Steam for Mac with NotProton or CrossOver passes the compatibility tool a path inside its app
bundle, below the folder with config/loginusers.vdf, and the tool's stand-in keeps no record of the
running client, so the launcher said Steam was not running and started offline. It now looks up
from that path for config/loginusers.vdf, and when started by the native Steam client under Wine
takes its most recent account where the running-client checks fail. Windows and Proton, where those
checks pass, are unchanged. The offline panel's hint about the launch option shows only under Wine.
MACOS-SETUP.md gives the launch option (/bin/bash, ROSETTA_ADVERTISE_AVX=1 for the game's CPU
check) for the launcher in a folder of its own.
Based on https://github.com/Dingo-Shenanigans/ReSkate/pull/219.
Co-authored-by: codejunky <pmp.codejunky@gmail.com>
Follow-up to #225. The session still waits 30 minutes in all for a map
(checking, the two-minute question, download, install, apply, join), and
servers and lobbies still let a player go at 30 minutes. But a download
that has begun is no longer cut off at 27 minutes: a large map on a slow
connection never came at all that way.
- Once the download has begun, the session's deadline is the session's
alone. The download goes on (up to its own four hours, as before #225),
installs and is applied, and the player is told to join again; no
rejoin is tried past the deadline, where the server would turn them
away. "Map still downloading" says so when the session stops waiting.
- Before the download, the deadline still ends the check and the question.
Declining or cancelling still stops it and removes the partial file.
- A download whose session has gone is not cancelled by joining another
session; a new map need is turned away until it is done.
- The 27-minute transfer budget and its completion reserve are gone from
map_fetch_policy.h, with their tests; the map download tests cover the
new behaviour.
- The HTTPS timeout test compiles with warnings as errors (a signed and
unsigned comparison), and get_text's stale-file removal is indented again.
- README: map downloads described as they now are.
- The launcher refuses to start from a Steam library folder under
Wine/Proton as well; the check is no longer skipped there.
- README, Linux (Proton): the launcher and ReSkate.dll go in a new, empty
folder, and the Steam launch option swaps in the launcher's full path in
place of EA's anti-cheat launcher. Noted as not yet tested on Proton; the
earlier test was with the launcher beside Skate.exe.
Launcher: ReSkate lives in a folder of its own, not Steam's skate. folder
- The launcher refuses to start from a Steam library folder
(...\steamapps\common\<game>): it shows an error saying to move
ReSkateLauncher.exe and ReSkate.dll to a new, empty folder, then closes.
Checked before anything is read or written there. Not under Wine: on
Proton, Steam starts the launcher from the game's folder.
- The "not in your skate. folder" error no longer tells players to put the
files beside Skate.exe in Steam's folder; it now says to keep them together
in a folder of their own.
- README: Getting started says to extract into a new, empty folder, where the
launcher installs its own copy of the game, so a Steam update cannot break
it. The Proton section says why it is the one exception.
Sets: save a selection under a name and place it again anywhere, on any map.
- The library gets an OBJECTS / SETS switch. SETS saves the selected
objects as a set and lists the saved sets to place or delete (Delete asks
for a second press).
- A set is a park file in <profile>/object_sets/<name>.park.json, so it
shares the park format, its 2 MB limit and its name rules. Positions are
relative to the set's anchor: the middle of its footprint, at its lowest
origin.
- Placing follows the cursor as one wire cube per object, on surfaces or
the grid plane; the mouse wheel turns it by the angle step. A click
pastes the whole set: one undo step, under the paste path's object and
session limits. Sets with objects missing from the catalog cannot be
placed.
- A placed or pasted group is then selected with the move gizmo.
Editing groups:
- Local axes work for multi-selections. A placed set's axes are the
rotation it was placed with, plus every later turn; any other group uses
its last selected object's rotation. Applying a moved group does not snap
its own rotation to the angle grid.
- Duplicate (button or Ctrl+D) copies every selected object at its saved
position, rotation and scale, one grid step along X, as one paste.
- On a server with object scaling off, pastes (sets, duplicates, Ctrl+V)
are made at 1x.
Tests cover set storage (anchor, round trip, replace, names, damaged files,
delete), saving and placing a set through the UI (surface, wheel, one
paste, no live preview), selecting it with its own axes, moving it along
them, and duplicating with and without scaling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Mods page has a third tab, PROFILES. A profile is a saved list of which
mods are on, in what order and at what version; every mod stays installed
once, in the one Mods folder. Loading a profile rewrites mods.json, switches
off what it does not name, and downloads from Thunderstore what it names
that is missing. Profiles live in Mods/profiles.json.
A profile travels the way r2modman's do, so the two managers read each
other's: export.r2x inside a .r2z file, and a code on Thunderstore's
profile service. Config files in an r2modman profile are ignored.
Installing or updating a Thunderstore package now brings the packages it
depends on, needed ones first, leaving out any already installed at a new
enough version. A mod pack is a package that is nothing else.
A kick, by an admin or by a passed vote, used to keep the player out until
the server restarted. "kick_minutes" in the players section of the config
(1-1440; 0, the default, is still until the restart) and the console
command "kick-time <minutes>|restart" now set how long it lasts.
The player is told how long when they are kicked, and how many minutes are
left if they try to join early. A kick keeps the time it was given, so
changing the setting is for later kicks. Bans are unchanged.
Crash dumps now go to the project's own Sentry server. The launcher's
out-of-process helper is unchanged; only where it posts and what it expects
back are:
- The default endpoint is the Sentry project's minidump URL. Report
attributes travel as Sentry tags, with the release as reskate@<version>.
- An upload counts as accepted when the server answers with an event ID.
- "backtrace" is "crash_report" throughout: the namespace, files, CMake
targets, DINGOSDK_CRASH_REPORT_URL, DINGOSDK_BUILD_CRASH_REPORT_TESTS and
the RESKATE_CRASH_REPORT_URL override.
Performance timings are new, and off unless "Send performance timings" is
ticked in the launcher's settings (RESKATE_TRACING=1). A small tracer
(Engine/Core/Debug/trace.h) posts each finished step to Sentry as a
transaction from a background thread; the launcher and the game it starts
share one trace. Timed: the update check, the Steam download, Thunderstore
installs, the mod merge, starting the game, the launch up to the first
playable level, each level load, joining a session, fetching the identity
lists, and the time spent in each level with its average frame rate and
long frames. Turning crash reports off turns timings off too.
LT / RT pressed during a grind pick the side the skater pops out to,
independently of the trick and the body's rotation (both come from the
left stick in skate.'s own controls). Only the sideways part of the
grind pop's launch is replaced, with the game's own sideways speed; the
trick, spin, pop height and along-rail speed are untouched.
- Input Mode: Toe / Heel (character relative, needs the stance) or
Left / Right of the direction of travel.
- Grab guard: a trigger used to pick the side is hidden from the game
until released, so it never starts a grab.
- Lean guard: while a claimed trigger is held in a grind, the left
stick's left/right reaches the game at the pop, so the game's lean
exit cannot drag the board into the rail.
- Off by default; switches in Mod Options > Player, the ReSkate skater
page, the tools menu and the console (grindexit ...). Kept between
sessions.
- Listener slots on existing hooks only: No Bail's physics step, the
trainer's set_trajectory detour, and the overlay's XInput capture.
No new detours. Build-locked to 20260929 through the trainer's byte
check.
Measured on build 25414733: 48 vanilla grind pops, 144 trigger-set
pops. See Extension/Skater/GRIND_EXITS.md.
Memory
- The entity and pending-update pages are four times the game's own size
(524,288 slots), down from eight times. At eight, the game kept a
3.5 GB block for them that was fully in RAM on custom maps; the largest
map load seen needs about 150,000 slots. The render-instance pool and
spatial buckets stay at eight times.
- The log has a "Memory:" line when the game's memory, the players in the
session or the skaters built change: committed, in RAM, players, skaters
built, player distance and map.
- Console: `perf memory` lists the game's memory by block size.
`perf memory mark` remembers it, and the next `perf memory` says what
was added since. `perf memory trace` also records who asked for each
block until `perf memory stop`. `perf memory big` lists the largest
blocks with how much of each is in RAM and a sample of what is in them.
RESKATE_MEMORY_TRACE=<megabytes|all> starts the trace with the game.
Replay crash guard
- The game's replay recorder crashes when its stream has no room for the
next chunk: it writes to the chunk it was not given (Skate.exe+0x48efa34,
crash reports of 2026-10-10). The function now runs under a handler
that, for that one fault alone, returns as if no chunk was ended, and
says so in the log. Any other fault still goes to the crash reporter.
The skip path has not been triggered in testing.
Launcher
- `-map <name>` (also --map, -map=<name>) loads that map as soon as the
game is up, named as the console's `load` names one. With --no-gui and
no other options the launch still uses the saved launcher settings.
Pause menu
- The Multiplayer and Mod Options pages step aside while the game's side
menu, or a screen opened from it such as Settings, is over them. They
drew over both before.
- A button still held when a page comes back is not a press on it: the
Back that closed the side menu no longer dismissed the page as well.
Multiplayer cosmetics
- A player whose mods add or remove cosmetic slots (stickers, say) no
longer has the whole outfit refused. Their items go to this game's slots
by slot: a slot they lack stays empty, an item in a slot this game
lacks is left out, and the log says how many of each.
Player list. A player on the developer, staff or homie list sees each
player's Steam ID in the overlay's PLAYERS list for the session they are
in, after "Host" / "Guest" and the distance, on their own row too. A click
copies it. The lists are the backend's, the same ones the tags come from;
every client in a session already knew the IDs, so this changes who is
shown them and nothing else.
Custom scripts. Nothing in scripts/Custom is read or run any more, whatever
the launcher's "Loose files" setting says: nothing used them, and a mod was
using the folder to load a DLL into the game (package.loadlib from its
init.lua). The loader is kept behind one switch (custom_scripts_enabled in
custom_script_loader.cpp) for the day they come back.
For that day, the loader now also takes Lua's ways of running native code
away before the first custom script runs: package.loadlib, require through
the two C searchers and package.cpath, os.execute and io.popen. If that
does not hold, no custom script runs.
The overlay's Mods page no longer has the INSTALLED / SCRIPTS tabs; it is
the installed mods. Editing the game's own Lua and config through loose
files is unchanged.
Changelogs. The launcher's main screen has a CHANGELOGS tile in the
bottom-left corner. It opens a panel with the newest GitHub release: its
tag, title, date and notes. The notes are the release's description, read
as markdown and drawn like a mod's README (headings, bullets, code, rules).
A release published without a description shows what its GitHub page shows,
the tagged commit's message, taken from the releases feed. Fetched once,
the first time the panel opens; "Open on GitHub" goes to the releases page.
Download total. On GET MODS, the bar for ticked mods now gives the size of
what installing them downloads: "3 mods selected / 1.27 GB to download".
It is the sum of each mod's newest version as Thunderstore lists it.
Discord joins. The command the game registers for Discord to start ReSkate
now passes --no-gui, so pressing Join with the game closed goes straight
into the game instead of stopping at the launcher window.
--no-gui with no other launch flags now starts the game with the launcher's
saved settings (window size, menu and console keys, loose files, GPU
diagnostics, Discord status, offline, log level, extra launch options), as
pressing PLAY does. With flags of its own it behaves as before.
Mod Options. The pause menu's "Custom Stuff" page is renamed "Mod Options",
in the menu, the READMEs and the comments.
Not tested in game: the Discord join with the game closed, and the renamed
page. The changelog panel has only been seen with the earlier API-only
fetch.
As in skate. 3: when the local skater bails, the bones it hurt show over
the world through the body, yellow where a hit bruised one and red where
one broke it, with the bail's Meat card in the bottom left corner in the
place of skate.'s own HUD there: its time, hits (head hits double,
vehicles half again), broken bones, road rash, airtime, fall, top speed
and rotations, each scoring, and the map's best. A bone breaking pulses
the screen's edges red and, in single player, slows the game down a
moment. Off until switched on, as in skate.: in skate.'s menu (Custom
Stuff > Player) or with `hallofmeat 0|1`, saved with the profile.
Everything it draws is skate.'s own, read from the installed game: its
skeleton mesh (the Dem Bones costume) posed with the renderer's own
skinning matrices, its scoring icons, the THRASHER wordmark and its UI
brush strokes. Nothing is shipped.
How it works: No Bail already hooks the skeleton response, which runs
once a physics step right after the body contacts; it now hands that step
on, with the local skater it follows, but only while Hall of Meat is on.
Each step reads what every ragdoll body hit and how hard, and whether the
skater is a ragdoll; the bail runs on the game's own clock so slow motion
measures what the body did. The feature's own hooks, on the renderer's
skinned draw packets and main view and on the UI model's write, are
prepared at startup and switched on only with the feature, and off again
once the HUD corner and the game's speed are given back: switched off, the
game never calls them and the physics step pays nothing. The skeleton mesh
is read the first time it is on; only the images are read at startup,
since the overlay builds its atlas once. The renderer's picture of the
skater is read only while a bail shows. The menu's switch reads the
overlay model like the others. Every address is in the build table with a
fingerprint checked before use. Extension/HallOfMeat/README.md describes
the parts; its tests build with DINGOSDK_BUILD_HALL_OF_MEAT_TESTS.
The slow motion changes SimulationTime's rate, frame cap and time scale as
a session override and steps the local skater along, since skate. sets a
skater's step only when it builds its core. It runs the same at every
break, but never faster than the game ran: with the trainer's game speed
below 1 it only takes the part that is slower still. Afterwards it writes
back what it found, each setting only while it still holds what the slow
motion wrote, so the trainer's speed comes back as it was; a setting
changed from elsewhere meanwhile is left as it is and ends that slow
motion. named_setting_value reads a setting's value for it.
Tuned in play: a bruise from 7 m/s and a break from 12 m/s along the
contact normal (raised twice: a hard fall on flat ground broke bones), a
break worth ten of the lightest hits (a heavy bail's hits and breaks
outweighed the rest of the card) and a fall half of skate. 3's rate.
Fix: the overlay now draws in the back buffer's pixels, not the window's,
so it lines up on displays Windows scales (1920x1080 borderless on 4K).
The skater's render hooks, its skeleton and its body maps were first
found by gBGYo's ReSkate fork (github.com/gBGYo/ReSkate).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Without contrib/ea-watch.ps1, the script for recording what the game connects
to, and without the README line that pointed to it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Steam starts EA's anti-cheat launcher, which refuses Proton; a launch
option swaps it for ReSkate's launcher. Tested with 1.1.3 on Proton
Experimental (launcher, server browser, joining a public server,
hosting a lobby).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Skate.exe contacts EA on every launch, offline mode included: error and
session reports (collector.errors.ea.com), SDK telemetry
(freeform-river.data.ea.com) and remote configuration (gcs.ea.com).
- Block the game's lookups of ea.com and tnt-ea.com names inside the
process (getaddrinfo and the other Winsock resolvers). Installed at
bootstrap, and fails closed like the EA app launch block
- Turn EA's error reporting (EadpErrorsData) off in game, next to the
existing DingoTelemetry settings; the game ignores them on its
command line
- Leave EA's image CDN (dingo-dev-assets.akamaized.net) reachable for
the fast-travel artwork, which only downloads images
- Add a hostname test, contrib/ea-watch.ps1 to check the traffic, and a
short note in the README's privacy section
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
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>
- console reader: poll()+read() instead of iostream getline; joinable
thread joined before Steam shutdown/exit (iostream lock deadlock
needed Ctrl+D before)
- README: Linux dedicated-server setup guide
- CI: version input, tag builds, ReSkateServer-Linux-<version> asset
with setup script staged at top level
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