- Mod merge: rebuild a merged bundle's chunk metadata the way the game
writes it (one record per chunk, in chunk GUID order), so costumes
from different mods built on the same game costume keep their
textures and meshes
- Merge audit checks that layout, and there is a new unit test for it
- Server names: only letters, numbers, spaces and - _ [ ] ( ),
1 to 64 characters; the server browser hides servers with other names
- New Centrix tag from the backend's "centrix" list: blue and white
name, badge and item animation, ranked after Dev and before Creator
A player's recent chat lines show as speech bubbles above their skater: newest nearest the head, older lines stacking upward, each popping in with a slight overshoot before it fades. Emotes render as their images, a message that is nothing but a few emotes shows them jumbo, and a message longer than a handful of lines is cut with an ellipsis so one line can never wall the screen off.
Local display options live under Settings > Interface > Multiplayer (on/off, own messages, distance, duration and how many recent lines stack) and the console gains mp chat-bubbles, chat-bubbles-own, chat-bubbles-distance, chat-bubbles-duration and chat-bubbles-history.
The chat panel and the bubbles now share one rich-text module (chat_rich), and a filtered message keeps its emote names: the bad-word mask is applied, but emote tokens are put back from the original before they are parsed.
- Mods that add copies of store items under new names are no longer
loaded. The launcher, mod manager and game say why.
- A chat line passed on by the host only shows a Dev/Creator/Homie
badge when the player's own copy of it arrives too, so a host
can't put one on a line that player never wrote.
In offline mode, closing the pause menu on Social or Custom Stuff and
opening it again showed an empty Social page, and Back did nothing until
the player switched tabs. The game reopens the page at the last position
in its own tab list (Social at position 4, the Store at position 3)
before insert() swaps the Store for Custom Stuff. Offline that swap
leaves the tab count at 5, so the menu never redraws the page.
Keep a copy of the Store tab last for a moment so the count changes and
the right page is drawn, then drop it again (trim_store). Online, and
reopening on Map, Hub or Skaters, nothing changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A mod that adds slots to a template made every outfit saved before it
fail to load (recipe_template_mismatch / slot_mismatch), and switching
the mod off did the same to every outfit saved with it. The preset was
blocked, so the player saw the standard skater until the profile
database was edited by hand.
Match the saved outfit to the template slot by slot instead of by
position. A template slot the outfit has no item for starts on the
game's default. A saved slot the template does not have is held, like
an item from a costume mod that is not installed, and a save writes it
back beside the template's slots. Template key, template version,
scalar count and recipe count still have to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Build the Mods shelf only when an enabled mod declares at least one playlist with songs, read from each mod's reskate-music.json. The shelf must be inserted before the native widgets bind, so it cannot wait for Featured rows to hydrate, and it should not publish an empty shelf when there is nothing to show. With no declared mod playlist the native three shelves are left as they are and a music_mods_shelf_skipped event is logged.
The music player's playlist walk loads a song entry, masks it and reads a flag at [rcx+0x14] before it checks the entry's identity. An unresolved or NULL entry makes that read fault and takes the game down while a playlist is built or opened.
Install a 13-byte in-place guard at the reviewed RVA 0x14f80c7 when the music contracts pass. It keeps the original flag test, shrinks the leading mov eax,0 to xor eax,eax, and adds a jrcxz that skips the dereference when the entry is NULL, landing on the loop increment. The site is matched against its contract bytes before anything is written, so an unsupported image is left untouched, and the guard is applied with VirtualProtect and FlushInstructionCache and then made read-only again.
The contract and patch bytes live with the other music contracts in Engine/Game/Build/20260929/local_music.h; the installer is Extension/Music/local_music_safety.{h,cpp}; local_music_ui.cpp invokes it from initialize_music_functions; cmake/Runtime.cmake builds it. A new dingosdk_music_safety_tests (CTest music_safety) pins the contract length, the decoded instructions and the branch target arithmetic without needing the game.
- Split the single switch into "Show my tag" and "Show my items", and
show the tag as chat and nametags draw it.
- Color whatever is equipped instead of the one hoodie and pink board:
top, bottoms, shoes, socks, hat, glasses, outfit, costume, deck, grip
tape, trucks and wheels, each set on its own.
- Each item can use its list's animation (rainbow, red or gold), a
gradient between two picked colors, one solid color, or be off.
- The choices travel with the player's appearance so everyone sees them.
Protocol version 41.
Create independent anchored and tile-list models before native widget binding.
Populate Mods from Featured rows with mod playlist IDs while retaining native
presentation and actions. Leave existing playlist contexts and cosmetic
ownership unchanged.
Document the native UI model flow, verified loader entry points, typed
publication, and inspection workflow for future modders.
- Read Dev / Creator / Homie Steam IDs from api.reskate.dev instead of the hardcoded list
- Creator (red) and Homie (gold) tags and hoodie/board colours; Admin tag is now pink
- Global bans: lobby hosts and dedicated servers turn banned players away
("global_bans": false in ReSkateServer.json opts a server out)
- SPECIAL menu page for listed players to hide their own tag and items
- Fix hoodie and board keeping the animated colour after the animation turns off
- Multiplayer protocol 39 -> 40
The game fetches the artwork URL with HTTP/2 cleartext (h2c, prior knowledge), and only from 127.0.0.1. The loopback server spoke HTTP/1.1, so every cover request was answered with an HTTP/1.1 404 and mod playlist/song covers never appeared.
Speak h2c: complete the SETTINGS handshake, read the request header block (HEADERS and CONTINUATION frames), decode :path with a minimal HPACK decoder (static table and Huffman code from RFC 7541 in hpack_tables.h), and serve the matching image as HEADERS plus DATA frames with flow control. Keep the HTTP/1.1 path for other clients. Serve from one stable origin (http://127.0.0.1:47823/music-art/<mod>/<relative>) so the game's HTTP cache is reused, send Cache-Control and an ETag so it stops re-fetching, close gracefully (closing with unread frames queued makes Windows send RST and the client drops the tail), and use a non-blocking listener since several pollers share it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 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.
tag_text dropped a trailing lead byte even when its character was whole, so
"Skate Café" was listed as "Skate Caf". The browser shows the tag name until
the server answers a query, so hosts without a forwarded query port kept it.
Stock worlds allocate 8,200 bodies (+1 internal) from FBPhysicsWorldSize.
Studio maps give every collision part its own static body, so large maps
(e.g. a 41k-part GTA IV export) hit the FatalAssert
"bodyIndex < m_freeBodyList.capacity()" in FBPhysicsWorld::asyncAllocateBody
and crash on load.
Hook fb::FBPhysicsWorld creation (RVA 0x02606ff0) and raise the size
descriptor before it is copied into the job arguments, so every free list
and per-body array is sized consistently. BodyCount becomes 65,000 (kept
below 16 bits); the pools a static mesh body also draws from (geometry,
owner, hull/mesh, shape, aggregate/fixed shape, fixed partition,
persistent spatial index) scale by the same factor, capped at 2^20.
Contacts, joints, queries and culling tables keep their native sizes.
Both native callers build the descriptor on their own stack, so raising
it in place only affects that world. Contract bytes for the entry, the
descriptor copy, the internal-body increment and both call sites are
validated before the hook is enabled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-ups to the trainer (PR 37), and one multiplayer change.
Off until asked for (Extension/Trainer)
- The jump read-out and the LB+RB controller shortcuts start off. Jumps
are logged only while the read-out or telemetry recording is on, and
trick launches only when the trainer scaled them. A saved trainer.json
keeps what the player chose.
Memory search on demand (trainer.cpp, trainer_classes.cpp)
- The search for the game's tuning classes reads all writable memory.
It ran for every player after a level loaded, and up to seven times
when it found nothing. It now runs only when a class value or the flip
speed is not the game's own (the player's, or a host's they skate
with) or the EVERYTHING list is open, and at most three times a level.
- For those players it runs again on each level, which brings fresh
copies; a search from an earlier level used to count as done.
Guests under enforced physics
- A guest is locked by the session's enforce setting, from the moment
of joining (Engine/Game/Multiplayer/session_physics.h), not by whether
the enforcement status text was set yet.
- A guest's class values no longer come back after a map change.
The host's whole setup reaches its guests (protocol 39)
- Only Gameplay/SkatePhysicsTuning travelled, so a host could push,
sprint or jump further than the guests it held to the game's own.
- New packet physics_extras (30): the host's class values, trick
multipliers and auto push (trainer_session.h), sent when they change
and to players who join later, taken from the host only. A dedicated
server's are the game's own and it ignores the packet.
- Under enforcement a guest's own trick multipliers stand down for the
host's, whatever the boosts switch says. With enforcement off nothing
changes.
- A guest refuses bytes that are not an encoding, holds values to the
trainer's own ranges, and leaves out class values written for another
game build's table.
- protocol_version 38 -> 39: released versions disconnect from a peer
that sends a packet they cannot decode.
Out-of-view players are posed every frame again (Session/session.cpp)
- Players outside the camera's view and past 8 m were sampled at 20 Hz
(b763631). The game's replays record each skater as it stood every
frame and their camera looks anywhere, so those players moved at
20 Hz in replays. Removed; the distance rule (20 Hz past 200 m, 10 Hz
past 350 m) stays. This gives back the client-tick time it saved on
busy servers.
Cap outfit packets and stop dropping recipients when a relay cannot be
built. Add per-player relay limits for outfits, skater sound and voice,
and a back-off for Steam IDs that keep failing to join.
Throwdowns: only participants can write rows, turns and scores; a copy
that fails to spawn no longer blocks the others.
Throttle remote skater and skateboard re-creation, cap remote objects
per session, and show developer and friend marks only for identities
Steam vouches for. Route all connections through Steam's relays.
Dedicated server: validate map changes, clean player names, keep vote
cooldowns across reconnects, and cut ban labels on a character boundary.
Skater slot, menu and throwdown fixes; MY MODS rework; lobby parties
Saved skaters (Extension/Customization, Extension/Skater)
- The selected slot, and slots before it, came up as the standard
skater after a start or map change. The game asks for a slot's saved
outfit once per level, and that happened before the cosmetics catalog
could be read. The first selection now waits for the catalog (60 s at
most), and later map changes check against the catalog already read.
- The retry from abdda77 is removed: the record it wrote to is a
temporary on the game's stack, so it could never work.
Pause menu (Extension/UI/NativeMenu)
- ReSkate's entries stopped working after enough map changes: each
level change took new slots in a fixed table of 1024 for the same
buttons. A button now keeps its slot, and a full table hands out the
slot that has gone longest unused.
Throwdowns (Extension/Throwdowns, Runtime/runtime_init.cpp)
- Multiplayer crashed when someone placed a throwdown after a map
change. The event types are freed with the level but were cached for
the process. They are now cleared when a level is left, checked
before use, and looked for again in each level.
MY MODS (Launcher/gui_mods.cpp, gui.cpp)
- Search, a filter and an order; a switch per mod; a menu per row.
- Multi-select with tick boxes, Shift-click and Ctrl+A, and a bar to
enable, disable, move, update or uninstall everything ticked.
Lobby parties (Extension/Multiplayer/Session)
- A lobby is no longer one party. Its host keeps parties the way a
dedicated server does: invite, accept, join, leave, kick, promote,
open and close, with "/p" party chat. The "Lobby party" switch is
gone. Protocol version unchanged (38).
Mod merge (Engine/Vfs), follow-ups to e715b9b
- Files rewritten into the merged patch are tracked by position, so
another mod's added assets no longer shift the lookup.
- Two mods adding different assets under one name is now noted, with
whose copy the maps get.
- mod_merge_unshift_tests compiles with the launcher tests on.
Presets, trick sliders and the values share one screen and one set of values, so a preset
cannot say "on" while a slider says otherwise. Every built-in preset is a dial (1 = the game's
own). Reset everything clears locks and trick sliders too. A player's grinds, pumping, climbing,
vaults and bails confirmed 56 more class values as read by the game (243 of 314).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018szL7EmApPZxh9GK4Phw6x
A mod that adds songs can ship reskate-music.json
({"schema":1,"playlists":[{"name","songs":["artist - title", ...]}]}). Each
playlist is merged into the game's music screen the way a content-cache
station is, under the id "mod:<mod folder>:<name>", with its songs matched
against the songs the game has registered; entries that match nothing are
ignored and a playlist left empty is dropped. A file of the wrong shape is
logged and skipped.
The file is read by parse_music_playlists in Engine/Vfs/mod_music, which a new
test covers (ids, which entries survive, the limits, and that a malformed
document is refused). The format is described in the README.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Song records in the content cache carry a field-10 message (10 artist, 11 title,
12 cdn:/ cover art). Read the art per song and send it as the song's
presentation field 12, resolved to the CDN rendition like a station's art, so
the game's music screen and now-playing toast show covers instead of a black
square. The catalogue test pins one song's art.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The music menu listed only the playlists the game's own music assets declare.
The licensed stations (San Van Soundtrack, 80's Mixtape, ...) live in the
content cache's music chunk: a record with the station id (field 1), its tracks
(repeated field 2, "Artist - Title") and a message with its display name and
cdn:/ artwork (field 10, parts 10 and 11). Read them into Catalogs, merge their
membership into the music catalogue (only songs the game registered, so no
unknown id is referenced), and send the name and artwork with each playlist.
The catalogue test pins two stations from the cache.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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