than storing nil, which any addon calling `GetScript` can observe); `SHOW_BUFF_DURATIONS` is applied once post-load because 1.12 leaves that to `UIOptionsFrame.lua`, which benilla does not build — without it the bar ships a 10px pitch error on every buff
- gossip quests come through the reference's four verbs — `GetGossipAvailableQuests`/`GetGossipActiveQuests` returning (title, level) PAIRS, with the two `Select*` verbs indexing into that list — replacing three invented names that sat on the beyond-1.12 exception list; the quest LEVEL was on the wire, parsed and dropped because the invented verb had nowhere to put it, and the reference's order (available before active, whatever the packet interleaved) comes with them
- eight more files off the chain as groundwork: `LocaleProperties.lua` (the gendered/plural `GetText` selector that eleven stock call sites read their words through — fifty lines of FrameXML that looked like an engine binding), `CinematicFrame.xml`, the UIMenu kit, the `UnitFrame.lua`/`CombatFeedback.lua` kits (the only two names blocking the stock player, party, target and pet frames), the money-input kit, and `ItemButtonTemplate.xml` — the base every bag, bank, merchant, loot, trade and mail slot inherits; `GetMerchantItemMaxStack` (on the wire the whole time, dropped) and the two trade item-link verbs join the engine
- two instruments for the migration: a gap report that reads a stock window's call sites against a LOADED VM and says which engine verbs it still needs (28 windows need none, the rest name 1–5), and the readiness probe's documented false positive — loading a stock window on top of our same-named one leaves `getglobal(name)` pointing at ours while the stock handlers run against theirs, so a failure inside a colliding name is a question, not an answer

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 16:58:47 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 149a1beb47 the colour picker, guild charter, honour page and four more go stock
- the colour dialog is the reference's own `ColorPickerFrame.xml` — the window with the largest reach in the addon corpus (86 of 218 addons name it, 64 of those Dewdrop-2.0, so every Ace2 config menu's colour row opens it), and the guild charter, the guild registrar, the error toasts with the raid warning (which our copy had declared with NO scripts at all, so the big centre text and its sound had been inert scenery), the honour page, the quest timer and the stack-split spinner follow — each a toc line and a deletion
- the swaps caught our own bugs on the way: the registrar's two service rows were hidden by a template modelled on the quest list's pooled rows, leaving a bare "Available Services" heading over blank parchment; the stack spinner CLAMPED a too-big digit where the reference ignores it (37 against a 5-stack leaves the 3 standing, `StackSplitFrame.lua:72-85`) — a divergence with a test defending it; and 1.12's Lua-5.0 `arg`/`arg.n` varargs turn out to work in this VM (mlua's vendored 5.1 has `LUA_COMPAT_VARARG`), which unblocks every stock file written in that idiom
- 42 test modules carried five near-identical private copies of a disk-only XML loader that structurally cannot name a chain file; they are one shared reader now (733 lines out), with a strict variant that fails on an unknown-template WARNING — the case where a frame builds with none of its art — which is how the registrar bug was caught on the first window after

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 16:58:29 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 3cce6f5ac3 seven more windows are the reference's own files
- seven more windows run off the player's own patch chain: the durability shield (`DurabilityFrame.xml`, with a Rust-side repair for the reference's own stale side-glyph inset the director caught on screen), `Localization.xml` + `GameTime.xml` (so `LocalizeFrames` finally runs from `VARIABLES_LOADED`, and the clock's 24-hour flag comes from where 1.12 sets it), the chat-link tooltip (`ItemRef.xml` — draggable now, and its shift-click arm fills the friend/ignore/who boxes as the reference's does), the mirror timers (`MirrorTimer.xml`, which exposed that our `STATICPOPUP_NUMDIALOGS` was 2 against the reference's 4, so a third breath/fatigue/feign bar could never be claimed), the zone splash with the fading kit, the item-text reader and the combo-point dots — each under the reference's published frame names, which is what an addon reaches for
- `AddMessage` swallows a text it cannot use, silently, as the reference does: `0x795590` is a `lua_isstring` gate whose failure edge jumps straight to the epilogue — no line, no error, no record — and stock FrameXML takes that path: a full keyring calls `AddMessage(NO_EMPTY_KEYRING_SLOTS, …)` and no such GlobalString exists in 1.12, so it is a dead click on a real client where benilla put a script-error dialog on it; byte-verified by a four-worker cross-check in wow-re, and NOT generalised — a bad r/g/b/a still adds the line opaque white, only a bad text shows nothing

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 16:58:13 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 0f88324605 the action bars' empty slots go ghost, and a rooted creature stays put
- picking a spell up off the bar no longer blacks out every empty slot: `UI-Quickslot` is a FILLED 60%-black plate, not a hollow ring (decoded off the shipped BLPs — Quickslot2's interior is RGBA 0,0,0,0, Quickslot's 0,0,0,153), and the reference dims it to half alpha in `ActionButton_ShowGrid`, so an empty well now ghosts at 30% black where it read as a hole; the wow-re cross-check then found the reference never UN-dims it (a 3-argument `SetVertexColor` preserves the current alpha at `0x79abd0`, and `SetNormalTexture` reuses the region), so in the real client the first drag leaves every button's border at half alpha for the rest of the session — benilla ends the dim on purpose and records it as the divergence it is (1782)
- the bag bar is the reference's own `MainMenuBarBagButtons.xml` (window 3 of the stock-first migration), and the swap found a real bug rather than a move: the reference's `ItemAnim_OnEvent` matches a push against the button's inventory-slot id (20..23) and benilla emitted its own container numbering (1..4), so all four bag-push cards would have silently never played against the stock body — `push_container` now emits the reference's selector (`bag + 1`), which is what an addon expects anyway; beside it, a readiness probe that asks the LOADER, not a grep, which of the 85 stock windows load off the player's chain today (58 do; the 27 that don't name their own blocker)
- a rooted, hovering, water-walking or walking creature reached benilla as an unhandled opcode: the twelve `SMSG_SPLINE_MOVE_*` (the observer twin of the ack'd force family — bare packed guid, no ack, any unit) now decode into one MOVEMENTFLAGS word per unit, which benilla kept for our mover and for a relayed player and not at all for a creature, the one body this family is ever addressed to; ROOT wipes the direction bits so the dead-reckon stops walking a rooted body on for its next heartbeat (`0x7c7340`), HOVER clears a yard off the floor without climbing a body already inside that yard (`0x636e81`), WATERWALK elects the liquid surface against the terrain, SAFE_FALL's terminal is 7.0 not 60.148 (`0x7c5d23`), and SET_RUN_MODE's bool is inverted against the bit, folded at the parse; the inspect card names a unit's granted modes in words (`granted rooted+hover`) so a creature resting a yard off the floor reads as intended rather than broken

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 16:57:55 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 6356bc8f43 Enter World stops freezing character select, and bags close by the law
- Enter World stops freezing the character screen: from the click, the select image stayed on the glass ~100 ms because the loading cover could not draw until the state-flip frame — which cost 60 ms, 57 of it render+present: the world camera's first render of a 3000-entity world on cold pipelines, plus fifteen booth cameras waking on the very frame that owes the glass a cover; the glue now yields the glass on the click's own frame and the world camera (booths with it) holds off until the cover has presented — flip frame 60 → 43 ms and off the critical path — measured by the new `WOW_FRAME_PHASES` instrument, which stamps every phase of a frame and prints the render+present remainder no in-schedule stamp can see
- switching to a character you haven't clicked before no longer flashes somebody else's body in their stage — the background swapped the frame the selection changed while the character waited for its whole assembly, so whichever won is what the screen showed (53 ms of the human standing in the orc's stage, and the reverse under a stage still loading); stage and character now commit as a PAIR, loads still starting on the click and an empty stage still swapping at once — on the same cold walk, eight selections make eight rebakes, every one the right body in the frame its stage lands, where before it was twelve with four of them wrong
- the bank's six bag buttons repaint again — the stock UI repaints them only on `PLAYERBANKSLOTS_CHANGED`, which benilla fired for the vault's 24 slots alone, so a bag dropped in never appeared and one moved between slots stayed drawn in the one it left; the lock clear becomes its own system ordered ahead of BOTH feeds (resolve, then push, then fire), ending the stuck-grey icon — and `GetInventoryItemCount` is carved as not-the-stack-count: an EMPTY slot answers 1 (a sentinel, not a count), a container past the slot cutoff answers a literal 0 before any lookup (the whole answer to the stray digit on the bank's bag buttons), and an equipped bag answers the SUM of its contents gated on a DBC bit our class-11 guess missed twice — including the Soul Bag, so a warlock's shard count never showed
- the bags close by the law: `BAG_CLOSED` is the only thing in all of FrameXML that hides an open bag window, and benilla never fired it, so a window outlived its bag in both bands (equipped and bank); the carve pins the condition — the bag changed AND the slot was occupied — so a swap fires BAG_CLOSED then BAG_UPDATE with the slot occupied throughout, an unequip fires it with the announce suppressed for exactly that transition, and two identical empty bags exchanged between slots still close both windows, because the diff is on the bag's own guid rather than the container state; `PLAYERBANKSLOTS_CHANGED` meanwhile turns out to carry NO arguments — a census of all 485 dispatcher call sites — the slot travels in how many times it fires, and every bank button repaints from its own slot id

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-31 20:20:41 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 3d0bc38978 trades answer the reference's way, and the message catalog is a table
- an incoming trade request is answered by the reference's eight-leg ladder, not by reflex — before, `CMSG_BEGIN_TRADE` went back the same frame it decoded, so any player in range could put a window on your screen mid-cinematic, mid-loading, while mind-controlled, at an auctioneer, or from your own ignore list; three legs answer with something other than "busy" (the ignore list sends `CMSG_IGNORE_TRADE`, two legs send no packet at all), Block Trades ships as the CVar and options row it is in 1.12 with its refusal on the chat line the catalog says, and the consent popup that was built came back out — 1.12 signals the trade dialog from nowhere, so asking first would be a divergence every player and addon feels, and the reference's answer to an unwanted trade is already in the ladder
- the client's message catalog ships as a generated table instead of being read by eye: every refusal, notice and confirmation goes through one dispatcher taking only a message id into a 465-record registry, benilla names 163 of the keys, and the surface does not follow the key names — the byte-exact sweep settles 170 chat / 28 yellow / 267 red, none on the console arm, with the skill-up trio speaking CHAT_MSG_SKILL rather than system; a message's surface now comes from its record, not its call site, which found `ERR_SPELL_FAILED_NOTUNSHEATHED` painted red where the client paints it yellow (seventeen of our eighteen cast-fail overrides are red; that one is not, and nothing downstream could have known which id the dispatch chose) — and a new test walks the workspace's own source asserting every `ERR_` literal is a real catalog row, because an unresolvable key shows NOTHING and nobody files a bug about a toast they never saw
- starting an attack stands you up — the stand sits after the reference's attackability cluster and before any range logic, so an attackable target out of reach stands you, a friendly NPC does not, and re-issuing an attack you are already making stands you too; the rest of the intended build is proven unnecessary rather than deferred: bare ground cannot stand you on any client (its two requirements are mutually exclusive in both CVar configurations), gossip is proven not to stand, and the loot leg is unproven and left alone
- a kick returns you to the login screen again instead of the client reconnecting indefinitely and taking the account back off whoever kicked it: "nobody is here" is DECLARED now, never inferred — the login environment variables answer "log in without waiting for someone to type", which cannot answer "is anybody here?", so a run acts unattended only on `$WOW_UNATTENDED` (implied by a capture or rig run), with the doubt deliberately falling toward a loud probe timeout over a silent account fight; and the player-tests gate finally resolves the install that sourcing FrameXML off the chain has required, instead of failing red for its own reasons on any shell without `$WOW_DATA` exported

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-31 20:20:07 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 023c490974 the server's broadcasts land, and a ghost walks through closed doors
- 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>
2026-08-31 20:19:32 +07:00