S3's far cap sat up to 8.2 m above the near roof and read as floating pieces.
The far render cap now projects onto the owning strate's upper boundary
(density unchanged), on a global XY lattice, LOD4 16-voxel grid + LOD5-8
128-voxel. Cap agreement 0.05 cm (100 cm control detected), 2520/2520 upward
rays hit roof on the owner walk. Far recipe v2; LOD0-3 hashes equal S2/S3.
Tile p95 flat; cold clipmap +4.4%. Far-cliff fluting left open (coarse MC step).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Far-shell repair (81-96% of S2's LOD7/8 tile time) is skipped for certified
SurfaceWorld tiles; ground and cap come from the shared planar heightfield.
Near LOD0-3 hashes equal S2; far recipe version 1 salts LOD5+ identities.
Cold first view 6.6 -> 3.4 s (aim 1.57 s). Not a visual sign-off: distant cap
shows floating pieces, sprint streaming arrives late.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
AVoxelWorld::CoreVoxelSizeCm (default 25, 32 voxels/tile) flows through plan, field,
mesher, content, water, atmosphere, edits and collision. Staged-owner BuildHost passes at
20 cm (SurfaceWorld + islands, W1/W8/W16, anchors, BP edits, collision) with a fixed-25cm
negative control; default-size hashes match round 4; Core off stays legacy 12.5 cm.
Reusable BuildWorldAssemblyFeatureTileListV1; wired into FloatingIslands only so far.
256-island stress: tile p95 112.5 -> 2.0 ms, 0 mismatches, dropped-feature control fails.
Content placement measured (no populated cells): island ground search 7.25 ms/cell vs
legacy 0.29 ms -- open. Outside-review evaluation in Round5/REPORT.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Islands read as separate (91.89% open sky at mid-height), underside cavity closed,
rim teeth were capture shading. Island manifest import + BuildHost proof passed on the
pre-cache tree; M1 SurfaceWorld and M2 V1/V2 gates passed.
Known open: final XY-column cache compiled in the owner build but is unverified;
island LOD0 p95 ~155 ms misses the 133 ms sprint deadline (legacy ~43 ms); the island
manifest only fits the BuildHost fixture layout (owner's world: Core init fails,
empty world) -> round 4 builds plans inside Unreal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
The round-3 'field contact error' measured hit-to-anchor distance; V2 contacts are 0 cm and on the zero
isosurface. Tagged-tile cost 5.7-6.7x -> 1.175-1.270x MC; organic 0.998x. Bound, shelf-thickness and route
audits rerun with negative controls; W1/W8/W16 stable; V1 and MarchingCubesV1 unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Owner saw content floating above native terrain, spiky triangles, reversed carve/fill and late relief.
Causes: shared mesher placed Core tiles on a 12.5 cm grid; content/atmosphere asked strate ranges in
12.5 cm voxels; Core edits add density where the legacy diff subtracts. Horizon LOD8 bridge edge
5.657 -> 2.265 cells. Relief mesh p95 60.8 -> 42.0 ms (LOD0). New BuildHost checks for scale, height,
blueprint carve/fill and per-kind streaming lag.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Luna, M1 round 4 (resumed after the night stop):
- Cliff: sub-voxel audit (29,929 half-voxel XY columns, min run 3.75 voxels, 0 subvoxel runs;
old taper control exposes 20,963) and a root-line shelf at the two-voxel minimum.
- Horizon slab = aliased LOD8 cap ceiling. The first fix hid the ceiling at LOD8 (challenged:
enclosed, interior-lit strates); now the LOD8 cap is rebuilt deterministically from the
native heightfield, skirts preserved; looking up and out shows the cap present.
- Routes: review manifest with 33 stable-ID route points + capsule/support constraints; capsule
sweep 0 blocked samples / 0 unsupported centres, negative control detected.
- Server path: World::densityAt answers without render meshes. Physics cooking not available
standalone.
- Hashes (evaluator + 2,226-tile stream) identical at W1/W8/W16. LOD8: 4.446 s for 529 tiles,
14.25 M field calls, 165 unknown tiles.
- Captures at 60 fps cap + vsync (owner's GPU coil whine). One cliff probe crossed the ~8 GB
guard (7.69 GiB) and was stopped before capturing.
My review: cap view matches legacy closely, no slab; native cliff is a clean attached ledge
(cleaner than legacy); a few small spikes on the ridge top.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Luna, M1 repair round: the rectangular raised block and the broken cliff shared one cause,
a type-2 solid AABB in the generated plan; it is now a tapered, terrain-following shelf, and
a negative-control audit catches the old box behaviour; seam classification check passes.
Bound audit 298 boxes / 8,046 samples, 0 misses. Evaluator and 120-tile density/mesh/payload/
topology hashes identical at W1/W8/W16. Cave regression: walkability 5,642/5,642, 64/64 tiles.
Legacy mismatch unchanged (0 biome mismatches, 18.14% signs).
Speed (matched workloads): 120-tile full detail 0.089 s native vs 0.625 s legacy; 529-tile
clipmap 3.858 s vs 11.687 s -- 2.29 s above the ~1.57 s aim; LOD8 dominates (165 unknown
tiles, 13.27 M field calls, 10.88 M column-cache misses).
My capture review: coast matches legacy closely; surface clean but a dark flat slab on the far
horizon; cliff shelf renders as a stack of thin plates with back faces showing (sub-voxel
shelf thickness suspected).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Luna, M1 round 1 of 4 (plan in Standalone/ASSEMBLER_M1_REPORT.md):
- Versioned fixed-scale world manifest (the shipped plan format) and the Core block
contract: point evaluation, interval-or-unknown, influence bound, detail envelope, channels.
- Interval audit: 256 boxes / 6,912 samples, 0 missed, 0 unknown; a deliberately false bound
is detected (negative control).
- Native Heightfield2D with biome input: 4,096-point hash fae2721c052aec5c identical at
W1/W8/W16; point queries 2.059 ms vs 62.115 ms legacy -- but NOT a match yet (mean density
error 274 voxels, 2,261 sign mismatches vs the legacy surface). 45 mesh-free Core queries
match direct evaluation exactly. Existing cave world unchanged (walkability, 64/64 tiles).
- Open: collision readiness, a valid full-view timing (viewer captures were occluded/empty;
top-down height maps are the only usable pair).
Also carries the design doc's owner decisions (fixed water; player edits unrestricted, route
law for automatic changes only) and three plugin files + BuildHost scripts that earlier round
commits had missed (also fixed on unreal/core-integration as 2574b56).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Luna, round 5 goal 1 only (stopped by owner decision before the SurfaceWorld port):
- Worm and Cascading passages now pass walkability; the wide floor stays clipped while the
narrow route core stays open.
- Hidden third failure found and fixed: long VerticalShafts diagonal legs were dropped from
Core's spatial bins by a 100,000-bin safety cutoff (invisible to density queries);
conservative bins restore them (18,570/18,570).
- All 15 saved probes pass a walkability-only gate; build-time walkability gate added.
NOT re-verified before the stop: W1/W8/W16 hashes, BuildHost UBT/actor run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Luna: the viewer reset itself to BelowNormal (since step 3) and 0xFF00 (since step 11)
at startup, overriding the runner; every earlier "full machine" race started on 8 CPUs
until the runner reapplied the mask. Fixed in viewer and agreement runner. Core
worker clamp raised to 16 (W1/W8/W16 hashes identical). Shader binaries now pinned per
executable (precompiled/<exe>/); Step27 control rebuilt from 7d1808f with only the
bundle lookup backported. Tried CPU fallback for skirted near tiles: -0.74 GiB GPU
memory but 2,934-4,086 missing pixels in four remote views, so GPU skirts stay default.
Audits: hashes W1/W8/W16, walk 5,642/5,642, near/far HW+WARP 0 diffs, both survivals
pass (7.00 GiB), ten captures 0 missing pixels.
My runs outside the sandbox (driver cache warm, marker removed first):
0xFFFF Normal: CPU 1.121 / 1.081 / 1.040 s
GPU miss 1.324 s; cached 1.340 / 1.353 / 1.293 s (2,073-2,074 GPU tiles,
timestamps 463-471 ms)
0xFF00 BelowNormal: CPU 1.305 / 1.302 s; GPU cached 1.678 / 1.692 / 1.756 s
Same-session, own shader bundles, 0xFFFF: Step27 GPU cached 1.205 / 1.212 / 1.198 / 1.180 s;
Step29 GPU cached 1.359 / 1.367 / 1.366 / 1.333 s
=> the GPU route now loses to the CPU route by ~0.25 s on the full machine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Luna: near skirts were CPU-only by implementation gap, not correctness. Ported with
near-resolution refinement and overflow fallback; near-probe preparation split out so
the skirt kernels no longer inline the near field (first attempt: two fxc /O3 compiles
ran 10.5 h and were stopped). Shape compile proven identical at W1/W8/W16.
-SkipCpuDetailBand retired (154/640 skirt audit failures, +174 ms planning).
Audits: hashes W1/W8/W16, walk 5,642/5,642, whole-near 960 tiles + 640 skirt faces
0 sign/topology diffs (one 0.001 cm vertex-key delta), far/thin 0 diffs, both
survivals pass with 2,074 candidates at 7.00 / 7.02 GiB (was ~6.2), ten captures pass.
My runs outside the sandbox (Step28.exe). NOTE the machine was ~25% slower than last
night for every build (step 27 CPU full machine 0.97-1.02 s at night, 1.22-1.29 s now):
0xFF00: CPU 1.337 / 1.291 / 1.295 s; GPU miss 1.337 s;
GPU cached 1.663 / 1.424 / 1.617 s (GPU tiles 1,427 / 2,072 / 1,222)
0xFFFF: CPU 1.221 / 1.231 / 1.236 s (step 27 same session 1.285 / 1.222 s)
GPU cached 1.582 / 1.550 / 1.416, 1.635 / 1.441 / 1.470 / 1.445 s
(GPU tiles vary 593-2,074; timestamps up to ~470 ms)
=> GPU route now slower than the CPU route measured alongside it. Step 27 GPU control
was not clean (both exes load the same precompiled .cso files).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Luna: normal completion path reads the raw vertex count before residency; an
over-cap count or failed readback falls back to CPU meshing. Max seen 18,153 of
19,456 vertices at (2,-9,-4,lod1) -- 1,303 headroom for this seed only.
Consumer map: 320 GPU near, 640 CPU near (skirted), 1,114 GPU far, 152 CPU far.
Exceptions are exported separately from roughness. Opt-in -SkipCpuDetailBand skips
CPU roughness for GPU-owned near visuals (lazy exact reconstruction on query).
Runner gains -AffinityMask (default 0xFF00) and -NormalPriority.
My runs outside the sandbox (Step27.exe, marker removed first):
half machine (0xFF00, BelowNormal), interleaved:
CPU 1.374 / 1.285 / 1.296 s
GPU miss 1.330 s; cached 1.151 / 1.143 / 1.129 s (1,434 GPU tiles)
GPU cached + -SkipCpuDetailBand 1.316 / 1.303 / 1.307 s -- SLOWER: detail apply
331 -> 297 ms, but intervals+signs 112 -> 286 ms (the plan), shape 557 -> 692 ms
full machine (0xFFFF, Normal), interleaved:
CPU 1.004 / 1.015 / 0.974 s
GPU cached 0.931 / 0.930 / 0.925 s -- first sub-second launches
Audits (Luna): hashes w1/w8, walk 5,642/5,642, near (skip) / far 0 sign/topology
diffs vs CPU and WARP, auto + cold survival pass, ten captures pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Luna: on a marker miss the deferred warmup no longer gates the initial view
(starts after the full CPU view is presented). The forced-cold DXGI 0x887A0005 was
ours: GetDeviceRemovedReason = DEVICE_HUNG after the audit readback of tile
(-7,-7,0,lod8), slot 1433 -- the readback copied the theoretical 61,440-vertex maximum
from a 19,456-vertex pooled slot, 41,984 vertices past the end of the last chunk's
buffer. Readback now clamps to slot capacity (audit-only path; normal launches never
read back). Auto and forced-cold survival both pass (1,434 submissions, ~44.6 s, <8 GB).
Added a no-write option for the warmup marker. Direction answer in LUNA_DIALOGUE.md.
My runs outside the sandbox (Step26.exe, marker removed first, interleaved, -Timeline):
CPU 1.299 / 1.291 / 1.266 s
GPU marker miss 1.319 s (all-CPU, = CPU again; step 25 was 2.015 s)
GPU cached 1.151 / 1.122 / 1.138 s, all 1,434 GPU tiles (timestamps 243 / 307 / 241 ms,
max dispatch 6.3 / 66.7 / 5.2 ms)
Audits: hashes w1/w8, walk 5,642/5,642, near/far 0 sign/topology diffs vs CPU and
WARP on protected/thin, ten captures pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Luna: shape_compile profiled (8 workers, detail band ~323 ms of ~545 ms over 9.39M
candidates; roughness dominates). Exact vertical roughness endpoint reuse in
ShapeWorldInternal.h, hashes unchanged: ~548-577 -> ~535-548 ms. Overlapping
pipeline/pool with shape or streaming made things slower, so it stays serial (pool
precompile now 4-20 ms). Export starts before the first CPU frame. Marker-miss stall
reproduced and gated differently; the forced-cold survival audit now hits
DXGI 0x887A0005 (device removed) on a timestamp query and is NOT passing. Auto
survival passes (6.16 GB). The vertex count at InitialClipmapReady counts CPU
batches only (GPU-resident tiles excluded) -- confirmed counting, not missing geometry.
My runs outside the sandbox (Step25.exe, marker removed first, interleaved, -Timeline):
CPU 1.329 / 1.295 / 1.318 s
GPU cached 1.152 / 1.170 / 1.137 s, all 1,434 GPU tiles (timestamps 292 / 260 / 356 ms,
max dispatch 19.0 / 15.9 / 75.2 ms)
GPU marker miss 2.015 s -- REGRESSION vs step 24's 1.336 s. CPU had all 2,226 tiles by
~1.3 s, but near_all_tiles_ready waited for the post-view shader warmup
(queue 1,025 ms, finished 1,955 ms; handoff cpu_started=1434 takeover=0).
Audits: hashes w1/w8, walk 5,642/5,642, near 960 / far 1,114 0 diffs vs CPU and
WARP, thin 353, ten captures 2+2 edge pixels as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Luna: warmup policy (marker read, hashes, adapter query) now resolves on a
background thread; startup fflush(stdout) removed (a redirected flush measured
136 ms). Device-init -> generation-setup gap 0.056 ms on the miss route.
Deferred-batch replay runner reproduces 85-86% of the viewer's GPU time
(240 vs 279 ms); the old "10x" compared one LOD2 tile to a mixed LOD0-8 mean.
Remaining sequence-dependent spikes (11-29 ms on tiles that take ~0.1 ms alone)
are unexplained. Open: a marker-miss survival audit once stalled after
[CpuReadyFrameBeforeGpu].
My runs outside the sandbox (Step24.exe, marker removed first, interleaved, -Timeline):
CPU 1.350 / 1.281 / 1.266 s
GPU marker miss 1.336 s (all-CPU fallback, generation setup at 88 ms)
GPU cached 1.167 / 1.166 / 1.168 s (GPU timestamps 220 / 255 / 205 ms,
max dispatch 5.6 / 22.0 / 1.0 ms; 1,134-1,236 GPU tiles)
Steadier than step 23 (1.07-1.17) but not faster; <=1.0 s not reached.
Audits: hashes w1/w8, walk 5,642/5,642, near 960 / far 1,114 0 diffs vs CPU and
WARP, thin 353, survival 6.19 GB, ten captures 2+2 edge pixels as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Connector-ring kernel skipped when a tile has no rings, no connector vertices and no
visible skirts (skirted tiles keep it: an earlier variant lost remote coverage, caught
by the captures). Outlier controls: the step 22 67 ms tile runs in ~23 us isolated,
also after a pool touch; no-present control did not remove outliers. Cause unknown.
My runs outside the sandbox (Step23.exe, marker removed first, interleaved, -Timeline):
CPU 1.360 / 1.294 / 1.287 s
GPU cached 1.168 / 1.072 / 1.151 s (GPU timestamps 295 / 245 / 264 ms,
max dispatch 52.7 / 9.2 / 35.0 ms)
GPU marker miss 1.449 s. Measured: on the miss route, device-init end to
generation-setup begin takes ~132-155 ms (s22 a/e, s23 a) vs ~3.5 ms on the
match route; s22 f (miss) was 3.5 ms. That gap explains the slow first launches.
Audits: hashes w1/w8, walk 5,642/5,642, near 960 / far 1,114 0 diffs vs CPU and
WARP, thin 353, survival ~6.14 GB, ten captures as step 22.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Per-batch GPU timeline (submit, timestamps, query, consume). Startup Draws submit
several ready batches per pump (80 ms startup budget, 16 ms per batch); the output
pool is reserved before the warm-up-pending deferral.
My runs outside the sandbox (Step22.exe, marker removed first, interleaved):
CPU 1.295 / 1.314 / 1.284 / 1.342 s
GPU cached (marker match, -Timeline): 1.197 / 1.121 / 1.133 s
(1,124 / 1,380 / 1,415 GPU tiles; output pool at 655-680 ms in all three)
GPU marker miss: 1.446 (-Timeline), 1.447, 1.312 s (no -Timeline). The 1.447 run's
shape compile ended at 776 ms vs 634-643 ms in its neighbours, so this is
startup variance, not a clear regression; to be watched.
Known tradeoff: startup pumps can stall the main thread 65-108 ms (submit calls run
past the budget); fine before the first view, to check in an interactive viewer.
Audits: hashes w1/w8, walk 5,642/5,642, near 960 / far 1,114 0 diffs vs CPU and
WARP, thin 353, survival ~6.2 GiB, ten captures as step 18.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Export tasks interleave with CPU tile jobs on the existing pool. Slow-dispatch keys
are logged (>5 ms, with -Timeline).
My runs outside the sandbox (Step21.exe, marker removed first, interleaved, GPU with
-Timeline):
CPU 1.356 / 1.321 / 1.277 s
GPU 1.453 (marker miss, 0 GPU tiles) / 1.249 / 1.216 / 1.217 s (match)
Export now starts at 686 ms in run c (was ~850), but the whole view is unchanged
(1.216 s): from first input (721 ms) to ready (1,216 ms) the GPU path spends ~500 ms
wall for ~255 ms of GPU timestamps. In runs b/d the output pool itself began late
(~860-875 ms). Slow tiles: (0,-6,-5,lod1) 28.5 ms, (-4,-15,-3,lod0) 11.3 ms,
(-3,-13,-2,lod0) 8.2 ms, all ordinary near-detail tiles.
Audits: hashes w1/w8, walk 5,642/5,642, near 960 / far 1,114 0 diffs vs CPU and
WARP, thin 353, survival 6.13 GiB, ten captures as step 18.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
ApplyDetailBand claims eight adjacent columns per batch, keeping each column's scalar
order: shape stage ~586 -> ~566 ms in Luna's profile. Hashes w1/w8 identical.
My runs outside the sandbox (Step20.exe, marker removed first, interleaved):
CPU 1.319 / 1.287 / 1.288 s
GPU 1.320 (marker miss, 0 GPU tiles) / 1.244 / 1.215 / 1.219 s (match, ~1,400 GPU)
Shape compile 549-570 ms in both modes. The 669-821 ms gap in cached runs is still
there: export starts only after [ChunkCrossingWork] reports the ~840 CPU tiles
(LOD0-2) finished, so GPU export waits behind CPU meshing on the shared workers.
Slowest GPU tile 1.7 / 18.4 / 27.3 ms in runs b/c/d.
Audits: hashes, walk 5,642/5,642, near 960 / far 1,114 0 diffs vs CPU and WARP,
thin 353, survival 6.14 GB, ten captures as step 18. Far vertex-distance diagnostic:
247 bound failures (max 64.56 cm), unchanged since step 16.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
GPU tile inputs are published as workers finish (LOD then camera distance); first
batch at 32 ready, later batches up to 256. Export wall 224 -> ~105 ms. A camera-near
partial shape compile was tried and removed (duplicated work, missing inputs).
My runs outside the sandbox (Step19Stream.exe, marker removed first, interleaved):
CPU 1.380 / 1.332 / 1.302 s
GPU 1.358 (marker miss: 0 GPU tiles) / 1.409 / 1.263 / 1.246 s (marker match,
~1,400 GPU tiles, warm-up queue 5-6 ms)
Cached timeline (run d): shape compile 70-652 ms, idle gap 698-850 ms, export
850-954 ms, GPU tail to 1,246 ms (235 ms GPU timestamps). Run b: one 15 ms tile,
ready 1.409 s. Target <= 1.0 s not met.
Audits: hashes w1/w8, walk 5,642/5,642, near 960 / far 1,114 0 diffs vs CPU and
WARP, thin 353, survival pass, ten captures as step 18, peak 6.17 GB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
App-owned marker (bin/VoxelForgeGpuWarmup.state: adapter, driver, shader sources and
binaries). Miss -> CPU builds the first view, shader warm-up runs after it. Match ->
warm-up overlaps startup, at Normal thread priority (was Idle).
My runs outside the sandbox (Step18.exe, marker removed first, interleaved):
CPU 1.395 / 1.363 / 1.329 s
GPU 1.409 (marker miss, cold driver: 0 GPU tiles, warm-up 683 ms after present)
/ 1.290 / 1.278 / 1.289 s (marker match: warm-up queue 4.6 / 3.6 / 191 ms,
GPU took 1,394 / 1,410 / 1,115 tiles, CPU mesh sum 5.1 -> 1.3-2.0 s,
GPU busy 206-227 ms)
Cached target was <= 1.26 s: not met. With the GPU taking almost every tile, the
wall barely moves, so the rest of the 1.28 s is outside meshing. Known risk: if the
marker matches but the driver cache was evicted, the launch pays ~2.2 s (Luna's
sandbox runs).
Audits: hashes w1/w8, walk 5,642/5,642, near 960 / far 1,114 tiles 0 diffs vs CPU
and WARP, thin 353 cells, survival 6.14 GB, ten captures (2+2 edge pixels as step 17).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Coverage: the broad missing patch on far tiles was GPU skirt depth using the LOD key
step instead of the exported coarse mesher step (800 vs 1,600 cm at (6,2,0,lod3)).
Fixed; tile pixel-identical to CPU, 680/680 + 64/64 triangles, 1,434 GPU-eligible
tiles (was 1,082). Audits: hashes w1/w8, walk 5,642/5,642, thin/protected 0 diffs
vs CPU and WARP, survival 6.15 GB.
Adaptive start: CPU owns the first view while the shader queue is pending.
My runs outside the sandbox (Step17.exe, interleaved):
CPU 1.375 / 1.363 / 1.354 s
GPU 2.040 (first launch of build; 0 GPU tiles, CPU worker sum 6.98 vs 5.05 s)
/ 1.279 / 1.337 / 1.328 s
Cached warm-up queue now 329-632 ms (step 16: ~3 ms), so GPU took 258 tiles
once and 0 twice: cached GPU ~= CPU, a regression from step 16's 1.26 s.
First launch improved 3.09 -> 2.04 s but still loses to CPU. Also adds
STEP16_REPORT.md, missed in 666dfb8.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
CPU uploads now bypass the 4-batch / 2 ms cap until the first resident view.
Luna's race (inside the Codex sandbox): CPU 1.354 s vs GPU 3.152 s, warm-up
queue 1.16-1.21 s on every launch. My runs outside the sandbox, same binary
(Step16FairRace, RunGpuFarViewer, interleaved): CPU 1.497 / 1.359 / 1.334 s;
GPU 3.088 (first launch of this build, warm-up 1,287 ms) / 1.262 / 1.260 s
(warm-up 3.2 / 3.1 ms). AMD DxCache was written at my GPU launches (08:46:57,
09:33:37) and never during Luna's runs: the sandbox cannot persist the driver
shader cache, which is why every one of Luna's launches paid the compile.
Audits: hashes, walk 5,642/5,642, 0 diffs vs CPU/WARP, survival 5.10 GB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Timeline showed the post-export window was frame-paced: the 4-batch / 2 ms
per-frame upload budget held CPU-fallback tiles up to 755 ms after they
finished, and 35 GPU batches drained one per frame. Before the first whole
view, GPU work now drains as one batch and CPU fallback starts with GPU input
preparation (--gpu-far-no-cold-drain = paced control).
Luna's race: CPU 1.393 s vs GPU 1.677 s. My interleaved runs (Step15Timeline,
RunGpuFarViewer): GPU 2.902 (first launch) / 1.252 / 1.209 s; CPU 2.196 /
2.250 / 2.061 s. The CPU viewer still uses the paced upload budget at cold
start (stream 674 -> 2250 ms in my runs vs 741 -> 1422 in Luna's), so the
race is not yet fair. Audits: hashes, walk 5,642/5,642, 0 diffs vs CPU/WARP.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Per-kernel fences in the production viewer put 1.73-1.98 s on the near-detail
Flush (shader creation 17-19 ms, dispatch calls ~0): skipping only that
dispatch cut idle warm-up 1.893 -> 0.521 s. Near detail rewritten with a
shared owner-roughness loop and shared Perlin samples: DXBC 448,588 -> 120,860
bytes, cold first use 1,596 -> 709 ms. Warm-up median 1.052 s, yet whole view
is unchanged (CPU 1.352 s vs hybrid 3.196 s): after input export the hybrid
spends 1.78-2.00 s streaming 1,082 GPU + 1,144 CPU-fallback tiles.
Audits: 0 diffs near/far vs CPU and WARP, hashes, walk 5,642/5,642, survival.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Split ordinary far evaluation from near-detail evaluation; [loop] in connector
refinement and skirt clipping. Cold first use: EvaluateFarField 1704 -> 3.3 ms,
connector rings 775 -> 630, skirt emit 948 -> 909, near detail 1783 ms (the
floor). Warm-up still ~2.2 s; whole view CPU 1.351 s vs hybrid 3.210 s.
Output-slot reuse fixed: crossing probe 1/1, 2,226/2,226 tiles. Audits: 0
topology/protected/thin diffs vs CPU and WARP, hashes + walk unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Cold first-use per shader (queue ms): EvaluateFarField 1757, EmitNear 2429,
FarConnectorRings 784, FarSkirts 507+975; the far EmitCS dropped 2327 -> 3.2
by splitting out the near midpoint fallback into EmitNearCS. Warm-up under
0xFF00 ~2.0 s (worker count and thread priority do not change it; 0xFFFF run:
1.71 s). Whole view median CPU 1.428 s vs hybrid 3.154 s. Audits unchanged.
AMD DxCache was last written 2026-10-06 23:27 -- shaders may no longer be
cached across launches (unverified).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Top-down A/B/A controls: dispatching the 11 real compute shaders once removes
the 1.3-1.7 s first GPU Present (resource creation alone does not); 1 worker
also removes it and 8 workers bring it back. Default --gpu-far now prewarms
shaders asynchronously during shape compile (--gpu-far-no-prewarm = control).
The warm-up queue itself takes ~2.75 s, so whole view is unchanged:
CPU 1.354 s vs GPU 3.559 s (viewer clock), 1.473 vs 3.731 s (host clock).
Audits: 0 sign/topology diffs vs CPU/WARP, hashes + walk 5,642/5,642, survival.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Re-verified f2de8fe (hashes, walk 5,642/5,642, far topology 0 diffs vs CPU and
WARP, GPU survival). The remote LOD3/4 band was a direct-GPU coverage loss
(overlapping pixels identical, surface pieces missing, e.g. (6,2,0,lod3));
LOD3/4 now mesh on CPU, root cause in the GPU route still unidentified.
A minimal first-submit repro (pools, first-touch dispatch, device flags) did
not reproduce the 2.4 s stall. Whole view: CPU 1.438 s vs GPU 4.704 s median.
Crossing probe overflowed GPU output slots: no valid crossing latency.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Luna's session ended on an API "Bad Request" before a final report; state is
unverified by me. In the log: GPU clipped-skirt emitter (count/scan/emit,
protected signs and critical air honoured), exposed-skirt audit passing at
the end; first-present stall reproduced on every launch (2.36-2.59 s, not
exe identity/idle/CPU run) and hidden by holding the CPU-ready frame until
GPU residency. Remote LOD3-4 band still differs from CPU; draw ranges and the
one inspected LOD3 tile match, cause not yet found (one-tile probe mid-fix).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Resumed round: checkpoint rebuilt and re-verified (parity 3,436/3,436, walk
5,642/5,642, W1/W8 hashes 44/44, far topology 0 diffs vs CPU and WARP, far
survival PASS). Remote GPU holes were missing clipped LOD skirts: tiles with
visible skirt faces now fall back to the CPU mesh path, leaving only 16 far
tiles GPU-rendered until a GPU skirt emitter exists.
My interleaved runs (SkirtSeamVerify, process start -> whole view):
CPU 1.522/1.488/1.430 s; GPU 4.271/1.749/1.659 s. A ~2.8 s first Present
stall hit only my first GPU launch; Luna saw it on every fresh launch, so the
trigger is still unidentified. Headless CPU clipmap 0.789 s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Luna measured the startup density-parity check at 1,049 ms, nearly all of the
~1.13 s before shape compile; it now runs after first display and still passes
3,436/3,436. CPU hashes 44/44 at 1 and 8 workers, walkability 5,642/5,642,
headless 8-worker clipmap 0.769 s. Stopped by the owner mid-round, while
auditing the remote far holes; first-launch stall and hybrid speed untouched.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Near LOD0/1 (detail band, relief, root refinement, normals) now evaluated and
meshed on the GPU. 960 near tiles: zero sign/topology differences vs CPU and
WARP, vertex max 0.0049 mm (was 15 cm); far survival audit passes; CPU hashes
44/44 unchanged. Far connector-panel outlier (64.56 cm, LOD8) remains a
tessellation difference, and remote captures show missing far geometry on GPU.
Cold readiness (viewer clock, my interleaved runs): CPU 2.51/2.49/2.40 s,
GPU 5.05/2.68/2.80 s. The ~2.1 s Present stall hit only the first GPU launch.
Viewer spends ~1.13 s before shape compile starts (startup checks), which is
the gap between the 0.95 s benchmark and ~2.4 s on-screen.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Whole far field on the RX 7900 XTX: 112 ms total (connector rings 61 ms). Cold hybrid 2.303 s vs
all-CPU 2.314 s (within noise): the far field is no longer on the wall-clock critical path.
0 sign/topology differences vs CPU and WARP incl. 127,401 protected and 353 thin-feature cells;
repeat GPU runs identical; far survival passes on GPU meshes; CPU hashes unchanged.
Open: CPU/GPU vertex distance mean 1.15 mm but max 64.56 cm, 247 tiles over the quantisation bound.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Up to 32 tiles per deferred command list, one polled event per batch, no per-tile waits; CPU
upload/enqueue 723 -> 46 ms. GPU far meshes pass far survival (7,200 strata boundaries, 10,976
connectors, 0 missing/holes). But hybrid cold 4.36 s vs CPU 2.29 s: whole-tile GPU timestamps sum to
646 ms (0.58 ms/tile; step 3's 0.03 ms covered part of the work only), divergent per-thread shape
loops; CPU far-input export 1.6 worker-s. CPU 44/44 hashes unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
1,114 of 1,266 far tiles meshed on the GPU; vs CPU and vs WARP: 0 sign/topology differences,
including the protected/thin exception audit; max symmetric vertex distance 0.125 cm; repeat RX runs
identical; GPU field+mesh 0.029 ms/tile average. Strata survival 7,200/7,200, but connector survival
fails (GPU lacks the connector repair panels). Hybrid cold clipmap 5.74 s vs CPU 2.23 s: dispatch and
readback overhead, not compute (~33 ms of GPU work in total).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
- Relief per wavelength band compared with the owner field; the 4-8 and 8-16 voxel bands were lost.
Restored within the partition-of-unity blend; max detail gradient 0.545 (limit 0.55).
- New owner-band gate: fails all six views on de14f00, passes all six now.
- W1/W8 44/44; path hash both directions; routes 5642/5642; stair-distance, ring, thin-sheet,
coarse-panel, far-survival audits pass; bad-shell control fails.
- Cold 1.127 s vs 1.108 s (within spread); nearest-tile readiness 12.20 vs 12.16 ms.
Caveats: the 143-ray GridStair normal audit is at 62.2% vs its 60% limit (was 76.9%); in the tunnel
capture the floor shows a regular dimple pattern, and the passage shaft close-up is still smooth.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
- Stairs: cave, floor, strata and passage relief were effectively summed in overlaps (owner ray
~0.94 voxel of displacement); now partition-of-unity weights: -0.288 voxel there, max detail
gradient 0.323 voxel/voxel. High-detail patch scan 133 -> 0; exact midpoint edge roots kept
(removing them: 7,993 bad roots, 46 patches).
- Fins: exposed skirt triangle scan 1,776 -> 0; thin sheets 0; coarse off-surface panels 0.
- Path hash both directions equal; W1/W8 equal; routes 5642/5642; passage detail ratio 0.850;
far survival passes, bad-shell fails; 30-crossing flight: nearest tile 15.1 ms median, 124 ms max.
Caveats seen in the captures: the owner-ray wall has visibly less relief than before; the fin
before/after captures do not show the fins (evidence is the scan only). Cold StreamFullClipmap
0.758 s vs 0.741 s (+17 ms, Luna's interleaved run). Owner to judge: bin\VoxelForgeLookCheck4.exe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Not verified as a whole. In the tree when Luna's session ended ("model at capacity"):
- fins: LOD seam skirts could hang into tunnel air; skirt triangles are now clipped against the solid
half-space and carry a per-face mask so a host can hide skirts between same-LOD neighbours.
- choppy LOD0 stairs: marching cubes' linear edge interpolation misplaced vertices where the relief
bends within one cell; edge crossings corrected with the exact field (82 patches, midpoint-edge
errors 18,818 -> 3,288); normal halo now ignores the +-4.125 fallback samples.
- an explicit unclamped Core distance query for audits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
- Core compiles exact-tile analytic slabs for entering tiles; a Z-column sampler reuses the coherent
noise context along each tile column; the viewer keeps residents and prioritises nearby tiles.
- 30-crossing straight flight: nearest tile ready 15.8 ms median / 27.6 ms max; full crossing wall
121 ms peak; worker CPU per crossing 545 ms median, 834 ms max.
- W1/W8 hashes equal; routes 5642/5642; look, passage, stair, thin-sheet, coarse-panel and far
audits pass; bad-shell control fails; path-hash audit kept.
Cold whole view, measured by me interleaved (busy machine): 1.242 s vs 1.255 s for 3b37d57, parity.
Still open from the owner (LOD0): fins along a strata seam, choppy stair facets.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
From the owner's fly-through ("very impressive, in some cases slightly better than the original"):
- Streaming: Core compiles world-aligned fine-detail pages for tiles entering the view and releases
them when they leave; the viewer keeps resident tiles. One chunk crossing: 144 new tiles, 1,822
kept (was a full rebuild). A tile built as a late page hashes identically (density, mesh, payload,
topology) to the same tile from an initial build.
- LOD>=1 fins: off-surface planar connector panels are now checked against the source surface and
projected onto it; coarse audit 0 off-surface panels; far survival passes, bad-shell still fails.
- LOD0 stair patches: 2,630 sign-changing edges had one endpoint at the fixed +-4.125 fallback
(carve surfaces were excluded from distance storage); distances now completed analytically, 462
packed signs corrected; the audit now fails on any sign edge missing either endpoint (0 of 952,997).
- W1/W8 hashes equal; routes 5642/5642; look, passage and far audits pass.
Verified by me, interleaved (8 workers, cold): 1.014 s vs 1.008 s for aeeedaa, no regression.
Open: a chunk crossing still costs ~1.2 s of page compilation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
- The copied generator, mesher and Compat stand-ins compile inside vfcore::detail.
- CheckCoreSymbols.ps1 (run by Build.ps1) fails on any unqualified Unreal-style symbol in the
library: 16,255 on 557f6aa, 0 now. A UE 5.7 CoreMinimal.h + VoxelForgeCore.h smoke compile passes.
- Output identical: 11 hash rows at W1/W8, routes 5642/5642, look/passage/far audits pass,
bad-shell control fails, six captures byte-identical.
Cost, measured by me interleaved (8 workers, cold, 4 runs each, first run excluded): 0.963 s vs
0.937 s for 557f6aa, ~27 ms in shape compilation; same math, so codegen/inlining. To be found.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
- Standalone/Core: public header VoxelForgeCore.h (no Unreal types), static library target,
ResolvedWorldSnapshot (from the schema-v1 JSON), World (compile, generateTile, density/sign,
point/segment solid, classifyBox), host-supplied JobScheduler (the core starts no threads),
sequenced, idempotent EditTransaction returning affected tiles per LOD.
- The viewer, benchmarks, edits and audits run on Core; StreamingWorld stays host code.
- Same as round 11: 11 hash rows at W1 and W8, routes 5642/5642, look/passage/far audits pass,
bad-shell control fails, six fixed captures byte-identical; cold W8 1.025 s vs 1.041 s reference.
- SHARED_CPP_LIBRARY_PLAN.md rewritten for a UBT module compiling the same sources via shims.
Open issue before Unreal: Core's implementation still compiles the Compat stand-ins named like
Unreal types (TArray, FVector...); inside a UE binary that is an ODR clash. Must be namespaced.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
- AddLanding no longer adds a shallow positive ellipsoid (floor plate check 71.3% -> 0%).
- Round 10 had removed all relief on passage walls to pass the ring check (smooth tube; rejected).
Cause found instead: the owner roughness's 8-voxel Z anchors with linear interpolation. Passage-
controlled walls now use 2-voxel anchors, blended smoothly into the 8-voxel ones.
- Ring gate (lag-20 correlation) 0.376 -> 0.038 AND shaft relief RMS 1.294 (smooth-tube control
0.276 fails); passage/cave relief ratio 1.152. Faint rings remain deep in the shaft.
- Whole view 0.984 s cold @8w (interleaved, full payload); W1/W8 44/44 hash fields equal; routes
5642/5642; look and far-survival audits pass; bad-shell control fails.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
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