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sylph-decoder
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formats: test backdrop coverage per instant, and record where the .tbm hunt reached
Two things, neither of which moves a verdict. The port pointed out that rejecting on DECLARED size replaces one error with its mirror: an element scaled ABOVE 100% could cover the screen from a smaller declared size, and my guard would silently exclude it. Checked against the disc first: across 921 keyless elements, ZERO cover the screen only via scale, so the mirror case does not occur here. Adopted anyway, because the construction does not need that to stay true -- coverage is now tested per instant against the scaled size, alongside the opacity test, since both animate on the same ramp. 80 forced instances before and after, split 42 .prm / 38 .tbm, unchanged. Second: an attempt to upgrade the 38 .tbm verdicts from inferred to decoded by finding the texture and measuring its alpha coverage. It cannot be located. Not in its bundle (no RATC record, no sprite-table entry, for any of the 13 names); not a file (no .tbm anywhere on the disc); not a pak entry (its archive's hashed TOC contains none of the name, its uppercase form, its stem, .t32/.tga/.xpr variants, or ui\\ and tex\\ prefixes, across four archives); and not visible in our composite, since compose skips an element with no resolvable sprite, so we draw no pixels for a .tbm at all -- and no committed capture covers a screen that has one. So a second reading survives and is recorded rather than excluded: a .tbm may contribute no pixels, in which case its paint position is INERT rather than correct. That leaves the 38 harmless instead of right -- a different claim with the same consequence. Distinguishing them needs a capture of GP_SAVE_LOAD, GP_BUNK or GP_DEBRIEFING_PILOTLOG, all behind the A fault. One upgrade: pfbase.tbm's first position is MEASURED, not inferred -- it is element 0 of the save/load frame and the order read off the running game starts [0, 1, 2, ...]. Twelve of the thirteen .tbm names still rest on the rule. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QsEPXWVaEpyfudtR6re1Pd |
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sylph-decoder
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re: the primitive colour census -- and it refutes 38 of my own 80 forced verdicts
A disc-wide census of the ARGB that keyless elements carry. Every full-screen *eff00* PRIMITIVE is pure black at its various alphas (ff000000, 7f000000, 40000000, b2000000, cc000000, d4000000, 00000000). Black at alpha a over content is exactly an alpha-over dim or fade, and an additive black quad would be a no-op nobody would author -- so this narrows the open blend question a long way. The only non-black primitive on the disc is pbafc.prm, RGB 00e8e0 cyan at alphas up to ff, and it is 844x600, NOT full-screen, so it sits outside forced_backdrop's geometry guard. It is now the sole additive candidate. The census also refutes my own argument for nearly half its verdicts. Of the 80 forced-first instances only 42 are .prm; 38 are .tbm carrying fade ffffffff. A SOLID white quad at alpha 255 painted first would make the screen white, and no screen is white -- so a .tbm is a white modulation on a texture, and element alpha does not establish its coverage. That is the .t32 error one file extension further out. I guarded that with el.sprite.is_some(), which fixed the symptom and not the cause: an element's alpha is not its texture's opacity, and only an untextured primitive makes the two the same fact. So 42 verdicts stay decoded and 38 drop to inferred -- still almost certainly right, since all are named *base*, all are full-screen, and pfbase.tbm's first position is measured in the running game, but that is a name-and-role argument which this page elsewhere calls the weaker kind. The code is deliberately unchanged. Restricting forced_backdrop to .prm would send eleven screens' backgrounds back to u32::MAX -- last -- which is the blank-screen bug the rule was written to fix. Downgrading the status is honest; reverting the position would be wrong. The 42/38 split is pinned by a test so anyone tightening the rule sees what it costs. Separately, on the port's black_hold_units ask: four more no-input boots yielded one usable log, which armed late and missed the publisher splash, so the sample is still two runs spanning 3 and 4 frames. Their 6.5-9.2 range stands. And a reason it may not be resolvable this way: the draw log DROPS frame numbers -- in the 3-frame run, frames 121 and 124 are absent entirely, so "frames with no sprite" and "span of frame numbers" are different quantities. Their statistical correction is taken: at n=3 the sample SD (3.893) is the estimator, not the population SD (3.179), making my run 1.88 sigma from the corpus mean rather than 2.31. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QsEPXWVaEpyfudtR6re1Pd |
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sylph-decoder
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re: the forced-backdrop span -- 256 vs 211 is a bundle mismatch, and the hold
decides 55% of verdicts The port implemented the forced-backdrop rule and reported a discrepancy: palogo_eff0.prm at 256 opaque instants against this corpus's 211. There is no discrepancy. palogo_eff0.prm appears on BOTH splashes -- the publisher (entries 10, 13) runs to t=255, giving 256 instants; the developer (11, 14) runs to t=210, giving 211. Same definition, different bundle. The page now names the entries so it cannot recur. The definition, stated: the span is 0..=max keyframe time over every element in the build, and an element HOLDS its final pose past its own last keyframe -- which is what pose_at does, and which is decoded rather than assumed (a group holds at its last keyframe rather than looping; the declared +0x08 never falls short of the last keyframe, the slack being that hold). The port's instinct that the hold was load-bearing was right. Over the 130 keyless full-screen primitives with an opaque interval: * span = the header's declared +0x08 -> 0 verdicts change * span = the primitive's own last keyframe -> 72 change * elements GONE after their last keyframe -> 72 change So the hold decides 55% of verdicts -- and dropping it is REFUTED by a measured order. palogo_eff0.prm is a single keyframe at t=0: without the hold it is opaque for one instant, no other element is up yet, and the rule calls it free, against a game measured painting it first. Pinned by a new test that spells out the counterfactual rather than importing it. The verdicts that matter are convention-independent: pgloading_eff00.prm is FIRST under all four conventions and pteff00.prm FREE under all four. And the header length is interchangeable with the elements' maximum -- zero disagreements disc-wide. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QsEPXWVaEpyfudtR6re1Pd |
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sylph-decoder
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formats: a keyless primitive that would hide the screen is forced to paint first
Partly closes ui-prm-primitives.md's standing blocker, "where an UNMEASURED
primitive paints". Raised by the port: build_12/build_15 composite to solid
black at every instant of their declared life, because pgloading_eff00.prm -- a
full-screen opaque quad -- sorts last.
The rule is a constraint read off the file, not a preference: an element that
covers the screen and is fully opaque at some instant cannot paint above
anything visible at that instant. Where the elements visible during its opaque
span are ALL of them, its position is forced to first.
pgloading_eff00.prm is opaque for 39 instants and all 9 other elements are
visible inside that span -> forced first, 4/4 instances.
Two controls, both measured orders from the running game, and the rule has to
survive both:
* palogo_eff0.prm is measured painting FIRST -- opaque 211 instants, forced
below 6 of 6. It is NAMED like an overlay, so a name-based rule sorts it
wrong against a measured order. Occlusion gets it right.
* pteff00.prm is measured painting LAST -- opaque for 2 instants at its
screen's entry and exit, forced below only 3 of 23, so the constraint
permits it on top where it belongs.
Disc-wide: 80 instances forced first, 50 constrained but not forced, 0
unconstrained. The split runs almost exactly along the names -- every *base* is
forced, every *eff00* is not -- with three families crossing it, which is
exactly why the name is not the rule.
It also explains 36 builds the corpus had recorded as "coming out one colour"
with no cause: pzeff00.prm is forced first in 32 of 32 instances, so they were
wiped by our own sort rather than by the game.
The rule's real limit was found by its own disc-wide test failing. Applied to
any element it claimed 22 .t32 SPRITES must sort first against their own layer
keys -- pneff01.t32 (key 0xd850, #8 of 13) and pbfriendly.t32 (0x9230, #17 of
49). A sprite's ELEMENT alpha says nothing about whether its TEXTURE covers the
screen, so forced_backdrop is now restricted to untextured primitives, which is
also the only case derived_paint_order consults it for.
Reach stated: assumes straight alpha-over (blend mode is still open, and an
additive quad at alpha 255 would not occlude); it is a lower bound, not an
ordering; and there is no new oracle measurement -- both controls are prior
ones, and a loading screen is not reachable from the title path.
3 new disc tests; the 13 paint-order tests are green, including
the_derived_order_matches_the_measured_ones_up_to_ties.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QsEPXWVaEpyfudtR6re1Pd
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