Three sections with one-line explanations instead of paragraphs:
- Test a message: normal or best friends' free chat, the verdict, each
word with why, and Block/Allow/Remove per word.
- Staff lists: one table for Blocked and Allowed with search, a list
filter and 50 per page. Block, Allow, move and Remove open a
confirmation showing where the word stands and the recent chat the
change affects (the old "What would blocking it stop?" checks).
- Word files: each file's size in one line; chatplus_en_us.txt words
searchable, 200 per page with Previous/Next; click a word to test it.
All existing APIs are unchanged and still used. docs/Dashboard.md
rewritten for the page.
Check: /chat_filter: test a message in both chats, add, move and remove
a word (confirm and cancel), search and page both lists, copy file
words into Allowed, Re-apply in running worlds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GET /api/chat_filter/test?message=&chat=normal|free says whether the
filter would stop a message from a player below GM 2, word by word and
why: blocked or allowed on the staff lists, in chatplus_en_us.txt, an
approved character name, not allowed, in blocklist.dcf, or no
blocklist.dcf (free chat then stops everything). It follows
dChatFilter::IsSentenceOkay: words split at spaces, normalized the same
way. ModerationTools::ExplainMessage, unit tested.
Check: dWebTests ChatFilterWordsTest.Explain*; the API with a word from
each list, in normal and free chat.
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New Mail page (/mail, characters_mail, under Moderation): every in-game
mail newest first and live, with sender and receiver linked to their
character and account, the attachment with its icon and name (waiting
or claimed), and the state (unread, read, deleted by the player with
the time). Filters: state, character (sent or received), account,
text. Open shows the body, the attachment's item ID, subkey and data.
Locale keys in mail (%[MissionEmail_12_subjectText], the game's sender
name) are shown as the client shows them, from locale.xml; the stored
text stays under "Stored text". LocaleText::Expand, unit tested.
The character Mailbox uses the same view. Staff see mail the player
deleted (marked) and a link to the character's mail on the Mail page;
the owner sees only what is still in the mailbox, without account IDs.
/api/characters/:id/mail keeps its old fields and adds the new ones.
Check: /mail with each filter, Open on game, staff and player mail,
a mission mail's subject translated; a character's Mailbox as staff
and as the owner after deleting a mail in game.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Drops the analysis views (objects, loot odds, missions, skills, behavior
trees, activities, zones), the name search and the 3D preview, with
their API routes and CDClientRules.h. What stays: the table list,
paging, sort, any-column search, column filters, and linked values that
open the target table filtered to that ID. Old links such as
/cdclient#/object/<LOT> (UGC page, world view) now open the Objects
table filtered to that LOT.
Check in the dashboard: CDClient Browser lists every table; open one,
sort by a column, add a filter, search, page; click a LOT or loot
matrix value; /cdclient#/object/1727 opens Objects id = 1727.
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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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- 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.
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Purge all ran on the UGC server's main thread inside the dashboard's
request: it measured and deleted every stored folder, then updated rows one
by one, and the main thread (downloads, the master link, the database)
waited minutes for it. Now a purge answers at once and a file thread lists,
measures and deletes the folders; the main thread applies what it removed
and updates the rows a few hundred a tick. No new item is started while a
purge runs, and items being made when it starts are left alone, so no worker
writes into a folder being deleted. One purge at a time. The storage cap's
clean-up lists and deletes on the same thread. The UGC page shows the
purge's progress (/status purge).
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fmt.property(id, name) links a property's page and adds a small 3D button
straight to its 3D view. Used everywhere a property is linked: the
properties list and top slots, moderation, character pages' related
properties, UGC search and the UGC page's placements, the home page, the
chat log, player reports and report notes.
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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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NifFile::TechniqueFor maps every mapShaders gameValue to the client's
technique family (fixed function, LEGO, Basic/AlphaAsAlpha, metal, clear
plastic, ocean distortion, flat surf, BrickWater, darkling, terrain mesh),
its eShaderLook bits, texture alpha and eTechniqueFlag bits (moving
texture, both sides, blend, alpha test, additive, no ambient, glow,
super emissive, grayscale, shiny glint, not drawn, ...), from res/shaders
and the verified technique setups. Values it lacks are the LEGO shader,
as the client falls back to it. TextureAlphaFor and ShaderLookFor read it.
The scenery manifests carry it as "techniques" (replacing textureAlpha
and shaderLooks), the flairs' manifest a Flair.fx technique, the
lighting its specular color. /api/scenery/env/:name serves the
environment cubes the client's shaders load themselves (default
reflection, polished and brushed metal, brushed noise). Conversion
format 4.
scenery-core.js: techniqueOf, gameLook with the family and flags,
blendingOf, parseDdsCube; its test checks the flag and look bits against
NifFile.h.
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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.
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With new binaries in place, master moves everything onto them while the
server keeps running (the dashboard's Live update, /liveupdate or SIGUSR2 to
master):
- database migrations of the new build first; a failure stops there
- UGC finishes the jobs it is running (queued rows stay pending), auth
restarts, chat hands its teams to master for the next chat server; master
starts the new processes and retries ones that don't come back
- once the new chat server is up (CHAT_SERVER_READY) every world connects at
once and sends its players again (LoginSessionNotify resync, no login logged)
- every world instance is replaced with an instance migration: public worlds
and private ones (same password) at once, properties after the old instance
saved and froze the property (MIGRATE_PREPARE: no building, claiming or
saving there any more), activity zones and character select once their
players left or after a wait; empty instances just stop, zones in
prestart_worlds get a new one first
- the dashboard restarts last and picks the status up again
Players land where they stood (position carried in CarriedPlayerState, also on
properties and Moon Base). Draining instances get no new players
(InstanceMigration::AcceptsNewPlayers) and show as "Moving players" in the
world list. The order lives in LiveUpdateMachine.h without master state and is
unit tested; master's glue is LiveUpdateCoordinator. Master itself is not
replaced. Message IDs are appended only.
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"Clear threat list Trigger Wall" (LOT 13632) on the NS medium property was
drawn as a big red wall: nothing in its data hides it, its client script
does (scripts/02_client/map/general/l_set_invisible.lua sets it invisible in
onRenderComponentReady). The scenery now reads each object's client script
once and treats an object as hidden, like renderDisabled, when a
self:SetVisible{visible = false} is directly in onStartup or
onRenderComponentReady (not under a condition). 12 LOTs match: trigger
volumes, effect containers, a scripted camera, dummies, booty chests (shown
once dug). They show with Hidden objects on.
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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.
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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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NifFile::TechniqueFor maps every mapShaders gameValue to the client's
technique family (fixed function, LEGO, Basic/AlphaAsAlpha, metal, clear
plastic, ocean distortion, flat surf, BrickWater, darkling, terrain mesh),
its eShaderLook bits, texture alpha and eTechniqueFlag bits (moving
texture, both sides, blend, alpha test, additive, no ambient, glow,
super emissive, grayscale, shiny glint, not drawn, ...), from res/shaders
and the verified technique setups. Values it lacks are the LEGO shader,
as the client falls back to it. TextureAlphaFor and ShaderLookFor read it.
The scenery manifests carry it as "techniques" (replacing textureAlpha
and shaderLooks), the flairs' manifest a Flair.fx technique, the
lighting its specular color. /api/scenery/env/:name serves the
environment cubes the client's shaders load themselves (default
reflection, polished and brushed metal, brushed noise). Conversion
format 4.
scenery-core.js: techniqueOf, gameLook with the family and flags,
blendingOf, parseDdsCube; its test checks the flag and look bits against
NifFile.h.
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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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property_bff_build (off by default, as live): while the owner is in build
mode, their best friends can join it and place, move and pick up models,
build brick by brick and edit behaviors, each from their own inventory.
Only the owner starts build mode; a best friend still in it when the owner
leaves keeps building until they leave it.
The client lets only the property's owner edit, so each player now gets
their own DownloadPropertyData, with their own id as the owner while they
can build, sent again whenever that changes. SetBuildModeConfirmed and
GetModelsOnProperty go to each player instead of everyone. The first
builder makes the property private and pauses the models; the last one
restores them. Saving no longer needs the owner in the world.
A model taken off the property goes to whoever placed it; if they aren't
here it stays placed. Privacy and the property's name stay owner only
(neither was checked before).
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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.
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A character's location was only saved outside properties, so logging out
on a property and back in always went to the last world before it (as
live). save_property_location=1 (worldconfig.ini, dashboard: world
settings) saves it on properties too, and login returns to that property.
Off by default.
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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.
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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.
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The 3D view gets the property page's model actions: Reprocess all models
(ugc_manage), Import LXFML at the file's positions and Remove all models
(properties_import). Not on the showcase view.
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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.
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The property page gets a Reprocess all models button (ugc_manage): every
model placed on the property goes back to the UGC server's queue, made
again with the current settings (/api/ugc/reprocess with {property}).
Import models gets Remove all models (properties_import): deletes every
model placed on the property after the property id is typed in, refused
while the property is loaded in a world, as import is.
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NifFile::ShaderLookFor knows Polished Metal (98), Brushed Steel (99) and
LEGO-Emissive (53). The UGC mesh route sends each mesh's look (from its
multishader tag), and the UGC 3D view draws metal as reflective and glow
unlit. The zone views draw LEGO-Emissive objects going to their vertex
color by its alpha, as the shader does.
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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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- Shader 94 ("Basic") draws with vertex colors: its class's technique setup
names Technique_Basic_Lighting_VertColor, as 38 "Basic VC" does. The views
treated it as having none, so Nimbus Station's glom pines (tag S84) came
out as their grey texture, white. The other shader looks in use were
checked the same way (33, 35, 37, 70, 82, 84, 105 hold).
- Two layer shaders: NiTexturingProperty's dark texture and the UV set each
texture's flags name are read, and the views draw "Two Layers Blended" as
the dark texture under the base one by the vertex alpha (no longer as
opacity) and "Two Textures Added" as in TwoLayersAdded_PS. Avant Gardens'
snowy grass mounds were see-through hills. The client ships no technique
for the blended ones, so that blend follows the meshes' data.
- The near plane follows how far out the camera is (distance / 400, 0.5 to
20) instead of a fixed 0.5 over a far plane in the thousands, so ground
overlays, floor rings and road pieces stop fighting in far views.
- Conversion format 3 (new model data), so kept conversions are made again.
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The textured terrain in the world and property 3D views now takes the
lighting the scenery uses (the scene's sun and ambient light, blending as
the focus moves between scenes), as TiledDetailDiffuse_4_PS does: the
blended textures times the diffuse map times two times the clamped vertex
light, times the blend alpha. Until a manifest brings the lighting, the
terrain keeps its own light.
Checked against the client (RAWReadColorandLightMaps 0x0102e3e0 and the
texture map reader at 0x0103aaf0): the game's diffuse map and blend map are
DDS copies of the color and texture maps the views use (same pixels on the
Avant Gardens chunks compared), so the dark patches and the steep drops at
the plateau's edges are in the terrain file itself.
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Starts the property over as it's saved: fetched again, every model back in
its place and not smashed, behaviors stopped, the log and the selection
cleared, and the view framed on the plot.
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A "Scenes" choice in the world and property 3D views: every scene (as
before), the scenes the game keeps loaded around the camera or the followed
player (the scene under it from the terrain's scene map, the scenes its
transitions connect to, and the global scene, following as it moves), or
scenes picked from a list (world view). The lighting blends to the lighting
of the scene under the focus, as the client blends between scenes.
The scenery manifest now carries each object's scene, the zone's scenes with
their neighbours and lighting, and the scene map as runs (37 KB for Avant
Gardens); scenery-core.js finds the scene at a point exactly as ZoneScenes
does (checked against it on 2000 points of Avant Gardens).
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The client keeps the scene under the player loaded, the scenes the zone
file's transitions connect to it, and the global scene
(Zone::StreamScenesAroundPosition 0x0108a3f0, TerrainManager::GetSceneAtPos
0x01069010, the connected scenes at 0x01066500; transitions naming a
missing scene dropped as Zone::FixupInvalidTransitions 0x010842e0 does).
- ZoneScenes (dCommon): the terrain's scene map lookup and the scene graph,
shared by the world server and the dashboard.
- Objects remember the scene they were placed in (spawners pass theirs on).
- ghosting_scenes=1 (world config, off by default): players get the objects
of their loaded scenes instead of the ones within the ghosting distances;
objects from no scene go by the scene under them. Zones without a scene
map keep distance ghosting.
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The old zone's scenery, flairs, terrain and markers stayed until the new
zone's data came back, and a manifest still loading could land after a newer
one. Switching now clears them at once; scenery requests are aborted when
cleared, late manifests and textures of a cleared load are dropped (and
disposed), and the budget no longer counts them.
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Glom models (multishader) drew their trees, rocks, fences and water white.
Their conversions kept on disk from before meshes carried their multishader
tag were still served (the cache format version was never bumped), so every
part fell back to the LEGO shader, whose texture alpha lays the (mostly grey)
texture over the vertex colors that hold the actual colors. Browsers also
kept those models for a week.
- Bump the conversion format so old conversions are made again, and put it
in the manifests; the viewers add it to model and texture URLs.
- Light scenery as the client's shaders do: the scene's sun and ambient
light from its .lvl (read as level_read_lighting_info, 0x0102f8f0, and
EnvironmentManager::SetLightEnv, 0x01088aa0, do), per vertex, clamped,
instead of the view's own lights, environment map and tone mapping. The
zone takes the lighting most of its objects' scenes have.
- Programmable shaders read vertex colors and ignore NiMaterialProperty's
color and alpha; unlit and untextured shaders (by mapShaders gameValue)
leave out lighting or the texture. Fixed function stays as it was.
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The UGC server stores a model's most detailed level's triangles before it
removed the faces that can't be seen (ugc.triangle_count_before;
migrations sqlite 75, mysql 92), from stats.json when it makes a model
and, once, for the models made before. The UGC page's models list has a
Saved column (the share and number of triangles removed, before/after in
its tooltip), sortable by the share (sort=savings), and the gallery can
sort by most triangles saved.
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The Servers, busiest messages, HTTP routes and UGC server cards shared
the window's height and scrolled inside; now they're as tall as what they
show and the page scrolls. The charts keep a readable minimum height.
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When the UGC server is enabled, the Diagnostics page shows it: online or
unreachable, busy workers and queue, CPU against its limit, memory and
the jobs' estimated memory against its budget, stored files, what it
made and failed since it started, the last makes, and how many models
and cars/rockets are made, waiting, failed or empty. Refreshed every 10
seconds from /api/diagnostics/ugc (health_view).
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The UGC page ran a CDClient query per distinct car or rocket combination
to find each preset's sample (thousands on a large server), re-read the
car and rocket build types from the CDClient on every list request, and
grouped every build into assemblies again on every page, sort or filter
change of the Cars and rockets list.
The modules and icon kinds are now read once at startup on the main
thread (UgcRoutes::Preload), so the web threads never query the CDClient
(which they must not), a combination's kind comes from that table, and
the grouped assemblies are shared by the requests of 15 seconds.
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The models list's Took, CPU and RAM (est.) are separate columns, each
sortable (sort=slowest|cpu|memory). The File column shows the name a
player gave the model where it is placed, with the upload's extension
(the upload's file name is its tooltip), and the name sort uses it
(case-insensitive, so SQLite and MySQL agree).
The config layer test no longer assumes the build's sharedconfig.ini has
no mysql_host; it checks that the database-supplied value isn't used.
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The models list has separate Made (when) and Took (the time, CPU and
estimated memory) columns, each sortable in either direction; /api/ugc
takes sort=made (processed_at) besides sort=slowest, and the gallery can
sort by recently made.
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