With the game's Camera height control on (Gameplay > Advanced Camera),
R3 on the board switches between the high and the low camera by writing
the opposite of the UseHighCam option. A new switch in SKATER > CAMERA >
FIRST PERSON, "First person in the camera cycle" (off by default), makes
it high -> low -> first person -> high.
- The existing native option hook passes UseHighCam writes to a
listener, so the settings code does not depend on the skater code
- Low -> first person keeps the low camera and turns first person on;
first person -> high turns it off and keeps the high camera
- First person is switched through the menu toggle's own action on the
next client tick, so the player's first-person settings apply as
they are; it only starts on the board, outside Freecam, Noclip and
the Park Editor
- Saved as FirstPerson.CameraCycle; Reset arm settings keeps it
- Add a ctest (first_person_cycle) for the cycle's steps
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
"Cannot open file for SHA-256" was all a player saw when the launcher
could not read ReSkate.dll, at startup and again right after each
download. That is an antivirus holding or blocking the file.
- A sharing violation is waited out for up to five seconds: a file that
was just written is often held by the scanner for a moment.
- Otherwise the error names the file and its folder, says to add the
folder to the antivirus exclusions where that is the likely cause, and
carries the Windows error code.
Changing a setting in the game's menu did not stick. The camera went
back to high on leaving the menu, grind assist and lean exit stayed at
20 / on, the compass and scoring ticker kept their old state, and the
Experimental tab's "reset to default" returned to whatever was set at
launch.
b763631 gave the settings hooks per-thread caches of saved values that
look a value up again only when profile::Store::changes() advances.
Only whole-profile commits advanced it. Every single save (a setting,
an option, an outfit) goes through Store::Update::commit(), which did
not, so the caches answered with launch-time values for the rest of
the session. native_setting_get also wrote the cached value back over
the new one when the two differed. The saves themselves reached the
database, so profiles are intact.
- Update::commit() advances the counter through Store::note_change(),
after value_ holds the new values and before the lock is released.
Store::commit() and the constructor use it too.
- A cache hit needs the whole key text, not the key's address and first
8 bytes. Many keys share those bytes (egf_enable..., egf_exp_...,
CRAS_HasSeen...Tab), so a reused address could answer for another
setting. Still no heap string, store lock or map walk on a hit.
- An outfit that is not loaded or not saved is logged as a warning with
its reason and preset (local_cosmetic_loadout_rejected). It was a
debug event, so a player's log never said why an outfit was refused.
Routine cases stay at debug.
- dingosdk_profile_change_tests (with the park editor tests): each kind
of save advances changes(), an unchanged save does not, and saved
values keep their types across a restart.
Mesh streaming pool (fixes loading crashes on older GPUs)
- 1.0.0 forced MeshStreaming.PoolSize to 3.5 GiB on every card. An RX 580
crashed while loading with DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_RESET, and the oversized pool
is the likely cause. The pool is now a quarter of the largest hardware
adapter's dedicated video memory, capped at 3.5 GiB; cards of 6 GB or less
keep the game's own 520 MB. The card, its memory and the chosen size are
logged once at startup.
Remote players (busy servers)
- Transform interpolate is inline plain arithmetic: 22 -> 5.8 ns per joint.
It was 4% of a busy server's client frame, since every player within
200 m has the whole skeleton interpolated every frame.
- Players out of the camera's view and more than 8 m away are sampled at
20 Hz, like far players. Their position still updates every frame for
collision, sound and nametags, and a player coming into view is sampled
that frame.
Expression hooks (run for every expression the game executes)
- No profiler zones in the expression hooks: taking a sample switched them
on, inflating the very samples that measured the hooks.
- The throwdown lab pump does one sorted lookup of the running graph and
skips everything else for graphs it doesn't watch (graph_throttle gets
throttled_graph for this).
Settings and memory reads
- Script gameplay-setting and native-setting gets are served from small
per-thread caches, keyed on the asset/key address, its first 8 name
bytes and a new profile::Store::changes() counter, instead of a store
lookup each call.
- Per-frame reads in the client tick, native settings and population
controls use memory::peek instead of ReadProcessMemory.
- Script error logging probes each argument pointer once.
Launcher
- "Close the launcher when Skate starts" now hides the launcher and exits
when Skate.exe does, instead of exiting as the splash opens. Outside a
Steam library, Skate's protection closed the game (TerminateProcess 0x32)
when the launcher exited during startup; players confirmed turning the
setting off avoided it.
- STATUS tile warns when Steam isn't open or signed in that PLAY starts
offline as Unknown Player (hidden when Offline mode is chosen or while
launching).
- Setting description updated to match.
Startup interventions (20260929)
- exit_return 0x87755f2 -> 0x87fe7fb: the last LEA RSP,[RSP]; JMP stub
before the PUSHFQ / LOCK CMPXCHG routine, as 0x87367cf was in 20260908,
and the return address player logs show. Only enforced once a frame site
is armed; this build's protector has no equivalent rep stosb frame clear.
Client frame cost (profiled 2026-10-02)
- Transform interpolate is inline plain arithmetic (~1% of an MP frame).
- Script gameplay-setting and native-setting gets are served from small
per-thread caches keyed on asset/key address, name prefix and a new
profile::Store::changes() counter, instead of a store lookup each call.
- Hot-path reads in client tick, native settings and population controls
use memory::peek instead of ReadProcessMemory.
- Script error logging probes each argument pointer once.
