Add complete spell visual pipeline resolving the DBC chain
(Spell → SpellVisual → SpellVisualKit → SpellVisualEffectName → M2)
with precast/cast/impact phases, bone-attached positioning, and
automatic dual-hand mirroring.
Ribbon rendering fixes:
- Parse visibility track as uint8 (was read as float, suppressing
all ribbon edges due to ~1.4e-45 failing the >0.5 check)
- Filter garbage emitters with bone=UINT_MAX unconditionally
- Guard against NaN spine positions from corrupt bone data
- Resolve ribbon textures via direct index, not textureLookup table
- Fall back to bone 0 when ribbon bone index is out of range
Particle rendering fixes:
- Reduce spell particle scale from 5x to 1.5x (was oversized)
- Exempt spell effect instances from position-based deduplication
Spell handler integration:
- Trigger precast visuals on SMSG_SPELL_START with server castTimeMs
- Trigger cast/impact visuals on SMSG_SPELL_GO
- Cancel precast visuals on cast interrupt/failure/movement
M2 classifier expansion:
- Add AmbientEmitterType enum for sound system integration
- Add 20+ foliage tokens, 4 spell effect tokens, isSmallFoliage flag
- Add markModelAsSpellEffect() to override disableAnimation
DBC layouts:
- Add SpellVisualID field to Spell.dbc for all expansion configs
Signed-off-by: Pavel Okhlopkov <pavel.okhlopkov@flant.com>
HiZ occlusion culling built ~11 mip levels with per-level barriers
behind a blocking vkWaitForFences every frame — the main frame-rate
bottleneck. Disable the pyramid build and fall back to GPU frustum-
only culling which is nearly free behind the fence.
WMO interiors now receive full-strength directional shadows but clamp
minimum brightness at 0.45 with a 0.35 ambient floor, so interiors
get real shadow contrast without going too dark.
dylibbundler misses Homebrew's FFmpeg libraries, causing a launch crash:
Library not loaded: libavformat.62.12.100.dylib
Add a manual copy block for libavformat, libavcodec, libavutil,
libswscale, and libswresample — same pattern already used for Vulkan
and OpenSSL. Applied to both build.yml and release.yml.
Two sources of visible chunk-boundary squares:
1. Derivative-based bump mapping (bumpStrength=9) used dFdx/dFdy which
are invalid across draw-call boundaries, producing strong normal
discontinuities at every chunk edge. Fade bump to zero near chunk
edges using LayerUV as the chunk-space distance metric.
2. sampleAlpha used an abrupt step() to switch between point-sampled
and 4-tap-blurred alpha, creating a visible ring 2 texels from each
chunk edge. Replace with smoothstep transition and a 5-tap average
that includes the center sample.
All M2 pipelines used VK_CULL_MODE_NONE, so back-facing polygons always
rendered. On NPCs whose torso meshes are single-layer geometry this
made the interior cavity visible through the back.
Create backface-culled pipeline variants (VK_CULL_MODE_BACK_BIT) and
select them at draw time unless the material has the TwoSided flag
(0x04). Foliage/ground-detail forceCutout batches and the shadow
pipeline keep VK_CULL_MODE_NONE since those cards are inherently
two-sided.
M2Renderer::clear() reset descriptor pools but left the texture cache
and failed-texture tracking intact. On re-login the stale cache filled
the budget, failedTextureRetryAt_ blocked reloads, and the client
entered an infinite model-load loop. Match the cleanup already done in
shutdown() and CharacterRenderer::clear().
Implement GPU-driven Hierarchical-Z occlusion culling for M2 doodads
using a depth pyramid built from the previous frame's depth buffer.
The cull shader projects bounding spheres via prevViewProj (temporal
reprojection) and samples the HiZ pyramid to reject hidden objects
before the main render pass.
Key implementation details:
- Separate early compute submission (beginSingleTimeCommands + fence
wait) eliminates 2-frame visibility staleness
- Conservative safeguards prevent false culls: screen-edge guard,
full VP row-vector AABB projection (Cauchy-Schwarz), 50% sphere
inflation, depth bias, mip+1, min screen size threshold, camera
motion dampening (auto-disable on fast rotations), and per-instance
previouslyVisible flag tracking
- Graceful fallback to frustum-only culling if HiZ init fails
Fix dark WMO interiors by gating shadow map sampling on isInterior==0
in the WMO fragment shader. Interior groups (flag 0x2000) now rely
solely on pre-baked MOCV vertex-color lighting + MOHD ambient color.
Disable interiorDarken globally (was incorrectly darkening outdoor M2s
when camera was inside a WMO). Use isInsideInteriorWMO() instead of
isInsideWMO() for correct indoor detection.
New files:
- hiz_system.hpp/cpp: pyramid image management, compute pipeline,
descriptors, mip-chain build dispatch, resize handling
- hiz_build.comp.glsl: MAX-depth 2x2 reduction compute shader
- m2_cull_hiz.comp.glsl: frustum + HiZ occlusion cull compute shader
- test_indoor_shadows.cpp: 14 unit tests for shadow/interior contracts
Modified:
- CullUniformsGPU expanded 128->272 bytes (HiZ params, viewProj,
prevViewProj)
- Depth buffer images gain VK_IMAGE_USAGE_SAMPLED_BIT for HiZ reads
- wmo.frag.glsl: interior branch before unlit, shadow skip for 0x2000
- Render graph: hiz_build + compute_cull disabled (run in early compute)
- .gitignore: ignore compiled .spv binaries
- MEGA_BONE_MAX_INSTANCES: 2048 -> 4096
Signed-off-by: Pavel Okhlopkov <pavel.okhlopkov@flant.com>
Demote 44 more LOG_WARNING messages to LOG_DEBUG: warden module chunk
progress, entire shutdown/teardown sequence, transport manager connect,
inventory right-click slot, and warden handshake diagnostics. Keeps real
warnings (texture not found, slow handlers, stalls, integrity hash)
visible in the log.
When spline parsing consumes the wrong number of bytes, the subsequent
blockCount read lands on garbage data (e.g. 71 instead of ~5 for UNIT).
Previously the parser logged a warning but continued, reading garbage
mask/field data until hitting truncation. Now it returns false for
CREATE_OBJECT blocks with suspicious counts, letting the block loop
skip cleanly to the next entity.
Also downgrade ~44 diagnostic LOG_WARNING messages to LOG_DEBUG across
17 files (equipment, transport, DBC, heartbeat, chat, GO raypick, etc.)
to reduce log noise and make real warnings visible.
Resolve conflicts:
- audio_callback_handler.cpp: keep PR's animation_controller include
- movement_handler.cpp: use PR accessors with master's transportResolved logic
- world_packets.cpp: keep PR's decomposed version (functions moved to split files)
Apply overkill field fix to world_packets_entity.cpp (WotLK
SMSG_ATTACKERSTATEUPDATE missing uint32 overkill between damage and
subDamageCount).
AzerothCore sends a uint32 overkill field between totalDamage and
subDamageCount. The parser was missing this, causing subDamageCount to
read the first byte of overkill (0 for non-kills) and fail immediately.
This broke all melee swing animations except the killing blow.
Log parse failures with remaining packet size and successful parses with
attacker/target/player GUIDs, damage, and callback status to diagnose
why meleeSwingCallback is never invoked during auto-attack.
If the capability probe ran before the model was fully loaded, all melee
animation IDs would be 0 and auto-attack swings would silently fall back
to STAND (no visible animation). Now re-probes when a melee swing fires
but hasMelee is false.
Added WARNING-level logging to triggerMeleeSwing and CombatFSM to
diagnose the night elf stationary combat animation issue.
MSG_MOVE_TELEPORT_ACK now logs server-sent coordinates AND current
position at WARNING level (was LOG_INFO, invisible in log file).
Heartbeat position audit now logs every ~60 heartbeats (~30s) at
WARNING level to trace position drift before rogue teleports.
Emote animations: fix DBC chain for /laugh, /flirt, /sleep, /fart, /stink.
Previously all emotes with AnimID=0 used emoteRef as animId (wrong DBC
record IDs). Now resolves through Emotes.dbc properly, with per-emote
overrides for emotes whose DBC chain yields 0. Adds Emotes.dbc load
failure warning and diagnostic logging.
WMO culling: skip portal culling when camera is outside all groups (fixes
vanishing Stormwind ground tiles). Also handle indoor/outdoor AABB overlap
by showing all groups when position is in both indoor and outdoor AABBs.
Transport: clear ONTRANSPORT flag and transport state when transport not
found, preventing stale transport data from teleporting player to map
origin. Add area trigger safety net near (0,0,0) on Eastern Kingdoms.
When on-transport flag is set but the transport isn't tracked by
TransportManager, getPlayerWorldPosition() returns localOffset (a small
relative value) as a world position. This overwrites movementInfo with
near-zero coordinates, teleporting the player to map origin on Eastern
Kingdoms (Alterac/Hillsbrad area). Add transport existence checks in
sendMovement() and getComposedWorldPosition() before composing position.
Add game_interfaces.hpp with five narrow domain contracts that GameHandler now
publishes to its domain handlers, replacing the previous friend-class anti-pattern.
Changes:
- include/game/game_interfaces.hpp (new): IConnectionState, ITargetingState,
IEntityAccess, ISocialState, IPvpState — each interface exposes only the state
its consumer legitimately needs
- include/game/game_handler.hpp: GameHandler inherits all five interfaces;
include of game_interfaces.hpp added
- include/game/movement_handler.hpp: remove `friend class GameHandler`; add
public named accessors for previously-private fields (monsterMovePacketsThisTickRef,
timeSinceLastMoveHeartbeatRef, resetMovementClock, setFalling, setFallStartMs)
- include/game/spell_handler.hpp: remove `friend class GameHandler/InventoryHandler/
CombatHandler/EntityController`; promote private packet handlers (handlePetSpells,
handleListStabledPets, pet stable commands, DBC loaders) to public; add accessor
methods for aura cache, known spells, and player aura slot mutation
- src/game/game_handler.cpp, game_handler_callbacks.cpp, game_handler_packets.cpp:
replace direct private field access with the new accessor API
(e.g. casting_ → isCasting(), monsterMovePacketsThisTick_ → ...ThisTickRef())
- src/game/inventory_handler.cpp, combat_handler.cpp, entity_controller.cpp:
replace friend-class private access with public accessor calls
No behaviour change. All 13 test suites pass. Zero build warnings.
SMSG_GM_MESSAGECHAT has an extra gmNameLen+gmName field after the
standard header that was causing misaligned parsing for non-whisper GM
messages. Strip the GM name before forwarding to the regular parser.
Also improve party state notifications (show member names on join) and
add INFO-level logging for all incoming/outgoing chat messages and
WARNING-level logging for group invite/accept packets to diagnose
recurring phantom party state issues.
Auto-reply was sent on every incoming whisper with no dedup, causing
infinite loops when both players had auto-reply enabled. Now tracks
which senders have been replied to and only sends one auto-reply per
sender per AFK/DND session.
The area trigger system was temporarily moving the player to the trigger
center and sending a heartbeat before firing CMSG_AREATRIGGER. This told
the server the player was at a different location, causing unexpected
teleports (e.g. Stormwind to Hillsbrad). Just send the area trigger
packet directly — the player is already inside the trigger radius.
Was reading field 2 (InstanceType) which fell back to field 1 (internal
name like "Azeroth"). Field 4 has the localized display name ("Eastern
Kingdoms").
getMapName() returned empty for mapId 0 (Eastern Kingdoms) due to an
early return guard. Remove it since 0 is a valid map ID.
queryGuildInfo() required IN_WORLD state but the character screen is at
CHAR_LIST_RECEIVED. The server accepts CMSG_GUILD_QUERY before login,
so just check for a connected socket.
Load area names from AreaTable.dbc (canonical zone names) in addition
to WorldMapArea.dbc so zone IDs from SMSG_CHAR_ENUM resolve to names.
Use lookupGuildName() to query and display guild names instead of raw
guild IDs.
The decomposition PRs moved mail state to InventoryHandler but the GO
interaction code still set stale GameHandler fields. Add openMailbox()
on InventoryHandler and forward from GameHandler so the correct
mailboxGuid_/mailboxOpen_ are set and refreshMailList() works.
Calculate repair costs client-side using DurabilityCosts.dbc and
DurabilityQuality.dbc. Block repair when player can't afford it and
only apply optimistic durability/gold updates when cost is verified.
Show repair cost next to the Repair All button in the vendor window.
MAX_CULL_INSTANCES was 16384 but game object instances were allocated
at indices 20000+, beyond the cull buffer. Increased to 65536.
Also compute fallback boundRadius from vertex extents when M2 header
reports 0, and seed bones for global-sequence-only animated models.
