Fr0zkaandClaude Opus 5.5
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Standalone/ (C++20, MSVC /O2 /arch:AVX2 /fp:precise, Build.ps1): copied density pipeline, op stack, cave morphology, passages, strate manager/composer, noise, DetSinCos, mesher, clipmap selection, with a UE compatibility layer (Compat/). Owner data exported once to Standalone/data/owner_world.json by a default-off explore-commandlet exporter (the only plugin-source change). 25 cm voxels. Parity: seed 0, 3,436 samples (strate edges, negative/far coords, rooms, tunnels, passages, landings): bit-identical. Viewer: full 7-level clipmap, per-level toggles 1-7, T = round winding tunnels (standalone option), N/P seed, F wireframe. Timing NOT yet a baseline: 515 s for 12,054 tiles (L0 70 s, L6 296 s); the compat TMap/TSet are vector-backed with linear lookup, which the plugin's caches do not expect. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
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# VoxelForge standalone world
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This C++20 program loads the owner snapshot from `data/owner_world.json`, runs the copied
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VoxelForge density pipeline and marching-cubes mesher, builds all clipmap levels with six worker
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threads, and displays them through Direct3D 11. Unreal is not linked or needed at run time.
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## Build and launch
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From the plugin root, run:
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```powershell
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.\Standalone\Build.ps1
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.\Standalone\bin\VoxelForgeStandalone.exe
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```
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The build uses the configured VS 2022 `vcvars64.bat`, MSVC `/std:c++20 /O2 /arch:AVX2 /fp:precise`.
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The executable finds the JSON beside itself under `Standalone\data\`.
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## Controls
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- Hold right mouse button and move to look.
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- WASD moves; Space/Ctrl or E/Q moves vertically; Shift moves faster; the wheel changes speed.
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- F toggles wireframe.
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- 1 through 7 toggle clipmap levels 0 through 6 individually; 0 toggles every level.
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- N/P changes the seed. T switches between the owner's base tunnels and the research-shaped round,
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winding tunnel option. Either action rebuilds the clipmap. Moving three chunks from its center
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also recenters and rebuilds it.
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- Esc exits.
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The console reports density parity at startup, each level's generation time, and the total time.
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## Copied code and compatibility layer
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`Source\VoxelForge\` contains the plugin's density evaluator and operator stack, cave morphology,
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passage geometry, strate definitions/layout/manager/composer, noise, voxel math and types,
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marching-cubes tables/mesher, and clipmap tile selection. These are copies. Plugin runtime source
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is untouched apart from the allowed editor commandlet export addition.
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`Compat\CoreMinimal.h` supplies the UE-style arrays/maps/sets, vectors and boxes, math helpers,
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strings, smart pointers, locks, logging/stat macros, UObject-like data holders, and platform helpers
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needed by the copied CPU code. The `Compat` subfolders cover the UE include paths used by those
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copies. Perlin 2D/3D uses the copied UE 5.7 implementation in `UnrealPerlin.cpp` and
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`UnrealPerlinHelpers.inl`. `OwnerWorldLoader.h` maps the exported settings, resolved strate
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definitions, biomes, and terrain operations into copied holders; soft references resolve through a
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small local asset registry. The copied strate manager reconstructs runtime passages from that data
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and seed. The export also records their geometry in JSON for reference.
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## Behavior differences
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- Standalone `VOXEL_SIZE` is 25 cm; the plugin's checked-out value remains 12.5 cm. No other voxel
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conversion constant needed changing. Mesh vertices stay in centimetres in the copied mesher and
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the viewer converts them to metres at upload.
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- The compatibility `TMap` and `TSet` are vector-backed containers, so lookup is linear and their
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iteration follows insertion order rather than Unreal hash-table order. Owner strate slots and
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passages are read from ordered JSON arrays. Perlin noise and deterministic `DetSinCos` are copied
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unchanged; MSVC uses `/fp:precise` without fast-math/FMA contraction.
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- Unreal reflection and UObject construction are replaced by explicit JSON-to-holder mapping.
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Density-relevant settings, resolved strate layouts, passages, biome parameters, and terrain-op
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assets are loaded. Runtime actor/material assets are not instantiated; the viewer uses one lit
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rock material for all generated geometry.
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- The owner export has no active season. Standalone season loading is not implemented; an active
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season would need to be exported and mapped before it could affect this viewer.
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- `WITH_EDITOR` research/debug branches, Unreal logging, startup trace, profiling counters, and
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reflection metadata do not run in the standalone. The base generator path is the default.
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- T selects a standalone-only tunnel-shape port. It disables the owner's first-strate tunnel
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connections and adds the research field's cubic winding centerline and round elliptical tunnel
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profile (144-voxel pitch, 28-voxel radius, 26-voxel half-height, deterministic variable radius
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and vertical wave), anchored around the camera's current height. It reuses the base rooms and
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passages; it does not port the research field's room planner or full parameterized density field.
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## Owner data and parity
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`data/owner_world.json` came from one default-off `VoxelForgeExploreCommandlet` export using the
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guarded `Tools\VoxelForgeTest.ps1 -Scenario standalone-export -Build -Assets owner` path. The
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snapshot contains the resolved settings/strates/passages and 3,436 plugin density samples. For that
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commandlet build, `VOXEL_SIZE` was temporarily set to 25 cm in the worktree and restored afterward;
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the exported JSON records 25 cm and the checked-out plugin source still records 12.5 cm.
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Standalone comparison: **3,436/3,436 bit-identical, zero mismatches**. Samples covered strate
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boundaries (2,420), varied world coordinates including negative and far-from-origin points (768),
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tunnel interiors (222), room interiors (12), inter-strate passages (10), and passage landings (4).
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## Baseline clipmap timing
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Owner seed 0, base world, 25 cm voxels, six workers; the final viewer run generated the full
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seven-level clipmap (12,054 tiles, 6,605,189 vertices, 36,307,137 indices) in 515.117 seconds.
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These level timers cover CPU meshing and queue handoff; D3D11 buffer upload is separate. An earlier
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headless pass over the same tiles took 408.719 seconds, so use one run mode consistently when
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comparing later speed changes.
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| Level | Seconds | Tiles | Vertices | Density samples |
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| 0 | 70.201 | 2,744 | 957,655 | 117.65 M |
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| 1 | 65.376 | 2,009 | 657,423 | 86.14 M |
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| 2 | 9.042 | 1,274 | 292,267 | 8.74 M |
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| 3 | 25.689 | 588 | 235,755 | 4.03 M |
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| 4 | 24.248 | 441 | 229,720 | 3.02 M |
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| 5 | 23.809 | 294 | 199,503 | 2.02 M |
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| 6 | 296.304 | 4,704 | 4,032,866 | 32.26 M |
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| **Total** | **515.117** | **12,054** | **6,605,189** | **253.86 M** |
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