An open group (game clients, web clients, a zone's instances) keeps one box
that grows by its rows, at most 8 in view with the rest scrolled. Each row
in view is a link end of its own with only its member's traffic, and the
open box's header has none. Members are filtered by name, account or user,
instance and (with network_ips) address, in a steady order; web clients
show the dashboard user.
The filter and rows are HTML over the SVG, made once and then moved and
updated in place, so live updates keep the typed text, the focus and the
scroll; links follow the list's scroll. The box grows and shrinks with its
list, and the List view nests the members under their group with the same
filter.
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The dashboard's own loop is framed too, with a scope per module update. Frame time and stacked phase charts per server, the servers' loop summary, longest frames, packet handling times, the last 50 slow frames with a nested timeline, and profiling sessions (profiling_run, GM 8) drawn as a flame graph with folded stacks to download. PerfHistory keeps it in memory and is unit tested; the layouts are tested with node. Task 96.
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Pages label the game's currencies and stats with the client's words
(UI_COINS, UI_UNIVERSE_SCORE, UI_IMAGINATION, UI_REPUTATION, UI_HEALTH)
through game.terms and GameText.term instead of writing them.
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Settings help names zones by locale key (expanded when served), the
Property Rent page and the Worlds table name zones in the viewer's
language, and the UGC page drops its own inventory name table.
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The dashboard loads every language in the client's locale; each request
runs in the viewer's language (Workers::Reply carries it to the worker),
templates get game.* and phrase()/zone_name(), scripts get GameText.* on
<body data-game>, and the user menu picks the game text language.
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A labelled button (▸ 3 instances, ▸ each, ▾ group) or a double click opens a group; its members stack
where the group is (or was dragged to), boxes glide to their new places and new ones fade in. Rows keep
a fixed pitch, so opening a group only moves its own column, and open groups are remembered per browser.
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Account pages get a Client system info (as reported) card (client_sysinfo):
every description the account's client sent at login, newest first, with the
raw values, the memory text split into numbers and each field's caveat. The
address is only shown with logs_audit. The Client System Info page (Logs &
Health) shows the spread across players from each account's newest report:
Windows version, video card, memory buckets, processor count and client build,
marked as client-reported and approximate.
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Links leave and enter on the sides that face each other (top and bottom when one box is above the
other), so moving a box no longer leaves links ending in the air.
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The layout the viewer makes is kept in the browser, with a Reset layout button. A link's colour now
compares it with the busiest link right now instead of its own recent peak, which made steady links
look saturated.
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Next to Diagnostics (health_view): game and web clients, auth, chat,
worlds per zone (expandable), other reporting servers, master, the
dashboard and the UGC server, with a lane each way per link sized by
bytes/s, animated by packets/s and coloured by load against its own
5 minute peak. Estimated links (servers without a split) are dashed.
Clicking a box shows its links, busiest message types and a sparkline,
with a link to Diagnostics (which now takes ?server=). A connections
table lists each remote address; single clients can be drawn too.
Narrow screens get a list. Drawing stops while the tab is hidden.
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Staff flag chat for review (chat_flag): one message or several from one
conversation, with who it is about and a note. The flag keeps a copy of the
messages and 10 before and after. The Chat Flags page (Inbox, badge for open
flags) filters by status, character and account; a flag links to the character,
the account (mute, warn, ban), their player reports, their other flags and the
conversation, and shows its history. Reviewers (chat_flag_review) mark it
actioned or dismissed, change the note, link a player report or comment; all of
it is in the flag's history and the audit log. The sidebar adds Team Chat.
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Guild chat per guild (/chat_log/guild/<id>, from the guild's card), team chat by
team (/chat_log/teams) and a character's whispers by conversation
(/characters/<id>/whispers, chat_dms; opening one is audited), paged on the
server. The Chat Log filters by account and time range, shows the conversation
around a message, links to its history and marks flagged messages; messages can
be picked (shift-click for a range) to flag. The character page links to all of
them.
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Make again gets a Made by picker, /api/ugc/options lists the processor
choices and default, the settings page has the toolbox_* settings, and
/reprocessproperty takes native or toolbox-blender.
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The third ray backend, so every machine has a library for it: Embree on x86
CPUs (embree), HIPRT on AMD and NVIDIA GPUs (hiprt), Embree through SYCL on
Intel Arc and Xe GPUs (embree-gpu).
- CMake option DLU_EMBREE_SYCL (off). dUgcServer/EmbreeSycl is a project of
its own built by a SYCL compiler (DLU_SYCL_CXX; icpx through ONEAPI_ROOT or
the path, or the open source DPC++'s clang++ through DPCPP_ROOT) as an
external project: Embree 4.4 with EMBREE_SYCL_SUPPORT, linked statically and
bound inside (-Bsymbolic, only its C functions exported, so it never meets
the servers' own Embree), and the GPU kernels (nearest hit skipping a ray's
triangle, any hit), into libdlu_embree_sycl next to the servers
- UgcRaysEmbreeGpu loads it the first time embree-gpu is asked for; one GPU for
the process (embree_gpu_device picks it), the workers take turns, the
occlusion rays in batches as for hiprt
- without the build, the library or a supported Intel GPU it falls back to
embree and says why (the UGC server's log at start, --make-model on stderr)
- the option names, the settings page, the dashboard's picker, /reprocessproperty
Verified here: the default build and ctest; the SYCL build with the open source
DPC++ 7.1.0 (compiles, links against oneAPI's libsycl.so.9, exports only its C
functions); on this machine (no Intel GPU) it loads, finds no GPU and falls
back to embree. Not verified: tracing on an Intel GPU (none here).
Check: on a machine with an Intel Arc or Xe GPU and oneAPI, configure with
-DDLU_EMBREE_SYCL=ON and run UgcServer --make-model x.lxfml out embree-gpu;
the UGC tests then compare it with Embree.
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Embree 4 (always built) replaces the UGC server's own bounding volume
hierarchies (the nearest-hit one and the occlusion rays' any-hit one), with no
fallback to them. ray_backend is embree (default) or hiprt (optional build;
Embree when it can't be used).
Settings, stored options and stats that say builtin still read: it is embree
(UgcRays::Parse, UgcProcessOptions::Parse). The dashboard's picker,
/reprocessproperty and --make-model offer embree and hiprt.
Tests: the backends are compared with Embree (hiprt when built), Embree against
rays whose hits are known, and the clutter's occlusion against what the old
hierarchy worked out (296 vertices summing to 114.5, 26 open, 183 dark); the
pinned model hashes are unchanged with Embree.
Check: ray_backend=builtin in an ini still starts and uses embree; the
settings page offers Embree and HIPRT.
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The path tracer that imitated LU Toolbox's Remove Hidden Faces took 17 to 100
times as long as the renders from 42 directions around the model, too heavy to
use. It goes with its settings (hsr_method, hsr_samples, hsr_bounces,
hsr_sample_spacing, hsr_min_points), its side by side tracing for GPUs and its
tests. The renders (UgcRender::VisibleFromAround) remove hidden faces as before
that method existed; their size is hsr_resolution (1024), and the memory
estimate counts their buffers again.
The hidden-face method is no longer a processing option: the dashboard's picker,
/reprocessproperty and --make-model take only the ray backend (the occlusion's)
and denoising. Options stored before (made_options, process_options,
ugc_process_runs, --make-model arguments) that name toolbox or fast still
parse; the word is skipped.
Check: the settings page has no hsr_method or path settings and has
hsr_resolution; /reprocessproperty embree toolbox still works (toolbox
ignored); models made with the defaults keep their hashes (UGC tests).
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The UGC page's Make again buttons (a model's, the failed ones, everything) use
the ray tracer, hidden-face method and denoising picked next to them (the
settings' when left alone). The List view's new Options column shows what made
each model and what its next make will use; "Processing options compared"
shows every combination the made models used with its makes, models and the
average time, CPU time, hidden faces', occlusion's and icon's time and share of
triangles removed per make.
Check: the three selects next to Make again (models only); make a model again
with embree fast and see its Options column and the comparison table.
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The dashboard snapshot counts guilds whose name waits for moderation; the moderation counts (WebSocket and
/api/moderation/counts) include it, the Review Queue badge adds it for staff with guilds_manage, and the Guilds menu
entry has its own badge. Check: create a guild with a name off the allow list: both badges go up; approve it: they
go down.
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The UGC Search page and the UGC page searched the same things (owner,
account, property, the name and description a player gave a model, LOT,
UGC / blueprint id) with the same SQL. The UGC page's lists are now the
one search:
- models' List view has a Where column: placed on a property (with the
name given there and a link to the model in the property's 3D view),
in a mail or in the creator's inventories, or not found
(/api/ugc?where=1, UgcLinks::Whereabouts as before)
- owners link to their character and, with accounts_view, account
- while searching, the kind buttons say how many models and how many
cars and rockets match (/api/ugc "matches")
- /ugc_search?q= redirects to /ugc?view=list&q=; the menu's UGC Search
entry is now UGC, which opens the UGC page (it was only under Server
Admin, for ugc_manage)
- References lose their Find button (Where it is has the same) and name
the inventory a build is in
The ugc-search page and script are removed; /api/ugc_links/search stays
for API users.
Check: the menu's UGC entry; an old /ugc_search?q= link opens the UGC
list with the search filled in; owner:, account:, property:, name:,
lot: and id: searches, and the counts on the kind buttons; the Where
column's links (property, 3D, character, account).
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The UGC page's assemblies (cars and rockets) list had its own columns.
It now has the models' columns and sorts, minus Saved: ID and Owner (the
newest build and its creator, and how many other owners), State, Made,
Took, CPU and RAM (the latest make of any build, and the cost of the make
the UGC server did for the combination; builds that shared the made icon
cost nothing), Size (the module count), File (the build type and its
modules) and Where (how many builds and owners use it, opening
References). The gallery sorts the same way.
Check: UGC page, Cars and rockets, List: every column sorts both ways on
the server, and the gallery's sort list has the same sorts.
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With the menu hidden on a wide screen the page had no name or link
home left; the top bar now shows "DarkflameServer" (linking home) then,
as it already does on narrow screens.
Check: hide the menu with the top bar's menu button on a wide window:
"DarkflameServer" appears beside it and opens Home; showing the menu
again hides it.
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Actions on an account (ban, mute, lock, GM level, email) and on a
character (edit, restoring a version, saving its XML) show the result
in place (reloadInPlace) instead of reloading the page. Deleting an
account goes back to Accounts without leaving the deleted account in
the history. After an in-place update (dash:refreshed) the pages show
the server's values again the way they do on load: last logins and the
mute end in the browser's time, and the GM level picker (unless a new
level is being picked).
Check: lock and unlock an account: the badge changes with no reload.
Change an account's GM level from another tab: the first tab's level
picker follows. Edit a character's items: the page updates when the
dialog closes. A character's last login updates when they log in.
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reloadInPlace() and goTo(url) (common.js) show the page again or open
another one through nav.js, or reload/load normally without it.
Resolving a bug report updates the page in place; deleting a bug
report or play key goes back to its list without leaving the deleted
page in the history. The System Log's server and file pickers and its
Refresh button swap the page in (Refresh keeps the scroll position).
The AI helper's "open the account" goes through nav.js too.
Check: resolve a bug report: the Resolved badge and text appear with no
reload. Delete a play key: back on Play Keys, and Back doesn't return
to the deleted key. System Log: picking a server or file and Refresh
change the log without a white flash.
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Nav.refresh() fetches the current page and compares the server's HTML
now with the HTML the page started from; only what differs is patched
into the live page (text, attributes, class changes, rows added or
taken away). Typed input stays (the browser keeps what the user
changed while the default value follows the server), and parts built
by the page's scripts are left alone. Where a patch would lose
script-built or script-bound parts, or the page's layout changed, the
page is swapped in again with its scripts, keeping the scroll
position, open tabs, open folding parts and typed input; while the
user is typing it offers a refresh instead.
Live.refreshPage (account, character, bug report and play key pages)
uses it instead of reloading the page, and the "This changed while you
were editing" banner's Refresh does too.
Check: open a play key; in another tab change its uses or active
switch: the first tab's values and badge change without a reload,
and notes typed there stay. Same on a bug report page with a half
typed resolution when it's resolved elsewhere. On a character page,
an in-game save updates it without losing the open tab or scroll.
Test: NavRulesJs.
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nav.js (loaded on every signed-in page) follows links and GET forms to
other dashboard pages by fetching the page and swapping in its <main>,
title, page styles and page scripts; the sidebar, top bar and live
WebSocket stay. History entries, back/forward (with scroll positions,
also kept for a reload), deep links, #hash filters and breadcrumbs keep
working. What the old page set up is taken down first: its
document/window listeners, setInterval timers, Live watchers and
topics, DataTables, dialogs and what it appended to <body>. Page
scripts run again in order; DOMContentLoaded/load handlers they add run
once they have all run. A thin bar shows while loading; a failed fetch
shows an inline error with Try again / Open it normally.
Falls back to a normal load for anything that isn't a signed-in
dashboard page, when the account or permissions changed, and for pages
with module scripts or an import map (World 3D, property view and 3D,
UGC server) or data-nav="reload", and when leaving those. Unsaved-change
prompts (beforeunload) are asked before swapping.
Check: click around the sidebar and into accounts/characters: no white
flash, the footer's live indicator stays "live", back/forward return to
the same scroll position, breadcrumbs follow the path (Accounts > an
account > a character). Activity Log links with #search= still filter.
System Log's server picker works. Leaving Settings with a change asks
first. World 3D and a property's 3D view still load (normally). Pages
that poll (Server Health, Instance Load) stop polling once left
(browser network tab). Test: NavRulesJs.
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The menu's groups stay open or closed from page to page
(localStorage "dash.sidebar", this browser only), applied by an inline
script right after the menu so the first paint already shows them. The
group of the current page opens and stays open until it is closed. A
new top bar button hides the menu on wide screens; that choice is
applied in <head>, also before the first paint.
Check: open and close a few menu groups, switch pages and reload; the
groups stay as left, with no flicker. On a wide window the menu button
left of the user menu hides the menu, and it stays hidden across pages
and reloads. Narrow screens: the Menu button still slides the menu out.
Test: SidebarStateJs (ctest, needs node).
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A Grants tab on the Permissions page (with grants_manage: every grant in force, the history, and a form that asks
whose it is, searching accounts or characters by name), and a Permission grants card on account and character pages
(the account's or character's grants and history; the form with grants_manage). The form picks the kind (dashboard
permission, in-game command, every permission of a category, every command up to a GM level) and searches what to
grant among only what the signed-in user may grant; grant or deny, an optional expiry and a note. In-force grants have
a Remove button when the user may remove them. Players see their own grants, read-only. The Permissions page (and its
menu entry) now opens with permissions_manage or grants_manage; the GM level tabs still need permissions_manage.
Check: as GM 9, add a grant and a deny from the Permissions page and from an account and a character page, with and
without an expiry; remove one; the lists and history update (also in a second tab). As a GM 8 given grants_manage:
only the Grants tab shows, and only permissions and commands GM 8 has are offered. As a player: your own account page
lists your grants without a form.
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Three sections with one-line explanations instead of paragraphs:
- Test a message: normal or best friends' free chat, the verdict, each
word with why, and Block/Allow/Remove per word.
- Staff lists: one table for Blocked and Allowed with search, a list
filter and 50 per page. Block, Allow, move and Remove open a
confirmation showing where the word stands and the recent chat the
change affects (the old "What would blocking it stop?" checks).
- Word files: each file's size in one line; chatplus_en_us.txt words
searchable, 200 per page with Previous/Next; click a word to test it.
All existing APIs are unchanged and still used. docs/Dashboard.md
rewritten for the page.
Check: /chat_filter: test a message in both chats, add, move and remove
a word (confirm and cancel), search and page both lists, copy file
words into Allowed, Re-apply in running worlds.
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New Mail page (/mail, characters_mail, under Moderation): every in-game
mail newest first and live, with sender and receiver linked to their
character and account, the attachment with its icon and name (waiting
or claimed), and the state (unread, read, deleted by the player with
the time). Filters: state, character (sent or received), account,
text. Open shows the body, the attachment's item ID, subkey and data.
Locale keys in mail (%[MissionEmail_12_subjectText], the game's sender
name) are shown as the client shows them, from locale.xml; the stored
text stays under "Stored text". LocaleText::Expand, unit tested.
The character Mailbox uses the same view. Staff see mail the player
deleted (marked) and a link to the character's mail on the Mail page;
the owner sees only what is still in the mailbox, without account IDs.
/api/characters/:id/mail keeps its old fields and adds the new ones.
Check: /mail with each filter, Open on game, staff and player mail,
a mission mail's subject translated; a character's Mailbox as staff
and as the owner after deleting a mail in game.
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The UGC page's model view now draws the glitter sparkle shapes (look
SPARKLE) flashing as the client's Distortion Directional shader makes
them: two layers of sparkles sliding at the client's rates (a tile in
24 s at three quarters the scale, a tile in 48 s), shown only where both
have one. Flecks are drawn as flat flakes of the fleck size and varied
brightness (addGlitter in scenery-core.js), no longer drifting (the game
never moves them). The LXFML views (the UGC page's second view, the
property and zone views) draw both on the glitter colors from
window.LDD_GLITTER, which now carries every glitter setting and is no
longer cached, so changing a glitter setting on the settings page
previews on any model's LXFML view without making it again.
Check in the dashboard (not the game): open a glitter model on the UGC
page; both views show still flecks and sparkles flashing on the glitter
bricks only; change glitter_sparkle_amount / glitter_fleck_size in the
settings and reopen the model: the LXFML view follows.
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Why the glitter never moved: player models (LOT 14) are wrapped in
weeblewobble.kfm (RenderComponentWrapper 9845), so the client makes them
an LWOSkinnedRenderComponent, whose Run (0x00d6d3d0) updates the scene
graph (and so any NiTextureTransformController) only while animation is
enabled, and LWOModelBehaviorComponent::EnableAnimation (0x00be2740)
turns it off for modelType 2, which every placed property model is. The
root flags 0x102 added earlier are only read by the base render
component. Nothing in a placed model's .nif can move.
What does move: shader classes set globals in their own per-frame Run.
Distortion Directional (Ocean) (mapShaders 79, Run 0x010b90c0) slides
its texture layers by fixed shares of a tile a second, as the game's own
pond ripples (S79__pond_ripplesShape). Glitter bricks now get a sparkle
group, S79_GlitterSparkle_Model: their triangles lifted 0.005 off the
brick, vertex colors white tinted by the brick, UVs placed per brick,
alpha tested (ShaderCommon's alpha test phase, GREATEREQUAL 127), with a
stored texture of flat sparkles at alpha 230: one layer's sparkle alone
averages under the test, two meeting pass, so sparkles flash and go out
as the layers cross. The flecks stay (LEGO-AnimUV, now without the
controllers and flags that never ran). The icon and the dashboard's 3D
view leave the sparkles out.
New settings: shader_glitter_sparkle (79, 0 off), glitter_sparkle_size,
glitter_sparkle_amount, glitter_sparkle_tint, glitter_sparkle_brightness;
glitter_speed is now how fast sparkles flash (the sparkle tile). Only
glitter output changes; non-glitter models are byte-identical.
Check in game: reprocess a property with glitter models, then look at
them from a few angles and distances, on each graphics quality:
- sparkles flash on and off all over the glitter bricks, continuously
- no flickering fight between the sparkles and the brick surface
- transparent glitter bricks still see-through, flecks still visible
- nothing drawn where there is no glitter brick; icons unchanged
apart from the flecks
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Drops the analysis views (objects, loot odds, missions, skills, behavior
trees, activities, zones), the name search and the 3D preview, with
their API routes and CDClientRules.h. What stays: the table list,
paging, sort, any-column search, column filters, and linked values that
open the target table filtered to that ID. Old links such as
/cdclient#/object/<LOT> (UGC page, world view) now open the Objects
table filtered to that LOT.
Check in the dashboard: CDClient Browser lists every table; open one,
sort by a column, add a filter, search, page; click a LOT or loot
matrix value; /cdclient#/object/1727 opens Objects id = 1727.
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- IUgc::GetUgcProcessTotals sums what the UGC server made, for models and
for car and rocket builds: count, time spent (and how many are timed),
CPU time, average and slowest, average and most memory (estimate),
bricks, triangles and triangles saved (models whose count before hidden
face removal is known). /api/ugc returns them as totals and the UGC page
shows a card for each kind. Parity tested.
- Player models no longer have a shared icon preset: every one is a
different size and shape, so its icon is fitted to it from the settings.
The UGC server ignores a kind:model preset, the dashboard refuses to save
one, and the icon editor hides the type buttons for models. One model's
own icon values still work. Car and rocket build types keep theirs.
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Purge all ran on the UGC server's main thread inside the dashboard's
request: it measured and deleted every stored folder, then updated rows one
by one, and the main thread (downloads, the master link, the database)
waited minutes for it. Now a purge answers at once and a file thread lists,
measures and deletes the folders; the main thread applies what it removed
and updates the rows a few hundred a tick. No new item is started while a
purge runs, and items being made when it starts are left alone, so no worker
writes into a folder being deleted. One purge at a time. The storage cap's
clean-up lists and deletes on the same thread. The UGC page shows the
purge's progress (/status purge).
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fmt.property(id, name) links a property's page and adds a small 3D button
straight to its 3D view. Used everywhere a property is linked: the
properties list and top slots, moderation, character pages' related
properties, UGC search and the UGC page's placements, the home page, the
chat log, player reports and report notes.
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- Flair tints are the terrain file's color bytes over 255, times the flair
model's own vertex colors (FlairAssets::AppendRenderBuffer divides by
255.0). The manifests said 63, so in the game shaders' sRGB maths tints
of up to 4 turned the flairs white (Battle Against Frakjaw's leaves).
Conversion format 6, so flair manifests kept by browsers are fetched
again.
- BasicShaders, AlphaAsAlpha and Flair.fx multiply the light by the vertex
color and only then clamp, as the COLOR0 output; the views clamped the
light first, so a light brighter than 1 no longer lifted darker vertex
colors.
- Docs: the flair tint, the clamp, and that AlphaAsAlpha cards show their
backs (Cullmode none) from outside a playable area.
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The game shader views looked up each shader's technique in the manifest's
"techniques". Property scenery manifests are cached by browsers for a day
(world ones for an hour), so after the update a browser drew the property
view from the manifest the older server had sent, which has no
techniques: every shader fell back to LEGO, whose decal texture alpha
laid the see-through tree, rock and water textures over white vertex
colors. Nimbus Isle came out with white trees, rocks and water, a yellow
build surface and a solid white build border.
- Manifest URLs carry the conversion format the views are written for
(?format=5, scenery-core.js SCENERY_FORMAT), so a kept manifest from
an older server is never used; SceneryCoreJs checks it matches
Scenery.cpp FORMAT_VERSION.
- A manifest without techniques (an older server's) is drawn with the
viewer's own lights and its textureAlpha table instead of every
shader guessed as LEGO.
- A material whose NiAlphaController animates its alpha is drawn at its
highest key. The AnimAlpha shaders now use the material alpha, and
effects resting at 0 in the file (the Venture Explorer's lightning)
had vanished. Conversion format 5.
Checked by rendering the world view of every zone with models and the
property view of every property template (headless, fixed cameras)
before and after, and the Nimbus Isle property with a manifest stripped
of its techniques, which reproduced the white look.
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game-shaders.js ports the client's techniques to one ShaderMaterial
program per family and variant: LEGOPPLighting (hemisphere lit sun,
ambient, fresnel rim, N.H^320 specular, the default reflection cube;
decal and non-decal textures, emissive, super emissive, glow, grayscale,
no ambient, AnimUV), BasicShaders and AlphaAsAlpha (lit or unlit, both
sides, alpha blend, alpha test, additive, animated alpha, two layers),
Metallic.fx polished metal and brushed steel with the client's metal
cubes, clear plastic, the Distortion (Ocean) layers, Flat Surf,
BrickWater, darklings, terrain meshes, flairs and the sky. The maths runs
on sRGB values as Direct3D 9 did; lights, specular, hemisphere and fog
blend between scenes; textures move by the .nif's texture transforms.
Programs are shared by every material with the same defines.
A Fog switch (off by default) adds the zone's fog to scenery and
terrain. Shaders the game doesn't draw in the world (footprints, drop
shadows, post-processing) are left out. Docs list the families, their
gameValues and what's approximated.
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NifFile::TechniqueFor maps every mapShaders gameValue to the client's
technique family (fixed function, LEGO, Basic/AlphaAsAlpha, metal, clear
plastic, ocean distortion, flat surf, BrickWater, darkling, terrain mesh),
its eShaderLook bits, texture alpha and eTechniqueFlag bits (moving
texture, both sides, blend, alpha test, additive, no ambient, glow,
super emissive, grayscale, shiny glint, not drawn, ...), from res/shaders
and the verified technique setups. Values it lacks are the LEGO shader,
as the client falls back to it. TextureAlphaFor and ShaderLookFor read it.
The scenery manifests carry it as "techniques" (replacing textureAlpha
and shaderLooks), the flairs' manifest a Flair.fx technique, the
lighting its specular color. /api/scenery/env/:name serves the
environment cubes the client's shaders load themselves (default
reflection, polished and brushed metal, brushed noise). Conversion
format 4.
scenery-core.js: techniqueOf, gameLook with the family and flags,
blendingOf, parseDdsCube; its test checks the flag and look bits against
NifFile.h.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
game-shaders.js ports the client's techniques to one ShaderMaterial
program per family and variant: LEGOPPLighting (hemisphere lit sun,
ambient, fresnel rim, N.H^320 specular, the default reflection cube;
decal and non-decal textures, emissive, super emissive, glow, grayscale,
no ambient, AnimUV), BasicShaders and AlphaAsAlpha (lit or unlit, both
sides, alpha blend, alpha test, additive, animated alpha, two layers),
Metallic.fx polished metal and brushed steel with the client's metal
cubes, clear plastic, the Distortion (Ocean) layers, Flat Surf,
BrickWater, darklings, terrain meshes, flairs and the sky. The maths runs
on sRGB values as Direct3D 9 did; lights, specular, hemisphere and fog
blend between scenes; textures move by the .nif's texture transforms.
Programs are shared by every material with the same defines.
A Fog switch (off by default) adds the zone's fog to scenery and
terrain. Shaders the game doesn't draw in the world (footprints, drop
shadows, post-processing) are left out. Docs list the families, their
gameValues and what's approximated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
NifFile::TechniqueFor maps every mapShaders gameValue to the client's
technique family (fixed function, LEGO, Basic/AlphaAsAlpha, metal, clear
plastic, ocean distortion, flat surf, BrickWater, darkling, terrain mesh),
its eShaderLook bits, texture alpha and eTechniqueFlag bits (moving
texture, both sides, blend, alpha test, additive, no ambient, glow,
super emissive, grayscale, shiny glint, not drawn, ...), from res/shaders
and the verified technique setups. Values it lacks are the LEGO shader,
as the client falls back to it. TextureAlphaFor and ShaderLookFor read it.
The scenery manifests carry it as "techniques" (replacing textureAlpha
and shaderLooks), the flairs' manifest a Flair.fx technique, the
lighting its specular color. /api/scenery/env/:name serves the
environment cubes the client's shaders load themselves (default
reflection, polished and brushed metal, brushed noise). Conversion
format 4.
scenery-core.js: techniqueOf, gameLook with the family and flags,
blendingOf, parseDdsCube; its test checks the flag and look bits against
NifFile.h.
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Glitter colors (Materials.xml type glitter, glitter_colors 114,117) go into
S21_Glitter_Model and, transparent, S21_GlitterAlpha_Model (shader_glitter,
default 21, LEGO-AnimUV). Their shapes get box-projected UVs, an
NiTexturingProperty with a stored 128 px mipmapped fleck texture
(NiSourceTexture + NiPersistentSrcTextureRendererData, as the client's own
env_ag_ocean-maelstrom.nif) and two NiTextureTransformControllers looping
the base map's translation (glitter_size, glitter_density, glitter_speed).
The shader lays the texture over the vertex color by its alpha and outputs
the vertex alpha, so transparent glitter blends as S01_Alpha does.
Satin colors (satin_colors, LEGO's opal colors) stay in S01_Alpha but get
satin_opacity and are whitened by satin_whiten.
NifFile reads the base map's scroll speed (uvScroll) from the controllers;
the icon draws still flecks, the UGC 3D view and the LXFML viewers moving
ones. stats.json counts the glitter groups. With shader_glitter 0 and no
satin colors the files are the same bytes as before (tested). Also keeps
glow_emissive for the icon (it was reset by the icon settings).
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NifFile::ShaderLookFor knows Polished Metal (98), Brushed Steel (99) and
LEGO-Emissive (53). The UGC mesh route sends each mesh's look (from its
multishader tag), and the UGC 3D view draws metal as reflective and glow
unlit. The zone views draw LEGO-Emissive objects going to their vertex
color by its alpha, as the shader does.
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- Shader 94 ("Basic") draws with vertex colors: its class's technique setup
names Technique_Basic_Lighting_VertColor, as 38 "Basic VC" does. The views
treated it as having none, so Nimbus Station's glom pines (tag S84) came
out as their grey texture, white. The other shader looks in use were
checked the same way (33, 35, 37, 70, 82, 84, 105 hold).
- Two layer shaders: NiTexturingProperty's dark texture and the UV set each
texture's flags name are read, and the views draw "Two Layers Blended" as
the dark texture under the base one by the vertex alpha (no longer as
opacity) and "Two Textures Added" as in TwoLayersAdded_PS. Avant Gardens'
snowy grass mounds were see-through hills. The client ships no technique
for the blended ones, so that blend follows the meshes' data.
- The near plane follows how far out the camera is (distance / 400, 0.5 to
20) instead of a fixed 0.5 over a far plane in the thousands, so ground
overlays, floor rings and road pieces stop fighting in far views.
- Conversion format 3 (new model data), so kept conversions are made again.
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The textured terrain in the world and property 3D views now takes the
lighting the scenery uses (the scene's sun and ambient light, blending as
the focus moves between scenes), as TiledDetailDiffuse_4_PS does: the
blended textures times the diffuse map times two times the clamped vertex
light, times the blend alpha. Until a manifest brings the lighting, the
terrain keeps its own light.
Checked against the client (RAWReadColorandLightMaps 0x0102e3e0 and the
texture map reader at 0x0103aaf0): the game's diffuse map and blend map are
DDS copies of the color and texture maps the views use (same pixels on the
Avant Gardens chunks compared), so the dark patches and the steep drops at
the plateau's edges are in the terrain file itself.
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A "Scenes" choice in the world and property 3D views: every scene (as
before), the scenes the game keeps loaded around the camera or the followed
player (the scene under it from the terrain's scene map, the scenes its
transitions connect to, and the global scene, following as it moves), or
scenes picked from a list (world view). The lighting blends to the lighting
of the scene under the focus, as the client blends between scenes.
The scenery manifest now carries each object's scene, the zone's scenes with
their neighbours and lighting, and the scene map as runs (37 KB for Avant
Gardens); scenery-core.js finds the scene at a point exactly as ZoneScenes
does (checked against it on 2000 points of Avant Gardens).
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The old zone's scenery, flairs, terrain and markers stayed until the new
zone's data came back, and a manifest still loading could land after a newer
one. Switching now clears them at once; scenery requests are aborted when
cleared, late manifests and textures of a cleared load are dropped (and
disposed), and the budget no longer counts them.
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