Aura3D 4.7.7

Superseded. This version is deprecated. Upgrade to Aura3D 5.0.1; see the 4.x to 5.0 migration guide.

GameUpgrades47 engine follow-up (lane report docs/prds/game-upgrades-47/lanes/e6.md, "Phase 8"). Gameplay, rules, determinism, the reference replays and every game's look are unchanged.

Engine

• Materials that use the same texture now share one decode.
  • Before: each material fetched and decoded its own copy of each image, one map at a time. A scene with many materials over a few images queued hundreds of decodes. Bunker Zero builds 188 textured materials from about 20 images, and on software WebGL2 about one material finished every 30 s.
  • Now: an image is decoded once and released when the last material using it is disposed. A material's maps, including custom-material textures, start together.
  • Bunker Zero: textures still loading at the 60 s capture shot dropped from 19-27 to 0 on 7 of its 8 views (floor 5: 12).

Tooling

• Game-checks: 0 errors, 125 warnings, down from 132.
  • 104 of the warnings wait on the WP-36 Meshy assets.
  • The rest are luma-band rows that cannot be cleared without widening a band:
    • 25 s shots and Bunker Zero floor 5 still loading textures;
    • crops whose subject is off screen in Aura FC 3D and Aura Hoops 3D;
    • Cross Hop's opt-in 4.6.2 look.