Sylpheed/authored/rendering.json

{
 "format": "sylpheed.rendering/1",
 "_": [
  "WHICH decoded rules the runtime applies where. AUTHORED because it is a",
  "choice about the REACH of somebody else's decode, not about the disc.",
  "Delete an entry the day the decode covers the case outright.",
  "",
  "The exporter flags `leaf_carries_geometry` on 15 elements -- those whose",
  "nested `.rat` leaf declares a scale or rotation the parent does not. That",
  "flag is a CENSUS FACT and it is emitted for all 15. What is DECODED is",
  "narrower: the Decoder fitted the game's own composed alpha (per-draw vertex",
  "colours C3FFFFFF / B6FFFFFF = 195 and 182) against the ptloop leaves and got",
  "one consistent time, then PREDICTED the quad centres to ~11 px. That covers",
  "`ptloop01` and `ptloop02` and nothing else."
 ],
 "draw_leaf_for": [
  "ptloop01",
  "ptloop02"
 ],
 "draw_leaf_why": [
  "The two the decode covers. `docs/re/structures/ui-leaf-vs-parent-alpha.md`.",
  "",
  "NOT DRAWN, though the exporter flags them and ships their data:",
  "",
  "  `title_jp/ptlogo_eff2` -- OUT OF SCOPE, which is a better reason than",
  "  the caution this entry first gave. MISSION section 7 scopes out",
  "  'localisation beyond English', and this element exists only on the",
  "  Japanese title. So it is not a thing the menu port has to answer, and the",
  "  parked Japanese-locale capture does not need reviving on its account --",
  "  that is the human's call and not something either agent widens quietly.",
  "",
  "  It is ALSO undecidable here even if it were in scope. Its 125% is a POP,",
  "  not a steady scale: scale-0 -> 125% -> scale-0 between t=50 and t=107,",
  "  about 0.95 s. The leaf draws at 100%, as two superimposed copies at alpha",
  "  160 and 80, each rotating 360 degrees over 960 units -- 16 s a turn. If",
  "  parent scale gates the leaf it is a 0.95 s flash; if the leaf runs free it",
  "  spins for 16 s. Nothing on the disc chooses and title_jp has no oracle",
  "  capture.",
  "  `build_12,15/pgloading_loop5` -- STILL NOT DRAWN, but the reason given here",
  "  was WRONG and is replaced. It read \"leaf scale (0,0). A zero scale is one of",
  "  the three historical failures this corpus names\" -- which describes t=0 and",
  "  t=30 and nothing after them.",
  "",
  "  What the leaf actually holds, read out of the export: ONE element,",
  "  `pgloading_ring`, with a sprite, whose scale ramps 0 -> 250 -> 800 -> 1000",
  "  while its alpha rises to full at t=55 and falls to nothing by t=130. An",
  "  expanding, fading ring -- a loading pulse, not a degenerate record.",
  "",
  "  🔴 And it is VISIBLE at the instant this port poses. `build_12`'s settle",
  "  window is [40, 48], so the pose lands near t=44, where the ring interpolates",
  "  to scale 140 at alpha 143. So withholding it is not declining to draw",
  "  nothing; it is declining to draw something, and the old reason hid that.",
  "",
  "  It stays withheld on the reason below, which is the one that always applied:",
  "  there is no way to adjudicate it here. The loading screens have no oracle",
  "  capture -- the RE agent records them as not reachable from the title path --",
  "  and `verify-screen` compares against a renderer that draws no leaves at all.",
  "  Drawing it would put unadjudicable content on a screen, which is the same",
  "  test `ptlogo_eff2` fails.",
  "",
  "AND THERE IS NO WAY TO ADJUDICATE EITHER HERE. `title_jp` has no oracle",
  "capture, and `verify-screen` compares against `sylpheed-cli`, which does not",
  "draw leaves at all -- so ANY leaf drawing increases that divergence whether",
  "it is right or wrong. Its max went 155 -> 232 when they were drawn, and that",
  "number is not evidence in either direction.",
  "",
  "What deletes this list: a decode covering those cases, or an oracle capture",
  "of title_jp."
 ],
 "draw_leaf_kind": "decoded",
 "loop_leaf_on_screens": [
  "title"
 ],
 "loop_leaf_why": [
  "WHICH screens replay a leaf's group instead of letting it run once and park.",
  "MEASURED on the title, UNRESOLVED on the menus, so it is scoped to the title.",
  "",
  "The disc gives one pass: ptloop01's leaf runs t=0..600 and ptloop02's t=0..720,",
  "each ending parked off-screen at x=1521 / -839. The port ran them once.",
  "",
  "THE ORACLE SAYS THEY LOOP ON THE TITLE. Across two title dwells the sweep quad",
  "oscillates over its whole x range and resets hard to the same start value --",
  "one reset inside the first dwell, two inside the second. A run-once-and-park",
  "shows one traverse and then a constant x.",
  "",
  "🔴 THE LOOP-LENGTH FIELD CANNOT SETTLE THIS, and I had hoped it would.",
  "`ptloop01` declares 600 with keyframes to exactly 600; `ptloop02` declares 720",
  "to 720. SLACK ZERO -- and 'loops at 600' and 'runs once for 600 and stops'",
  "write the identical header. 92.3% of records on the disc are in that state, so",
  "the field discriminates loop length only where there IS slack, as the plate's",
  "105-in-120 had.",
  "",
  "⚠️ THE MENUS ARE NOT COVERED, on purpose. Both declare the same 600/720, so",
  "nothing on the disc distinguishes them -- but the oracle measurement is of the",
  "title, and my own weak evidence points the other way for the menu: sweeping the",
  "phase against live-main-menu.png, the port matches best with the sweeps",
  "OFF-SCREEN (0.061%) and three times worse mid-screen (0.183%). If they looped",
  "with a 600-unit period the sweep is on screen for roughly 73% of the cycle, so",
  "a capture showing none is not nothing -- but it is one capture, and 'best",
  "match' is a weak instrument for an absence. Two weak signals in opposite",
  "directions is a reason to scope, not to pick.",
  "",
  "What settles the menu: a direct capture of it, which the Decoder has offered."
 ],
 "loop_leaf_kind": "measured"
}