GunMetal-DX stage 1: renderer fixes, loading-avatar stand-ins, ortho camera + roll, TIFF, sound-notecard upload

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2026-10-28 16:33:54 +00:00

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Part of #1205.

(#10) Renderer correctness fixes, each verified against dev first:
- (a) HUD child poses refreshed every frame (llcleaningest noteObjectMoved);
- (b) the alpha dissolve cutoff honoured for gradient textures (clean_mask_cutoff);
- (c) texture-animated mask and blend casters re-noted, so their shadows animate;
- (d) glTF BLEND never auto-masked, and RenderCleanAutoMaskMaxGradient 0.15 -> 0. This reverses a choice of ours: A/B screenshot first, owner decides;
- (e) icon / thumbnail known-draw-size power-of-two and refetch fix;
- (f) saneNear uses MIN_NEAR_PLANE.
(#11) Loading avatars: grey per-part stand-ins while bakes load (GMDXDrawLoadingAvatars), no particle cloud.
(#17) Orthographic camera and camera roll / portrait: FSCameraOrtho, Auto Perspective on move, the ortho frustum in the cull camera, 90-degree roll. This is a prerequisite for the region capture in stage 4.
(#22) Baseline TIFF image import (llimagetiff).
(#27) LL's bulk sound-notecard upload (llsoundnotecardupload, LL's own code).

Source: GunMetal-DX by squeedledorf (https://github.com/squeedledorf/GunMetal-DX), v0.3.0 = cf5f1f4, based on our d37288cfec. LGPL 2.1, a public release. Credit in code comments and in the About / release notes. The per-feature evaluation (local) is in research/GUNMETAL_DX_2026-10-28.md; the section 3 table numbers are quoted as (#n).

For every stage:

Port by hand onto current dev. Their base is 44+ commits behind, and the renderer files have moved on.
Strip their settings down to the few that earn a place (minimal config space). Experiment toggles are Persist=0.
Never take their custom SDL3 build (SDL3-3.4.18-gmdx1), updater, crash reporter, installer or branding.

Part of #1205. - **(#10) Renderer correctness fixes**, each verified against dev first: - (a) HUD child poses refreshed every frame (llcleaningest noteObjectMoved); - (b) the alpha dissolve cutoff honoured for gradient textures (clean_mask_cutoff); - (c) texture-animated mask and blend casters re-noted, so their shadows animate; - (d) glTF BLEND never auto-masked, and RenderCleanAutoMaskMaxGradient 0.15 -> 0. This reverses a choice of ours: A/B screenshot first, owner decides; - (e) icon / thumbnail known-draw-size power-of-two and refetch fix; - (f) saneNear uses MIN_NEAR_PLANE. - **(#11) Loading avatars:** grey per-part stand-ins while bakes load (GMDXDrawLoadingAvatars), no particle cloud. - **(#17) Orthographic camera and camera roll / portrait:** FSCameraOrtho, Auto Perspective on move, the ortho frustum in the cull camera, 90-degree roll. This is a prerequisite for the region capture in stage 4. - **(#22) Baseline TIFF image import** (llimagetiff). - **(#27) LL's bulk sound-notecard upload** (llsoundnotecardupload, LL's own code). Source: GunMetal-DX by squeedledorf (https://github.com/squeedledorf/GunMetal-DX), v0.3.0 = cf5f1f4, based on our d37288cfec. LGPL 2.1, a public release. Credit in code comments and in the About / release notes. The per-feature evaluation (local) is in research/GUNMETAL_DX_2026-10-28.md; the section 3 table numbers are quoted as (#n). **For every stage:** - Port by hand onto current dev. Their base is 44+ commits behind, and the renderer files have moved on. - Strip their settings down to the few that earn a place (minimal config space). Experiment toggles are Persist=0. - Never take their custom SDL3 build (SDL3-3.4.18-gmdx1), updater, crash reporter, installer or branding.

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GunMetal-DX stage 1: renderer fixes, loading-avatar stand-ins, ortho camera + roll, TIFF, sound-notecard upload #1206