Video Setup > Graphics > Shield Glow, off by default; Glow Intensity:
DEFAULT or LIGHT SHOW (three times as far and as bright).
As a unit's shield flares (hit, charging, falling), it lights what is around
it, and itself, as a plasma bolt does: a Spartan's gold, an Elite's blue,
any unit's its shield shader's own edge color. The glow's strength is the
flare's, the intensity the shield plasma is drawn with (its intensity
source, an object function, to its exponent), so it rises and falls with
the flare seen on the body, and fades with active camouflage.
port/linux/game/shield_glow.c chooses up to 8 units within 25 world units of
the camera each frame. object_lights.c gains port glows: ordinary dynamic
lights attached to an object's node, kept alive, colored and sized each
frame by their maker (light_port_glow_set) and gone a moment after it stops,
drawn with a light definition the map already has (one without a lens flare
or a flashlight's flags, a plasma one where there is one): no new assets.
Only the drawing changes: nothing the game simulates, nothing sent between
machines. Checked by compiling the changed units.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015jtk9vPUKbWd48oBMzXuzd
The Silent Cartographer with 32x co-op enemies (484 actors) went from 53
to about 97 fps on the Linux PC, with the same game and the same picture:
cluster list removals start where the reference was put, full data arrays
are not walked again, object lighting keeps each cluster's drawn lights
and passes over far ones without their distance, the per-texture profile
timer only runs while something reads it, and the renderer binds streams
once per draw, caches its texture, target and shader lookups, and no
longer makes Mesa's GL thread wait on large uploads or visibility tests.
Recover transparent geometry submit (+1,285 meaningful code, zero exact losses); reconcile COMMON ownership and Q10 85+EXT1 credit, actions/main data, and separately disclosed denominator corrections. Preserve canonical-only repairs and all held research. C09 is ordinary disclosed cleanup, not a claim of proven scaffolding intent. Clean rebuild, 1,663 tests, parks, audits, provider links and independent EXT1 check pass. Local reconciliation only.
Independently gate storage + K, OQ-4 P-a/P-b1, four static-local packets and comment-only disclosures. Preserve all 7641 exact owner rows, 71 valid parks and 1161 passing tests; code/data credit unchanged. G and game_engine admission remain held because current canonical loses populate_statistic_buffer. Existing collision static-local repair is not duplicated. No donor tree, held candidate, scorer or private asset imported.
All packets passed a precedent audit and an independent adversarial review.
No object changes status.
- Storage per cachebeta publics (source static + symbols.json rows):
- bink_playback: four globals;
- weapons: 11 rows + weapon_magazine_finish_reload;
- object_lights: 4 helpers; should_render_lights is the /Od-attested call and
its prototype leaves the public header;
- vehicles: _update_turret_physics;
- weather_particle_systems: one_over_char_max is external (cachebeta public,
HCEX Global); its globals are static;
- rasterizer_xbox_debug: 8 D3DINLINE wrapper rows (already Matching: audit
FAIL(8) -> PASS, pdb 8 -> 0).
- draw_string: the invented external draw_string_globals aggregate (pads, blob,
#define aliases) becomes four HCEX-attested file statics in /Od declaration
order with = { 0 } (a595bbc2 precedent); typed multitexture params.
- render_debug: three rule-6 hand expansions become real point_from_line3d
calls (ruling #1/#2); the opaque vehicle view gives way to struct
vehicle_datum + vehicle_datum_try_and_get; the six debug_* toggles become
tentative definitions (COMMON evidence).
- vehicles: the TU-wide REAL_MATH_EXTERNAL_POINT_FROM_LINE3D define is gone and
the pathfinding hand expansion becomes the genuine call (ruling #1).
- rasterizer_xbox_profile V1R (reviewer-amended): byte-inert /Od parameter
order, the BUG marker comment, detail_objects via the rasterizer_xbox.h API,
and a rejection text that keeps the SDK-table policy question open.
- semantic_data_matches.json: single-section '$'-defect entries with
allow_incomplete_unit for projectiles _projectile_update_section (1,548 B) and
object_lights _lights_section (1,541 B) (leaf_map / editor_flying_camera /
race precedents).
Gate (full ninja, objdiff 3.3.1): objects 384 (unchanged), code unchanged,
data +3,089; stable diff 0 regressions; parks 83/0/0; admission 10/0/2/0; fake
scan 26; pytest 1159 passed; diff --check clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
objects.h: both bounding-sphere inline assertions report OBJECTS_H_FILE, which
defaults to January's relative "..\objects\objects.h". object_lights defines the
absolute spelling first, as January's string census shows. action_vehicle loses
its NODUP hand copy of object_get_bounding_sphere, so the header inline is the only
definition. render_objects' lighting_storage becomes the static local of
object_get_cached_render_lighting (symbols.json).
path.h: the opaque __unknown140A0[0x5C] span is HCEX's `struct path_result
result`, and path.c stores through the field instead of a punning cast.
Consumer sweep (full ninja, objdiff 3.3.1): stable diff shows 0 regressions and no
moved rows beyond the batch-1/Layer-2 gains. Parks 93/0/0, admission 15/0/7/0,
pytest 1157 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Shared-header prerequisite packet:
- real_math.h: distance2d/distance3d become square_root(distance_squared*(a,b))
(/Od build, no local); project_point2d takes short mapping locals and a
single ?: store (/Od-attested, equal to January's selected copy);
lock/unlock_global_random_seed move from the 2026-09-04 reconstruction
header random_math.h into real_math.h's existing RANDOM_MATH.C prototype
section (main.c calls them without random_math.h).
- action_vehicle, path_obstacles, decals drop their '#define x x_inline'
renames and hand-written NODUP helper copies; the header inlines now emit
byte-identical copies of January's selected sections.
- object_lights and players adopt the /Od caller spellings (0x5d0d50).
Full ninja + rename-stable 8,245-function diff: +2 exact
(_player_set_action_result, _convex_hull2d_perimeter; park retired),
0 regressions. _ai_test_line_of_sight park remeasured (size/relocations
unchanged, fuzzy 97.98 -> 97.92).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Integrate verified source and data progress; exclude unproven COMMON ownership, held UB/asm forms, and address-named data credit. Stable sweep: 23 exact functions gained, zero lost.
symbols.json names the private profile_section static _lights_section (January name record "lights"; campaign <name>_section convention, static). light_unmarked and find_point_lights_for_object_in_cluster use the exact siblings' spelling; build_distant_lights uses magnitude2d on the shadow vector; lights_prepare_for_object_static scopes its corner point; lights_preprocess_scene uses the parent unit camouflage directly, the marker forward vector and January's radius-before-color store order. 5 parks removed. Adversarially verified in wave D; full build of the combined object_lights + observer set: 0 regressions, parks 391/0/0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retain 18 strict exact-function gains across Actions, Actor Combat, Decals, Game Engine, Object Lights, and Bipeds after removing donor bodies that regressed exact objects, emitted unowned code, or violated source-credibility rules. Name authenticated private symbols, move declarations to owner headers, record honest residual parks, and preserve units.obj at 189/189.
MrBruh