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Aaron Kimbrell
8092c8ca09 docs(ugc): car and rocket modules have no textures
Checked for the "module textures in car and rocket icons" request: none
of the 399 render assets of the client's ModuleComponent LOTs (1.10.64;
the same in the other clients on disk) has an NiSourceTexture or
NiTexturingProperty. The modules' look is their vertex colors and
materials, which the icons draw already, so there is nothing to add.

Check: nothing to check in game; compare a car's and a rocket's icon with
the client's module icons (textures/ui/rebuilding/) if in doubt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 06:22:09 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
fcd939a92f feat(ugc): a model's time keeps its icon's when the icon is drawn again
A make's recorded time (process_ms, stats.json's ms.total) includes the
icon drawn at its end. Drawing only the icons again (the icon editor's
Draw all icons of this type again) left the stats and the rows with the
old icons' time. Now the icon-only job writes stats.json with the new
icon's time (ms.icon, ms.total changed by the difference,
UgcJobs::WithIconTime) and the main thread changes the row's process_ms
and process_cpu_ms by the same difference (the icon is drawn on one
thread, so its time is taken as its CPU time). The dashboard's Took,
CPU and totals follow.

Check: open a player model on the UGC page, Draw all icons of this type
again: afterwards its Took changes by the icon's difference and its
stats show the new icon time.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 06:22:08 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
fd141c232b feat(dashboard): the UGC page replaces UGC Search
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).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 06:22:08 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
e159d7b768 feat(dashboard): the cars and rockets table has the models table's columns
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 06:22:07 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
7ea0453a6c feat(ugc): migration gives old cars and rockets a build id
Cars and rockets built before builds were recorded were saved with
subkey 0 and have no ugc_modular_build row, so the client has no
blueprint id to ask for their icon with. The runtime fix only reaches
characters that load again.

Migrations mysql 98 and sqlite 81 (98/81 because the guilds work takes
97/80) run ModularBuildIdMigration after the SQL: every saved item with
modules (x@ma) and no subkey gets what a new build gets, as the
character-load fix does: a persistent id from object_id_tracker (with
the character bit) as its subkey and a ugc_modular_build row with its
modules and the character as owner. The XML is written with
UpdateCharacterXml. Tried on a copy of a server's database with a
couple of thousand such items: every one got an id and a build row, in
seconds.

Check: after the migration, old cars and rockets show their icons in the
backpack (the UGC server makes them like any build) and still work
(equip, race, launch).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 06:22:07 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
e42fd45c1f feat(dashboard): glitter sparkles and flecks in the UGC 3D views
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 00:40:11 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
aab161038e fix(ugc): glitter flecks look like LEGO glitter
The fleck texture was 50 soft round blobs of one size, bright in the
middle and fading out, which read as a smudgy dot pattern. LEGO's glitter
bricks have many small flat flakes (about half a millimetre) of which
most look faint and a few catch the light. The flecks are now flat
flakes of glitter_fleck_size (0.05 model units, i.e. 0.5 mm; 0.7 to 1.3
of it) with a one-pixel edge, each as bright as its facet catches the
light (0.3 to 1 of glitter_fleck_opacity, 80%, weighted towards dim),
80 a tile by default. The texture grows (128 to 512) to keep a fleck 3
pixels wide. New settings glitter_fleck_size and glitter_fleck_opacity;
glitter_density defaults to 80. Only glitter output changes.

Check in game: reprocess a glitter model; close up, the flecks are small
crisp flakes of varied brightness, not blurry dots; from a few metres
the brick still reads as its color with a fine glitter.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 00:40:10 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
fb7850fb9f fix(ugc): glitter sparkles that move on placed models
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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 00:40:10 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
63bfaf545e fix(ugc): each glitter brick gets its own fleck pattern
Every glitter brick had the same flecks in the same places: the UVs were
the vertex positions projected on an axis plane, so bricks a whole tile
apart (and every brick of the same shape at the same spot in its own
model) looked identical. Each brick now has a number of its own
(UgcGlitter::BrickSeed, from the model's id and the brick's index, kept
per vertex in Mesh::brickSeeds) that turns the projection by an angle
and moves it by an offset under a tile, differently for each axis
plane. A model made again gets the same patterns; every LOD of a brick
the same one. The icon now draws the flecks on the UVs the .nif has
(Mesh::uvs read back by FromNif). New setting glitter_random (1; 0 puts
the same pattern on every brick as before). Non-glitter models are
byte-identical (hash tests unchanged).

Check in game: reprocess a model with several glitter bricks of the
same shape; the fleck patterns differ from brick to brick.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 00:40:09 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
266f8b81c5 fix(ugc): send the served mesh checksums when a player loads a property
A client asks for a served model's HKX and is answered with the model's
LXFML, so it builds its own collision. That build also writes the
client's own .nif over the served one it downloaded and caches that
file's MD5 as the NIF's manifest info (client 1.10.64:
LWOBBBInterface::GenerateModelFromLxfml 0x00b6c220, MainThread_Process-
ModelResponse 0x00b5a1e0; valid entries never expire, 0x010186d0). On the
next load of the property the client used its cached checksum and file
without asking, and drew its own build instead of the served mesh.

Now, before the property's objects are constructed for a player, the
world sends them the served NIF checksum of every made model placed there
(UgcManifest::OnPropertyLoading). A client whose cached checksum is its
own build's downloads the served mesh again; one that has it already
downloads nothing. Nothing is sent unless ugc_manifest and
ugc_manifest_models are 1.

Check in game (ugc_manifest=1, ugc_manifest_models=1): visit a property
with made models, leave, come back in the same session (and after a
client restart): the models show the served mesh every time, and still
have collision.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 00:05:42 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
bd1d76193f fix(ugc): switch a client to a served mesh only once its own build is done
When a model finishes on the UGC server while players are on the property,
each client was sent the served NIF checksum, NotifyClientUGCModelReady and
the model constructed again at once. A client that was sent the model's
LXFML shortly before (the property load, a request for a model not made
yet, the owner's brick by brick save) is still building it then: the build
writes its own .nif over BrickModels/UserMade/<id>.nif and caches that
file's MD5 as the NIF's manifest info when it finishes (client 1.10.64:
LWOBBBInterface::GenerateModelFromLxfml 0x00b6c220, MainThread_Process-
ModelResponse 0x00b5a1e0), undoing the switch, so it kept its own build.
That is the usual case: another player's client asks for a model the owner
just placed, gets its LXFML, and that request makes the UGC server make the
model at once.

Now such a client is switched 30 seconds after the last LXFML sent to it
(UgcManifest::ServedMeshSwitches, BUILD_SETTLE); another LXFML sent
meanwhile starts the wait again. Other clients are switched at once, as
before. The served checksum is looked up when the switch happens. HKX
requests are still answered with the LXFML, so collision stays the
client's own.

Check in game (ugc_manifest=1, ugc_manifest_models=1, two accounts on one
property): the owner saves a new model; within about 30 s of the UGC
server making it, the other player's copy blinks out and back with the
served mesh (vertex AO, look of the dashboard's viewer), and still has
collision (walk into it). The owner's copy switches the same way. The
world log shows "Switching ... to the served mesh of model ...".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 00:05:42 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
4679edd2b2 feat(ugc): processing totals on the UGC page; no shared icon preset for player models
- 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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:25 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
bea6b17b25 feat(ugc): hidden faces removed as LU Toolbox's Remove Hidden Faces decides them
The 42 depth renders only saw faces in direct view, so faces reached only by
bounced light (interiors, recesses, rooms seen through openings) were removed.
UgcHsr traces the paths LU Toolbox's Cycles bake traces, directly from points
on each opaque triangle, and removes a triangle only when none of its paths
reaches the sky:

- points in rows along the triangle's longest side, hsr_sample_spacing apart
  (0.1143, 7 x 7 on a stud-sized square), at least hsr_min_points (28, the
  texels LU Toolbox bakes for a triangle), at most 4096
- hsr_samples (8) paths from each point, at most hsr_bounces (8) bounces, as
  Cycles 3.1 samples the bake material (Principled BSDF defaults: Burley
  diffuse and GGX specular, defensive sampling, Filter Glossy, 4 glossy
  bounces, Russian roulette from the second bounce, ensure_valid_reflection);
  no direct sky sampling (Cycles doesn't sample a flat world as a light)
- hsr_ground_plane: LU Toolbox's black box under LDD's floor
- decided per triangle, deterministic per model; triangles without area removed
- the VC pre-pass isn't done

Checked against LU Toolbox's operator in Blender 3.1.2 on the same meshes (27
models, 937,814 triangles): 501,362 removed there, 501,172 here, differences
as large as LU Toolbox's own between seeds. optimize_resolution is retired;
remove_hidden_faces=0 makes the same files as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:24 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
bfc45dc662 docs(ugc): processing at a glance, how the AO is cast, shader groups, queue order, newer columns
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:23 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
51cd1ddfba fix(ugc): moving glitter is updated every frame
The client updates an object's scene graph each frame only when its root
NiNode has the selective update bit (0x02; LWOBaseRenderComponent::Run
0x00d5d770 via NiAVObject::GetSelectiveUpdate 0x00413050). Our roots had
0x110, so a glitter model was updated once when it loaded and its texture
controllers never moved. A model with moving glitter now has 0x102 on its
root and the glitter group's nodes and 0x1A on the glitter shapes, as the
client's own AG ocean; still glitter and everything else keep the flags
they had.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:22 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
e0ccd3a016 Revert "feat(ugc): glitter flecks still by default"
This reverts commit 752c918311.
2026-09-28 22:31:22 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
fa563a558a feat(ugc): glitter flecks still by default
Glitter plastic has its flecks set in it; they catch the light as the view
moves, which LEGO-AnimUV can't do (it can only slide the texture). Drifting
flecks read as something flowing over the brick, so glitter_speed defaults
to 0: still flecks and no controllers. 1 and up still drift.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:22 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
7bba8344fc feat(ugc): glitter flecks (LEGO-AnimUV) and milky satin in made models
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).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:21 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
9e4f2818c3 feat(ugc): staff reprocessing of a property goes to the front of the queue
/reprocessproperty and the dashboard's Reprocess all models mark the
property's models as priority (ugc.priority, migrations mysql 94 and sqlite
77). The UGC server takes priority models first, polls them even when its
queue is full, and puts them at its front, as it does cars and rockets. The
flag clears once a model is made.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:21 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
8d57cc82cf feat: /reprocessproperty, make a property's models again and reload it
A GM 8 command: every brick built model on the property you are on goes
back to the UGC server's queue. Once all are made (at most 15 minutes),
everyone on the property is sent the new mesh checksums and transferred
back into the same zone and clone, so their game loads the property again
and downloads the new meshes. Swapping a model's mesh in place doesn't
work in the client, so the whole property is loaded again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:21 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
462a152a66 feat(ugc): metal, brushed steel and glow shaders on by default
Tested in game: shader_metal 88, shader_brushed 89 and shader_glow 46 are
now the defaults, with brushed_colors defaulting to the drum lacquered
298,300,1002,1004 and transparent_colors to 129. Empty list settings take
the default; none turns a list off. The three shader ids set to 0 still
write live's all-plastic models byte for byte.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:20 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
5396594690 fix(ugc): served models keep the served mesh; physics from the LXFML sent for the HKX
Sending every model's LXFML at property load and then switching to the
served mesh (served checksum, NotifyClientUGCModelReady, the model
constructed again) left the client drawing its own build. Now made models'
LXFML is left out of the property load again: the client downloads and
draws the served mesh, and when it asks for the HKX it gets the LXFML,
builds the model and loads its own HKX, so the model has collision while
the mesh drawn stays the served one. The load-time switch is removed; the
switch for a model made again while players are there stays.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:20 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
e27f2085dc fix(ugc): construct the model again a second after taking it down
Taken down and constructed again in the same batch, the client dropped the
construction of the object it hadn't deleted yet, and most models
disappeared. The construction now follows a second later.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:20 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
d1a61450f9 fix(ugc): construct the model again only after the client's flush
Constructed right after NotifyClientUGCModelReady, the flush the client does
on its load thread could land after the new object had loaded its mesh, and
most models disappeared. The model is now constructed again 1.5 seconds
later.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:19 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
b118ecfb73 fix(ugc): swap to the served mesh by constructing the model again
NotifyClientUGCModelReady only flushes the client's cached NIF, HKX and
LXFML and loads them again as preloads (0x00ca6430): an object already
drawn keeps its mesh, so the switch to the served mesh after a property
load (and a model made again) changed nothing on screen. Now each player
also has the model taken down and constructed again: the new object loads
the NIF, whose cached checksum is the served one (sent first), and the HKX,
whose checksum is still the one the client built, so it keeps collision.
Only models shown to that player are constructed again. Each switch is
logged.

Also corrects the address of the client's brushed steel texture
registration in the docs: 0x00467090 (RegisterBrushedSteelTextures) in
the 1.10.64 client.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:19 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
0c5ef380d3 feat(ugc): color_brightness and transparent_colors
color_brightness (percent, default 100: unchanged) scales the models' vertex
colors, not the icons', for servers where the made models look brighter than
they should. transparent_colors names color ids drawn transparent whatever
Materials.xml says: 129 (Tr. Bright Bluish Violet with Glitter) has alpha
255 there, so it came out opaque; a named color gets transparent_opacity.
Both default to off, so models come out byte for byte as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:19 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
e5a230e6a3 fix(ugc): served player models keep the client's own collision
With ugc_manifest_models the world left made models out of the LXFML it
sends when a property loads, so the client never built them and had no HKX:
the UGC server makes no physics, and the HKX request got a 404, so served
models had no collision.

Now every model's LXFML is sent and the client builds each one (NIF and
HKX). For the models whose mesh the UGC server made, once the client has
loaded and 3 seconds after, the world sends it the served NIF's checksum and
NotifyClientUGCModelReady: the client drops what it cached for the model and
asks again, downloads the served mesh (its own NIF no longer matches) and
keeps its own HKX (still matching). An HKX request is answered with the LXFML
too, followed by the same switch, at most 3 times per client and model.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:19 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
f3922b3bcb feat(ugc): brushed_colors, LEGO color ids drawn as brushed steel
The client's Materials.xml has no brushedSteel or matteSteel colors, so the
Brushed Steel shader (mapShaders 89) was never used. brushed_colors names
color ids to draw with it whatever their type (e.g. the drum lacquered
298, 300, 1002, 1004); a named color wins over the metal and glow colors.
Empty by default. The docs note that the client registers the brushed
reflection and noise textures itself (0x00453730), so the .nif needs none.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:18 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
c39b7ee935 feat(ugc): opt-in metal and glow shader groups in made models
Player models are multishader (RenderComponent shader 100): the client
wraps each NiLODNode and draws it with the mapShaders id in its name.
With shader_metal, shader_brushed or shader_glow set, the opaque bricks
are split by look into S<id>_Metal_Model, S<id>_Brushed_Model and
S<id>_Glow_Model beside S01_Opaque_Model and S01_Alpha_Model, each with
every LOD level. Metal is LU Toolbox's metallic colors plus Materials.xml
types (shinySteel; brushedSteel and matteSteel for brushed), glow its
glow colors. Glow shapes get an emissive material (glow_emissive) and
their plain color, not the baked one. Transparent glow stays in S01_Alpha.

All off by default, which writes the same bytes as before (tested). Not
how live looked; models already made change only when made again.

The icon renderer reads the groups back by tag and draws glow at its
plain color and metal with a tinted reflection and highlight.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:18 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
cc67fc7e42 docs(ugc): boot.cfg for the UGC server and models without 3D services
The earlier finding that the client ignores the UGCSERVER* lines of its
boot.cfg was wrong: the test clients' boot.cfg had a line without its
trailing comma, so the client rejected the whole file and used its
defaults. Documents the boot.cfg a server owner needs, what the client
does with a placed model's files (checked in the client) and what the
worlds now send.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:15 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
1d72766330 feat(ugc): icons as DXT5 DDS like the client's own
The client's 128x128 UI icons are almost all DXT5 without mipmaps, with
header flags caps|height|width|pixel format|linear size (0x81007) and
caps 0x1000. The UGC server's icon.dds is now written the same way
instead of as uncompressed 32-bit BGRA with a pitch.

The BC3 encoder fits each block's colour endpoints along the principal
axis of its visible pixels (transparent ones are never seen), refines
them by least squares, and stores alpha with the block's own range.
Tests check the header against the client's format and decode the
result back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:14 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
79235702b3 feat(ugc): answer the client's UGC manifest requests without 3D services
With UGCUSE3DSERVICES=7:0 (the client's default) the client asks its world for
a blueprint file's MD5 and size (REQUEST_UGC_MANIFEST_INFO, world 27) and then
downloads BrickModels/UserMade/<id % 1000>/<id>.<ext>.sd0. Layouts checked in
the 1.10.64 client: the request is a u64 blueprint id and a u8 resource type;
the answer (UGC_MANIFEST_RESPONSE, client 60) repeats them and adds a u8 valid,
the u32 size and the 16 byte MD5 of the inflated file, 37 bytes after the 0x53
exactly or the client drops it.

- dNet: WorldPackets::RequestUgcManifestInfo, ClientPackets::UgcManifestResponse
  (eUgcResourceType), with byte tests against the client's layouts.
- Database: ugc_file_checksums (per model or module combination and file) and
  ugc_modular_build.combination_id (migrations 89 / 72), GetUgcFileChecksum
  looks a blueprint up as a model, else as a build through its combination.
- UGC server: every download is also written as .sd0 (Sd0::Compress); workers
  hand the checksums back and the main thread stores them; old items get their
  sd0 icon and checksum, and builds their combination id, once at start-up, a
  few per tick; serves <dir>/BrickModels/UserMade/<bucket>/<id>.<ext>.sd0 under
  client_path, /<folder>/UserBrickModels and the root (.hkx 404).
- World: UgcManifest answers on the main thread with one indexed query per
  request; files not made yet are answered when they are (looked at again
  every 5 seconds), and a model in its quiet period is made right away. No
  worker threads, HTTP or file reads in the world.

Off by default (ugc_manifest=0): checked in game, the client then downloads
from http://127.0.0.1:80/lwoclient/UserBrickModels/ whatever its boot.cfg says
and logs the player out when it can't connect, so icons need the UGC server on
port 80 of each player's machine. docs/UgcServer.md has the details.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:14 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
36cefc1ede feat(ugc): brick data through the client's assets; colours from Materials.xml everywhere
The UGC server reads brickdb.zip and brickprimitives through DLU's
AssetManager (loose files first, then the client's packs, as the game
does), so packed clients and bricks added to a client work. It falls
back to loose files under res/ as before.

In the LU Toolbox palette (the default), a colour LU Toolbox doesn't
know but the client's Materials.xml has, such as one added to the brick
database, is drawn in its Materials.xml colour instead of black. Ids
neither knows stay LU Toolbox's black.

The dashboard's 3D viewers get the brick colours from the client's
Materials.xml (/api/bricks/materials.js) instead of a hardcoded copy, so
added colours show there too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:13 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
888168ff55 docs: the UGC icon pose, the assembled mesh, the UGC page's assemblies, search, editor and settings
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:12 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
962797d6a2 docs: UGC server page with both the dashboard links and the client findings
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:10 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
5de59b99ef feat(ugc): models with no bricks are "empty", not failed
A model with no bricks has nothing to make: it gets its own state
(is_optimized = 3), isn't counted as a failure or retried, shows as Empty
on the UGC page (with its own filter and count), in the status and in
Prometheus, and its downloads answer 404 like HKX. State names come from
the enum (magic_enum). Migrations dlu/mysql/87 and dlu/sqlite/70 move the
rows that failed only because they had no bricks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:10 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
76cbbcc4ea feat(ugc): draw player models' icons from their generated NIF
The icon was rendered from a second mesh built only for it (the icon
renderer's color corrections, no variation, occlusion worked out again). It
is now drawn from the .nif just made, read back with NifFile at LOD 0, so it
shows exactly what the game shows: the color variation, the removed faces and
the lighting baked into the vertex colors (so it adds no occlusion of its
own). icon_correct_colors and icon_color_variation are gone; the camera and
light settings stay. Cars and rockets are drawn as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:09 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
27955d8cc6 docs: UGC search and creations on property and character pages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:08 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
05d6f55e25 docs: UGC server parity with LU Toolbox, CPU and memory limits, viewer
A step by step table of LU Toolbox's pipeline against the UGC server's, the
new settings and their defaults, the measured effect of max_cpu_percent and
max_memory_mb, and the dashboard's gallery, viewer and internal address.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:07 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
0de9decc7c fix(ugc): name crash dumps like the other servers
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:06 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
5828fe99c7 docs: describe the UGC server on the dashboard
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:31:06 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
347a0a7286 feat(dashboard): UGC server page
Counts, a paged list and failures of what the UGC server made of players'
models and modular builds, making one, the failed ones or everything again
(new ugc_manage permission), the UGC server's live status and icons from
ugc_public_url, and a 3D view of a model's LXFML. The UGC settings are in the
settings catalog.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:30:57 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
abf1cc1d80 feat: UGC server that makes and serves player models' meshes and icons
A new server (dUgcServer, started by master with enable_ugc_server=1) that
takes unprocessed ugc and ugc_modular_build rows from the database and makes
what the client downloads with UGCUSE3DSERVICES: an optimized NIF (hidden
faces removed, ambient occlusion baked into vertex colors) and a 128px DDS
icon for player models, rendered by a software rasterizer from the client's
LDD brick primitives, and icons for cars and rockets assembled from their
modules per ModularBuildComponent/ModuleComponent. It serves them, with the
models' LXFML, over HTTP in the client's UGCC<dc>/3DOPTIMIZED and
IMAGE128DDS layout with .gz and .checksum files, and keeps its folder under
a size cap.

Processing state lives in ugc.is_optimized plus new processed_at,
process_attempts and process_error columns (and the same on
ugc_modular_build). ServiceType::UGC is appended. NifFile moves to dCommon
and records named node transforms for the modules' attach points.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:30:57 -05:00
Aaron Kimbrell
90ded73596 docs: design for the UGC server
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 22:30:57 -05:00