- 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.
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)
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.
- Add error handling: revert to 1x if recreateSwapchain fails
- Clamp requested MSAA to device maximum before applying
- Retry MSAA color image allocation without TRANSIENT on failure
- Remove redundant vkDeviceWaitIdle from WMO/M2/Character recreatePipelines
(caller already waits once, was causing ~13 stalls instead of 1)
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.
Skybox: replace sphere-mesh approach with a fullscreen triangle that
reconstructs the world-space ray direction analytically via inverse
projection/view matrices. Eliminates clip.w=0 degeneracy at the horizon
and correctly maps altitude to dir.z in the Z-up coordinate system.
Clouds: hemisphere mesh was storing altitude in aPos.y (Y-up convention);
the Z-up view matrix projected this sideways, making clouds appear
vertical. Store altitude in aPos.z and update the fragment shader to
read dir.z as altitude and dir.xy as the horizontal UV plane.
- renderWorld() now calls wmoRenderer, characterRenderer, m2Renderer (+smoke,
particles) in the correct opaque→transparent order; water moved after all
opaques; per-subsystem timing active in live path
- Deleted the 310-line #if 0 GL stub block and removed #include <GL/glew.h>
(last GL reference in renderer.cpp)
- Full-screen overlay pipeline (postprocess.vert + overlay.frag, alpha blend,
no depth test/write) for underwater tint; lazily initialized, renders a blue
tint when camera is meaningfully below the water surface; canal vs open-water
tint colours preserved from original design
- overlay.frag.glsl / overlay.frag.spv added
The sanity check `ls *.MPQ *.mpq` fails under `set -o pipefail`
when only one case variant exists, because ls exits non-zero for
the unmatched glob pattern and pipefail propagates that failure.
Use `compgen -G` to check each glob pattern independently instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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
- anchor flare sun position to camera + sun direction to match celestial billboard projection
- remove world-space parallax drift that caused flare/sun misalignment while moving
- 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
