- FarSurvivalAudit: checks every stratum top/bottom boundary (4x4 columns per far tile) and every
in-view far connector (sections <=128 voxels, 4 radial rays) against the emitted mesh. Falsified:
removing one tile's shell triangles -> 16 missing, 16 holes, exit 14. Passes at LOD6/7/8.
- Far connectors follow source radial crossings; strata patches emitted at LOD7/8. Default LOD8.
- Viewer: separate near ShapeWorld for the 27 player tiles, full world built on its own thread;
27/27 tiles hash-identical to the direct build. W1/W8 60 hash fields equal; routes 5642/5642.
Cost, measured by me head to head (8 workers, cold, BelowNormal 0xFF00): LOD8 without the shells
1.17-1.25 s, LOD8 with the shells 1.80 s; payload 92.6 -> 276.7 MiB. The shells are far too
expensive, and the pipelined benchmark whole view is 2.92 s (shape compiled twice): both to fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
No source change kept. LOD8 changes a remote view (29k of 1.02 M pixels) and no check proves distant
strata survive; LOD7 renders the same remote view as LOD8. Default stays LOD6.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
- Profiled the band: detail noise ~70% of worker time, workers balanced (2.5% spread).
- Local amplitude envelope skips detail on 34% of candidates; owner cave roughness evaluated on
global 8-voxel Z anchors and interpolated. Detail evaluations 7.07 M -> 3.53 M.
- The field changes slightly (mean channel delta ~1.7-5.4 /255 in the six captures); all look
audits pass, routes 5642/5642, W1/W8 hashes equal on all nine outputs.
- Whole view 1.953 s @8w full payload: no end-to-end gain shown (stream timing noise ~10%).
- Rejected: detail band radius 5 (fails GridStair).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
- Per-vertex biome lookup was the payload cost (~365 ms); far tiles now take the biome palette from a
per-tile grid. Same channels (palette, slope, border blend, UV) and ceiling/ground sections.
- Opt-in --max-clip-level=8: 6,498 -> 2,226 tiles, stream 0.876 -> 0.428 s, 1.451 s process wall.
Kept opt-in: six fixed views cannot prove every distant thin stratum survives.
- W1/W8 hashes equal across 11 outputs; routes 5642/5642; five captures pixel-identical, passage
382 px differ (max delta 16).
- Rejected with measurements: LOD6 empty-block proof (-21% samples, no wall gain), far supertiles
(no complete groups exist).
Remaining long pole: shape compile 0.854 s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Takeover after the PC reset. Verified at 1 and 8 workers: density, geometry, full payload and
topology hashes equal for all nine outputs; routes 5642/5642; crater transaction 17 ms; player
neighbourhood mesh-ready 23 ms after streaming starts.
- The plugin's materials consume UV, the packed biome/slope/blend colours and the ceiling/ground
sections, so the viewer-only skips stay off by default (diagnostic only: 1.53 s without them).
- UVs staged as FVector2f (matches the game stream; -20 MB, no speed change). Far-bin reserve 24x.
- LOD6 is the long pole: 32.7 M density samples, 1.83 M vertices, ~1.1 s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
Verified before the reset (density + full mesh hashes equal at 1/8/16 workers, routes 5642/5642,
look audits green):
- merged field lookups, parallel mask merge, compact inline spatial bins, line-local relief hash
cache, lattice-specific mesher entry, fused sign+magnitude evaluation, far connectors as one
capsule each (181,836 -> 16,491 far primitives).
- crater edit (sphere+box+capsule, one transaction across LOD0/1): 15-27 ms; player 3x3x3
neighbourhood meshes ready ~18 ms after streaming starts.
NOT yet verified (in the tree, unhashed): standalone-only skips of UV/colour arrays and of the
ceiling/ground material grouping (best cold whole view 0.958 s @16 workers) and a far-bin reserve
tweak. Those skips drop data the plugin's materials may need: not a game-path win as-is.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
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