UgcToolbox runs LU Toolbox itself in an external Blender that stays up
and makes one model after another (dlu_toolbox_worker.py runs
LU-Toolbox-Standalone's steps: import, Process Model, Bake Lighting,
niftools export). JSON lines over its stdin and original stdout; it is
restarted after a crash, a timeout, 100 models or new settings, runs at
worker_nice with toolbox_threads, and its CPU time is charged to the
worker, which pauses it (SIGSTOP) while the CPU budget is overdrawn.
ProcessModelToolbox reads LU Toolbox's .nif back, counts its triangles
and draws the icon from it. Tests: option parsing, the fallback, the
protocol framing, the worker with a stand-in Blender (crash, hang,
failure, give-up), and LU Toolbox itself when DLU_TEST_TOOLBOX_* are set.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Intel Open Image Denoise 2 (Apache-2.0) behind the CMake option DLU_OIDN (off):
an installed OIDN is used when found, else Intel's release package (pinned by
hash) is downloaded and its libraries copied next to the servers.
A denoiser only removes noise that differs from pixel to pixel; the icons'
occlusion comes from the bake, per vertex, which it leaves as it is (checked:
white noise 0.17 -> 0.006 relative spread, per-vertex blocks unchanged). So
with denoise=oidn a model's icon is drawn from model.noao.nif (its colors
before the bake) with its occlusion traced per pixel of the supersampled image
(denoise_samples rays, default 4, with the bake's distance and strength and the
ray backend), box filtered and denoised at the icon's size, guided by the colors
and normals. The model keeps its baked occlusion. Icons drawn again from stored
files use the stored model.noao.nif the same way.
OIDN works on a thread of its own; its time is charged to the job's thread
(UgcThrottle::Charge), so the CPU budget and the recorded CPU time include it.
Check: configure with -DDLU_OIDN=ON; UgcServer --make-model x.lxfml out oidn
and compare its icon.png with one made with off; an OFF build leaves icons as
they were.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- The client puts a shape in its sorted, blended pass only when its
NiMaterialProperty alpha is under 0.99999 (ShaderCommon::GetAlphaFlags
0x0109f5a0; the NiAlphaProperty blend flag isn't read); at 1.0 it's drawn
solid with blending off. Transparent (and transparent glitter) shapes now
get a material with alpha 0.9999, as the S01_Alpha shapes of the game's own
brick models (res/BrickModels/ndmade) do; opaque shapes keep 1.0. Models
with a transparent brick change; the others are byte for byte the same.
- dUgcServer's files move into Bricks/, Model/, Render/, Formats/ and
Processing/ (the CMakeLists says what each holds); includes are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
