I pulled the source map for the Neopets renderer, and had Claude compare it to ours. It noticed the key issue responsible for a high number of unsolved rendering issues: we weren't setting up the `MotionGuidePlugin`, which I've never heard of before. Whoops!
In addition to this, we made some other minor fixes for consistency:
- Use whatever Stage object the library exports (will sometimes be StageGL)
- Resize the stage rather than the clip (shouldn't matter?)
- Send a callback to the library when done (I'm not aware of any anims that use this but some may!)
The specific item I was debugging was "Food Fight Shower", and it works now! But I also know we've had a solid handful of similar inexplicable wild rendering bugs, which I imagine this solves as well.
We might want to consider auditing our Known Glitches on SWF assets to see how many of them can be removed, now that this is resolved.
It says "This item is part of a deluxe paint brush set.", with a period instead of exclamation mark.
There are also a couple cases where the paint brush item additionally has an "inspired by" credit after the first sentence. Rather than get picky about the pattern, we expand the `pb?` method to just check for the sentence as a substring, like the DB filter logic for `Item.is_pb` already does.
First actual feature I'm letting Claude run! We worked the exploration of the updated API together, then it ran with the implementation.
I left this hanging for a long time.... good to finally have it updated!
I'm starting to learn how AI agent stuff works, and a lot of what I'm finding is that rushing them into feature development sets you up for disaster, but that having strong collaboration conversations with helpful context works wonders.
So, I'm starting by creating that context: I had a little "here's the codebase" walkthrough conversation with Claude Code, and it generated these docs as output—which came out solid from the jump, with a few tweaks from me for improved nuance.
My hope is that this can serve both as an improved starting point for human collaborators _and_ if I let future Claude instances play around in here. That's a big theme of what I've found with AI tools so far: don't try to get clever, don't expect the world, just give them the same support you'd give people—and then everybody wins 🤞
Oops, I didn't realize that the MySQL function `SUBSTRING_INDEX` always
returns the full string if the split delimiter isn't found.
This meant that, for series names like "Regal", we read the main name as
"Regal" (correct) and the variant name as "Regal" (incorrect).
This caused sort order to be incorrect for some series, e.g.,
- Prismatic Dawn: Regal
- Prismatic Dusk: Regal
- Prismatic Mirage: Regal
- Regal
whereas the main series name is meant to be first, and *does* come first
in cases like "Festive" where the main name sorts before any of the
variant names!
In this change, we update the variant name definition to return an empty
string. That way, when there's no variant name and it's just the main
series, that one sorts to the top of the series variants.
They made a small change to the API call! Fixed now!
The other NC Mall syncing stuff to get current NC cost is broken, but
that seems like a MUCH bigger change, so I won't bother just yet.
