A busy multiplayer fight fills the Xbox's per-frame lists of what a view
draws: 512 particle runs and 128 dynamic lights. Past them plasma bolts,
charge glows and flashlights stop drawing. The desktop builds now draw
2048 and 512. These lists are rebuilt every frame, outside the game state,
and nothing of them reaches the network. Android's and the web build keep
the Xbox's.
(cherry picked from commit f1abebdd6e89de292569ea466496fa0484476e0e; OpenCE already drew
2048 transparent geometry groups on every build, so only the particle runs
and lights are taken, with OpenCE's guards for the builds that keep the
Xbox's sizes)
The raised limits' and the walk's comments are marked as the port's, with the unverified HAC2 and MCC comparison left out; the walk's says why the index is compared whole, and the once-only log of a frame reaching the limit gets a comment of its own.
Import only independently reviewed production changes. Preserve canonical physics and virtual-keyboard repairs; keep B3 and all unresolved holds out.
Record exactly four approved canary debits (6987 meaningful bytes), six Halo admissions and two revocations. Keep vendor ioinit/storage work separate. Full build, 8252-row sweep, 1318 tests, park/admission/fake audits and 621-object binding pass within approved debit bounds.
Do not publish donor research dumps or private assets. README and unrelated user research remain untouched. See frontier_publication_reconciliation_20260927.md for complete evidence limits and accounting.
The Xbox game state (0x345000 bytes at 0x80061000) ends exactly where the
map-linked tag cache begins and has 948 bytes free, so a 128-player
session cannot even allocate its player datums. The native builds now
place a 16 MB game state (CPU 0xFC0000, GPU 0x40000) at 0x81A00000, above
the tag cache and below everything the Xbox memory window hands out
top-down, and grow the pools that scale with the number of players:
- objects: 2048 -> 8192 headers, 1 MB -> 8 MB pool; the garbage limits
keep January's proportions (5/10/20 % of the pool, 2.5/5/10 % of the
headers, 75/50/30 active garbage objects per 16 players)
- cluster partition reference lists 2048 -> 8192 (collideable and
noncollideable objects, lights); a full list drops objects out of
rendering, collision and sphere queries
- effects 256 -> 2048, effect locations 512 -> 4096
- particles 1024 -> 8192 (render_particles' visible list, filled without
a bound check, follows), particle systems 64 -> 256, their particles
512 -> 4096
- contrails 256 -> 1024, contrail points 1024 -> 8192
(MAXIMUM_CONTRAIL_POINTS stays the pool size for the same reason)
- lights 896 -> 4096, object looping sounds 1024 -> 4096
- cached object render states and rendered objects 256 -> 1024
- script object-list references 128 -> 1024, objects one explosion can
damage 64 -> 256
The values live in port/linux/include/halo_port_capacity.h, included by
halo_port_limits.h. With 128 player datums the CPU part holds 14,256,908
bytes (2,258,164 free). Saved games and cores grow to 16 MB. Every change
is under HALO_LINUX; the MSVC objects are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* wip objects.c work
* objects_disconnect_from_structure_bsp
* match more functions
* more objects work
* objects_update work
- 93.42% matching
* match matrix4x3_transform_point
* more objects work
- fix duplicate symbol name at 1870800
* match object_choose_random_change_colors
* match object_update
* objects_garbage_collection work
* match object_set_position
* more object work
* match objects_update
* more object work
* match object_select_random_region_permutations_by_variant
* objects_in_sphere work
99.90% match
* object name list calls
* match objects_in_sphere
* misc matches
* match structure_bsp_definitions object
* match objects_in_clusters_by_indices
* more object work
* match `edit_text_handle_key`
* mark edit_text as matching
* misc changes
- match get_next_character
- match data section in objects.c
* object_export_function_values work
* match object_compute_function_values
* match object_get_orientation
* added functions and adjust formatting
* fix profile macros
* formatting changes
* more formatting
* more formatting
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Co-authored-by: punpckhdq <121350336+punpckhdq@users.noreply.github.com>
* misc changes and additions
formatting changes and add structs/constants for terminal work
* match write_to_error_file and add error_global_data
* console work
* requested changes
* terminal work
100% match all terminal functions
* Formatting
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Co-authored-by: punpckhdq <121350336+punpckhdq@users.noreply.github.com>
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