- every texture upload malloc'd a CPU copy of its pixels and never freed it (236 MB over the
valley's boot, and again for every model loaded later): the pixels are converted straight
into the mapped staging buffer
- the per-level and per-layer views gvk_view_of made outlived their texture, and on MoltenVK a
view keeps its Metal texture alive: a released texture takes its views with it, and the cache
is keyed by numbers instead of a string built on every call
- the Vulkan structs filled for a draw, pass, barrier, descriptor set, buffer, allocation or
upload (about sixty call sites) come from a reused 1 MB scratch ring (gvk_tmp)
- the descriptor-set cache and the retired buffers are emptied in place, not replaced; the grass
cull's dispatch arguments are made once
- macOS drains an autorelease pool each frame (Vk.frame_pool, lvk_frame_pool in vk_mac.ll)
- R3D_VK_PROF reports Vulkan objects made and destroyed by kind, and every cache's length
- examples/rendering/smooth presents through render3d, so it runs on Vulkan too
The full valley on headless Vulkan loads to 2.18 GB and holds (it passed 8 GB while loading
before). ludic-dev test 305/305, selfhost-test 33/33.
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300 parses of a 446 KB glTF: 2118 MB before, 528 MB with the one-allocation string, 94 MB freed.
A headless Maroon Lake at play: 2334 -> 2195 MB by footprint.
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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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