render3d: shadow_fit, water_reflection_pass, layer_partition_lods and the
GPU cull's scratch are made with the state; v3_dist is scalar; the pushes
into lists sized at start-up, the caps probe, the table growth, the loads
and the constructors declared with their bounds (one statement a line);
the renderer's name made once with the device; the two error messages
given back; the dead lupine models removed.
runtime: a component's text is held interned in its value cell (one copy
per distinct text), so the getter's own text goes with its frame instead
of being kept by ludic.ui's model - 80 of the 83 keeps.
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The renderer starts itself from the first frame (gpu_select), so the device, its tables, the
manifest and programs, grass, shadows, sky, terrain textures and the actor pool read as frame
allocations: each is @alloc_ok as start-up, with gvk_fail (a failure) and the actor census and
texture dump (debug switches). ov_nine's four corner/uv arrays are one floats(16) made in
gvk_startup_state; ac_in_light's four points are made there too. Compiled (steady, and ludic deps
over main 4316ff97).
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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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gvk_tex_storage freed none of ici, out, req and vci (8 blocks a two-texture model); tex_load_ex kept
dds_path_of's string. Found with malloc_history over 400 load/release rounds (712 bytes a round, all
of it these). steady: the model's bound is 4 KB over 200 (was 1.6 MB), and the frame is the least of
three settled windows - a valley self-test beside it read 87 KB once.
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A freed texture or buffer id goes on a spare list the next one takes; tex_note_size keeps sizes by id.
model_release frees prims, meshes, material names, the skin and leaves gltf_cached. actor_release
takes an actor off the stage and actor_new reuses its record (ECS's Things come and go all day).
steady.ludic: an actor round at 0 bytes over 2000.
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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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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 game no longer writes a host:
- The runtime reads Input itself: focus and keyboard navigation (Tab, arrows, Enter/Space,
autofocus), the pointer (hover, :active, click on release, drag), and scroll boxes with the
wheel, a draggable scrollbar, clipping and scroll-into-view.
- HTML's controls are built in (button, checkbox, radio, range, select, text, key capture), made
of plain parts a stylesheet styles, each reporting with on-change and event.value.
- ludic.ui/render3d.ludic draws with render3d's overlay: textures, named atlases (icon:NAME),
nine-slice border-image, rounded rects and rings, clipping, and a scale.
- Hooks for the program's language, sounds and clock (ui_translator, ui_sounds, ui_clock).
- ui_dev: hot reload, errors on screen, LUDIC_UI_DUMP.
- CSS:
- colours as #rgb / #rrggbbaa / rgb() / rgba() / names;
- border-radius and outline (following the radius), box-shadow, background-image and a tinted
border-image;
- group opacity, @keyframes / animation, transition;
- :focus, :focus-visible and :focus-within.
- HTML mixed content, and boolean attributes.
- render3d gains tex_width / tex_height, and the XML reader keeps text runs in order.
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The typed buffers are slices: words/floats/fixeds/doubles/pointers(n) make
zeroed, bounds-checked []int/[]float/... and the type names mean them. buffer(n)
is a []byte, with text_of, Fs.read_bytes/write_bytes and view(xs, start, n).
bytes(), indexing a raw pointer or bytes, free, resize, Memory.*, raw file calls,
data_of and C externs are refused outside unsafe { } / unsafe function, and a
project's own files may write unsafe only with --unsafe; the runtime and packages
are the platform. A slice passed to an extern goes as its data.
What the change found: Sync's atomics on a slice header, words(n) uninitialised,
input's fixed axes in ints, truetype's fixed outlines as ints, skin matrices
typed int, gl_shader's source table made from raw bytes. render3d gets safe
entry points (safe_api.ludic). Rendering is byte-identical; a frame costs the same.
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selfhost/check/ walks every function, the entry, tests, globals' initializers and
@On listeners with real scopes, and refuses mixed number kinds, text and numbers,
two record types, mismatched slices and fn types, wrong argument counts, wrong
returns and wrong push elements - every mix-up at once, each at its line.
LUDIC_CHECK_REPORT=1 lists them by category. pointer stays untyped (L7's).
What it found is fixed: render3d's HDR scan calling the float-bits extern f_lt
with floats; ludic.shooter's right-stick aim overflowing past half a push;
prof.ludic storing longs in []int; extern arguments now coerced to their
parameters. Text-returning runtime functions say string; Assets.ready says bool.
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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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- r3d_set_anisotropy(level) updates every mipmapped texture already loaded (OpenGL parameter,
Vulkan sampler record), not only later uploads; the game's setting never reached the scanned
materials, which load before the settings are read.
- shadow_set_res(size) remakes the cascades at 1024 / 2048 / 4096 (shadow_res replaces the
SHADOW_RES constant); lighting.glsl reads the texel size from the map, so OpenGL frames at
2048 are unchanged.
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Texture creation, 2D and array uploads, pixel packing, filters, wraps, comparison, border,
anisotropy, mipmaps, texture units, read-backs and freeing now go through gpu_tex_* and
gpu_bind_sampler, and no other file names them. Each call is the one GL call it replaces,
in the same order, so OpenGL renders bit-identically at the fixed viewpoints and the game's
self-tests report what they did before.
What those calls say about a texture - size, format, layers, min and mag filter, wraps,
comparison, mipmaps, anisotropy - is recorded per handle as it is set: a backend with
immutable images and separate sampler objects creates both from exactly that.
r3d_bind_tex takes a texture kind (GPU_TEX2D / GPU_TEX2D_ARRAY) instead of a GL target.
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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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