[ChronosWS]

Overview

Draft comparison of the full resource-management feature, not just its latest commit:

• Introduce a shared, application-lifetime ResourceManager with resource sources, lookup/filtering, overlays, lazy metadata and bounded content access.
• Migrate category consumers for fonts, images, models, items, audio and language while aiming to preserve existing behavior.
• Route normal Bedrock/Pomme theme assets through the shared manager, below selected resource packs. Directory-backed sources use internal DirectoryLayout::ResourcePack / Mapped layouts, sparse aliases, native-path passthrough and case-preserving generic resource IDs.
• Add private Cow-backed ResourceId storage and a compile-time resource_id! macro supporting static expressions, including concat!. Literal IDs borrow static strings; dynamic IDs retain fallible construction with the same namespace/path validation rules.
• Use typed static IDs for fixed GUI, block-entity, mob and other texture tables. GUI IDs use direct namespace:path spelling; Bedrock sprites carry direct PNG and optional JSON IDs generated from one stem, replacing the texture enum. Compose static and dynamic sprite iterators without an extra dynamic-sprite collection, and name the font byte limit. These are representation changes, not GUI metadata, normalization or rendering improvements.
• After a live resource-pack reload resets mesh columns, clear compiled state and requeue loaded columns for remeshing. This is a focused reload fix, not a global mesh-scheduler change; manual confirmation of the reported missing-block symptom is still pending.

GUI metadata/nine-slice rendering expansion is deferred. Consumer reload remains best-effort, not a global rollback transaction. The earlier destruction-atlas rollback is retained; no new atlas normalization behavior is claimed.

Latest publication

• f06f0178eeb8cf5dd44fe4ab593c5d84d797d023 — refactor(resources): add compile-time resource identifiers
• b81aeca4ddc3d951e12702a33727af1875c2d05e — fix(resources): remesh loaded columns after pack reload

Validation

The following compile-only checks passed again on 2026-10-27 for the exact source published in the two commits above. Source hashes also match the prior independently reviewed iterator-composition verification:

• cargo fmt -p pomme-client -- --check
• cargo check -p pomme-client --all-targets --locked --offline --features ttf-fonts,test-harness,cpu-bench
• cargo clippy -p pomme-client --all-targets --locked --offline --features ttf-fonts,test-harness,cpu-bench -- -D warnings
• cargo check -p pomme-client --all-targets --locked --offline --no-default-features
• cargo check -p pomme-client --all-targets --locked --offline --no-default-features --features cpu-bench
• git diff --check

Cargo checks used the Vulkan SDK environment. Existing no-default default_key dead-code and nix/winit dependency future-incompatibility warnings remain.

No automated tests were executed, as requested; all-target checks only compiled test/bench targets. During development, manual RHI2 world/entities and RHI3 audio/language checks passed, and the user confirmed shared panorama overrides across all three themes. These earlier spot-checks do not validate every current rendering path. Latest-refinement runtime validation, including the reload/remesh fix, remains pending. No fresh release build, application run, benchmark or profiling was performed for this publication.

Comparison notes

• Targets ChronosWS/PommeClient master, observed at 2e709e8dd172c217af169707b69be72eed10e8d3 on 2026-10-27, not upstream master. Upstream master was observed at f5a44191441890a44acf0a9ace16a95aeb42dc0b; the fork base remains behind upstream. This comparison is not up to date with mainline.
• The branch was previously rebased onto tested RHI integration 5be61cdafabf9d24379efdb5cb6ab935d50b3afe. This publication performs no new rebase or master synchronization and retains theme migration commit da301eb and the subsequent destruction-atlas rollback at 683b11b.
• Existing upstream draft: feat(resources): Migrate resource consumers to ResourceManager system PommeMC/Client#785 — preserved separately; pushing the shared head also updates that draft. Its historical body has not been refreshed by this publication.
• This additional fork PR is for comparison/review, not ready for merge.