Parse SMSG_PARTY_MEMBER_STATS and SMSG_PARTY_MEMBER_STATS_FULL packets
so party frames display health, power, level, and online status even
when group members are not nearby. Expansion-aware field sizes: uint16
health for Classic/TBC, uint32 for WotLK, plus per-expansion aura and
vehicle seat handling.
Implement generic handlers for force speed changes (walk, run back,
swim, swim back, flight, flight back, turn rate, pitch rate),
movement flag toggles (CAN_FLY, HOVER, feather fall, water walk),
and knockback ACKs. Fix SMSG_TIME_SYNC_REQ to respond with
CMSG_TIME_SYNC_RESP instead of silently dropping.
lookupSpellName() (called by action bar tooltips) was triggering
loadSpellDBC() early, setting dbcLoadAttempted=true before the
spellbook opened. This caused loadSkillLineDBCs() to be skipped,
so all spells were categorized into "General". Fixed by checking
each DBC's own loaded flag independently and re-categorizing when
skill line data becomes available.
- Fix SMSG_ITEM_QUERY_SINGLE_RESPONSE parsing: read statsCount stat
pairs instead of always 10, use 2 damage entries (MAX_ITEM_PROTO_DAMAGES),
and parse item spell data (spellId + spellTrigger per slot)
- Pass item spell ID in CMSG_USE_ITEM packet so server processes item
use requests (spellId=0 caused silent server rejection)
- Add spellId parameter to buildUseItem interface across all expansions
- Fix spellbook mount tab to use SkillLine 777 (Mounts) instead of 762
(Riding), so known mount summon spells appear correctly
- Fix inventory right-click: use IsItemHovered+IsMouseClicked instead
of IsItemClicked for InvisibleButton (which only tracks left-clicks)
- Fix SlotKind enum declaration order in inventory_screen.hpp
Talent screen:
- Remove all debug text and per-frame LOG_INFO spam
- Show class name in window title (e.g. "Warrior Talents")
- Display point distribution in header (0/31/20) and per-tab counts
- Highlighted active spec button with styled spec switcher
- Load and render tree background textures from TalentTab.dbc
- Draw prerequisite arrows with arrowheads (green=met, gray=unmet)
- Fix rank display (was showing rank+1, now correct 1-indexed values)
- Rank counter with dark background pill for readability
- Hover glow effect, rounded corners, centered grid layout
- Wider window (680x600) for 4-column WoW talent grid
Spellbook:
- Add search/filter bar for finding spells by name
- Add spell descriptions from Spell.dbc tooltip field
- Rich tooltips with name, rank, passive indicator, cooldown, description
- Visual icon borders: yellow=passive, red=cooldown, default=active
- Cooldown overlay on icon with countdown number
- Hover highlight on spell rows
- Tab counts update to reflect search filter results
- Rounded corners on icons and hover states
- Extracted renderSpellTooltip helper for consistent tooltip rendering
- Add item class/subclass category filters (Weapon, Armor, etc.) with correct WoW 3.3.5a IDs
- Add sell item picker dropdown with icons and Create Auction button
- Add pagination (Prev/Next) for browse results with filter preservation
- Add Buy/Bid action buttons to Bids tab
- Add item icons and stat tooltips on hover across all three tabs
- Add Enter-to-search from name field and search delay countdown
- Parse SMSG_AUCTION_OWNER/BIDDER_NOTIFICATION into chat messages
- Auto-refresh browse results after bid/buyout using saved search params
- Clamp level range inputs to 0-80
- CMSG_SEND_MAIL now includes item GUIDs (up to 12 per WotLK)
- Right-click items in bags to attach when mail compose is open
- Compose window shows 12-slot attachment grid with item icons
- Click attached items to remove them
- Classic/Vanilla falls back to single item GUID format
Bank window slots now act as drop targets when holding an item from
inventory. Empty bank slots highlight green, and clicking drops the
held item via CMSG_SWAP_ITEM. Occupied bank slots accept swaps too.
Works for both main bank slots (39-66) and bank bag slots (67+).
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
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.
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.
StormLib's bundled libtomcrypt uses x86 inline assembly (bswapl/movl)
gated by __MINGW32__, which is defined on CLANGARM64 too. Pass
-DLTC_NO_BSWAP to force portable C byte-swap fallback.
The incremental advanceFinalization state machine broke water rendering
in ways that couldn't be resolved. Reverted to the original monolithic
finalizeTile approach. The other performance optimizations (bone SSBO
pre-allocation, WMO distance culling, M2 adaptive distance tiers)
are kept.
Replace monolithic finalizeTile() with a phased state machine that spreads
GPU upload work across multiple frames (TERRAIN→M2→WMO→WATER→AMBIENT→DONE).
Each advanceFinalization() call does one bounded unit of work within the
per-frame time budget, eliminating 50-300ms frame hitches when entering cities.
Additional performance improvements:
- Pre-allocate bone SSBOs at M2 instance creation instead of lazily during
first render frame, preventing hitches when many skinned characters appear
- Enable WMO distance culling (800 units) with active-group exemption so
the player's current floor/neighbors are never culled
- Add 4-tier adaptive M2 render distance (250/400/600/1000 based on count)
- Remove dead PendingM2Upload queue code superseded by incremental system
Fix tile re-enqueueing bug: keep tiles in pendingTiles until committed to
loadedTiles (not when moved to finalizingTiles_) so streamTiles() doesn't
re-enqueue tiles mid-finalization. Also handle unloadTile() for tiles in
the finalizingTiles_ deque to prevent orphaned water/M2/WMO resources.
- vk_utils.hpp: mark unused 'msg' parameter with [[maybe_unused]]
- world_packets.cpp: write exactMatch field to auction list packet
(was accepted as parameter but never serialized)
- game_screen.cpp: remove unused bagIcons array and unused info variable
- talent_screen.cpp: remove unused nextRank and pMin variables
Character was facing stage-left (yaw 180) instead of toward camera;
corrected default yaw to 90. Added MSAA support to VkRenderTarget with
automatic resolve attachment, and enabled 4x MSAA for the character
preview off-screen pass.
Remove freeze-while-moving and idle smoothing logic from shadow
center computation. Texel snapping already prevents shimmer, so
the shadow projection can track the player directly each frame.
Remove isInterior restriction from WMO shadow sampling so city
buildings (flagged as interior groups) correctly receive shadows.
Apply shadow to interior-lit surfaces. Enable shadows by default
and persist the setting across sessions.
Zoom speed now scales with distance for fine control near the character.
Default max zoom out reduced from 50 to 33 units. New "Extended Camera
Zoom" toggle in Gameplay settings restores the full 50-unit range.
- Tighten celestial glow falloff and edge fade to eliminate visible quad boundary
- Add opacity support to minimap display shader, synced with UI opacity setting
- Fix audio double/triple-scaling by removing redundant master volume multiplications
- Rename "Original Soundtrack" toggle to "Enable WoWee Music"
- Add About tab with developer info and GitHub link
- Spawn dark point-sprite insects buzzing around cattails/reeds/kelp/seaweed
- Fix firefly M2 particles: exempt from alpha dampening and forced gravity
- Make water shoreline/crest foam more irregular with UV warping and bluer tint
- Play WaterFootstep splash sounds when wading in shallow water
- Spawn foot splash particles at water surface on each water footstep
- Reduce inland water wave amplitude from 0.18 to 0.08 for calmer lakes
Remove negative cache for transient load failures in M2, terrain, and
character renderers. Failed textures return white and will be retried
on next model/tile load when assets may have finished streaming.
- Add aura icons below target frame with buff/debuff color coding
- Show spell icons with hover tooltips and duration countdowns
- Change SPELL_FAILED_ONLY_SHAPESHIFT message to cover warrior stances
- 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
- Cache material UBO mapped pointers at creation time, eliminating
per-batch vmaGetAllocationInfo() calls in the hot render path
- Precompute foliage/elven/lantern/kobold model name classifications
at load time instead of per-instance string operations every frame
- Remove redundant descriptor set and push constant rebinds on WMO
pipeline switches (preserved across compatible layouts)
- Pre-allocate glow sprite descriptor set once at init instead of
allocating from the pool every frame
Shadow casting: foliage batches now bind their actual texture in the shadow
pass with alpha testing, producing leaf-shaped shadows instead of solid cards.
Uses a per-frame resettable descriptor pool for texture sets.
Shadow receiving: foliage fragments now sample the shadow map with PCF
instead of using a flat constant darkening.
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 per-frame/periodic logging from CharacterRenderer (batch dump,
instance count) and M2Renderer (frame timing profiler) to avoid
unnecessary string formatting and I/O in render loops.
The projection matrix Y-flip (projectionMatrix[1][1] *= -1) reverses
triangle winding from the GPU's perspective. With the default
VK_FRONT_FACE_COUNTER_CLOCKWISE, gl_FrontFacing was inverted, causing
all fragment shaders (M2, WMO, character) to flip normals on front
faces instead of back faces, putting specular highlights on the wrong
side of surfaces.
Instead of relying on material flag 0x40 (F_CLAMP_S, not F_WINDOW) to
identify glass materials, detect windows by checking for "window" in the
texture path. This correctly applies glass to window textures while
leaving lamp posts and other geometry opaque.
Two WMO rendering fixes:
1. Glass batch merging: BatchKey didn't include isWindow, so window and
non-window batches sharing the same texture got merged together. If
the window batch was processed first, the entire merged batch (lamp
base, iron frame, etc.) rendered as transparent glass. Add isWindow
to the batch key so glass/non-glass batches stay separate.
2. LOD group culling: WMO groups named with "LOD" are distance-only
impostor geometry (e.g. cathedral tower extension, hill tower). They
should only render beyond 200 units. Store raw MOGN chunk for
offset-based name lookup, detect "lod" in group names during load,
and skip LOD groups in both main and shadow passes when camera is
within range.
Extends the WMO normal mapping/POM system to character M2 models with
bone-skinned tangents. Auto-generates normal/height maps from diffuse
textures using luminance→height, Sobel→normals (same algorithm as WMO).
- Expand vertex buffer from M2Vertex (48B) to CharVertexGPU (56B) with
tangent vec4 computed via Lengyel's method in setupModelBuffers()
- Tangents are bone-transformed and Gram-Schmidt orthogonalized in the
vertex shader, output as TBN for fragment shader consumption
- Fragment shader gains POM ray marching, normal map blending, and LOD
crossfade via dFdx/dFdy (identical to WMO shader)
- Descriptor set 1 extended with binding 2 for normal/height sampler
- Settings (enable, strength, POM quality) wired from game_screen.cpp
to both WMO and character renderers via shared UI controls
POM fixes: use blurred height only for ray march (keep crisp Sobel for
normals), reduce pomScale 0.03→0.012, clamp grazing angle denominator
to 0.15, hard-limit max UV offset, smooth fadeout at steep view angles.
Add Normal Map Strength slider (0.0-2.0) in Video settings for user
control over surface detail intensity. Persisted across sessions.
