Replace UV scroll workaround for chimney smoke with proper GL_POINTS
particle system. Smoke particles rise, expand, drift, and fade over
4-7 seconds. One in eight particles spawns as a bright orange/red
ember spark. Enable 4x multisample antialiasing for smoother edges
on player models, fences, and foliage.
- Parse global sequence durations from M2 binary and use them in bone
interpolation so torches, candles, and other env doodads animate.
- Add UV scroll shader effect for smoke models (HouseSmoke, SmokeStack)
as a workaround for unimplemented M2 particle emitters.
- Tighten WMO floor probe heights to prevent multi-story buildings from
returning the wrong floor, fixing player clipping through inn floors
and camera locking onto the second floor.
- Use player ground level as reference for camera orbit floor collision
so the camera doesn't fight upper floors in buildings.
- Loading screen stays visible until all terrain tiles finish streaming;
character spawns only after terrain is loaded and Z-snapped to ground
- Reduce tree trunk collision bounds (5% of canopy, capped at 5.0) and
make all small/medium trees, bushes, lily pads, and foliage walkthrough
- Add jump input buffering (150ms) and coyote time (100ms) for responsive jumps
- Fix fence orientation by adding +180° heading rotation
- Increase terrain load radius from 1 to 2 (5x5 tile grid)
- Add hearthstone callback for single-player camera reset
- Add idle variation system: creatures randomly play Stand variations
(stretch, flap, look around) every 4-10s, then return to idle loop
- Deduplicate M2 instances at same position (was hidden before animation
made duplicates visible with different random start times)
- Adaptive M2 render distance: 350 units in open terrain, 180 in cities
- Restore terrain sampler-to-unit uniform bindings lost during texture
bind optimization (roads were invisible under grass)
- Safety: clamp bone count to 128, validate sequence indices, sanitize scale
- Implement GPU bone skinning for M2 doodads/creatures (gryphons, birds)
- Store bone hierarchy and animation keyframes per model
- Compute bone matrices per-instance with keyframe interpolation
- Upload bone weights/indices in vertex buffer, skinning in vertex shader
- Fix terrain texture rendering: restore sampler-to-unit uniform bindings
removed during texture bind optimization (roads were invisible)
- Add spellbook screen (P key) with Spell.dbc name lookup and action bar assignment
- Default Attack and Hearthstone spells available in single player
- Fix WMO floor clipping (gryphon roost) by tightening ceiling rejection threshold
- Darken ocean water, increase wave motion and opacity
- Add M2 model distance fade-in to prevent pop-in
- Reposition chat window, add slash/enter key focus
- Remove debug key commands (keep only F1 perf HUD, N minimap)
- Performance: return chat history by const ref, use deque for O(1) pop_front
Replace POSIX-specific socket and process APIs with portable
abstractions so the project builds on both Windows and Linux.
- Add include/network/net_platform.hpp: Winsock2/POSIX socket
abstraction (socket types, non-blocking, error handling,
WSAStartup lifecycle)
- Add include/platform/process.hpp: CreateProcess/fork+exec
abstraction for spawning ffplay subprocesses
- Update network module (tcp_socket, world_socket) to use
portable socket helpers instead of raw POSIX calls
- Update audio module (music_manager, footstep_manager,
activity_sound_manager) to use portable process helpers
instead of fork/exec/kill/waitpid
- Replace hardcoded /tmp/ paths with std::filesystem::temp_directory_path()
- Link ws2_32 and SDL2main on Windows in CMakeLists.txt
- Implement orbit camera with smooth zoom and collision detection
- Add 50° slope limiting with sliding (prevents mountain climbing)
- Add first-person mode that hides player model and weapons
- Add floor clearance check to prevent camera clipping through ground
- Improve WMO wall collision with proper height range checks
- Add two-sided floor collision detection for WMO geometry
- Increase M2 render distance slightly for better visibility
- Add loading screen system with stb_image for JPEG loading
- Two loading screen images (orc and dwarf) randomly selected
- Display loading screen while terrain data loads
- Cache WMO inverse matrices to reduce per-frame computation
- Stub WMO liquid rendering (needs coordinate system fix)
- Update spawn point to Stormwind Trade District
The MOHD header structure was missing the nTextures field at the start,
causing all subsequent field reads to be offset by 4 bytes. This corrupted
bounding box values and caused floor geometry to be incorrectly culled.
- Spawn position changed to (-9080, -100, 100) which is on actual terrain
- The terrain mesh uses WoW coordinates from ADT files directly
- Camera/spawn position must use same coordinate system as terrain
- Cleaned up getHeightAt comments to clarify coordinate system
- Removed debug logging from WMO floor detection
- Increase WMO render distance from 1500 to 3000 units for better city loading
- Increase M2 render distance from 500 to 1000 units
- Increase terrain load radius from 4 to 6 tiles (~3200 units)
- Add raycast-based camera collision that zooms in when obstructed by walls/objects
- Move spawn point outside chapel to road near Stormwind gate
- Add ground height smoothing to prevent stumbling on uneven terrain
Movement:
- Fix speed controls: Shift=sprint (28), normal run (14), Ctrl=walk (5)
- Reduce character height for doorway clearance (eye height 1.2)
- Add working crouch (C or X key) with smooth transition (eye height 0.6)
- Jump to stand up from crouch
M2 Animation:
- Add animation time tracking per M2 instance
- Add procedural swaying animation in vertex shader
- Update animation each frame for vegetation movement
