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Players reported the game hanging for about a second while skating. A profile showed the memory line in the log walking every heap (HeapSummary) on the client thread, 0.5 to 2 s every two minutes. An audit of everything that runs on the game's update and render threads found more of the same, and Sentry's top crashes had causes of ours. Freezes: - Memory log line: no heap walk or thread snapshot; the GPU part and the write happen on a thread of their own. - Profile database: synchronous=NORMAL in WAL mode. A save is still kept when the game crashes; every play event no longer waits for the disk inside the game's hooks. - ReSkate's own preferences and values (menu clicks, session sliders, Discord) are saved by a background writer in order; reads see a value until it is saved. - Input: the foreground window and the keyboard are sampled on a thread of their own (GetAncestor and GetAsyncKeyState stalled the client tick 40-50 ms when another program held Windows' lock); flight input uses the sample; ClipCursor at most twice a second while a menu has the pointer. - Hooks installed while the game runs go in one transaction per place (HookBatch): throwdowns, remote players, the party, Hall of Meat. - Off the update thread: the host's map package lookup (one table read in the background, not the Mods folder per offer), the trainer's map file and settings save, Board Break's settings save, mod music playlists and their covers, the Spotify station covers. - Off the render thread: the Modding page's and the deck card's Mods folder reads. The overlay's three startup waits share five seconds. - Less work per frame: Steam names reused while one a frame is asked again, 2 friends a tick, steam_api64.dll checked once per process, cosmetic names read in place rather than a system call per character, an outfit load no longer copies the inventory per slot, the throwdown type scan runs at background priority over resident memory, the Board Break deck label is kept a minute. Crashes: - Render-resource pool: the metadata fields are written to the state owner only. The other renderer is 0x2daa00 bytes, and +0x11aae28 is far past its end (store_field crash; heap corruption in every release). - Other players' skateboard effects: a stale skateboard component is no longer followed, and the joint lookup is walked with a bound first (an endless loop in reused memory ended in GameStall). - Launcher: Oodle decodes into the buffer it asks for with corrupt data possible, and its assertions no longer stop the process (heap corruption in the store-copy scan; a breakpoint in oo2core). Timings (Send performance timings): - A frame of half a second or more in a level is sent as game.freeze: where the time went (ReSkate's tick, the game's frame, or outside it), whether the renderer kept presenting, and ReSkate's busiest zones. - Closing the game sends the level session it was in. Music after a connection drop: - Spotify device: an account Spotify could not be reached with is kept and tried again (3 s doubling to a minute); a session that drops is taken up again. Only an account Spotify refuses is asked for anew. - YouTube playlist pictures that could not be fetched are tried again, from 30 s to 10 minutes apart.
Hall of Meat
skate. 3's Hall of Meat for skate.: when you bail, the bones you hurt show through your skater, yellow where a hit bruised one and red where one broke it, with the bail's Meat card in the bottom left corner. It ships no game data: the skeleton (the Dem Bones costume's mesh), the card's icons, the THRASHER wordmark and the brush strokes are read from the installed game.
What it does
- The skeleton. From the first hurt bone until you are back on your feet, then it fades out. A fall that hurts nothing shows nothing. A fresh hit flashes the bone it hit.
- The card. It takes the place of skate.'s own HUD in that corner (the d-pad and the score HUD come back after). Time, hits (head hits count double, hits from vehicles half again), broken bones, road rash, airtime, fall, top speed and rotations, each with its points, then the Meat. Small stats join the card once they are worth showing. Each map keeps its best Meat (NEW BEST / BEST 12,345).
- A break. The screen's edges pulse red and, in single player only, the game slows down for a moment. The slow motion never runs in a multiplayer session. It is the same at every break, but never faster than the trainer's game speed (PRACTICE), which it gives back after.
Off until you switch it on: skate.'s menu, Mod Options > Player > Hall of Meat, or the console (~)
with hallofmeat 0|1. The choice and each map's best are saved with the profile.
With No Bail on, a wipeout No Bail stops is not a bail, so nothing shows.
How it works
| Part | Files |
|---|---|
| Start, client tick, the switch and each map's best | hall_of_meat.h, hall_of_meat.cpp |
Each physics step of the local skater, handed on by No Bail's skeleton response hook (Extension/Skater/no_bail.h) while the feature is on: what every ragdoll body hit and how hard, and whether it is a ragdoll |
hall_of_meat_skater.* |
| The bail's phases (riding, bailing, down, getting up) and its Meat, on the game's clock; no game access | hall_of_meat_model.* |
| The card's rows | hall_of_meat_card.* |
| skate.'s skeleton mesh, read from the game's data and posed with the renderer's skinning matrices | hall_of_meat_skeleton.*, hall_of_meat_render.* |
| Hiding skate.'s bottom left HUD while the card shows | hall_of_meat_hud.* |
| The slow motion: SimulationTime's rate, frame cap and time scale as a session override, only where slower than the speed it found and writing that back after, the local skater's step along with them | hall_of_meat_slow_motion.* |
| Drawing, on the overlay's background draw list | hall_of_meat_overlay.* |
The hallofmeat console switch |
hall_of_meat_commands.cpp |
Every address, offset and fingerprint is in Engine/Game/Build/20260929/ (skater_body.h,
skater_state.h, skater_render.h, skater_skeleton.h, hud_corner.h, ui_model.h,
ui_textures.h), and each is checked before use. Without a matching game build the feature stays
unavailable and the menu's switch is greyed out.
Switched off, it costs the game nothing while it plays: the renderer's two hooks and the UI model's write hook are prepared at startup but only switched on with the feature (and off again once the HUD corner and the game's speed are given back), and No Bail hands no physics step on. The skeleton mesh is read the first time it is switched on. Only the images are read at startup, in the background: the overlay builds its atlas once, when its graphics start.
A finished bail logs what it scored at --log-level=debug.
Tests
cmake --preset vs2022-x64 -DDINGOSDK_BUILD_HALL_OF_MEAT_TESTS=ON -DDINGOSDK_TEST_GAME_ROOT=<Skate folder>
cmake --build --preset release --parallel 4
ctest --test-dir build/vs2022-x64 -C Release -R hall_of_meat
hall_of_meat covers the bail's phases, the Meat and the card. hall_of_meat_skeleton reads and poses
the skeleton mesh from a real Skate folder.
The skater's render hooks, its skeleton and its body maps were first found by gBGYo's ReSkate fork.