Cookbook

Short, copy-pasteable recipes. Each one is self-contained: what it does, the code, and a "verify it works" step.

Adding a recipe

Create a new .md file in this folder, add it to nav: in mkdocs.yml, and follow the template below.

Player guides

• Ranked Matchmaking Player Guide - short, plain-English explanation of ranked search, rank-range expansion, previous-result buckets, and why same-opponent avoidance is not a direct blacklist.

Investigations

• Browser Replay Display Feasibility Investigation - decision record for browser replay viewing options: local game launch, metadata/timeline display, local streaming, hosted video rendering, and why a WebAssembly SC6 port is not the practical path.
• Rollback Netcode Feasibility Investigation - Ghidra-backed decision record for SC6's online input path, snapshot state, replay reuse, and a minimal rollback prototype plan.
• Random Functions and Gameplay Impact - evidence-scoped guide to seeded battle PRNG state, nondeterministic audio paths, gameplay consumers, and replay/rollback-safe investigation.
• PlayFab Party Netcode Relay Investigation - documentation-only decision record for whether PlayFab Party could improve America-Europe SC6 route quality through QoS measurement, region selection, transparent cloud relay, optional direct peer mode, and custom Azure relay fallback criteria.
• Automated Rollback Netcode Testing on One Machine - practical local test topologies, harness gates, fault injection, artifacts, and limits for SC6 online/rollback experiments.

Asset recipes

• Export SC6 .mot animations to Blender - Ghidra-backed workflow for splitting HgMotion banks, choosing authored versus final-pose fidelity, exporting the matching rig, and baking normalized matrices into a Blender Action.

Native DLL recipes

• DotVanisher spectator timeout grace - standalone UE4SS hook that gives pending host-side watch spectators a bounded grace window during slow match loads.

Recipe template

# Recipe: <Title>

**Goal**: one-sentence description of what the user ends up with.

**Requires**: native hook framework or injector, any other mods, Ghidra/dumper output, etc.

## Code

```cpp
// your snippet

How it works

Short explanation of the hook/UObject used.

Verify

1. Launch the game.
2. Expected log line / visual result. ```