Fr0zkaandClaude Opus 5.5
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Luna, M1 round 2 of 4: round 1's mismatch was an underfit recipe (two synthetic profiles, missing large-scale surface terms). Now: biome IDs match 4,096/4,096, mean height offset -1.366 vox, density MAE 274.04 -> 17.23 vox, sign mismatches 55.2% -> 18.14%. Bound audit 298 boxes / 8,046 points, 0 misses, negative control caught. Hash c5e0371612e927af at W1/W8/W16. Surface query 8-14 ms / 4,096 points. Matched 3D capture pairs added. Problems (my review of the captures + her timings): - matched 120-tile views: full-detail readiness 5.227 s native vs 2.882 s legacy -- SLOWER; - surface capture shows a rectangular flat-topped raised block with vertical walls (tile/patch-level height bug, inferred); - cliff capture is broken (floating shard, debris trail), not a cliff. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ
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# World assembler M1 report
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M1 has four implementation rounds. The gates at the end of the milestone remain the agreed
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two-biome SurfaceWorld in the owner's game, including coast, cliff/overhang, cap and a walkable
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route; conservative bound audits; route sweep; identical evaluator hashes at W1/W8/W16; separate
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local query/collision readiness and full-view timings; faster matched workload than the 23.085 s
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legacy bridge; and server field queries that do not depend on render meshes. The approximately
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1.57 s whole-view aim (2 × the 0.785 s cave-only Core measurement) is an aim, not an acceptance gate.
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## Round 1 of 4 — native foundations
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- Define the fixed-scale, versioned, hashed recipe and shipped-plan payload, including the Core
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field-block contract and explicit field channels.
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- Add a brute-force interval audit with a deliberately false bound as a negative control.
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- Implement the first native `Heightfield2D` block with biome-map input and compare it with the
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SurfaceWorld legacy bridge in the standalone viewer.
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- Record current hashes, timings, audit results and a small owner/native capture pair. This round
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establishes a heightfield baseline; it does not claim the final two-biome/coast/cliff/route gate.
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## Round 2 of 4 — complete the surface recipe
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- Add output-space biome blending, coast and beach shaping, cap detail, cliffs and bounded 3D
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overhang exceptions with stable feature IDs and certified influence bounds.
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- Keep unknown or intersecting exception intervals on the evaluation path. Expand the brute-force
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audit across biome borders, cliffs, caps, negative coordinates and exception bounds.
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- Measure surface field query cost separately from cave compilation and full-view rendering; tune
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caches only after the workload and cache identity are fixed.
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## Round 3 of 4 — route and query readiness
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- Ship the finite-strate plan with route points, support constraints and stable IDs. Sweep the actual
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player capsule over the final composed field and repair/reject any failing candidate.
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- Verify W1/W8/W16 evaluator hashes, route clearance/support and deterministic plan serialization.
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- Keep the capsule-swept, supported route valid through generation and automatic/scripted changes.
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Player carve/fill edits are unrestricted and may break or plug the route. Seas and rivers stay fixed
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for the season, with shore behavior under edits measured separately.
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- Report local field-query and collision readiness separately from render mesh readiness, and show
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a server-side field query path that does not build or require render meshes.
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## Round 4 of 4 — Unreal delivery and owner review
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- Import the reviewed manifest into the season asset/content hash path and connect the native Core
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evaluator behind `bUseVoxelForgeCore`, preserving the legacy path when the flag is off.
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- Build only the isolated BuildHost target here; the owner builds the project. Review the two-biome
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surface and route in-game, then publish matched workload timings, hashes, audit logs and captures.
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- Close every M1 gate or name the failed gate, its evidence and the additional repair round needed.
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## Round 1 results
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### Deliverables
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- Added the public recipe, shipped-plan, hash, channel, block-contract, interval, influence and
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detail-envelope types in `Standalone/Core/include/VoxelForgeCore/VoxelForgeCore.h`. Recipe and
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evaluator schemas are version 1. All recipe, plan, feature, route and field coordinates use signed
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1/256-voxel integers; the plugin's Core voxel remains 25 cm.
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- Added manifest parse/finalize/validate/serialize and canonical FNV-1a 64 hashing in
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`Standalone/Core/src/WorldAssemblerInternal.h`. Fields hash in declared order as little-endian
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4/8-byte words. Hashes are 16 lowercase hex digits; JSON key order and whitespace are ignored.
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The optional owner-snapshot `world_assembly` field matches the payload shape planned for the
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season manifest. The current review artifact is
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[`round1-manifest.json`](Research/WorldAssemblerM1/round1-manifest.json); season asset/hash-path
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integration remains for round 4.
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- Added native `Heightfield2D`: deterministic warped Voronoi biome selection with Q16 border blend,
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fixed integer profile noise, ground and cap heights, signed density (`negative = solid`), declared
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channels, a conservative global interval, unbounded XY/finite-stratum-Z influence and an explicit
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detail envelope. The current block reads `biome` and writes `height` and `rock`. Water, route and
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surface-tag channels are declared for later blocks, not yet emitted by this block.
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- Connected that block to native Core density queries and added the standalone audit/viewer switches.
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`API.md` documents the current data format and its limits.
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### Sample manifest and hashes
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The viewer builds a sample from the owner's `type_4_SurfaceWorld.json` probe: one finite strate
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(index 1, chunk Z -16 through -79), two synthetic stable biome IDs (4097 and 4098), no planned
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features, and no route points yet. The compact manifest is 972 bytes.
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| Content | Hash |
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| Recipe | `5cc6cfb49073d366` |
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| Plan | `9aa8b4c29a69233a` |
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| Manifest | `c87ae279b0e26f53` |
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| Heightfield sample stream, 4096 points | `fae2721c052aec5c` |
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The sample block reports influence Z `[-2528, -480]` voxels, maximum displacement envelope
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`247` voxels, and minimum feature size `25` voxels. These prototype ranges are not the final
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composer-supported recipe envelope.
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### Bounds and determinism audit
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The brute-force audit tested 256 randomized boxes with a 3×3×3 sample grid per box (6,912 points).
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It found zero missed bounds and zero unknown bounds. Its deliberately false one-sided interval was
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rejected, so the negative control passed. This is evidence for the current Heightfield2D
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implementation and audit path, not a proof for future field blocks or the final cliff/overhang
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composition.
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The 4,096-point evaluator output hash matched at W1, W8 and W16 (`fae2721c052aec5c`). The timing
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scope was point evaluation only: W1 2.059 ms, W8 6.851 ms, W16 12.626 ms. W8 and W16 were slower
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on this small batch, likely from thread-startup overhead; no parallel speedup was measured. These
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numbers are not a full view or tile benchmark.
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### Legacy comparison and captures
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For the same 4,096 points, the direct legacy density query took 62.115 ms. The prototype's mean
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absolute density error was 274.0383 voxels, maximum error 841.4257 voxels, with 2,261 sign
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mismatches (55.2%). The prototype is therefore not yet a parity replacement for the legacy field.
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The current biome map and two-profile output need further shaping against the reference.
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The small top-down pair uses the same 3200-voxel XY span and one color ramp fitted to the observed
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owner and native heights together (range `[-2273.12, -1410.26]` voxels): owner `GetSurfaceHeightAt`
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reference and native Heightfield2D ground height. Each JPEG is below 6 KB.
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| Owner reference | Native prototype |
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The pair shows a large visible mismatch; it is a height-map comparison, not an in-game render. A
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separate D3D window-backbuffer capture attempt was invalid: both viewer windows reported
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`DXGI_STATUS_OCCLUDED`, the saved backbuffers were black, and the native prototype produced zero
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mesh vertices/indices. The reduced diagnostic images were inspected only after downscaling. Do not
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use those D3D files as visual evidence.
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### Query, collision and view readiness
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The audit compiled a Core world around the sample heightfield, queried 45 positions through
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`World::densityAt`, and compared them with direct Heightfield2D evaluation. Maximum error was zero;
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the sample Core compile took 35.608 ms; no tile mesh was generated
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(`render_meshes_generated=0`). This verifies the local Core field-query path without render meshes
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for this sample. It does not yet verify a dedicated-server build or the Unreal adapter.
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The no-manifest cave Core path also passed a constrained regression smoke on the existing
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`type_3_Maze.json` fixture: the 5,642-point walkability audit passed, all 27 player-neighborhood
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tiles and all 64 requested LOD0 tiles generated, and full-detail readiness was 0.157 s at W16.
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The shape compile was 0.100 s. This small 64-tile LOD0 run confirms the additive no-plan path still
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works; it is not the 23.085 s matched workload or the 0.785 s cave-only whole-view baseline.
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Collision cooking is not available in the standalone audit and was not measured. Full-view time was
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also not measured by audit mode. Earlier small-view D3D attempt timings (owner 0.236 s, native
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0.309 s) are not a valid full-view comparison because presentation was occluded and the native
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view had no geometry. The 23.085 s matched-workload gate remains open. The ~1.57 s aim remains
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reasonable, but round 1 has no valid full-view evidence to support or reject it.
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## Round 2 results
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### Round 1 mismatch diagnosis
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Round 1 was structurally underfit, not mis-scaled or shifted by a constant height datum. The sample
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used two synthetic biome profiles (IDs 4097 and 4098) and a reduced height model. The owner export
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uses four resolved surface profiles and relief/moisture climate ranges; the baseline also omitted
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the mountain and relief response, height warp, output-space profile blend, coast/beach and cliff
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shaping, and per-biome cap detail added in evaluator 2. Both sides use 25 cm voxels, and the current
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4,096-column check finds only a -1.366-voxel mean height offset. The owner and Core biome IDs now match on all 4,096
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diagnostic columns. These measurements point to missing structure and profile assignment rather
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than a unit conversion, datum offset, detail-noise phase, or biome-ID selection error.
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This round changed those terms as a group, so the before/after result does not isolate each term's
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individual contribution. On the same 4,096 density-query points, mean absolute error fell from
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274.0383 to 17.2262 voxels, maximum density error from 841.4257 to 392.4136 voxels, and sign
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mismatches from 2,261/4,096 (55.2%) to 743/4,096 (18.14%). The separate 4,096-column height
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diagnostic now reports MAE 13.060 voxels, maximum error 203.728 voxels, correlation 0.96496 and
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linear-fit slope 0.95136. Residual peaks and sign errors remain visible; this is not parity.
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### Evaluator, manifest and audit
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Evaluator 2 keeps schema 1 and fixed signed 1/256-voxel units while adding deterministic
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climate-based assignment across the owner's four profiles, output-space ground and cap blending,
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per-profile relief/height warp/beach/cliff/cap settings, fixed-season water outputs, and stable-ID
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bounded 3D overhang exceptions. Player carve/fill edits remain unrestricted; route constraints only
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apply to automatic system generation or changes. This sample has one bounded exception
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(`09812c26310b90c9`) and no route yet; route planning and capsule sweep remain round 3.
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The evaluator-v2 review manifest is 4,514 bytes. Recipe hash is `dbe949967c0dfbce`, plan hash is
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`165a00c4a77ebae0`, and manifest hash is `203d7043158069f6`. The 4,096-sample evaluator hash is
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`c5e0371612e927af` at W1, W8 and W16. Bounds audit passed with 298 boxes and 8,046 points: zero
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missed and zero unknown bounds; 16 biome-border boxes, 16 cliff boxes, 9 cap boxes, 248
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negative-coordinate boxes, and one exception box with 27 exception samples. The deliberately
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wrong one-sided bound was detected.
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The final interval audit followed one failed audit with 102 missed bounds. Inspection found the cap
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range was overwritten by a global plan range and that plateau/beach and cliff envelopes were
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incomplete. Those envelopes were corrected before the final run. The current result is a sampled
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audit of this evaluator and recipe, not a mathematical proof for arbitrary future inputs.
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### Matched 3D captures
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Each pair uses the same camera for owner and native Core, with full-detail tiles ready before
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capture. Images are 640×400 JPEGs; each file is 9,089–17,961 bytes. The native surface, border and
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coast pairs broadly agree in silhouette. The cliff pair shows a remaining large difference: the
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owner has an extreme noisy overhang, while the prototype currently emits the bounded, smoother
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shelf. Water height/fill is emitted as a field sample, but a water overlay mesh is not implemented,
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so the coast captures do not show rendered water.
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| Site and shared viewer camera (x, y, z; yaw, pitch) | Owner reference | Native Core |
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| Surface `(0, -35, -487.943; 0, -22)` |  |  |
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| Biome border `(128, -243, -492.912; 0, -22)` |  |  |
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| Coast `(336, -67, -477.755; 0, -22)` |  |  |
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| Cliff `(-168, 70, -445.712; 0, 34)` |  |  |
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`Present` continued to return `DXGI_STATUS_OCCLUDED`, including after bringing the viewer forward.
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The first surface back-buffer file was black and was excluded. The foreground retry's copied
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back-buffer was nonblack and visibly contained generated geometry; the final pairs above use that
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verified capture path. This validates the native mesh/viewer path for these captures, but the
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presentation status itself remains unresolved.
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### Query, cave compile and full-view timings
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| Measurement | Result | Scope |
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| Surface point queries W1 | 13.569 ms | 4,096 evaluator points, point evaluation only |
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| Surface point queries W8 | 8.085 ms | same points, same field hash |
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| Surface point queries W16 | 12.396 ms | same points, same field hash |
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| Legacy owner density queries | 61.974 ms | same 4,096 points; reference timing, not a performance gate |
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| Core world compile and query bridge | 36.295 ms; 45/45 exact | Surface recipe; `World::densityAt`, no render mesh |
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| Existing cave-only shape compile | 0.100 s | no-manifest `type_3_Maze.json` smoke, from round 1 |
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| Owner full-detail readiness | mean 2.882 s | 120 near tiles (64 LOD0 + 56 LOD1), 16 workers, four capture sites |
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| Native Core full-detail readiness | mean 5.227 s | same tile count, workers and sites; range 4.401–6.636 s |
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| Capture site | Owner | Native Core |
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| Surface | 2.873 s | 4.401 s |
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| Biome border | 2.904 s | 4.907 s |
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| Coast | 2.877 s | 4.962 s |
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| Cliff | 2.874 s | 6.636 s |
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The cave compile and surface query figures are separate workloads. The surface viewer took longer:
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the native 5.227 s mean is 81% above the owner's 2.882 s on these matched views. This 120-tile
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clip-radius-1 workload is not the agreed 23.085 s matched-workload gate. All viewer runs used 16
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workers; maximum observed full-detail time was 6.636 s at the upward-facing cliff camera.
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### Round 2 run log
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- The first evaluator build failed because the JSON parser version has no `IsBool`/`IsNull` methods.
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The parser was changed to inspect the JSON value variant, and the next isolated build passed.
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- The first expanded interval audit failed with 102 escaped samples. The envelope fixes described
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above were applied and the final audit passed. No failing result was discarded from the report.
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- The initial native D3D surface capture was black with an occluded presentation status. A
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foreground recapture still reported the same status but its back-buffer contained visible mesh
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geometry; only the verified foreground copy was used. All four final owner/native pairs are
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downscaled and below 18 KB per image.
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- Successful final standalone builds completed in under one minute with `/MP16`, Normal priority
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and 16 CPUs. Existing `vswhere.exe` lookup output and C4838 narrowing warnings at
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`VoxelStrateManager.cpp:3974-3975` remain nonfatal. No process exceeded the 15-minute limit or
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8 GB cap; no `0xC0000142` retry occurred. The crash-folder check found only the pre-existing
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`UECC-Windows-F1A3EFD5469F5DD62E68EBBACAC84376_0000` from 2026-09-17 and no new UECC folder.
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- No owner project or BuildHost project was built. No `.uasset` was opened or changed. No new source
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files were added.
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### Remaining work by round
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- **Round 2:** Evaluator-v2 surface recipe, matched 3D comparisons and expanded bounds audit are
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implemented. The measured residual mismatch, rendered-water gap, and owner/native cliff difference
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remain open for round 3 review; round 2 does not claim surface parity.
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- **Round 3:** Add the finite-strate capsule route and support constraints, sweep it against the final
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composed field, and reject or repair any failing automatic plan. Verify full-evaluator W1/W8/W16
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hashes. Measure collision readiness separately from query and mesh readiness; demonstrate a
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headless/server field query without render meshes. Keep the route valid during all automatic
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changes, leave player edits unrestricted, and keep seasonal water fixed.
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- **Round 4:** Wire the reviewed manifest into the season asset/content-hash path and connect Core
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behind `bUseVoxelForgeCore`; prove the flag-off legacy path is unchanged. Build only the isolated
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BuildHost target here. The owner builds and reviews the in-game surface and walkable route.
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Re-run the matched 23.085 s workload, report full-view and local query/collision readiness
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separately, and assess the ~1.57 s aim with valid captures.
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### Run log
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- First isolated full build compiled Core and passed the 199,209-line Core link-safety scan, then
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failed at viewer link: the new inline API symbols were not emitted and the standalone build lacked
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the GPU Far viewer implementation. No GPU Far source file exists in the standalone set.
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- Retry adding the assumed `GpuFarViewer.cpp` failed at compile with `C1083` because that source file
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is absent. The build was changed to use local CPU-viewer link stubs under ignored
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`Standalone/Build/AssemblerM1/` output; Core remains GPU-free.
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- The next full standalone build succeeded after moving the new API definitions out of line and
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isolating the GPU viewer stubs. Another full build succeeded after adding the height-map capture;
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a further build succeeded after adding manifest output; the final full rebuild after marking the
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manifest API for Core export also succeeded. The latest full build succeeded after changing the
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capture ramp to the observed shared height range. Each successful build took under one minute,
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used `/MP16`, Normal priority and all 16 allowed CPUs; sampled compiler processes remained well
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below 8 GB.
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- Successful builds still print the environment's `'vswhere.exe' is not recognized` message and
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existing C4838 narrowing warnings in `VoxelStrateManager.cpp:3974-3975`. These did not stop the
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build. No `0xC0000142` retry occurred. A separate Git Bash `tail` inspection command failed with
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access denied while opening a file; it made no changes.
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- No BuildHost or owner-project build was run this round. The checked
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`Saved/BuildHost/HostProject/Saved/Crashes/` folder contains one older `UECC-Windows-*` directory
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from 2026-09-17; there was no new crash folder from this round.
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No Unreal route or asset was changed in this round, so there is no owner rebuild handoff yet.
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