Fr0zkaandClaude Opus 5.5
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The capture tool gains --shade=readable (directional light, soft ambient, height tint) and an optional --tile-edges overlay; display only. The L17 Core fix is NOT merged: its owner/Core chunk scale change (8 m -> 4 m) moves every stratum and leaves the SurfaceWorld spawn camera over a void (reviewer before/after renders). Kept on wip/l17-fi-scale. The FloatingIslands full-XY boundarySeal cap is the likely real cause of the false floors and needs a separate minimal fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CSFYgsdW8ejZSyiMf4qRSX
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# VoxelForge L17 — FloatingIslands boundary report
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Branch `assembler/world`, starting HEAD `9a7c87e`. No cache code was changed. The shared evaluator
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version is now 7; the recipe schema stays at 1.
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## Cause and fix
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FloatingIslands uses the sparse `FloatingIslandFieldV1` manifest field. SurfaceWorld uses the
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separate planar `Heightfield2D` field. The owner voxel is 12.5 cm and the Core voxel is 25 cm, so
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one 32-voxel owner chunk is **16 Core voxels / 4 m**. Several shared paths divided Core positions
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by 32 directly, treating that chunk as 8 m. That doubled stratum bounds, selected the wrong
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generator route near the SurfaceWorld boundary, and made the legacy layer envelope extend over
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empty FloatingIslands space.
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The FloatingIslands `boundarySeal` also had been applied as a solid cap over all XY. At the owner’s
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flat-square probe `(-11.612444,-118.221237) m`, the raw island field is air: at Z=3.25 m it was
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`+81,809` subvoxels. The old seal added `−82,065`, yielding `−256` (`−1` Core voxel, or −25 cm);
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at Z=3.50 m it yielded `−1` subvoxel (−0.098 cm), then air again at Z=3.75 m. The wrong 8 m
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legacy layer bound produced a second false top near Z=8 m (old world density at 7.75 m was
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−0.743 Core voxels; at 8 m it was +0.073). The owner’s 4.5 m LOD0 jump is real mesh geometry
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created by those bad boundaries, often inside a tile; it is not a renderer artifact or island relief.
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Nested clipmap rectangles made its placement look like a tile-boundary-only issue.
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The fix uses the resolved owner/Core scale for manager lookups, layer bounds, readiness, and
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adjacent native strata; removes the XY-wide FloatingIslands seal cap and its all-solid proof; and
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clips adjacent native FI/SW signed-distance fields at their shared physical boundary. This is in
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Core and applies to every generator route. SurfaceWorld still uses `Heightfield2D`.
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The cave-floor lead does not match the samples. Cave and floor influence were exactly zero at the
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flat square, the island center, and the sampled ledge/ring point. The native FI field and its island
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or connector bounds account for the surface. The owner world compiled 70 rooms, 69 tunnels and 2
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passages in this run; those legacy primitives do not contribute to the measured FI ledge.
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## Before/after measurements
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`RingProbe.py` samples upward-facing mesh surfaces on adjacent XY tile edges only when the tiles’
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vertical bands overlap. Values are median / p95 / maximum absolute height difference, in cm. `n/a`
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means this sparse-island export had no same-band LOD0↔1 surface pair after removing the false cap;
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it is not a zero-error result. Higher rings include the deep SurfaceWorld boundary and other deep
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surfaces, so those rows are not all FloatingIslands ground.
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| LOD edge | Before (cm) | After (cm) |
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|---|---:|---:|
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| 0→1 | 3.451 / 8.920 / 449.158 (266 samples) | n/a (no same-band pair) |
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| 1→2 | 26.642 / 148.262 / 149.862 (514) | 0 / 0 / 0 (234) |
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| 2→3 | 0.134 / 198.730 / 773.318 (596) | 0 / 0 / 0 (207) |
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| 3→4 | 3.269 / 47.875 / 188.531 (277) | 0 / 0 / 0 (288) |
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| 4→5 | 29.975 / 130.496 / 445.444 (544) | 0 / 0 / 30.957 (258) |
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| 5→6 | 12.234 / 127.224 / 536.573 (266) | 12.234 / 127.224 / 536.573 (266) |
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| 6→7 | 29.013 / 301.752 / 42,624.479 (264) | 28.892 / 291.861 / 945.477 (264) |
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| 7→8 | 83.843 / 1,225.416 / 3,755.407 (275) | 83.843 / 1,225.416 / 3,755.407 (275) |
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The valid worst pre-fix LOD0↔1 sample is the false cap: 3.500 m vs 7.992 m, a 449.158 cm
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difference. Upward-face within-tile span p95 / maximum changed from 4.490 / 4.491 m to 1.186 /
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1.927 m on LOD0. The remaining LOD0 span is the actual island shape. LOD1–3 after-fix upward
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faces at the measured lower boundary are exactly at −60 m. The island tops around the matched
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camera are roughly −30 to −25 m.
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A separate exploratory column comparison initially reported a 34.7 m difference by pairing an
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island top near −25 m with a −60 m SurfaceWorld surface from a vertically disjoint tile. That
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comparison was rejected: it is not a same-band ring seam. The saved `RingProbe.py` output is the
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cross-LOD evidence used above.
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## History, viewer and SurfaceWorld
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Prebuilt L7, L9, L12, L13 and L14 binaries/logs all have the same legacy hashes: whole-view D/M/P/T
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`92ba6a57a8690c00 / 9c6b56dfab6241c9 / 82394dd7c368a061 / 445e40bdb69b0bdb`; full-detail
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`93ee3b6fb6b446f3 / 3ebc72d2027ab80b / cd5f55a96de12458 / 2f61c29af247b547`. The pattern
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predates L7; these measurements show no output change at L9 or L13. S9 `e7586a1`, S12 `212814a`
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and S14 `ec2afe9` do not contain the headless pipeline source, so they cannot be measured this way.
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No old commit was rebuilt: `git worktree add` failed because `.git/worktrees` is read-only, and the
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available old binaries were used as-is.
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The headless mesh export has nonempty tiles at **all** LODs 0–8 (matched view counts:
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15, 64, 40, 48, 48, 96, 48, 48, 153). The standalone viewer initializes all nine `bShowLevel`
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flags to true and its draw loop visits all streaming batches. There is no evidence that a whole LOD
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is absent from generated data or globally filtered by the viewer. The screenshot’s dark square
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cannot be mapped to a particular tile/LOD from this Linux export; a localized viewer draw/upload
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or camera issue remains unconfirmed. No viewer change was made because the Windows D3D11 build and
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capture are unavailable here. The Unreal comparison does not identify the cause of that square.
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SurfaceWorld L1 hashes changed for the shared coordinate fix. Old L14 LOD1 D/M/P/T was
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`5043975b1e5b5a3d / 1c2a5658f10fdeaa / 23b6779ef35c3a0a / 1a6d2e2d152b4f84`; L17 is
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`393ad79fd8c07132 / 47c9ba17e9f5ceaa / d5d6a948ac880e17 / 8b85ea08b2c440c4`. Before, readiness
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was 0/27; now it is 27/27 on the near ring. The old mapping selected the wrong route at the
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SurfaceWorld stratum; the corrected mapping selects its manifest `Heightfield2D` plan. Page/native
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route parity and exact queries pass, so this is the intended shared-route output change.
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## Gates, captures and limits
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All 28 determinism rows passed: FI and SW, Clang 19 `-ffp-contract=off` and GCC 14 default,
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W1/W8/W12 with five W12 repeats. Each recipe had one unique full, whole, nine-LOD and exact-query
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hash tuple across all configurations. FI whole-view D/M/P/T is
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`8339509b4d5ec231 / 70e5b2b9085b517c / 4e72e53745f20ed0 / 1a2643e5138e0407`; SW whole-view is
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`b286ee4f4c38b7fc / 6862deb8ab9c2af9 / f23480a4953457f9 / 62977edfd04b3afe`.
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FI route parity: 8 page pairs, 14 higher-LOD exact pairs, 782,026 exact samples, zero mismatches;
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uniform proof: 19,288 blocks / 25,672,328 samples / zero violations. SW: 5 page and 9 native-only
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pairs, 814,625 exact samples, zero mismatches; uniform proof: 13,297 blocks / 17,698,307 samples /
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zero violations. Readiness negative controls were caught. The Clang FP-contraction-off and GCC
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default builds passed; the Core startup FP self-test did not reject either. No async/MPSC/Epoch
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code changed; `FLazy`, shared column caches, L9/L12 proof paths and L13 route binding remain in the
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tested build.
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Readable Linux capture mode adds directional light with soft ambient, gentle height tint, and an
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optional faint tile-edge overlay. Five 1600×900 JPEGs, all below 300 KB, are in `captures/`:
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- `floating-islands-flat-square-before.jpg` / `floating-islands-flat-square-after.jpg`: same owner
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probe camera `(-11.6124,-118.2212,-19.8452) m`, yaw 0, pitch 0, before/after.
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- `floating-islands-island-view-before.jpg` / `floating-islands-island-view-after.jpg`: same low
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island camera `(-22,-19,-22.8) m`, yaw 0, pitch −4°, before/after.
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- `surface-world-l1-readable-tiles.jpg`: SurfaceWorld L1 sanity view, camera `(0,-35,30) m`, yaw 0,
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pitch −60°.
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All are 1600×900 JPEGs; SHA256 is included for byte-level review.
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| Capture | Bytes | SHA256 |
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| `floating-islands-flat-square-before.jpg` | 70,166 | `c41ed7645735ebefea97fbc1aed167b66a3e06c019c25b1c7d8cae9449713999` |
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| `floating-islands-flat-square-after.jpg` | 47,612 | `f8fb5f937ac65be9db70a41473c7a10d7f35943ba6ef5c94ab03fde9ded5c544` |
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| `floating-islands-island-view-before.jpg` | 70,813 | `5c7a8eda446f51a51ab22e45ed7286bf4180e69d8e3b2180780349facadacd32` |
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| `floating-islands-island-view-after.jpg` | 51,429 | `3aeedef903fce62e81ea1f07bb460dd2beb42b893bbd9bf29220973951295b4c` |
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| `surface-world-l1-readable-tiles.jpg` | 53,351 | `23f1753ed100c87607e22d2adc4f8e8a2856b8af3f1d37aa4f4cec9420a92b93` |
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Clang/GCC compile peak RSS was 435,588 / 902,000 KiB. Determinism peak was 538,140 KiB; FI/SW
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route-audit peaks were 621,404 / 763,112 KiB. The governor remained `powersave`; runs were limited
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to CPUs 0–11, at most 12 workers, 6 GiB address space; llvmpipe used 12 threads.
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## Failed or retried attempts
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- The first headless invocation omitted the explicit owner-world input; it was rerun with
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`Standalone/data/owner_world.json`.
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- An initial SurfaceWorld export failed the native-only readiness guard; corrected owner/Core
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mapping and rerun passed.
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- A SurfaceWorld `--max-clip-level=1` attempt expanded to 35,435,983 tiles and failed the bounded
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compiler (20.985 s, 3,988,160 KiB peak RSS). Retried with `--max-level=1` (960 tiles), which
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passed.
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- `BoundaryProbe.py` was first called with unsupported named Z arguments; rerun with positional
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bounds passed.
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- The first XY-only ring comparison mixed vertically disjoint surfaces; replaced by the
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overlapping-band `RingProbe.py` used above. The exploratory column probe was also rejected for
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pairing different vertical bands.
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- The first offscreen SurfaceWorld command reversed scene/output arguments and failed to open the
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mesh; rerun with the documented order passed.
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- The first density-probe invocation used `Standalone/data/owner_world.json` without a resolved FI
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manifest and failed. It was rerun with `Saved/Linux/l17-fi-owner-snapshot.json` and passed.
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- `/usr/bin/time` was unavailable and an early process monitor mishandled a zombie child; the
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process-tree monitor in `MeasureBuild.py` replaced both attempts.
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- `git worktree add` could not write `.git/worktrees`; no worktree was created and no old commit was
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built outside the repository.
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- Mesa could not create `/home/jahni/.cache` in the read-only environment, disabled shader caching,
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and completed all captures. No file was written outside the repository.
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## Windows confirmation
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Run from the repository root on Windows to capture the low island view:
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```bat
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VoxelForgeCoreStandalone.exe --world-assembler-prototype --recipe=floating-islands --clip-radius=3 --max-clip-level=8 --workers=12 --camera=-22,-19,-22.8,0,-4 --capture=Standalone\Research\WorldAssemblerM3\Linux17\captures\floating-islands-windows.png --frame-limit=60
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```
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For isolation, repeat with `--capture-only-lod=0` through `--capture-only-lod=8`, changing the
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capture filename each time. Please send the all-level image and the isolated image matching the
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dark square; those will identify whether it is a per-tile draw gap or a particular LOD payload.
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## Orchestrator review (Claude) — NOT MERGED
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- **The fix breaks SurfaceWorld.** I exported the L1 view (camera `0,-35,-487.94`) from L14 and from
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L17 and rendered both in the new readable mode (`Saved/Linux/claude/sw/{before,after}-{l1,hz}.jpg`).
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After L17, the ground under the spawn camera is gone (black void below), the terrain sits far
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away, and the mesh export shrank from 58.7 MB to 31.7 MB. Halving the strate chunk size (8 m → 4 m)
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moves and squashes every stratum: a world change, not a fix.
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- **What the approved world uses:** the Core world the owner played and approved places strata
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with 8 m chunks (32 Core voxels of 25 cm). The "owner chunk = 4 m" claim must be checked against
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what the Unreal Core route actually does (`AVoxelWorld::CoreVoxelSizeCm`, the Core bridge,
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`ResolvedWorldSnapshot`), not assumed.
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- **Probably real and separable:** the FloatingIslands `boundarySeal` applied as a solid cap over all
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XY (the false floors at 3.5/8 m). That needs its own minimal fix with SurfaceWorld unchanged.
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- **Still open in FloatingIslands after the fix:** dark tile-aligned rectangles on the ground (the L17
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"after" captures, lower left).
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- Kept on side branch `wip/l17-fi-scale`. Only the capture tool's readable shading
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(`LinuxOffscreenCapture.cpp`) is taken into `assembler/world`.
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