Linux CI was missing libvulkan-dev, vulkan-tools, and glslc, causing
find_package(Vulkan REQUIRED) to fail. Also update BUILD_INSTRUCTIONS
Ubuntu and Arch sections to include Vulkan/shaderc packages.
- extract_assets.sh: detect Homebrew and pass CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH,
OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH when auto-building on macOS
(bare cmake couldn't find Homebrew deps)
- README.md: fix macOS brew command that had comments after line
continuations (breaks shell execution)
- BUILD_INSTRUCTIONS.md: expand macOS asset extraction section with
auto-build note and expansion targets
- Add missing MSYS2 packages to CI: vulkan-loader, vulkan-headers,
shaderc, stormlib (both x86-64 and arm64), unicorn (arm64)
- Make vulkan-1.dll copy conditional via find_file (fixes MSYS2 builds)
- Use find_library for wininet/bz2 in asset_extract (graceful fallback)
- Add extract_assets.ps1 and extract_assets.bat for Windows users
- Expand BUILD_INSTRUCTIONS.md with MSYS2, vcpkg, and macOS sections
- Update README.md to reference Windows scripts and platforms
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.
Add hard discard at radius 0.35 so no fragment beyond that point
reaches the additive blend stage. Tighten disc, glow, and edge
fade to fit within the cutoff boundary.
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.
Alpha blending caused faint quad edges to be visible against the sky
gradient. Additive blending correctly adds glow light without the
outline artifact. Edge fade starts earlier and discard threshold raised.
Ripples were cleared every frame the player wasn't swimming, which
destroyed foot splash particles the same frame they were spawned.
Now particles expire naturally via their lifetime.
- Replace dark edge RGB on alpha-tested foliage with mip-4 average color
proportional to alpha (low alpha = low trust in original RGB)
- Raise foliage alpha cutoff to 0.4 and remove dither band for cleaner edges
- Disable depth test on insect particles so they don't vanish behind foliage
- Exempt dragonflies/butterflies/moths from foliage animation freeze
Fireflies, dragonflies, butterflies, and moths no longer get
disableAnimation/foliage classification so their bone animation
and particles run normally.
- 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.
- Fix HeightMap::getHeight() to use interleaved 17-wide row layout
matching MCVT storage (was using wrong 9-wide contiguous indexing)
- Guard terrain bump mapping normalize against zero-length vectors
to prevent NaN propagation and GPU faults
- 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.
The legacy spline parser successfully read points but then unconditionally
rewound and re-parsed as compact format. When the data was actually legacy
format, the compact parser would read garbage and fail, causing the entire
update block (and all subsequent blocks in the packet) to be dropped.
This made creatures invisible when their spawn packet contained a spline.
removeInstance() and removeInstances() were erasing M2Instances without
calling destroyInstanceBones(), leaking VMA bone buffers permanently.
This caused framerate to drop and never recover after NPC encounters.
All three shadow renderers (WMO, M2, Character) were iterating every
loaded instance with zero culling. Now skip instances outside the
180-unit shadow frustum radius via squared-distance check.
Strip ~30 chrono::now() calls per frame from Application::update() and
GameHandler::update() that existed only for periodic LOG_DEBUG dumps.
Retain renderer timing used by the live performance HUD overlay.
Raise all texture cache defaults from 1GB to 4GB to reduce rejections.
Cap cache-full warnings (texture + model) to 3 messages per renderer,
and cap update block parse errors to 5 messages.
Strip 26 chrono::now() timing calls per frame from renderer update loop,
periodic LOG_INFO/LOG_DEBUG from terrain/character/quest/heartbeat paths,
and dead m2ProfileCounter variable.
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.
Replaces single-tap shadow sampling with 3x3 grid PCF (36-sample equivalent
with hardware bilinear filtering) for smooth shadow edges. Adds normal-offset
bias to eliminate shadow acne on oblique surfaces without peter-panning.
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.
F_SIDN (0x20) is the night-glow/self-illuminated flag, not a window
flag. Only F_WINDOW (0x40) should trigger transparent glass rendering.
The previous mask (0x60) caught both flags, making lamp post bases,
iron frames, and other SIDN-flagged surfaces render as transparent
glass with Fresnel reflections instead of opaque materials.
Hand-painted weapon/armor textures have baked-in lighting that produces
low-contrast gradients in the Sobel filter. Bump strength from 2.0 to
5.0 to extract visible surface detail. Also increase POM scale from
0.03 to 0.06 since character models are small with dense UVs where
the WMO-tuned 0.03 was barely perceptible.
