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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Compared block by block with res/BrickModels/ndmade (and nif.xml for
20.3.0.9, LU's version, user version 0): every shape now has the same four
properties in the same order (material with glossiness 4, alpha blending by
the vertex alpha, specular off, vertex colors as ambient and diffuse), nodes
have flags 0x110 and shapes 0x10. A generated NIF put in place of a game
model and spawned in the 1.10.64 client renders with its colors.
Readers treat a blended shape as transparent only where it is see-through
(material or vertex alpha below 1), for the icons and the 3D view.
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Parity with LU Toolbox's Process Model, Bake Lighting and icon renderer, with
its defaults as the settings' defaults:
- Colors from its LU palette (UgcPalette: LU colors, LDD colors mapped to the
nearest LU one, unknown ones black), transparent bricks at 58.82% opacity, a
brick transparent only when all of its materials are.
- Color variation: each brick's material gets its HSV value shifted in a 2.224
gamma by up to 5% (times the color's own amount), from a random number of
the model, brick and material, so reprocessing gives the same colors in
every LOD. Icons get none, and the icon renderer's color corrections.
- LODs 0 and 2 with its distance logic, written as NiLODNode/NiRangeLODData
like its exports and the game's own brick models, shapes divided at 65535
vertices along the longest side like divide_mesh.
- Ambient occlusion like its AO-only bake: 64 rays per vertex, distance 5,
after hidden surface removal, transparent bricks neither baked nor
occluding, glow colors added.
- Icons from its icon scene: 50 mm lens at 53.4/19.5 degrees, sun of 2.5 at
21/50.3 degrees with soft shadows, grey world light with occlusion; LOD 0's
hidden surface removal and occlusion are reused for them.
- Optional ground plane for hidden surface removal; stats.json per model and
the previous version's previews kept for comparing.
Budgets, applied live on config reload: max_cpu_percent (workers account
their thread CPU time and sleep to stay under it, long renders included),
worker_nice, max_memory_mb (jobs are estimated from their brick count and
wait until they fit), max_model_bricks and pause_hours. /status and the
traffic report show CPU, memory and throttling.
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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.
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