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perf: let an idle terrain-following vehicle stop reading the ground every tick - #94

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  • Reviewed: Opus 5.5 (medium) APPROVE at e75fcec (round 2).
  • Dual-reviewed: fresh Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.2 (medium) both APPROVE at e75fcec. Since then only 47ee562: comments, one more test, and isParked() checking the terrain rule first (same result).
  • CodeRabbit: asked for one change at 2190fec, fixed in e75fcec and its thread answered; its re-review is rate limited, so the model reviews stand in.
  • Local tests: 132 tests in the four affected classes passed at 47ee562
  • Dev-tested: passed at e75fcec on TFMCDev01, see "Dev test". 47ee562 to be rechecked on Dev with the release jar before it goes to Main.

Why

The 11-12 Main profiles show VehicleFramework's tick costing about five times more per player than on 11-07. One part of that is a single vehicle: the Small Car, the only type whose ground state has terrain-follow: true. isParked() refuses any state that follows the terrain, because the terrain step reads the blocks under the vehicle. So an empty Small Car with no throttle runs the whole step every tick: a ray under each wheel, then a teleport onto the spot it already stands on. On Main that one car cost about 0.1 ms per tick (7.2 s an hour), all of it in applyTerrainFollow (55% teleport, 42% ray traces).

What

  • TerrainRest (new, per movement controller) counts the terrain steps that leave an idle vehicle exactly where it was, with the same tilt and no velocity. After 20 in a row the vehicle is settled.
  • While settled, applyTerrainFollow leaves the step out. The tick still zeroes the velocity and stops the drive animations, which is all the step did for a vehicle that does not move.
  • The step comes back at once when the vehicle is found anywhere else (a fall, a push, a piston), when it is no longer idle, or when the terrain debug view is on.
  • One tick in 20 still runs the full step, so a block placed or removed under a vehicle that nothing moves is seen within a second.
  • The rest is forgotten when the vehicle is changed behind the step's back: on any state swap (StateHandler.swapState) and when a tow attaches it, which resets its bone to level (TowHandler.attach). Both call StateHandler.resetTerrainRest(), which covers every state's controller.
  • "Idle" is the existing parked rule without its terrain exclusion: an engine vehicle on the ground with nobody aboard, no throttle, no speed, nothing in tow, not burning, not a train. isParked() itself is unchanged in behaviour; its checks moved into standsIdle() so both paths share them.

Behaviour change

A parked terrain-following vehicle reacts up to 1 second late to a change of the ground under it that does not move the vehicle by itself. A vehicle that vanilla physics moves (the block under it is removed and it falls) reacts on the next tick, as before.

Testing

  • TerrainRestTest (8) and VehicleMovementControllerCoverageTest (64, 5 new) pass.
  • Full mvn clean verify on Windows: 1,982 tests, 0 failures with an English locale (5 tests fail on this PC's decimal comma without it, none in this change). The coverage check reports 14 missed lines, all in classes whose tests are skipped on Windows (TrackStore, VehicleSqliteBackup, VehicleRepository, three loaders); every new line is covered.

Dev test (d409553, last row at e75fcec, TFMCDev01)

Four Small Cars parked on a flat platform, measured with VehicleFramework's own ground-engine-logging (one line per terrain step):

Case 2.19.0 This PR
Four idle cars 80 steps a second, all the time 80 a second for the first second, then 4 (one per car)
A car pushed half a block n/a steps resume the same tick, settled again 1 s later
Ground under a car drops one block n/a car is on the lower ground within 2 s
Ground comes back up n/a car climbs back within 3 s
A bot takes the captain seat n/a 20 steps a second while aboard, 1 a second again within a second of leaving
Water rises over a settled car and is drained again (e75fcec) n/a state goes ground, floating, ground; back on the very same spot the car runs the full 20 steps again before it rests

The cars kept their exact position while resting. No VehicleFramework errors in the Dev log.

Review notes left as they are

  • Settling looks at the tilt the step asks for, not the bone's angle (nit): after 20 equal steps under 0.3% of the gap is left, and the rechecks finish it.
  • The rest check compares position, not yaw (nit): nothing turns an idle, empty, untowed vehicle's entity.
  • StateHandler.resetTerrainRest() would fail on a template handler (nit): templates have no movement controllers, and nothing calls it on one.
  • The tow test checks the call, not the tilt coming back (nit): the controller test covers what the call does. A tow attach was not exercised on Dev.
  • Resting stays on while the ground engine log is on (nit): a resting vehicle then logs one step a second. A comment says so; the Dev test relies on it.

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…very tick

A vehicle whose ground state follows the terrain (the Small Car) is never
parked: its step traces a ray under every wheel and teleports the vehicle
onto the result, every tick, also when it stands empty on the spot the
step keeps returning. On Main one Small Car cost about 0.1 ms per tick.

TerrainRest counts the steps that leave an idle vehicle where it was with
the same tilt. After 20 in a row the step is left out until the vehicle is
found anywhere else, is no longer idle, or 20 ticks have passed, so a
block changed under a vehicle nothing moves is seen within a second. The
left-out tick still zeroes the velocity and stops the drive animations,
as the step did.

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  • Improvements
    • Stationary vehicles using terrain following can now skip some ground checks after remaining settled, with periodic rechecks.
    • Ground checks resume when the vehicle moves or its position or tilt changes. Checks also remain active in terrain-follow debug mode and when other activity, such as passengers, fire, throttle, speed or a tow hitch, prevents the vehicle from being considered idle.

The controller now tracks when a terrain-following vehicle remains settled. It can skip up to 19 terrain steps before a recheck. The added tests cover settling criteria, skipped steps, rechecks and conditions that keep terrain checks active.

Changes: Terrain-follow resting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Settling and recheck tracking
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/vehicleframework/vehicles/controller/TerrainRest.java, src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/vehicleframework/vehicles/controller/TerrainRestTest.java
TerrainRest counts still steps and tracks position and tilt. After settling, it skips up to 19 steps before allowing a recheck. Tests cover settling, rechecks, changes to tracked values and reset behaviour.
Controller integration
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/vehicleframework/vehicles/controller/VehicleMovementController.java
The controller checks whether the vehicle is idle and whether terrain-follow debug mode is disabled before it skips a step. Skipped steps zero and propagate velocity, animate movement, then return. Non-idle steps and null results reset tracking.
Controller behaviour tests
src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/vehicleframework/vehicles/controller/VehicleMovementControllerCoverageTest.java
Tests cover settling and skipped checks, along with movement, location changes, passengers, fire, throttle, speed, tow-hitch occupancy, debug mode and null terrain results.

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Suggested reviewers: ryanbarlow97

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 2190f

An idle terrain-following vehicle that is attached to a tow can stay visually flat for several seconds before its tilt matches the ground. Nothing else in the change shows a concrete merge-blocking problem, so this is a bounded follow-up fix for the author.

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Review of #94: the test named throttle but only exercised passengers, fire
and the debug view.

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- Around line 267-280: Reset the terrain-rest tracking state in
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TowHandler.attach trigger that controller reset when it resets the attached
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  • src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/vehicleframework/vehicles/controller/TerrainRest.java
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  • src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/vehicleframework/vehicles/controller/TerrainRestTest.java
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…sets its bone

CodeRabbit on #94: TowHandler.attach resets the towed vehicle's rotator to
level. A vehicle resting on a slope only runs one ground step a second, so
its tilt would come back one smoothing step a second.
The same reset answers the earlier review note about a rest surviving a
state swap: StateHandler.swapState now forgets every state's rest.

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- isParked() checks the terrain rule first, so a terrain vehicle's idle
  check runs once a tick (same result).
- Comments: what the ground engine log shows for a resting vehicle, and
  what the settle count does for the tilt.
- Test: a recheck that finds the ground changed brings every step back.

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