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…the wind (#882) Content plus two small Lua-binding fixes. Every subsystem this needs shipped with #633 — the work is wiring and art direction. A leg is the passage out to the island and back. Each one retargets the weather (cross-blended over 14 s, never cut) and warps the clock forward to its hour over 18 s rather than setting it, so the sun sweeps while you are on the water. The sea then follows the blended wind speed through the calm / moderate / rough anchors #879 authored and play-tested by hand, eased over ~25 s. Two engine edits, both of which the content could not work without: * WaterComponent had a ~50-property Sol2 usertype but was never in the get_component registry, so the whole surface was unreachable from a script. That list is deliberately not completeness-guarded, so the usertype and the registry entry are two edits and this one had been missed. * Five WaterComponent properties added (foam start/brightness/fade, specular and noise intensity). Wave amplitude alone makes a sea state legible in motion; these are what make it legible in a still frame. The first bake of the evidence set was a uniform pale veil in every cell. Three separate causes, none of which any test caught, all three found by opening the PNGs: * Fog was reaching the SKY. Exponential fog is applied by depth and the skybox sits at the far plane, so at 2500 m and density 0.0009 the sky itself came through ~90% fog colour. Worst at night, where a static pale-blue fog made the night sky measure BRIGHTER than the noon sky (166 vs 68 mean luma). Fog colour is a per-preset constant and cannot follow the sun, so Clear — the state that has to work at both dawn and night — now runs without it. * The sun was in the wrong part of the sky. At NorthOffsetDegrees 0 it rises off the starboard beam, out of shot. At -60 it rises almost dead ahead, where the island is, and lays a specular track at the bow. * The leg hours were guessed. At latitude 34 on day 172 the sun is already 20 deg up by 06:36, so the first draft's "dawn" was flat mid-morning. They are now read off the live ephemeris. Goldens are EXTENDED, not rebaked: Atmosphere_* is the same grid on paper but a different picture (a lit ground plane, pinning the #633 engine) and rebaking it would have discarded that net without covering water. The new Drift_* set is 13 files, and GoldenBaselineAuditTest now audits it with its own band layout. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Drift scene now uses procedural atmosphere, authored weather presets, runtime weather-leg progression, wind-driven sea-state blending, and time-of-day control. Lua exposes water properties. Functional and visual tests validate the behavior and golden baselines. ChangesDrift Weather Flow
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Boat
participant DriftWeatherDirector
participant WeatherSystem
participant Atmosphere
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Boat->>DriftWeatherDirector: trigger landfall
DriftWeatherDirector->>WeatherSystem: blend the next weather preset
DriftWeatherDirector->>Atmosphere: update hour and cloud advection
DriftWeatherDirector->>WaterComponent: update wind-driven sea state
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds per-leg weather, time-of-day, and sea-state behavior for Drift. It is mergeable with owner awareness that the storm test should explicitly encode its precipitation settings so the test cannot silently diverge from the scene configuration. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)
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In `@OloEngine/tests/Functional/Atmosphere/DriftLegWeatherAndSeaStateTest.cpp`:
- Around line 124-134: Update ApplyDriftPresets to explicitly enable storm
precipitation by setting m_PresetStorm.PrecipitationEnabled to true and
m_PresetStorm.PrecipitationIntensity to 1.0f alongside its existing
precipitation kind.
In `@OloEngine/tests/Rendering/PropertyTests/DriftWeatherVisualEvidenceTest.cpp`:
- Around line 401-460: Move the shared ApplyDriftPresets preset table into a
common test helper header, preserving all existing authored values and behavior.
Remove the duplicate definitions from DriftWeatherVisualEvidenceTest and
DriftLegWeatherAndSeaStateTest, then have both fixtures invoke the shared helper
from their setup paths, including BuildScene.
In `@OloEngine/tests/Rendering/PropertyTests/GoldenBaselineAuditTest.cpp`:
- Around line 991-1028: Extract the duplicated tier-2 and tier-3 parity logic
into one parameterized lambda accepting the file list, band span, and message
label/tail, then invoke it for both matrices while preserving their distinct
diagnostics. Rename kAtmosphereRmse255 to a neutral shared-threshold name and
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| static void ApplyDriftPresets(WeatherStateComponent& w) | ||
| { | ||
| w.m_TransitionDuration = 14.0f; | ||
| w.m_PresetClear.WindSpeed = 2.0f; | ||
| w.m_PresetClear.FogEnabled = false; | ||
| w.m_PresetClear.FogDensity = 0.0f; | ||
| w.m_PresetOvercast.WindSpeed = 5.0f; | ||
| w.m_PresetOvercast.PrecipitationEnabled = false; | ||
| w.m_PresetStorm.WindSpeed = 14.0f; | ||
| w.m_PresetStorm.PrecipitationKind = WeatherPrecipitationType::Rain; | ||
| } |
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Set the storm precipitation fields explicitly.
WeatherPreset defaults PrecipitationEnabled to false and PrecipitationIntensity to 0.0f. Set both fields to true and 1.0f so the storm assertion passes and matches Drift.olo.
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In `@OloEngine/tests/Functional/Atmosphere/DriftLegWeatherAndSeaStateTest.cpp`
around lines 124 - 134, Update ApplyDriftPresets to explicitly enable storm
precipitation by setting m_PresetStorm.PrecipitationEnabled to true and
m_PresetStorm.PrecipitationIntensity to 1.0f alongside its existing
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| static void ApplyDriftPresets(WeatherStateComponent& w) | ||
| { | ||
| auto& clear = w.m_PresetClear; | ||
| clear.CloudCoverage = 0.18f; | ||
| clear.CloudDensity = 0.5f; | ||
| clear.CloudTypeBlend = 0.8f; | ||
| clear.CloudWetness = 0.0f; | ||
| // OFF — see the long note on this preset in Drift.olo. Exponential | ||
| // fog reaches the sky at the far plane, so a clear-state fog veils | ||
| // the whole frame and, at night, makes the sky brighter than noon. | ||
| clear.FogEnabled = false; | ||
| clear.FogDensity = 0.0f; | ||
| clear.FogColor = glm::vec3(0.66f, 0.76f, 0.86f); | ||
| clear.FogHeightFalloff = 0.0f; | ||
| clear.FogMaxOpacity = 0.85f; | ||
| clear.WindSpeed = 2.0f; | ||
| clear.WindGustStrength = 0.1f; | ||
| clear.WindTurbulence = 0.2f; | ||
| clear.PrecipitationEnabled = false; | ||
| clear.PrecipitationIntensity = 0.0f; | ||
| clear.SunDimming = 0.0f; | ||
| clear.WetnessTarget = 0.0f; | ||
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| auto& overcast = w.m_PresetOvercast; | ||
| overcast.CloudCoverage = 0.8f; | ||
| overcast.CloudDensity = 0.75f; | ||
| overcast.CloudTypeBlend = 0.2f; | ||
| overcast.CloudWetness = 0.25f; | ||
| overcast.FogEnabled = true; | ||
| overcast.FogDensity = 0.0016f; | ||
| overcast.FogColor = glm::vec3(0.62f, 0.66f, 0.72f); | ||
| overcast.FogHeightFalloff = 0.0f; | ||
| overcast.FogMaxOpacity = 0.9f; | ||
| overcast.WindSpeed = 5.0f; | ||
| overcast.WindGustStrength = 0.28f; | ||
| overcast.WindTurbulence = 0.4f; | ||
| overcast.PrecipitationEnabled = false; | ||
| overcast.PrecipitationIntensity = 0.0f; | ||
| overcast.SunDimming = 0.4f; | ||
| overcast.WetnessTarget = 0.15f; | ||
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| auto& storm = w.m_PresetStorm; | ||
| storm.CloudCoverage = 0.97f; | ||
| storm.CloudDensity = 1.0f; | ||
| storm.CloudTypeBlend = 0.85f; | ||
| storm.CloudWetness = 0.9f; | ||
| storm.FogEnabled = true; | ||
| storm.FogDensity = 0.0034f; | ||
| storm.FogColor = glm::vec3(0.4f, 0.44f, 0.5f); | ||
| storm.FogHeightFalloff = 0.0f; | ||
| storm.FogMaxOpacity = 0.92f; | ||
| storm.WindSpeed = 14.0f; | ||
| storm.WindGustStrength = 0.85f; | ||
| storm.WindTurbulence = 0.9f; | ||
| storm.PrecipitationEnabled = true; | ||
| storm.PrecipitationKind = WeatherPrecipitationType::Rain; | ||
| storm.PrecipitationIntensity = 1.0f; | ||
| storm.SunDimming = 0.75f; | ||
| storm.WetnessTarget = 1.0f; | ||
| } |
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Share the Drift preset table between the two test files.
OloEngine/tests/Functional/Atmosphere/DriftLegWeatherAndSeaStateTest.cpp also applies a ApplyDriftPresets preset table (see its BuildScene). Both copies encode the same authored Drift.olo numbers, and the functional assertions (storm wind above 10 m/s, precipitation enabled) depend on them. Two copies can drift, and then the goldens and the functional expectations describe different weather.
Move the preset table into one shared test helper header and call it from both fixtures. The existing note about quoting the sea anchors does not apply here: the anchors are quoted so a curve bug cannot be blessed by a golden, while the presets are authored data with no curve to guard.
#!/bin/bash
# Locate every ApplyDriftPresets definition and check for an existing shared helper.
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In `@OloEngine/tests/Rendering/PropertyTests/DriftWeatherVisualEvidenceTest.cpp`
around lines 401 - 460, Move the shared ApplyDriftPresets preset table into a
common test helper header, preserving all existing authored values and behavior.
Remove the duplicate definitions from DriftWeatherVisualEvidenceTest and
DriftLegWeatherAndSeaStateTest, then have both fixtures invoke the shared helper
from their setup paths, including BuildScene.
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| // ---- Tier 3: Drift, same contract as Atmosphere, own bands ---- | ||
| for (const char* cell : kDriftFiles) | ||
| { | ||
| Image lhs; | ||
| Image rhs; | ||
| bool sizeMismatch = false; | ||
| if (!LoadPairForCompare(vendor.m_VisualDir / cell, shared.m_VisualDir / cell, | ||
| lhs, rhs, sizeMismatch)) | ||
| { | ||
| EXPECT_FALSE(sizeMismatch) | ||
| << cell << " differs in resolution between '" << vendor.m_Label | ||
| << "' and the shared set"; | ||
| continue; | ||
| } | ||
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| for (const Band& band : kDriftBands) | ||
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| const f64 vendorLuma = MeanBandPercent(lhs, band.m_Lo, band.m_Hi).Luma(); | ||
| const f64 sharedLuma = MeanBandPercent(rhs, band.m_Lo, band.m_Hi).Luma(); | ||
| const f64 delta = std::abs(vendorLuma - sharedLuma); | ||
| EXPECT_LT(delta, kBandLumaDelta) | ||
| << cell << ", " << band.m_Name << " band: '" << vendor.m_Label | ||
| << "' reads luma " << vendorLuma << " but the shared baseline reads " | ||
| << sharedLuma << " (delta " << delta | ||
| << ") — band means are insensitive to bake-date drift, so this is the two " | ||
| "vendors depicting different scenes"; | ||
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| EXPECT_LE(rmse255, kAtmosphereRmse255) | ||
| << cell << ": '" << vendor.m_Label << "' vs the shared baseline is RMSE " << rmse255 | ||
| << ", past the threshold DriftWeatherVisualEvidenceTest applies to its own " | ||
| "goldens. Before calling this a vendor bug, check whether the two sets were " | ||
| "baked at different commits — see " | ||
| "docs/agent-rules/vendor-golden-baseline-crosscheck.md"; | ||
| } |
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Extract the tier-2 and tier-3 parity loops into one parameterized helper.
The Drift loop repeats the Atmosphere loop at Lines 949-990 exactly. Only the file list, the band list, and the message tail differ. Two identical bodies must now be kept in step by hand.
Also rename kAtmosphereRmse255. It now gates both matrices, and the Drift message attributes it to DriftWeatherVisualEvidenceTest. That test's own kGoldenRmseThreshold is 8.0, so the value is right and only the name is misleading.
Replace both loops with one lambda that takes the file list, the band span, and the label used in the message.
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In `@OloEngine/tests/Rendering/PropertyTests/GoldenBaselineAuditTest.cpp` around
lines 991 - 1028, Extract the duplicated tier-2 and tier-3 parity logic into one
parameterized lambda accepting the file list, band span, and message label/tail,
then invoke it for both matrices while preserving their distinct diagnostics.
Rename kAtmosphereRmse255 to a neutral shared-threshold name and update all
references and messages accordingly.
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Each leg of Drift now looks different. Weather and time of day shift between islands, the sea
follows the wind, and the whole thing is wiring —
Atmosphere,Wind,Precipitationand theweather director all shipped with #633.
What changed
Content (the bulk of it)
Assets/Scenes/Drift.olo— a new Atmosphere entity carryingProceduralSkyComponent,TimeOfDayComponent,WeatherStateComponent(three presets tuned for open water) andCloudscapeComponent. It replaces the static cubemap skybox: a fixed environment map cannotfollow a moving sun, and
ProceduralSkyComponenttakes precedence overEnvironmentMapComponentin
Scene::LoadAndRenderSkyboxanyway, so keeping both would have left a dead componentadvertising IBL the frame never used. Plus a full Rain-shaped
PrecipitationSettingsblock andwind enabled along the authored swell.
Assets/Scripts/LuaScripts/DriftWeatherDirector.lua— new. Decides which weather state and whathour each leg gets, and couples the sea to the wind the director blends. It owns none of the
blending;
WeatherSystemstill cross-blends the presets andTimeOfDaySystemstill owns theephemeris.
Engine (small, and both were needed to make the content possible)
LuaScriptGlue.cpp—WaterComponenthad a ~50-property Sol2 usertype but was never in theget_componentregistry, so the entire surface was unreachable from a script and every lookuplogged
unknown or missing component 'WaterComponent'. Registered it. That list is deliberatelynot completeness-guarded (CLAUDE.md: many components legitimately aren't Lua-exposed), so the
usertype and the registry entry are two edits and this one had been missed.
LuaScriptGlue.cpp— five newWaterComponentproperties (foamHeightStart,foamBrightness,foamFadeDistance,specularIntensity,noiseIntensity). Wave amplitude alone makes a seastate legible in motion; these are what make it legible in a still frame.
How a leg works
A leg is the passage out to the island and back. It ends on landfall (the boat closing the island
after having cleared a departure radius) — #881 owns the real discovery loop, so this deliberately
does not pre-empt it. Each leg retargets the weather (cross-blended over 14 s, never cut) and
warps the clock forward to its hour over 18 s rather than setting it, so the sun visibly sweeps
while you are out on the water instead of the sky jumping.
The sea follows the blended wind speed through the calm / moderate / rough anchors #879 authored
and play-tested by hand — the script interpolates rather than inventing numbers, so the boat's
character at each anchor is the one that was signed off. Sea-state changes ease over ~25 s, which
is both what a real sea does and what stops a weather transition popping.
Three things found by looking at the pixels
The first bake of the evidence set came out as a uniform pale veil in every cell. Three separate
causes, none of which any test caught:
plane — at 2500 m and density 0.0009 that is ~90% fog colour on the sky itself, so sky, sea and
island all blended toward one pale grey. Worst at night, where a static pale-blue fog made the
night sky measure brighter than the noon sky (166 vs 68 mean luma). Fog colour is a per-preset
constant and cannot follow the sun, so the Clear state — the one that has to work at both dawn and
night — now runs without fog. Overcast and Storm keep theirs; a veil is the point there and both
of their legs are daylit.
NorthOffsetDegrees: 0the sun rises toward +X,off the starboard beam and out of shot, so dawn and dusk rendered as flat grey with nothing bright
for the water to reflect. At -60 the rising sun sits almost dead ahead, which is where the
island is: the low sun lays a specular track straight at the bow. Established by sweeping
0 / -60 / -90 / -120 / 180 live and looking at the frames.
already 20° up by 06:36, so the first draft's "dawn" was flat mid-morning. The hours are now read
off the live ephemeris: 5.2 h → +3.7°, 12.0 h → +79.4°, 18.9 h → +2.6°, 22.6 h → -29.2°.
Verification
Goldens: this PR EXTENDS, it does not rebake. The existing
Atmosphere_{Dawn,Dusk,Night,Noon}{Clear,Overcast,Storm}.pngset is this same grid on paper, and itis untouched. It is not the same picture: its subject is a lit ground plane and it exists to pin
the #633 atmosphere engine, while Drift's subject is water. Rebaking it would have discarded that
regression net without gaining any coverage of what this issue changes. The new
Drift_*set is 13 files in the same directory.Functional/Atmosphere/DriftLegWeatherAndSeaStateTest— 3 cases, driving the shippedDriftWeatherDirector.luathrough realScene::OnUpdateRuntimeticks. Not a re-implementation:a C++ mirror of the wind→sea curve would keep passing while the Lua drifted away from it.
Rendering/PropertyTests/DriftWeatherVisualEvidenceTest(L8) — the 3×4 matrix plus a hero frame,RMSE-compared against the new goldens, with five band contracts. One of them is the point of the
issue: the storm sea band must carry more spatial variance than the clear one at the same hour,
measured as variance precisely so "the frame got darker" cannot satisfy it too.
director writes process-global
Renderer3Dfog/wind/precipitation settings, so the fixture savesand restores all four — without that the final Storm state leaks into every later visual test
(the cross-test failure
AtmosphereVisualEvidenceTestdocuments having caused).GoldenBaselineAuditTestnow covers theDrift_*set: shared-set completeness, plus a cross-vendorband-parity and RMSE tier with its own band layout (Drift's sea band starts lower in frame than
the Atmosphere set's ground band; folding them together would compare the wrong rows).
Drift.olo, not just headless: all four legs captured at thechase-camera pose, plus the A/B sweeps that produced findings 1–3 above.
What I am not claiming
Drift_DawnHero.pngis a real frame and the composition works, but theheadless scene stands the boat in with three primitives, so it is evidence, not marketing. The frame
that would serve is the live dawn capture of the actual scene — and it comes back with the
editor's collider and buoyancy-probe wireframes drawn across the hull, which no MCP tool can turn
off. Logged as a capability gap on MCP: post-#357 follow-ups (script-tool tiers, live reload, C# tools) + capability-gap log #607 (
olo_render_debug_setcovers only render-graph levers,and
olo_editor_select_entityhas no deselect). Not committed.state; the drops themselves are 0.02 m particles and do not carry at this resolution. Screen streaks
and lens impacts are authored and should carry in motion, which I have not verified frame-by-frame.
island's peaks. I A/B'd it against
HEAD'sDrift.oloand it is present there too, so it predatesthis PR and is not the cloudscape (it survives disabling the component). Not filed — I did not
isolate it far enough to write a useful issue.
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Where I'd look hardest
DriftWeatherDirector.lua:180(warpSpan) — the clock free-runs during a leg, so by the time aleg ends the clock can be past the next leg's hour. "Forward around a 24 h clock" then means all
the way round, and a naive guard that only special-cases an exact match sails straight past it. My
own review caught this; the dead-zone fix and
ALegWhoseHourHasAlreadyPassedDoesNotWarpAWholeDayare the response. The 1.0 h dead zone is ajudgement call.
Drift.olo→RebakeQuantumGameMinutes: 20— a cost control, not a smoothness one, and thearithmetic has to be done against the warp rather than the free-running clock. A warp covers ~22.7
game-minutes per real second and
Scene.cppkeeps onlym_LastBakeHash, so a monotonic sweepmisses the cache every time. At the first-authored 3 that was ~136 uncached six-face + IBL bakes
in 18 s. I have not profiled the 20-minute value under Play.
Drift.olo→PrecipitationSettings— it has to carry the whole rain parameter set, becausethe block is authored
Type: 1to match every weather state, soApplyBlended's type switch neverfires and never stamps the type defaults over it. The struct's own defaults are snow. Written up
as
notes-renderer.md§20.What I verified, and how — full suite 6468/6468;
DriftLegWeatherAndSeaStateTest(3 cases,shipped script through real scene ticks);
DriftWeatherVisualEvidenceTest(13 goldens + 5 bandcontracts);
GoldenBaselineAuditgreen with the new set; and the 13Drift_*PNGs opened andlooked at — which is what found all three veil causes, none of which any assertion had flagged.
The check that would have failed if the sea/wind coupling were wrong is contract 5 (storm sea
variance > clear sea variance) plus the monotonic amplitude/foam assertions across three states.
Least confident about — the art direction, honestly. Three states are distinguishable and the
time-of-day sweep holds up, but the water at high noon still reads flatter and paler than the
pre-change scene under its photographic cubemap. I chased that through sky exposure, turbidity,
reflectivity, Fresnel power and IBL intensity and none of them moved it much; my read is that a
procedural sky is simply a flatter reflection source than a photo cubemap, and that noon at +79°
elevation is genuinely flat light. I would not be surprised to be wrong about the cause.
Deliberately not tested — the screen-space rain streaks and lens impacts (they need motion, and
I verified only that the settings survive into play); the boat's feel under a built sea (the sea
state reaches
BuoyancySystemthrough the sameWaveAmplitude#879 tuned against, but I did notsail it at each anchor); and the 1.0 h warp dead zone against a much faster
DayLengthMinutesthanthe scene's 30.
Closes #882
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