Ruling S (2026-09-17): a stored [CultInspectorAssetGuid] value is the
Addressables key form itself, the bare GUID for a main asset or
"guid[subAssetName]" for a picked sub-asset (one sprite of a sheet, say) -
the same shape AssetReference keeps and Addressables.LoadAssetAsync<T>
accepts.
CultAssetGuidKey (engine-free, GameCult.Caching) pins the parse/format rule
with unit tests (bare guid, guid[name], names with brackets/spaces,
malformed input), so headless checks can share it without touching Unity.
The Studio drawer's AssetGuid branch now: resolves either key form on read;
refuses to store a built-in resource's GUID (it has no Addressables entry)
and logs why instead of silently writing nothing; shows a warning next to a
stored value that fails to parse or resolve instead of drawing it as an
ordinary empty field, and never rewrites that stale value on its own.
Rebuilt GameCult.Caching/GameCult.Caching.MessagePack plugin DLLs
(scripts/build-unity-package.ps1 -UpdateTemplate) since the new type ships
in GameCult.Caching. Compiled CultCacheStudioDrawers.cs and
CultCacheStudioWindow.cs against Unity 6000.3.24f1's editor reference set
plus these plugins in a scratch csproj (removed after): 0 errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CultInspectorAssetPathAttribute stored an engine asset path, which breaks
when the asset moves. CultInspectorAssetGuidAttribute stores the asset's
stable identity (in Unity, the .meta GUID) instead. The Studio drawer now
resolves the stored GUID to a path only to load the preview object, and
writes back AssetPathToGUID on a change. No path form survives for the
next field to pick up.
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A drawer saw only its value; Aetheria's schematic-shape drawer needs sibling
members of the owning document (texture path, aspect, hull tints).
The model owns the seam: CultInspectorEdit.Record is a second copy of the
stored document as the edit began, cloned on first read and kept for the
edit. The Studio lowers it as CultInspector.Record, so a runtime CultUI
panel gets the same seam from the same edit. The Draw signature is
unchanged, so existing drawers keep compiling.
Why not hand drawers the edit copy the Studio already draws: that copy is
what Commit upserts, so a write through it would be saved without passing
through the returned value, GUI.changed, or read-only metadata. The record
copy is read by nothing, so writing to it saves nothing and changes neither
the edit nor the cache. It does not show edits other drawers made earlier in
the same frame.
The Studio's separate document-type field collapses into the held edit.
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Key identity serialized a key with the options of the key type's own
assembly, but the store writes it inside the document with the document
assembly's options, [CultCacheFormatterResolver] resolvers included. A key
that failed to serialize fell back to comparison by ToString.
The inspector codec now takes the owning document type, ReplaceKey and
FreshKey take it, and a key serializes as its declared key type under that
document's options, the store's own path. A key the document cannot
serialize is refused with a notice; the text fallback is deleted.
The comment and README said "the dictionary's own comparer"; it is the
rebuilt dictionary type's default comparer, and now says so.
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A drawer that threw after mutating a reference value in place left that
half-made mutation in the live edit copy, where the next unrelated change
saved it. DrawDocument now reports a drawer failure, and the window drops
the edit copy uncommitted so the next frame re-clones from the cache; the
error row says nothing from that frame was saved.
The drawer contract no longer invites in-place mutation: a change returns
the new value and sets GUI.changed, and an in-place mutation without
GUI.changed is not saved reliably. Detecting such a mutation would mean
serializing the document every frame, so it is documented, not detected.
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ElementChoices says what a new list element, dictionary value or union
pick may be (a union's declared subtypes, or the slot type itself), and
CreateElement makes one or returns a notice when a subtype has no
parameterless constructor. It replaces CreateUnionValue, whose throw the
IMGUI caught and sent to the console. A dictionary with a union value
type now offers the subtypes too instead of adding a null value.
NarrowInteger clamps an integer edit to its type's range; the IMGUI no
longer converts and swallows overflow itself. IMGUI renders the model's
answers and shows its notices.
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Operator ruling: the heuristic that rebuilt unkeyed structs through a
guessed constructor is removed, not guarded. Gone: the Composite value
kind, CultInspectorShape.Composer, CultInspectorModel.Compose and
Composite, the composite-component flag on CultInspectorMember, the IMGUI
composite rebuild path, and the README text about it.
An unkeyed struct is now edited in place through its public fields. A
struct holding state it cannot write in place (a public readonly field or
a get-only auto-property) is Unsupported with a reason naming the member,
until a drawer claims it. Computed get-only properties are not state and
do not lock a struct.
The composite-rejection test goes with the heuristic; the replacement
test pins both lock rules and fails with either removed.
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A refused key and an unavailable fresh key are now the model's answer:
ReplaceKey returns the kept key with the notice text, FreshKey returns
null with its notice, and IMGUI only shows them.
A key is taken when another serializes the same or when the dictionary's
own comparer calls them equal, so 0.0 against -0.0 is refused instead of
throwing in BuildDictionary.
Keys never actually compared by bytes: the Studio handed the model the
document codec, whose registry guard throws for any non-document value,
so every key fell back to ToString. CultCacheMessagePack now builds the
model with a value serializer, and the Studio and tests both use it.
Tests pin the comparer rule, the unchanged-key rule (an old empty
reference key survives an edit of its value) and serialized identity
(keys whose ToString collides); each fails with its rule removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CultCache Studio 1.1.0 -> 1.2.0.
The IMGUI inspector is now a lowering of CultInspectorModel: it asks the
model for members, shapes, claims, record candidates and key rules and
hands every change back through it (BuildList, BuildDictionary, Compose,
CreateUnionValue, CreateRecordRef). Deleted from the Studio: its own member
discovery, list/dictionary/union classification, default construction,
key identity, the per-type CultMath drawers (composite shapes replace
them) and the nameof GetProperty key lookup. The window edits through
CultInspectorEdit and clones through the model.
Drawer extension point: ICultInspectorDrawer.Draw receives the inspector,
label, declared value type, value and member (also for list elements and
dictionary keys and values). Attribute claims win over type claims, which
win over built-in drawing; CultInspector.DrawDefault hands a value back to
built-in drawing and DrawValue draws a sub-value with claims applied.
The GameCult.Unity.Caching runtime assembly is deleted; its attributes
live in GameCult.Caching. The package no longer depends on
org.gamecult.cultmath.
Game data stays out of Assets: New refuses a path under the project's
Assets folder and says why, Open warns, and the file dialogs start in the
last store's folder or the project root, never Assets.
README names the model/lowering seam and the new drawer contract.
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Edits: drawers now mutate a MessagePack clone of the selected record.
The cached object changes only through an admitted UpsertAsync; after
any upsert attempt the copy is dropped and re-cloned from the cache, so
a refused upsert leaves memory untouched (covers member Set, list and
dictionary in-place rebuilds). Duplicate uses the same clone helper.
Foldouts restore GUI.changed, so expanding never upserts or dirties.
Extension point: Draw is wrapped; ExitGUIException rethrows, anything
else draws an error row and returns the value unchanged. A type claimed
by two or more drawers is claimed by none; every claimant is logged and
the member draws the red row naming them.
Multi-dimensional arrays (float[,], bool2[,]) draw an error row and are
never flattened into a rank-1 array.
Dictionary keys compare by serialized identity; CultRecordRef<T> keys
compare by key string with null and "" the same empty key. Null,
empty-ref and duplicate keys are refused with a visible warning. Add
picks the first unused record for ref keys and warns when none is left.
Union popup shows "None" for null and never labels a declared subtype
as undeclared.
New creates only a writable single-file store: disabled with Read Only
or Directory toggled, refuses an existing path (file or .records
folder) without closing the open store, and reports Created only after
the file exists on disk.
CultCache.FlushAsync(bool soft) kept: Mimir.CultMeshMedia calls
cache.FlushAsync(soft: true) on a CultCache through a project reference.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cut 6. CultCache Studio 1.0.0 -> 1.1.0.
Deleted: the CultCacheBridge string-reflection bridge (type lookups by
name, GetMethod/GetProperty invocation, PullOnOpen, FlushAsync(bool)),
its DescriptorInfo/CatalogMemberInfo/RecordInfo shadows, and the
disabled-text-field fallback in DrawValue. The window calls
CultCacheMessagePack.Create, UpsertAsync(Type, object, key), Remove,
FlushAsync, IsDirty, Registry.AllDescriptors, AllStoredDocuments and
BackingStores directly through GameCult.CultLib.
Window: single-file and directory stores, optional read-only open with
edits disabled and the reason shown, document types from the registry,
records by [CultName] with key fallback including subclasses, Add,
Duplicate (MessagePack round trip), Delete, immediate upsert on edit,
Save = flush, Dirty indicator. An absent [CultGlobal] shows as absent
with an explicit Create; nothing is invented. Opening and closing never
writes.
Drawers (new CultCacheStudioDrawers.cs): dictionaries with recursive
keys and values, abstract/interface members through their MessagePack
[Union] declarations only, CultRecordRef<T> record picker plus raw key,
CultMath float2/3/4, double2/3, int2, bool2, quaternion, rect, Color32,
enums including flags, lists and arrays with add/remove, nested keyed
types, a red error row for unclaimed types, and the
[CultInspectorDrawer(typeof(T))] extension point discovered through
TypeCache (ICultInspectorDrawer). Existing inspector attributes keep
working.
package.json depends on org.gamecult.cultlib 1.0.57 (Cut 7) and
org.gamecult.cultmath 0.1.2. No Unity.Mathematics reference.
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