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The COND-07 example renders two independent reservoirs through the engine's built-in PixelWater component, with drop-triggered fading ripples and foreground occlusion. One JSONC prefab supplies two instances with distinct fill levels.

Current Windows/Vulkan capture

The artwork now preserves the cropped reference's pixel density: 618x330 layers at scale 1 replace 103x55 layers enlarged sixfold. Only two left border columns of the supplied 620x330 crop are removed to retain alignment. The wider room artwork is excluded. A temporal median removes moving drops without spatial downsampling; the derivation verifies exact reconstruction of the static plate.

Mist stays baked into the stationary artwork. Continuous waves and reflection drift are disabled; only drop impacts animate the water. The shader retains its independent 93x6 logical basin and impact coordinates, while the basin textures are 558x36.

Run labelle run inside examples/condenser/ using CLI 1.67.0 or newer. Rebuild assets with python3 tools/derive_layers.py and python3 tools/pack_atlas.py (Pillow and numpy).

Verified this revision on Windows/Vulkan using this branch's assembler and released core 1.32.0, engine 2.22.0, gfx 1.36.0 and BGFX 0.20.0. Generation, build and execution pass. Logs confirm the water program, independent instances at 0.8333 and 0.5, and drop-triggered ripples. Asset rebuilding is deterministic and the preview is an engine capture of the updated artwork. Earlier Metal measurements used downsampled assets; Android and browser execution of this example remain unverified.

The asset investigation in labelle-bgfx#106 supplies basin/emitter measurements. Hidden water, occluder silhouettes and reflection remain reconstructions. This advances labelle-bgfx#100 without claiming all platform acceptance items are complete.

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  • New Features

    • Added the COND-07 condenser example with two side-by-side reservoirs and independently configured water levels.
    • Added gravity-driven condensation drops that create ripples on impact.
    • Added reservoir water rendering with masks, reflections, and configurable ripple behavior.
    • Added water-level and rendering verification, including an optional water-disabled control run.
    • Updated artwork and scene composition to use reference-resolution assets, with mist integrated into the machine artwork.
  • Documentation

    • Updated the condenser guide with setup, authoring, asset rebuilding, and validation instructions.

A runnable Labelle game for labelle-bgfx#100's acceptance criterion —
"a runnable Labelle example using this condenser's artwork" — exercising
the engine's built-in `PixelWater` component and bgfx's `fs_pixel_water`
program through the ordinary `labelle` CLI path. Modelled on
examples/material-demo (bgfx + engine + zig_ecs).

Two COND-07 condenser units side by side, each with a reactive reservoir,
drifting mist and condensation drops that contact the CURRENT water
surface and emit one ripple each via `game.addWaterRipple`.

What it proves, beyond "it ran":

* `PixelWater` is authored in a PREFAB's JSON config
  (prefabs/reservoir.jsonc), not inline in the scene, so the JSONC apply
  path's built-in branch (`game.addPixelWater`) runs on a prefab.
* The scene instantiates that prefab TWICE and overrides only
  `water_level` (and the `Reservoir.unit` marker) at the instance site —
  the RFC-OVERRIDES-MERGE-RULES deep merge, on a built-in component.
  Both instances came up live at their overridden levels (0.8333 / 0.5),
  so the merge does not drop the component and the field does override.
* Two INDEPENDENT gfx water instances from one prefab.
* Draw order / foreground occlusion by layer order: machine interior ->
  water -> mist -> drops -> cooler -> frame. Emitter A (reservoir-local
  x 21) sits behind the cooler and is occluded on the way down.
* Nothing fakes the water: the only contact with the effect is one
  `addWaterRipple` per drop.

Measurements (native canvas 103x55, reservoir x 4 y 48 w 93 h 6, emitters
at local x 21/28/43/51/65) come from labelle-bgfx PR #106, whose layer
PNGs are vendored into assets/layers/ because that branch is unmerged.
`grid_pixels` is 1 — a native art pixel IS an effect cell; #100's "6x6"
is the x6 screen enlargement. Unit A is filled to 5/6 (the basin is only
6 native rows tall, so the level has 6 steps) to keep one dry row of
headroom, since at level 1.0 the shader clamps the displaced surface and
ripples become invisible.

Verified on desktop bgfx/Metal: `bgfx: pixel-water program initialized`,
no degrade line from programs.zig or retained_engine/draw.zig, and a
reservoir-band frame diff (drop and occluder columns excluded) that moves
by 66%/39% of cells with water on and is BIT-IDENTICAL with the effect
switched off via the example's `CONDENSER_WATER_OFF=1` control.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XBGRLojiysEr5zy1U5mbP6
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The PR updates the COND-07 condenser example. It adds full-resolution artwork, reservoir configuration, falling drops, ripple behavior, water verification, atlas tooling, and a condensed README.

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Full-resolution artwork pipeline
examples/condenser/.gitignore, examples/condenser/tools/*, examples/condenser/assets/condenser.json, examples/condenser/project.labelle
Rebuilds full-resolution layers, updates atlas metadata and packing, removes standalone mist assets, and documents the revised geometry and draw order.
Reservoir and scene composition
examples/condenser/components/*, examples/condenser/prefabs/reservoir.jsonc, examples/condenser/scenes/main.jsonc
Adds Drop and Reservoir components, configures PixelWater, and changes both condenser units to scale 1 without static mist entities.
Drop animation and water verification
examples/condenser/scripts/playing/*
Adds gravity-driven drops, live water-level checks, one ripple per impact, diagnostics, and the CONDENSER_WATER_OFF control.
Condensed usage documentation
examples/condenser/README.md
Documents running the example, artwork and effect coordinates, asset rebuild commands, validation, water control, and authoring files.

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  participant PlayingState
  participant DropController
  participant PixelWater
  participant WaterProbe
  PlayingState->>DropController: Tick drops and update positions
  DropController->>PixelWater: Read the live water level
  DropController->>PixelWater: Emit one impact ripple
  PlayingState->>WaterProbe: Run water verification
  WaterProbe->>PixelWater: Report level and water instance state
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I hop through pixels, bright and clear
Full-sized layers now appear
Drops descend and ripples ring
Reservoir waters test the spring
Mist rests baked in art anew
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if (water_off and !state.control_applied) {
// Level 0 is the shader's explicit "no water" gate.
game.setWaterLevel(e, 0.0) catch |err| {
game.log.err("[condenser] control: setWaterLevel(0) failed: {s}", .{@errorName(err)});
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Retry failed control updates.

When game.setWaterLevel returns an error, the catch only logs it. control_applied is then set after the loop, so later ticks skip the update. A reservoir can therefore retain its previous water level if the failed call did not apply 0.0.

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Comment thread examples/condenser/README.md Outdated

```bash
labelle run --timeout=8s --screenshot=/tmp/on_t2.png --after=2s
labelle run --timeout=8s --screenshot=/tmp/on_t5.png --after=5s

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P2 Badge Use a non-periodic second capture time

The documented 2s and 5s captures are exactly one authored wave_period_seconds (3s) apart, so the periodic wave returns to the same phase and the prescribed diff can falsely make working water appear nearly static. This also does not reproduce the results below, which compare 2000ms with 3300ms, and lines 191–193 explicitly warn against this exact pair; change both 5s captures to a non-periodic time such as 3.3s.

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| reservoir | water ON, 2000ms vs 3300ms | control (level 0), same pair | ON vs control, 3300ms |
|---|---|---|---|
| unit A (0.8333) | **26.9 — 66.1% of cells** | **0.000 — 0.0%** | 30.0 — 67.7% |
| unit B (0.5) | **16.5 — 39.2% of cells** | **0.000 — 0.0%** | 18.6 — 42.3% |

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P2 Badge Re-measure results after disabling continuous motion

The final prefab disables periodic waves and reflection distortion (wave_amplitude_pixels: 0, waves_enabled: false, and distortion_pixels: 0), but this table retains the exact 2000/3300 measurements from the earlier moving-water configuration, and lines 193–196 still explain the result in terms of wave phase. The fresh evidence beyond the existing capture-time comment is the later ripple-only configuration change: anyone validating the final example is now given baselines for different effect settings, so these captures and the accompanying explanation need to be regenerated with the current prefab.

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Set CONDENSER_WATER_OFF=1 for the control capture.

30_water_probe.zig treats the missing variable as false and only sets water levels to 0.0 when the variable is enabled. The current command therefore does not capture the static-art control. Use the syntax for the target shell: CONDENSER_WATER_OFF=1 labelle run ... in POSIX shells, set CONDENSER_WATER_OFF=1 && labelle run ... in cmd.exe, or $env:CONDENSER_WATER_OFF='1'; labelle run ... in PowerShell.

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labelle-core v1.32.0 appended `MaterialEffect.pixel_water`. That is
SOURCE-BREAKING for a backend whose material seam switches exhaustively
over that enum: it stops compiling until it has a `.pixel_water` arm.

CI's "Examples integration test" clones `labelle-core` at `main` as a
SIBLING checkout, and the assembler's monorepo auto-discovery
(`cache/local.zig: findRepoRoot` → `populateFrameworkPackage(..., .discovered)`)
builds that sibling INSTEAD of the version an example pins. So every
example pinning a pre-fix backend compiled the OLD BACKEND against the
NEW CORE:

    .labelle/deps/labelle-sokol/src/gfx/material.zig:484:5:
      error: switch must handle all possibilities
    backend_contract.zig:308:5: note: unhandled enumeration value: 'pixel_water'

Latent on `main` (assembler CI has not run since 2026-09-10); first
surfaced on PR #730.

Example pins — bumped to the LOWEST backend release carrying the fix:
  * sprite-runner: sokol 0.5.0 → 0.6.0 (declines the effect, @hasField-gated)
  * material-demo: bgfx  0.13.1 → 0.20.0 (implements it, same gating)
  * pack-city:     bgfx  0.13.1 → 0.20.0
  * tile-explorer: raylib 0.3.0 UNCHANGED — labelle-raylib has no
    `MaterialEffect` reference at all, so it is unaffected (verified by
    grep and by a full build against core `main`).

Builtin provider defaults (`src/config.zig: builtinProvider`), which every
project WITHOUT an explicit `.backend_package` resolves through:
  * .bgfx  0.6.6 → 0.20.0
  * .sokol 0.2.1 → 0.6.0
Both are again the lowest release with the fix — which happens to be the
newest, because the backend fixes shipped the same day as the core
release. sokol 0.6.0 raises no floor (its seam is `@hasDecl`-gated from
core v1.25.0 and every v1.32.0 decl it names carries its own probe;
labelle-sokol's own examples still pin core 1.24.0). bgfx 0.20.0 does
raise the implicit floor — bgfx ≥ 0.15.0 consumes core's typed
`BackendTextureId` (core ≥ v1.28.0) and names `PixelWaterDraw` /
`PIXEL_WATER_*` ungated — so the comment tells a project that must stay on
an older core to pin `.backend_package` explicitly instead. No example
uses the builtin bgfx/sokol default and no test asserts these strings, so
the bump is CI-neutral; it repairs scaffolded projects.

Verified with a CI-shaped workspace (scratch `LABELLE_HOME`, assembler
binary beside labelle-core/engine/gfx/null siblings at `main` and NO
sokol/bgfx/raylib sibling, so backends come from the registry at the
pinned tag — exactly what CI resolves). Reproduced the failure on
sprite-runner at sokol 0.5.0 first, then built, checking each exit code
separately and grepping every generate log for `generate failed`:
sprite-runner (sokol), tile-explorer (raylib), material-demo (bgfx),
pack-city (bgfx), camera-builtin + coin-collector (null), and two
throwaway copies with `.backend_package` REMOVED to exercise the bumped
builtin defaults (resolved 0.20.0 / 0.6.0 from the staged deps' zon, not
just a green build). `zig build test` and `zig fmt --check` pass.

Unblocks PR #730 and repairs `main`.


Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XBGRLojiysEr5zy1U5mbP6

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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if (water_off) state.control_applied = true;

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P2 Badge Retry the control until both levels are cleared

When either setWaterLevel call returns an error—for example, during transient water-instance initialization—the error is only logged, but control_applied is still set unconditionally. Every later frame then skips both calls, so CONDENSER_WATER_OFF=1 can leave one or both reservoirs enabled and invalidate the documented static-art control; only mark the control applied after all reservoirs were successfully cleared.

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`CONDENSER_WATER_OFF=1` disables water shading for a static-art control. Example:

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P2 Badge Set the control variable in the example command

When a reader copies this advertised static-art control command, it never sets CONDENSER_WATER_OFF, so the resulting screenshot still contains water shading and cannot serve as the documented control. Include the environment assignment in the command (or provide the appropriate platform-specific equivalent).

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Closing as superseded by #733, which contains this branch's full history (branch-point 9962591 — the latest condenser art commit — so nothing here is lost) plus the migration of the same example to game-owned shader materials.

Why not merge this one

This PR authors the built-in PixelWater component. That component was removed in labelle-engine v3.0.0, released an hour ago as part of the shader-materials train. The condenser is deliberately not in any CI job, so this PR could go green while adding an example that cannot build against main's engine. #733 is the version that works on today's stack — verified live on Adreno 610 through the CLI's Android path.

The CI failure on cf3ad28 was not this PR

Examples integration test failed in asset-streaming-smoke — a null-backend example — with backend_contract has no member named 'PixelWaterRgba'. Cause: the workflow clones core/gfx/engine at main as siblings and builds those over the pins, and the run happened at 04:44Z, in the window between core v2.0.0 reaching main and gfx v2.0.0 doing so. Core had dropped the pixel-water contract; the gfx it resolved still had src/pixel_water.zig. No stale branch is involved (no feat/video-interface exists on any of the three repos, so the fallback is main everywhere). A re-run with all three mains consistent is in flight as confirmation.

That exposure is structural, not a one-off: any multi-repo release leaves assembler CI inconsistent for the minutes between merges. Worth a note on #732 (which already tracks the sibling-at-main blind spot).

The two Codex P2s on cf3ad28

Both target 30_water_probe.zig's CONDENSER_WATER_OFF control (control_applied set before both setWaterLevel calls succeeded; the README command not setting the variable). #733 rewrites that probe for game-owned materials — it no longer calls setWaterLevel and the README control command is different — so neither finding transfers verbatim. If the rewritten probe has the same shape of bug, it will be caught on #733's own review.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XBGRLojiysEr5zy1U5mbP6

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…ine e2e (#732, #735) (#745)

Two coverage gaps in one workflow, grouped because they rewire the same
lanes of `.github/workflows/ci.yml` and would conflict as separate PRs.

── #732: the bgfx examples were generated, never built ──────────────────

`generate` proves the manifest parsed. It does not compile a line of
backend source, so every defect that lives in a DEPENDENCY — an exhaustive
switch, a moved contract type, a raised floor — passed. That is how core
v1.32.0's `MaterialEffect.pixel_water` reached main: `material-demo` and
`pack-city` both pinned a bgfx with no arm for it and CI said nothing. Only
`sprite-runner` (sokol) was built, so the signal read "one backend broken"
instead of "three examples broken, two untested" (#731).

The same lane also FABRICATES breaks: it clones core/engine/gfx/null at
`main` as siblings, and the assembler's auto-discovery builds those instead
of the pins, so mid-release-train the four mains disagree and an unrelated
PR goes red (#730, `backend_contract has no member named 'PixelWaterRgba'`;
a re-run of the identical commit passed).

  * New job `bgfx examples (PINNED resolution)` — ubuntu, scratch
    LABELLE_HOME, NO runtime sibling checkouts — GENERATES AND BUILDS both
    bgfx examples against their declared `project.labelle` pins. It refuses
    to start if a runtime sibling exists, asserts each pinned version was
    fetched into the scratch home, and greps the install/generate logs for
    the assembler's own "using LOCAL sources" / "built from LOCAL sources"
    warnings — a mechanism assertion, not a value one.
  * The sibling lane is RENAMED "Examples integration (siblings @ main —
    cross-repo, may be mid-train)" and prints a banner of every sibling
    SHA/ref/describe before anything builds, so a mid-train red is
    recognised at a glance instead of debugged from scratch.

Linux only (one platform catches a compile break in backend source), and on
every PR rather than path-gated: the v1.32.0 break arrived from a
dependency's release with no file in this repo changed, so a path filter
would have skipped the job exactly when the break landed.

Proof, on a mirrored checkout outside the toolkit tree with a scratch
LABELLE_HOME (so pins really resolve from the registry):

  material-demo @ its own pins (core 1.32.0 / bgfx 0.20.0)
      install: fetching core 1.32.0, bgfx 0.20.0 (remote)   generate: ok
      zig build -> exit 0, zig-out/bin/material_demo        (36s)
  pack-city    @ its own pins -> zig build exit 0           (25s)

  material-demo with bgfx re-pinned to the known-bad 0.13.1 (the #731 break)
      $ labelle-assembler generate  -> exit 0   <-- old job: GREEN
      $ zig build                   -> exit 1   <-- new job: RED
        labelle-bgfx/src/gfx/texture.zig:469:12: error: switch must handle
        all possibilities
        labelle-core/src/backend_contract.zig:308:5: note: unhandled
        enumeration value: 'pixel_water'

And the local-sources assertion, verified against a real sibling checkout:
  install:  "core: using LOCAL sources from '…' — the pinned 1.32.0 will
             NOT be built (#685)"
  generate: "labelle: core is built from LOCAL sources, not the pinned
             1.32.0 — source '…' (rev …)"

── #735: nothing ran the shader BUILD pipeline ──────────────────────────

`test/material_pipeline_e2e.py` is the only test covering the PRODUCER side
of game-owned materials (descriptor -> shaderc -> packaged variants -> a
material that validates against core's contract). It was opt-in behind
three `-D` flags because CI had no shaderc, so it never ran. Everything
else covers CONSUMERS of already-compiled shaders, and the fixtures are
pre-compiled — structurally unable to notice a pipeline regression.

  * New job `Material shader pipeline e2e (real shaderc)` provisions
    shaderc by REUSING the existing toolchain source rather than adding a
    second one: it reads the builtin bgfx provider version out of
    `src/config.zig`, reads that release's `zbgfx` archive URL out of
    labelle-bgfx's `build.zig.zon`, and builds `-Dwith_shaderc=true` from
    exactly that archive (cached on the URL; ~2.5 min cold locally).
    `--core` comes from the curated `core_version` default in `build.zig`,
    so there is no second pin to drift.
  * Nobody passes a flag by hand — the job derives all three.
  * Already independent of `examples/condenser`: the driver synthesizes its
    own three-material fixture under `.zig-cache/`.
  * `test/material_pipeline_e2e.py`: the missing-target assertion hard-coded
    `target requires 'spv'`, which is the LINUX answer. `material_build`
    picks the required variant per host (darwin -> mtl), so the test could
    not pass on macOS at all. It now follows the host.

The driver already exercises five REJECTION paths beside the happy one, so
it proves the pipeline fails closed: an include escaping the material dir,
an uncompilable `.sc`, a descriptor missing the host's required variant,
and two component-collision cases in the emitted comptime guard.

Proof it catches a real producer-side regression that nothing else does —
disabled include-tree tracking in `material_build.zig` so a changed
`color.sh` no longer invalidates the shader cache:

  zig build test-materials          -> exit 0  (448 tests, all green)
  zig build test-material-integration -> exit 1
      AssertionError: shader fog (spv) (fog.spv.bin) success  [not rebuilt]

and, with the escaping-include rejection disabled:

  zig build test-material-integration -> exit 1 at build(False, "EscapingShaderInclude")

Clean run on this branch: "PASS: 12 real shader variants, generated core
descriptors, cached rebuild, include invalidation, escaping include
rejection, compiler failure, missing target diagnostic".

Closes #732
Closes #735


Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XBGRLojiysEr5zy1U5mbP6

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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