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pkuzicandClaude Opus 5.5 47f1769b6d MONKEY (skybox): weighted zone skybox lane, flags, animated skybox rig
CameraSkybox becomes a weighted layer list (ghost > WMO > zone, modern
crossfade), flags 0x1 day cycle / 0x2 keep celestial / 0x4 fog cone, the
celestial model as a second layer, and a CPU rig + mat-anim rows so skybox
bones, texture transforms, colour and alpha tracks play.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 03:23:34 +01:00
pkuzicandClaude Opus 5.5 da0f1a0d80 Merge upstream main (samwhosung/benilla fd386e75) into lighting
71 upstream commits: the repo-wide comment rewrite, the hover highlight as the
scene ambient, M2 Mod/Mod2x batches drawing the bare texel, test and contribution
changes. Conflicts were comment-vs-code in 36 files; where upstream changed only
comments our code was kept, and wow_model.wgsl carries both our lighting lanes
and upstream's new unlit/Mod/Mod2x paths.

Follow-ups folded in:
- our nine Advanced Graphics / water / fog options tests take upstream's
  wow_data_or_skip! guard
- PostUpdate ambiguity ceiling re-measured under upstream's new census: 466,
  with the per-family breakdown in the comment
- LIGHTING.md: new upstream base

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 00:18:30 +01:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 87a92eb295 Comments in benilla-world: one line of fact each, no history, no record numbers (#121)
Part of #41: the comments of `benilla-world`, Rust and WGSL, are rewritten to the rule in `docs/METHOD.md`, which is what the code does and the reference fact behind it, in a line. 24,226 comment lines become 8,863.

- **The mechanical strip.** The citations that were only a private record number go first, and each edit is shown to be a pure removal.
- **Wrong facts corrected.** The rewrite corrects the comments that stated wrong facts. Among them:
  - `0x6b62e0` is the WMO group's liquid renderer, not a doodad drawer.
  - The reference creates a WMO's props once, when a group enters its streaming window (`0x698720` → `0x695aa0`). It then admits them each frame the portal walk visits the group (`0x685d70` → `0x6838f0`). The old text had them created per visible group.
  - The liquid query's comments now state the reference's order: the map-object leg first, then the ADT (`0x69b6d0`). They no longer call the Outdoors/Inside split a match.
  - The interior probe runs from the character, not the camera.
  - The reference lights ground clutter. The old comment said it draws unlit.
  - The model-particle "pool order" deviation was wrong. Each instance is its own mesh, depth-sorted every frame.
  - The reference's vertical field of view follows the aspect ratio (44.1° at 16:9). The comment now gives it beside our fixed 45°.
  - The effect shader's far wall is the live `farclip`, 177 to 777 yd, not a fixed 777 yd.
  - Dozens more turned up on the way: renamed or deleted items, docs sitting on the wrong item, stale counts and links.
- **Deviation labels.** "Deviation:" now marks only a choice with a reason. An unbuilt behaviour says so plainly.
- **Verification.** Every file strips to identical code, and `cargo fmt --check` is clean. Five second readers compared every file old against new, restored the facts the rewrite had dropped, and checked each new citation against the reference.

Defects the rewrite surfaced outside the comments are filed as their own issues (#106, #114, #115, #116). The comments here state what the code does. String literals are untouched; they are #92.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 17:43:40 +07:00
Sam SungandClaude Opus 5.5 7b66dac9db comments cite the reference by address, not by private note (#30)
Comments that pointed into the maintainer's private reverse-engineering notes (a note by name, a
path, a section or finding id, the analysis's own name for a client function, a process word) now
carry the fact itself, cited by the reference client's address, by vmangos file and line, or as
"the reference". Nobody outside could follow those pointers.

Comment text only, plus the test-assert and log strings that carried the same pointers. No claim
changes: a comment the notes have since corrected keeps its wording here, and correcting it is
separate work.

The two reference generators, `scripts/gen-reference-globals.py` and
`scripts/gen-reference-verb-events.py`, named the private notes' layout to find their inputs. They
now take the input files as arguments (`--capture`, `--framexml`, `--names`, `--extents`,
`--disasm`). Run on the same inputs, both write the committed tables row for row; only the two
header lines that named the old environment variable change.

Checked per file:
- the code is identical: each file with its comments stripped compares equal before and after; a
  changed string literal is compared under a mask that proves only literal text moved and every
  literal kept its line count;
- no client address the old text cited was dropped;
- a second reviewer checked every added address against its derivation;
- a detector for the notes' names, paths, ids, function names and process words finds none left;
- `scripts/gates.sh` is green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 12:14:08 +07:00
pkuzicandClaude Fable 5.1 839bc58d1b Merge upstream main (samwhosung/benilla edec5b22) into lighting
Ports the lighting settings into upstream's single settings registry and the lighting plugins
into game_plugins.rs. 1108 world+formats tests green; world scenes (inn, Northshire dusk,
Stormwind) render clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-17 21:17:41 +01:00
pkuzicandClaude Fable 5.1 7048e5b34f Merge upstream/main (samwhosung/benilla 66388278, 78 commits) into everwood-cs
Keeps both sides: upstream's settings rework, model_render rework, mesh-tag change-gating,
static_gx node move + diagnostics span, WorldPointLight, brightness/weather options,
weapon trails; and the MONKEY lighting stack (sun shadow lanes, dynamic interiors, cube-map
torch shadows, daylight fixtures, spell lights, bake floor, K=12 exterior selection, debug panel).
All MONKEY light lanes migrated from Bevy PointLight to upstream's WorldPointLight.
1091 world+formats tests green; all 8 WGSL probes OK; server-less smoke (inn, Northshire) clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-17 10:46:19 +01:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 aa92b599f8 air elementals, Ragnaros and the forge lava animate
- every unit, GameObject and held item runs its texture animation: air elementals, Ragnaros, the Ash'ari Crystal, Ironforge's forge lava, the Scourge rune circles and the Zul'Gurub forcefields were static (2295)
- a GameObject whose animation slots disagree gets a material of its own: the Blood of Heroes pools bubble and the Freezing Trap's glow pulses (2295)
- three sound kits with a doubled separator in their path were silent, the flight-path-discovered chime among them; the Ashbringer's lines stay silent, as they are in 1.12 (2294)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-17 16:42:33 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 00150c55b5 a crash leaves a report, and the wire's counts are capped
- a panic writes benilla-config/Diagnostics/crash-<time>.txt with the build id, the location, a backtrace and the last 200 log lines, and names the file as its last line, so a bug report can attach it (2266)
- every wire-count allocation hint is capped and the compressed update object reads through the cursor, so a malformed packet can no longer ask for gigabytes (2266)
- the 23 in-world run conditions are one set, the 45 probe variables one registry, the install-gated tests say when they skip, and every gate is timed (2266)
- one workspace-level lint allowance replaces 413 per-site attributes, and the decision corpus gets a lint in the gate (2266)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-17 16:38:59 +07:00
pkuzicandClaude Fable 5.1 e254e6dce8 MONKEY: dynamic WMO interiors + cube-map torch shadows (surfaces + entities)
Interior rooms light per fragment from their authored fixtures instead of
the MOCV bake (direct + fill + ambient, soft rolloff; live cvars
interiorLight/interiorAmbient/interiorFill/interiorExposure/interiorShadows/
interiorDebug), TRANS/EXT batches blend to the day/night reference at the
portal seam, and fixtures admit camera-independently (90 yd).

Torch shadows are a from-scratch depth-map renderer (Bevy point shadows are
dead under ClusterConfig::None): a shared Depth32Float 512^2 x 24-layer Image
+ depth-only pipeline + ViewNode rendering the static caster and a per-frame
entity caster into 6 cube faces for the nearest <=4 fixtures (reverse-Z,
GreaterEqual compare, 4-tap PCF, far fade). WMO surfaces receive through
static_gx group 3; entities receive on the wow_model path through
WowModelExt bindings 91/92/93 (depth array, comparison sampler, 1616-byte
torch table) with a 0.15 yd normal offset against CPU-vs-GPU skinning
self-shadow.

The entity lane is gated on is_interior OR the new MATTE_INDOOR tag bit
(exterior payload bit 14, written by the classifier's Matte law), so a unit
whose verdict flickers Bake<->Matte at one spot keeps its room lighting.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-07 20:12:47 +01:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 7fe4b37c2f guild lines are message ids, mail sends again, and the shadow fades in
- the guild lines are message ids: `ui_guild/lines.rs` carried 34 English constants and two hand-rolled fill helpers and pushed composed text onto the chat log — 2045's largest ratchet row and the one file its rule had no route for, because `UiError`'s doc claimed the 1.12 formats use at most one `%s` and one `%d` and the type was built to match, while `ERR_GUILD_PROMOTE_SSS` is "%s has promoted %s to %s." — a wrong sentence in a doc had become a wrong type, and the wrong type had made a file's worth of drift structurally necessary; `CGGameUI::DisplayError` (`0x496720`) is cdecl varargs — `add esp,4` bare, `add esp,8` with one string, `SMSG_GUILD_INVITE` pushing two with the stack check exact at `0x30 + 0x60 = 0x90`, and `SMSG_GUILD_EVENT`'s emitter tail `0x5e745f` passing one, two or three off `strCount` — so `UiError` carries an ordered heterogeneous `Vec<FillArg>` (`S(String) | D(i64)`, since `ERR_USE_LOCKED_WITH_SPELL_KNOWN_SI` is String-then-Integer) behind four constructors naming the reference's call shapes (`key`, `s`, `strings`, `args`), twenty sites migrated; what the catalog knew and composed text could not carry: `ERR_GUILD_NAME_INVALID`/`ERR_GUILD_NAME_EXISTS_S` are kind 2 — the red line — and went to chat, `ERR_GUILD_CREATE_S`/`ERR_INVITED_TO_GUILD_SS` carry the LEVELUP cue and `ERR_GUILD_PERMISSIONS` (type_tag `0x3e`) is one the reference speaks (1815), all three silent; the default arm was missing outright — `0x5e745a` pushes `0x69` = `ERR_GUILD_INTERNAL` for `0x09` and every id past `0x0d`, catalog row 105 the whole time, so `TABARD_CHANGE` had been silent under a comment calling the key unsettled; a short `strCount` is passed SHORT (0 and ≥ 4 pass zero strings) so a starved specifier reads "…promoted Furor to %s.", not "…to ."; `/ginfo` deliberately stays off the queue — `GUILD_NAME_TEMPLATE`/`GUILD_INFO_TEMPLATE` are not catalog rows, `0x5e6fb0` resolves each token through the VM and emits chat itself, and a non-row key through `Shown::keyed` would turn a chat line red — so it waits on the guild feed and goes out unkeyed, the enUS month-day-year swap with it; the `_S` arity is asserted from the key names, 22 of 22; the ratchet row is deleted, 208 over 31 files remain (2054)
- a unit's blob shadow asks the UNIT for its alpha: the lane gathered live `RenderFade`s off a unit's part entities and read "no part is fading" as 1.0 — true of a settled unit and exactly backwards for arrival, where a streamed unit holds `PendingAppearFade` with no `RenderFade` anywhere until the world is shown, so its parts were deliberately invisible while the shadow drew fully opaque; measured on a probe login: alpha 1.000 from t 0.61 to the arm at t 3.51, then 0, then the ramp — 2.9 s of dark oval under no creature, the symptom `model_render_alpha`'s own "pending ⇒ 0" law (0827) already named for emitters and ribbons; `model_fade::UnitRenderAlpha` is the one door, composed from the ROOT where `UnitAppearFade` tells pending from settled, published as one question rather than its three inputs so a caller cannot reassemble the mistake, and `DespawnFade::armed()` retires the `-1.0` sentinel from every caller; the world API wall goes 177 → 178; and wow-re settled what the shadow's alpha IS, four questions VERIFIED: it reads `CM2Model+0x180` through `0x710ca0`, not `+0x19c`; that slot carries the appear and despawn ramps, the self fade AND the CharProc-14 aura — `0x60d180` drives the same `StartAlphaFade` the appear fade does, so a stealthed unit's shadow now dims with its body — and not the per-batch M2 colour/weight tracks; and the reference draws nothing under a not-yet-shown object either (`+0x180 = 1.0 · 0.0`, written 30 bytes before the read), so this is fidelity, not taste; three module-doc claims corrected against it: the dead `0x683ea5` gate, the registration handoff (GameObjects and DynamicObjects never cast; units, players and corpses always do), and 1277's `InheritedVisibility` gate, which the reference lacks and stays ours on purpose (2055)
- the mail stationery list was empty for the whole session, and every send with it: the five `dropping command — not connected` lines at login, once named, were `ItemQuery` for all five `Stationery.dbc` rows — `feed_mail` carried no run condition and asked from the login screen before the socket existed, the asks evaporated in the io thread, and `Items::template` had already latched all five in its ask-once `pending` set, cleared on disconnect and never on connect, so they were never re-asked and the stock `SendMailFrame_Reset`'s row-1 selection left every send silently unsent; the list now waits for a self player, and `release_ask_once_latches_on_enter` clears the pending sets at world enter, the counterpart the disconnect teardown never had — a redundant re-ask costs one packet, a wrong latch costs a dead feature nobody can see is dead; and three more log lines answer for themselves: a control character is answered before the shape — a newline is a line break the markup parser consumes, not a missing glyph — so the warn stays meaningful for a glyph a face genuinely lacks; the blend-check's one-frame run is the specialization tick catching up with a material swap, a real login showing four entries clear 26 ms later, so the warn waits for a run to SURVIVE the tick and a one-frame run is recorded at debug; and the audio starve line carries the wall span it covered beside the time it counted and the position it saw advance, because a 1.0 s window still closed 0.756 s of wall after the stream started on `Time<Real>` — if they disagree the caller's clock is still wrong, if they agree the starvation is real

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 19:41:57 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 8f0bece3be loot and pet refusals become message ids, and waterfalls flow again
- a loot refusal is a message id, not a sentence: `loot_error_text` composed eight sentences for `SMSG_LOOT_RESPONSE`'s refusals and six of them said something 1.12 never says — "too far away to loot that." for a string that ends "that corpse.", "You can't loot that from there." for "You must be facing the corpse to loot it.", and an invented "Those pockets are already empty." for a code the client has no string for; it and the `LootErrors` queue are deleted, and the refusal is raised by GlobalStrings key into `UiErrorKeys` at the net bridge, the way `fish_verdict` two functions above already did, off the reference's own eleven-entry jump table at `0x5ebc64`; a composed string had no record to read a surface or a voice off, so all eleven — `MsgKind::Error`, the red `UIErrorsFrame` line — had been going into the chat window as yellow SYSTEM lines, and the four spoken in the player's own race and gender (`DIDNT_KILL`, `BAD_FACING`, `LOCKED`, `TOO_FAR`) were silent; a second bug fell out of reading the leg: codes 4–9, 11 and the default fall through a release tail at `0x5ebac2` that zeroes `[player+0x1d28]` — our `LootLatch` — while 10, 12, 13 and 14 jump past it, so a master looter refused a hand-off no longer stands up out of the kneel at a still-open corpse; the default arm's `ja 0x5ebabd` lands on code 7's arm, so every unnamed code prints `ERR_LOOT_DIDNT_KILL` and releases (2035); and the pet has its own two message tables, not the player's with a flag: `SMSG_PET_ACTION_FEEDBACK`'s handler `0x4bdb70` decrements the byte, bounds it at 3 and jump-tables it through `0x4bdbe8` to `ERR_PET_SPELL_DEAD`, `ERR_NO_ATTACK_TARGET`, `ERR_INVALID_ATTACK_TARGET`, `ERR_PET_SPELL_NOPATH` — one per vmangos `PetFeedback` value, where our two-entry map had printed "No path available for your pet" for a dead pet, "Out of range" for no target and nothing for 3 and 4; `SMSG_PET_CAST_FAILED` is `0x6e8eb0`, a separate 142-byte index table that overrides ten reasons, six of them to `ERR_PET_SPELL_*` rows with no other raise site in the client, so `CastFail` grows a `Caster` and picks its table from it while layers 1 and 3 stay shared, as the binary shares them; `0x6e8eb0` calls neither the combat-log formatter `0x62c360` nor the error sound `0x458a50`, so a pet's refused Growl no longer prints "You fail to cast Growl: …" as the player's own failure; and the source walk that exists to catch a non-catalog key was blind to both wrong keys because all 465 catalog keys begin `ERR_`, so the tripwire moves to the funnel — `Shown::keyed` warns on a key `by_key` cannot resolve (2033)
- the hunter-pet feedback cluster, five opcodes carved off the binary where four had sat name-table-only: `SMSG_PET_TAME_FAILURE` (`0x173`) is two GlobalStrings lookups in order — `0x6e6a20` maps `reason − 1` through the eleven-arm jump table at `0x6e6ac0` to a `PETTAME_*` key and hands the resolved string to `DisplayError(ERR_TAME_FAILED)`, anything outside `1..=11` taking `PETTAME_UNKNOWNERROR`, and Call Pet and Revive Pet raise it too; `SMSG_PET_NAME_INVALID` (`0x178`) raises `ERR_INVALID_PETNAME` from the shared dispatcher `0x5e38c0`'s arm `0x5e3e33` — 1066 had called a refused rename silent on a carve that gave `0x178` the handler `0x4bdc00`, which is `0x2AF SMSG_PET_BROKEN`'s and raises `ERR_PET_BROKEN`, body unread; `SMSG_PET_ACTION_SOUND` (`0x324`) is a bark, not a sound id — its two talk values reach the bark dispatcher `0x623a40` at states 1 and 2, i.e. `CreatureSoundData` columns 28 and 27, and the shipped DBC names them from the other side: exactly four of its 406 rows carry them, the Imp, Succubus, Doomguard and Voidwalker voices, as `A_<demon>_ORDER`/`A_<demon>_KILL`; `Latch::Voice` now carries the bark state as a number and every one-shot creature vocal goes through one `play_bark` that is `0x623a40` — aggro at 0, the pet barks at 1 and 2, the death cry at 4, which had been on a bare `play_kit` off the slot so a pet bark could talk over it — with the reference's `jle` priority rule, because under the old boolean slot a demon's voice would have lost every race against its own aggro flares and been inaudible; it is a warlock-demon surface end to end — vmangos only sends it for a summoned pet, at a 10% roll per order, and a hunter's wolf has neither the columns nor the packet; and the fifth opcode surfaced because the cross-check went looking for column 29's consumer: `SMSG_PET_DISMISS_SOUND` (`0x325`), handler `0x604140`, reads column 29 twice (`0x6041c4`/`0x6041dc`) off a row resolved fresh by `CreatureModelData` id rather than the cached `[unit+0xb40]` — which is why a census over the cache had called the column dead — and plays `A_<demon>_DISMISS` at the packet's point with `z + 1.0`, no unit and no latch; column 29 is loaded, the column nothing reads is 22 (zero on all 406 rows), and the dismiss handler is built although vmangos never sends the packet (2039)
- every UV scroll and animated tint in the world had been frozen for three days: 1940's deferred realization parks a freshly built `WowModelMaterial` behind a reserved handle until something view-visible binds it, and `doodad_anim::register_uv`/`register_tint` still reached for the store alone — `Assets::get_mut` answered `None` for every registration, the slot was freed, the registry stayed empty and the shader read the pinned-zero identity row for every batch, silently, because the `else` branch was a bare `return`; the fix is the address, not the timing: `Parked::value_mut`/`value`/`holds` reach a value wherever it currently lives and `lazy::with_material_mut`/`with_material`/`holds` publish that, so the one-shot build stamp lands in the parked value and rides realization in — realizing it to stamp it would have thrown away exactly what deferral buys; the tick's eviction on `Assets::contains` read a parked material as dead and asks `lazy::holds` now, the empty-registry early-out says so out loud when marked parts exist, and two instruments ship — `WOW_MATANIM_PROBE=<secs>` prints per animated part whether it is registered, whether its loop moves, what its table row holds and whether it is drawn, and `WOW_WORLDVIEW_AT=x,y[,z]` opens the server-less viewer anywhere; measured at the reported waterfall: 0 uv / 0 tint entries before, 87 uv / 6 tint around the Elwynn valley after, its two sheets on slots 1 and 2 with live rows −0.2122 and −0.4246 — the authored 1:2 ratio (2038); and the paper doll and the inspect pane are lit from the model's right: `CGLight+0x24` is the direction the light PROPAGATES — the `CharacterModelBase` ctor `0x505680` writes `(0, 1, 0)` and `0x71bce0` negates all three components before building the SH basis — so `model_pane_light()` hands the packer the ctor's vector as written where 0638 had negated it on the way in and lit both panes from the left; the ambient `(0.7, 0.7, 0.7)`, the diffuse `(0.8, 0.8, 0.64)` and the side-light analysis all hold, which is why the A/B that approved 0638 could not tell the two readings apart (2034)
- a unit tooltip whose name query has not answered titles `UNKNOWNOBJECT`, not a blank gold row: the reference's builder `0x529fe0` reads its NAME line through `CGUnit_C::GetUnitName 0x609210` — the same function `UnitName 0x517020` delegates to — and every miss on its three legs, the null creature record included, ends at the one `FrameScript_GetText("UNKNOWNOBJECT")` tail at `0x609324`, so `unknownobject` moves into `unit` proper and the plate and the verb share it, read out of the VM's `_G` with the binary's "Unknown Being" behind a missing global; the faction line stops waiting for the creature record — its entry gate `0x612610` returns 1 when there is none, so it resolves off `UNIT_FIELD_FACTIONTEMPLATE` and keeps only `HIDE_FACTION_TOOLTIP` for when the record lands; the reference's placeholder sticks for the whole hover (stock `GameTooltip.xml` registers `UPDATE_MOUSEOVER_UNIT` alone) and our line-change repaint, which replaces it when the answer lands, is kept (2040); a unit predicate answers the NUMBER 1 or nil, never a Lua boolean: `UnitExists`, `UnitIsDead`, `UnitIsGhost`, `UnitIsDeadOrGhost` and `UnitOnTaxi` pushed a boolean and twenty-three more open-coded the right shape in eighteen places, where the reference pushes through `lua_pushnumber 0x6f3810` or `lua_pushnil 0x6f37f0`; all twenty-eight now reach 1830's one push site `binding_abi::predicate` — via `unit::unit_predicate` for a `UnitState` field, directly otherwise — `UnitIsCharmed`'s `Number(1.0)` and `ClearTarget`'s hand-branched nil included, and `UnitOnTaxi` gains the reference's `Usage:` raise (gate `0x517a48`) where a nil token had raised mlua's type error; truthiness is why it survived (`if UnitIsDead(u)` reads the same either way, and `== nil` inverts), nine `eval::<bool>` tests were vacuous under mlua's coercion and `taxi.rs` had pinned `== false`/`== true` — the one shape the reference cannot emit — so a table-driven test covers all twenty-eight on both legs, and `UnitIsAFK`/`UnitIsDND` now say they are ours (zero occurrences image-wide) (2043); and the quest log's stock title width cap — `275 − 15 − tagWidth`, live off the chain since 1944 — ellipsizes on one line rather than wrapping into the 16-unit row: 1873 declined it reading an explicit width as a wrap width, but the title FontString declares `y="10"`, and a declared height arms both overflow regimes, so a 258 px title in a 206 px box paints as one line ending in three ASCII dots — the reference's own result, its ellipsis gate at `0x771ec0` being `boxW > 0 && (maxLines != 0 || boxH > 0)`, which only an auto-height FontString escapes; two tests pin the render law on the real FRIZQT face and the geometry the stock file hands it, including the cap's per-row-button stickiness, which is the reference's too (2036)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 19:39:11 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 c957f98d84 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 f9293ffbe8 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 dbcf60fc31 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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 21:01:38 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 a5382d7b37 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 2ec92beeed 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 ad7edb3198 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
pkuzicandClaude Opus 4.8 2fb942b661 Apply reference real-character-shadows patch (Bevy shadow-map approach)
Character-only realtime shadows via a DirectionalLight + a private-layer
CPU-skinned caster proxy; terrain/models/static_gx receive through Bevy's
shadows::fetch_directional_shadow. Opt-in cvar `worldShadows` (default off);
hides the blob oval when on. Branched from 7f4db0e (clean pre-shadow base).

Conflicts resolved: cvars.rs (our `same()` style + 45-entry session array),
options_tests.rs (our row counts +1 for the World Shadows toggle).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 23:49:48 +01:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 b8e0025bc9 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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 17:05:15 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5.1 d017ca1cde 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 25c865c00a 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 80551cab5e the cave hides the lake, the lifts come back, the bolt gets its width
- from inside a building the open-world water outside draws only through a doorway you can see, as terrain and trees already did — the Caverns of Time lake is gone from the cavern's ceiling: there was never a second visibility lane for open-world liquid (the old deferral said "it already has an authority"; a sweep of every visibility writer found none, so Bevy's frustum test was the lake's only gate), an ADT liquid layer is tagged exterior scene at spawn and the existing window cull owns it, one 33 yd chunk layer at a time — which the reference's bytes then confirmed is its unit too (`CChunkLiquid`, reachable only from the per-window walk, a sealed room's supply discarded not deferred); a building's own pool also rides the Map Objects toggle now, so switching buildings off no longer leaves the canals hanging in the air
- the Thunder Bluff elevators and every other Kalimdor lift were invisible for the whole session whenever you logged in on that continent: the lift arm snapshotted the current map one stage before the login frame had written it, so every lift compared itself against map 0 and hid as off-map — a lift carries no map at all now (it is only ever streamed to players standing on its own map), the off-map term stays for the boats it was written for, and `WOW_LIFT_CENSUS` prints each transport's arm state, cycle and visibility (13 transports, 11 hidden → 0)
- the lightning across Razorgore's room and Chain Lightning's mob-to-mob hop drew as hairlines: the chain renderer took each hop's cross-section as the world-horizontal perpendicular, where the reference takes `(−d.y, d.x, 0)` in eye space — the ribbon is view-plane aligned and keeps its authored 2 × halfWidth yards at every angle, so a long level beam watched from its own plane no longer thins to a line (the "a hop seen end-on genuinely collapses" note was wrong and is gone)
- a display that names a model builds even when it draws no batch — Naxxramas' Unholy Axe / Swords / Staff are an invisible stalker holding a Monster weapon, and the held weapon had nowhere to hang; the same gate was keeping 43 emitter-only GameObjects dark (house and blacksmith smoke, Ironforge's lava steam, Stratholme's embers, every firework), and a name sits at the authored PlayerName attachment instead of at the feet; and a vendor's foot-shuffle on turning to you now blends the whole way in and runs to its own clip window — a 500 ms step on 1100 of 1130 shipped shuffle records — where the latch had tested the gap left against a band sixty times too wide, and nothing ever ended the step

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 17:15:08 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 6ff3f88b87 bogus form requirements, the hover jump, and mining at skill 1
- priest tooltips drop their bogus red lines ("Requires Shadowform" on Psychic Scream and Inner Fire, "Requires Spirit of Redemption" on Flash Heal): `Spell.dbc`'s Stances mask is an allow-list, not a requirement, when `AttributesEx2` bit 19 is set — 244 of the 522 masked spells carry the waiver, and the tooltip now consults the same gate the cast validator already did; Charge's "Requires Battle Stance" still asserts
- a hovering mover refuses the jump, silently — no packet, no toast — exactly as `CMovement::Jump` does: the HOVER test sits ahead of the swim select, so a levitating swimmer can't breach either; the old gate refused on ROOT only
- opening a lock gates on your skill, never your level: mining with 1 Mining no longer appears to open a 300 vein only to be bounced by the server — the client-side "Requires Mining ≥N" refusal fires with no packet sent, and the level term rides the skill block through the same clamp the reference uses
- the Mod/Mod2x fade was never a deviation — preset 5 IS the identity-lerp, byte-exact, five comment sites re-lawed with no behaviour change; and the garble word pool (`LanguageWords.dbc`) loads, the first hop of the language scramble that lands next

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 18:03:19 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 00c3a49a53 the paper doll animates again, and the char-select plaza stops pulsing
- the paper doll and the character-select stage animate again: a staged rig is fenced off the world's frustum parker, which had been freezing every booth half a second after its bake
- the char-select plaza stops pulsing dark and bright after a geared relog: the off-world lane now carries its authored batch order, so a ground decal and the street under it stop swapping on a sort tie re-broken every frame
- the perf HUD goes on a diet: two small numbers and a bare arrow, drawn from a 4 Hz snapshot instead of the live meters
- a missing file in a player's addon manifest logs WARN, not ERROR — a broken third-party package is the addon's defect, not the client's

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 19:04:09 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 74c3b47a7f event-driven UI feeds, and the character window's cost lets go
- the eight heaviest UI feeds — spellbook, party, character, bags, talents, units, pet, player — rebuild only when an input moved instead of every frame: 216 → 12 µs a frame parked
- the character window's cost settles once it closes: enchant countdowns feed by the second instead of firing an inventory event into all 20 slots every frame, the paper-doll booth parks with its camera, and a window hidden under the cursor fires OnLeave so its tooltip goes with it — the reference's hover-hide law
- the walk stops paying for finished work: the loading-screen tally's per-placement walk latches off once the world is ready, the settled placement spawner is one integer compare, and billboards stop dirtying every card's transform
- never-rendering hierarchy nodes — rig anchors, joints, doodad hosts — keep the hide chain but leave the per-camera visibility sweep: 25,198 → 18,026 swept entities at Goldshire

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 19:01:11 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 b932302d79 the lava bubbles move again, and the bonfire keeps its wood
- Blackrock Mountain's lava bubbles animate at last: their sprite's flip-book channel was baked from a sequence they never play — UV and tint loops now bake per sequence, and a placement whose sequences disagree gets its own material
- a bonfire's logs were vanishing while its flame burned on: a body planted just under its own floor now claims the room above it, and the flame card and fire sound follow the body's cull instead of outliving it
- a WMO prop's animation host stops being cull-tested as an object in its own right
- WOW_TILE_RADIUS's doc now states its real default, 2, and why

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 17:27:28 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 404bbb0c6a lava creeps again, and sealed rooms empty of outdoor bodies
- lava and slime surfaces creep on the building path — the two liquid types the reference animates, and only those
- particle blend 1 is AlphaKey: the rock elemental throws tumbling chips instead of flat pale squares
- standing in a sealed room, outdoor creatures are never submitted to the scene at all — the reference's own election, not a hide
- an animation clip's arm frame fires no event keys, matching the client's walker rule frame for frame

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 19:23:04 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 a683d5524f the interface code is ours: the transcription debt is paid
- forty files that carried the reference's literal Lua are rewritten as our own expression of the behaviour — worst identical run 61 lines down to 7 — and the README now says exactly that
- the overlap gate measures the code itself across all four reference corpora, and ratchets: the number may only go down
- a lost session ends at the login screen instead of silently re-authenticating and stealing the account back
- a building's skybox is a real model: Caverns of Time's white ceiling becomes its painted nebula and additive stars

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 19:21:03 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 6e7867147d birds stop blinking out, and the version check is answered
- an animated doodad is culled by its authored box, not its bind pose — the one-yard bird flying a 64-yard circuit stops vanishing with the camera angle — and the fix survives the engine's own bound recompute
- the logon proof answers the server's version challenge instead of sending zeros, so a strict realmd stops rejecting benilla as a modified client
- two instruments land: a frame-by-frame visibility trace for one model, and a probe that classifies whether a realmd enforces the version check

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 19:09:40 +07:00
SamandClaude Fable 5 bdef9cd790 benilla-world: the engine becomes its own crate
- the world engine splits from the game into a benilla-world crate — 112 files, and the wall is ratcheted to zero names of the game inside the engine
- the engine's public doorway is counted and gated at 32 items, and the render materials, shaders and asset cache move down to benilla-assets
- the game's files leave the engine's asset root — game:// is its own space — and a spike binary boots the engine with no game attached
- weather rides along: snowfall emission is denominated in the reference's frame cap, and a long teleport retires the stranded precipitation field instead of leaving it behind

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 18:13:44 +07:00