ReSkate loading, merging and profiles

ReSkate redirects and merges community content for skate. Its asset mod discovery, shared-table merge and plugin discovery are different operations; disabling a map does not necessarily remove all its table edits. Sourced · ReSkate

Mod discovery and identity

In the inspected 1.1.6-era loader, a ModData directory beside the executable selects ModData/Default/Mods; otherwise the root is Mods. A folder name is at most 64 characters from [A-Za-z0-9_-. ], and dot-prefixed folders are reserved state. Thunderstore installations use <Namespace>-<Name> folder names. Sourced · ReSkate

mods.json uses {schema:1, mods:[{name,enabled}]}. Listed folders load in that order, unlisted folders follow enabled, and absence of the file gives name order. A mod’s identity is its folder name; version metadata comes from manifest.json.version_number or reskate-build.json. Sourced · ReSkate

The inspected shared-table merge includes disabled mods’ globals and dingolevel_root TOCs. Removing the folder from the mod root removes those contributions. When multiple installed mods edit shader tables, the merge retains only stock program records and rejects map shader bytecode. Sourced · ReSkate

Version boundaries

Version	Relevant behaviour	Confidence
1.1.7	Raised physics, render-resource, entity-page and spatial-bucket allocations	Sourced · ReSkate
2.0.4	Approximately halves the earlier 3.5-GB entity-table reservation	Sourced · ReSkate
2.0.7	32,764 texture handles, 90% warning and textures command; ad system disabled	Sourced · ReSkate
2.1.0	Raised cull ids and descriptor heaps; shader registry/range guards; light refusal and ToD barrier	Sourced · ReSkate
2.1.2 prerelease	Luau plugins and plugin Throwdown modes	Sourced · ReSkate

The 2.1.0-pre release assets are replaced several times under the same tag. DLL hashes and release-asset update times distinguish builds that have different guards and boot behaviour; the tag alone is insufficient. Observed

Mesh streaming memory

The inspected 2.0.x sizing uses DXGI dedicated video memory: up to 6.25 GB retains 532,960 KB, up to 12.25 GB gets 2 GiB, and larger adapters get 3.5 GiB. The hub retains its 520-MB pool. Sourced · ReSkate

That runtime reapplies the setting every two seconds, while graphics-setting application can reset it to 520 MB. Pools are recreated at level start, so an isolated console write is not a persistent allocation change. Later sizing uses free memory, with further changes after 2.1.0 accounting for the map’s mesh content. Sourced · ReSkate

Time-of-day state

The layer catalogue is scanned from game Data rather than mod content. BAM-family loads request Noon, then the loader applies the saved world-layer choice on its 250-ms poll. An unload request while the layer is still requested but not yet loaded is ignored by the engine. Observed At the boot load of San Vansterdam, a loader that unloads Noon without waiting for it to finish loading leaves Noon loaded beside the saved Afternoon in 7 of 10 launches. Observed

The inspected dedicated-server tod command matches keys containing _tod_, including quality-tier ToD layers as well as the seven main ToD layers. Sourced · ReSkate In the levels where this was tried, the <map>_high, _medium and _low ToD layer references are never created, so forcing them has no visible effect in game. Observed

Profiles and console

ReSkate’s per-user offline state uses profiles/offline/reskate.sqlite3, with SQLite WAL/SHM companions; objects.sqlite3 stores placed objects. player_settings(scope,name,value_json) stores preferences, including the /settings/world_layers scope. Observed

cosmetic_loadouts(preset_id,recipes_json) stores outfit recipes with item fields slot, asset and parameter_bits. The full-body costume slot is 2601889598; asset values are item keys. The loader restores these recipes during load. Observed

The console takes one setting per line; two settings on one line are refused with “Too many arguments”. A setting that echoes = [value] was accepted. A bare engine setting name in the console reads its value. Setting names are cached per game build, and the catalogue becomes ready later than process startup. Launcher --log-level controls runtime logging even when RESKATE_LOG_LEVEL is set in the environment. Sourced · ReSkate

The trainer’s trainer where prints, and trainer tp X Y Z takes, positions in the map’s own frame as map.json states it (metres, +Y up, forward −Z), with no axis turned or negated: a map’s spawn stated as (171.2, 90.3, 688.0) reads back as (171.20, 90.95, 688.00) with the skater standing on the start, while a teleport with Z negated lands outside the map. trainer where also prints the position as Blender: (x, -z, y). Observed · one map

Camera height preference UseHighCam belongs to /settings/native_profile_options/2; normal camera-height input can change it during play. It is not a pinned console or Game.cfg value. Observed

Multiplayer and package handling

The inspected join path checks game-build hash and destination map id, rather than a complete mod list. Appearance packets carry cosmetic asset names; a receiver missing an asset uses a stand-in. The map downloader can obtain a host’s map through Thunderstore. Sourced · ReSkate

The launcher ZIP reader rejects measured sub-4-GiB archives containing ZIP64 0xffffffff offset markers. Its mod icon comes from the Thunderstore icon cache rather than the installed mod’s icon.png; a manually installed unpublished package can therefore show a grey icon. The inspected README view preserves line breaks and does not display images. Observed

The in-game menu map grid, by contrast, uses the mod folder’s icon.png (PNG, at most 4 MB); stock maps use their loading screen cropped to 256 pixels, and a map without icon.png has no grid picture. Sourced · ReSkate

The loader redirects profile, saves, content cache and catalogue state under the user’s local application-data directory; crash dumps go to ReSkate/Game/Skate/CrashDumps there. RESKATE_CRASH_REPORTING=0 disables its crash-dump upload; its network block also prevents the game’s GPU-report upload. Sourced · ReSkate