Patch Notes Page 72

v0.0.796

Fixed the packaged menu-logo layout regression.
Main menu and Warden Select logo slots now reserve explicit layout space again, so WoW-Logo.png is visible in packaged clients.
Logo rendering now falls back to the element’s offset box and inferred aspect ratio if Rml reports a collapsed content height.

Fixed packaged menu-logo rendering and a remaining archive extraction leak.
Main menu and Warden Select now draw the WoW logo reliably again in packaged clients.
Loading data/assets.json no longer forces a .content_cache extraction just to report the manifest source in logs.

Fixed packaged client startup crashes after the direct .wpk loading migration.
Archive-backed music now keeps its decoded source bytes alive for the lifetime of the loaded track instead of handing SDL_mixer a dangling memory buffer.
Archive-backed sound effects now retain their source bytes as well, preventing the same packaged-build crash pattern on later SFX loads.

Finished the remaining direct .wpk runtime loading gap.
Steam and Discord runtime/config services now read JSON directly from the mod VFS instead of requiring extracted file paths.
Merged RPG, wave, contract, and recipe datasets now stay in memory and no longer write .modcache JSON files during packaged runs.
Base archive datasets can now be merged against mod overrides without unpacking wardens_content.wpk to disk.

Expanded direct .wpk runtime loading.
Textures, music, sound effects, RmlUi documents, RmlUi images, and UI fonts now load from archive-backed memory reads instead of requiring extracted files.
TMX tileset textures, custom cursor loading, and several core JSON configs now read through the mod VFS.
Startup archive extraction remains disabled, but some path-based merged JSON loaders still need follow-up work before every runtime config path is fully extraction-free.

Started direct .wpk runtime loading work.
Startup no longer eagerly extracts the full wardens_content.wpk archive into .content_cache.
Added direct archive-backed text and binary reads for bootstrap config, asset manifest loading, input bindings, and TMX map parsing.
Legacy path-based loaders still need follow-up migration, but the broad plaintext archive dump at launch is now removed.

Fixed daytime TMX fire hazards.
Tiles marked with the Fire property no longer ignite or damage the player during daytime.
Daytime campfire ambience now also ignores unlit Fire tiles, while nighttime fire hazards still behave normally.

Fixed daytime fire-tile lighting on TMX maps.
Tiles marked with the Fire property no longer emit campfire/brazier light during daytime.
Nighttime fire-tile lighting still renders normally, while steady Light tiles remain unaffected.