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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
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) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	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) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	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) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	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) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-09-04 20:58:15 +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	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	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	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	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
SamandClaude Fable 5	f9e75a79fc	the ghost world gets its own sky, and a corpse cannot steer ... - a dead player's sky is DeathClouds now — `lightSkyboxID` was named in the schema and read by nobody and `LightSkybox.dbc` was never loaded at all, so a ghost kept the ordinary gradient dome; the shipped data has exactly 5 of 426 LightParams rows carrying a skybox id, every one of them DeathClouds.mdx, reached from the death profile (slot 4) of all 374 Light rows and gated on the ghost bit, with a hardcoded weight of 1.0 that skips the WMO skybox outright; it resolves off the same (map, camera position) seed the atmosphere uses, so the ghost sky and the death-profile fog it hangs over switch on the same frame — and the lane sheds its `wmo_sky` name for `skybox`, no longer being WMO-only - a corpse cannot steer: the reference's two movement-input predicates share a precondition benilla never modelled — `UNIT_FIELD_HEALTH > 0` — so at zero health the keyboard turn and the right-drag close together, exactly as they do inside an Ice Block, while the ghost (health 1) keeps moving; the wow-re §5 round then corrected three byte trails (the mouse turn has its own eight-conjunct predicate, the supposed on-taxi test is the Knockdown animation lockout — set on exactly one of 208 AnimationData rows — and the "charm bit" is the far-sight latch) and added three verified health gates we lacked: the jump IS health-gated, sit and stand are refused while the body reads dead (a feigner too), and a follow tears down only when BOTH predicates drop — we had that wrong in both directions - the walk-gait cross-check folds back confirming `min(walk, run)` and the speed-only animation channel (by a 2,304-function closure census), and finds the trap we lacked: every incoming spline re-authors the gait, and the spline's RUNMODE flag is an INVERSE — a spline marked as a run clears walk mode, one not so marked SETS it — so a charge, taxi, knockback or flee hand-off leaves the body in whatever gait its path was authored with, applied once on the spline's start edge; the post-worldport zero-walk fallback is retracted on a re-run (the ctor's zero is a transient thirty instructions wide, never observable), leaving the plain minimum the bytes compute — the better failure mode too, since a fallback makes a walker silently RUN if a walk speed ever goes missing, where the transcription makes them visibly stop Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-31 20:18:16 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	03c70a7035	the bag windows are the real 1.12 files, and /walk actually walks ... - the bag windows are the reference's own `ContainerFrame.xml` running off the player's patch chain — decision 1751 makes the stock 1.12 UI off the install the end state and `assets/ui` scaffolding that retires file-by-file (86 files against the 99-file stock corpus, 72% of the 1128-function global surface already built) — via one ordered manifest, `benilla.toc`, where a bare name is a file we ship and an `Interface\FrameXML\` path is the player's own file; the windows on screen are `ContainerFrame1..12`, the bank's six copy-pasted popouts fold into them at ids 5..10, net −750 lines, and the swap forced real engine verbs into being rather than stubs (`SetBagPortaitTexture` with its id-0 no-texture arm, `GameTooltip:AppendText`, `SetButtonPulse`, and a `<Model>` whose file is the cooldown indicator materializing as the native sweep, which three corpus addons inherit) - the 1.12 walk toggle lands: `TOGGLERUN` latches one bit with `ToggleRun`'s own silent refusal chain (dead, rooted, on a live server spline), and the walk animation was never missing at all — the flag reaches it through exactly one channel, the speed (`0x5fd100` picks Walk over Run on `speed > 2 × walkSpeed`); pinning it caught our remote extrapolator with the two min rungs backwards — `min(walk, run)` runs BEFORE the backward min, so a walking backpedaller moves at 2.5 yd/s where we would have played them the Run clip at 4.5 — and one shared `current_speed` now keeps the local controller and the extrapolator from ever disagreeing about it - the instance and raid lockout messages exist — six packets that were dropped as unknown opcodes now land, four of them as the CHAT_MSG_SYSTEM lines the client composes itself, which is why no Lua handler ever surfaced them — plus `IsInInstance`, `ResetInstances`, and the unit popup's "Reset all instances" row behind the reference's own predicate; where the binary contradicts vmangos: the ownership flag means "any instance bind" but vmangos only ever names raid binds, so the row was dead for every character without a raid lockout — term 1 is now also satisfied by our own eyes, walking out of a party dungeon the server itself bound us to - opening the world map showed 3D world at the sheet's margins: `BlackoutWorld` was parented to the very `UIParent` a fullscreen panel hides, and three more frames had crossed the same boundary — the shared dropdown lists (so the map's continent and zone pickers answered a click with nothing at all), the master-looter menu, and the screenshot confirmation, which could never appear during a cinematic; `frame_flag_gate` now checks the parent seat against the reference both ways a frame acquires one (the attribute, template-inherited included, and `<Frames>` nesting), and its first harvest took 30 divergences down to three accepted ones Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-31 20:17:25 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	ddc9e1a5a3	being summoned is a dialog, and a soulstone raises you where you fell ... - being summoned becomes the dialog it should have been: the summon request was a name-table entry and nothing else, so a warlock's ritual, a meeting stone and a GM's summon all ended with the summoned player seeing nothing — now the three-field question raises CONFIRM_SUMMON and Accept sends the one guid back; the bytes settled three things a reasonable guess gets wrong: the refusal gate is dead OR ghost and lives in the handler (a ghost's wire health is 1, so the health leg alone lets one through — and refusing before the latch means an ill-timed summon can't silently overwrite a live question), the event carries no arguments because the popup re-reads all three getters every frame (the only way the summoner's name can appear after a cache miss), and there is no decline — Cancel, ESC and the clock running out are all silence plus the server's own two-minute timer; exercised end to end by a two-client live probe, the only thing that can, whose final assertion is that you land in the zone the dialog named - self-resurrect is one private field and one bodyless opcode: PLAYER_SELF_RES_SPELL carries the stored spell and CMSG_SELF_RES spends it; HasSoulstone answers the Spell.dbc NAME of that spell, because that is where Blizzard put the button text — "Use Soulstone", "Reincarnation" and "Twisting Nether" are the spells' own names — and UseSoulstone sends on the death dialog's second button; a --self-res probe runs the whole arc on the live wire and measured the thing that matters: the field arrives BEFORE the health-zero flush, which is what makes the dialog's OnShow read safe - the decode's fold-in corrected three claims we were resting on: HasSoulstone has a dead gate that runs FIRST, so a released ghost (wire health 1) loses the button at release rather than the dialog merely hiding; a zero field is not the empty answer — the client walks your carried inventory (gear, bags, backpack, keyring; no bank, no buyback) for an item whose on-use spell self-resurrects, labels the button with the ITEM's name and uses the item instead of sending, the two legs exclusive; and an unresolvable spell id labels the button "UNKNOWN" rather than hiding a self-res the server is holding for you Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-31 20:16:13 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	762a86deb0	quest sharing is in, and declining at an NPC reopens its list ... - quest sharing lands whole: four opcodes, the Share button live with the reference's own predicate (registering the one party event it does for the one reason it does — joining a party changes the answer without changing the log), nine verdict lines for the sharer, and the escort confirm as its own dialog whose No sends nothing at all, because there is no decline packet for it; the push result's u64 means two things by direction — the sharer being answered going up, the member the verdict is ABOUT coming down — and the verdict stays a raw byte so an unmapped value shows the reference's own nothing rather than killing the packet - the receiving half needs almost no code, and that is the design: the server sends an eligible member an ORDINARY quest-details packet whose giver guid is the sharing PLAYER, and Accept answers with the ordinary accept — a shared quest lands on the questgiver panel we already have, and the guid's own type bits drive the two real differences: declining a share owes the sharer a DECLINE verdict, and the panel is not held to the 5.56-yard NPC service range (the server's bound for a share is 14 yards, tested at accept) - the fold-back corrected three things days-old code had just shipped: DeclineQuest and CloseQuest are ONE routine in the reference — what varies is the giver, not which button you pressed; declining an NPC's quest RE-OPENS its list — the session end sends the giver a fresh hello, refuting our five-month-old claim that "vanilla's client-side decline sends no packet" (and the details packet's trailing u32 we had parsed and ignored is exactly what suppresses that re-open) — so declining at an NPC now returns you to its menu instead of closing the window; and BUSY is the client's OWN verdict — a share arriving while any panel is open is refused client-side, covering the mid-turn-in case the server cannot see Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-31 20:14:06 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	f6f2af3da9	the combat log's wire completes, and PlayerModel is its own class ... - the combat log's last eight wire bodies decode — PARTYKILLLOG, SPELLINSTAKILLLOG, PROCRESIST, SPELLORDAMAGE_IMMUNE, SPELLDISPELLOG, DISPEL_FAILED, ENCHANTMENTLOG, SPELLLOGEXECUTE — each layout read off vmangos's own writer and pinned by a byte-exact golden (DISPEL_FAILED carries no count, the list runs to the end of the body; SPELLLOGEXECUTE's POWER_DRAIN row is (amount, power, multiplier), verified at the client's bytes as well as the server's); with the eleven chat types that were waiting on them, 44 chat types become 55 — 29 sentence families, the death pair and the aura rows riding descriptor diffs because 1.12 has no "unit died" opcode, plus the six trailers ((glancing), (30 blocked), (12 absorbed) and kin) that had been missing from every family; also corrected: the durability-death line was going to the red error frame with hard-coded English, and SMSG_SPELLNONMELEEDAMAGELOG lacked its split-damage branch and its blocked wording - PlayerModel is its own frame kind: SetUnit, RefreshUnit and SetRotation were published on Model, but they belong to the <PlayerModel> method table (0x84f1fc), and the client's lookup chains derived → base only, so a plain <Model> can never reach them — they got there from a strings scan read as ownership, and a strings hit answers whether a name EXISTS, not who owns it (SetUnit's one pooled string is referenced by the PlayerModel and GameTooltip tables and by no Model entry); the new PlayerModel → Model → Frame → Region chain unblocks CreateFrame("PlayerModel"), which is how pfUI builds every unit-frame portrait — and through pfUI, pfQuest and ShaguDPS - a nil where a number goes is four shapes, not one law: a census of all 408 widget-registrar entries found 62 numeric positions that validate-or-raise, 43 that gate then stage an alternate, 64 that silently coerce to 0.0 and 5 that gate then store nothing — so SetMaxLetters(nil) completes and stores 0, "no limit" (the argument COUNT is checked exactly, the type is not), and the backdrop colour setters are asymmetric on purpose: a nil r/g/b channel is 0.0 but a nil alpha is OPAQUE, and reading every nil as 0.0 would have turned those borders transparent; both setters now also quantize ×255 into the packed 0xAARRGGBB byte quad the client actually stores, so 0.09 reads back as 23/255 - two more addon-killers: LIGHTYELLOW_FONT_COLOR_CODE was the one missing line of Fonts.xml's seven-line colour block (aux-addon concatenates it at file scope and died on its own first line), and the guard now enumerates the whole block l.4-20 instead of the names an earlier round had noticed absent; and the unit frames publish the reference's names — 1.12 has no *PowerBar anywhere, every bar is ManaBar and the colour table is ManaBarColor (8 of the top-20 addons read it by name), so ManaBarColor is the published table our own bars index into, with 22 more regions renamed to the reference's own Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-31 19:54:58 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	ac74c98c15	knockback is a jump the server aims, and tabards wear their guild crest ... - knockback is a jump whose seed came off the wire, not a server spline: SMSG_MOVE_KNOCK_BACK's four floats are exactly the MovementInfo jump tail in a different order (speedZ down-positive — a rising launch carries a negative value, the sign vmangos's own source marvels at), flown at the same take-off site as the keyboard jump and acked with the post-launch pose, which the server matches float-for-float within 0.01 before relaying to anyone; it is the one take-off that seeds BOTH axes, absolute in world XY, so it skips the arm that would hand the momentum back to a held key and reduce the whole knockback to a hop; root refuses it silently, a seated player stands up first, no MSG_MOVE_JUMP goes out — that packet is the keyboard's, and vmangos logs a jump at knockback speed as an overspeed cheat — and MSG_MOVE_KNOCK_BACK turns out not to be dead: an observed knockback replays as the arc it is - your guild crest reaches your tabard: the three GuildEmblems layers — background, border, emblem, on both torso tiles — belong to no equipment slot, so the body composite never wrote those cells and every guild wore the Guild Tabard's own default art; the install is gated on a display flag only seven of 29,604 rows set, of which exactly one is worn by any item — which is why every battleground and Argent Dawn tabard keeps its own art; the five wire indices are signed, because an undesigned guild carries −1 in all five and the client refuses to paint on the first −1 (unguarded, the commonest guild state on a young realm would have worn a blank tabard); the emblem keys the skin cache, so two guilds in the same tabard display cannot lend each other crests; and a guild tabard's background hides the bra where a plain tabard does not — it is a cutout, 79.5% opaque off the shipped art, and what shows at the sides is bare skin - a fly-by is framed by the world camera, not the M2 camera record's fov: a census of every reader shows the record's fov and clip planes reach only the portrait and Model-frame paths — nothing on the cinematic path reads any of the three — so fifteen of the sixteen shipped shots were rendering at HALF their intended vertical FOV, visibly over-zoomed on every race intro but the Undead; the fix is a deletion, and it dissolves a standing puzzle: the authored 0.22 and 27.8-yard "clips", which would render the dwarf intro's mountains as empty sky, are not clips at all on this path — two floats nobody consumes look exactly like that - 104 of Onyxia's lava traps stood on an interior floor classified as outdoors, taking the day/night sun inside a windowless lair: a GameObject's light node anchors at its model's AUTHORED bounding-box centre, and the trap's box reaches 98.42 yd past its bind pose — the anchor sits ~40 yd under the chamber floor, where a downward ray finds nothing above it to claim; the reference recovers with a 1000-yd upward retry at the claim itself, which benilla had only at the colour sample, so the verdict was decided before any colour was read; all 104 now classify interior, beside the 26 rocks and 119 eggs that always did — and the drowned-corpse pose came back from its cross-check confirmed at the bytes (a strict liquid-depth test at exactly two-thirds of a yard, Dead or Drowned), with the two reference-side notes it contradicted corrected over there Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-31 19:50:50 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	4ad8718b2a	your corpse is your own dead body, and particles take the room's light ... - corpses render: a corpse create spawned a real entity, latched its guid for the reclaim send, and drew nothing — one missing EntityKind variant folded it into the catch-all and four downstream lanes then failed by default, not even the debug cube fired; the reference forks once, on the bones flag: a fresh body builds a character composite from the corpse's OWN appearance bytes and 19 item slots through the same compositor a living player is dressed by (its own hide-helm/hide-cloak bits honoured, the ranged slot never dresses, and weapons never dress because the client looks a packed display word up as a guid — we reproduce the outcome, not the dead lookup), while a bone pile takes its race and sex's DeathSkeleton, sixteen of which ship; the pose is one settled arm — Dead, or Drowned when the body lies more than 0.66666669 yd under a liquid surface — and a corpse is not a unit, so clicking one no longer sends a selection for a guid no unit owns - a lit particle takes its MODEL's committed light node, not the sky's: indoors the reference lights an object's particles from the object's own node — the footprint's baked floor colours on the fixed interior axis plus the room's placed lights — never the day/night sun; a particle quad carries exactly one normal, world up, one constant per draw, so the whole node collapses to three floats, published off the same fold the model's mesh renders from so a mesh and its own particles can never disagree about the room they stand in; in Onyxia's Lair the 78 lit falling-rock emitters on the 26 anchors that classify interior now take the room's light - and that lit lane is FIXED FUNCTION, not the mesh's soft SH curve: the shipped client null-binds both shader slots for a particle batch and re-zeroes the shader mask at the head of every batch, so a model and its own particles share the same committed light words and legitimately differ in the curve applied to them — the mesh's wrapping lobe against the hardware's max(N·L, 0) is 0.900 vs 0.869 on the key axis, up to the three nearest room lights arrive diffuse-only under GL's own 1/(0.7d + 0.03d²) falloff (a light at or below the emitter cannot reach it at all), and the clamp sits on the product, never the multiplier, because it is GL that clamps the lit vertex colour - the cinematic letterbox has no aspect test in it: CinematicFrame.lua's if guards a recompute, not whether there are bars — below 4:3 the reference's bar textures simply stand at their declared 1024x128 on the client's native 1024x768 sheet, which is height/6, the same formula evaluated at exactly 4:3 — so one expression covers every window shape, min((h − min(w/2, h))/2, h/6): a 2:1 picture when wide, bars at 4:3 too; and a shown keyboard frame swallows EVERY key, not the ten names the host used to feed it — you could walk around underneath your own intro; the proof is the reference's own handler, which has to RunBinding("SCREENSHOT") by hand to get one key back; ESC still skips, and a W already held when the shot starts keeps running, which is faithful too Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-31 19:49:15 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	55b40b5257	names persist, the GM notice is a toast, and the target reads Dead ... - the name cache persists to `benilla-config/cache/<realm>.tsv`, because the reference's `namecache.wdb` / `petnamecache.wdb` do and that is why it never sees the races we lost every time — unstabling a pet raised `Usage: SetText("text")` off an unresolved `UnitName("pet")`; the header carries magic, format, build, locale and realm and any mismatch discards the file (no checksum, no TTL: eviction is explicit only, via `SMSG_INVALIDATE_PLAYER`, decoded now and never sent by vmangos), negatives persist too, written on a 10 s debounce and at exit; a stable list also seeds the pet-name cache from the names it already carries - `SMSG_NOTIFICATION` is the red UIErrorsFrame toast, not a chat line — `.gm on` printed twice because vmangos sends both a system message and a notification and both were rendered as chat; the stand-in dated from before the errors frame existed; `SMSG_AREA_TRIGGER_MESSAGE` moves with it on the yellow arm (its handler ends `xor edx,edx` — flag 0 — where the notification's is flag 1) - the target frame's dead text is the GlobalString `DEAD` = "Dead" resolved through `text=` like the target-of-target frame, not the key typed into `SetText` in caps, and it takes `UnitIsConnected` so a disconnected player does not read as dead; a shipped-script sweep now refuses any key-shaped literal handed to a text sink; and the Help window is one click deep — Home's button opens the ticket text box, Auto-Unstuck sits beside it, and a ticket files as category 0, which a GM's queue names "Unknown" (a guard added days earlier refused 0 on reasoning from the enum rather than from the function that reads it) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-29 17:23:05 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	1fd736759e	guild charters: the registrar, the charter, and the twelve verbs ... - founding a guild: fourteen opcodes, eight goldens (four mutation-checked), twelve engine globals, `GuildRegistrarFrame` and `PetitionFrame` — `CMSG_PETITION_BUY` is a 72-byte frame the server reads two fields of and drops in silence if short, `allowedGender` is the family's one u16, a signature is a 12-byte stride not 8, and `MSG_PETITION_DECLINE` writes the charter guid and reads the decliner's — same width, opposite meaning - two sessions, not one: the registrar is an NPC session (closed by walking away — its show event is one of the fourteen callers of the interact latch, so the registrar turns to face you) and the charter is bound to an item guid you carry across the city; right-clicking a charter in your bags opens it, keyed on template flag `0x2000` (item 5863 has no on-use spell and no quest, so every existing item-use arm declined it) - the byte carve came back and rescored six named guesses — three confirmed, two corrected, one refuted: `PETITION_SHOW` is deferred until every signer name has resolved (the window never paints blank rows), `ClosePetition` on somebody else's charter sends `MSG_PETITION_DECLINE` ("sends nothing" had been chosen on principle and was wrong half the time), and founding a guild is silent — no `ERR_GUILD_FOUNDER_S`, the reference emits no text at all; the four success ids go to chat and the five refusals to the red error frame, three paraphrased strings are now the shipped ones (a sweep asserts all fifteen), and the `npc` unit token had never been fed — the registrar's name banner was blank; `WOW_PROBE_CHARTER=1` drives gossip → buy → open → rename → destroy live, 10/10 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-29 17:21:00 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	57b61de04b	GM tickets are in, and a login failure shows the string 1.12 shows ... - GM tickets, end to end: five request/answer pairs, the seven Help-window bindings, three events and `GMTicketCategory.dbc` — the ten categories `HelpFrame.lua` keys 1..10 live in a DBC nothing here had ever opened (the four `TICKET_TYPE` strings feed a dropdown 1.12 never gave a frame); the category is one byte on the wire (a u32 would shift the map id and position and file every ticket at a garbage spot), and `UPDATETEXT` carries it too, which vmangos stores and cmangos swallows as the first character of the text — faithful to the client, the divergence recorded - the engine re-asks for the ticket after a create or update succeeds and on a status push (the ask opcode has three callers in the reference, two of them engine legs with no idempotence guard) — which is why the shipped FrameXML registers no handler for the three response opcodes and still repaints; without that leg the form stays a form for ten minutes; `UPDATE_GM_STATUS` is a signed passthrough (`0xFFFFFFFF` → −1), the five ticket verbs drain through one ordered queue because call order is wire order, and the Help micro button — drawn, hovering and a no-op since the micro menu landed — is live - a typed wrong password reads the reference's long "check the spelling of the account name and password" (0x04 and 0x05 share one jump-table arm — the client cannot say "wrong password", and the lockout cmangos's header describes does not exist in the binary), unknown codes read "Disconnected from server" rather than "Authentication failed", and every realmd row of the old map was in the wrong one: the two login-status enums have two key tables and two dialog paths, and a server source can only ever verify the codes, never which string the client draws for them Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-29 17:20:24 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	c0b7a613a9	the stable master is in, and master loot hands drops to the raid ... - the stable master: `MSG_LIST_STABLED_PETS` both ways, the four mutations answered by one result byte, two slots priced from `StableSlotPrices.dbc` (500 and 50000 copper — the cap falls out of the data, corroborated by vmangos's `MAX_PET_STABLES` and the reference's `NUM_PET_STABLE_SLOTS`), rows seated by slot never by position (a petless hunter's list starts at a stabled row), slot 0 read from the wire because a dismissed pet has a row and no live unit, a re-list after every success because no result carries one, and `GetPetIcon` reading `CreatureFamily.dbc`'s icon column — which ships `Ability_Druid_CatForm` for both warlock families, asserted as shipped - master loot: `CMSG_LOOT_MASTER_GIVE` (the slot is a byte here where the roll family's is a u32) and `SMSG_LOOT_MASTER_LIST`; the click gate is the wire's slot-type byte and nothing else — the reference never asks who the master looter is — so a MASTER row fires `OPEN_MASTER_LOOT_LIST` instead of a take and auto-loot skips every non-ALLOW row; the candidate array is bucketed by raid subgroup into blocks of five (a dense list would have filed every candidate under the wrong "Group N"), an unresolved name is nil so `UPDATE_MASTER_LOOT_LIST` has something to repaint, and a give re-checks the row is still MASTER before sending; found on the way: a master looter in another raid subgroup lit the crown on your own portrait - `SetLootMethod` takes its third (threshold) argument; the reference's silent reset to Uncommon when it is absent is flagged and not adopted; the stable's model pane draws nothing yet — a stabled pet is a database row with no world entity, and a booth that renders from a bare display id is the next arc Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-29 17:19:45 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	10874da37f	clicks find their target, the booth eases off, and the map's lines go ... - the world camera's pick regression: its off-screen render target carried `scale_factor: 1.0`, so on a Retina display the camera reported physical pixels as logical and a centred cursor cast its pick ray into the upper-left quadrant — unit and GameObject picks, the occlusion ray, chat bubbles and `world_to_viewport` all broke at once; the target now carries the window's real scale factor, re-stamped when dragging between displays changes it mid-session — and the perf pill's overlap dodge had the same disease in miniature (`GetBottom()` answers in WoW UI units, the pill lays out in window px), so it now answers a fraction of the screen and works at any window height - `boothHalfRate` defaults back to half-rate: a body pane's off-screen booth pass rendered every frame reads +7.6 ms of GPU at 4K (~1.6 ms at 1600×900), on exactly the weak GPUs that felt the last snapshot — the doll's item effects keep full speed, since they key on the pacing regime rather than the camera's active bit, so only the 30 fps animation cadence returns, and full-rate stays one `SetCVar` away - a spell cast by a GameObject arrives with caster guid 0 — vmangos writes the caster slot from a `Unit*` its GameObject constructor never sets — and the whole visual body was dropped at the guid lookup; the decode now reads an empty caster slot as the packet's first guid, which with no cast item IS the caster, so the Lightwell's click plays its impact kit (sound 3155 and the head flash) instead of only the aura glow that hid the miss, and the object stops being mislabelled a cast item - the world map's black hairlines: a `SetTexCoord` crop is not a texture, and a POI icon magnified to 2.08 px per texel sampled half a texel past its crop into the neighbouring atlas cell — an opaque black row bleeding over a cell that is fully transparent (the empty cell is the reference's own zone-level substitution); `UiQuad::uv_clamp` now insets the sampling window half a texel per axis, so a crop renders as if its sub-rect were its own clamped texture, and `WOW_UI_PICK=x,y` names every quad under a pixel — it found this one in a single run Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-27 15:09:56 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	1c5db5c2c1	landmarks and the Plaguelands towers on the map, no ultrawide crop ... - the world map's landmarks: city icons and the Eastern Plaguelands towers, from AreaPOI.dbc through the reference's own three gates (level flags, exploration, world state) — the tower rows are one per (tower, owner, state), so the server flipping a world state swaps which icon exists; and the always-up PvP readout ("Towers Controlled: n") over a new WorldStateUI.dbc loader, the init clearing the table on a zone change as the client does - the character-select scene holds its authored 4:3 view box: the diagonal-FOV relation was fed the display's aspect, so every extra pixel of width came out of height (1.55× zoom at 21:9, head and feet gone) — now width grows and height never shrinks; the reference does the same and is wrong on the same panel - a trail particle is stored in world space and drawn raw: Sprint's trail was welded to the chest bone (turn and it swings, run and it wobbles) because the trail was faked by subtracting translation inside a bone-local store; the correction machinery deleted itself, gravity is plain world down, and the emitters' live attach frame is retired - the spellbook can shrink: `SMSG_REMOVED_SPELL` had no handler, so a talent wipe took the points back and left every rank drawn; and the chat dock's hover driver rides a frame the dock cannot hide, so selecting the Combat Log no longer freezes the tab alphas Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-25 18:43:04 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	ab235bad6e	the target-of-target frame, and talents can be unlearned again ... - the target-of-target frame and its option: 1.12's frame with its five display modes, fed one hop off the selected unit's own target field through the same read `/assist` runs, in four feeds (snapshot and transitions, the debuff buttons, the portrait booth, TargetUnit's click arm); ships off, as 1.12 does, on its own pair of saved globals - talents can be unlearned again: the trainer's `MSG_TALENT_WIPE_CONFIRM` had no handler since the wipe flow was deferred, so the gossip line closed the menu and did nothing — the question is an NPC session (walking away retracts it), the popup shows the cost on the StaticPopup money variant, Accept answers it behind the client's own purse check - Sprint's sparkles hang in the air behind you along the trail instead of collapsing into your torso: ride-vs-trail is the emitter's own file flag 0x10, not the host class — the finding wow-re returned eighteen days ago and nobody folded; the particle dump names the two flag bits it had been mis-reporting - `/sleep` takes both movement masks (the strictest posture), correcting the day's sit gate which let you lie down on a lake bottom while `/sit` was refused; a Lua-driven selection (TargetUnit on an attackable token) starts the swing exactly as a click does, through the one select path Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-25 18:40:16 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	eeb607e5e6	the raid tab lands, and sounds take the reference's voice buses ... - the social window's fourth tab, Raid: the eight-subgroup grid over the roster, drag a member between subgroups, Convert To Raid, promote / demote assistant, uninvite, Ready Check with its popup, and the Raid Info flyout on the new `CMSG_REQUEST_RAID_INFO` / `SMSG_RAID_INSTANCE_INFO` wire (byte-golden against vmangos, an empty answer decoding as an empty list); `raid1`..`raid40` unit tokens, and `/partytest raid` stages a roster for a solo look - an imbue pressed with an empty weapon hand says "Your weapon hand is empty" instead of raising a cursor — the attribute bit has two readers in the reference and the second is the error (corrects the day's first cut) - sounds route onto the reference's own voice buses with its per-bus caps (the 0x87ce60 table, pinned as bytes): weapon impacts and clangs share four voices, footsteps six, the attacker's grunt one, the victim's injury two — so a pack swinging together makes about a dozen voices where it made dozens Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-25 18:22:17 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	cf581aa2ac	the auction house opens, the Honor tab lands, and a day of fixes ... - the auction house end to end: right-clicking an auctioneer opens Browse/Bids/Auctions on the server's reply — search, the category tree from your own DBCs, the reference's 50-a-page pager, multi-key sorting (directions corrected at the bytes), bid/buyout, the sell slot with deposit and duration, cancel with its fee popup; prices sit on the reference's own money-frame kit in lined-up columns, the twenty auction messages split refusals-red / outcomes-to-chat, and a won or sold auction reads as a proper mail receipt — the window's Lua re-worded in our own terms after the overlap ratchet caught the first cut leaning on the reference's text - the PvP honor system whole: the Honor tab and the inspect page over a real wire model, with current rank and highest-ever rank correctly two different fields - a day of reported fixes: WASD survives a /logout re-entry, addon settings save on a window close and Cmd+Q (exactly once — a mac close could fire the tail twice), clams open again, random-enchant items name themselves on every surface, the loot window's rows hold their seats with legible counts, idle players stop sinking through building floors, the shooter re-pulls between Auto Shots, portraits loosen ~19% to the client's own aspect-1.0 matrix, and big creatures thump the camera off the CameraShakes table - character select clicks like 1.12 — captions whiten on hover, buttons fire on release, Humans face straight ahead off the stage bone's real yaw, the facing is per-character, and hunter/warlock pets stand beside you at their family-ramp size with their own emitters (the imp's flames), the Voidwalker's sequence-hidden shackles culled - the smaller player-facing set: nameplate on/off rows in Options with the CanAttack category gate (emissaries stop plating), the bonus bar slides up with igBonusBarOpen, the camera's framing height glides on a shapeshift, the open letter evicts the centre seat, the far-band fog hull stops printing a pale horizon stripe at low view distance, the guide arrow is gold with per-source rim art, error text fades through its shadow too, and /convertraid converts the party - README: the auction house and PvP honor move out of "not built yet" Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-22 19:04:27 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	6aa78bc468	the shapeshift cloud both ways, and the Honor tab ... - druids get the shift cloud back in both directions, by the reference's own mechanism: every shapeshift aura add *or* remove arms a one-slot pending-morph latch that the model-swap rebuild drains and replays — which is why shifting out (a client-side cancel the server sends no visual for) puffs at all, and why a GM morph or a revive correctly shows nothing; the first fix that merely let one-shot effects survive the swap's teardown produced the right pixels for the wrong reason and is superseded - the honor system lands whole: the Honor tab on the character window, the honor page on inspect, and thirteen missing Lua bindings over a real wire model — session/yesterday/this-week/last-week kills, lifetime HKs and DKs, rank progress and badge art - the load-bearing find: your current rank and your highest-ever rank are two separately-streamed fields, and the one we already had was the wrong one for anyone who ever de-ranked; a binary cross-check corrected five display details after the build, down to the rank title never being gendered Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-22 18:22:13 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	f8e312d015	Terrain Distance returns to Graphics, and guards flag your map ... - the Terrain Distance slider is back on Options → Graphics, in its 1.12 seat and range (177–777, live, no Apply) — and it now drives how much world is resident, not just how far you see: the streamer derives its resident and prefetch windows from farclip in the reference's own chunk units, pulling the ring in as you drag left and streaming it back one tile per frame as you drag right; the `WOW_TILE_RADIUS` env var, the debug panel's farclip slider and a dressed-up fog constant all retire into it - ask a city guard for directions and the destination lands on your maps: `SMSG_GOSSIP_POI` becomes a red flag drawn through the same landmark path as towns and inns — an icon in place when near, competing for a rim arrow when off the edge — and the world map's landmark enumeration answers now, so the flag renders there too and names itself on hover - the flag is one slot (new directions replace the last), drops itself within 10 yards of the destination, expires after the reference's own 480 seconds, and clears on any world entry; the rim-arrow rank rides the packet's own field, not a guessed constant Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-22 18:18:30 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	802845981f	the Rookery eggs hatch, and the bubble finds its height ... - UBRS's Rookery eggs hatch on approach now: the trap's despawn-anim packet was silently dropped and the entity freed the instant the destroy landed — the packet is parsed, and the reference's refcount pin holds the egg alive through its 2.7 s burst before it goes - the AQ drakes' crawl is the server's doing: vmangos flies cyclic paths at walk speed, and the client's ride measures exact against the wire — the motion is inspectable now, down to a per-spline trace - the chat bubble sits at the height 1.12 gives it: a latched constant from the model's stand box, replacing the posed-attachment anchor the RE just refuted - the trigger-creature render gate folds back from the binary, byte citations corrected Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-17 17:26:18 +07:00
SamandClaude Opus 5	9a184d3476	the guild window opens: roster, ranks, notes and the message of the day ... - the social window's third tab is live — the roster in both its views, the member card with its promote/demote/remove verbs, the rank editor's thirteen permissions, the guild information board, and the invite, leave, kick and note dialogs behind them - setting your hearthstone at an innkeeper now asks before it takes and says so afterwards, and the innkeeper's gossip lines get their own icons back - unavailable talents grey out, and every greyed icon in the client now goes through the same luminance fold the original used - the buff tooltip's remaining-time line reads gold with the client's own hour/minute ladder, the macro editor takes a shift-click to paste a spell, trainer rows repaint after a purchase, and a long book page stops flickering its ellipsis Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-16 17:38:54 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	b427860b35	dialogs come to the front, and the red line names what it needs ... - dialogs carry the reference's toplevel bit, so the stack-split window opens above Bagnon instead of behind it - the failure line fills its blank — "Requires Blacksmith Hammer", not "Requires" — and Opening casts stop printing a label the spell itself marks "no text" - the pet bar's Attack/Follow/Stay tooltips name their keybinding, and typed text reaches the focused frame through the client's own delivery walk - AtlasLoot parses again: our Lua keeps 5.0's compatibility semicolon Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-14 19:38:18 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	c62df294c6	channel lines get their warm color, and a /wave gets its sentence ... - a channel line renders in the channel family's color, not the grey notice row the client consults and throws away - a text emote composes its sentence — gender and target picked from the game's own tables — so a /wave is a line in chat, not just an animation - a FontString's `font=` resolves a font object by name and gates the whole block, `<Gradient>` tints the art it sits on, and buttons' state fonts read `font=` too — Bagnon's white boxes and bare stack counts are fixed - the money frame sizes its coins from the digits themselves, so Bagnon's gold stops opening cramped Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-14 19:25:00 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	ebb9ce9ab8	far sight, possession and the spyglass: three mechanisms ... - the server picks the view and the mover independently — far sight moves the eye, client control moves the reins, and Mind Control sets both, which is why its camera works for free - while you hold another body's reins your own stands still, so the server never smears your pose onto the creature you drive - the Ornate Spyglass is a local 6x zoom, not a camera move — there was never a wire half to be missing - the scene election fails closed: three classes of creature that escaped it are back under its verdict Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-14 19:23:38 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	55d2c70712	reputation arrives: the wire, the pane and a live watch bar ... - the Character window's third tab is in: faction rows under their headers, standing bars, the detail popup and the watch bar, at the reference's own anchors - all four reputation opcodes parse byte-exact, the flag byte reads the way the client reads it, and a standing gain reveals the faction unless it is hidden - an end-to-end golden drives live wire bytes through the game data to the exact visible row list - the reference-code overlap is measured by an instrument instead of asserted — the start of a debt paid in full later in the day Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-14 19:09:04 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	7b4bd8af4a	quest timers, honest interiors, and snow rebuilt from the bytes ... - timed quests get their countdown — a Quest Timers box under the minimap and a Time Remaining line in the quest log, kept against the server's own clock - interiors go honest: footsteps stop crunching the terrain's snow through a building's floor, and tavern voices are authored dry, so the fake cave echo is gone - snow is the reference's again — point-sprite flakes at the era's pixel size, and a spawn slab that leans into your run so a runner no longer outruns the field - Stormwind stops drawing Elwynn through its walls, a looted quest crate's lid settles, cold zones puff visible breath, and the collect-quest toast fires only on a real advance Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-11 18:00:02 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	50aedb8b05	world books open, and anvils stop offering a cursor gear ... - clicking a book in the world opens it and turns its pages: letters and world books share one reader - the cursor's object rules are the client's own 31-row strategy table now, so decorative objects stop pretending to be usable - trainer and tradeskill windows draw each row's icon by the reference's own law, and the trainer's filter dropdown toggles again - water color follows the zone's light blend, so lakes stop snapping between area tints Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-07 16:03:35 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	9f4595597d	fishing becomes whole: the bite, the line, the splash and the reel ... - the whole loop plays: the line arcs rod tip to bobber, the bite splashes with its own sound, and clicking the bobber reels in - the verdicts read like 1.12: yellow "your fish got away" lines, the reel-in sound, the fishing loot window - "You feel rested." prints on the transition, rest states come from the client's own Exhaustion table, and level 60 trades the XP strip for the max-level rail - the Skills pane lists what the real client lists: the hidden rows, the sort, gray numberless single-rank lines Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-07 16:03:16 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	a401e5c43d	the dressing room opens, and the pet gets its paper doll ... - ctrl-click an item to try it on: the dressing room dresses your double, and shift-click posts the item link to chat - the pet tab lands in the character window: paper doll stats, family and diet, the right-click menu, and dropping food on the pet feeds it - water-only spells refuse on dry land: aquatic form gates to swimming, client-side like the real one - the macro icon picker's white squares get their art back, and option rows explain themselves on hover Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-07 16:02:21 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	77dc8f8ead	pets get their action bar, macros arrive, and hunters draw the bow ... - a hunter's or warlock's pet has its action bar now: attack, follow, stay, the pet's own spells with cooldowns and autocast sparkles - the macro system lands: the macro window, the icon chooser, /cast and /macro, and macros dragged onto the action bar - hunter shots look right at last: the bow draws and releases on the shot, and the arrow lays a spark trail its whole flight - the options window re-dresses in 1.12's own art with the classic dialog look, and gets a working search box and clickable steppers Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-05 19:03:13 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	060aa574fb	dark doorways light up, and the Audio and Graphics pages land ... - a building's transition corridors carry the reference's bright-doorway fade: the black tunnel between sunlit outside and a lit interior is gone - the Options window gets its first real pages: seven 1.12 sound rows on Audio and the two 1.12 Video Options sliders on Graphics, all live CVars - terrain culls like the real client: the ground is one-sided, so from underneath you see through it exactly as 1.12.1 does - the beam system's data plane lands: 48 live chain, drain and funnel beams read off the real patch chain, with a byte-exact wire golden — the renderer follows Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-04 18:54:47 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	906e997aa6	click your mount again to dismount, and the poof puffs ... - clicking your mount item while mounted dismounts you, and the mount icon no longer wears a stack "1" - the horse appears and you're simply in the seat pose with the mount's cloud puff, no spellcast finishing over the saddle — and dismounting cuts clean to standing, no phantom jump-landing - a mounted rider counter-turns head only, item-targeted spells show the targeting cursor, and the wrong thing in a quiver says "Only Arrows can be placed in that." - liquid lookups ride a spatial index, and the camera's waterline comes from the client's own corner probe Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-03 17:54:27 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	2d83c8392c	mounting keeps your buff visuals, and tooltips say the enchant ... - the mount transition re-seats the rider instead of rebuilding them: shield glows, weapon enchants and worn visuals stay lit through mount and dismount - an enchanted item's tooltip carries its enchant line, coloured per slot, with a temporary enchant's countdown - a server refusal with nothing to say now says nothing: the raw "Inventory error" debug line is gone, real refusals still print - the mail icon clears when you close the mailbox, and translucent models classify against the water plane Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-03 17:53:22 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	a3c5b20698	breath and fatigue bars, combo points, and a stun stops everything ... - the breath and fatigue bars are in, driven by the server's timers - combo points show on the target frame, rogue and druid only, per target, and Overpower lights on them - a stun freezes turning too, and gm fly over water stays in the air - /sit and the shipped slash commands work, sheathing sounds like the weapon's material, and the bar never holds an outgrown spell rank Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-02 18:01:15 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	143a734b91	slow fall, levitate and water walking work, and Z sheathes your weapon ... - the granted movement modes are one system now: slow fall slows, levitate hovers, water walking holds the surface, a root pins you even mid-air - casting while moving refuses with the real error, and a jump cast plays its animation in the air - Z cycles melee, ranged, stowed, every landed swing draws the weapon, and Alt-Z hides the UI - login faces where you logged out, and the dev shortcuts moved to Ctrl+Shift off the Windows key Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-02 18:00:46 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	76cc038998	zone discovery says so, and tile crossings stop churning ... - crossing into a new zone lands the whole discovery moment: the "Discovered" toast, the experience line in chat, and the race-keyed jingle - crossing a tile boundary no longer recycles a whole row of terrain: a keep-band holds what you just left, unloading is budgeted, and fresh requests stagger instead of bursting - a sheath swap moves the weapon (and its sparkles) to the new slot instead of rebuilding it, and a fading model now dims its own effects with it - pressing the cast button again cancels the cast, and a form that can't cast a spell refuses it locally instead of round-tripping the server Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-31 17:00:40 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	56c62c7591	point-and-click casting: Blizzard lands where you aim ... - ground-targeted spells work end to end: press the button, get the targeting cursor, click the ground, and the cast ships on the wire the way the real client sends it - a reticle sized to the spell's real radius rides the cursor, and on the click the storm model, falling shards and area sound all land at the point - character screens: a newly created character comes back selected on the list, and the authored layout scales to small windows instead of clipping the bottom controls off - blob shadows ride their receiver's clip transform and the raster bias that kept them faint is measured and fixed Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 19:40:05 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	fd54ea9197	walkers keep walking, and dungeon entrances stop dropping you ... - A creature that was already walking when it came into view stood frozen at its spawn point, then teleported — up to a full wander leg, 30 yards in the worst measured case — when its next movement packet arrived. The create packet carries the live path (where the unit is along it, how much is left) and we parsed all of it into the void. The unit now joins its walk exactly where the server has it: measured before/after, 13% of movement starts were over-a-yard teleports, now effectively zero. - Walking into Zul'Gurub or Stratholme through the portal dropped you straight through the world. The landing check asks "is there a floor under me?" — but on the arrival frame the loaded world is still the map you just left, and an instance entrance is a copy of its outdoor ground at the same coordinates, 0.23 yards under your feet. The old floor said yes, then despawned. The hold now waits for the destination's own ground to arrive, and a world that never arrives keeps the loading screen instead of dropping you into the void. - Same fix covers a decoder hazard found on the way: a plain two-point path announces two points but ships only the destination, and trusting the count over-ran the packet — it never fires on our server's pathfinder, but now it can't. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-27 19:38:01 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	2c55790ec1	portals work, GameObjects animate, and the tent stops flickering ... - Area triggers exist now, so portals work: every teleport pad, dungeon entrance and enter-a-place quest volume reports the reference's own way — one exit latch, first containing volume on the map wins, a sphere or a yawed box. Verified live: Rut'theran to Darnassus, the Deadmines worldport, and a level-gated entrance refusing with the server's own "You must be at least level 10 to enter." - GameObjects animate. Every animated object arms its idle the moment it goes live (doors and chests used to flash bind pose for a frame), a missing rest pose is remapped the way the reference remaps it instead of playing nothing — the Ahn'Qiraj gate's root tangle stood frozen for want of a Closed clip — and the state machine covers the verified twenty of thirty-one object types instead of three: fourteen hundred spawns' worth of traps, goobers, books and questgivers now change pose off the wire. - The flickering tent is still. Cloth you can see from both sides is authored as two reversed copies of the same sheet, and the real client backface-culls each copy from its wrong side so exactly one covers any pixel; we drew every building batch two-sided, which left the winner to floating-point noise, flickering while the camera crept. WMO materials now honor their cull flag. - A sweep of long-standing visual bugs: effects respect the far-clip wall — a ferry's deck lanterns were drawing from 7,000 yards away; the night-elf eye glow goes out in first person instead of leaving two orbs burning in mid-air; the goblins' stray white hair tuft is gone (a duplicated table key resolved last-wins where the client scans first-wins); lava and slime finally have their own submerged view — the dense fiery orange and dense green of the real thing, off two fixed lighting rows nothing in the zone data points at; and the far-horizon band overlaps the detailed terrain instead of leaving a strip of sky at lowered view distance. - Two caught at the keyboard: the backpack icon greys instead of vanishing while the escape menu is up, and the world map is a real panel now — it can no longer open over the menu, and ESC closes it first like everything else. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-26 19:20:51 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5	c887170b37	the social window, the escape menu, and items that work from the bar ... - The social window: friends, ignore and `/who`, in the reference's own two-level arrangement with its inner tabs and per-row right-click menus. The lists ride the real wire — guid-keyed with no names, resolved through the name cache, and capped at 50 friends / 25 ignores because those are the client's own caps — and the ignore list does its actual job: an ignored speaker's chat is dropped silently, a whisper additionally tells the sender, and a duel challenge is auto-declined. Guild ships as a disabled tab, which is what a guildless character sees. - The escape menu: ESC's last rung finally opens something. The game menu lands at the reference's own size and ladder, and leaving works — logout and quit with the server owning the clock (instant at an inn, refused in combat, or the 20-second countdown), narrated by the real camp/quit dialogs. While the menu holds the center nothing else opens, and the bag bar greys out under it. - Items on the action bar act like items. An equipped trinket was a dead button; the reference's use law is two stages — not equippable means use, equippable and already worn means use in place — over its exact search order (equipment first, then the bags, then the backpack, then the keyring; never the bank). What can go on the bar is now the reference's own two filters, byte-read: an item with an on-use spell or one you can equip, and no passive spells — and dropping a passive there speaks the real client's own line, "You can't put a passive ability in the action bar." - A quest-starter item opens its quest instead of "The item was not found." The question goes to the item's own guid, never through item-use — which the server refuses for every one of the 215 quest-starter items — and refusing the quest says what the client says, then closes the window. - For the toolbox: a pixel pick that reports everything under the cursor all the way back, a lens that says which render phase a draw landed in, and switches that separate "discarded" from "lost depth" from "never drawn" — built while cornering a flickering tent, whose fix ships in the next snapshot. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-26 19:19:06 +07:00
SamandClaude Opus 5	959fb8ba08	duels, inspecting other players, and water that ends at the bank ... - Duels. Challenge another player from their right-click menu, or with `/duel`, and `/forfeit` to give it up. Both popups are there — the challenge you accept or decline, and the warning when you leave the field — with the flag countdown between them, and the outcome printed in chat when someone is knocked out or flees. Read off the reference client's own duel packets and the three globals it keeps client-side, which is why the challenger reads "You have requested a duel." even though the server never echoes that back. - Inspect. Right-click a player and open their paper doll: their nineteen publicly visible equipment slots with icon, name, quality and a linkable item, and their body standing in the pane, which follows along if you retarget while the window is open. No stack counts and no durability — those are not fields another player publishes, which is exactly why the reference client's inspect doll has never shown them either. - Water knows where it stops. Swimming used to trigger in the dry tunnel thirty yards under Stormwind's canal, and in mid-air over Blackrock's lava. A liquid is now the grid the map file actually stores — one wet flag per cell, and the surface height a bilinear over the four corners of the cell you are standing in, the same sample the reference client takes — so the water starts at the bank and its surface sits where your eye puts it. Lava is a liquid you swim in, an indoor liquid asks the building you are inside, and `/liquid` prints every surface claiming your feet and where each one came from. - Creature parts authored to appear only on death — the voidwalker, the banshee, the ooze, the stone elemental, the infernal — were drawing the whole time: material alpha now bakes per animation sequence and the unit lane actually evaluates it. The character and inspect model panes are lit by the reference widget's own single light instead of blowing out white, the rotate arrows spin while you hold them, and the transparent sort ladder had its sign backwards, so overhead names draw over water again instead of being painted out by a canal behind them. Underneath, the protocol writer's 95-verb drawer and its thousand-line spell module split into per-family files — no behaviour change, just a tree you can find things in. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-25 18:22:05 +07:00
SamandClaude Opus 5	c48d8c6b7e	other players walk the world, and NPCs speak your name ... - Other players walk the world. A watched player's motion between server updates now runs through the same grounded movement resolve as your own character — same capsule, same colliders, same step-up and ground election — so they follow terrain every frame instead of every packet, and stop at a wall instead of walking into it and being snapped back. Their jumps are swept against the world too, and a standstill jump steered mid-air reports that steer, the one mid-air press the reference client broadcasts rather than defers. - The move relay rebuilt: relayed moves ride a per-unit chain on real time, a due move never jumps ahead of its unit's queue, and SMSG_COMPRESSED_MOVES — the batched carrier the server sends under load — is decoded rather than skipped. Our own send path now matches the reference client's: facing streams while moving, Nagle is off so each packet is one write, and the strafe axis nets so left and right can never ride the same packet. - NPC and quest text speaks the whole $-macro grammar, carved from the reference bytes — your name, class and race, the gendered forms, and the server's live world states — and the same substitution feeds gossip, quest text, the quest log and unit frames. Greetings are a weighted draw, rolled per NPC per open, and a quest giver with no quest to give is no longer clickable, where it used to open a dialog holding nothing but a placeholder greeting. - Spell tooltips finish the reference's line law: cast time and cooldown behind the real passive gate, the required tool or form, the reagents block, the chance-to-X line, a multi-bit equipped-item requirement named properly instead of by raw bits, and a buff's dispel class. - The UI layout engine got a dense, reusable anchor solver, and a change gate that skips the resolve entirely on frames where no layout input moved — in practice, almost every idle frame. Pets are named by their pet number rather than a creature-template entry, so the client asks the query the server can actually answer. And the asset extractor grew a stray-geometry census for tracking down geometry that renders where it should not. This snapshot replaces the six dated `sync` commits that stood here before it, whose subjects said nothing but the date. If you cloned before now: `git fetch && git reset --hard origin/main`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-25 14:57:54 +07:00