The first generation pass's R32F height is kept as ter_height_tex (not copied into an RGBA32F),
so every reader of the height - placement, the read-back, physics, selftest16's 9 mm - sees the
same 32 bits. ternormal.frag writes the baked normal's x and z into ter_normal_tex (RG16F), and
the six places that read it (terrain.frag twice, tersun.frag, grass.vert, grass.mesh,
grass_cull.comp, which takes a third texture at binding 6) rebuild y. SPIR-V regenerated.
Maroon Lake's play, headless Vulkan: 2793 -> 2647 MB. The camp's frame: 0.066% of pixels differ by
more than 8 (mean 0.024/255), isolated grass blades at the slope gate. ludic-dev test 307/307.
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The per-frame sweep over physics, character, vehicles and nav found three fact makers that made a record per fact: contacts and splashes, the character's and the vehicles'. Each keeps a pool now, as wildlife's and npc's do (q_unheld). phys_sink, asked on every removal, built two new lists each time; it filters into a kept spare pair and swaps. ludic.nav's paths and crowds already allocate nothing, and none of the four builds a string per call. What remains at load, reset or a world swap is not per frame. vehicle_feed takes its state mut. vehicles_test: 1000 fed facts, drained turn by turn, use at most 4 records. All packages 421.
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dispatch lowered to ludic_act_push(k, new A { ... }): a fresh record every dispatch, and an input
system dispatches Move and FrameTime every frame. The queue now keeps a list per action
(kept<k>, used<k>); ludic_act_new__A hands out the next (made only when all are queued), new's
emitter fills it field by field as it fills a fresh one (every field, default or given), and
drain_actions sets every used<k> back to 0 once the queue is empty. A reducer only ever reads
its action during the drain, so nothing sees a record after it is reused. Actions are visible
to the program's file, where the queue lives, as reducers already were.
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wl_fact made a new WildFact per fact, about one a frame, and Ludic never gives one back. ludic.base's q_unheld(q, pool, out) lists the records a queue no longer holds: neither waiting nor handed out by its last drain, which is good until the next drain. ludic.wildlife and ludic.npc now keep a pool, hand out a free record, and make a new one only when every record is held. Taking a record writes the state, so wl_fact / np_fact and the few callers holding their state read-only take it mut. Tests: q_unheld's rules (an empty drain holds on, the safe side); 3000 prints drained frame by frame use at most 4 records; 500 arrivals drained turn by turn use at most 4. base 37, wildlife 27, npc 17; all packages 420.
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The device's textureCompressionBC is asked for and remembered (gvk_has_bc). tex_load_ex prefers a
DX10 .dds with the full chain beside the .png (not for an edge-padded cut-out atlas):
texture_dds.ludic reads BC7 / BC5 / BC4, gpu_tex_compressed makes the image with every level and
no colour-attachment use (a compressed image is only sampled and copied into), and
gvk_tex_upload_blocks copies each level's blocks from one staging buffer. A colour map is BC7
sampled as sRGB, a data map BC7 read as it is. examples/rendering/bc.ludic holds it, in the suite;
ludic.lab's plate carries its .dds (its three shots render at 56-60 dB against the .png's).
ludic-dev test 307/307, no Vulkan SDK in the environment.
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native/build.sh builds MoltenVK v1.4.2 from its pinned, checksummed tag (its dependencies at the
commits its ExternalRevisions pins), thinned to arm64, id @rpath/libMoltenVK.dylib, signed ad hoc;
its licence goes in native/LICENSE-MoltenVK. Every render3d program links it through its rpath -
the package's lib/ while developing, Contents/Frameworks in a bundle, where ludic bundle puts and
signs it - and vk_mac.ll also looks for @rpath/libMoltenVK.dylib (after an SDK loader, so the
validation layer still stacks in development). The suite's SDK stand-in (vk_env) is gone: the
render checks draw on the MoltenVK the package carries. gpu_is_gl() removed; nothing calls it.
ludic-dev test 306/306 with no Vulkan SDK in the environment.
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nav_crowd_add_fixed adds a walker with no steering, and nav_crowd_place puts it (snapped to the mesh) where the player is, with the velocity they have, each frame. The others plan round it by that velocity, and whatever it was pushed by is undone at the next placement. crowd_test: six walkers aimed through a standing player come no closer than 1.71 m and all get past, and the player stays where it was put. nav 16/16 on the Mac and the PC; DLL KERNEL32 only.
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nav_crowd_add takes how hard a walker keeps its distance, and WildSpecies.spacing (default 2) is a species' room from others walking by, which the valley hands the crowd. Both libraries are rebuilt; nav 15/15 on the Mac and the PC, DLL KERNEL32 only. wildlife 26/26.
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- gvk_sampler built a key string on every call it was reached (a texture read two ways in turn
misses its per-texture cache each time); samplers are found by their seven numbers instead
- gvk_tex_mips_into allocated a VkImageBlit per level, every frame (the exposure measure's
chain); it comes from the scratch ring, as does gvk_tex_grow_mips's copy
- gvk_program_new made a new program - modules, pipelines - on every call, and every actor asks
for one; a variant is now made once and shared (a program is immutable), and one that cannot
be made stays 0 for every later asker
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npc_set_crowd hands a person to a crowd. Its walk no longer steps or asks the way: its want is goal_x / goal_z / goal_speed (0 when it is not walking). npc_moved hands back the crowd's place: position, ground, heading from velocity, gait. Arrival, the act and the give-up after twenty seconds without progress are unchanged. Nothing allocates. npc 16/16.
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wildlife_set_crowd(a, true) hands a walker to a crowd. Its step no longer moves it, and its want is two fields on it: goal_x / goal_z (the point it heads for or faces) and goal_speed (0 when it stands). A route reads those and hands back where the crowd put it through wildlife_moved(a, x, z, vx, vz). That sets its place, its ground, its heading from its velocity and its prints, and updates its row's columns so the spatial index finds it there. Nothing allocates per animal per frame: the want is the animal's own fields, and moved writes in place. The prints and the turn counters moved to walked.ludic (steer.ludic was at the 100-line limit). crowd_test holds it; with crowd off every old test is unchanged. wildlife 26/26.
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The shim builds DetourCrowd from the same pinned Recast & Detour tag. nav_crowd_start puts a crowd on a kind's mesh, with the mesh's tastes as its filters. Walkers are added (snapped to the mesh), sent and sped through verbs, stepped together, and read back into nav_agent_*. nav_crowd_us times the stepping with the OS clock. Dropping a mesh drops its crowd first. On the test meadow, twenty walkers crossing head-on never come closer than their two radii (0.7003 m), all arrive, and a step costs about 12 us. nav 15/15 on the Mac and the PC; the DLL still imports KERNEL32 alone.
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e634177 started a layer at 256 instances and grew it in layer_add and the stream gather, but a
game writes l.inst directly (Maroon Lake's track prints, trees and rocks), past what had been
grown: "index out of range: 2048, len 2048" in play. layer_new takes its cap up front as before;
layer_reserve(l, n) is exported for a caller that writes l.inst itself once layers start small
again, opt-in.
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17.10 found almost every animal turn-back was for a climb, where the navmesh (40-45 degrees) is stricter than the step's 1.2 per metre. So the frame-sized test was refusing a few centimetres of steep ground: a pebble a walker steps across. It also refused sooner the faster the frame rate. wl_climb takes the ground half a metre ahead along the way the step actually goes. climb_test holds it at 60 and 240 Hz: a pebble is crossed and a wall is not. Both tests fail under the old rule. wildlife 24/24.
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Found with malloc_history over 1200 frames of play without the interface (the first Ludic function
on each allocating stack, live bytes at two marks): sh_loc built `name + "[0]"` per program per pass
per frame - 24.6 MB of 33 in the window; its callers pass both names as literals now. tick_set fills
the frame loop's one Tick instead of tick_new making one a frame. A ridden boat or horse said
VEHICLE_MOVED as a new fact every frame; the metres are added up in VehiclesState and taken once
(vehicle_moved_take / _kind / _x / _z). Play's growth without the interface: 92 -> 14.7 MB a minute
(maroon-lake tests/leakcheck.sh); what is left is phys_push (Physics' fix on lang/nav) and the HUD's
strings. Packages 407, ludic-dev test 305 pass.
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