Two bugs in SMSG_MESSAGECHAT parser for MONSTER_SAY/YELL/EMOTE:
1. Sender name included trailing null byte from server (nameLen includes
null terminator). The embedded null in std::string caused ImGui to
truncate the concatenated display string at the NPC name, hiding
" says: <message>" entirely.
2. Missing NamedGuid receiver name for non-player/non-pet targets. When
the receiver GUID is a creature, the server writes an additional
SizedCString (target name) that we weren't reading, shifting all
subsequent field reads.
Also adds MONSTER_WHISPER, MONSTER_PARTY, RAID_BOSS_EMOTE, RAID_BOSS_WHISPER
chat types with proper parsing and display formatting (says/yells/whispers).
- Prefer realm.build over profile worldBuild when non-zero in CMSG_AUTH_SESSION
- Fixes vanilla (1.12.1 build 5875) servers rejecting connection due to wrong build
- Suppress v0.0.0 display in realm list when version info is all zeros
- Fix shutdown hang: skip vmaDestroyAllocator (walked thousands of allocations),
replace unsafe pthread_timedjoin_np with plain join + early-exit checks in workers
- Bank window: full icon rendering, click-and-hold pickup (0.10s), drag-drop for
all bank slots including bank bag equip slots, same-slot drop detection
- Loading screen: process one tile per frame for live progress updates
- Camera reset: trust server position in online mode to avoid spawning under WMOs
- Fix PLAYER_BYTES/PLAYER_BYTES_2 field indices, preserve purchasedBankBagSlots
across inventory rebuilds, fix bank slot purchase result codes
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.
- Force binary loading for SkillLine.dbc (CSV exports are garbled)
- Handle quoted numeric values in DBC CSV parser
- Fix bank slot drag-and-drop to use mouse-release detection instead
of click detection, preventing item drops on wrong slots
- Fix action bar item drop to use hoveredOnRelease for consistency
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
- Companion pet spells (SkillLine 778) get their own "Companions" tab
- Mounts (SkillLine 762) and Companions are now split out from secondary
skills instead of being lumped into profession tabs
- Refactored tab grouping into addGroupedTabs helper to reduce duplication
- Tab order: Specs > General > Professions > Mounts > Companions
- Double-click to summon companions/mounts works via existing castSpell
- Class spec abilities now get individual tabs (e.g. Fire, Frost, Arcane)
- Primary professions each get their own tab (Alchemy, Blacksmithing, etc.)
- Secondary professions get tabs (Cooking, First Aid, Fishing)
- Mounts tab for all spells linked to Riding skill line (762)
- General tab for everything else (racials, weapon skills, etc.)
- Tab order: specs first, then General, then professions, then Mounts
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
Right-clicking equippable items (inventoryType > 0) while the bank is
open now equips them as normal instead of depositing. Only materials,
quest items, and other non-equippable items auto-deposit to bank.
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+).
When the bank is open, right-clicking a backpack or bag item now
deposits it into the bank via CMSG_AUTOBANK_ITEM instead of trying
to equip/use it. Bank deposit takes priority over vendor sell and
auto-equip actions.
- 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
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
Audio was being scaled by master volume multiple times: once via
ma_engine_set_volume, again per-sound in AudioEngine, and again
via pre-multiplication in the UI. Removed redundant master volume
multiplications so each channel volume is independent and master
applies once through the engine. Added About tab to settings with
developer info and GitHub link.
- 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
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.
Generate normal+height maps from diffuse textures at load time using
luminance-to-height and Sobel 3x3 filtering. Compute per-vertex tangents
via Lengyel's method for TBN basis construction.
Fragment shader uses screen-space UV derivatives (dFdx/dFdy) for smooth
LOD crossfade and angle-adaptive POM sample counts. Flat textures
naturally produce low height variance, causing POM to self-select off.
Settings: Normal Mapping on by default, POM off by default with
Low/Medium/High quality presets. Persisted across sessions.
Replace all glGenTextures/glTexImage2D calls in UI code with Vulkan texture
uploads via new VkContext::uploadImGuiTexture() helper. This fixes segfaults
from calling OpenGL functions without a GL context (null GLEW function pointers).
- Add uploadImGuiTexture() to VkContext with staging buffer upload pattern
- Convert game_screen, inventory_screen, spellbook_screen, talent_screen
from GLuint/GL calls to VkDescriptorSet/Vulkan uploads
- Fix loading_screen clearValueCount (was 1, needs 2 or 3 for MSAA)
- gate selection-circle rendering to UNIT and PLAYER targets only
- clear selection circle for non-unit target types (including gameobjects)
- keep target position updates unchanged for facing/interaction logic
- 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
- 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
- make tab-target accept units that are either faction-hostile or actively aggressive toward the player\n- fix cases where enemies remain un-tab-targetable after combat starts due to stale/friendly faction state\n- prefer hostile UNIT picks over nearby GAMEOBJECT picks for both left-click target and right-click interact flows\n- keep existing dead-unit filtering and interaction behavior intact while improving combat target acquisition
Add configurable fade-in support to MusicManager playback paths and use it for auth/login intro tracks to avoid abrupt starts. Apply a login-only 20% music attenuation while the auth screen is active, then restore the previous music volume when leaving login so in-game volume remains unchanged.
- Keep WotLK chest flow stock-like by relying on GAMEOBJ_USE/REPORT_USE instead of forcing eager CMSG_LOOT.
- Preserve fallback eager-loot behavior for Classic/Turtle paths with bounded retries.
- Improve GO targeting usability by allowing gameobject pick/retarget in world click logic.
- Remove temporary loot/chest diagnostic LOG_INFO traces added during chest-open debugging.
Allow equipped bags to be moved through the shared inventory pickup/drop flow, including dragging from bag contents to bag bar and back from bag bar into bag/backpack slots.
Changes:
- Add InventoryScreen APIs to begin pickup from an equipment slot and drop held item into a target equipment slot.
- Treat inventory type 18 (bags) as valid drops on BAG1-BAG4 during slot validation.
- Route equipment placement in online mode through swapContainerItems with explicit src/dst addressing for deterministic bag slot moves.
- Update bag bar hover-drop path to use InventoryScreen drop API instead of direct local slot mutation.
- On bag bar drag start, hand off to inventory held-item drag when inventory/character UI is open so drops into bag/backpack slots work.
- 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.
Combat state/UI:
- Split attack intent from server-confirmed auto attack in GameHandler.
- Add explicit combat state helpers (intent, confirmed, combat-with-target).
- Update player/target frame and renderer in-combat indicators to use confirmed combat.
- Add intent-only visual state in UI to avoid false combat feedback.
Animation correctness:
- Correct combat-ready animation IDs to canonical ready stances (22/23/24/25).
- Remove hit/wound-like stance behavior caused by incorrect ready IDs.
Classic/TBC/Turtle melee reliability:
- Tighten melee sync while attack intent is active: faster swing resend, tighter facing threshold, and faster facing cadence for classic-like expansions.
- Send immediate movement heartbeat after facing corrections and during stationary melee sync windows.
- Handle melee error opcodes explicitly (NOTINRANGE/BADFACING/NOTSTANDING/CANT_ATTACK) and immediately resync facing/swing where appropriate.
- On ATTACKSTOP with persistent intent, immediately reassert ATTACKSWING.
- Increase movement heartbeat cadence during active classic-like melee intent.
Server compatibility/anti-cheat stability:
- Restrict legacy force-movement/speed/teleport ACK behavior for classic-like flows to avoid unsolicited order acknowledgements.
- Preserve local movement state updates while preventing bad-order ACK noise.
Bag bar: left-click drag bags to swap positions using CMSG_SWAP_ITEM
with INVENTORY_SLOT_BAG_0 (255). Local optimistic swap for instant
feedback. Camera controller now respects ImGui WantCaptureMouse.
Vendor auto-open bags only triggers once per session.
Fix opcodes: CMSG_GAMEOBJECT_USE 0x01B→0x0B1 (typo caused
SMSG_FORCEACTIONSHOW spam), CMSG_CANCEL_AURA 0x033→0x136,
SMSG_SELL_ITEM 0x1A4→0x1A1.
