Entry 162

No room to put it down; the put-down's own arms

2026-10-1618mplay

Filescrates/rugrats/src/actors/animator.rscrates/rugrats/src/world/game/things.rscrates/rugrats/tests/play.rs

Worklog 160 left the put-down's room test (0x80063888) unported, its nearby list having peeked empty, and the drop's landing off by a hand.

The put-down's room test, on the oracle. The nearby list is built and cleared within a frame (0x800452f8: 0x80062ed4 ... 0x800631a4), so a peek between frames sees it empty; it is there for the test. It is filled from the room lists of the player's room and its portals' rooms, and a poke of an object's place does not move it between them: worklog 160's box LP 198, poked beside Tommy, was still in its own room 6's list, not the player's room 9, so neither the put-down test nor the drop could meet it. That run's "a box put down by another does not stack" showed nothing. Linked in properly on the oracle (its +0x3b set to 9, then the loader's own 0x8004a440 injected for it): 198 at z 13100 or 13400 with Tommy at 12263 holding 197, Circle does nothing (state 0, still carried); at 13500 he puts it down, 197 resting at (42731, -1280, 12959) short of 198. The edge is 198's half-depth 256 + the held box's half-width 450 (its larger of half-width and half-depth) from the held box's middle, z 12744: 706, between 656 (refused) and 756 (put down). So a put-down never stacks: one that would overlap is refused.

Game::room_to_put holds 0x80063888: the carried thing's first model box's middle, where it is held, against every body's model box in its frame grown by that half-extent (a character's by its height); the pie is never put down (0x8005d11c). Test: a_box_held_into_another_is_not_put_down_as_the_original.

The arms of the put-down. The put-down (logical 14, table state 16) and the pick-up (15) both list animations [138, 139, 137, 136] for tracks 0-3; the pick-up's 2048 (frame 755) is on track 1's 139. Carrying, track 1 plays the carry's pose (state 19, over the base), which loops; the port kept it there through the put-down, so the box rode a still hand and no 2048 came (it let go at the animation's end, 600 ahead and 127 to the side). In the original, each frame 0x80056708 answers 1 for a base state whose word (0x800b9c30) has 64, state 16 alone, and track 1 then follows the base (0x800561b0). The animator now does so; the box swings back, comes forward and down to y -1209 and in to the middle, and is let go at frame 755's 2048, as the oracle's (per frame against its: 12653 / 12651, 12862 / 12859, 12895 / 12891 in z; -1209 / -1211 at the bottom). a_box_put_down_comes_down_in_front_as_the_original holds the landing.