UI labels mixed part and piece terminology, several messages left asset and file names unquoted, and Blender preferences contained British spellings and typos.
Use piece terminology throughout displayed text, quote names and paths in messages and tooltips, and standardize US English spelling. Keep status-bar names and the properties-dialog title unquoted. Update translation source keys while preserving existing translations, settings keys, and external format names.
Validation: macOS Qt 6.10 Debug build passed without warnings; XML, translation-key, placeholder, and whitespace checks passed.
Keep the final piece error on its request and retain that request directly for deferred notification delivery. This removes duplicate notification storage while preserving UI-thread reference cleanup and cancellation behavior.
Inline the single-use piece wait helper into the batch wait, restoring the caller's OpenGL context once per batch. Remove the unused completion progress return value.
Move sparse piece load errors and registry locking into lcPieceManager so
registry access, reference bookkeeping and copied worker metadata share one
owner. Release registry and error locks before resource teardown, recursive
project deletion or loader cancellation; remove library lock scopes around
UI source resolution and worker-drained settings changes.
Add HasOtherReferences to the shared asset reference for piece and texture
consumer checks, removing the library/manager consumer-query wrappers. Keep
the post-release cancellation count check and existing lifetime policies.
Rename the sparse error map to mPieceDataLoadErrors and document the completed
manager boundary and thread/teardown contracts.
Validation: warning-free macOS Qt 6.10 Debug build and all 43 offscreen
lifecycle checks pass, including concurrent metadata/error reads, settings
changes with pending requests and shared reference queries. Qt 5, ASan and
successful GPU rendering were not tested.
Texture lookup previously acquired references implicitly, and mesh sections and
loader requests paired raw texture pointers with manual release paths. Separate
borrowed lookup from scoped acquisition and explicit load requests/waits to match
the piece data ownership API.
Store lcTextureRef in mesh sections and loader requests, retain references on
section copies, and reset worker-shared request handles on the UI thread before
completion, cancellation, or shutdown. Keep reference primitives internal and use
scoped acquisitions for merge validation. Remove redundant section initialization
and synth-notification resets, and document the resulting ownership contracts.
Validation: macOS Debug build, diff whitespace checks, and 30 offscreen lifecycle
checks covering reference copies/moves, texture dependencies, cancellation,
shutdown, merge conflicts, and existing piece ownership paths. Successful GPU
upload/rendering is not covered by the offscreen checks.
Replace manual piece-data retain/release bookkeeping with shared copyable
asset-reference handles. Pieces, models, selection, minifigs, thumbnails,
and stored insertion previews retain their dependencies explicitly, while
transient queries continue to borrow pointers.
Separate registered lookup and acquisition from asynchronous load requests
and explicit readiness waits. Keep loader-held references through work and
notification delivery, resetting shared request handles on the UI thread
and guarding callback-triggered library teardown.
Validated with the Qt 6.10 debug build and 26 offscreen lifecycle checks,
including cancellation, stale requests, copy/move operations, model/preview
teardown, undo, project merge/export, and loader shutdown.
Use PieceData consistently for the shared part/model record, its related
APIs and variables, and its source files. Keep the existing reference
counting and loading behavior so ownership and readiness changes can be
reviewed separately.
Keep piece readiness, mesh publication, and settled synth errors in the
library while the loader manages scheduling, request outcomes, cancellation,
and deferred notifications. Capture synth inputs and base identities at the
library boundary so the loader treats pieces as opaque identities.
Use a shared asset readiness enum for pieces and textures. Keep texture
queueing, decoding, and retry progress in requests, pass resolved sources to
the loader, and centralize texture failure messages in lcTexture. Preserve
scoped wait failure and cancellation results alongside final readiness checks.
Consolidate shared priorities, sources, snapshots, build results, and texture
error codes in lc_assettypes.h, replacing lc_filesource.h. Forward declarations
remove the loader header's piece, library, and texture-manager dependencies.
Validated with the Qt Debug build, header isolation compilation, asset loader
lifecycle and scheduling regression checks, and 14 first/repeat export checks.
Keep the persistent registry of live synth instances in the library, where
settings changes can refresh completed and failed generations through the
normal request lifecycle. The loader retains only pending work and errors.
After draining assigned jobs to change shared settings safely, resume
replacement work asynchronously instead of waiting for unrelated queued
assets. Rebuild model geometry through the normal loader entry point,
invalidating stale requests without adding a consumer reference.
Reduce the loader's public API, group its declarations by responsibility,
and document the ownership and asynchronous refresh behavior.
Validated with the Qt Debug build, loader lifecycle and scheduling regression
checks, model and synth refresh checks, and 14 first/repeat export checks.
Move request selection and lifecycle updates to the UI thread so worker jobs
only build their assigned asset and hand back a completion. This removes
request-map locking and keeps priority promotion, cancellation, and publication
under one thread's ownership.
Limit outstanding jobs to half the reported hardware threads, with a minimum
of one and no fixed cap. Release job slots before texture dependency settlement
and retain completion wakeups for synchronous waits, pause, and shutdown.
Share piece-request cleanup while preserving in-flight load holds. Use cancelled
request states to suppress invalidated notifications instead of an obsolete flag.
Clarify function names, document the lifecycle, and group header declarations.
Validation: Qt Debug build, scheduler and lifecycle harness, one-slot texture
success/retry checks, notification suppression and reference checks, 14 asset
exports, and git diff --check passed.
The loader kept separate queues alongside its request maps and represented
request progress with overlapping booleans. Keep pending work in the maps
and select queued requests by priority and age using a shared lifecycle
state and scheduling fields.
Preserve cancellation ownership through outstanding worker completions,
restart staged meshes after settings changes, and protect wait-state reads
with the request mutex. Skip request scans when workers cannot start.
Pass the existing piece source snapshot to texture resolution instead of
separate lookup containers, and document the updated request lifecycle.
Validation: Qt Debug build, loader scheduling/cancellation/cache/lifecycle
checks, 14 first/repeat exports, and git diff --check passed.
Color finalization no longer requires a UI-thread handoff between parsing and mesh conversion. Have the library and synth build services return converted private meshes, removing intermediate request/result mesh data and conversion requeue paths.
Fall back to source parsing immediately when a cached mesh cannot be decoded, eliminating SkipCache and the UI retry branch. Simplify paused staging cleanup and document the combined worker lifecycle; section finalization and publication remain on the UI thread.
Cached meshes retained color-dependent flags and section ordering from the palette used when they were saved. Finalize fresh piece, synth, and cached mesh sections on the UI thread so color indices, flags, and ordering all reflect the current palette before publication.
Keep color codes in private mesh sections until finalization and remove separate color-code vectors, worker palette snapshots, and the early color-resolution path. Geometry conversion now runs without global color access or texture lookup callbacks.
Use consistent names for piece loading, synth generation, worker completions, and outstanding work. Remove the unused library drain wrapper and call the loader directly during settings updates.
Check for the final consumer release in the library before cancelling queued piece work, and document how running builds retain their load hold until completion. Update callers and asset-loading documentation.
Asset requests carried duplicate phase, generation, and notification state.
Remove unused texture dependencies and project-path storage, derive conversion
from owned mesh data, and use request identity, cancellation, and the stopping
flag to reject obsolete results.
Decode cached meshes in the library's worker build service so serialized bytes
stay local and completions retain only decoded data and a cache-origin flag.
Make draining private to the loader destructor and remove duplicate shutdown
calls from library unload and destruction. Document the resulting lifecycle.
Validation: macOS Qt 6.10 Debug build; 14 first/repeat CLI exports; temporary
lifecycle checks covering cold/warm/corrupt caches, notification delivery and
suppression, pause/resume, cancellation, destructor-only draining, and reload.
Pass effective startup stud settings into the library and apply color preferences before loading. Replace the reload toggle with UpdateStudStyleAndColors, preserve configured settings in the fallback library, and save the selected color config before combined preferences updates.
Remove temporary consumer references from synchronous piece waits, the redundant drain mutex, and worker-start queues. Derive loading states from current requests and use explicit piece names for request, queue, and notification storage. Document the updated ownership and settings contracts.
Validated with a Debug build, startup style and color exports, 14 asset export checks, and temporary lifecycle checks covering owned waits, failed and duplicate requirements, regeneration, cancellation, pause/resume, reference cleanup, and shutdown.
Replace load flags and the loader's separate priority enum with Low, Normal, and Blocking priorities. Blocking loads wait for completion; asynchronous loads and internal scheduling retain promotion-only behavior.
Acquire consumer references in the library, reuse loader loading for stud-style rebuilds, and remove QueuePiece, single-piece readiness wrappers, and the library texture readiness wrapper. Rename scoped readiness APIs to WaitFor functions and document their scheduling and lifetime contracts.
Validated with a Debug build and a temporary lifecycle harness covering priority promotion, blocking loads, reference cleanup, selective style reloads, cancellation, pause/resume, and shutdown.
Make the loading lifecycle easier to follow by ordering functions by phase, splitting completion handling by asset type, and sharing color and texture preparation. Use Piece terminology, rename model rebuilding, and document reference and waiting behavior.
Keep pending work in the normal queues while paused, refresh piece snapshots before resuming, and remove duplicate enqueue and cancellation paths. QueuePiece now explicitly schedules background work.
Validated with a Debug build, 14 CLI export checks, and a temporary lifecycle harness covering staging resets, style refresh, cancellation, eight in-flight pause/resume cycles, last-consumer release, and shutdown.
Part request IDs were assigned and copied to build results but never read. Remove the fields, counter, and assignments; stale completion checks continue to use request identity and generation.
SetImage previously uploaded automatically on the UI thread while the asset
loader needed a separate AdoptDecodedImage path to control context switching
and retries. Make SetImage and the renamed SetImages prepare and store pixels
only, remove AdoptDecodedImage and LoadImages, and upload generated atlases
explicitly. CacheStrings now accepts the caller's current rendering context.
Retain cube-map faces and supplied mipmaps through SetImages. Advance the
image index after each face so a supplied mip chain does not leave the next
face reading the previous face's last mip level.
Validation: full application build and diff checks passed. OpenGL readback
checks covered explicit setters, all six cube faces with generated and supplied
mipmaps, narrow and custom-stride image uploads, alignment restoration, failure
cleanup, and all nine grid levels against the previous generator.
Texture decoding and generated atlases previously used a custom packed-pixel
container alongside QImage, duplicating storage and image-processing code.
Use QImage throughout texture preparation and upload, remove Image and its
pixel-format enum, and store font and string masks in Alpha8 atlases.
Preserve power-of-two dimensions with smooth scaling and keep the existing
OpenGL formats, shaders, and CPU mipmap filtering. Handle padded scanlines,
restore the caller's unpack alignment on every upload return, and centralize
binding cleanup so failed uploads do not leave stale texture caches.
Validation: full application build and diff checks passed. OpenGL readback
checks covered RGB/RGBA/alpha data, padded and custom strides, generated and
supplied mipmaps, unpack-state restoration, and failure cleanup. All nine
grid mip levels matched the previous generator. Visual rendering was checked
by the user.
The direct texture-loading overloads and synchronous library/manager chain
have no callers. Remove them and the filename image-loading overload so
texture requests use the existing loader path.
Replace the texture's separate source fields with a shared lcFileSource
value in its own header. Keep source identity comparisons unchanged,
including content-based embedded texture checks during project merging.
The loader copies the source directly into its request, eliminating the
library and manager snapshot forwarding methods. Preserve the library
header's regrouping and update the asset-loading documentation.
Validated the debug build, file ownership/cursor/error checks, loader
failure and retry behavior, 800 concurrent archive reads, and matching
embedded/disk texture renders.
Texture lookup, references, decoding, and scheduling were mixed into the pieces library. Introduce lcTextureManager to own texture identities, references, and CPU decoding, while keeping source lookup and file indexes in the library and asynchronous scheduling, uploads, retries, and publication in lcAssetLoader.
Add lcFileSourceSnapshot and OpenFile to return owned disk or memory streams. The library opens files on the existing loading thread and passes lcFile references to the manager. Image decoding uses QFile or existing memory buffers directly, preserving file cursors without an extra adapter.
Hide loader-only texture services, centralize failure state and diagnostics in lcTexture::SetFailed, and use each zip archive internal extraction lock instead of a library-wide mutex. Workers are drained before archive replacement or texture-manager teardown.
Validation: debug build, file ownership and cursor checks, texture lookup and decoding checks, bounded upload-retry and reference-release checks, 800 concurrent archive reads, and matching native GPU renders for embedded and disk textures.
Parse !DATA blocks as project-scoped assets and resolve TEXMAP textures
from immutable asset snapshots without sharing same-named embedded images
between external projects. Preserve original document blocks when saving,
including blank lines, payload formatting, and unchanged model text.
Carry required submodels and embedded assets through copy, paste, and
exports, validating conflicts before import. Return clipboard errors to
the main window and preserve selected objects when Cut cannot copy them.
Fixes#937
External projects were loaded before their identities were registered,
allowing mutually referencing files to recurse until stack exhaustion.
Track canonical paths during nested loads and reject repeated paths
with a failed-piece error.
Primitive dependencies could wait indefinitely on themselves or form
cycles across workers. Track active dependency edges, reject cycles,
and replace polling with cancellation-aware condition waits. Signal
cancellation during queue drains and restore its previous state afterward.
Validation: full debug build and whitespace checks passed. A temporary
regression harness covered external and primitive cycles, 100 concurrent
cyclic-load attempts, cancellation, completion, cache hits, and queue
shutdown.
Keep each pending mesh and texture request at its highest requested priority
until it completes or is cancelled. Use one promotion helper for visible
requests and synchronous waits, propagating promotions to pending textures
without lowering priorities required by shared work.
Remove outgoing-project demotion and restoration during file opening and
LDD import. Existing reference counts continue to cancel unused queued work
and preserve assets shared with the incoming project or other views.
Validation: macOS Debug build, git diff --check, 16 priority/cancellation
checks, and 199 bounds, external-project undo, and output regression checks.
Queue per-piece synth builds alongside mesh and texture work, with cooperative cancellation for obsolete requests. Keep the previous mesh visible during edits and account for generated meshes in blocking output and loading progress. Defer preview and thumbnail rendering until their required synth meshes settle.
Keep project-local piece mappings separate from library pieces and preserve references across rename, merge, delete, and Save As.
Remap local external pieces after Save As, retain texture source order, invalidate stale loads, and refresh previews and thumbnails after asset changes. Save projects atomically and preserve active model selection in the model list.
Queue model geometry builds and mesh conversion on workers so project opening can return after parsing. Keep complete-asset waits for previews and output, and show project loading progress in the status bar.
Preserve live pieces when project names overlap, restore mappings after failed loads, and include detached pieces in buffer and stud-style updates.
- Draw a shared cube for parts whose meshes or textures are still loading.
- Update model bounds, picking, views, and loading status as assets complete.
- Wait for required assets before thumbnails, screenshots, instructions,
and geometry exports; report failures instead of rendering placeholders.
- Render and pick direct geometry in external projects.
- Defer shared buffer repacking until pending loads finish.
Build meshes and decode textures in workers, then publish meshes and upload textures on the UI thread. Mark a part loaded only after its textures are ready.
Add request cancellation, priorities, and waits scoped to required assets. Keep previews and thumbnails from rendering incomplete parts, preserve failure diagnostics, and handle corrupt caches and project changes.
Move part scheduling and futures into a library-owned lcAssetLoader while preserving current loading behavior. Hold queued parts alive through completion, deliver completion notifications on the UI thread, and drain work before library teardown.
Pause queued work during stud-style changes, rebuild affected meshes, and use an unambiguous mesh-cache settings key. Guard mesh-buffer rebuilding against allocation failure.
Add the loader to the qmake build and document common build conventions.
Leonardo Zide