GroundFill gains scale_var (an instance's scale x (1 +- var), from its own hash) and band_grow
(x (1 + grow * band)): a painted density carries the local mean, and without them every flower of a
kind was the same size and the far clumps lost the growth that kept the cover as the step widened.
Both 0: as before.
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ground_density_bake(path, key, version, hash, pngs) cuts each layer's PNG (R the chance a cell keeps one,
G an optional scale) into the terrain's 64 m tiles, one layer decoded and let go at a time, as a bake's
file; ground_density_open(...) reads it - or, when it is missing or stale, a dev build's own copy cut from
the PNGs - a tile at a time into a 256-tile clock, never a layer whole. ground_fill(s, cx, cz, band, g)
places a GroundFill row's instances in a stream chunk: a candidate per cell of the band's step, jittered,
kept when a hash of (layer, chunk, band, cell) falls under the density (times the game's trample,
r3d_on_ground_trample, where the row asks); scale, yaw, seed and wind from the same hash. Nothing calls
it yet: behaviour unchanged.
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impostor_from_baked / impostor_refill read a bundle of two DX10 .dds (albedo, normal: BC7_UNORM, every
level) through tex_load_dds_at and gpu_tex_compressed - no gpu_tex_mips - and check each is the
impostor's size; sampled as a painted atlas is (clamped, no anisotropy). No BC on the GPU, or a bake
that does not fit, and the caller paints RGBA8 and makes mips as before; the fog re-open reads the BC7
file again. The handles and every draw are unchanged. Compile-only: nothing run.
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GrassKind (grass_kind.ludic) carries what grass.ludic, grass_gpu.ludic, grass.vert, grass_cull.comp and
model.frag's BLADE path held as constants: the cell, s0 / d0 / radius, the row bands and rows, the blade
profile (neck, root, swell, tip, bend), the heights, clumps, widths and arch, where it grows (slope, snow,
the photograph's test), the root / tip / gone-to-seed colours, the far tufts, the root occlusion, the
roughness, the sheen and the wind. Its defaults are those constants exactly, so a game that sets nothing
draws as before. The shaders read them as u_gk_* (the cull as five more Params vec4s, 288 bytes);
grass_reset.comp writes each band's index count so a kind of other rows reaches the draw in order.
grass_quality holds the kind to a settings tier (never denser, never farther); R3D_GRASS_* still win.
grass_profile_w / _bend are the one profile, for the meshes and a game's preview. grass.mesh takes only
the cell: the rest of it is an older copy that already differs from grass.vert, left as it draws.
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ludic.lab: lab_png_write / lab_png_write_from (raw 8-bit, 1-4 channels, stored deflate) in png_write.ludic,
importable alone with its own LabPngState; png_convert.ludic's previews of float textures (R32F min..max,
RG16F x255, HDR x/(1+x) + sRGB); lab_ppm_to_png on the same encoder.
render3d: bake_load.ludic - impostor_from_baked / impostor_source / impostor_refill (a fog re-open reads
the bake), sky_baked_in and sky_precompute trying the bake at the start yaw (sky_compute is the
convolution, and sky_ibl_bytes always uses it), carpet_from_baked / carpet_bytes / carpet_finish,
bake_part_count / _len / _off. Compile-only: nothing run.
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gltf_factors reads pbrMetallicRoughness.baseColorFactor, metallicFactor, roughnessFactor and the
emissiveFactor into the primitive (pr.fac), and prim_factors hands them to every program that draws its
textures (actors, the scatter's meshes and levels, the impostor bake) as 1 - factor, so a program never
given them - or a material that gives none (pr.fac null) - multiplies by 1 and draws as before. An
untextured material with a colour (or a metal/roughness) samples a pure white for it, so the factor is
exactly what it draws: horse_cornea is its own colour, not the 200 grey every untextured part had.
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Both constants were worked out by hand and a byte off each: the tiles' bake wrote "LAAK" and "LDT2", which
ludic bake --check refuses, and r3d_baked_read, holding the same wrong constant, would have refused
ludic.base's correct files (the sun's shadow among them) while accepting its own. Now 0x4B41424C and
0x3254544C, checked against the strings; the unused LTT1 constant is gone. A re-bake is needed.
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A world swap unmounts the old map pack before terrain_reload, and the tiles' file (a baked file in that
pack) stayed open until terrain_unload. terrain_tiles_close closes it and stops the page pool; the next
map's terrain_from_baked / terrain_reload opens its own and makes the pool again.
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The game names the tiles' and the shadow's bake files (key, version) before the map is made; r3d_init's
terrain step and terrain_reload then open them with terrain_from_baked / terrain_shadow_from_bytes and
generate nothing, and fall back to the survey (saying so once) when a bake is missing or stale. Without
the call nothing changes.
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The tiles' photograph side is 0 when the map has none: no photograph or coarse photograph sections, no
decode, ter_o answers 0, and no coarse photograph texture - as such a map has always drawn. The cut and
terrain_tiles_bake no longer require one.
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baked_open refuses a header whose key is not followed by a zero byte; a key a multiple of 8 long got
none. Now the payload starts at 32 + ((len(key) + 1 + 7) / 8) * 8, as bake_write writes it.
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stream_capture(s, cx, cz, band) points the stream at a chunk of its own (made on the first capture),
calls the registered r3d_stream_fill for that cell and band, and returns how many instances it
emitted; stream_captured(i, k) reads them from stream_scratch. Build-time only; nothing in a frame
calls it.
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baked_tex.ludic reads ludic.base's baked form by hand (render3d uses no package): the LBAK header, the
key ("png_sheets" / "cutouts", the Bakes rows) and the generator version, then the payload -
w, h, channels, depth and the samples for a PNG (the caller frees them as it would a decode), a whole
.dds for a cut-out (tex_load_dds_at: a .dds at an offset). Missing, or another key or version, and the
PNG path runs as before. Compiles with Maroon Lake (game, lab, lab/bake/textures).
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prec_put / prec_get / prec_size (Physics' spec): PREC_FULL, 12 bytes, for trees, boulders and stones
(u16 x, z in 1/65536 of the chunk; u16 y in cm above y_base; u8 scale over the kind's lo..hi, yaw, seed,
wind), and PREC_PACKED, 7 bytes, for the stream kinds (56 bits, least significant first: x 12, z 12,
y 12 in cm, scale 6, yaw 6, seed 4, wind 4). An encode takes the cell a value falls in, a decode its
centre, so a round trip is stable; a record is read from a []byte at an offset, never a pointer.
stream_emit_baked and layer_chunk_put take (recs, at, fmt) and decode through it; the earlier sb7_*
pair is gone.
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sb7_pack / sb7_field are the one pack and unpack of the stream kinds' record (56 bits, least significant
first: x 12, z 12, y 12 over the chunk's y span, scale 6, yaw 6, seed 4, wind 4, read as a low and a high
word), which the bake and the game both import; stream_emit_baked decodes a prefix of it.
layer_chunks_begin / layer_chunk_put / layer_chunk_drop keep a fixed layer (trees, boulders, stones:
12-byte records) as a slab per resident chunk in its instance list, an n x n index made at load, the
list re-uploaded at most once a frame. Nothing calls them yet: behaviour unchanged.
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stream_set_grid(s, ox, oz) puts a stream's cells on a grid from a corner (0 keeps world zero, today's);
stream_emit_baked(s, recs, count, keep, x0, z0, y_base, lo, hi) emits the first keep 12-byte records
of a baked chunk (the layout agreed with Physics: u16 x, z in 1/65536 of the chunk, u16 y in cm above
y_base, u8 scale over the kind's lo..hi, u8 yaw, seed, wind) into the chunk being filled, and
stream_band_keep(count, share) is a band's prefix. Nothing calls them yet: behaviour unchanged.
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Heights as u16 over each 64 m tile's own minimum and step (a tile spanning 200 m steps 3 mm), normals
octahedral 8 + 8, the photograph RGB8, and the coarse level (2048: heights f32, normals, photograph)
- 30 + 32 + 48 + 16 + 8 + 12 MB, about 146 MB a map where the float tiles were 192 plus nothing coarse.
The writer puts the whole copy back to the quantized values as it goes, so the build's own queries,
the physics, the placements' bake and every machine read the same numbers; a tile read decodes them
into the pools the queries and the page pool already use.
terrain_tiles_bake(path, key, version, inputs_hash) writes a bake's file (ludic.base's LBAK header,
the tiles as its payload) from a made map; terrain_from_baked(path, key, version, half, ox, oz) opens
one at boot in place of terrain_use_dem / terrain_use_ortho, and terrain_init then generates nothing
(and bakes the sun's shadow from the coarse level unless terrain_shadow_from_bytes gave it). Without a
bake the cut writes the same format to <dir>/<key>.tiles and reads it back. The GPU's coarse level is
made from the file's coarse sections (the blit from the whole maps is gone).
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Each pair runs the work as the renderer always has and reads the result back, or makes the same
textures and fills them from bytes instead: impostor_bytes / impostor_from_bytes (and impostor_fill,
for a fog that opens past a layer's cards), terrain_shadow_bytes / terrain_shadow_from_bytes,
sky_ibl_bytes / sky_ibl_from_bytes (sky_precompute split into sky_ibl_make and the convolutions).
A bundle is a word count, a word length per part and the parts (bake_pack / bake_unpack), checked
against the textures' shapes before any byte is used. gpu_vk_readback.ludic reads a texture's level 0,
every layer, as stored; r3d_baked_read reads a bake's file (ludic.base's LBAK header: key and version
must match) since render3d cannot import ludic.base. Nothing calls them yet: behaviour unchanged.
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The build's placements ask exact heights over the whole map before any ring exists, and through the
tiles that read the file ~25 000 times in one frame. The copies now stay after the cut and the game
calls terrain_tiles_build_done() when the world is built (the end of world_things, and after a swap's
terrain_reload); every answer is the same before and after, from the copy or the tile. The GPU half
merged here (r3d/tp-rt, r3d/tp-shd: the page table, the pool and the shaders) is unchanged by it.
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At the cut the whole 4096 height, normal and photograph textures go, replaced by a coarse
2048 level (the CPU's tt_coarse uploaded; the normal and photograph blitted down on the GPU,
the photograph mipmapped) and a pool of fine tiles in three array textures - heights, normals,
photograph, each layer a tile with a one-texel border - addressed through a tt_n^2 page table
(u_tp_page: slot + 1, 0 = the coarse level). The pool holds the tiles within the reach (900 m,
or the fog wall's when nearer) and a ring, and is made again when the fog wall changes its size
(terrain_pages_fog). Once a frame (tp_frame, beside tt_frame) tiles past the reach and two tiles
go and the wanted ones come in nearest first, 8 a frame, written into a staging buffer kept for
the process (two halves, one per frame in flight) and copied into their layers inside the frame's
own command buffer - no submit of their own - with the page table re-uploaded only when it
changed. tp_bind binds the pool (or 1-layer stand-in arrays while paging is off, u_tp_on = 0) for
every program that reads the ground: terrain_bind_height (models, scatter, shadow_bind, grass),
terrain_bind_prog, the sun pass and the shadow bake. grass_cull.comp reads through the same page
table. R3D_VKMEM prints the pool's line. Tiles off, nothing changes. Compile-only: not run.
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Within a pass a row writes only its own still-masked texels and reads only neighbours already let go,
which no row writes that pass, so the result is the single-threaded one. The worker takes a DilateJob
of plain buffers and allocates nothing. tex_dilate_bytes (safe_api) and examples/rendering/dilate.ludic,
which checks it against the old loop on RGB and RGBA atlases of sizes that do not divide (DILATE OK).
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terpage.glsl is the reference block (tpSlot, tpUV, terHeight, terHeightSmooth, terNormalXZ,
terOrtho, tpOrthoRes, tpOrthoLod), pasted by section into terrain.vert, terrain.frag,
tersun.frag, model.vert, grass.vert and grass.mesh. u_tp_on = 0 reads the old samplers with the
old coordinates and filtering; on, a resident tile is read at level 0 from u_tp_h / u_tp_nrm /
u_tp_ortho, anything else from the coarse map now bound under the old names. The B-splines use
the FULL map's texel and take every tap through the page, so a tile edge stays one surface;
blurred photograph reads (lod 1-2.5) stay on u_ortho with the level moved down by the coarse
map's ratio. The fragment stages drop their unused u_height. SPIR-V rebuilt: terrain programs
carry 23 samplers (21 in the fragment stage), up from 19.
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The volumetric pass marched 800 m in a fixed number of steps whatever the wall: it now stops at the
wall with steps in proportion (at least 8) - 0.57 -> 0.33 ms at 30 m by the pass timers. SSGI skipped
only past 900 m; it now also skips past 0.85 of a wall, where the fog is solid (u_ao_far). applyFog
samples the fog's colour only where its weight is above zero. A card layer whose casters inside the
wall are 80% or more of it (a kilometre's wall) casts from its static list and is not refiltered and
re-uploaded every 4 m of camera motion. Fog off: the frame unchanged (0 pixels over 8).
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terrain_tiles_to(dir, key) before a map is made: once made, its heights, photograph and baked normals
are written tile by tile (64 m, TT_TEX) to <dir>/<key>.tiles - fresh every time, header last, so no
other generator's or a torn file is ever read - and the whole copies go. Every read goes through the
tile: resident, else read from the file there and then into a 2048-tile clock, so terrain_height,
terrain_height_smooth, terrain_ortho* and terrain_chunk_heights answer exactly what the whole copy
did (R3D_TT_CHECK: worst 0.0 m over 4000 points) whatever is resident - two machines and the boot's
placements agree to the bit. terrain_chunk_heights takes render3d_st mut for it.
terrain_height_near(read-only): the tile if it is in, else a coarse 2048^2 level (worst 0.91 m), never
the file - for line checks that must not take render3d_st mut. terrain_texel() is the texel size,
terrain_tiles_prefetch(x, z, r, budget) reads ahead, and a frame that reads more than 8 tiles says so
once. R3D_TERRAIN_TILES=<dir> turns it on for a run.
At the overlook with MallocLargeCache=0: 1731 MB off, 1658 MB on; 192 MB written in ~200 ms; the
frame unchanged (0 pixels over 8).
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The DEM (R16 with mips, 44 MB) was read only by terrain_generate and kept for the map's life; a
world swap loads its own again. The height-field sun shadow was one RGBA32F for three values and an
unused fourth: the lowest lit height stays 32-bit (a receiver 3000 m up compares against it to a
quarter metre), the occluder distance and the cloud mask go beside it in RG16F (64 -> 32 MB), baked
in a pass of their own (TS_AUX): a pipeline takes one colour format for all its targets, and drawn
together into R32F + RG16F the writes went nowhere and nothing was lit.
-75 MB at every fog level, off included (2008 -> 1933 MB at the overlook); the fog-off frame is
unchanged (0 pixels over 8).
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The ring held 2 x 64 MB of host memory for a frame that uses 3 MB at most (2761 draws at the
overlook, 1.7 MB in town): it starts at 16 MB a half, and a frame that ever runs out grows it for the
frames after (gvk_ring_grow, making the kept sets again; R3D_RING_KB=<n> starts small to watch it).
-95 MB at every fog level, off included.
A streamed layer's arrays and its stream's arena are made for the reach a fog wall leaves (twice its
area's share, at least 4096 instances) and emptied to refill within the frame budget
(fog_streams.ludic). The near streams' reach is already inside most walls, so it is -9 MB at 30 m.
R3D_VKMEM adds the ring's high-water mark, the largest buffers and the streamed layers' share.
Footprint at the overlook: 2008 MB off (2108 before this phase), 1748 MB at 175 m, 1682 MB at 30 m.
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A cascade that begins past the wall was fitted and cleared every frame for nothing: the array is now
made with the ones that begin inside it (2 at 30 m, 3 at 175 m, 5 without a fog) and made again when
the wall changes that count; shadow maps 80 -> 32 MB at 30 m, 48 MB at 175 m. A layer the array lacks
clamps to its last, read only past the wall where everything is fogged.
The sky: at walls of 110 m and nearer the whole sky is the fog's colour, overhead too, with a soft
glow at the sun or moon and no stars or clouds through it, easing out by 175 m; from 175 m on the
horizon band alone, and off as before.
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Inside the wall every instance is a mesh whose LOD2 casts its shadow, so a card is neither drawn nor
cast there: fog_impostors.ludic frees a layer's atlases while wall + margin < its near (trees 420-480
m, rocks 320 m) and paints them again from the model when it opens past it (impostor_paint, split out
of the bake). Impostor atlases get memory of their own, so a release goes back to the driver instead
of leaving a hole in a shared block. R3D_FOG_AT=<frame> with R3D_FOG_TO=<m> changes the wall mid-run.
At the overlook: 2102 MB off, 1824 MB at 30 m (249 -> 67 MB of atlases; the rest is the ground cover's
card atlases, drawn inside the wall); opening re-bakes 16 layers in 42-46 ms, back to 2102 MB.
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Every allocation carries the owner its maker was wrapped in (models, terrain, impostor atlases,
scatter, grass, shadow maps, frame targets, sky, water, game textures, made in a frame), and the
report prints each owner's images and buffers, the 25 largest images and the scatter layers',
streams' and terrain's CPU copies. Nothing drawn changes.
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Whatever is cut at the wall is now cut inside full fog: at 0.3-1.0 the last metres before the cut
were 80-95% fogged against fully fogged ground behind, which drew a line of tufts at 70 m and a
dark band of blade tips at 30 m. The blades thin out while the fog is still coming in.
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cam_sphere_visible refuses a sphere wholly past the wall (terrain patches, scatter cells, stream
chunks, grass tiles, water), actors past it are skipped for draws, casters and outlines, the grass
reach and the streams' generate-and-gather reach end at it, and the card shadows cast only from
the wall's share of a layer (fog_casters.ludic, rebuilt every 4 m). r3d_beyond_fog is exported for
the game to skip animating what will not be drawn. Render-only: no query of the ground or the world
changes, and off is the old frame (0 pixels over 8 against 160ce96, twice per side).
Draws per frame at the overlook: 2757 off, 1104 at 175 m, 484 at 30 m.
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Every lit program blends toward the horizon colour (the prefiltered sky with the sun's inscatter,
so it carries the day's grade); the sky's horizon band is pulled to the same colour, wider the
closer the wall. The far plane, scatter and stream cull reach and the shadow cascades are clamped
to the wall; the reflection pass shares the shaders and the cull. 0 is off: every branch is gated
on u_fog_wall > 0 and r3d_reach hands back the far it was given. R3D_FOG_WALL=<m> for a shot.
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The valley self-test died after the Lamar swap, loading Maroon's pine LODs:
gvk_fr_blk (the device suballocator's free ranges) grew past its @max(4096).
Nothing failed to coalesce: a range was carved at the buffer's bare size, so
what was left after it started unaligned and the next buffer, rounding its
start up, left a sliver before it that no later buffer could use. One host
block held 3,968 small buffers and 3,718 free ranges between them - 496 KB
free in all, 133 bytes a hole. Those merge away when a neighbour is freed, so
nothing leaked; the count simply rose with live buffers.
gvk_mem_new now carves `span`, the size rounded up to the alignment, and
records it as the allocation's length, so a free gives back exactly what was
carved and the rest of a range always starts aligned.
The same repro (the lab's `tests` scene, headless, a fresh test root): the list
never reached 256 slots (it passed 4096 before), the run completes (exit 0),
LAMAR OK and THINGS OK. r3d_small was 0 throughout, as ECS said.
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A small window (r3d_small: the launcher's UI process) draws its interface flat
and tests no depth, but gvk_screen_make gave it a 32-bit depth image the size
of the screen - 8 MB at 1920 x 1080. In small mode the screen has none: the
pass and a clear with no depth attachment already leave depth alone (clearing
DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT with no attachment is skipped), and pipelines follow the
pass's formats.
With the launcher's own 1920 x 1080 backdrop (maroon-lake game/launcher-small),
the launcher window measured 378 -> 295 MB of footprint at 25 s; its headless
shot (R3D_SMALL=1, so no depth) differs from the unchanged build by 0.279% of
pixels, the resized backdrop, and two runs of each are identical.
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The atlas is white glyphs on alpha and the overlay reads only the coverage,
but it was uploaded RGBA8: Maroon Lake's 3072 x 2688 atlas was 43 MB of Metal
memory with its mips, the largest single thing in the launcher window.
overlay_font now keeps the alpha alone as R8 (ov_font_tex; any other PNG
shape is uploaded as before) and overlay.frag reads .r - the white fallback
texture reads 1 there as it did from .a.
Launcher window, graphics regions: the atlas 43.0 -> 11.5 MB; process
footprint at 25 s 402 -> 378 MB. The headless launcher shot is identical to
the unchanged build's (0 pixels differ; two unchanged runs differ from each
other by 1.69%, and the new one by the same against them).
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