The three pages had in-page tabs linking to each other, the same links
as the Logs & Health sidebar group. Removed the tabs (health_tabs
template); each page is still in the sidebar. Diagnostics gets an
<h2> heading like the other two, since the tab was its only title. The
log pages had no tabs.
Check: Server Health, Instance Load and Diagnostics open from the
sidebar with no tab row; Diagnostics shows its heading; the range and
server controls still sit on the right.
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The page held one-off repairs from Nexus Dashboard (approve known pet
names, find/delete orphaned pet names, remove every buff, fix property
clone IDs, list mission rewards without a commendation price). Removed
the page, its sidebar entry, its /api/maintenance/* routes, the
`maintenance` permission and the two database calls only it used
(GetAllPetNames, FixPropertyCloneIds). The scheduled tasks (lift expired
bans, fill in pet owners, approve known pet names) and property model
import/removal stay.
Check: the Admin sidebar group has no Maintenance link; /maintenance is
a 404; the Tasks page still lists "Approve known pet names" and "Fill in
pet owners"; property import still works; the Permissions page no
longer lists "Data maintenance".
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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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- resources/*.ini list the 73 settings the catalog knew but the files left
out (dashboard AI helper, backups, metrics, public status, strikes,
property rent and reputation, chat log, contraband, logins...), with
their title, description and default. The test
ShippedFilesListEveryCatalogSetting keeps it that way; with
DLU_WRITE_INI_TEMPLATES=1 it writes the missing ones.
- ConfigSync forgets a setting row when its key has left a file the
server read: from the file, no value set on the dashboard, not a
permission level. Before, rows of removed keys stayed forever.
- Docs: where setting rows come from and when they go, the templates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/LiveUpdate.md: how to start one, the order, each kind of instance, the
states, routing, moving players and properties, messages, settings, what a
player sees and the limits. SeamlessTransfer.md, Commands.md and Dashboard.md
point to it.
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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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The XML upload is the one place hand-written XML reaches the game, whose
load path trusts the XML because the server writes it itself. Instead of
making the game skip bad data at load, the upload is checked against
what the load path assumes and refused (400, with the problems) when the
game couldn't load it: required elements, attributes that must parse
(flags read with std::stoul/stoull), required item and mission fields,
known inventory types, mission states and character versions, items and
missions that exist in the CDClient, unique item IDs and slots, and the
acct attribute matching the owner.
Suspicious but loadable content is returned as warnings that need
confirm=true (409 otherwise): contraband (same matching as the world,
now shared in ContrabandRules.h), stacks above the stack size, coins,
level or u-score out of reach, a GM level above the account's.
Contraband marked flag-and-remove is removed only if the uploader asks;
once stored, findings are flagged (CONTRABAND) and audited. The XML
editor shows the findings and offers "Save anyway". Related: issue 1332.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pet_names gets a pet_lot column (mysql 80, sqlite 63). The world writes
it whenever it saves a pet name, from the pet entity's LOT, and fills it
in for older rows when the owner loads into a world (from the pets the
game loads for that character, only where it is still missing).
The dashboard's pet name tables read pet_lot instead of scanning the
owner's character XML; pets without it yet show as Unknown.
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The viewer treated every blended texture's alpha as opacity, so models
whose shader uses the alpha for something else rendered see-through. The
scenery manifest now carries each model's shader (RenderComponent.
shader_id via mapShaders) and the multishader tag table; meshes carry
their S##__ tag, read the way LWOBaseRenderComponent::AddObjectToRenderPipe
does (S%d, else _S%d, outside 3..108 the LEGO shader). Per res/shaders:
the LEGO lighting shaders lerp the texture over the vertex colors
(decal), LEGO items and terrain meshes ignore its alpha, everything else
keeps opacity. Pure rules unit tested.
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Detail pages carry a breadcrumb bar built from a per-tab trail in
sessionStorage: following a link from a page on the trail extends it,
going back to one cuts it there, and opening a page directly shows its
natural parents. The property 3D view's back button goes to the previous
crumb, and the property page renames its crumb once its name loads.
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The pet name tables (Pet Names page and the review queue) get the pet's
LOT from its owner's save and its CDClient name, shown with the icon in
a new Pet column. Each owner on the page is read once.
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bind_ip in sharedconfig.ini picks the local IPv4 address every server's
RakNet sockets listen on (auth, chat, master, world, the dashboard's
connection to master), separate from external_ip, the address players
are sent. Empty or 0.0.0.0 keeps listening on all interfaces; localhost
means 127.0.0.1. Anything that isn't an IPv4 address stops the server
with an error, and each server logs what it bound to.
Fixes#225
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Every DataTable saves its order and page length to localStorage, keyed by
dashboard user, page (numeric path segments folded) and table id, and
restores it on load. Stale sorts on missing or unsortable columns are
dropped; storage failures are ignored.
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Property worlds now give their property reputation for the time other people spend on it, which
fills the property lists and the news screen's Today's Top Properties. Visitors are counted per
account; the owner's account, accounts linked to it and staff don't count. A visit earns nothing
for the first property_reputation_min_visit seconds (WorldConfig's propertyReputationDelay), then
each active minute (the visitor moved) earns reputationPerMinute times a multiplier, for a capped
number of minutes per visit. Repeat visitors earn less the more recent days they already gave
reputation, and each visitor and each property have a daily cap. Every parameter is a setting;
what each account gave each property per day is kept in property_reputation_visits. The rules are
pure functions with unit tests.
Fixes#636Fixes#637
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Off unless property_rent_enabled is on. Each property world's rent comes from its PropertyTemplate
row (minimumPrice every rentDuration x durationType; Block Yard is free), unless the new Property
Rent dashboard page sets another price or period (property_rent_manage). Rent is taken from the
owner's coins shortly after their character loads, with a mail receipt; unpaid rent is mailed and,
after property_rent_grace_days, makes the property private until it is paid, like live. The
property management component refuses public or best friends privacy while rent is overdue and a
property world that loads overdue makes itself private. Property game messages are unchanged.
Fixes#943
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Staff list contraband items on a new dashboard page (item search, reason, flag or flag and remove;
contraband_manage to edit, reports_view to see). World servers check every inventory when a
character loads and every item a player receives: each find is an economy flag of the new kind
Contraband, shown with the other flags and in the character's related data. Items marked for
removal are taken away, with a character snapshot kept first so they can be given back, an audit
entry and a mail or chat message telling the player why. Staff are skipped unless
contraband_ignore_staff is off. Worlds reload the list when it changes (RELOAD_CONTRABAND, added
at the end of ePlayerAction).
Fixes#1563
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Every character gets a save generation in charxml. A world bumps it when it loads the character for
play, and every save from that world only goes through while the stored generation is still the
one it loaded or last saved (and moves it on). Dashboard edits, restores and maintenance writes bump
it too. A world that lost the character to another world (a disconnect noticed late, a zone
transfer, an instance migration) or to a dashboard edit can no longer overwrite the newer data: the
save is refused, logged and audited as stale_save_refused, the world stops saving that character
and a player still connected to it is disconnected with the save failure reason so they reload.
Fixes#639
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Opening a zone the first time built its terrain, scene objects and manifests
and ran ImageMagick on the web thread, stalling the dashboard for seconds.
- Workers: the shared pool plus Workers::Reply (answer at once when built,
else from a worker via Web::Defer).
- terrain_chunks/terrain_layers/scene/paths/scenery/flairs (world3d, property
and showcase routes) and terrain textures go through it; results are built
once in OnceCaches, the .raw is read once per zone for chunks, layers and
flairs, deflated bodies are cached thread-safely.
- ImageMagick conversions are deduplicated and written under a temporary name.
- Workers don't query the CDClient, read settings or call mongoose: ZoneTable,
render components, flairs, object names, LOT kinds and terrain texture names
are read at startup; client_location is read once; base64 is plain C++.
- Logger writes one line at a time (mutex; localtime's buffer is shared).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The dashboard's web server answers one request at a time, so converting a big
.nif (glom files up to tens of MB) held up every other request, flairs included.
- dWeb: Web::Defer hands a request to another thread; the reply is sent from the
web thread on its next poll (DeferredQueue). A client that leaves first cancels
it and the late reply is dropped. The synchronous route API is unchanged.
- Web::Shutdown closes connections while the state their close events touch is
still alive; the destructor no longer runs handlers during static destruction
(stopping the dashboard aborted in ~WSClient).
- WorkerPool: priority lanes, with one thread only for urgent work (flairs,
small models, textures), and limited background work.
- Scenery: mesh and texture routes (and the showcase's) convert on the pool;
thread-safe memory and disk caches, one conversion per model at a time with
waiters sharing it; zones are converted ahead onto the disk cache while viewed.
- Setting scenery_workers (0: half the cores, 2 to 4).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The NexusDashboard-parity dashboard (dDashboardServer) and everything built on it on the experimental branch:
accounts, characters, properties and moderation tools, permissions shared with in-game slash commands, economy
reports, World 3D and property 3D views with client scenery, scheduled events (features, vanity changes, live
events, announcements, restarts), vanity files and events, the CDClient browser, the message inspector with saved
captures, chat filter tools, community challenges, live ops, the AI moderator helper, and the server-side changes
they need.
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