unloadAll() joins worker threads which blocks if they're mid-tile
(prepareTile can take seconds for heavy ADTs). Replace with softReset()
which clears tile data, queues, and water surfaces without stopping
worker threads — workers find empty queues and idle naturally.
- Add VK_DESCRIPTOR_POOL_CREATE_FREE_DESCRIPTOR_SET_BIT to water material
descriptor pool so individual sets can be freed when tiles are unloaded
- Free descriptor sets in destroyWaterMesh() instead of leaking them
- Add terrain manager unloadAll() during logout to properly clear stale
tiles, water surfaces, and queues between sessions
- Add diagnostic logging for water surface loading, material allocation
failures, and render skip reasons to investigate missing water
logoutToLogin() was only clearing a handful of flags, leaving stale
entity instance maps, pending spawn queues, transport state, mount
state, and charge state from the previous session. On second login,
these stale GUIDs and instance IDs caused invalid renderer operations
and crashes.
Now clears: creature/player/gameObject instance maps, all pending
spawn queues, transport doodad batches, mount/charge state, player
identity, and renderer world geometry (WMO instances, M2 models,
quest markers). Also disconnects TransportManager from WMORenderer
before teardown to prevent dangling pointer access.
Recreate Vulkan swapchain in LoadingScreen::render() when the dirty flag
is set, so resizing the window during world loading no longer renders
into a stale swapchain with mismatched framebuffers.
- Windows: SetThreadAffinityMask to pin main thread to core 0 and
exclude workers from core 0
- macOS: thread_policy_set with THREAD_AFFINITY_POLICY tags to hint
scheduler separation (tag 1 for main, tag 2 for workers)
Water deduplication: merge per-chunk water surfaces into per-tile surfaces
to reduce Vulkan descriptor set usage from ~8900 to ~100-200. Uses hybrid
approach — groups with ≤4 chunks stay per-chunk (preserving shore detail),
larger groups merge into 128×128 tile-wide surfaces.
Re-add incremental tile finalization state machine (reverted in 9b90ab0)
to spread GPU uploads across frames and prevent city stuttering.
Pin main thread to CPU core 0 and exclude worker threads from core 0
to reduce scheduling jitter on the render/game loop.
- Use authoritative playerRace/playerGender at spawn for voice profiles
instead of unreliable model name parsing
- Support nonbinary gender with useFemaleModel body type fallback
- Move voice setup into spawnPlayerCharacter() for all spawn paths
- Remove legacy single-player default Human Male clip preloading
- Make loading screen text black and move progress bar to top
Gameobject M2 instances (books, crates, chests) were continuously
cycling their animations because M2Renderer unconditionally loops
all sequences. Added setInstanceAnimationFrozen() and freeze all
gameobject instances at creation time so they stay in their bind pose.
Strip ~30 chrono::now() calls per frame from Application::update() and
GameHandler::update() that existed only for periodic LOG_DEBUG dumps.
Retain renderer timing used by the live performance HUD overlay.
Strip 26 chrono::now() timing calls per frame from renderer update loop,
periodic LOG_INFO/LOG_DEBUG from terrain/character/quest/heartbeat paths,
and dead m2ProfileCounter variable.
- Add .setMultisample() to minimap display pipeline and recreatePipelines() for MSAA changes
- Defer all swapchain recreation in window.cpp to beginFrame() via markSwapchainDirty()
to prevent mid-frame render pass destruction crashes on resolution/fullscreen change
- Move spawnPlayerCharacter() call to after loadTestTerrain() where character renderer exists
MSAA change was called mid-frame from settings UI, destroying the render pass
and framebuffers while the command buffer was still recording. Now deferred
via pendingMsaaSamples_ flag, applied in beginFrame() before any GPU state.
Also add +180° to M2 game object orientation to fix facing direction.
Render pass begin used 2 clear values but MSAA render pass has 3
attachments (MSAA color, depth, resolve). Vulkan requires clear
value count >= attachment count, causing a driver crash at 8x.
Also fix renderYawM2 reference removed in previous commit.
M2 game objects (signs, posts) were using orientation - 90° while
characters/NPCs use orientation + 90° for the canonical-to-render yaw
conversion. Both renderers build model matrices identically, so they
need the same offset. The old -90° was calibrated when terrain was
rotated 90°; with correct terrain the signs appeared sideways.
- Cache non-renderable creature display IDs and fail-fast future spawn attempts
- Mark GUIDs tied to non-renderable displays as permanent failures to avoid long retry loops
- Skip queued spawn retry work immediately for known non-renderable display IDs
- Clear non-renderable display cache on expansion reload/logout
- Downgrade high-volume UNIT spawn logs to debug and fix mislabeled time-sync log
- add one-time warning caches for missing CreatureDisplayInfo and missing model path lookups
- log each missing displayId/model-path only once instead of every spawn retry/frame
- remove duplicate empty-model-path warning in spawnOnlineCreature (already reported by lookup path)
This cuts high-frequency log I/O and string formatting in hotspots when server sends unknown displayIds, while preserving first-occurrence diagnostics.
- reduce per-tile ground clutter generation pressure and enforce tighter caps to avoid spikes
- remove expensive detail dedupe scans from the hot render path
- add progressive/lazy clutter updates around player movement to smooth frame pacing
- lower noisy runtime INFO logging to DEBUG/throttled paths
- keep terrain/game screen updates responsive while preserving existing behavior
Add page-text support for sign-like gameobject interactions by handling SMSG_GAMEOBJECT_PAGETEXT and SMSG_PAGE_TEXT_QUERY_RESPONSE, and issuing CMSG_PAGE_TEXT_QUERY when page IDs are available from cached GO template data.
Normalize received page text tokens before chat display and add a fallback for basic signpost GO type clicks to print sign names when no page data is present.
Correct M2 gameobject yaw alignment for signposts/arrows by applying render-space -90deg offset consistently across spawn, position update, and move-callback transforms; keep WMO orientation path unchanged.
- prioritize AzerothCore-compatible virtual item base indices (including 56) for NPC held weapons\n- resolve UNIT_VIRTUAL_ITEM_SLOT values strictly via Item.dbc entry -> DisplayID to avoid display-ID collisions\n- keep NPC offhand detached in this path to prevent erroneous shields/hilts\n- tighten facial geoset filtering to selected variants with minimal fallback (1xx/2xx/3xx)\n- reduce beard/sideburn overdraw while preserving selected chin/mustache channel
- resolve creature virtual item values as Item.dbc entry -> DisplayID before direct ItemDisplayInfo fallback\n- use correct WotLK virtual item base index set (starting at 56) and keep retry attach loop for late update fields\n- keep NPC main-hand weapon attachment path and clear erroneous offhand attachments\n- refactor NPC virtual weapon attach into helper with per-creature retry tracking\n- tighten humanoid facial hair geoset selection to avoid loading all beard/sideburn meshes\n- adjust facial 3xx preference to favor chin-hair channel when available
- select humanoid scalp geoset by race/sex/style and filter overlapping scalp variants\n- constrain group 1 connectors to selected hair connector with safe fallback\n- add facial geoset handling for groups 100/200/300 from CharFacialHairStyles\n- allow selected facial 100 and fallback 100/101 when needed\n- map facial 200/300 directly from DBC indices (supports valid 200/300 variants)\n- keep existing NPC arm accessory suppression and clothing normalization
- exclude group 3 and group 8 from NPC geoset normalization to prevent looped/extra arm meshes\n- keep group 4 bare fallback (401) so forearms remain present\n- retain slot-aware NPC texture compositing so equipped NPCs can still tint/texturize arms without mesh artifacts
- include group 12 in humanoid clothing normalization\n- only enable tabard geoset when CreatureDisplayInfoExtra slot 9 is present\n- keep cape/robe conflict normalization behavior unchanged
- normalize humanoid NPC clothing geosets at spawn time to avoid conflicting overlays\n- force pants-first selection for group 13 to prevent robe/kilt meshes on trouser NPCs\n- hide cloak groups for NPCs unless a renderable cape texture can actually be resolved\n- avoid falling back to missing equipment texture paths during region compositing\n- stop model-scope type-2 cape texture writes that could leak cape/white textures across shared model IDs\n- add group texture override usage in character renderer draw path\n- update character preview equipment application to reuse preview applyEquipment path\n- keep hand-only keybone fallback for attachments to prevent helmet/anchor misbinds
Hide NPC cloak/object-skin mesh when no cape texture resolves by using a transparent texture fallback, preventing skin-texture bleed on cloaks. Tighten NPC equipment region compositing by slot and add safe humanoid geoset selection to avoid robe-over-pants conflicts and odd pants texturing.
Reduce login/runtime hitching by deferring non-critical world-system initialization across frames, lowering per-frame transport doodad spawn budget, and demoting high-volume transport/MO_TRANSPORT diagnostics to debug. Gate M2 glow diagnostics behind WOWEE_M2_GLOW_DIAG and make zone music prewarm opt-in via WOWEE_PREWARM_ZONE_MUSIC.
- Add per-frame cap for first-time creature model loads to spread expensive model/texture decode work across frames instead of burst loading.
- Keep cached creature spawns flowing while deferring uncached display IDs, preserving world population updates with smoother frame pacing.
- Defer transport WMO doodad instancing into a queued batch processor with a strict per-frame budget to avoid multi-hundred-ms spikes when ships/elevators register.
- Process deferred transport doodad batches in both normal gameplay update and loading-screen warmup loop so heavy transport setup can be amortized before and after world entry.
- Cleanup pending transport doodad batches on gameobject despawn to prevent stale work and avoid attaching children to removed parents.
- Lower character texture cache miss logging from INFO to DEBUG to reduce log I/O contention during movement-heavy asset streaming.
- keep character-selection state until world entry load/finalize completes
- move expensive post-load setup (test transport + creature callback prep) before loading screen shutdown
- add bounded world warmup pass under loading screen to drain initial network/spawn backlog
- start intro camera pan after warmup so rotation begins when gameplay becomes visible
- guard test transport setup so it runs once per session
- add per-update world socket parse budget to prevent single-frame packet-drain stalls
This reduces visible 3-4s stutter after login by shifting startup work behind the loading screen and time-slicing packet processing.
- Use interpolated moveInstanceTo() for normal server NPC position deltas so walk/run animations play instead of visual sliding
- Keep hard snaps only for dead units and large corrections/teleports
- Add per-creature render position cache to drive interpolation safely across frames and clear it on spawn/despawn/reset
- Keep minimap controls visible regardless of quest-status availability
- Correct minimap NPC/quest marker projection mapping to match minimap shader transform
- Add optional nearby NPC minimap dots setting (default OFF), exposed in Gameplay > Interface and persisted in settings
- Right-click attack fallback for non-interactable hostile creatures
- Robust creature skin path resolution for WotLK/non-humanoid display skin fields
- Strengthened client-side anti-overlap spacing for active melee targets (including wolf/worg models)
- Minimap questgiver markers now use live minimap view radius and exact minimap center to prevent player-relative drift
Selection ring rendering has been upgraded to better match WoW-like target feedback and remain readable across complex geometry.
Visual updates:
- Reworked ring mesh/shader from a simple two-band strip to a unit-disc + radial fragment shaping.
- Implemented a thinner outer ring profile.
- Added an inward color/alpha gradient that fades from the ring toward the center.
Placement/anchoring updates:
- Added CharacterRenderer::getInstanceFootZ() to query model foot plane from instance bounds.
- Added Application::getRenderFootZForGuid() to resolve per-GUID foot height via live instance mapping.
- Updated GameScreen target selection placement to anchor the effect at target foot Z.
Ground/surface stability:
- In renderSelectionCircle(), added floor clamping against terrain, WMO, and M2 floor probes at target XY.
- Raised final placement offset to reduce residual clipping on uneven surfaces.
Depth/visibility behavior:
- Added polygon offset during ring draw to reduce z-fighting.
- Disabled depth testing for the selection effect draw pass (with state restore) so the ring remains visible through terrain/WMO occluders, per requested behavior.
State safety:
- Restored modified GL state after selection pass (depth test / polygon offset / depth mask / cull).
Build validation:
- Verified with cmake build target "wowee" after each stage; final build succeeds.
- Send CMSG_QUESTGIVER_ACCEPT_QUEST with trailing u8 flag on non-classic expansions to match AzerothCore parsing and prevent opcode 393 ByteBufferException.
- Keep classic/turtle on short accept packet format (guid + questId).
- Add displayId fallback for 31048/31049 to Creature\Wolf\Wolf.m2 so Diseased Young Wolf variants render instead of being dropped.
Classic: synchronized Data/expansions/classic/opcodes.json to /home/k/Desktop/classicopcodes.h with exact symbol/value parity (0 missing, 0 mismatches).
WotLK: synchronized Data/expansions/wotlk/opcodes.json to /home/k/Desktop/azerothcoreOpcodes.h and aligned symbol names to AzerothCore naming.
Logical opcode layer: expanded include/game/opcode_table.hpp and src/game/opcode_table.cpp to include missing canonical opcode symbols required by synced tables, and removed legacy alias fallback block so canonical names are used directly.
Gameplay/handler updates included from ongoing fixes: duel/taxi stale opcode cleanup, level-up/sound handling adjustments, and related parser/packet references updated to match canonical opcode identifiers.
Validated by successful full build: cmake --build build -j32.
Wire CombatSoundManager into SMSG_ATTACKERSTATEUPDATE for weapon swing,
impact, and miss sounds. Add attack grunt and wound vocalizations to
ActivitySoundManager using correct WoW MPQ PC-suffix paths. Trigger
attack animation on SMSG_SPELL_GO for warrior melee abilities. Add
client-side melee range and facing checks to prevent server rejections.
Snap charge arrival to target's current position for reliable melee range.
Replace 2D screen-space ding rings with real WoW LevelUp.m2 particle/geometry
effect. Fix FBlock particle color parsing (C3Vector floats, not CImVector bytes)
which was producing blue/red instead of golden yellow. Spell effect models bypass
particle dampeners, glow sprite conversion, Mod→Additive blend override, and all
collision (floor/wall/camera) to prevent camera zoom-in. Other players' level-ups
trigger the 3D effect at their position with group chat notification. F7 hotkey
for testing.
Two bugs caused the client to look like a bot to server GMs:
1. Strafe animation played during forward+strafe (W+A) instead of the
walk/run animation. Added pureStrafe guard so strafe animations only
play when exclusively strafing (no forward key or auto-run active).
2. CMSG_MOVE_SET_FACING was never sent on mouse-look turns. The server
predicts movement from the last known facing; without SET_FACING the
heartbeat position appeared to teleport each time the player changed
direction. Now sent at up to 10 Hz whenever facing changes >3°,
skipped while keyboard-turning (handled server-side by TURN flags).
