The vehicles are rows of a ludic.base Table with kind and owner as columns, every player's own by
an owner index and a nid map: vehicle_of walks only that player's rows, vehicle_by_nid is a map
lookup, and a player who leaves has their rows removed instead of the whole list rebuilt. ve_add
takes the owner, so the owner is filed once and never assigned around the table. Positions stay
on the record: a boat moves every frame and there are at most two a player. vehicles_test holds
the table (9 tests); the game builds against it and lab/unit passes (88 tests).
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tb_on_add / tb_on_remove take a fn(int) (its states supplied, like a system's) told each handle as
its row is made and before it goes (ecs_hooks.ludic), so what follows a table - a drawing, a
message - does so without a scan. Every row's tick now also stamps its 64-row block, and
tb_changed_since / tb_added_since skip the blocks nobody wrote since: a delta over a large table
costs the blocks that moved. A row moved into a removal's gap keeps its own tick (it was not
written); a removal is told by the hook. ecs_test holds both. The ludic.wildlife table
(5ac3d48, written while builds were held) now builds and passes its 19 tests.
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Written while builds are held (agents share 16 GB; no build or run until the user lifts it), so
it has not been compiled or tested. The animals are rows of a ludic.base Table: x, z, species and
alive as columns, a 32 m grid over the living, the living by species, and a nid map.
wildlife_by_nid is a map lookup instead of a scan of every animal ever made, wildlife_count walks
only its species, wildlife_nearest asks the grid, wildlife_set_alive writes the flag and the row
together, and wildlife_refile files the tick's moves once after it (wildlife_verify holds the
columns to the records). A guest puts its whole table away and brings it back. A test case covers
them; to run once builds are allowed: ludic test packages/ludic.wildlife.
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Ludic frees nothing a safe program allocates, and every package's fact queue is drained once a
frame: q_drain handed back its list and made a new one each time, most often of an empty queue.
An empty drain now returns the queue's one shared empty list (never to be pushed to), and q_clear
clears in place - the live list is never one a drain handed out. A queue that held facts still
gives its list away, so what leaks is in proportion to what happened, not to the frame rate.
queue_test holds it (an empty drain is the same list twice; a drained list is untouched by later
pushes and clears).
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A mechanic that keeps many of something keeps them as rows of a Table<T> rather than a list it
scans. Removal swaps the last row in; a handle (22-bit slot, 9-bit generation) goes stale when its
entity is removed. tb_set_f / tb_set_xz / tb_set_i stamp a change tick and refile the row in every
index over that column in O(1): tb_grid (a doubly linked spatial hash, rings outward for nearest,
rehashing as it grows), tb_index (a cached query: the rows of each value of a kind column, gated by
an active column), tb_nearest_of / tb_within_of (a rare kind from its own list), tb_nearest_where
(a predicate on the record), tb_within_recs (into the caller's list), tb_changed_since /
tb_added_since, IntMap. No question allocates or writes: Ludic frees nothing, and the old lists'
per-call copies leaked every frame.
ludic.things keeps its Things as a Table<Thing> with x, z, kind and active as columns; every verb
writes the record and the row together (a Thing carries its handle and table, so thing_hide(t)
still needs no state), thing_set_on / thing_set_xz / thing_place_at are the silent forms the game
used to do by assignment, and things_verify holds the columns against the records.
things_near(_of) fill a caller's list, thing_of_kind walks a kind, things_count_of counts one, and
things_tick visits only the kinds that tick. thing_find answers the first-placed by uid.
Against a []Record scanned (M4 Pro): nearest 0.37 / 1.5 / 7.2 us at 10k / 100k / 1M (list 30 /
307 / 3075), by id 0.09 us at 100k (list 17), a move refiled in 11-44 ns. ecs_fuzz_test holds the
grid, the kind index and the record queries against a scan through 9000 random changes.
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- grass_cull.comp decides each candidate blade once a frame (place, ground, density, water,
slope, frustum, colour field) and writes survivors into three bands by distance, one indirect
draw each; grass_inst.vert only bends and places the vertices. OpenGL keeps grass.vert's
per-vertex path; R3D_GRASS_GPU=0 compares
- compute programs take sampled textures after their buffers (gpu_compute_tex / gpu_dispatch_tex),
and every dispatch now records a compute-to-draw memory barrier
- the blades as a sward: 4 m cells, bands with five, three and one-quad blades, spacing doubling
every 18 m to 70 m, never narrower than a pixel; lit facing the sun and leaning to the sky,
shadow looked up above the ground (it read the terrain as its caster), a colour ramp that
leaves only the sheath dark, clumps, dry patches and a tussock shade worked out per blade
- scatter layers flagged grass are skipped while the blades draw (and under R3D_NOGRASS);
R3D_BLADES, R3D_NOBLADES win over the game's setting; R3D_GRASS_S0/D0 for measuring
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Checked on both machines with a bundled Jolt probe: the licence and the library in place, the app
signed (Mac) and the probe's ball landing at the same height on both.
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tools/native/lib.sh passes -implib rather than /implib: Git Bash rewrites an argument starting
with / into a Windows path, and lld-link was handed 'C:\Program Files\Git\implib;...'. Both DLLs
import KERNEL32 alone, so no C++ runtime ships beside them.
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The water floats the hull, the wind pushes every boat as a force, the lake bed stops it at the shore;
the swell takes the outward share of a stroke. ludic.physics: phys_hull_add (a buoyant box),
phys_row, phys_bow_speed, and a test that floats one a quarter under, rows, turns and grounds it.
The vehicles tests row a real Jolt hull on the fake shore; the horse moved to horse.ludic.
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Conflicts with 0.R5's state defaults in ludic.wildlife resolved; wl_step writes the push's answer, so
its callers take WildlifeState mut again.
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- ludic.wildlife: WildlifeWorld.push / pushed_x / pushed_z (defaults change nothing); a ground
walker's step is slid clear of a still thing with a body from its species' size and scale, and
a step that gets nowhere turns away as the water does. Birds are not pushed; no dice added.
- ludic.npc: NpcWorld.push / pushed_x / pushed_z (a person 0.35 m round) in npc_walk, and
NpcWorld.clear (default true), which npc_line_ok asks at 1 m so a detour does not cut a trunk.
- ludic.aim: AimView.clear replaces AimView.ground and the ground march; the pick asks the line
a body's width short of where the ray enters the thing (aim_clear_at(t, back)), so a solid
thing does not hide itself. probe.ludic (the ground-agreement probe) and AimView.dry are gone.
- ludic.photo: PhotoLens.clear replaces PhotoLens.ground, PhotoLens.trunk and the march.
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- a CAMetalLayer on the view (cocoa.ll win_metal_layer), VK_EXT_metal_surface, QuartzCore linked
with Vk.*; the drawable measured after the layer sets the backing scale
- vk_mac.ll opens MoltenVK directly after any loader: a bundle ships only libMoltenVK.dylib
- a covered window is not presented to (win_visible); one frame in flight on macOS
(R3D_VK_INFLIGHT), with images, buffers and descriptor pools held until it is done
- win_held / win_mouse / win_pad / win_touch / win_text / win_present pass slice elements (arg_buf):
every windowed program died on its first input poll
- variants.list and SPIR-V for the three NEAR_FADE foliage programs
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The package keeps the rules and hands them over each step: speed and heading, whether a jump
leaves, CHAR_STEP and the boots' slope limit. The walker (Jolt CharacterVirtual) does gravity,
landing, steps, slopes and following the ground down. Too steep is ground too steep facing the way
the body wanted to go; stepping off an edge is not. ludic.physics: phys_walker_move (follow the body
if something else moved it, then step), the slope limit, the jump always honoured. The character's
tests run on a real Jolt walker over the same fake world: 15 pass, a knee-high boulder now a step.
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Five new tests: stand and walk at the asked speed, a low stone is a step and a tall one a wall, a
jump up and back, a crate shoved aside, a hull turned by a torque and carried by a force.
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Maroon Lake: 149 parameters became read-only. What stays mut is a real write - in the packages mostly a
lazy start inside a question (things_all, gear__ensure), which is what to take out next.
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collide.ludic (circles in a cell grid that could not be removed) and its Render3dState fields are
deleted, and the reload example stops asserting colliders. A game still calling col_* must move to
ludic.physics first (Maroon Lake's src/solid).
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Our own shim (native/shim/jph_shim.cpp) over Jolt built from the pinned tag with cross-platform
determinism and no fp contraction: shapes as handles (box, sphere, capsule, cylinder, dome,
offset, heightfield, mesh), still/kinematic/dynamic bodies by id with real removal, rays,
top_at and push (what CharacterGround asks), overlaps, buoyancy against the PhysWater port,
contacts recorded in C and drained as PHYS_HIT / PHYS_SPLASH facts. Fixed 1/60 steps, at most four
a frame. Nine tests against the real library, including a pile run twice to the bit.
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native "<target>" "<path>" in a package's package.ludic; the compiler records the libraries of
every package a program imports and writes them into the IR (; ludic-native:), so ludicc -o,
ludic build, ludic test and ludic bundle all link one list. macOS: an rpath to the package and to
Contents/Frameworks, where ludic bundle copies and signs each library and drops the build
machine's rpath. Windows: the import library, the .dll copied beside the exe (--natives-out for
the bundle). tools/native/lib.sh builds from a pinned, checksummed source with clang on both
machines; ludic.nativeecho is the worked example; the shim rules are in packages/README.md.
Linked at build time rather than dlopen (docs/PACKAGES.md says why). Reseeded.
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The old kit read Input.mouse_x() * gl_scale; ludic.ui read it raw against a layout sized in
drawable pixels. A backend says how many screen pixels one pointer unit is (pointer_scale);
render3d's is gl_pixel_scale(), 1 on Windows and headless.
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A reach through Port.member() follows that member's binding (or its default), and Registry[i].field -
or a local holding Registry[i] - follows that field in each entry, so a question asked of a port or a
table that also holds verbs no longer reaches the verbs. In Maroon Lake that took the valley's
'what is this Thing called' from 47 states it could change to 1. examples/state/write_reach.ludic.
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