When spline parsing consumes the wrong number of bytes, the subsequent
blockCount read lands on garbage data (e.g. 71 instead of ~5 for UNIT).
Previously the parser logged a warning but continued, reading garbage
mask/field data until hitting truncation. Now it returns false for
CREATE_OBJECT blocks with suspicious counts, letting the block loop
skip cleanly to the next entity.
Also downgrade ~44 diagnostic LOG_WARNING messages to LOG_DEBUG across
17 files (equipment, transport, DBC, heartbeat, chat, GO raypick, etc.)
to reduce log noise and make real warnings visible.
Resolve conflicts:
- audio_callback_handler.cpp: keep PR's animation_controller include
- movement_handler.cpp: use PR accessors with master's transportResolved logic
- world_packets.cpp: keep PR's decomposed version (functions moved to split files)
Apply overkill field fix to world_packets_entity.cpp (WotLK
SMSG_ATTACKERSTATEUPDATE missing uint32 overkill between damage and
subDamageCount).
AzerothCore sends a uint32 overkill field between totalDamage and
subDamageCount. The parser was missing this, causing subDamageCount to
read the first byte of overkill (0 for non-kills) and fail immediately.
This broke all melee swing animations except the killing blow.
Log parse failures with remaining packet size and successful parses with
attacker/target/player GUIDs, damage, and callback status to diagnose
why meleeSwingCallback is never invoked during auto-attack.
If the capability probe ran before the model was fully loaded, all melee
animation IDs would be 0 and auto-attack swings would silently fall back
to STAND (no visible animation). Now re-probes when a melee swing fires
but hasMelee is false.
Added WARNING-level logging to triggerMeleeSwing and CombatFSM to
diagnose the night elf stationary combat animation issue.
MSG_MOVE_TELEPORT_ACK now logs server-sent coordinates AND current
position at WARNING level (was LOG_INFO, invisible in log file).
Heartbeat position audit now logs every ~60 heartbeats (~30s) at
WARNING level to trace position drift before rogue teleports.
Emote animations: fix DBC chain for /laugh, /flirt, /sleep, /fart, /stink.
Previously all emotes with AnimID=0 used emoteRef as animId (wrong DBC
record IDs). Now resolves through Emotes.dbc properly, with per-emote
overrides for emotes whose DBC chain yields 0. Adds Emotes.dbc load
failure warning and diagnostic logging.
WMO culling: skip portal culling when camera is outside all groups (fixes
vanishing Stormwind ground tiles). Also handle indoor/outdoor AABB overlap
by showing all groups when position is in both indoor and outdoor AABBs.
Transport: clear ONTRANSPORT flag and transport state when transport not
found, preventing stale transport data from teleporting player to map
origin. Add area trigger safety net near (0,0,0) on Eastern Kingdoms.
When on-transport flag is set but the transport isn't tracked by
TransportManager, getPlayerWorldPosition() returns localOffset (a small
relative value) as a world position. This overwrites movementInfo with
near-zero coordinates, teleporting the player to map origin on Eastern
Kingdoms (Alterac/Hillsbrad area). Add transport existence checks in
sendMovement() and getComposedWorldPosition() before composing position.
Add game_interfaces.hpp with five narrow domain contracts that GameHandler now
publishes to its domain handlers, replacing the previous friend-class anti-pattern.
Changes:
- include/game/game_interfaces.hpp (new): IConnectionState, ITargetingState,
IEntityAccess, ISocialState, IPvpState — each interface exposes only the state
its consumer legitimately needs
- include/game/game_handler.hpp: GameHandler inherits all five interfaces;
include of game_interfaces.hpp added
- include/game/movement_handler.hpp: remove `friend class GameHandler`; add
public named accessors for previously-private fields (monsterMovePacketsThisTickRef,
timeSinceLastMoveHeartbeatRef, resetMovementClock, setFalling, setFallStartMs)
- include/game/spell_handler.hpp: remove `friend class GameHandler/InventoryHandler/
CombatHandler/EntityController`; promote private packet handlers (handlePetSpells,
handleListStabledPets, pet stable commands, DBC loaders) to public; add accessor
methods for aura cache, known spells, and player aura slot mutation
- src/game/game_handler.cpp, game_handler_callbacks.cpp, game_handler_packets.cpp:
replace direct private field access with the new accessor API
(e.g. casting_ → isCasting(), monsterMovePacketsThisTick_ → ...ThisTickRef())
- src/game/inventory_handler.cpp, combat_handler.cpp, entity_controller.cpp:
replace friend-class private access with public accessor calls
No behaviour change. All 13 test suites pass. Zero build warnings.
SMSG_GM_MESSAGECHAT has an extra gmNameLen+gmName field after the
standard header that was causing misaligned parsing for non-whisper GM
messages. Strip the GM name before forwarding to the regular parser.
Also improve party state notifications (show member names on join) and
add INFO-level logging for all incoming/outgoing chat messages and
WARNING-level logging for group invite/accept packets to diagnose
recurring phantom party state issues.
Auto-reply was sent on every incoming whisper with no dedup, causing
infinite loops when both players had auto-reply enabled. Now tracks
which senders have been replied to and only sends one auto-reply per
sender per AFK/DND session.
The area trigger system was temporarily moving the player to the trigger
center and sending a heartbeat before firing CMSG_AREATRIGGER. This told
the server the player was at a different location, causing unexpected
teleports (e.g. Stormwind to Hillsbrad). Just send the area trigger
packet directly — the player is already inside the trigger radius.
Was reading field 2 (InstanceType) which fell back to field 1 (internal
name like "Azeroth"). Field 4 has the localized display name ("Eastern
Kingdoms").
getMapName() returned empty for mapId 0 (Eastern Kingdoms) due to an
early return guard. Remove it since 0 is a valid map ID.
queryGuildInfo() required IN_WORLD state but the character screen is at
CHAR_LIST_RECEIVED. The server accepts CMSG_GUILD_QUERY before login,
so just check for a connected socket.
Load area names from AreaTable.dbc (canonical zone names) in addition
to WorldMapArea.dbc so zone IDs from SMSG_CHAR_ENUM resolve to names.
Use lookupGuildName() to query and display guild names instead of raw
guild IDs.
The decomposition PRs moved mail state to InventoryHandler but the GO
interaction code still set stale GameHandler fields. Add openMailbox()
on InventoryHandler and forward from GameHandler so the correct
mailboxGuid_/mailboxOpen_ are set and refreshMailList() works.
Calculate repair costs client-side using DurabilityCosts.dbc and
DurabilityQuality.dbc. Block repair when player can't afford it and
only apply optimistic durability/gold updates when cost is verified.
Show repair cost next to the Repair All button in the vendor window.
MAX_CULL_INSTANCES was 16384 but game object instances were allocated
at indices 20000+, beyond the cull buffer. Increased to 65536.
Also compute fallback boundRadius from vertex extents when M2 header
reports 0, and seed bones for global-sequence-only animated models.
handleValuesUpdate silently dropped VALUES updates for item GUIDs not in
entityManager, causing repair-all durability changes to be lost. Fall
through to updateItemOnValuesUpdate for items tracked in onlineItems_.
The minimum floor (3.0 for sphere radius, 4.0 for box dimensions) was
inflating narrow triggers like AT 5711 (boxWidth 1.06 → 4.0), causing
false area trigger fires near the Stormwind AH and unexpected teleports.
Add update=none and shallow=true to extern/FidelityFX-FSR2 and
extern/FidelityFX-SDK in .gitmodules.
The 'Checkout' step runs git submodule update --init --force --depth=1
on all submodules, including the Kelsidavis FSR2/SDK forks, which fails
because it tries to resolve a specific commit SHA via shallow fetch.
The 'Fetch AMD FSR2 SDK' step already rm -rf's and re-clones both
directories from the correct upstream repos, so the submodule checkout
step is redundant and harmful.
update=none causes git submodule update (and actions/checkout submodules:true)
to skip these two entries. Local developers who want the FSR2/SDK must
run the manual fetch step or use 'git submodule update --init <path>'
explicitly.
The .gitignore commit was never pushed to the FSR2 fork, breaking CI
shallow clones. Revert to 3d22aef and add ignore=dirty to .gitmodules
to suppress generated shader header noise.
- VkTexture::isValid() now checks both image AND sampler handles. Previously
it only checked the image, so a texture with a valid image but NULL sampler
would pass validation and get bound to a descriptor set. On MoltenVK (macOS)
this renders as pink/magenta boxes; the fallback white texture is now
correctly used instead.
- Fix fs::path to std::string implicit conversion in asset extractor that
broke the Windows (MSYS2/clang) CI build.
- mpq and locale finding is now case insensitive
- improve extraction order and support more patches
- unified much of the mpq logic for all expansions
- return a list of ordered paths for loading
M2 GPU instancing
- M2InstanceGPU SSBO (96 B/entry, double-buffered, 16384 max)
- Group opaque instances by (modelId, LOD); single vkCmdDrawIndexed per group
- boneBase field indexes into mega bone SSBO via gl_InstanceIndex
Indirect terrain drawing
- 24 MB mega index buffer (6M uint32) + 64 MB mega vertex buffer
- CPU builds VkDrawIndexedIndirectCommand per visible chunk
- Single VB/IB bind per frame; shadow pass reuses mega buffers
- Replaced vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirect with direct vkCmdDrawIndexed to fix
host-mapped buffer race condition that caused terrain flickering
GPU frustum culling (compute shader)
- m2_cull.comp.glsl: 64-thread workgroups, sphere-vs-6-planes + distance cull
- CullInstanceGPU SSBO input, uint visibility[] output, double-buffered
- dispatchCullCompute() runs before main pass via render graph node
Consolidated bone matrix SSBOs
- 16 MB double-buffered mega bone SSBO (2048 instances × 128 bones)
- Eliminated per-instance descriptor sets; one megaBoneSet_ per frame
- prepareRender() packs bone matrices consecutively into current frame slot
Render graph / frame graph
- RenderGraph: RGResource handles, RGPass nodes, Kahn topological sort
- Automatic VkImageMemoryBarrier/VkBufferMemoryBarrier between passes
- Passes: minimap_composite, worldmap_composite, preview_composite,
shadow_pass, reflection_pass, compute_cull
- beginFrame() uses buildFrameGraph() + renderGraph_->execute(cmd)
Pipeline derivatives
- PipelineBuilder::setFlags/setBasePipeline for VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_DERIVATIVE_BIT
- M2 opaque = base; alphaTest/alpha/additive are derivatives
- Applied to terrain (wireframe) and WMO (alpha-test) renderers
Rendering bug fixes:
- fix(shadow): compute lightSpaceMatrix before updatePerFrameUBO to eliminate
one-frame lag that caused shadow trails and flicker on moving objects
- fix(shadow): scale depth bias with shadowDistance_ instead of hardcoded 0.8f
to prevent acne at close range and gaps at far range
- fix(visibility): WMO group distance threshold 500u → 1200u to match terrain
view distance; buildings were disappearing on the horizon
- fix(precision): camera near plane 0.05 → 0.5 (ratio 600K:1 → 60K:1),
eliminating Z-fighting and improving frustum plane extraction stability
- fix(streaming): terrain load radius 4 → 6 tiles (~2133u → ~3200u) to exceed
M2 render distance (2800u) and eliminate pop-in when camera turns;
unload radius 7 → 9; spawn radius 3 → 4
- fix(visibility): ground-detail M2 distance multiplier 0.75 → 0.9 to reduce
early pop of grass and debris
