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Handling mods with heavy texture sets on memory-constrained systems

Context

Users installing custom stories with large texture sets drop to ~40fps on lower-memory machines. Exploration of the texture path shows this is not a case of "the engine does reasonable things and the content is just too big." Three independent defects multiply a mod's texture footprint, and a fourth means nothing is ever reclaimed:

1. The Texture Quality setting does nothing. Graphics/TextureQuality is read from

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Get it running

1. Build
cd ~/projects/rhi-zig/examples
zig build -Dtarget=wasm32-freestanding

2. Serve (WebGPU needs a secure context — file:// won't work, localhost counts)
cd zig-out/bin && python3 -m http.server 8000

3. Launch Chrome with WebGPU enabled

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Warfork 2.16 public test checklist

This is a manual regression plan for the current 2.16 candidate against the last 2.15 maintenance release. The review basis was v2.15.1 (6228c72e) through 0fdfd05d; the original v2.15 tag itself contains only the version bump and Shredder levelshot, while v2.15.1 adds heartbeat/Steam-pipe fixes.

No item is pre-checked. A checked item means the stated pass condition was observed on the exact build identified in the report, not merely that the action was attempted.

Priorities and stop rules

• P0 — release gate. A failure blocks the candidate until triaged.
• P1 — important changed behavior. Must have representative coverage.

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if(TRACY_ENABLE)
  add_compile_definitions(TRACY_IMPORTS)
  add_subdirectory(tracy)
  if(WIN32)
    # Windows has no RPATH equivalent; the loader only searches the exe
    # directory for statically-imported DLLs. warfork/wf_server/wftv_server
    # link Tracy at load time, so the DLL must sit beside them.
    qf_set_output_dir(TracyClient "")
  else()

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To integrate the Phong lighting model into a raytracer, you essentially use the raytracer to handle the geometry and visibility (finding what the light hits), while the Phong model handles the color and intensity calculation at that specific hit point.

In a standard raytracer, for every pixel, you cast a primary ray from the camera into the scene. When that ray intersects an object, you calculate the lighting for that point using the three components of the Phong model: Ambient, Diffuse, and Specular.

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1. The Intersection Point

When your ray $R(t) = O + tD$ hits a surface, you need three pieces of information to compute Phong lighting:

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Warfork Release Notes

Covers changes from the previous release through the current master.

Highlights

• New Vulkan renderer. Warfork now ships a Vulkan-based renderer (NRI backend) alongside the existing OpenGL one. You can pick which to use from the video options menu. The new backend brings modern descriptor management, GLSL→SPIR-V shader compilation via glslang, and a foundation for future graphics work.
• Steam integration. Steam avatars, friends, server browser, server info, and ticket-based authentication are now wired through a dedicated Steam shim. Includes groundwork for peer-to-peer connections and voice chat (both currently opt-in / disabled by default while we soak-test them).
• Warmonger master server. New first-party master server with up-to-date server lists, in-band browser updates, and richer server info (including Steam ID).
• Crash reporting. Crashes are now captured via Crashpad and uploaded to Sentry with debug symbols, so we can actually fix what's hitting pla

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● Changelog: 82128e31 → master

Range: 2024-11-11 → 2026-05-02 (502 commits)

Major features

• New Vulkan renderer (NRI backend). Replaces the old OpenGL ref module. Includes GLSL→SPIR-V pipeline via glslang, descriptor pools, dynamic vertex/index buffers, ring/segment/scratch allocators, frame ring allocator, pogo buffers for FXAA + color correction, lightmap texture arrays, screenshot support, fullscreen toggle, fog/skybox/portal/shadow shaders, and a ref_import module to centralize the renderer interface (PR #282 and follow-ups).

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Changelog: v2.16.0 → master (8d5284729)

Range: 8278f5cfe (v2.16.0, 2025-05-23) → 8d5284729 (2026-05-02) 126 commits (95 non-merge) across ~11 months.

Renderer / Vulkan

• Reworked the Vulkan backend and resource uploader pipeline (63cc1b2b0, e328da98b)
• Moved r_imagelib into ref_base (#510)

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// MIT License
//
// Copyright (c) 2017 Nikolay Govorov
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
// in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
// to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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const std = @import("std");

pub fn EvictingFifo(
    comptime T: type,
    comptime size: usize,
) type {
    return struct {
        items: [size]T,
        head_index: usize,
        tail_index: usize,