The L70 "2x SurfaceWorld GenerateTile in Unreal" was the instrument: the trace enabled
bCaptureVoxelForgeCoreHashesForValidation, which disables the native heightfield-band
shortcut and whole-tile skips (W1 same keys: 9.00 s hash-off vs 28.46 s hash-on). With
hashing off, Unreal and headless match at W8 within 1.2-2.5% (Core 14.42 s vs 14.26 s) on
identical tile keys. LOD0 p95 tail = real cost of non-empty passage tiles near the spawn mouth
(p50/p95 18.8/105 ms); most LOD0 tiles are empty.
verify.py reads its baselines from Standalone/Tools/verify/baselines/ instead of untracked
Saved/Linux. The 11 .vfmesh control meshes (~78 MB) are not committed yet (to be stored
compressed). Fast tier green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016dhxM43dnWvUu2B5Ph1iG1
The demo tunnel's hard floor cap used a vertical Z - floorZ on a sloped Bezier floor, which is not a signed
distance, so marching cubes produced a staircase through the first 7 m (40-51 mm ripple, 82 mm steps). The
cap now uses the grade-normalised signed distance with a floor-adjacent bore re-application fading over the
entrance; mesh tile Z bounds include cavern bounds. New three-rail entrance audit: L46 fails, L47 passes.
verify: the cost baseline exports only build inputs into Saved/Linux/<out>/baseline-<commit> and removes it;
/tmp unchanged after a full tier. Demo off: owner hashes identical to L46. fast/medium/full PASS.
Known: sawtooth at the tunnel wall foot (next round). Research R14: Windows/MSVC readiness review.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016dhxM43dnWvUu2B5Ph1iG1