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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UgcIconPose holds the icon camera, model rotation (yaw/pitch/roll, YXZ) and
the crop to the projected bounds; RenderIcon uses it. The parameter list gains
the model's turn (defaults 0, so icons stay the same). POST /admin/assembly
returns a module combination's assembled .nif (turned by the build type's
AdditionalModelRotation), made on a worker and kept in a small cache.
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Brighter icons: a world light, a fill from the camera, a highlight, exposure
and contrast; with the defaults the icons' mean luminance matches the game's
own model icons (118 against 120 on a scratch set). Every icon parameter is
listed once (UgcIconParams: key, setting, range, default); the settings,
the dashboard's settings entries and the icon editor come from that list.
Presets per kind (player models, each car or rocket build type from
ModularBuildComponent) and overrides per model or module combination are in
ugc_icon_settings.
Saved models wait ugc_debounce_seconds (sharedconfig) after the owner's last
save before they're made (ugc.process_after); a client asking for one, the
owner leaving the world or a reset ends the wait.
Cars and rockets: one icon per combination of modules (sorted LOTs), shared
by every build of it; builds of a combination made already are marked made
right away, the client's per-blueprint downloads serve the shared files.
The dashboard can delete one item's files, purge by filter or all, preview
icons with any values on the UGC server (/admin routes, master password),
save presets and overrides, and draw a kind's icons again (icons only).
Migrations dlu/mysql/86 and dlu/sqlite/69. Not done yet: the dashboard
editor's lighting controls in the page script (routes are there), docs for
it, the empty-model state, /ugc?item= links, the shared fetch helper; the
storage size and property loading bugs are next.
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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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