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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Render3dState's cam_planes, gpu_u_tmp, q_scratch, ov_nine_buf, the caster test's four points,
ter_bw, ter_scr and water_saved default to their buffers (as ludic.anim's clip state does), so the
lazy starts in cam_planes_update, gpu_tmp, terrain_height_smooth, ter_scratch, the water pass and
gvk_startup_state go. q_euler makes its views of q_scratch once (guarded on the view now). Compiled.
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@alloc_ok with its reason on what is made once per resource and kept (textures, programs, samplers,
views, layouts, memory blocks, the pipeline cache in gvk_pipe_build), on resize and swapchain
remakes, on screenshots and dumps, on a world being set up (streams, layers, water, post, bakes), on
loads (gltf_load, skin_load, tex_load*, png_decode, fonts) and on R3D_PROF / drawstats.
gltf_cached's hit path is its own and makes nothing; the miss (gltf_cached_load) is declared.
m4_look_at (now over m4_look_at_xyz) and m4_inverse work on scalars, and cam_update makes no scratch.
Left: lazy first-use starts, error and debug prints, and scratch made and freed each call (churn,
plan 25.3). Compiled (steady, and ludic deps over the game).
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ludic migrate state packages <every example program> packages/ludic.lab/example/plate.ludic
1804 vars into 126 states, 64 into lets; 23498 edits in 460 files
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A numbers float file adapts decimal literals to a fixed operand or slot, and refuses to
promote a computed int to a float implicitly: there it is almost always float bits. Explicit
float(x) is always allowed.
render3d's numbers are float, converted by tools/migrate/floatbits.py - a whole-program
inference of which ints carried IEEE bits (union-find over flows, calls, returns, buffers,
nested buffers and lexical scopes) and a rewriter to operators, Math.* and float literals,
with float_bits / float_from_bits left only where bits really cross (runtime scratch
buffers, mixed buffers). Seed regenerated.
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streamline.ludic: slInit before the Vulkan instance, feature support per
adapter, a frame token per frame, Reflex sleep and PCL latency markers, and
DLSS super resolution on the lit HDR frame (Halton jitter, depth + zero
motion vectors with camera motion from clipToPrevClip, matrices carrying
the Vulkan path's y flip and depth remap). Bloom, tonemap and sharpen read
the upscaled size. The device asks for privateData and present_id, which
Streamline's hooks need. R3D_DLSS / R3D_REFLEX / R3D_SL_LOG for tests.
gpu_feature_implemented: DLSS and Reflex.
ludic bundle (Windows): app native "<dir>" copies native libraries beside
the executable.
Verified on an RTX 3070 Ti: DLSS Quality evaluates 1280x720 -> 1920x1080.
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`Gl.*` binds the whole OpenGL 4.1 core API — every entry point of the
platform gl3.h with every GL_* constant, generated by `ludic-dev glgen`
with per-call ABI thunks. Windowed builds get an NSOpenGLContext on the
existing window at Retina resolution; headless builds render into an
offscreen CGL context, so a program that uses Gl.* renders and
screenshots identically under the test harness. It links gl.ll, the
thunks and OpenGL.framework only when used; every other build stays
byte-identical.
packages/ludic.render3d is a physically based renderer written on that
surface: HDRI image-based lighting, GPU-generated terrain with scanned
PBR materials, CDLOD, cascaded shadows, glTF with skinning, instanced
vegetation with impostors, procedural grass, water, SSAO, and an HDR
pipeline with bloom, auto-exposure and ACES.
It also carries this session's work on it: the terrain at half its cost
(10.3 -> 5.4 ms of frame), the streaming hitch that got worse the longer
you played, a resize that emptied the world, and the packaging that lets
a game use the renderer from its own repository — `ludic assets`, the
material manifest shipping with the package, and shader lookup falling
back to the install root. See changes/ for each, with its numbers.
The camping game that drove all of it has moved out to its own
repository, Maroon Lake; examples/rendering/smooth.ludic stays as the
renderer's example here.
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