the preserved Rune engine reads every WDB descriptor and exports each unique ROS once into a normalized-path cache validated by the source SHA-256;
Microsoft texconv decodes each cached resource's legacy DDS textures to PNG;
Blender converts the Y-up resources to reusable visual and collision GLBs;
the assembler applies every placement's full translation/quaternion/scale transform relative to the reviewed primary WDB anchor;
glTF Transform instances and optimizes the assembled visual with meshopt;
HealerMan's Recast stage bakes static navigation and the Khronos validator gates every GLB.

Run the Forsaken Abbey pilot from the HealerMan root:

npm run runewaker:forsaken

Optional environment variables:

RUNEWAKER_ROOT: preserved backup root containing Resource and Tools
BLENDER_BIN: Blender 5 portable executable
TEXCONV_BIN: Microsoft DirectXTex texconv.exe
MSVC_V142_ROOT: portable MSVC v142 root used by the native build script

The shipping environment is written to src/assets/game/dungeons/forsaken-abbey and registered as a playable dungeon. The build reads all 184 WDB entity descriptors, uses the primary ROS placement only as the server-to-local coordinate anchor, reads the entrance from Resource/luascript/03242.lua, and requires that entrance to project within 2 meters of the generated navmesh.

All valid ROS placement resources are assembled by default. Use --primary-only only for a deliberate compatibility/debug build. The build writes wdb-placement-manifest.json with stable placement IDs, source TRS, the complete primary-local Three.js matrix, resource-cache keys, bounds, flags, asset status, and reviewed dynamic-object metadata. Static placements enter visual, collision, and navigation assets. Explicit dynamic placements ship separately so runtime state can move, hide, or replace them without baking their collision into the static world.

Audit the checked-in WDB coverage without regenerating GLBs:

npm run runewaker:audit:environment-assembly

See RUNEWAKER_ENVIRONMENT_ASSEMBLY_REPORT.md for unsupported types and dynamic candidates that still need source review.

Population and creature assets are separate, offline-capable stages:

npm run runewaker:forsaken:actors
npm run runewaker:forsaken:population

Source-shaped combat coefficients and boss loot are refreshed independently:

npm run runewaker:spells:refresh
npm run runewaker:loot:refresh

See RUNEWAKER_FORMULA_AND_LOOT.md for the exact formula mapping boundary and RUNEWAKER_LOOT_IMPORT_REPORT.md for every boss's loot status.

Only an explicit forensic refresh connects to the isolated development SQL instance:

npm run runewaker:forsaken:population:refresh

The normal population build consumes the checked-in 251-row Zone 102 snapshot and never connects to SQL Server. It packages 150 combat spawns, eight boss objectives, and nine authentic native-animation creature GLBs. The remaining 101 rows are retained in the source report for later quest-object, door, transport, script, and treasure passes.

All configured instances

Environment texture and lighting quality

The visual optimizer uses lib/environment-optimization.mjs. RoM architecture keeps its source triangles and atlas UV interpolation: --simplify false is required because generic mesh simplification collapses UVs on large planar walls and floors. Meshopt compression and instancing remain enabled. Native water and source-detail variant carriers disable joining, pruning and attribute pruning so auxiliary maps and their mappings survive optimization. --texture-compress false also prevents the optimizer's default 2048-pixel image resize; the separate KTX2 pass encodes the source dimensions.

src/game/runewakerDungeonEnvironment.ts supplies reviewed fallback palettes for all 30 registered base dungeons. The registry applies this adapter before creating Bite-Sized derivatives. A separate WDB zone exporter and DungeonLighting.tsx now own recovered ambient/directional lighting and fog; this is not embedded GLB light-component preservation. Native Standard shadows follow player footing and High follows the camera. Fallback profile Standard targets the entrance; WoW retains its existing lighting path.

Native entrance directions pass through the same primary-placement frame as source points. transformSourceHeadingToPrimaryThree applies inverse primary rotation and component scale, bridges source handedness, and normalizes XZ before deriving runtime yaw. Preserve the Lua direction in source provenance; using it directly as local yaw faces the wrong way in rotated WDB assemblies.

The selective texture compressor applies UASTC to explicitly reviewed base-color basenames. Its initial eight-name policy covered 16 images in nine packages; the current list also covers Barren's exact native atlas/floor crops and HOTO's four stone/cliff maps and Origin's exact elves_vine cutout. Read compress-environment-textures.mjs for the current list. Those targets use UASTC level 2 with Zstandard 18 and RDO disabled, retaining source dimensions and the complete mip chain; other images retain the existing ETC1S path. Pass explicit GLBs or directories so the compressor never scans the workspace implicitly:

node scripts/runewaker-pipeline/compress-environment-textures.mjs <rom-glb-or-directory> --report <report.json>

Run the source-resolution, sampler and floor/wall UV diagnostics with:

npm run runewaker:audit:environment-quality
node --test scripts/runewaker-pipeline/environment-optimization.test.mjs scripts/runewaker-pipeline/audit-environment-quality.test.mjs scripts/runewaker-pipeline/rom-visual-uv-adaptations.test.mjs

The generated RUNEWAKER_ENVIRONMENT_QUALITY_REPORT.md covers every registered RoM visual. Density and UV-rank measurements identify candidates for review, rather than certifying every polygon. The initial 30-dungeon hotspot dispositions are recorded in artifacts/playtest/rom-environment-quality/rom-texture-pipeline-triage/uv-hotspot-triage.md. The later production review supersedes Barren's whole-atlas repeat with exact floor islands and native wall detail. HOTO retains cliff gradients while adding source-rock detail. Durable recipe opt-ins are implemented in lib/rom-surface-quality-policies.mjs; current evidence is under artifacts/playtest/rom-deep-review/uv-stretch-review/ and docs/ROM_ENVIRONMENT_REVIEW_2026-10-06.md.

Exact native atlas crops carry texture.extras.romSourcePixelCrop. The quality audit verifies the native PNG hash and DDS dimensions, crop rectangle, canonical PNG's exact RGBA bytes, shipped island dimensions and full mip chain through lib/source-pixel-crop-proof.mjs. Verified island dimensions are reported separately from the full native atlas; this does not exempt resized images. verify-native-uv-source-layout.mjs independently compares hierarchy/TRS and expanded ordered triangle attributes while allowing presentation UV1 and primitive/material regrouping. Original source images must remain byte-identical.

src/scene/runewakerSurfaceDetailMaterial.ts supports source-pinned static rock detail carried by named KHR_materials_variants materials. useGameGLTF.ts registers it and productionDungeonMaterials.ts preserves it through cloning. Triplanar sampling uses real world metres and inverse-transpose normals, including instance transforms. Mean-normalized source textures modulate diffuse RGB within bounded strength. Reviewed metadata can reduce wall base contrast around the source mean and blend rotated tile samples to soften repetitions. floorBaseStrength permits a verified full stone/moss tile to supply floor RGB directly at the chosen world scale; it must not repeat a mixed cliff atlas. Original UV0, base-map alpha and lighting semantics remain intact. Texture uniforms participate in existing filtering/disposal. Carrier variants require the reviewed optimizer's join/prune protections. These detail scales are browser presentation adaptations, not reconstructed native UVs. HOTO v2 migrates only complete source-pinned v1 metadata, verified carriers and all 72 variant mappings; reapplication is idempotent. Its reviewed continuation uses promote-hoto-surface-v2.mjs: the default mode verifies immutable candidates, source/layout/codec proofs and screenshot hashes without writing. --apply creates a new exclusive backup before replacing only HOTO's three visual GLBs and current metadata. All non-JSON chunks are byte-identical to v1; historical codec reports retain their original GLB hashes. Sand Vortex uses nine native WDB terrain chunks selected from authoritative encounter bounds, with the original per-chunk indices, visibility, vertex normals, two DXT1 splat maps, five source tile DDS layers, and their native tile scales. Runtime material blending normalizes the source RGB weights and samples the full-resolution layer textures at their source scales; this replaces the old flat, untextured arena fallback.

Sand Vortex opts into source-scaled side projection on steep terrain through source.nativeTerrain.cliffProjection. The runtime retains native XZ sampling on level ground and blends height-aware side sampling only on slopes. It uses the original smooth normals, layer scales, and splat weights; topology and flat-floor UVs remain unchanged. The asset-root inverse transform keeps this projection stable through package placement, quantization, and instancing.

The Origin now recovers all 256 WDB terrain chunks selected by the full source manifest. Four source DDS layers, their per-layer tile scales, and both DXT1 splat maps feed the same linear runtime blend. The previous [2,2] chunk review was only an early ground probe and is not the current coverage claim.

The independent native-water builder decodes all 126 selected version-3 WDB water layers with exact GUID descriptor joins. It recreates source visibility masks, vertex color and alpha, and packages the 30-frame animated normal sequence as exact top-mip PNG carriers. The runtime applies those frames as animated source normal maps and samples transformed source-world coordinates; the glTF TEXCOORD_0 on water layers is a source-world XZ validator carrier only. The original DDS files and all mip hashes remain in the source audit cache. Source-enabled non-DIRECT water now uses a bounded browser adaptation of AquaFX camera reflection and pre-water refraction, with the native first-vertex split planes, bump scale and Fresnel coefficients. The serialized waterDesc:full:enable Boolean selects this branch even for the Origin's raw effect value 4; its enum name is not inferred. Up to four active 512-pixel target pairs share a ten-capture-per-second budget per tagged asset root. Old invisible planes release their slots; additional active planes and below-plane views use the lit animated fallback. Source reflect-class filtering and the original water SH shader remain unsupported. Water remains visual-only and is not added to source collision.

export-native-lighting.mjs decodes all 30 dungeons' exact WDB environment settings and zone triggers into src/game/generated/runewakerNativeLighting.generated.ts. src/game/runewakerNativeLighting.ts resolves source zones from runtime player coordinates; src/scene/DungeonLighting.tsx applies their linear ambient and three directional colors, directions, and camera-scaled fog. Time/weather groups default deterministically to 0/0. Missing zones retain the dungeon's reviewed presentation profile (including Grafu's entrance). The browser supplies Rune's unoccluded SH constant-band energy as ambient fill (4/17) and uses the remaining 13/17 in Three.js directional lighting. Angular diffuse response and PBR specular remain browser adaptations, not the complete original SH/specular shader. Standard shadows follow the player's footing and High shadows follow the camera; WoW retains its existing presentation path.

Build all water-bearing chunks, or restrict water to the exact coordinates in an existing ground manifest whose WDB hash matches:

node scripts/runewaker-pipeline/build-native-water.mjs
node scripts/runewaker-pipeline/build-native-water.mjs --ground-manifest runewaker-export-work/the-origin/native-terrain-source/terrain-native-source.json
node scripts/runewaker-pipeline/build-native-water.mjs --ground-manifest runewaker-export-work/the-origin/native-terrain-source/terrain-native-source.json --audit-cache-root runewaker-export-work/the-origin

The builder writes native-water-visual.glb, conversion-report.json, and a per-descriptor archive of the source DDS frames and lossless PNG carriers under runewaker-export-work/<slug>/native-water-source by default. Use --recipe, --source-root, and --wdb-report to select its local recipe and source inputs; --output-root must remain inside the active project workspace. The optional --audit-cache-root writes exact, hash-verified aliases named from each GLB texture/variant into raw/textures and prepared/textures under that root, allowing the quality audit to resolve water DDS and PNG source pixels.

Recipes may opt into pipeline integration with source.nativeWater.kind: "runewaker-wdb-water-layer". This mode requires source.nativeTerrain and a full WDB assembly. The environment builder always passes the selected native-terrain manifest to the water builder, so water chunks follow the same reviewed source-ground selection. It merges the result as a visual-only WDB record; no water geometry is added to source collision or navigation.

Three reviewed primary-only recipes use source.primaryNativeCollision to replace imported collision with an options-aware query of the exact primary ROS plus source-coordinate support geometry. The reusable candidate producer hashes the current recipe, import metadata, ROS/WDB sources, placement reports, and native extractor; it invokes the native collision query in respect-options mode or accepts a query cache only when its provenance sidecar matches those inputs. It regenerates support boxes from the recipe and resolved primary WDB transform rather than reading a previously transformed GLB. The proof file names the full collision candidate (which the build splits to the configured per-GLB triangle limit), the native-core/overlapping-support Recast input, and the baked navigation candidate and report.

Run the candidate producer directly for one of its configured recipes with:

node scripts/runewaker-pipeline/build-native-core-support-candidate.mjs aeternal-circle --respect-options

Use --stage-only to write only the source-verified collision inputs and proof before Recast, or --output-root=runewaker-export-work/<slug>/<new-directory> to select a fresh artifact directory under that dungeon's work folder. A second run consumes staged inputs only after rechecking their source and GLB hashes. The Aeternal entry-support omission is independently ray-checked against the current option-enabled native collision query each run. Remote support pads remain separate navigation components; when present, the report declares navigationComponentPolicy: "all-components" without inventing links.

recipes/the-origin.json keeps the Lua-authored spawn [828,263,963] and direction 343 as source provenance. The reviewed runtime entrance instead uses source path graph 1026 node 854, projected to the recovered ground and navigation. Current native collision selection honors serialized collision options and Trekker's water/foliage exclusion mask: 865,100 eligible triangles across 20 collision chunks. The current Recast/Detour artifact contains 103,582 triangles and 24,612 polygons. In that graph, node 854 reaches Life Leecher; Life Leecher and node 854 both terminate in partial routes to Holy Tree Falynum. That early collision-graph review covered only two short entrance walking legs (2.85 m, with all three samples grounded). A later final v5 material review walked 19/19 legs along the connected Life route (48.56 m, all 42 samples grounded). Neither certifies a full clear or an approach route to Falynum; evidence and scope are in docs/ROM_ENVIRONMENT_REVIEW_2026-10-06.md. Rebuild with:

npm run runewaker:build:all -- --only the-origin
npm run runewaker:register:all

The base Demon Stronghold recipe opts into rom-demon-stronghold-derived-support-entrance-floor-02 through lib/rom-derived-support-styling-file.mjs. Exact ROS, DDS, and converted PNG hashes gate the native entrance-floor texture applied to its 186 generated support boxes. Added UV1 preserves every existing geometry accessor and uses the native floor scale/phase at the entrance; vertical box faces retain full UV rank. This is explicitly a derived support fallback, not native floor recovery throughout the dungeon. Demon Stronghold 125 has no such opt-in.

scripts/playtest-rom-visual-routes.cjs --dist=<build-directory> can freeze an isolated production build for ordinary UI entry and walking QA when the shared dist directory is locked. Its runtime telemetry is read-only.

Native ROS material alpha provenance is captured by native/runewaker_model_exporter.cpp and applied by blender/native_material_alpha.py through blender/convert-runewaker.py. The export report records material/lighting types, diffuse source-channel identity, and native alpha-test/blend parameters; the builder stamps the exact ROS sourceResourceSha256 before Blender conversion. The converter only applies those flags when source hash, model, material index and diffuse texture identity all match. Normal translucent alpha maps to glTF BLEND; alpha-tested images with cutout pixels map to MASK with the native threshold, while fully opaque images stay OPAQUE. Exact native SRCALPHA:ONE materials are recorded as additive and use glTF BLEND; the runtime applies additive blending only when that conversion provenance is complete. Unknown or incomplete native modes stay unsupported. Exact native prelit materials receive KHR_materials_unlit before the optimizer runs, so deduplication keeps them separate from standard-lit materials sharing the same map. Resource-cache validation includes exporter, converter and alpha-policy hashes so a semantics change forces re-conversion. lib/native-alpha-cache-validation.mjs also requires the current ROS hash, complete native alpha parameters and diffuse-channel joins, and identical raw and prepared material reports. A matching old cache stamp alone is insufficient. The prelit annotation removes Blender's unused KHR_materials_specular metadata from those same verified materials, avoiding an incompatible glTF extension pair. Protect alpha matching with python scripts/runewaker-pipeline/blender/test_native_material_alpha.py, the pre-optimizer semantics with node --test scripts/runewaker-pipeline/lib/native-material-semantics.test.mjs, and runtime behavior with npm test -- --run src/scene/dungeonMaterialAudit.test.ts.

The environment builder runs terrain extraction and GLB generation as part of the Sand Vortex recipe. Rebuild and register that package with:

npm run runewaker:build:all -- --only sand-vortex
npm run runewaker:register:all

The extraction and terrain GLB stages are also available directly for inspection:

node scripts/runewaker-pipeline/sand-vortex/extract-native-terrain.mjs
node scripts/runewaker-pipeline/sand-vortex/build-native-terrain.mjs

src/scene/runewakerTerrainMaterial.ts owns native splat-layer blending in the browser. src/game/runewakerDungeonEnvironment.ts, applied through src/game/dungeonRegistry.ts, owns the runtime lighting profiles; these lights remain approximations because static imported GLBs contain no authored light records.

scripts/playtest-rom-visual-routes.cjs checks normal offline entry, ordinary keyboard movement, footing, and Standard/High graphics options using read-only production telemetry. Pass explicit RoM slugs with --dungeon=..., optional waypoints with --routes=<json>, or --entry-only for graphics-only captures. It freezes the production distribution for each run and requires the geometry loading state to settle before collecting evidence. These checks do not certify combat, every route, or a full dungeon clear.

Repackage existing converted visuals without rebuilding collision or navigation:

node scripts/runewaker-pipeline/reoptimize-environment-visuals.mjs
node scripts/runewaker-pipeline/reoptimize-environment-visuals.mjs --apply-staged
npm run runewaker:register:all

The first command stages every configured environment; the second validates all staged hashes before replacing shipped visuals and their metadata. Forsaken Abbey's authored visual descriptor must also match its updated import metadata.

For repeatable rendered review, start Vite on port 4207, run node scripts/playtest-rom-environments.cjs, then node scripts/runewaker-pipeline/make-environment-review-sheets.mjs. The preview uses the shipped GLBs/KTX2, production material preparation and lighting palettes at entrance, middle/final boss and reverse entrance viewpoints. Captures and results live in artifacts/playtest/rom-environment-quality. This isolated asset review does not simulate movement, collisions or combat; supplement it with ordinary in-dungeon checks for runtime changes.

Configured package workflow

The generalized batch now packages and registers all 30 configured RuneWaker instances (Forsaken Abbey plus 29 generated definitions). The normal workflow is fully local and does not use SQL:

npm run runewaker:prepare:all
npm run runewaker:build:all
npm run runewaker:register:all

runewaker:prepare:all consumes the portable forensic JSON already under runewaker-export-work. runewaker:build:all is resumable and writes a result after every dungeon. runewaker:register:all exposes only instances whose full validation report is green.

Creature animation policy is audited separately:

npm run runewaker:audit:animations

The audit opens every referenced creature GLB, checks its glTF header and animation table, resolves every spawn and entity in all 30 runtime definitions, and exercises the available native or procedural state paths. Pasper's Shrine is the compact direct-mesh reference package. The full batch now uses original GR2 skeletons and sampled RAS clips for validated direct actors, while runtime paperdoll containers are assembled into exact image-specific actors from a portable appearance snapshot. Genuinely unsupported pose-only or triangle-free displays remain explicit exceptions rather than silently claiming native motion. See ORIGINAL_ANIMATION_IMPORT.md for the reproducible conversion and rollout process, and RUNEWAKER_ANIMATION_AUDIT.md for the package historical baseline and current all-dungeon status.

Paperdoll appearance recovery is an explicit forensic refresh, separate from normal builds:

npm run runewaker:paperdolls:refresh
npm run runewaker:build:all -- --phase actors,population --force

The refresh restores ObjectEdit.bak under a temporary read-only database, exports only combat-template image rows, writes the checked-in portable runewaker-paperdoll-appearances.json, and drops the temporary database in finally. Normal actor builds, tests, production builds, and browser play use that JSON and packaged GLBs with SQL stopped. Appearance provenance preserves component names and color layers; any unresolved composite-mask color bake is reported explicitly in the actor manifest.

Portable populations, source spells, and objective routes

NPC spell evidence is exported from the preserved read-only RuneWaker client catalogs into a checked-in portable snapshot:

npm run runewaker:bosses:refresh
npm run runewaker:build:all -- --phase population --force
npm run runewaker:forsaken:population
npm run runewaker:audit:gameplay

The existing all-instances runner starts a separate Node population-builder process for each of the 29 generalized packages. Forsaken Abbey keeps its special pilot builder. Both builders emit ordinary TypeScript definitions and JSON reports; the browser never opens the original client catalogs or SQL backups.

Spell conversion is deliberately fail-closed. Only a MagicObject component positively classified as direct HP damage becomes an executable HealerMan attack. Buffs, healing, summons, plot hooks, and unknown effects remain evidence-only. The portable mapping preserves source spell identity, name, damage family, school, range, cooldown, source power fields, and source-code formula provenance. Live damage uses a labeled HealerMan baseline adapter because the required native ATK/MATK, DEF/MDEF, weapon, resistance, critical, level-rate, and global-rate inputs are not packaged; it is not represented as source-exact.

runewaker:bosses:refresh first rebuilds that portable spell snapshot, then statically follows each packaged boss's preserved AutoPlot/template callbacks and writes modular rw-<dungeon>-<entity-id> kits to dungeon-pipeline/boss-mechanics.json. Each special is an independent record with stable ID, trigger, target, effects, and explicit circle, cone, or line telegraph geometry. Both population builders copy those IDs into combat.mechanicIds, so the same runtime loadout boundary is shared by Runewaker and WoW encounters and can later support reviewed randomization.

Source-backed records identify the RuneWaker Lua and spell evidence they came from. If the preserved scripts expose only encounter-progression hooks, the importer creates a conservative playable mechanic marked source.kind: "healer-man-source-gap"; it never labels that fallback as an original RuneWaker ability. Edit or append a boss kit in the shared catalog, then rerun the population build and gameplay audit to update an encounter.

The gameplay audit also:

verifies every executable attack.spellId against both its source template assignment and the portable spell catalog;
rejects evidence-only spell IDs if they enter runtime combat data;
requires every boss objective to resolve a modular catalog kit and validates its source label, telegraph, timed trigger, and health trigger;
reuses the live party-navigation graph to inspect boss approach points projected to the retained surface within 6m;
validates native animation families, with Rune Device's missing locomotion documented as a stationary-device exception while its attack/activation clips remain mandatory.

The generated RUNEWAKER_GAMEPLAY_CONTENT_REPORT.md is the current cross-dungeon content baseline. The generalized population builder currently falls back to straight-line distance from the entrance when ordering bosses. That fallback is labeled healerMan-distance-derived: an unreachable heuristic leg is navigation/order review evidence, not a claimed source-authored structural failure. A future explicit recipe order must include preserved local source evidence before it can become authoritative. The builder accepts that reviewed override only as bossObjectiveOrder: { kind: "source-authored", spawnIds: [...], evidence: [...] }; it rejects missing evidence, duplicates, or an order that does not account for every boss spawn.

The same gameplay audit also regenerates the deterministic RUNEWAKER_ENCOUNTER_IMPLEMENTATION_REPORT.md and its exhaustive JSON companion. The ledger records all deferred source spawn rows and direct mechanics evidence with stable IDs, source files and hashes, fidelity, implementation status, blocker, next work, and a clearing test. Category totals are overlapping review labels, never a claimed count of unique mechanics. Unproven behavior remains deferred-source-gap instead of being silently inferred from a name or regex match.

Run only that ledger and its pipeline tests with:

npm run runewaker:audit:encounters

Run the component-level navigation review separately:

npm run runewaker:audit:navigation

It writes RUNEWAKER_NAVIGATION_GAP_REPORT.md, measures every unreachable heuristic leg against all raw Recast components, and records reviewed source evidence for support-pad environments, authored room placements, doors, drops, and teleports. It never writes navigation links. No automatic links are currently approved: the observed gaps either depend on mechanics/order evidence or on modular environment assembly, so bridging them would bypass gates or cross missing geometry.

The forensic source refresh is intentionally separate:

npm run runewaker:refresh:all

It requires the isolated HEALERMAN_RW SQL service to be running, restores both backups read-only under temporary names, exports all configured zones, drops the temporary databases in finally, and regenerates the portable snapshots. Stop the SQL service again before running the normal build or game.

See INSTANCE_IMPORT_GUIDE.md for provenance, coordinate rules, special WDB cases, mechanics review, validation, and the step-by-step process for adding future instances.