InterfaceForge feature matrix

This focused release supplies reusable UI foundations and real Outpost RTS/Emberwatch RPG interfaces through public Blueprint features. Costs S/M/L describe relative implementation effort. The acceptance record links exact revision-scoped proof; builds alone do not establish usability. Historical milestone records remain preserved separately.

Game Master's visual design stays exclusive. Sakura's requested center-origin cooldown is independently reproduced from recorded behavior. Inventory mechanics are excluded. CommonUI/CommonInput/EnhancedInput remain the engine foundations; InterfaceForge adds per-player presentation, lifecycle and convenient Blueprint contracts.

Feature	Decision / developer problem solved	Dependencies / cost	Included example and verification
Screens, layers and dialogs	Extend CommonUI activatable stacks; remove game-specific controller casts and the single global layout	CommonUI / L	Main → settings → HUD → pause → return; modal replies, Back, loading and focus restoration. Per-player ownership is implemented; split-screen runtime is unverified.
Input presentation	Centralize meaningful device intent instead of repeating handlers in each screen	CommonInput + Slate / L	Saved menus, HUD, popup and custom screen share pointer/keyboard/gamepad/touch presentation. Software drift/jitter/repeats/warp/disconnect/resume tests and actual Slate touch activation pass. Physical controller is user-deferred.
Prompts and remapping	Query applied EnhancedInput mappings and use CommonUI action rows, with configurable glyphs and readable fallback	EnhancedInput + CommonInput / M	Actual keyboard/controller stage, Cancel, Apply and live prompt updates; custom Blueprint prompt body, modal and focus checks. No third-party glyph pack.
Blueprint screens and entries	Hooks/interfaces handle initialization, observable refresh, selection, recycling and release without one C++ subclass per variation	UMG / L	Saved Watchpost screen, entry and entirely Blueprint source; theme/widget/source replacement. None-data cleanup, repeated release and stale-model isolation are tested. Recipes.
Lists and tiles	Keep UMG virtualization and pooled entries; separate data objects from realized views	ListView/TileView / M	Playable journal and field cards, search/selection/model changes;1,000/10,000-model tests retain a bounded realized widget pool. Whole-scene timings are not entity-simulation benchmarks.
HUD composition	Bind game-owned models/actions through a project-neutral interface	IFDataSource/IFPresentationData / L	Outpost selection/multi-selection, commands, resources, production and cleanup; Emberwatch party, status, interaction, quest and action recovery. Small example gameplay providers stay outside the plugin.
Themes and local overrides	Share semantic typography/color/spacing/state/sound tokens; retain per-widget overrides	UMG/Slate + theme assets / M	Live theme changes reach screens, entries, pooled lists and world views. Scroll components and the list-theme node use the same tokens. Custom root and widget classes remain replaceable.
Feedback and transitions	Combine engine stack transitions with ordinary editable UMG timelines; honor Reduced Motion	CommonUI/UMG + audio routing / M	Two saved concurrent animations work while actual world time is paused; activation, Back, reopen, live Reduced Motion and cleanup are tested. Arbitrary custom exit choreography is an extension point.
Contextual descriptions	Share IFEntry bodies between pointer MenuAnchor popups and a reserved navigation-hint lane	UMG + local-player tooltip service / M	Actual pointer → keyboard return, live source refresh, delay during pause, modal/class/release/rebind checks. Hints yield to action results without covering focused cooldowns.
Result notifications	Bounded passive queue with weak scopes, coalescing and explicit lifecycle	Local-player subsystem / M	Patrol/Ward/quest results; FIFO, overflow, GUID, custom host/body, modal reading-time suspension and cleanup. Full quest route caught and corrected enlarged ribbon/context overlap.
Loading states	Retain StreamableManager soft-class loading; expose replaceable body, failure/retry and cancellation	Engine async loading / M	Settings/Begin requests, competing requests, fallback and scope/root cleanup; omitted-cook failure was reproduced and repaired. Map travel uses Remove Root → Open Level; MoviePlayer startup loading is outside this release.
UI settings	Draft/preview, Apply/Cancel/defaults, validation and persistence reuse engine systems	SaveGame + EnhancedInputUserSettings / L	Saved scale/audio/remap/language controls; real save failure/retry and process reload. Independent mixer waveform analysis verifies gain/mute/rollback. Graphics remain GameUserSettings-owned; not a separate graphics backend.
Responsive/accessibility	Keep engine DPI separate from player scale; support safe areas, text scale, scrolling and reduced motion	SafeZone + UMG / M	Normal/enlarged, ultrawide,4:3 and portrait-sized Win64 flows; long labels and essential-control bounds checked. Physical device safe areas/mobile are unverified.
Localization	Keep FText and engine culture nodes; provide original en/tr resources and transactional controls	Unreal localization / M	271-entry resources, culture preview/Cancel/Apply/defaults and packaged restart. UE5.6 Turkish editor startup has an engine-reproduced limitation. CJK/RTL/font coverage beyond the supplied languages is unverified.
Sakura cooldown	Preserve actual center-origin angular tint, layering and timing over original icons	Independently authored material/widget / M	Original widget/material runtime tracing and comparison; real Ward/Kindle recovery, countdown, pause and refresh. Parameters and controls; no reference asset redistribution.
Generic progress	One configurable visual contract instead of ability-specific subclasses	Original Slate presentation / M	Five public styles, direction/origin/size and charge normalization; saved Blueprint customization, clock/pause/release/theme tests. Progress recipe.
World-space UI	Keep WidgetComponent and caller-owned connection geometry; bind weak actors through public entry contracts	Engine WidgetComponent + IFWorldEntryLibrary / M	Actual rendered endpoints, model/theme refresh, invalid/tree/range/pause/clear/anchor lifetime tests. Planar example connections; occlusion and large actor populations are not certified.
Optional MassForge	Isolate actual entity APIs in a separate adapter plugin	InterfaceForgeMass + separately installed MassForge0.2 / M	Current M4 real entity lifetime/serial/coalescing and eight source/cooked Blueprint cases on UE5.8.3. Equivalent standalone provider; core/default sample load without SDK. No SDK distribution or multiplayer claim.
Local documentation	Maintain the user-requested AshenForge style with Docs as the authored source	VitePress/Mermaid / M	40guides,29rendered workflows, search, dark/light and responsive navigation. Strict generated link/image checks; stale generated Markdown removed. Local only.

The latest one-asset RPG layout correction passes twelve source/exact Development quest cases acrossUE5.6.1,5.7.4 and5.8.3. Final launch/layout checks add default-selection Shipping and packaged bootstrap proof. IF7 pins source/Shipping delivery and reviewed frames; documentation-only snapshots inherit its identical runtime. The unchanged64-file core is independently built/loaded on all three engines. Compatibility distinguishes core, sample, package and device evidence; acceptance states the completed included workflows and unverified boundaries.

Deliberate boundaries: inventory, equipment rules, crafting/trading and inventory replication are separate products. Hierarchical Tree authoring remains an engine extension, not an included complete example. Split-screen, multiplayer, non-Windows SDK/device certification and arbitrary localization are unverified. These limits do not hide pending implementation in the included menu/HUD workflows; the acceptance record tracks their actual completion.