- drive shadow light direction from live LightingManager directionalDir
- normalize shadow light to downward-facing convention with grazing-angle guard
- make celestial/sky sun placement robust to directionalDir convention mismatches
- keep visible sun above horizon while preserving shadow alignment
- render sun with alpha blend while keeping moon additive glow
- add dedicated always-running sun haze timer (decoupled from moon phase cycling)
- constrain sun sprite with radial alpha mask and low-alpha discard to remove square artifact
- tune sun tint warmer without over-yellowing
- replace noisy/pulsing haze with slower flow-warp turbulence and lower amplitude
- make cloud mask transition broader for less distinct cutout edges
- increase high-frequency noise contribution for grainier cloud breakup
- apply edge-band fringe modulation with stronger feathering
- lower and remap final alpha to blend cloud boundaries more naturally into the sky
- 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
- 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.
- ensure player transform sync is not gated by third-person so player shadow stays consistent
- hold shadow projection center during movement and snap once on stop to remove delayed catch-up
- smooth foliage caster transitions using blended phase-shifted UV samples
- tune foliage motion frequencies/amplitudes for less popping
- increase shadow map resolution to 2048 and retune terrain PCF texel scale
- increase global shadow strength from 0.62 to 0.68 for stronger, clearer shadows
- keep shadow projection center fixed while moving to remove per-frame projection churn flicker
- replace delayed post-move catch-up with immediate stop transition and idle smoothing
- rework foliage shadow caster motion to use blended phase-shifted UV samples for continuous position transitions
- reduce high-frequency foliage threshold popping by removing threshold warping path
- sharpen terrain receive filtering with tuned 5-tap PCF weights/offset for more detailed shadows
- raise shadow map resolution to 1536 and keep light-space texel snapping for stable sampling
- set shadows enabled by default and lower global shadow strength from 0.65 to 0.62
- keep foliage animation speed consistent between moving and idle at 80%
- 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.
Normalize WoW quest text tokens during parsing so quest titles/details no longer leak raw markup like and |n into UI. Apply to WotLK and Classic parser paths, including quest list parsing in GameHandler.
Harden quest state handling by mapping abandon requests to authoritative server quest-log slots (PLAYER_QUEST_LOG_START) instead of local vector order, with a guarded fallback when update fields are unavailable.
Improve accept de-duplication by trusting server slot state over stale local cache; allow re-accept when local/server state diverges and trigger resync semantics.
Add expansion-aware CMSG_QUESTGIVER_ACCEPT_QUEST builders: WotLK sends guid+questId+unk1(uint32), while TBC/Classic/Turtle send guid+questId only. Wire GameHandler through PacketParsers for compatibility across expansions and cores.
- 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
- 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.
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 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.
Declare autoAttackOutOfRangeTime_ and autoAttackRangeWarnCooldown_ in GameHandler to match existing combat logic in game_handler.cpp and keep header/source state in sync.
Keep the targeting ring anchored near target feet by filtering floor probes to a local Z window, preventing unrelated upper/lower WMO surfaces from hijacking ring height.
Also keeps the ring render pass after WMO geometry and before character/M2 passes so it remains visible through terrain/WMO while still rendering behind units.
Use latest authoritative target coordinates for melee range checks and add heartbeat resync while auto-attack intent is active but hits are not confirmed.
Details:
- Switch melee distance calculations from interpolated entity position to getLatestX/Y/Z in start, periodic auto-attack checks, and NOTINRANGE retry gating.
- Send MSG_MOVE_HEARTBEAT during melee sync ticks when facing is already aligned but server hasn’t confirmed active swings yet (or target is marked out-of-range), preventing 'step forward to start hitting' behavior.
- Keep existing warning throttling and stop logic intact.
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.
- 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.
- add idempotent pending-accept tracking with timeout and per-quest cleanup hooks
- stop optimistic local quest insertion on accept; rely on server-authoritative updates
- handle QUEST_INVALID already-on/completed as reconciliation paths for pending accepts
- trigger quest metadata + status resync when accept state drifts
- add login-time quest log rebuild from PLAYER_QUEST_LOG server slots
- query quest metadata for server-slot quests to hydrate titles/objectives
- clear stale pending quest accept/query state on fresh world entry
- improve gossip quest selection fallback by trusting server quest slots when local cache is missing
This reduces duplicate accept/state mismatch loops (notably reason=13) and stabilizes WotLK quest behavior after relogs.
- 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
- Render selection circle before character/WMO/M2 passes\n- Disable depth test during selection pass so terrain does not occlude it\n- Keep model passes after selection so monsters/M2s render over the ring
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.
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.
Resolved a melee desync where attacks could fail unless constantly moving through target.
Movement opcode handling:
- In 0x006B compatibility path, prefer compressed-move batch detection before weather alias routing.
- Route 0x006B payloads shaped like SMSG_COMPRESSED_MOVES sub-packets to handleCompressedMoves().
Root/unroot state synchronization:
- Added handling for SMSG_FORCE_MOVE_ROOT and SMSG_FORCE_MOVE_UNROOT.
- Added handleForceMoveRootState() to apply server-authoritative ROOT flag locally.
- Send CMSG_FORCE_MOVE_ROOT_ACK / CMSG_FORCE_MOVE_UNROOT_ACK with current movement payload and counter.
Melee facing stability:
- Added periodic facing sync during auto-attack (MSG_MOVE_SET_FACING) when angular drift to target exceeds threshold.
- Keeps server front-arc/facing checks aligned while stationary meleeing.
Noise reduction / stream hygiene:
- Consume optional legacy/system packets safely: SMSG_FRIEND_LIST, SMSG_IGNORE_LIST, SMSG_ADDON_INFO, SMSG_EXPECTED_SPAM_RECORDS.
Validation:
- Rebuilt successfully with cmake --build build -j32.
Introduce data-driven opcode registry with canonical and alias sources:
- Added Data/opcodes/canonical.json as the single canonical LogicalOpcode set.
- Added Data/opcodes/aliases.json for cross-core naming aliases (CMaNGOS/AzerothCore/local legacy).
Added generator and generated include fragments:
- tools/gen_opcode_registry.py emits include/game/opcode_enum_generated.inc, include/game/opcode_names_generated.inc, and include/game/opcode_aliases_generated.inc.
- include/game/opcode_table.hpp now consumes generated enum entries.
- src/game/opcode_table.cpp now consumes generated name and alias tables.
Loader canonicalization behavior:
- OpcodeTable::nameToLogical canonicalizes incoming JSON opcode names via alias table before enum lookup, so implementation code stays stable while expansion maps can use different core spellings.
Validation and build integration:
- Added tools/validate_opcode_maps.py to validate canonical contract across expansions.
- Added CMake targets opcodes-generate and opcodes-validate.
- wowee target now depends on opcodes-generate so generated headers stay current.
Validation/build run:
- cmake -S . -B build
- cmake --build build --target opcodes-generate opcodes-validate
- cmake --build build -j32
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.
Switch level-up callback triggering to SMSG_LEVELUP_INFO/SMSG_LEVELUP_INFO_ALT so animation and SFX are server-authoritative.
Parse the new level directly from the level-up packet, update cached player/character level state, and fire callback only when level increases.
Remove duplicate callback firing from UNIT_FIELD_LEVEL update-field handling to prevent double-triggered level-up effects when values sync after the packet.
