- Levitate over water, whole: hover stacks on the water-walk surface, so the body rests exactly a yard above the waterline — the reference's own arm undoes the ground snap and descends by max(L−1.0, 0); casting it while swimming launches you clear of the water, because `SetHover(true)`'s handler calls `CMovement::Jump` before it ever sets the flag — a jump that, unlike Space's, is not refused for a hovering body; and aiming below −37° drops the liquid layers out of the walk mask, which is the reference's own way back into the water and the piece whose absence made the mode a one-way door
- walking no longer sinks a Levitator: the step-down snap's no-hit leg — right on land, where it is the frame that leaves a ledge — could not see water, since liquid is queried rather than swept, so every walking frame stepped down a cone's worth while the hover climb hauled it back; the arithmetic closes with no free parameters (descent 0.24355 yd a frame, climb 0.11667, net −0.12688 against a measured −0.12687), settling 0.88 yd under the hover line until the keys were released
- the pose advances on the PRESENTATION cadence, not the CPU loop: under vsync a frame reaches the eye only on a refresh boundary, but the measured delta absorbs the render thread's back-pressure wait, so two frames shown 16.67 ms apart get advanced 26.4 and 8.0 — the whole skeleton lurching at once, up to 91 of 117 bones past a quarter pixel in one frame; `Time<Virtual>` is re-split to a delta snapped to the estimated refresh with the remainder carried, engaging only while the stream looks vsync'd so a real stall stays visible — found once the jitter meter probed a point at each bone's flesh radius and logged the animation clock beside the wall clock, the two channels it had been blind in
- the character doll is a snapshot you edit, not a mirror you follow: the reference re-takes a model widget's copy on becoming visible, a change of dress, a manual sheath toggle or a resize — the combat auto-draw is not one of them, so a bow drawn in combat stays off the character sheet; and a portrait bake now waits for its PIPELINES too, not just its textures — off macOS a cold pipeline variant skips its batch silently, a one-shot still keeps the hole for the session, and which piece goes missing is which variants lost the race: the hair's alpha-key, the body's opaque, a glow card
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
