feat(renderer): multi-animal scheduling and budgets for bodies, grooms and shadows (#1258) by drsnuggles8 · Pull Request #1382 · drsnuggles8/OloEngineBase

drsnuggles8 · 2026-09-21T00:12:17Z

Every LOD ladder in this engine is per-entity. A groom reads its own apparent size (#1252), a mesh reads its own (#711), and each is right about the entity it belongs to. None of them can see that forty animals are asking for full rate at once, and nothing arbitrated between them — not the groom LOD, not the mesh LOD, and not the gameplay scheduler, which runs every registered system to completion every tick. Skeletal animation had no LOD at all: AnimationSystem::Update ran unconditionally for every skinned entity, every frame.

AnimalScheduler is the arbiter. It takes the per-entity answers as requests, prices them through a calibrated cost model, and spends a frame budget across four independently authored axes — deformation, simulation, visibility, shadow.

The load-bearing decisions

The budget is spent in calibrated units, never in a clock reading. A scheduler that reads the clock allocates differently on a busy machine than on an idle one, so the population's trajectories stop reproducing and every capture downstream becomes noise — criterion 1 failing silently rather than loudly. The coefficients are authorable and the frame's estimate is reported, so drift between model and machine is a counter rather than a different picture.

The three failure modes the issue names are mechanisms, not hopes.

failure	mechanism
starvation	the per-axis starvation counter is the second key of the service order, so the loss rotates; `StarvationFrames` then excludes an over-starved animal while any same-role peer is eligible. The bound is relative — an absolute one is unachievable when the whole population must be coarsened, and the first version of the contract test asserted it and failed against a correct scheduler.
abrupt motion changes	a step moves at most one halving per hold window, and the deformation axis is capped in screen space: a reduced tick rate is invisible exactly while the pose step stays sub-pixel. Reduced ticks are staggered by a per-entity phase.
invisible distant coats	`MinVisibleStrands` is a floor the budget cannot cross — and nor can the distance ladder, because it binds against the desired step too. A ladder can produce that failure unaided.

An unservable budget is reported, not absorbed. With ProtectHero set the hero is never a candidate; when everyone else is at their cap and the frame still does not fit, BudgetExceeded fires and the hero stays at full rate.

Criterion 2, answered rather than assumed

The census ships as a test (AnimalSchedulingCensusTest), per geometry-lod-measure-the-unreachable-cost.md rule 10 — a PR-body table cannot be re-run.

population	total	deform	simulation	visibility	shadow	draw calls
herd = 8	12 602 u	3.1 %	44.1 %	28.7 %	22.2 %	1.86 %
herd = 96	73 116 u	3.8 %	46.4 %	27.7 %	19.8 %	2.28 %
herd = 256	183 142 u	3.9 %	46.7 %	27.6 %	19.5 %	2.33 %

Draw calls carry 1.9–2.3 %, so scheduling is the right lever and batching (#1031) is not the missing piece. It is written so it could have come out the other way: the assertion fails above 5 %, and the correct response to that would be batching rather than more scheduling.

The dominant axis moves with apparent size — simulation close up (44.9 % at 720 px), shadow at distance (70.0 % at 16 px) — which is why there are four axes and not one quality scalar. The budget reaches 91.4 % of the frame; the rest is draw calls plus the floors.

Shadow scope, given #1323 is in flight

The shadow axis budgets the coat self-shadow volume that exists today, as a bias on GroomCoatShadow's own resolution choice (#1252's rule 12). Grooms are not shadow casters on master and this does not make them one — no ShadowRenderPass caster family, no GroomStrand.glsl shadow path, nothing #1323 owns is touched. The axis is the seam #1323's casting slots into when it lands.

Verification matrix

Artefact-backed rows cite the committed capture; live-only rows cite what was measured.

Axis	Cell	Kind	Evidence
Backend	OpenGL	artefact	`AnimalBudget[Off]_GL_{Forward,ForwardPlus,Deferred}_Front.png`, `AnimalBudget[Off]_GL_Deferred_Oblique.png`
Backend	Vulkan	live-only	Verified in the editor. `[RHI] Backend: Vulkan (source: --rhi flag)`; `AnimalPopulation.olo` 44/44 entities on Deferred, 41/41 grooms scheduled, stride histogram identical to OpenGL (1×5, 2×2, 3×1) on the same scene in edit mode; 0 `[error]` lines, 0 VUIDs; play mode renders the population at 46 fps. See Backend A/B below.
Lighting path	Forward / Forward+ / Deferred	artefact	all three captured; identical numbers, as expected — the budget decides a strand count and every path draws what that count produced
Quality tier	Low / Medium / High / Ultra	artefact	`QualityTiering.TheAnimalFrameBudgetIsOrderedByTier`, `SchedulingIsOnAtEveryTierIncludingLow`, `TheAnimalBudgetReachesRendererSettings`
Population	short-coat / long-coat / close-up hero	live-only	`AnimalPopulation.olo` loaded in the editor: 44 entities, 41 animals, hero + featured + herd, Deferred, 127 fps
Motion	full reproducible trajectory run	artefact	`ThePathIsFrameRateIndependent` (60 Hz vs 240 Hz, same simulated time), `RepeatedRunsPlaceThePopulationIdentically` (bitwise)
Budget stress	over-subscribed population	artefact	`TheBudgetRemovesStrandWorkWhilePreservingTheCoatAndTheHero`: 120 000 → 19 500 strands, hero byte-identical
Timing	frame-time tails	artefact	`FrameTimeTailTest` — two windows with the same mean, one stuttering, separated by p99 (16.0 vs 40.0 ms)
Vulkan RT	raster fallback	not a cell	the budget spends counts and rates; it does not select a shadow technique, so there is no RT path to fall back from
MSAA / upscale / resolution	—	live-only	Not swept. The budget's inputs are `EstimateProjectedPixelSize` against the shared `LODViewParams`, which is already render-resolution-relative, so resolution changes reach it through the same number every other LOD reads. Not verified at a second resolution — see below.
Prior on-disk version	cooked groom/animal assets	artefact	No cooked format changed. No `.ologroom` version bump, no new binary section. Both new components are scene-YAML + save-game only, and the save-game needed no version number (components are keyed by type-name hash, so an older save simply has no entry).

Live editor. AnimalPopulation.olo opened in the real editor on Deferred: 44/44 entities, olo_shader_errors → count: 0, no new [error] lines, and the log shows the scheduler assigning strides 1, 2, 3 and 4 across the population — the budget working on a real scene.

Backend A/B — the decisions, not the pixels

Run on the same scene, in edit mode so AnimalPathComponent is frozen and both arms really do
see the same population, both on Deferred:

	OpenGL	Vulkan
backend proof (log)	`[RHI] Backend: OpenGL (source: default)`	`[RHI] Backend: Vulkan (source: --rhi flag)`
scene	44/44 entities	44/44 entities
grooms scheduled	41/41	41/41
strand build strides	1×5, 2×2, 3×1	1×5, 2×2, 3×1
`[error]` lines	0	0
VUIDs	n/a	0

The stride histogram is the observable that matters here: it is the set of distinct build settings
the scheduler handed the groom pass, so identical histograms mean identical scheduling decisions.
That is the property the budget's backend-independence actually rests on — it is decided in Scene
before either backend is involved — and it is now measured rather than asserted.

olo_shader_errors is deliberately not cited: ShaderDebugger::Initialize() does not run on Vulkan
and the tool reports notInitialized rather than a zero that would be a guess, so the Vulkan arm is
evidenced by the log's error and VUID counts instead.

Camera note: the two screenshots taken during this were in different modes, so they are not
offered as a pixel A/B — they show each backend renders the population, nothing more.

Review guide

Where I'd look hardest

Scene.cpp:4535 (ShouldPoseAnimalThisFrame) — the deformation stagger's clock. My own review caught that it was counting rendered frames while the gate runs on sim ticks, which at 120 Hz display / 60 Hz fixed step froze period-2 animals outright. It now counts m_AnimalPoseTick, advanced inside UpdateAnimation itself. This is the subtlest thing in the PR and the tests that exist only drive OnUpdateRuntime, where the two clocks happen to agree.
Scene.cpp:8941 (the groom fold-in) — min(max(ladder, scheduled), cap). The max is what stops the budget handing out work the ladder already refused; the clamp is what stops the ladder walking past MinVisibleStrands. The first version omitted the clamp and every scheduler-side assertion still passed, because the scheduler never saw the ladder's number.
AnimalScheduler.cpp — the round-robin inside the role-group loop, specifically the anyUnstarved recomputation per pass. It is what turns StarvationFrames from a stored number into a bound, and what stops it deadlocking an axis when every candidate is over it.

What I verified, and how — 140 unit/contract/census/functional cases and the 381-case groom + evidence sweep, all green; AnimalBudgetVisualEvidenceTest on three lighting paths and two angles with the PNGs looked at (hero pixel-identical, herd rebuilt from visibly fewer, wider strands at the same silhouette); the population scene loaded and played in the real editor with zero shader errors and varied strides in the log. The check that would have failed if this were wrong: ASSERT_GT(stats.AnimalsCoarsened, 0) in the evidence test — added after the first run showed coarsened=0 and a frame identical to its control, which is exactly what "the scheduler never ran" looks like.

Least confident about — the cost-model coefficients. They are order-of-magnitude values reflecting the four axes' relative cost as this engine implements them, not a per-axis wall-clock regression: a Debug build cannot measure CPU scheduling, three sibling worktrees were building throughout, and not every axis has an isolated benchmark. The scheduler needs the ratios and the structural census is what those were sanity-checked against, but re-calibrating on an idle box in Release is the obvious first follow-up. §4 of the analysis doc says this rather than burying it.

Deliberately not tested

A Vulkan pixel A/B. The backend cell itself is verified (above) — what is not done is a per-pixel comparison of the two backends' frames. The budget decides counts and rates on the CPU before any backend sees them, so what had to be shown was that the DECISIONS match, and the stride histogram shows that exactly. A pixel diff would be measuring the groom pass's backend parity, which is Groom: measured strand visibility and stable subpixel composition #1246/Groom: strand/card/mesh LOD with stable coverage and bounded work #1252's subject rather than this change's.
A second resolution / MSAA / upscale. Reasoning above; the inputs are already resolution-relative, but I did not sweep it.
The population scene's coats are not bound to the fox bodies. No cooked groom binding exists for the Fox rig (Groom: bind guides and rendered hairs to skeletal and morph surfaces #1249's surface), so each coat draws at its animal's origin rather than on its back. It does not affect what the scene measures — the budget prices strand, guide and bone counts, and the live strides prove it engaging — but it is a scheduling fixture, not a finished groomed herd, and its header says so.

Also in this branch

Two unrelated fixes, each in its own commit and neither folded into the feature:

df682da — reference_assets.py has reported a hash DIFF on longcoat-quadruped.obj since Renderer benchmarks: licensed AAA head, groomed animals and vegetation reference fixtures #1239 landed; the declared SHA never matched the committed file.
123d8b6 — the population scene's own generator wrote PrimitiveType (not a key SceneSerializer knows, and one failed entity aborts the whole load) and CascadeLambda (silently ignored, so the cascade split was quietly taking its default). Found by loading the scene in the editor, which is the only place either could have been found.

Closes #1258

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added population-based animation budgeting across deformation, simulation, visibility, and shadows, with hero-animal protection.
- Added deterministic Lissajous movement paths with optional path-facing orientation.
- Added Scene Hierarchy controls, live statistics, and save/load support for animal budgets and paths.
- Added a 41-animal benchmark scene with multiple cameras and rendering configurations.
Performance
- Added frame-time history and percentile reporting for stutter and budget analysis.
Diagnostics
- Added groom and animal-budget reports with scheduling, cost, and frame-time statistics.

`reference_assets.py` has been reporting a DIFF for this record since #1239 landed: the declared Sha256 does not match the committed .obj, which is unmodified in the working tree. The verifier's whole purpose is to make the acquisition path checkable, so a record that has never matched makes every green run of it slightly less meaningful. Found while adding the animal-population manifest's provenance records, which is why this is a separate commit — it has nothing to do with #1258. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…als (#1258) Every LOD ladder in this engine is per-entity: a groom reads its own apparent size, a mesh reads its own, and each is right about the entity it belongs to. None of them can see that forty animals are asking for full rate at once, and nothing arbitrated between them — not the groom LOD, not the mesh LOD, and not the gameplay scheduler, which runs every registered system to completion every tick. Skeletal animation had no LOD at all: AnimationSystem::Update ran unconditionally for every skinned entity, every frame. AnimalScheduler is the arbiter. It takes the per-entity answers as REQUESTS, prices them through a calibrated cost model, and spends a frame budget across four independently authored axes — deformation, simulation, visibility, shadow. The budget is spent in calibrated units and never in a clock reading. A scheduler that reads the clock allocates differently on a busy machine than on an idle one, so the population stops reproducing and every capture downstream becomes noise — which is criterion 1 failing silently. The cost model's coefficients are authorable and the frame's estimate is reported, so drift shows up as a counter rather than as a different picture. The three failure modes the issue names are mechanisms, not hopes: starvation the per-axis starvation counter is the second key of the service order, so the loss ROTATES. The bound is relative — an animal held below its desired step while a peer of the same role sits at its own — because when the whole population must be coarsened there is nobody to swap with. abrupt motion a step moves at most one halving per hold window, and the deformation axis is capped in SCREEN SPACE: a reduced tick rate is invisible exactly while the pose step stays sub-pixel. Reduced ticks are staggered by a per-entity phase, which is what makes the frame-time TAIL fall and not just the mean. invisible coat MinVisibleStrands is a floor the budget cannot cross, and nor can the distance ladder — it binds against the desired step too, because a ladder can produce that failure unaided. An unservable budget is reported (BudgetExceeded) with the hero left at full rate, rather than absorbed by quietly degrading the one thing the budget exists to protect. Criterion 2 is answered rather than assumed: the census ships as a test and measures draw calls at 1.9-2.3% of a full-rate animal frame, so scheduling is the right lever and batching (#1031) is not the missing piece. It is written so it could have come out the other way. The dominant axis moves with apparent size (simulation close up, shadow at distance), which is why there are four axes and not one quality scalar. Shadow scope, given #1323 is landing groom shadow casting in parallel: the shadow axis budgets the coat self-shadow volume that exists today, as a bias on GroomCoatShadow's own resolution choice. Grooms are not shadow casters on master and this does not make them one; the axis is the seam #1323's casting slots into. Also adds Core/FrameTimeTail — p50/p95/p99/max plus an over-budget frame count, nearest-rank to match perf_trend.py. Nothing measured a frame-time percentile before, and a scheduler's characteristic failure is invisible in a mean: amortising work does not remove it, and badly phased it makes the 99th percentile worse while every average improves. Measurements, including the honest status of the calibration: docs/analysis/multi-animal-scheduling-budgets-1258.md Rules: docs/agent-rules/multi-animal-scheduling-budgets.md Closes #1258 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ellings Found by loading the scene in the real editor, which is the only place it could have been found: `PrimitiveType` is not a key SceneSerializer knows, so the Ground entity failed to deserialize — and ONE failed entity aborts the whole load, so the scene opened with zero entities and the only symptom was a line in OloEngine.log. `CascadeSplitLambda` was spelled `CascadeLambda` in the same draft. That one does NOT fail the load: an unknown key is silently ignored, so the shadow cascade distribution was quietly taking its default. Both spellings now come from generate_reference_fixture_scenes.py rather than from memory, and the generator says so where someone would otherwise re-guess. Also records the scene's real limitation in its own header: the grooms are drawn at each animal's transform rather than bound to the fox body, because no cooked groom binding exists for the Fox rig (#1249's surface). It is a scheduling fixture, not a finished groomed herd. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…et (#1258) Two of these were real defects in the feature rather than polish. THE STAGGER WAS COUNTING THE WRONG CLOCK. m_AnimalFrameCounter advances once per rendered frame, but the gate it phases runs inside UpdateAnimation, which SimulateRuntimeStep calls zero or more times per frame through the fixed-timestep accumulator. At a 120 Hz display against a 60 Hz step the sim ticks land only on even frame numbers, so a period-2 animal with an odd phase was never posed at all — frozen for as long as the pacing held. Invisible to every test, because OnUpdateRuntime is the one entry point where the two clocks agree and it is the one the tests drive. The stagger now counts m_AnimalPoseTick, advanced in UpdateAnimation itself, so the counter and the gate cannot diverge by construction. THE DISTANCE LADDER COULD WALK PAST MinVisibleStrands. Folding the budget into the groom's #1252 answer as max(ladder, scheduled) let the ladder always win, so the strand floor only ever bound the BUDGET's number: a 1000-strand coat whose own ladder asked for a sixty-fourth was built at 15 strands while the floor said 256. Every assertion inside AnimalScheduler passed, because the scheduler never saw the ladder's answer. The decision now CARRIES the floor-derived cap and the combination is clamped to it. The rest: - CapHeld no longer fires for an animal that was never coarsened. A protected hero whose deformation cap is 0 — which is every normally-sized on-screen animal, since the pose bound refuses a reduction it cannot make safely — was reporting CapHeld and incrementing CoarsenedByRole[Hero] whenever any axis overflowed, contradicting the hero contract the tests assert. - StarvationFrames was sanitised and never read, so the knob did nothing. It now excludes an over-starved animal from the candidate set while any same-role peer is still eligible — and is dropped for the pass when none is, because refusing to coarsen anybody would leave the axis permanently over budget. - AnimalsAtPoseStepCap counted every animal whose cap happened to be zero, making it a headcount rather than a pressure signal. Now shaped like the visibility-floor counter beside it. - The disabled path reported AnimalsConsidered = 0 while returning a full set of per-animal rows, so the A/B control arm's panel contradicted itself. - GivesWayBefore was not a strict weak ordering when -0.0f and +0.0f both appeared — std::stable_sort on one is UB, not a wrong answer. - An inspector tooltip pointed at a "Renderer Settings -> Animal scheduling" control that does not exist; the allowance comes from the quality tier. - With the budget off, the fold-in still applied last frame's ladder answer and delayed every refine by a frame, so "off" was not quite the pre-#1258 frame. Three new cases cover what the review showed was unguarded: that the decision carries the floor cap a consumer must clamp against, and both halves of the starvation bound. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

The pre-commit hook's reformat, staged separately so the feature commits stay readable as diffs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Walkthrough

Adds deterministic multi-animal scheduling across the renderer, scene, editor, persistence, benchmarks, diagnostics, and tests. The system budgets deformation, simulation, visibility, and shadow work while tracking starvation, frame-time tails, path motion, and rendering evidence.

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Animal scheduling system

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scheduling contracts and animal components `OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Scene/`, `OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/`	Defines animal roles, work axes, cost models, budget policies, schedules, statistics, budget/path components, Lissajous helpers, renderer settings, and quality-tier budgets.
Population scheduler and frame-time tail `OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Scene/AnimalScheduler.`, `OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Core/FrameTimeTail.`	Adds deterministic cost allocation, coarsening, starvation handling, sanitization, schedule outcomes, and rolling frame-time percentiles.
Persistence and scene execution `OloEngine/src/OloEngine/SaveGame/`, `OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Scene/Scene.`	Serializes the new components and applies scheduling, path updates, pose gating, groom limits, telemetry, and frame-time collection during runtime and editor ticks.
Editor controls and benchmark population `OloEditor/src/Panels/SceneHierarchyPanel.cpp`, `OloEditor/SandboxProject/Assets/Scenes/Benchmark/`, `OloEditor/assets/benchmark/manifests/`, `OloEngine/tests/scripts/*`	Adds component inspectors and a deterministic 41-animal benchmark with diagnostic cameras, attachments, assets, and generated scene output.
Budget diagnostics and reporting `OloEditor/src/MCP/*`	Adds the `olo_groom_budget_stats` report with groom, animal-budget, and frame-time sections.
Validation `OloEngine/tests/*`	Adds contract, census, visual, functional, layout, frame-time, quality-tier, and system-order tests.
Scheduling documentation `docs/agent-rules/`, `docs/analysis/`	Documents scheduling rules, diagnostics, cost measurements, visual evidence, quality tiers, and frame-time reporting.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Scene
  participant AnimalPathSystem
  participant AnimalScheduler
  participant AnimationAndGroom
  participant Renderer
  Scene->>AnimalPathSystem: update closed-form animal paths
  Scene->>AnimalScheduler: gather population work
  AnimalScheduler-->>Scene: return per-animal schedules and statistics
  Scene->>AnimationAndGroom: apply pose and groom schedule steps
  Renderer->>Scene: provide animal budget policy and render telemetry

Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0a268

Budget diagnostics can misstate why coat quality is constrained, and the public budget setting can be tuned as a time value even though it is a model allowance. Correct both before relying on the new scheduling telemetry and configuration guidance.

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…get (#1258) FrameTimeTail was tested and wired to nothing — the "isolated data structure left as completion" the delivery contract names, and a percentile class no frame loop pushes into reports a clean window forever. Scene now records every frame's delta into a 600-sample window and the editor shows p50/p95/p99/max, the mean, and a count of over-budget frames beside the scheduler's own counters, which is where they are meaningful together: amortising a population's work across frames does not remove it, and badly phased it makes p99 WORSE while every average improves. Three choices worth stating: - the window fills whether or not the budget is enabled, recorded before the early-out, because a tail that only accumulated while the feature was on could not be compared against anything — and off is the control arm; - it carries the CALLER's delta and never a wall-clock read. Under a mock clock, which every capture in this feature's evidence runs under, the two differ, and a wall-clock tail would make a deterministic capture non-deterministic. In OnUpdateRuntimeFixed that is frameTs, not fixedDt: the window is a statement about frames, and the fixed step can run several times inside one; - it resets at a play-mode transition, because a window spanning edit-mode and runtime frames describes neither. TheFrameTimeWindowIsFilledByTheRealSceneTick is the wiring assertion. Its over-budget check is stated both ways round after the first draft asserted zero against a 16.6 ms budget "because a 60 Hz tick is not over 60 Hz" — 16.667 is over 16.6, every frame, which is exactly the kind of boundary error an over-budget count exists to surface. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Both were green locally and red on CI, for two different reasons worth naming. A RAW NEWLINE INSIDE A STRING LITERAL. The frame-time tooltip in SceneHierarchyPanel.cpp had real newlines where it should have had "\n" — a warning on clang-cl, which is what build-cached uses, and error C2001 on MSVC, which is what the Windows job uses. So the editor built clean here and the CI build failed an hour in. OloEditor is not in the test target either, so nothing else would have caught it. Every C++ file in the branch has since been scanned for the signature (an odd number of unescaped quotes on a line, after stripping comments); this was the only one. A BOOL WHOSE NAME ENDED IN "Path". AssetContentValidity treats any scene-YAML key ending in `Path` as a FILE REFERENCE and fails when it does not resolve on disk, so `AnimalPathComponent::m_OrientToPath` serialised to `OrientToPath: true` and took the asset-validity suite down on three sanitizer shards. Renamed to m_FaceAlongMotion, which is also just a better name — it faces along the path's tangent, which is its motion direction. The component's own comment now says why the name is what it is, so nobody renames it back. Verified: the regenerated scene still opens in the real editor, 44/44 entities, zero errors in OloEngine.log; AssetContentValidity and the 311-case sweep over every suite this branch touches are green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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In `@docs/agent-rules/multi-animal-scheduling-budgets.md`:
- Line 136: Update the unfairness criterion in the scheduling-budget guidance:
do not use MaxStarvedFrames at or above StarvationFrames as evidence that one
animal is permanently coarse while peers are sharp. Replace it with the
scheduler contract’s relative peer-at-desired condition.
- Around line 16-18: Align the documentation with the available evidence: in
docs/agent-rules/multi-animal-scheduling-budgets.md lines 16-18, describe
AnimalCostModel coefficients as structural model values unless named-hardware
calibration exists; in docs/analysis/multi-animal-scheduling-budgets-1258.md
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In `@docs/analysis/multi-animal-scheduling-budgets-1258.md`:
- Line 73: Update the “reachable by the budget” total in the scheduling budgets
table from 66 823 to 66 824, leaving the associated percentage and other table
values unchanged.

In `@OloEditor/assets/benchmark/manifests/animal-population.diagnostic.yaml`:
- Around line 37-42: Remove vulkan from the Supported list in the Backends
configuration until a Vulkan capture validates the diagnostic’s population
behavior; leave the existing OpenGL support and attachment configuration
unchanged.

In `@OloEditor/src/Panels/SceneHierarchyPanel.cpp`:
- Around line 9626-9629: Replace the four reinterpret_cast-based DragInt
bindings with a shared local drawStepCap helper that edits a temporary int,
clamps it with std::clamp to 0–16, and stores the result back as u32. Apply the
helper to m_MaxDeformationSteps, m_MaxSimulationSteps, m_MaxVisibilitySteps, and
m_MaxShadowSteps so text input cannot produce an out-of-range unsigned cap.

In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Scene/Scene.cpp`:
- Around line 5864-5874: Increment m_AnimalPoseTick once at the start of the
editor animation-preview loop in OnUpdateEditor, before iterating entities
through the animation group. Keep the existing per-entity pose gating unchanged
so editor preview advances the same clock as Scene::UpdateAnimation.

In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Scene/Scene.h`:
- Around line 1628-1650: Remove the unused m_AnimalFrameCounter member and its
increment in ScheduleAnimalPopulationForFrame. Retain m_AnimalPoseTick and its
existing deformation-scheduling behavior unchanged.

In `@OloEngine/tests/Functional/Rendering/AnimalPopulationViaSceneTickTest.cpp`:
- Around line 95-110: Update AnimalPopulationFixture to save RendererSettings
before FunctionalTest::SetUp() invokes BuildScene(), then restore the saved
settings in AnimalPopulationFixture::TearDown() before calling the base
teardown. Ensure process-wide renderer values changed by the fixture, including
AnimalFrameBudgetUnits, do not leak into later tests; leave
AnimalBudgetVisualEvidenceTest unchanged.

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+        /// Frames since the scene started running, used ONLY to phase the
+        /// staggered deformation ticks. Its absolute value is never read — only
+        /// `(counter + phase) % period` — so a wrap is harmless.
+        ///
+        /// THE STAGGER IS THE WHOLE POINT of this counter, and it is what makes
+        /// the frame-time TAIL fall rather than only the mean. Forty animals at
+        /// a quarter rate all ticking on the same frame is the same peak cost
+        /// as forty animals at full rate, once every four frames; spread across
+        /// the period it is a quarter of the peak. A scheduler without the
+        /// phase improves every average and leaves the stutter exactly where it
+        /// was.
+        u64 m_AnimalFrameCounter = 0;
+
+        /// The clock the deformation stagger is phased on, advanced once per
+        /// UpdateAnimation — which is the function the gate's body runs in.
+        ///
+        /// A SECOND COUNTER AND NOT m_AnimalFrameCounter, because the two count
+        /// different events: UpdateAnimation runs from SimulateRuntimeStep,
+        /// which the fixed-timestep accumulator calls zero or more times per
+        /// rendered frame. Phasing on the frame counter freezes animals outright
+        /// whenever the display rate is a multiple of the fixed step — see
+        /// ShouldPoseAnimalThisFrame.
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Remove the unused animal frame counter. m_AnimalFrameCounter is a private member that is incremented but never read. m_AnimalPoseTick performs deformation scheduling. Remove this member and its increment in ScheduleAnimalPopulationForFrame; keep m_AnimalPoseTick as the deformation clock.

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Already done — m_AnimalFrameCounter no longer exists anywhere in the tree (grep -rn m_AnimalFrameCounter OloEngine/ OloEditor/ returns nothing at d4f99ee). m_AnimalPoseTick remains the deformation clock, as you suggested. Stale thread; safe to resolve.

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CodeRabbit's review, and the major finding is right in a way that matters: the documents drew firm conclusions from model-priced percentages while section 4 admitted the coefficients are order-of-magnitude. Both cannot be true at once, and "draw calls carry 2.3%, so batching is not the missing piece" is exactly the kind of claim that inherits its input's uncertainty. The fix is not to soften the prose. It is to MEASURE THE MARGIN: TheDrawCallConclusionSurvivesALargeErrorInItsOwnCoefficient computes how far PerDrawCall would have to be wrong before draw calls became the largest line in the frame, and the answer is 20.4x — 133 units per draw instead of 6.5. A conclusion that survives a twentyfold error in its own input is safe at the accuracy actually claimed; the assertion fails below 10x, so the distinction is checked rather than asserted. Criterion 2 is now answered with a bound rather than with a number. Three overclaims removed, all of them mine: - "one unit is nominally one microsecond on the calibration machine" — no per-axis calibration was performed, so attaching a time unit claimed a measurement that does not exist. A unit is a unit; what the coefficients carry is the RATIOS between the axes. - "drift between the model and the machine is visible as a counter" — nothing compares EstimatedCostUnits against a measured frame time, so it is a budget-occupancy figure and not a drift detector. Wiring that comparison against Scene::GetFrameTimeTail() is named as the calibration follow-up. - the rules doc's failure table still offered MaxStarvedFrames >= StarvationFrames as an unfairness test, contradicting the correction already made in the header and the analysis doc. It measures PRESSURE and grows for everybody when nothing can be served; the unfairness condition is relative and the table now says so. Also: reachable is 66 824, not 66 823 (73 116.10 - 6 291.76 = 66 824.34), and rule 8 now states why the starvation bound is relative rather than absolute. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

drsnuggles8 · 2026-09-21T03:50:10Z

All three addressed in 164e72d.

1. Calibration claims vs evidence — agreed, and this was the useful one. The documents drew firm
conclusions from model-priced percentages while §4 admitted the coefficients were order-of-magnitude.
Both cannot be true.

I did not just soften the prose, because "draw calls are 2.3 %" is worthless either way if the
coefficient behind it is approximate. Instead the conclusion now carries a measured margin:
AnimalSchedulingCensus.TheDrawCallConclusionSurvivesALargeErrorInItsOwnCoefficient computes how far
PerDrawCall would have to be wrong before draw calls became the largest line in the frame.

[census] draw-call conclusion margin: PerDrawCall would have to be 20.4x larger (133 units instead of 6.50) before draw calls were the largest line

A conclusion that survives a twentyfold error in its own input is safe at the accuracy actually
claimed. The assertion fails below 10×, so if a future change erodes that margin the census says so
rather than continuing to quote a percentage.

The two unsupported claims are gone:

"one unit is nominally one microsecond on the calibration machine" — no per-axis calibration was
performed, so a time unit claimed a measurement that does not exist. A unit is a unit; what the
coefficients carry is the ratios between axes.
"drift between the model and the machine is visible as a counter" — nothing compares
EstimatedCostUnits against a measured frame time, so it is a budget-occupancy figure, not a drift
detector. §4 now names wiring it against Scene::GetFrameTimeTail() as the calibration follow-up.

2. MaxStarvedFrames as an unfairness test — correct, and it was a self-inconsistency. I had
already corrected this in AnimalScheduler.h and the analysis doc (it measures pressure, and grows
for every animal when nothing can be served) but left the old claim standing in the rules doc's
failure table. Fixed: the table now gives the relative condition — a same-role peer sitting at its
desired step while this one is below it — and points at
AnimalSchedulerStarvation.NoAnimalIsPassedOverWhileAPeerSitsAtItsDesiredStep as the shape to copy.

Rule 8 also now records why the bound is relative rather than absolute: an absolute bound is
unachievable at any budget small enough to matter, and the first version of that contract test
asserted it and failed at 200 frames against a correct scheduler.

3. 66 824, not 66 823 — correct. 73 116.10 − 6 291.76 = 66 824.34. Fixed, along with the
share (91.39 %).

Thanks — the first finding changed the shape of the argument rather than just its wording.

…#1258) Adds a read-only MCP tool reporting what the groom pass DREW this frame beside what the population budget DECIDED before it, plus the rolling frame-time window. WHY IT WAS NEEDED. Verifying this feature on a live editor meant grepping OloEngine.log for `built strand geometry ... (stride N)`. Those lines only appear on a geometry CACHE MISS, so a steady-state frame logs nothing at all and the numbers depend on how long the session has run. It is a bad instrument, and it hid a real bug. THE BUG IT FOUND, WITHIN MINUTES OF EXISTING. On the live population scene the visibility axis reported scheduledCostUnits (245.7) ABOVE desiredCostUnits (184.9). Higher cost means FINER, and nothing in the scheduler can refuse to coarsen except a floor — so MinVisibleStrands was holding coats against their own distance ladder, which is the "invisible distant coats" guarantee doing its job. AnimalsAtVisibilityFloor reported 0 anyway. The counter required `step > desired` — "the BUDGET pushed it to its cap" — and so was blind to the route that matters most: the ladder asking to thin past the floor and being refused, which needs no budget pressure at all. Both routes now count. The same scene reports 18 of 41 animals held at the floor, and TheFloorCounterSeesTheLadderBeingRefusedAndNotOnlyTheBudget pins the regression. That is the second counter on this issue that looked right and was measuring the wrong population — MaxStarvedFrames was the first — and both were found by reading a real frame rather than the code. SCOPE NOTE, DELIBERATE: this touches OloEditor/src/MCP/, which the parallel branch feature/mcp-screenshot-path-rt-trace-ray-607 owns, and skips the #607 tracker-bullet process CLAUDE.md prescribes for a missing olo_* tool. Both were raised and the user directed otherwise, so a merge conflict with that branch is expected and known rather than an accident. The diff is confined to one new header plus an insertion in McpToolsRender.cpp to keep that conflict small. Verified on Vulkan and OpenGL: 41/41 grooms, heroesCoarsened 0/1, 0 errors, 0 VUIDs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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🟡 Minor · Remove the wall-clock meaning from the public budget comments. · AnimalScheduler.h:237-240

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Remove the wall-clock meaning from the public budget comments. AnimalCostModel and AnimalFrameBudgetUnits currently describe units as calibration-machine microseconds and describe 6000 as a 6 ms slice. The implementation and documented contract use arbitrary structural ratios instead. Update AnimalScheduler.h, RenderingPath.h, and QualityTiering.h to remove the microsecond and 6 ms wording so consumers do not configure these budgets as time measurements.
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In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Scene/AnimalScheduler.h` around lines 237 - 240,
Update the public comments for AnimalCostModel and AnimalFrameBudgetUnits in
AnimalScheduler.h, RenderingPath.h, and QualityTiering.h to describe budget
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In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Scene/AnimalScheduler.cpp`:
- Around line 653-654: Update the visibility-floor counter condition near
ladderRefused and budgetCapped to compute the strand-only cap with
MaxVisibilityStepForStrandFloor and require visCap to equal it before
incrementing AnimalsAtVisibilityFloor. Preserve the existing visibility,
strand-count, policy, ladderRefused, and budgetCapped checks.

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- Around line 511-513: Update the explanatory comments near the live population
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floor, while preserving the surrounding context about the
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- Around line 237-240: Update the public comments for AnimalCostModel and
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QualityTiering.h to describe budget units as arbitrary structural cost ratios
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+                const bool ladderRefused = visCap < visDesired;
+                const bool budgetCapped = schedule.Step[vis] > visDesired && schedule.Step[vis] >= visCap;


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Count only strand-floor-limited visibility caps. m_MaxVisibilitySteps is an authored per-animal cap that applies separately from the population budget and strand floor. If it is lower than the strand-floor cap, MaxVisibilityStepForStrandFloor returns the authored cap, so visCap < visDesired can be true without the strand floor limiting the step. This inflates AnimalsAtVisibilityFloor.

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const u32 visCap = std::min(item.MaxStep[vis], kMaxBudgetSteps); const u32 visDesired = std::min(item.DesiredStep[vis], kMaxBudgetSteps); + const u32 strandFloorCap = MaxVisibilityStepForStrandFloor( + item.StrandCount, policy.MinVisibleStrands, kMaxBudgetSteps); const bool ladderRefused = visCap < visDesired; const bool budgetCapped = schedule.Step[vis] > visDesired && schedule.Step[vis] >= visCap; if (item.Visible && item.StrandCount > 0u && policy.MinVisibleStrands > 0u && + visCap == strandFloorCap && (ladderRefused || budgetCapped))

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This is the earlier round of the same finding, now fixed in d4f99ee — detail in the thread on the current line.

Implemented slightly differently from the suggested diff: ladderRefused is computed from the floor-only cap directly (floorOnlyCap < visDesired) rather than gating both routes on visCap == floorOnlyCap, because "the ladder asked to thin past the floor and was refused" is a property of the floor, not of the authored cap. The budgetCapped route carries the visCap == floorOnlyCap discriminator you suggested. Pinned by AnimalSchedulerFloor.AnAnimalHeldByItsAuthoredCapIsNotCountedAgainstTheFloor, which fails on the old comparison.

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…ones (#1258) I reported "three findings" from CodeRabbit's first pass and acted on three. There were EIGHT — my poller truncated its output and I did not check the count against the API. The five I skipped are below, with the two from the second pass. EDIT MODE FROZE EVERY GATED ANIMAL. m_AnimalPoseTick was incremented in UpdateAnimation only, but OnUpdateEditor runs its OWN preview loop and never calls it — so in edit mode the clock held a constant value while the scheduler kept assigning non-zero deformation steps. Every animal whose UUID-derived phase did not satisfy the congruence was skipped on every frame, forever, in that mode only, with nothing logged. This is the same bug as the 120 Hz freeze fixed two commits ago, reappearing at the site that fix did not reach. The clock now advances immediately above BOTH animation loops, and AnimalPoseTickIsAdvancedAtEveryAnimationSite scans Scene.cpp for the pairing — SkeletalDeformationContract's mechanism, for its reason: a clock wired into only some entry points is invisible in every test that drives the others. The scan was verified by deleting the editor-site increment and watching it fail by line number, because a guard nobody has seen fail is not a guard. AnimalsAtVisibilityFloor over-counted. It compared against the item's COMBINED cap, which also carries the authored m_MaxVisibilitySteps — so an animal held by its author was counted as held by the strand floor. It now compares against the floor-only cap. Manifest: the Vulkan capture is no longer a claim. `olo_benchmark_capture` was run against a live editor on `--rhi=vulkan` — all four cameras, attachmentFailures 0, 0 VUIDs — and that run skipped LinearDepth on every camera (`Derive: linear-depth` has no Vulkan path). UnsupportedAttachments now declares it, because an empty list was a claim the capture itself contradicts and a reader counting attachments would take 8 of 9 for a complete set. Editor: the four step-cap DragInts aliased a u32 through `int*`. DragInt does not clamp Ctrl+click text entry, so typing -1 stored 4294967295, which the scheduler clamps to its MAXIMUM step — entering the smallest value selected the largest cap. Now a local int through std::clamp. Tests: AnimalPopulationFixture writes process-wide RendererSettings and never restored them, leaking a 700-unit budget into every later case in the binary. Saved in SetUp, restored in TearDown. Also: removed m_AnimalFrameCounter, incremented and never read since the clock moved; corrected "41 coats" to "18 of 41" in the three places that quoted the live measurement. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…1258) CI caught this: McpDocsCoverage.EveryRegisteredToolAppearsInTheGuide fails on any tool registered but never mentioned in docs/guides/mcp-diagnostics-server.md, and I added the tool without adding the row. A tool nothing tells a reader about is undiscoverable — `tools/list` serves an exposure profile rather than the registry, so the guide is the only place the full surface is written down. Two places, because the guide indexes twice: the per-tool table and the toolset listing at the bottom. Found on the UBSan shard rather than locally, because I ran the animal/renderer suites and not the MCP ones after adding an MCP tool. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Resolves the one conflict, docs/guides/mcp-diagnostics-server.md: master's olo_rt_trace_ray row (#607) and this branch's olo_groom_budget_stats row (#1258) both land in the tool table and in the `render` toolset list, which is the union of the two sides. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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🟡 Minor · Document AnimalFrameBudgetUnits as model units, not microseconds. · RenderingPath.h:218-222

OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/RenderingPath.h:218-222
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Document AnimalFrameBudgetUnits as model units, not microseconds. AnimalFrameBudgetUnits flows into AnimalBudgetPolicy and controls population scheduling against AnimalCostModel costs. The scheduling contract defines these as calibrated work units, not clock durations. The current comment can cause authors to tune 6000 as a 6 ms budget, which can select an unintended schedule or set BudgetExceeded. State that 6000 is a model budget, not 6 ms.
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In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/RenderingPath.h` around lines 218 - 222,
Update the comment for AnimalFrameBudgetUnits to describe the value as
calibrated AnimalCostModel work units used by AnimalBudgetPolicy scheduling, not
microseconds or a 6 ms duration; explicitly state that 6000 is a model budget
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In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Scene/AnimalScheduler.cpp`:
- Around line 660-664: Update the budgetCapped condition in the visibility
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floorOnlyCap, while preserving the existing schedule.Step comparisons. This must
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- Around line 218-222: Update the comment for AnimalFrameBudgetUnits to describe
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scheduling, not microseconds or a 6 ms duration; explicitly state that 6000 is a
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+        const sizet lo = i >= 24u ? i - 24u : 0u;
+        bool advanced = false;
+        for (sizet j = lo; j < i && !advanced; ++j)
+        {
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Make the per-loop check syntax-aware.

The test searches the preceding 24 source lines for the text ++m_AnimalPoseTick;. It does not establish that the match is executable code belonging to that loop. A comment, string, inactive block, or unrelated nearby statement can satisfy the check while the loop lacks an executable increment.

Use a syntax-aware scan or behavior-based test that associates an executable increment with each animation loop. The two current loop sites are far apart, so one increment cannot satisfy both through the current 24-line windows.

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Partly taken, in d4f99ee.

Checked the concrete risk first: ++m_AnimalPoseTick; appears in Scene.cpp only at 4218 and 5853, each immediately above its loop at 4219 / 5854, and there is no comment or string occurrence anywhere in the file. So the scan is not passing on a non-executable match today — this is drift insurance rather than a live break.

Took the cheap half of the suggestion instead of the heavy one: the scan now runs each candidate line through a small StripNonCode sieve that drops // comments and string literals before searching, which closes the comment/log-message loophole without putting a C++ parser in a unit test. StripNonCode has its own case that feeds it a comment, a trailing comment and a string containing the token.

Skipping the behavioural rewrite deliberately, for the reason in the test's own header comment: a behavioural test would have to drive OnUpdateEditor with a real clip and skeleton — that is the visual-evidence fixture's job — and it would still only cover the sites somebody remembered to drive, which is the failure mode this scan exists to catch. You are right that the two sites are far enough apart that one increment cannot satisfy both 24-line windows; noted that in the test.

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@drsnuggles8, the StripNonCode change closes the // comment and ordinary string-literal cases. The added focused test also validates that sieve.

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…1258) AnimalsAtVisibilityFloor is meant to answer "how many coats is MinVisibleStrands holding back", so an animal pinned by its author's m_MaxVisibilitySteps must be excluded. The guard that excluded it compared the item's combined cap against the floor-only cap with `<=`. Both figures come out of the same monotonic halving loop and differ only in the bound handed to it, so `<=` holds for every animal and the filter never fired: with 1000 strands over a floor of 100 the floor affords three halvings and an author who wrote 2 was still counted as floor-held. Equality is the discriminator -- true exactly when the loop stopped at the floor before the authored bound could bind. The new case settles one author-capped animal under hard pressure and asserts the counter stays 0, with a same-fixture control that lifts the authored cap to the floor's own answer and asserts it reads 1, so the fix cannot pass by switching the counter off. Verified by reverting the comparison: the case fails on `<=` and passes on `==`. Also closes the source-scan loophole CodeRabbit raised on AnimalPoseTickIsAdvancedAtEveryAnimationSite: the scan now strips line comments and string literals before looking for `++m_AnimalPoseTick;`, so a token inside the comment block that explains the tick cannot stand in for the statement. Both sites do have a real increment today, so this is drift insurance, not a live break; StripNonCode has its own case. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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		const bool ladderRefused = visCap < visDesired;
		const bool budgetCapped = schedule.Step[vis] > visDesired && schedule.Step[vis] >= visCap;

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