Seven of the client's own Interface\WorldMap textures never decoded. They
are the last column or row of an exploration overlay -- a few pixels
wide, a handful of colours -- so they store a SHORT BGRA palette and end:
RuinsOfThaurissan4.blp is 404 bytes in all, LakeEverstill6.blp is 276.
The parser sliced the nominal 256 entries and refused anything shorter.
A refused decode is a quad that draws nothing, and until this week a
texture that drew nothing also said nothing, so the symptom was a hole in
a zone's revealed art -- indistinguishable from not having explored it.
It surfaced only once the stitched world's geometry was right and the
render reached those tiles.
The palette is now as much of it as the file has, and an index past the
end is transparent black, which is what an unused index means.
every_world_map_texture_in_the_chain_decodes walks the folder: 3553
textures, 7 failures before, 0 after, and it fails on the old decoder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
gromandClaude Opus 5
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