diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a49560215..41320f454 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "kira",
  "libc",
  "mint",
+ "naga",
  "num-bigint",
  "objc2 0.5.2",
  "objc2-app-kit 0.2.2",
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/Cargo.toml b/crates/benilla-app/Cargo.toml
index d41f3122e..b3989cc8d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/Cargo.toml
@@ -124,3 +124,11 @@ windows-sys = { version = "0.59", features = [
 benilla-srp = { path = "../benilla-srp" }
 num-bigint = "0.4.6"
 sha1.workspace = true
+
+# The shader translation test writes the backend this platform renders with, through the naga
+# bevy already builds (`shaders.rs`).
+[target.'cfg(target_os = "macos")'.dev-dependencies]
+naga = { version = "27.0.3", features = ["msl-out"] }
+
+[target.'cfg(not(target_os = "macos"))'.dev-dependencies]
+naga = { version = "27.0.3", features = ["spv-out"] }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/pipe_warm/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/pipe_warm/mod.rs
index 91e6215b9..b0e323ea5 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/pipe_warm/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/pipe_warm/mod.rs
@@ -586,17 +586,25 @@ fn despawn_rigs(commands: &mut Commands, rigs: &Query<(Entity, Option<&ChildOf>)
     }
 }
 
-/// One invisible HUD quad per warm frame, so its batch-mesh pipeline (POSITION + UV_0 + COLOR)
-/// compiles under the cover. The minimap composite's `Rectangle` layout is a rig in [`menagerie`].
+/// Invisible HUD quads per warm frame, so the batch-mesh pipelines (POSITION + UV_0 + COLOR)
+/// compile under the cover: the premultiplied one every mode but `MOD` draws through, and
+/// `MOD`'s multiply ([`crate::ui_pass::UiQuadKey`]), whose zero-alpha texel discards. The minimap
+/// composite's `Rectangle` layout is a rig in [`menagerie`].
 fn warm_ui_quad_lane(warm: Res<WarmPass>, mut quads: ResMut<crate::ui_pass::UiQuads>) {
     if warm.spawned_at.is_none() || warm.done {
         return;
     }
-    quads.overlays.push(crate::ui_pass::UiQuad {
-        rect: Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0),
-        color: [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0],
-        ..default()
-    });
+    for blend in [
+        benilla_ui::script::BlendMode::Blend,
+        benilla_ui::script::BlendMode::Mod,
+    ] {
+        quads.overlays.push(crate::ui_pass::UiQuad {
+            rect: Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0),
+            color: [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0],
+            blend,
+            ..default()
+        });
+    }
 }
 
 /// Push one degenerate draw per reachable [`EffectPipelineKey`] through the production stream,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/shaders.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/shaders.rs
index e9fe21cc8..63d96d3e1 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/shaders.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/shaders.rs
@@ -48,4 +48,116 @@ mod tests {
         }
         assert_eq!(found, 5, "the game's shader set changed size");
     }
+
+    /// Every `.wgsl` file under `dir` of the embedded source, as the asset server would serve it.
+    fn embedded_shaders(
+        source: &bevy::asset::io::AssetSource,
+        dir: &std::path::Path,
+        out: &mut Vec<(String, String)>,
+    ) {
+        use bevy::tasks::futures_lite::StreamExt;
+        let reader = source.reader();
+        let entries: Vec<std::path::PathBuf> = bevy::tasks::block_on(async {
+            match reader.read_directory(dir).await {
+                Ok(stream) => stream.collect().await,
+                Err(_) => Vec::new(),
+            }
+        });
+        for path in entries {
+            if bevy::tasks::block_on(reader.is_directory(&path)).unwrap_or(false) {
+                embedded_shaders(source, &path, out);
+            } else if path.extension().is_some_and(|e| e == "wgsl") {
+                let text = bevy::tasks::block_on(async {
+                    let mut bytes = Vec::new();
+                    let mut r = reader.read(&path).await.ok()?;
+                    r.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await.ok()?;
+                    String::from_utf8(bytes).ok()
+                });
+                if let Some(text) = text {
+                    out.push((path.to_string_lossy().into_owned(), text));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// No gate draws a frame, so `ui_quad.wgsl` is composed here as the pipeline cache composes it:
+    /// bevy's `ShaderCache` over every embedded shader library, with the defs the 2D mesh pipeline
+    /// gives each of the two vertex layouts it draws (the batch mesh and the minimap's tile quad).
+    /// The module must validate and translate for the backend this platform renders with.
+    #[test]
+    #[expect(
+        clippy::result_large_err,
+        reason = "bevy's `ShaderCache` fixes the module loader's `PipelineCacheError` return"
+    )]
+    fn the_ui_quad_shader_composes_and_translates() {
+        use bevy::shader::{Shader, ShaderCache, ShaderCacheSource, ShaderDefVal};
+        let app = crate::game_plugins::schedule_tests::headless_client();
+        let server = app.world().resource::<AssetServer>();
+        let source = server.get_source(AssetSourceId::from("embedded")).unwrap();
+        let mut files = Vec::new();
+        embedded_shaders(source, std::path::Path::new(""), &mut files);
+
+        let mut cache: ShaderCache<naga::Module, ()> = ShaderCache::new(
+            bevy::render::render_resource::WgpuFeatures::empty(),
+            bevy::render::render_resource::DownlevelFlags::all(),
+            |_, source, _| match source {
+                ShaderCacheSource::Naga(module) => Ok(module),
+                _ => panic!("a WGSL shader composes to a naga module"),
+            },
+        );
+        let mut ui_quad = None;
+        for (i, (path, text)) in files.into_iter().enumerate() {
+            let id = AssetId::<Shader>::Uuid {
+                uuid: bevy::asset::uuid::Uuid::from_u128(i as u128 + 1),
+            };
+            if path == "benilla_app/shaders/ui_quad.wgsl" {
+                ui_quad = Some(id);
+            }
+            cache.set_shader(id, Shader::from_wgsl(text, format!("embedded://{path}")));
+        }
+        let ui_quad = ui_quad.expect("ui_quad.wgsl is embedded");
+
+        let storage =
+            bevy::render::settings::WgpuLimits::default().max_storage_buffers_per_shader_stage;
+        for layout in [
+            ["VERTEX_POSITIONS", "VERTEX_UVS", "VERTEX_COLORS"],
+            ["VERTEX_POSITIONS", "VERTEX_NORMALS", "VERTEX_UVS"],
+        ] {
+            let mut defs: Vec<ShaderDefVal> = layout.iter().map(|&d| d.into()).collect();
+            defs.push(ShaderDefVal::UInt("MATERIAL_BIND_GROUP".into(), 2));
+            defs.push(ShaderDefVal::UInt(
+                "AVAILABLE_STORAGE_BUFFER_BINDINGS".into(),
+                storage,
+            ));
+            let module = cache
+                .get(&(), 0, ui_quad, &defs)
+                .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("{layout:?}: ui_quad.wgsl does not compose: {e:?}"));
+            let info = naga::valid::Validator::new(
+                naga::valid::ValidationFlags::all(),
+                naga::valid::Capabilities::default(),
+            )
+            .validate(&module)
+            .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("{layout:?}: ui_quad.wgsl does not validate: {e:?}"));
+            #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+            naga::back::msl::write_string(
+                &module,
+                &info,
+                // wgpu's Metal backend writes at the device's MSL 2.x; 1.0, the default, lacks
+                // the instance index every 2D mesh shader reads.
+                &naga::back::msl::Options {
+                    lang_version: (2, 4),
+                    ..Default::default()
+                },
+                &naga::back::msl::PipelineOptions::default(),
+            )
+            .unwrap_or_else(|e| {
+                panic!("{layout:?}: ui_quad.wgsl does not translate to MSL: {e:?}")
+            });
+            #[cfg(not(target_os = "macos"))]
+            naga::back::spv::write_vec(&module, &info, &naga::back::spv::Options::default(), None)
+                .unwrap_or_else(|e| {
+                    panic!("{layout:?}: ui_quad.wgsl does not translate to SPIR-V: {e:?}")
+                });
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/shaders/ui_quad.wgsl b/crates/benilla-app/src/shaders/ui_quad.wgsl
index 15055ddea..a16a1462d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/shaders/ui_quad.wgsl
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/shaders/ui_quad.wgsl
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 // The player-UI quad material. The reference draws the UI fixed-function into an 8-bit
 // backbuffer, so the fragment tints and premultiplies on gamma bytes and outputs raw gamma for the
-// `(One, OneMinusSrcAlpha)` blend; `ui_gamma.wgsl` decodes once. One pipeline, a flag per mode:
-//   BLEND (EGxBlend 2, `SrcAlpha/OneMinusSrcAlpha`): out = (rgb·a, a) ⇒ dst·(1−a) + rgb·a
-//   ADD   (EGxBlend 3, `SrcAlpha/One`):              out = (rgb·a, 0) ⇒ dst      + rgb·a
+// `(One, OneMinusSrcAlpha)` blend; `ui_gamma.wgsl` decodes once. One pipeline for four modes, a
+// uniform per mode, and a second pipeline for MOD:
+//   DISABLE  (EGxBlend 0, no blend):                    out = (rgb, 1)     ⇒ rgb
+//   ALPHAKEY (EGxBlend 1, no blend, test a ≥ 224/255):  out = (rgb, 1)     ⇒ rgb, or discard
+//   BLEND    (EGxBlend 2, `SrcAlpha/OneMinusSrcAlpha`): out = (rgb·a, a)   ⇒ dst·(1−a) + rgb·a
+//   ADD      (EGxBlend 3, `SrcAlpha/One`):              out = (rgb·a, 0)   ⇒ dst      + rgb·a
+//   MOD      (EGxBlend 4, `DestColor/Zero`, its own pipeline): out = rgb ⇒ dst·rgb
+// Modes 2 to 4 test the alpha at 1/255 (`0x85ad20`), which only MOD can see.
 // `linear_to_srgb` restores the authored byte of every sampled texel except a SKIP_DECODE upload
 // (`gamma_texel`), which already holds it.
 // Deviation: bilinear filtering runs on the decoded texel, not on the gamma byte the reference
@@ -57,7 +62,8 @@ fn vertex(vertex: Vertex) -> VertexOutput {
     return out;
 }
 
-@group(2) @binding(0) var<uniform> additive: u32;
+// The EGxBlend, 0 to 4 (`UiQuad::blend`).
+@group(2) @binding(0) var<uniform> blend_mode: u32;
 @group(2) @binding(1) var quad_texture: texture_2d<f32>;
 @group(2) @binding(2) var quad_sampler: sampler;
 // Mask to the inscribed circle: the unit portrait's round stencil, which the reference stamps into
@@ -93,6 +99,11 @@ fn vertex(vertex: Vertex) -> VertexOutput {
 // Do not normalise: they sum just above 1.0 and white relies on the output clamp.
 const LUMA: vec3<f32> = vec3<f32>(0.299, 0.587, 0.114);
 
+// The alpha references `0x85ad20` gives ALPHAKEY (224) and MOD (1), half a byte below so a texel
+// stored at the byte passes `GEQUAL`.
+const ALPHAKEY_REF: f32 = 223.5 / 255.0;
+const MOD_REF: f32 = 0.5 / 255.0;
+
 // Linear to sRGB (IEC 61966-2-1), the exact inverse of the sampler's decode in f32.
 fn linear_to_srgb(c: vec3<f32>) -> vec3<f32> {
     let higher = 1.055 * pow(max(c, vec3<f32>(0.0)), vec3<f32>(1.0 / 2.4)) - 0.055;
@@ -126,19 +137,21 @@ fn fragment(in: VertexOutput) -> @location(0) vec4<f32> {
     if desaturate != 0u {
         rgb = vec3<f32>(dot(texel, LUMA));
     }
-    // `k`, the UI's coverage (frame alpha and masks), stays apart from `t.a`: it scales a
-    // premultiplied source's colour and alpha alike, while `t.a` weights only a straight source.
-    var k = c.a;
+    // `m`, the masks' coverage, and `k`, the UI's (frame alpha and masks), stay apart from `t.a`:
+    // `k` scales a premultiplied source's colour and alpha alike, while `t.a` weights only a
+    // straight source.
+    var m = 1.0;
     if circular != 0u {
         // A soft edge 2% of the width, like the reference's stencil at portrait size.
-        k *= 1.0 - smoothstep(0.48, 0.5, distance(in.uv, vec2<f32>(0.5)));
+        m *= 1.0 - smoothstep(0.48, 0.5, distance(in.uv, vec2<f32>(0.5)));
     }
     if mask_rect.z > mask_rect.x {
         let muv = (in.position.xy - mask_rect.xy) / (mask_rect.zw - mask_rect.xy);
         let inside = f32(all(muv >= vec2<f32>(0.0)) && all(muv <= vec2<f32>(1.0)));
-        let m = textureSampleLevel(mask_texture, mask_sampler, clamp(muv, vec2<f32>(0.0), vec2<f32>(1.0)), 0.0).a;
-        k *= m * inside;
+        let cover = textureSampleLevel(mask_texture, mask_sampler, clamp(muv, vec2<f32>(0.0), vec2<f32>(1.0)), 0.0).a;
+        m *= cover * inside;
     }
+    let k = c.a * m;
     // Alpha test: returns the linear texel, not `rgb`, because it draws only into the minimap's
     // linear 256² composite, whose blit encodes.
     if alpha_ref > 0.0 {
@@ -147,11 +160,34 @@ fn fragment(in: VertexOutput) -> @location(0) vec4<f32> {
         }
         return vec4<f32>(srgb_to_linear(t.rgb) * c.rgb, 1.0);
     }
+    switch blend_mode {
+        // DISABLE and ALPHAKEY write the texel over the target; the masks still cut it.
+        case 0u: {
+            return vec4<f32>(rgb * m, m);
+        }
+        // An ALPHAKEY quad that reaches here has no colour array (the extract promotes one that
+        // does), so the diffuse it tests against is white: the texel alone.
+        case 1u: {
+            if t.a < ALPHAKEY_REF {
+                discard;
+            }
+            return vec4<f32>(rgb * m, m);
+        }
+        // MOD multiplies the target by the texel; a masked-out fragment multiplies by 1.
+        case 4u: {
+            // The test reads texel times vertex colour, the combine preset's alpha.
+            if t.a * c.a < MOD_REF {
+                discard;
+            }
+            return vec4<f32>(mix(vec3<f32>(1.0), rgb, m), 1.0);
+        }
+        default: {}
+    }
     let a = t.a * k;
     // Premultiply in gamma, not by the hardware `SrcAlpha`. A booth bake takes `k` alone: `t.a`
     // again would zero its additive light over empty space.
     let weight = select(a, k, premultiplied != 0u);
-    if additive != 0u {
+    if blend_mode == 3u {
         return vec4<f32>(rgb * weight, 0.0);
     }
     return vec4<f32>(rgb * weight, a);
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_pass.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_pass.rs
index 8dc0bf94b..b72029c30 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_pass.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_pass.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 //! and material state, one `Mesh2d` draw each. A run never spans a quad of another state, so the
 //! total order holds and interleaved textures pay one draw per switch.
 
+use benilla_ui::script::BlendMode;
 use bevy::asset::RenderAssetUsages;
 use bevy::camera::visibility::RenderLayers;
 use bevy::camera::CameraOutputMode;
@@ -62,8 +63,8 @@ impl UvRect {
     }
 }
 
-/// One resolved screen-space quad, the pass's whole input. `texture`, the flags from `additive`
-/// to `uv_clamp`, and `mask` are material state: a quad differing in any of them starts a new run.
+/// One resolved screen-space quad, the pass's whole input. `texture`, the fields from `blend` to
+/// `uv_clamp`, and `mask` are material state: a quad differing in any of them starts a new run.
 #[derive(Clone, PartialEq)]
 pub(crate) struct UiQuad {
     /// Screen pixels, y-down, anchor-resolved.
@@ -79,8 +80,11 @@ pub(crate) struct UiQuad {
     /// corner and interpolated across the quad: a texture's `<Gradient>`, whose four colours the
     /// reference submits with a vertex stride of 4 (`0x77304d`).
     pub corner_colors: Option<[[f32; 4]; 4]>,
-    /// WoW `ADD` blend (EGxBlend 3, `glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE)`) instead of straight alpha.
-    pub additive: bool,
+    /// The EGxBlend the quad draws with, `SetBlendMode`'s five (`systems/gx/renderstate.md`):
+    /// `DISABLE` and `ALPHAKEY` blend nothing, the second with the alpha test at 224/255
+    /// (`0x85ad20[1]`); `BLEND` is `SrcAlpha/InvSrcAlpha`, `ADD` `SrcAlpha/One` and `MOD`
+    /// `DestColor/Zero` (`0x80a1fc`, `0x80a228`). A producer passes the mode the submit draws with.
+    pub blend: BlendMode,
     /// Mask to the inscribed circle: the live unit portrait.
     pub circular: bool,
     /// Draw the texel's luminance (`Texture:SetDesaturated(1)`), folded in gamma bytes before the
@@ -134,7 +138,7 @@ impl Default for UiQuad {
             uv: UvRect::FULL,
             color: [1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0],
             corner_colors: None,
-            additive: false,
+            blend: BlendMode::Blend,
             circular: false,
             desaturated: false,
             premultiplied: false,
@@ -198,13 +202,15 @@ pub(crate) struct UiQuadBatch;
 #[derive(Resource)]
 struct UiWhiteTexture(Handle<Image>);
 
-/// The quad material: a texture and the [`UiQuad`] flags as uniforms, drawn through one
-/// premultiplied-alpha pipeline (`ui_quad.wgsl`). It holds no colour, so it is its identity key
-/// alone and a steady frame re-prepares none.
+/// The quad material: a texture and the [`UiQuad`] flags as uniforms, drawn through the
+/// premultiplied-alpha pipeline (`ui_quad.wgsl`), or the multiply one for `MOD` ([`UiQuadKey`]). It
+/// holds no colour, so it is its identity key alone and a steady frame re-prepares none.
 #[derive(Asset, TypePath, AsBindGroup, Clone)]
+#[bind_group_data(UiQuadKey)]
 pub(crate) struct UiQuadMaterial {
+    /// The EGxBlend, 0 to 4 ([`UiQuad::blend`]).
     #[uniform(0)]
-    additive: u32,
+    blend: u32,
     #[texture(1)]
     #[sampler(2)]
     texture: Option<Handle<Image>>,
@@ -230,6 +236,21 @@ pub(crate) struct UiQuadMaterial {
     uv_clamp: Vec4,
 }
 
+/// The pipeline axis of [`UiQuadMaterial`]: `MOD` alone needs a blend state of its own, since the
+/// shader folds the other four modes into the one premultiplied state.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
+pub(crate) struct UiQuadKey {
+    modulate: bool,
+}
+
+impl From<&UiQuadMaterial> for UiQuadKey {
+    fn from(m: &UiQuadMaterial) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            modulate: m.blend == BlendMode::Mod as u32,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// A run's one colour for the batch entity's [`MeshTag`], unpacked by `ui_quad.wgsl`'s vertex
 /// stage, so a colour pulse is a component write, never a mesh or material write. One byte per
 /// channel, `×255 + 0.5`, as the reference packs a vertex colour (`CImVector`; `SetVertexColor`
@@ -251,7 +272,8 @@ impl UiQuadMaterial {
     /// the forced blend of [`Self::specialize`] is a plain replace: the reference's blending off.
     pub(crate) fn interior_tile(texture: Handle<Image>, alpha_ref: f32) -> Self {
         Self {
-            additive: 0,
+            // The alpha-test arm returns before the blend modes.
+            blend: BlendMode::Blend as u32,
             texture: Some(texture),
             circular: 0,
             desaturate: 0,
@@ -291,21 +313,32 @@ impl Material2d for UiQuadMaterial {
     fn specialize(
         descriptor: &mut bevy::render::render_resource::RenderPipelineDescriptor,
         _layout: &bevy::mesh::MeshVertexBufferLayoutRef,
-        _key: Material2dKey<Self>,
+        key: Material2dKey<Self>,
     ) -> Result<(), bevy::render::render_resource::SpecializedMeshPipelineError> {
         if let Some(fragment) = descriptor.fragment.as_mut() {
             if let Some(target) = fragment.targets.first_mut().and_then(|t| t.as_mut()) {
-                // `(One, OneMinusSrcAlpha)` over gamma values: the shader emits `(rgb·a, a)` for
-                // BLEND and `(rgb·a, 0)` for ADD, so this one state is EGxBlend 2 and EGxBlend 3,
-                // clamped at each write like the reference's 8-bit backbuffer.
-                let premultiplied = BlendComponent {
-                    src_factor: BlendFactor::One,
-                    dst_factor: BlendFactor::OneMinusSrcAlpha,
+                let component = |src_factor, dst_factor| BlendComponent {
+                    src_factor,
+                    dst_factor,
                     operation: BlendOperation::Add,
                 };
-                target.blend = Some(BlendState {
-                    color: premultiplied,
-                    alpha: premultiplied,
+                target.blend = Some(if key.bind_group_data.modulate {
+                    // EGxBlend 4, `DestColor/Zero`: the shader emits the tinted texel, so the
+                    // target is multiplied by it; its alpha stays.
+                    BlendState {
+                        color: component(BlendFactor::Dst, BlendFactor::Zero),
+                        alpha: component(BlendFactor::Zero, BlendFactor::One),
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    // `(One, OneMinusSrcAlpha)` over gamma values: the shader emits `(rgb·a, a)`
+                    // for BLEND, `(rgb·a, 0)` for ADD and `(rgb, 1)` for DISABLE and a passing
+                    // ALPHAKEY texel, so this one state is EGxBlend 0 to 3, clamped at each write
+                    // like the reference's 8-bit backbuffer.
+                    let premultiplied = component(BlendFactor::One, BlendFactor::OneMinusSrcAlpha);
+                    BlendState {
+                        color: premultiplied,
+                        alpha: premultiplied,
+                    }
                 });
             }
         }
@@ -486,7 +519,7 @@ fn clip_quad(
 /// One run: contiguous quads, in `z_key` order, sharing a texture and every material flag.
 struct Run {
     texture: Handle<Image>,
-    additive: bool,
+    blend: BlendMode,
     circular: bool,
     desaturated: bool,
     premultiplied: bool,
@@ -505,7 +538,7 @@ impl Run {
     fn new(texture: Handle<Image>, q: &UiQuad) -> Self {
         Self {
             texture,
-            additive: q.additive,
+            blend: q.blend,
             circular: q.circular,
             desaturated: q.desaturated,
             premultiplied: q.premultiplied,
@@ -690,7 +723,7 @@ impl StoredRun {
 /// A material's full identity, floats by their bits so byte-equal materials share one entry.
 type MatKey = (
     AssetId<Image>,
-    bool,
+    BlendMode,
     bool,
     bool,
     bool,
@@ -919,7 +952,7 @@ fn rebuild_ui_mesh(
         let texture = q.texture.clone().unwrap_or_else(|| white.0.clone());
         let same_run = runs.last().is_some_and(|r| {
             (r.texture == texture || one_texture_probe())
-                && r.additive == q.additive
+                && r.blend == q.blend
                 && r.circular == q.circular
                 && r.desaturated == q.desaturated
                 && r.premultiplied == q.premultiplied
@@ -992,7 +1025,7 @@ fn rebuild_ui_mesh(
         let uv_clamp = run.uv_clamp.map_or(UV_CLAMP_OFF, Vec4::from_array);
         let key: MatKey = (
             run.texture.id(),
-            run.additive,
+            run.blend,
             run.circular,
             run.desaturated,
             run.premultiplied,
@@ -1032,7 +1065,7 @@ fn rebuild_ui_mesh(
             .entry(key)
             .or_insert_with(|| {
                 materials.add(UiQuadMaterial {
-                    additive: u32::from(run.additive),
+                    blend: run.blend as u32,
                     texture: Some(run.texture.clone()),
                     circular: u32::from(run.circular),
                     desaturate: u32::from(run.desaturated),
@@ -1431,6 +1464,102 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    /// Each texture mode reaches the pass as the reference sets it: `DISABLE`, `ALPHAKEY`,
+    /// `BLEND` and `ADD` share the premultiplied pipeline and differ by the mode uniform the shader
+    /// branches on, and `MOD` keys its own `DestColor/Zero` pipeline (`0x80a1fc[4] = 9`,
+    /// `0x80a228[4] = 1`).
+    #[test]
+    fn each_blend_mode_splits_the_run_and_mod_keys_the_multiply_pipeline() {
+        use bevy::render::render_resource::{
+            ColorTargetState, ColorWrites, FragmentState, RenderPipelineDescriptor,
+        };
+        let mut app = rebuild_app();
+        let mut quads = app.world_mut().resource_mut::<UiQuads>();
+        for (i, blend) in [
+            BlendMode::Disable,
+            BlendMode::AlphaKey,
+            BlendMode::Add,
+            BlendMode::Mod,
+        ]
+        .into_iter()
+        .enumerate()
+        {
+            let x = 64.0 * (i as f32 + 1.0);
+            quads.quads.push(UiQuad {
+                rect: Rect::new(x, 0.0, x + 64.0, 64.0),
+                z_key: i as u128 + 1,
+                blend,
+                ..default()
+            });
+        }
+        quads.dirty = true;
+        app.update();
+        assert_eq!(batches(&mut app), 5, "a run per mode");
+        let mut modes: Vec<(u32, bool)> = app
+            .world_mut()
+            .resource::<Assets<UiQuadMaterial>>()
+            .iter()
+            .map(|(_, m)| (m.blend, UiQuadKey::from(m).modulate))
+            .collect();
+        modes.sort_unstable();
+        assert_eq!(
+            modes,
+            vec![(0, false), (1, false), (2, false), (3, false), (4, true)],
+            "the EGxBlend as the uniform, and MOD alone on the multiply key"
+        );
+
+        let blend_of = |modulate: bool| {
+            let mut descriptor = RenderPipelineDescriptor {
+                fragment: Some(FragmentState {
+                    targets: vec![Some(ColorTargetState {
+                        format: TextureFormat::Rgba8Unorm,
+                        blend: None,
+                        write_mask: ColorWrites::ALL,
+                    })],
+                    ..default()
+                }),
+                ..default()
+            };
+            let layout = tile_quad_mesh()
+                .get_mesh_vertex_buffer_layout(&mut bevy::mesh::MeshVertexBufferLayouts::default());
+            UiQuadMaterial::specialize(
+                &mut descriptor,
+                &layout,
+                Material2dKey {
+                    mesh_key: bevy::sprite_render::Mesh2dPipelineKey::empty(),
+                    bind_group_data: UiQuadKey { modulate },
+                },
+            )
+            .unwrap();
+            descriptor.fragment.unwrap().targets[0]
+                .clone()
+                .unwrap()
+                .blend
+                .unwrap()
+        };
+        let component = |src_factor, dst_factor| BlendComponent {
+            src_factor,
+            dst_factor,
+            operation: BlendOperation::Add,
+        };
+        assert_eq!(
+            blend_of(true),
+            BlendState {
+                color: component(BlendFactor::Dst, BlendFactor::Zero),
+                alpha: component(BlendFactor::Zero, BlendFactor::One),
+            },
+            "MOD multiplies the target"
+        );
+        let premultiplied = component(BlendFactor::One, BlendFactor::OneMinusSrcAlpha);
+        assert_eq!(
+            blend_of(false),
+            BlendState {
+                color: premultiplied,
+                alpha: premultiplied,
+            }
+        );
+    }
+
     /// `SetVertexColor` quantises `×255 + 0.5` into one byte per channel (`0x79abd0`).
     #[test]
     fn tint_tag_is_the_reference_byte_colour_complemented() {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/extract/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/extract/mod.rs
index 841fc1f3b..f8ba6f726 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/extract/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/extract/mod.rs
@@ -1317,7 +1317,7 @@ fn convert_entry(
             path,
             color,
             gradient,
-            additive,
+            blend,
             tex_coords,
             wrap,
             circular,
@@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ fn convert_entry(
                 uv_clamp,
                 color,
                 corner_colors,
-                additive,
+                blend,
                 clip,
                 // `SetRotation` is counter-clockwise-positive, `UiQuad::rotation` clockwise.
                 rotation: -rotation,
@@ -1667,7 +1667,7 @@ mod cursor_quad_tests {
         assert_eq!(q.rect.height(), 32.0);
         assert_eq!(q.z_key, u128::MAX);
         assert!(q.texture.is_some());
-        assert!(!q.additive);
+        assert_eq!(q.blend, benilla_ui::script::BlendMode::Blend);
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/extract/text.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/extract/text.rs
index f848fd22a..46b944ae7 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/extract/text.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/extract/text.rs
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ pub(super) fn emit(
                 uv: UvRect::FULL,
                 color: [hc[0], hc[1], hc[2], hc[3] * host.alpha],
                 corner_colors: None,
-                additive: false,
+                blend: benilla_ui::script::BlendMode::Blend,
                 circular: false,
                 desaturated: false,
                 premultiplied: false,
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ pub(super) fn emit(
                     base_color[3] * host.alpha,
                 ],
                 corner_colors: None,
-                additive: false,
+                blend: benilla_ui::script::BlendMode::Blend,
                 circular: false,
                 desaturated: false,
                 premultiplied: false,
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs
index 6fc122f00..2957ac570 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/options_tests.rs
@@ -235,11 +235,15 @@ fn the_selected_row_wears_the_gold_wash_and_hover_runs_blue() {
                 QuadContent::Texture {
                     path: Some(p),
                     color,
-                    additive,
+                    blend,
                     ..
-                } if p.contains("UI-QuestLogTitleHighlight") => {
-                    q.rect.map(|r| (r, color.unwrap_or([1.0; 4]), *additive))
-                }
+                } if p.contains("UI-QuestLogTitleHighlight") => q.rect.map(|r| {
+                    (
+                        r,
+                        color.unwrap_or([1.0; 4]),
+                        *blend == benilla_ui::script::BlendMode::Add,
+                    )
+                }),
                 _ => None,
             })
             .collect()
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/regions.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/regions.rs
index e1a121064..d0ec3654b 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/regions.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/regions.rs
@@ -401,7 +401,9 @@ impl Loader<'_> {
             }
         }
         if let Some(mode) = node.attr("alphaMode") {
-            self.call_region(wrapper, "SetBlendMode", mode.to_string(), dbg);
+            if let Err(e) = crate::script::load_blend_mode(self.lua, wrapper, mode) {
+                self.report.fault(format!("{dbg}: region alphaMode: {e}"));
+            }
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/tests.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/tests.rs
index 12ea4e1e2..b09ead00d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/loader/tests.rs
@@ -2634,19 +2634,56 @@ mod layer_blend_tests {
         let mut s = s;
         s.set_screen_size(800.0, 600.0);
         s.resolve();
-        let additive = s
+        let blend = s
             .extract()
             .iter()
             .find_map(|q| match &q.content {
                 QuadContent::Texture {
                     path: Some(p),
-                    additive,
+                    blend,
                     ..
-                } if p == "Interface\\Glow" => Some(*additive),
+                } if p == "Interface\\Glow" => Some(*blend),
                 _ => None,
             })
             .expect("the layer texture extracted");
-        assert!(additive, "alphaMode=ADD must ride into the quad blend flag");
+        assert_eq!(
+            blend,
+            crate::script::BlendMode::Add,
+            "alphaMode=ADD must ride into the quad blend"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// `alphaMode=` (`0x770176`) skips an empty value and ignores an unknown one with no log
+    /// (`0x770185`, `0x770195`), where `SetBlendMode` raises; a known one is any case.
+    #[test]
+    fn an_unknown_alpha_mode_is_ignored_without_a_fault() {
+        let s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
+        let doc = parse(
+            r#"<Ui>
+                <Frame name="ModeHost">
+                    <Layers><Layer level="ARTWORK">
+                        <Texture name="ModeBogus" file="Interface\Bogus" alphaMode="ADDITIVE"/>
+                        <Texture name="ModeEmpty" file="Interface\Empty" alphaMode=""/>
+                        <Texture name="ModeMod" file="Interface\Mod" alphaMode="mod"/>
+                    </Layer></Layers>
+                </Frame>
+            </Ui>"#,
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        let report = load(&s, &doc, &no_files);
+        assert!(report.errors.is_empty(), "errors: {:?}", report.errors);
+        assert!(
+            report.warnings.is_empty(),
+            "warnings: {:?}",
+            report.warnings
+        );
+        let modes: (String, String, String) = s
+            .eval(
+                "return ModeBogus:GetBlendMode(), ModeEmpty:GetBlendMode(), \
+                 ModeMod:GetBlendMode()",
+            )
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(modes, ("BLEND".into(), "BLEND".into(), "MOD".into()));
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs
index cd59bf874..febdc226c 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs
@@ -587,27 +587,26 @@ fn set_slot_texture(
     // a check box with a checked texture repaints that one and never gets its disabled-checked
     // texture from a path. benilla tests and reloads the slot the method names.
     let existing = with_button(lua, this, |bs| slot.get(bs))?.is_some();
-    let resolvable = path.is_empty()
-        || lua
-            .app_data_ref::<Model>()
-            .expect("model app_data")
-            .texture_probe
-            .as_ref()
-            .is_none_or(|probe| probe(&path));
-    if !existing && !resolvable {
-        return Ok(());
-    }
+    // A slot built for this call is judged before it is built, the probe asked once.
+    let verdict = if existing {
+        None
+    } else {
+        let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
+        match crate::script::texture_name_verdict(&model, &path) {
+            crate::script::FileLoad::Failed => return Ok(()),
+            v => Some(v),
+        }
+    };
     let id = ensure_slot(lua, this, slot)?;
     let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
     let rh = *model.id_to_region.get(&id).expect("slot region id");
-    if resolvable {
-        // `""` clears the texture, which `QuestLogFrame.lua:165` relies on.
-        let set = if path.is_empty() {
-            crate::script::texel::TexSet::None
-        } else {
-            crate::script::texel::TexSet::File(path)
-        };
-        model.set_texel(rh, set);
+    // `""` clears the texture, which `QuestLogFrame.lua:165` relies on; a file that loads clears
+    // the desaturation, and one that fails keeps the image and the grey (`0x778f3a` → `0x770200`).
+    match verdict {
+        Some(v) => crate::script::apply_texture_name(&mut model, rh, &path, false, v),
+        None => {
+            crate::script::load_texture_name(&mut model, rh, &path, false);
+        }
     }
     let data = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
     // The highlight applies its blend on every path call, to the old region as to a new one
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/colorselect.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/colorselect.rs
index 0e65e84f0..77f163425 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/colorselect.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/colorselect.rs
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@ use mlua::{Lua, Table, Value};
 
 use super::object::frame_handle_of;
 use super::pointer::point_in_rect;
-use super::region::{
-    install_into_slot, new_texture_region, region_wrapper, set_texture_path, slot_arg, SlotArg,
-};
+use super::region::{install_into_slot, load_path_leg, region_wrapper, slot_arg, SlotArg};
 use super::{event, Model};
 use crate::layout::Rect;
 use crate::order::DrawLayer;
@@ -152,8 +150,8 @@ pub(super) fn install_loaded(
     install_slot_model(model, h, slot, Some(rh))
 }
 
-/// A marker's path leg (`0x78b7b0`): a marker that exists has its file swapped and nothing else;
-/// with none, a texture is built, given the file and installed.
+/// A marker's path leg (`0x78b7b0`, [`load_path_leg`]): a marker that exists has its file swapped
+/// and nothing else; with none, a texture that loads is installed.
 fn set_marker_path(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, slot: Slot, path: &str) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
     let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
@@ -166,14 +164,8 @@ fn set_marker_path(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, slot: Slot, path: &str) -> mlua::Res
         KindState::ColorSelect(s) => slot.get(s),
         _ => return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("not a ColorSelect")),
     };
-    match existing {
-        Some(rh) => set_texture_path(&mut model, rh, path),
-        None => {
-            let rh = new_texture_region(&mut model, h, slot.layer())
-                .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?;
-            set_texture_path(&mut model, rh, path);
-            install_slot_model(&mut model, h, slot, Some(rh))?;
-        }
+    if let Some(rh) = load_path_leg(&mut model, h, existing, slot.layer(), path)? {
+        install_slot_model(&mut model, h, slot, Some(rh))?;
     }
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs
index 3a80b97bc..70ddadb5d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/extract.rs
@@ -335,9 +335,13 @@ impl UiScript {
                                 .gradient
                                 .filter(|_| has_texture)
                                 .map(|g| g.vertex_colors()),
-                            // The renderer acts on ADD only: the other four `alphaMode` values
-                            // answer `GetBlendMode` but draw as straight alpha.
-                            additive: data.blend == crate::script::BlendMode::Add,
+                            blend: drawn_blend(
+                                data.blend,
+                                owner_frame.map_or(1.0, |f| f.effective_alpha),
+                                data.alpha.unwrap_or(1.0),
+                                data.vertex_color,
+                                data.gradient.map(|g| g.vertex_colors()),
+                            ),
                             tex_coords: data.tex_coords,
                             wrap,
                             circular: data.circular,
@@ -408,6 +412,40 @@ impl UiScript {
     }
 }
 
+/// The blend a texture's record draws with (`0x76fb00`): a record with a colour array and a mode
+/// below `BLEND` draws as `BLEND` (`0x76fb85`-`0x76fba2`). The array is there exactly when it holds
+/// an entry (`0x773035`), and the frame-alpha fold (`0x77fac0`) leaves one exactly when the frame's
+/// alpha byte is below `0xfe` (`0x77fb6a` builds a white one) or an entry is not opaque white
+/// (`0x77faf5`-`0x77fb23`). The entries are the vertex colour, whose alpha byte the region's
+/// `SetAlpha` writes (`0x79b580`), or a gradient's four; a solid fill is the texel (`0x770360`).
+fn drawn_blend(
+    mode: crate::script::BlendMode,
+    frame_alpha: f32,
+    region_alpha: f32,
+    vertex: Option<[f32; 4]>,
+    gradient: Option<[[f32; 4]; 4]>,
+) -> crate::script::BlendMode {
+    use crate::script::BlendMode;
+    if !matches!(mode, BlendMode::Disable | BlendMode::AlphaKey) {
+        return mode;
+    }
+    // A channel's byte as the colour setters pack it (`×255 + 0.5`, truncated, `0x40a2b0`).
+    #[allow(clippy::cast_possible_truncation, clippy::cast_sign_loss)]
+    let byte = |v: f32| (v.clamp(0.0, 1.0) * 255.0 + 0.5) as u8;
+    let opaque_white =
+        |c: [f32; 4]| c[..3].iter().all(|&v| byte(v) == 0xff) && byte(c[3] * region_alpha) >= 0xfe;
+    let all_white = match (gradient, vertex) {
+        (Some(g), _) => g.into_iter().all(opaque_white),
+        (None, Some(c)) => opaque_white(c),
+        (None, None) => opaque_white([1.0; 4]),
+    };
+    if byte(frame_alpha) < 0xfe || !all_white {
+        BlendMode::Blend
+    } else {
+        mode
+    }
+}
+
 /// The colour a Texture region draws with: texel × vertex colour per channel, alpha included (the
 /// stage-0 combine preset at submit, `.data 0x85c250` index 1: `MODULATE(TEXTURE, DIFFUSE)`). A
 /// desaturated region's pixel shader (`+0x128`) reads only the vertex alpha. `fill`, the region's
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
index 557598120..f28d37d92 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs
@@ -302,8 +302,9 @@ pub use quest::{
 };
 pub use quest_log::{QuestObjectiveView, QuestRecordView, QuestSlotView, QUEST_LOG_SLOTS};
 pub(crate) use region::{
-    apply_font_parts, apply_wrap_attrs, implicit_creation_anchor_lua, install_loaded_texture,
-    load_texture_file, FileLoad,
+    apply_font_parts, apply_texture_name, apply_wrap_attrs, implicit_creation_anchor_lua,
+    install_loaded_texture, load_blend_mode, load_texture_file, load_texture_name,
+    texture_name_verdict, FileLoad,
 };
 pub use reputation::{FactionEntry, ReputationSend, ReputationState};
 pub use session::SessionRequest;
@@ -393,7 +394,7 @@ pub(crate) const REGION_LEAF_SHARED: [&str; 9] = [
 /// Texture-only, each in the client's Texture map (`0x87c128`): `GetVertexColor` though
 /// `SetVertexColor` is shared, and `SetGradientAlpha`, not FontString's `SetAlphaGradient`. 1.12
 /// has no Texture `SetSize` or `SetRotation` (PlayerModel's, `0x84f1fc`/`0x505f00`).
-pub(crate) const TEXTURE_ONLY_METHODS: [&str; 12] = [
+pub(crate) const TEXTURE_ONLY_METHODS: [&str; 13] = [
     "SetGradient",
     "SetGradientAlpha",
     "GetTexture",
@@ -405,6 +406,7 @@ pub(crate) const TEXTURE_ONLY_METHODS: [&str; 12] = [
     "SetTexCoordModifiesRect",
     "GetTexCoordModifiesRect",
     "SetDesaturated",
+    "IsDesaturated",
     "GetVertexColor",
 ];
 
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs
index 682e6a3d9..b36359391 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region.rs
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ pub(super) fn slot_arg(
 
 /// A fresh anchorless Texture region of `owner` on `layer`, as the client builds the texture a
 /// path leg loads (`0x76fc40`) before it installs it as an object.
-pub(super) fn new_texture_region(
+fn new_texture_region(
     model: &mut Model,
     owner: crate::widget::FrameHandle,
     layer: crate::order::DrawLayer,
@@ -205,16 +205,32 @@ pub(super) fn new_texture_region(
     Some(rh)
 }
 
-/// `CSimpleTexture::SetTexture(path)` (`0x770200`) on a region: the file replaces a solid fill, and
-/// `""` clears the texture, which `QuestLogFrame.lua:165` relies on.
-pub(super) fn set_texture_path(model: &mut Model, rh: RegionHandle, path: &str) {
-    let set = if path.is_empty() {
-        super::texel::TexSet::None
-    } else {
-        super::texel::TexSet::File(path.to_string())
-    };
-    model.set_texel(rh, set);
-    model.note_art(rh);
+/// A widget's texture path leg (`SetStatusBarTexture` `0x783140`, `SetThumbTexture` `0x7897c0`, a
+/// ColorSelect marker `0x78b7b0`) over its current texture `existing`. That texture loads the path
+/// ([`paint::load_texture_name`]) and keeps its image when the load fails (`0x783165`). With none,
+/// a texture is built on `layer` (`0x76fc40`) and loaded, and one whose load fails is deleted with
+/// nothing installed (`0x7831b4` → `0x7831d9`, `0x789834` → `0x789849`, `0x78b824` → `0x78b837`);
+/// here the verdict comes first, so a failure builds nothing. `""` loads, as no image. Answers the
+/// texture built, for the caller to install.
+pub(super) fn load_path_leg(
+    model: &mut Model,
+    owner: crate::widget::FrameHandle,
+    existing: Option<RegionHandle>,
+    layer: crate::order::DrawLayer,
+    path: &str,
+) -> mlua::Result<Option<RegionHandle>> {
+    if let Some(rh) = existing {
+        paint::load_texture_name(model, rh, path, false);
+        return Ok(None);
+    }
+    let verdict = paint::texture_name_verdict(model, path);
+    if verdict == paint::FileLoad::Failed {
+        return Ok(None);
+    }
+    let rh = new_texture_region(model, owner, layer)
+        .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?;
+    paint::apply_texture_name(model, rh, path, false, verdict);
+    Ok(Some(rh))
 }
 
 /// The loader's install of the texture a `<BarTexture>`, `<ThumbTexture>`, Button state-texture or
@@ -445,7 +461,10 @@ mod layout;
 mod paint;
 mod text;
 
-pub(crate) use paint::{load_texture_file, orientation, FileLoad};
+pub(crate) use paint::{
+    apply_texture_name, load_blend_mode, load_texture_file, load_texture_name, orientation,
+    texture_name_verdict, FileLoad,
+};
 pub(crate) use text::store_text_of;
 
 fn install_region_methods(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/paint.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/paint.rs
index eb35b3fd1..252bb4fb0 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/paint.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/region/paint.rs
@@ -112,14 +112,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                     _ => None,
                 };
                 let Some(vertical) = vertical else {
-                    let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model");
-                    let who = crate::script::object::decode_id(&this)
-                        .ok()
-                        .and_then(|id| super::region_name_of(&model, id));
-                    return Err(mlua::Error::runtime(format!(
-                        "Usage: {}:{name}{usage}",
-                        who.as_deref().unwrap_or("<unnamed>")
-                    )));
+                    return Err(self::usage(lua, &this, &format!("{name}{usage}")));
                 };
                 let n = if with_alpha { 8 } else { 6 };
                 let mut c = [0.0f32; 8];
@@ -164,10 +157,10 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         // The path form reads one argument (`0x770200`), the colour form (`0x770360`) up to four,
         // and extras such as `SetTexture(path, true)` are ignored: the wrap flag is 0 always
         // (`0x79bda5`). It answers 1, or nil when the path form's file does not load, as the
-        // host's `Model::texture_probe` judges; with no probe the path form answers nil.
+        // host's `Model::texture_probe` judges ([`set_texture`]).
         lua.create_function(
             |lua, (this, arg, g, b, a): (Table, Value, Value, Value, Value)| {
-                set_texture(lua, this, arg, g, b, a, false)
+                set_texture(lua, this, arg, g, b, a)
             },
         )?,
     )?;
@@ -193,6 +186,20 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         })?,
     )?;
 
+    // IsDesaturated (`0x79c2c0`), Texture only: 1 when the shader slot (`+0x128`) holds the
+    // desaturate shader (`0x770620(1)`, `0x79c354`), else nil. `SetDesaturated` answers the shader
+    // supported, so this is the stored flag, which a file that loads clears ([`load_texture_name`]).
+    m.set(
+        "IsDesaturated",
+        lua.create_function(|lua, this: Table| {
+            let rh = region_handle_of(lua, &this)?;
+            let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model");
+            Ok(crate::script::binding_abi::flag(
+                model.region_data.get(&rh).is_some_and(|d| d.desaturated),
+            ))
+        })?,
+    )?;
+
     // GetTexture (`0x79ba70`), Texture only, answers one value: "Solid Texture" for the colour
     // form (`0x835708`), not nil, and a path cut at its last `.` (`0x79baf0`), even a dot in a
     // directory name, as the client cuts it.
@@ -229,17 +236,25 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         })?,
     )?;
 
-    // SetBlendMode (`0x79a950`, the alphaMode enum `0x811aa8`) stores the mode as given; an
-    // unknown name leaves it alone, as the enum lookup does. Only ADD draws differently here, the
-    // others as straight alpha.
+    // SetBlendMode (`0x79a950`) looks a `lua_isstring` argument (`0x79a9e0`, a number too) up in
+    // the alphaMode enum, ignoring case (`0x6f1920` over `0x811aa8`), and stores it
+    // (`0x79aa13`); a miss or any other value raises the usage (`0x79aa20`, `0x87c44c`) and
+    // stores nothing.
     m.set(
         "SetBlendMode",
-        lua.create_function(|lua, (this, mode): (Table, String)| {
+        lua.create_function(|lua, (this, mode): (Table, Value)| {
             let rh = region_handle_of(lua, &this)?;
+            let blend = match &mode {
+                Value::String(_) | Value::Number(_) | Value::Integer(_) => lua
+                    .coerce_string(mode.clone())?
+                    .and_then(|m| BlendMode::parse(&m.to_string_lossy())),
+                _ => None,
+            };
+            let Some(blend) = blend else {
+                return Err(usage(lua, &this, "SetBlendMode(\"mode\")"));
+            };
             let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model");
-            if let Some(blend) = BlendMode::parse(&mode) {
-                model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default().blend = blend;
-            }
+            model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default().blend = blend;
             Ok(())
         })?,
     )?;
@@ -305,16 +320,7 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
                 _ => None,
             };
             let Some(dl) = dl else {
-                let name = {
-                    let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model");
-                    crate::script::object::decode_id(&this)
-                        .ok()
-                        .and_then(|id| super::region_name_of(&model, id))
-                };
-                return Err(mlua::Error::runtime(format!(
-                    "Usage: {}:SetDrawLayer(\"layer\")",
-                    name.as_deref().unwrap_or("<unnamed>")
-                )));
+                return Err(usage(lua, &this, "SetDrawLayer(\"layer\")"));
             };
             let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model");
             if let Some(region) = model.arena.region_mut(rh) {
@@ -347,34 +353,28 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     m.set(
         "SetTexCoord",
         // Each coordinate is a bare `lua_tonumber` (`0x79beb0`), so nil or a table is 0; only the
-        // count is gated, 4 or 8 (`0x79bf5d`).
+        // count is gated, `lua_gettop` less the receiver (`0x79bf58`), so a trailing nil counts.
+        // Any count but 4 or 8, none included, raises the usage (`0x79bf6c`, `0x87c538`).
         lua.create_function(|lua, (this, args): (Table, mlua::Variadic<Value>)| {
             let rest: Vec<f32> = args.iter().map(|v| tonumber_f32(lua, v)).collect();
             let rh = region_handle_of(lua, &this)?;
+            // The eight come UL, LL, UR, LR; `TexCoords::Corners` stores TL, TR, BR, BL.
             let coords = match rest.len() {
-                4 => Some(TexCoords::Rect([rest[0], rest[1], rest[2], rest[3]])),
-                // The arguments come UL, LL, UR, LR; `TexCoords::Corners` stores TL, TR, BR, BL.
-                8 => Some(TexCoords::Corners([
+                4 => TexCoords::Rect([rest[0], rest[1], rest[2], rest[3]]),
+                8 => TexCoords::Corners([
                     [rest[0], rest[1]], // UL → TL
                     [rest[4], rest[5]], // UR → TR
                     [rest[6], rest[7]], // LR → BR
                     [rest[2], rest[3]], // LL → BL
-                ])),
-                // No arguments resets to the full texture, which is not 1.12's: its gate takes 4
-                // or 8.
-                0 => None,
-                n => {
-                    return Err(mlua::Error::runtime(format!(
-                        "SetTexCoord: expected 4 (edges) or 8 (corner pairs) args, got {n}"
-                    )))
-                }
+                ]),
+                _ => return Err(usage(lua, &this, TEX_COORD_USAGE)),
             };
             lua.app_data_mut::<Model>()
                 .expect("model")
                 .region_data
                 .entry(rh)
                 .or_default()
-                .tex_coords = coords;
+                .tex_coords = Some(coords);
             Ok(())
         })?,
     )?;
@@ -416,6 +416,36 @@ pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua, m: &Table) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
+/// `SetTexCoord`'s usage line (`0x87c538`), after its `%s:`.
+const TEX_COORD_USAGE: &str = "SetTexCoord(minX, maxX, minY, maxY) or SetTexCoord(ULx, ULy, LLx, \
+                               LLy, URx, URy, LRx, LRy)";
+
+/// The XML `alphaMode=` of a texture (`0x770176`): read with the same enum lookup as
+/// `SetBlendMode` (`0x6f1920`), but an empty value skips and an unknown one is ignored, with no
+/// log (`0x770185`, `0x770195`).
+pub(crate) fn load_blend_mode(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, mode: &str) -> mlua::Result<()> {
+    let Some(blend) = BlendMode::parse(mode) else {
+        return Ok(());
+    };
+    let rh = region_handle_of(lua, this)?;
+    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model");
+    model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default().blend = blend;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// `Usage: <name>:<line>`, the raise a region method makes over its own format string, naming the
+/// region by its `GetName` (vtable `+4`) or `<unnamed>` (`0x84c7f0`).
+fn usage(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, line: &str) -> mlua::Error {
+    let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model");
+    let name = crate::script::object::decode_id(this)
+        .ok()
+        .and_then(|id| super::region_name_of(&model, id));
+    mlua::Error::runtime(format!(
+        "Usage: {}:{line}",
+        name.as_deref().unwrap_or("<unnamed>")
+    ))
+}
+
 impl crate::script::UiScript {
     /// Install the host's texture-path check behind the path form of `SetTexture`'s 1-or-nil
     /// answer; without one every path answers nil.
@@ -454,154 +484,150 @@ impl crate::script::UiScript {
     }
 }
 
-/// What an XML `file=` load came to ([`load_texture_file`]).
+/// What `CSimpleTexture::SetTexture(name)` (`0x770200`) came to ([`load_texture_name`]).
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub(crate) enum FileLoad {
-    /// The host's texture probe found the file.
+    /// It returned 1: the file it already shows, an empty name, or a file the probe found.
     Loaded,
-    /// The probe did not: `0x770200` returned 0 and the texture kept what it had (`0x7702ac`).
+    /// It returned 0: the probe did not find the file, and the texture kept what it had.
     Failed,
     /// No probe is installed (a test harness): the path is stored, with no verdict.
     Unprobed,
 }
 
-/// The XML `<Texture file=>` load of a region (`0x76fe20` → `0x770200`): the path form of
-/// [`set_texture`] with the wrap flag the element's `<TexCoords>` decide.
+/// `CSimpleTexture::SetTexture(name)` (`0x770200`) on region `rh`, the one load behind
+/// `SetTexture`'s path form, the XML `file=` and every widget's path leg. The file the texture
+/// already shows answers 1 untouched (`0x770225`); anything else is judged by
+/// [`texture_name_verdict`] and applied by [`apply_texture_name`].
+pub(crate) fn load_texture_name(
+    model: &mut Model,
+    rh: crate::widget::RegionHandle,
+    name: &str,
+    wrap: bool,
+) -> FileLoad {
+    let held = model
+        .region_data
+        .get(&rh)
+        .is_some_and(|d| !name.is_empty() && model.texels.holds_file(&d.tex, name));
+    if held {
+        return FileLoad::Loaded;
+    }
+    let verdict = texture_name_verdict(model, name);
+    apply_texture_name(model, rh, name, wrap, verdict);
+    verdict
+}
+
+/// What `0x770200` comes to for a name the texture does not already show: an empty name, which is
+/// how a null one arrives, loads as no image (`0x770235` → `0x7702cb`, answering 1); any other is
+/// the host probe's to judge, and a miss answers 0 (`0x7702ac`). The probe is asked once here, so a
+/// path leg that builds its texture only for a load that succeeds asks before it builds.
+pub(crate) fn texture_name_verdict(model: &Model, name: &str) -> FileLoad {
+    if name.is_empty() {
+        return FileLoad::Loaded;
+    }
+    match &model.texture_probe {
+        None => FileLoad::Unprobed,
+        Some(probe) if probe(name) => FileLoad::Loaded,
+        Some(_) => FileLoad::Failed,
+    }
+}
+
+/// `0x770200` past its probe on region `rh`. A failed load keeps the image and the shader slot
+/// (`0x7702ac`); an empty name drops the image and leaves the slot (`0x7702cb`); a file writes
+/// shader 0 to the slot (`0x7702c0`), clearing any desaturation, and then the image. Every caller
+/// passes shader index 0 (`0x79bd89`, `0x783165`, `0x7897e5`, `0x78b7d5`, `0x778f3a`).
+pub(crate) fn apply_texture_name(
+    model: &mut Model,
+    rh: crate::widget::RegionHandle,
+    name: &str,
+    wrap: bool,
+    verdict: FileLoad,
+) {
+    if verdict == FileLoad::Failed {
+        return;
+    }
+    let Model {
+        region_data,
+        texels,
+        ..
+    } = &mut *model;
+    let data = region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
+    let set = if name.is_empty() {
+        TexSet::None
+    } else {
+        data.desaturated = false;
+        if wrap {
+            TexSet::WrapFile(name.to_string())
+        } else {
+            TexSet::File(name.to_string())
+        }
+    };
+    // The probe has answered already, so the file is no miss.
+    texels.set(&mut data.tex, set, |_| false);
+    model.note_art(rh);
+}
+
+/// The XML `<Texture file=>` load of a region (`0x76fe20` → `0x770200`), with the wrap flag the
+/// element's `<TexCoords>` decide.
 pub(crate) fn load_texture_file(
     lua: &Lua,
     this: &Table,
     file: &str,
     wrap: bool,
 ) -> mlua::Result<FileLoad> {
-    let probed = lua
-        .app_data_ref::<Model>()
-        .expect("model")
-        .texture_probe
-        .is_some();
-    let path = Value::String(lua.create_string(file)?);
-    let answer = set_texture(
-        lua,
-        this.clone(),
-        path,
-        Value::Nil,
-        Value::Nil,
-        Value::Nil,
-        wrap,
-    )?;
-    Ok(match (probed, answer) {
-        (false, _) => FileLoad::Unprobed,
-        (true, Value::Nil) => FileLoad::Failed,
-        (true, _) => FileLoad::Loaded,
-    })
+    let rh = region_handle_of(lua, this)?;
+    let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model");
+    Ok(load_texture_name(&mut model, rh, file, wrap))
 }
 
-/// `Texture:SetTexture` (`0x79bb40`) and the XML `<Texture file=>` load (`0x76fe20`), the two
-/// callers of `0x770200` that differ in its wrap argument: the binding passes 0 (`0x79bda5`), the
-/// loader passes 1 only when the element's `<TexCoords>` leave [0, 1] (`0x77012d`).
-pub(crate) fn set_texture(
+/// `Texture:SetTexture` (`0x79bb40`). `lua_isnumber` (`0x79bbd5`, so a numeric string too) picks
+/// the colour form (`0x770360`); anything else is a name for `0x770200` with the wrap flag 0
+/// (`0x79bda5`): a string as it is, and every other value, nil and no argument included, as a null
+/// name (`0x79bdc8`), which clears. It answers 1 unless the load returns 0 (`0x79bdac` →
+/// `0x79bddc`); with no probe installed the path form answers nil.
+fn set_texture(
     lua: &Lua,
     this: Table,
     arg: Value,
     g: Value,
     b: Value,
     a: Value,
-    wrap: bool,
 ) -> mlua::Result<Value> {
     let rh = region_handle_of(lua, &this)?;
-    // `lua_isnumber` (`0x79bbd5`) picks the colour form, a numeric string included.
     let colour_form = lua.coerce_number(arg.clone()).ok().flatten().is_some();
-    // Scoped so the model borrow ends before the layout touch; the path arm drops it
-    // mid-way to call the host probe.
     let loaded = {
         let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model");
-        {
-            let Model {
-                region_data,
-                texels,
-                ..
-            } = &mut *model;
-            // SetTexture drops any portrait mask and live-unit binding.
-            let data = region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
-            data.circular = false;
-            data.portrait_unit = None;
-            // SetTexture clears the desaturation: `0x770200` writes the shader slot
-            // (`+0x128`) from an argument the binding (`0x79bb40`) always passes NULL. The
-            // same file returns first (`0x770225`) and keeps it, nil or "" clear it, and
-            // the colour form (`0x770360`) never writes it.
-            let same_file = matches!(&arg, Value::String(s)
-                    if s.to_str().is_ok_and(|s| texels.holds_file(&data.tex, &s)));
-            if !same_file && !colour_form {
-                data.desaturated = false;
-            }
+        // SetTexture drops any portrait mask and live-unit binding.
+        let data = model.region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
+        data.circular = false;
+        data.portrait_unit = None;
+        if colour_form {
+            // g and b are a bare `lua_tonumber`, and alpha is `lua_isnumber`-gated with default 1.
+            // The solid writes the one texture slot (`+0xcc`), so it clears a file; neither form
+            // touches the vertex colour (`+0xb8`) or the shader slot, so a tint and a grey outlive
+            // the art.
+            let alpha = lua
+                .coerce_number(a.clone())
+                .ok()
+                .flatten()
+                .map_or(1.0, |n| n as f32);
+            let fill = [
+                tonumber_f32(lua, &arg),
+                tonumber_f32(lua, &g),
+                tonumber_f32(lua, &b),
+                alpha,
+            ];
+            model.set_texel(rh, TexSet::Fill(fill));
+            model.note_art(rh);
+            true
+        } else {
+            let name = match &arg {
+                Value::String(s) => s.to_str()?.to_string(),
+                _ => String::new(),
+            };
+            load_texture_name(&mut model, rh, &name, false) == FileLoad::Loaded
         }
-        // Both forms write the one texture slot (`+0xcc`), a file or an 8×8 solid, so
-        // each clears the other; neither touches the vertex colour (`+0xb8`), so a
-        // tint outlives its art.
-        let (set, loaded) = match &arg {
-            // The colour form (`lua_isnumber`, `0x79bbd5`, so a numeric string too): g
-            // and b are a bare `lua_tonumber`, and alpha is `lua_isnumber`-gated with
-            // default 1.
-            _ if colour_form => {
-                let alpha = lua
-                    .coerce_number(a.clone())
-                    .ok()
-                    .flatten()
-                    .map_or(1.0, |n| n as f32);
-                let fill = [
-                    tonumber_f32(lua, &arg),
-                    tonumber_f32(lua, &g),
-                    tonumber_f32(lua, &b),
-                    alpha,
-                ];
-                (Some(TexSet::Fill(fill)), true)
-            }
-            // "" clears, as nil does (stock `QuestLogFrame.lua:166`), and answers nil
-            // like a failed load; the reference's answer for "" is untraced.
-            Value::String(s) if s.to_str()?.is_empty() => (Some(TexSet::None), false),
-            // Ask the probe before writing: on a failed load the reference returns 0
-            // and keeps the texture it had (`0x770288`, `0x77028e`-`0x7702b2`). With
-            // no probe the path is stored, though the answer is nil.
-            Value::String(s) => {
-                let path = s.to_str()?.to_string();
-                drop(model);
-                let resolvable = {
-                    let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model");
-                    model
-                        .texture_probe
-                        .as_ref()
-                        .is_none_or(|probe| probe(&path))
-                };
-                model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model");
-                let had_probe = model.texture_probe.is_some();
-                if resolvable {
-                    // Resolvable already: the probe need not run again.
-                    let Model {
-                        region_data,
-                        texels,
-                        ..
-                    } = &mut *model;
-                    let data = region_data.entry(rh).or_default();
-                    let set = if wrap {
-                        TexSet::WrapFile(path)
-                    } else {
-                        TexSet::File(path)
-                    };
-                    texels.set(&mut data.tex, set, |_| false);
-                }
-                (None, resolvable && had_probe)
-            }
-            // nil clears, so the region draws nothing, and answers 1 (`0x79bb40`).
-            Value::Nil => (Some(TexSet::None), true),
-            _ => (None, false),
-        };
-        if let Some(set) = set {
-            model.set_texel(rh, set);
-        }
-        loaded
     };
-    // The draw only (`0x77fdf0`); an art-sized texture now holds a state its next
-    // reaching resolve need not give back.
-    lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model").note_art(rh);
     Ok(if loaded {
         Value::Number(1.0)
     } else {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/slider.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/slider.rs
index f457f3384..862231328 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/slider.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/slider.rs
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@ use mlua::{Lua, Table, Value};
 
 use super::object::frame_handle_of;
 use super::pointer::point_in_rect;
-use super::region::{
-    install_into_slot, new_texture_region, region_wrapper, set_texture_path, slot_arg, SlotArg,
-};
+use super::region::{install_into_slot, load_path_leg, region_wrapper, slot_arg, SlotArg};
 use super::{event, Model};
 use crate::layout::Rect;
 use crate::order::DrawLayer;
@@ -87,9 +85,9 @@ pub(super) fn install_loaded(
     install_thumb_model(model, h, Some(rh), layer.unwrap_or(DrawLayer::Overlay))
 }
 
-/// `SetThumbTexture`'s path leg (`0x7897c0`): a thumb that exists has its file swapped and nothing
-/// else; with none, a texture is built, given the file and installed on OVERLAY (`0x790431`'s
-/// layer).
+/// `SetThumbTexture`'s path leg (`0x7897c0`, [`load_path_leg`]): a thumb that exists has its file
+/// swapped and nothing else; with none, a texture that loads is installed on OVERLAY
+/// (`0x790431`'s layer).
 fn set_thumb_path(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, path: &str) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
     let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
@@ -102,14 +100,8 @@ fn set_thumb_path(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, path: &str) -> mlua::Result<()> {
         KindState::Slider(s) => s.thumb,
         _ => return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("not a Slider")),
     };
-    match existing {
-        Some(rh) => set_texture_path(&mut model, rh, path),
-        None => {
-            let rh = new_texture_region(&mut model, h, DrawLayer::Overlay)
-                .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?;
-            set_texture_path(&mut model, rh, path);
-            install_thumb_model(&mut model, h, Some(rh), DrawLayer::Overlay)?;
-        }
+    if let Some(rh) = load_path_leg(&mut model, h, existing, DrawLayer::Overlay, path)? {
+        install_thumb_model(&mut model, h, Some(rh), DrawLayer::Overlay)?;
     }
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/statusbar.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/statusbar.rs
index bd033aa60..6586ff49f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/statusbar.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/statusbar.rs
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@
 use mlua::{Lua, Table, Value};
 
 use super::object::{draw_layer_from_str, frame_handle_of};
-use super::region::{
-    install_into_slot, new_texture_region, region_wrapper, set_texture_path, slot_arg, SlotArg,
-};
+use super::region::{install_into_slot, load_path_leg, region_wrapper, slot_arg, SlotArg};
 use super::{event, Model};
 use crate::order::DrawLayer;
 use crate::widget::{KindState, RegionHandle, StatusBarState};
@@ -110,9 +108,9 @@ pub(super) fn install_loaded(
     install_bar_model(model, h, Some(rh), layer.unwrap_or(DrawLayer::Artwork))
 }
 
-/// `SetStatusBarTexture`'s path leg (`0x783140`): a bar that exists has its file swapped and
-/// nothing else, its layer included; with none, a texture is built, given the file and installed
-/// on `layer` (`0x7831cb`).
+/// `SetStatusBarTexture`'s path leg (`0x783140`, [`load_path_leg`]): a bar that exists has its file
+/// swapped and nothing else, its layer included; with none, a texture that loads is installed on
+/// `layer` (`0x7831cb`).
 fn set_bar_path(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, path: &str, layer: DrawLayer) -> mlua::Result<()> {
     let h = frame_handle_of(lua, this)?;
     let mut model = lua.app_data_mut::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
@@ -125,16 +123,10 @@ fn set_bar_path(lua: &Lua, this: &Table, path: &str, layer: DrawLayer) -> mlua::
         KindState::StatusBar(sb) => sb.bar,
         _ => return Err(mlua::Error::runtime("not a StatusBar")),
     };
-    match existing {
-        Some(rh) => set_texture_path(&mut model, rh, path),
-        None => {
-            let rh = new_texture_region(&mut model, h, layer)
-                .ok_or_else(|| mlua::Error::runtime("stale frame handle"))?;
-            set_texture_path(&mut model, rh, path);
-            // `SetAllPoints` onto the bar (`0x7831bf`).
-            super::region::implicit_creation_anchor(&mut model, rh);
-            install_bar_model(&mut model, h, Some(rh), layer)?;
-        }
+    if let Some(rh) = load_path_leg(&mut model, h, existing, layer, path)? {
+        // `SetAllPoints` onto the bar (`0x7831bf`).
+        super::region::implicit_creation_anchor(&mut model, rh);
+        install_bar_model(&mut model, h, Some(rh), layer)?;
     }
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/adopt.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/adopt.rs
index fdadf41cf..76492984d 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/adopt.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/adopt.rs
@@ -506,6 +506,104 @@ fn a_path_that_does_not_load_makes_no_slot_region_and_keeps_the_old_texture() {
     .unwrap();
 }
 
+/// The bar, thumb and marker path legs (`0x783140`, `0x7897c0`, `0x78b7b0`) load into a texture
+/// they hold, which keeps its image when the load fails (`0x770200` → `0x7702ac`); with none, a
+/// texture whose load fails is deleted and nothing is installed (`0x7831d9`, `0x789849`, `0x78b837`),
+/// so a later good path builds one on the layer that call names.
+#[test]
+fn a_widget_path_that_does_not_load_installs_nothing_and_keeps_the_old_texture() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.set_texture_probe(Box::new(|p| p != "missing"));
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        sb = CreateFrame("StatusBar")
+        sl = CreateFrame("Slider")
+        cs = CreateFrame("ColorSelect")
+        sb:SetStatusBarTexture("missing")
+        sl:SetThumbTexture("missing")
+        cs:SetColorWheelThumbTexture("missing")
+        assert(sb:GetStatusBarTexture() == nil, "no bar for a failed load")
+        assert(sl:GetThumbTexture() == nil, "no thumb")
+        assert(cs:GetColorWheelThumbTexture() == nil, "no marker")
+
+        sb:SetStatusBarTexture("present", "BORDER")
+        assert(sb:GetStatusBarTexture():GetDrawLayer() == "BORDER", "built on the good call's layer")
+        sl:SetThumbTexture("present")
+        cs:SetColorWheelThumbTexture("present")
+        for _, t in ipairs({ sb:GetStatusBarTexture(), sl:GetThumbTexture(),
+                             cs:GetColorWheelThumbTexture() }) do
+            t:SetDesaturated(1)
+        end
+        sb:SetStatusBarTexture("missing")
+        sl:SetThumbTexture("missing")
+        cs:SetColorWheelThumbTexture("missing")
+        for _, t in ipairs({ sb:GetStatusBarTexture(), sl:GetThumbTexture(),
+                             cs:GetColorWheelThumbTexture() }) do
+            assert(t:GetTexture() == "present", "the old texture stands")
+            assert(t:IsDesaturated() == 1, "and keeps its grey")
+        end
+        sb:SetStatusBarTexture("other")
+        sl:SetThumbTexture("other")
+        cs:SetColorWheelThumbTexture("other")
+        for _, t in ipairs({ sb:GetStatusBarTexture(), sl:GetThumbTexture(),
+                             cs:GetColorWheelThumbTexture() }) do
+            assert(t:GetTexture() == "other" and t:IsDesaturated() == nil, "a new file clears it")
+        end
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+}
+
+/// A path leg that builds its texture asks the probe once, as `0x770200` loads once.
+#[test]
+fn a_path_leg_that_builds_a_texture_probes_once() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    let calls = std::rc::Rc::new(std::cell::Cell::new(0));
+    let seen = calls.clone();
+    s.set_texture_probe(Box::new(move |_| {
+        seen.set(seen.get() + 1);
+        true
+    }));
+    for (make, call) in [
+        ("StatusBar", "f:SetStatusBarTexture('present')"),
+        ("Slider", "f:SetThumbTexture('present')"),
+        ("ColorSelect", "f:SetColorWheelThumbTexture('present')"),
+        ("Button", "f:SetNormalTexture('present')"),
+        (
+            "Button",
+            "f:SetNormalTexture('present') f:SetNormalTexture('other')",
+        ),
+    ] {
+        calls.set(0);
+        s.run(&format!("f = CreateFrame('{make}') {call}")).unwrap();
+        let loads = call.matches("Texture(").count();
+        assert_eq!(calls.get(), loads, "{call}: one probe per load");
+    }
+}
+
+/// A Button state texture's path leg loads through `0x770200` with shader index 0 (`0x778f3a`): a
+/// new file that loads clears the desaturation, one that fails keeps it.
+#[test]
+fn a_button_path_that_loads_clears_the_desaturation() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.set_texture_probe(Box::new(|p| p != "missing"));
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        b = CreateFrame("Button")
+        b:SetNormalTexture("present")
+        n = b:GetNormalTexture()
+        n:SetDesaturated(1)
+        b:SetNormalTexture("missing")
+        assert(n:GetTexture() == "present" and n:IsDesaturated() == 1, "a failed load keeps both")
+        b:SetNormalTexture("present")
+        assert(n:IsDesaturated() == 1, "the same file returns first")
+        b:SetNormalTexture("other")
+        assert(n:GetTexture() == "other" and n:IsDesaturated() == nil, "a new file clears it")
+    "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+}
+
 /// The Button setters' raises (`0x87a210`/`0x87a1e0`, the highlight's `0x87a2cc`/`0x87a28c`, the
 /// checked pair's `0x87b224`/`0x87b1e8` and `0x87c0e8`/`0x87c0a0`) name the receiver and the
 /// method; a call with no argument raises Usage and clears nothing (`0x781b4f`).
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/button.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/button.rs
index 35c48c91a..af340736f 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/button.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/button.rs
@@ -538,7 +538,10 @@ fn highlight_is_additive_and_state_textures_fill_then_anchor() {
     // The 1.12 client's `SetHighlightTexture` defaults the texture to ADD.
     assert!(matches!(
         &find("Interface\\Hi.blp").content,
-        QuadContent::Texture { additive: true, .. }
+        QuadContent::Texture {
+            blend: BlendMode::Add,
+            ..
+        }
     ));
     // The reference's string setter anchors a texture it builds with `SetAllPoints`, so the later
     // 64px size is unread and the ring fills the 36px button.
@@ -578,7 +581,7 @@ fn highlight_is_additive_and_state_textures_fill_then_anchor() {
     assert!(matches!(
         &hi.content,
         QuadContent::Texture {
-            additive: false,
+            blend: BlendMode::Blend,
             ..
         }
     ));
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/regions.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/regions.rs
index cf96381ea..39df408ca 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/regions.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/regions.rs
@@ -544,8 +544,8 @@ fn desaturation_rides_the_extract_for_art_and_never_for_a_solid() {
     assert!(!grey(&s, true), "clearing the flag restores full colour");
 }
 
-/// A Texture region's desaturation state, read off the model by name: `IsDesaturated`
-/// (`0x79c2c0`) is not built, and a cleared texture emits no quad to read it from.
+/// A Texture region's desaturation state, read off the model by name: a cleared texture emits no
+/// quad to read it from.
 fn desaturated(s: &UiScript, name: &str) -> bool {
     let lua = s.lua();
     let model = lua.app_data_ref::<crate::script::Model>().expect("model");
@@ -554,40 +554,96 @@ fn desaturated(s: &UiScript, name: &str) -> bool {
     model.region_data.get(&h).is_some_and(|d| d.desaturated)
 }
 
-/// The desaturation is the shader slot `+0x128`, which `CSimpleTexture::SetTexture` rewrites with
-/// the binding's always-NULL slot 0, except that the same path returns early (`0x770225`).
+/// The desaturation is the shader slot `+0x128`, which `0x770200` writes only for a file that
+/// loads (`0x7702c0`): the file the texture shows returns first (`0x770225`), a null or empty name
+/// skips the write (`0x77022f`, `0x770238`), a failed load returns before it (`0x7702ac`), and the
+/// colour form (`0x770360`) never writes it. `IsDesaturated` (`0x79c2c0`) reads it back.
 #[test]
-fn set_texture_clears_desaturation_unless_the_path_is_unchanged() {
-    let s = script();
+fn only_a_file_that_loads_clears_the_desaturation() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.set_texture_probe(Box::new(|path: &str| !path.contains("Missing")));
     s.run(
         r#"
         local f = CreateFrame("Frame", "ClrOwner")
         icon = f:CreateTexture("ClrIcon", "ARTWORK")
         icon:SetTexture("Interface\\Icons\\Spell_Nature_Sleep")
-        icon:SetDesaturated(1)
     "#,
     )
     .unwrap();
-    let grey = |s: &UiScript| desaturated(s, "ClrIcon");
+    let grey = |s: &UiScript| {
+        let read = s.eval::<bool>("return icon:IsDesaturated() == 1").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            read,
+            desaturated(s, "ClrIcon"),
+            "IsDesaturated reads the flag"
+        );
+        read
+    };
+    assert!(
+        s.eval::<bool>("return icon:IsDesaturated() == nil")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "a fresh texture answers nil"
+    );
+    s.run("icon:SetDesaturated(1)").unwrap();
+    assert!(grey(&s));
 
     s.run(r#"icon:SetTexture("Interface\\Icons\\Spell_Nature_Sleep")"#)
         .unwrap();
-    assert!(grey(&s), "re-setting the SAME art keeps the grey");
+    assert!(grey(&s), "the same art returns before the write");
+
+    assert!(s
+        .eval::<bool>(r#"return icon:SetTexture("Interface\\Missing") == nil"#)
+        .unwrap());
+    assert!(grey(&s), "a failed load returns before the write");
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return icon:GetTexture()").unwrap(),
+        "Interface\\Icons\\Spell_Nature_Sleep",
+        "and keeps the art"
+    );
+
+    for clear in [
+        "icon:SetTexture(nil)",
+        "icon:SetTexture('')",
+        "icon:SetTexture(true)",
+    ] {
+        s.run(&format!(
+            "icon:SetTexture('Interface\\\\Art') icon:SetDesaturated(1) {clear}"
+        ))
+        .unwrap();
+        assert!(grey(&s), "{clear}: a null name skips the write");
+    }
+
+    s.run("icon:SetTexture(1, 0, 0)").unwrap();
+    assert!(grey(&s), "the colour form does not touch the shader slot");
 
     s.run(r#"icon:SetTexture("Interface\\Icons\\Spell_Fire_Fireball")"#)
         .unwrap();
-    assert!(!grey(&s), "a texture CHANGE clears the desaturation");
-
-    // nil takes the same leg (`test esi,esi` falls through to the write).
-    s.run("icon:SetDesaturated(1) icon:SetTexture(nil)")
+    assert!(!grey(&s), "a file that loads clears it");
+    s.run("icon:SetDesaturated(1) icon:SetDesaturated(nil)")
         .unwrap();
-    assert!(!grey(&s), "SetTexture(nil) clears it too");
+    assert!(!grey(&s), "SetDesaturated(nil) clears it");
+}
 
-    // The colour form (`0x770360`) does not write the shader slot.
-    s.run(r#"icon:SetTexture("Interface\\Icons\\Spell_Nature_Sleep") icon:SetDesaturated(1)"#)
+/// Every name but a string goes to `0x770200` as a null one (`0x79bdc8`), and so does `""`
+/// (`0x770235`): the image is dropped and the binding answers 1 (`0x79bdae`).
+#[test]
+fn set_texture_with_an_empty_or_non_string_name_clears_and_answers_one() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.set_texture_probe(Box::new(|_: &str| true));
+    s.run(r#"f = CreateFrame("Frame") t = f:CreateTexture()"#)
         .unwrap();
-    s.run("icon:SetTexture(1, 0, 0)").unwrap();
-    assert!(grey(&s), "the colour form does not touch the shader slot");
+    for arg in ["''", "true", "{}", "nil", ""] {
+        let answer = s
+            .eval::<Option<f64>>(&format!(
+                r#"t:SetTexture("Interface\\Art") return t:SetTexture({arg})"#
+            ))
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(answer, Some(1.0), "SetTexture({arg}) answers 1");
+        assert!(
+            s.eval::<bool>("return t:GetTexture() == nil").unwrap(),
+            "SetTexture({arg}) drops the image"
+        );
+    }
 }
 
 /// `SetDesaturated` reads its flag with `0x6f1c10(L, 2, default=1)`: no argument (`LUA_TNONE`)
@@ -1261,6 +1317,83 @@ fn an_unresolvable_set_texture_keeps_the_art_the_region_had() {
     assert!(s.eval::<bool>("return t:GetTexture() == nil").unwrap());
 }
 
+/// The blend each texture record draws with (`0x76fb00`): its own mode, except that `DISABLE` and
+/// `ALPHAKEY` under a colour array draw as `BLEND` (`0x76fb93`). The array survives the frame-alpha
+/// fold (`0x77fac0`) when the frame's alpha byte is below `0xfe` or an entry is not opaque white;
+/// a solid fill is the texel and no entry (`0x770360`).
+#[test]
+fn disable_and_alphakey_draw_as_blend_under_a_vertex_colour() {
+    let mut s = script();
+    s.set_screen_size(800.0, 600.0);
+    s.run(
+        r#"
+        DrawHost = CreateFrame("Frame", "DrawHost")
+        DrawHost:SetPoint("CENTER", 0, 0)
+        DrawHost:SetWidth(10) DrawHost:SetHeight(10)
+        DrawTex = DrawHost:CreateTexture("DrawTex", "ARTWORK")
+        DrawTex:SetAllPoints(DrawHost)
+        "#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    let drawn = |s: &mut UiScript, setup: &str| {
+        s.run(&format!(
+            "DrawHost:SetAlpha(1) DrawTex:SetAlpha(1) DrawTex:SetVertexColor(1, 1, 1, 1) \
+             DrawTex:SetTexture('Interface\\\\Art') {setup}"
+        ))
+        .unwrap();
+        s.resolve();
+        s.extract()
+            .into_iter()
+            .find_map(|q| match q.content {
+                QuadContent::Texture { blend, .. } => Some(blend),
+                _ => None,
+            })
+            .expect("the texture draws")
+    };
+    for (setup, want) in [
+        ("DrawTex:SetBlendMode('DISABLE')", BlendMode::Disable),
+        ("DrawTex:SetBlendMode('ALPHAKEY')", BlendMode::AlphaKey),
+        (
+            "DrawTex:SetBlendMode('DISABLE') DrawTex:SetVertexColor(1, 1, 1)",
+            BlendMode::Disable,
+        ),
+        (
+            "DrawTex:SetBlendMode('DISABLE') DrawTex:SetTexture(1, 0, 0, 0.5)",
+            BlendMode::Disable,
+        ),
+        (
+            "DrawTex:SetBlendMode('DISABLE') DrawTex:SetVertexColor(1, 0, 0)",
+            BlendMode::Blend,
+        ),
+        (
+            "DrawTex:SetBlendMode('ALPHAKEY') DrawTex:SetVertexColor(1, 1, 1, 0.5)",
+            BlendMode::Blend,
+        ),
+        (
+            "DrawTex:SetBlendMode('DISABLE') DrawTex:SetAlpha(0.5)",
+            BlendMode::Blend,
+        ),
+        (
+            "DrawTex:SetBlendMode('ALPHAKEY') DrawHost:SetAlpha(0.5)",
+            BlendMode::Blend,
+        ),
+        (
+            "DrawTex:SetBlendMode('DISABLE') DrawTex:SetGradient('VERTICAL', 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0)",
+            BlendMode::Blend,
+        ),
+        (
+            "DrawTex:SetBlendMode('MOD') DrawTex:SetVertexColor(1, 0, 0)",
+            BlendMode::Mod,
+        ),
+        (
+            "DrawTex:SetBlendMode('ADD') DrawHost:SetAlpha(0.5)",
+            BlendMode::Add,
+        ),
+    ] {
+        assert_eq!(drawn(&mut s, setup), want, "{setup}");
+    }
+}
+
 /// `Texture:GetBlendMode` (`0x79a890`, table `0x87c128`) answers one string, the mode
 /// `SetBlendMode` (`0x79a950`) set, `"BLEND"` by default (the ctor's `[+0xd0] = 2`, `0x76fc64`).
 #[test]
@@ -1301,12 +1434,23 @@ fn get_blend_mode_answers_one_string_and_defaults_to_the_ctors_blend() {
         s.eval::<String>("return BTex:GetBlendMode()").unwrap(),
         "ADD"
     );
-    s.run(r#"BTex:SetBlendMode("NOT_A_MODE")"#).unwrap();
-    assert_eq!(
-        s.eval::<String>("return BTex:GetBlendMode()").unwrap(),
-        "ADD",
-        "an unknown name changes nothing"
-    );
+    // A name off the enum, or a value that is no string or number, raises the usage
+    // (`0x79aa20`, `0x87c44c`) and stores nothing.
+    for bad in [r#""ADDITIVE""#, "nil", "true", "3", ""] {
+        let err = s
+            .run(&format!("BTex:SetBlendMode({bad})"))
+            .expect_err(bad)
+            .to_string();
+        assert!(
+            err.contains(r#"Usage: BTex:SetBlendMode("mode")"#),
+            "{bad}: {err}"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            s.eval::<String>("return BTex:GetBlendMode()").unwrap(),
+            "ADD",
+            "{bad} changes nothing"
+        );
+    }
 
     assert!(s
         .eval::<bool>(
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/texcoord_font.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/texcoord_font.rs
index fa00dc471..016ad0870 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/texcoord_font.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/texcoord_font.rs
@@ -51,21 +51,30 @@ fn set_tex_coord_changes_extracted_uv() {
         "the affine form carries corners in screen winding, got {:?}",
         tex.content
     );
-    // A no-arg reset returns to the full texture.
-    s.run("t:SetTexCoord()").unwrap();
-    s.resolve();
-    let tex = s
-        .extract()
-        .into_iter()
-        .find(|q| matches!(&q.content, QuadContent::Texture { path: Some(p), .. } if p.contains("Foo")))
-        .unwrap();
-    assert!(matches!(
-        &tex.content,
-        QuadContent::Texture {
-            tex_coords: None,
-            ..
-        }
-    ));
+    // Every count but 4 and 8 raises the usage (`0x79bf6c`, `0x87c538`) naming the texture, and
+    // the coordinates stay; the count is `lua_gettop`, so a trailing nil counts.
+    let usage = "Usage: TcTex:SetTexCoord(minX, maxX, minY, maxY) or SetTexCoord(ULx, ULy, LLx, \
+                 LLy, URx, URy, LRx, LRy)";
+    for call in [
+        "t:SetTexCoord()",
+        "t:SetTexCoord(0, 1, 0, 1, nil)",
+        "t:SetTexCoord(0, 1)",
+    ] {
+        let err = s.run(call).expect_err(call).to_string();
+        assert!(err.contains(usage), "{call}: {err}");
+    }
+    let unnamed = s
+        .run("f:CreateTexture():SetTexCoord()")
+        .expect_err("an unnamed texture raises too")
+        .to_string();
+    assert!(
+        unnamed.contains("Usage: <unnamed>:SetTexCoord("),
+        "{unnamed}"
+    );
+    let still: (f32, f32, f32, f32, f32, f32, f32, f32) = s.eval("return t:GetTexCoord()").unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(still, (0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0), "unchanged");
+    s.run("t:SetTexCoord(0, 1, 0, 1, nil, nil, nil, nil)")
+        .expect("eight with trailing nils is the corner form");
 }
 
 #[test]
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/widget_surface.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/widget_surface.rs
index 6f533ae2e..5ad05b357 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/widget_surface.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/widget_surface.rs
@@ -102,12 +102,6 @@ const NOT_YET_ANSWERED: &[(&str, &str, &str)] = &[
         "the RGB pair is published; nothing measured asks for HSV",
     ),
     ("SetColorHSV", "ColorSelect", "the same"),
-    // ── One texture read-back ──
-    (
-        "IsDesaturated",
-        "Texture",
-        "`SetDesaturated` is here and not readable back; no caller measured",
-    ),
 ];
 
 /// Methods answered here that 1.12 does not register on that class, each with why it stays.
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs
index 315121bc5..75f6c9bb3 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs
@@ -110,8 +110,9 @@ pub enum QuadContent {
         /// A gradient's four vertex colours, `[TL, TR, BR, BL]` ([`Gradient::vertex_colors`]),
         /// each multiplying the texel and `color`; `None` for a one-colour quad.
         gradient: Option<[[f32; 4]; 4]>,
-        /// The `ADD` blend instead of straight alpha.
-        additive: bool,
+        /// The blend the record draws with: the region's `SetBlendMode` mode, except that
+        /// `DISABLE` and `ALPHAKEY` draw as `BLEND` under a vertex colour (`0x76fb93`).
+        blend: BlendMode,
         /// `None` is the full texture.
         tex_coords: Option<TexCoords>,
         /// The wrap flag the file loaded with (`0x770200`, bits 3 and 4 of the texture's flags):
@@ -201,21 +202,21 @@ pub enum JustifyV {
 }
 
 /// A Texture's blend mode, the client's `alphaMode` enum (`0x811aa8`), set by XML `alphaMode=`
-/// or `SetBlendMode`; BLEND is the constructor's (`0x76fc64 mov [esi+0xd0],2`). The renderer
-/// acts only on ADD: the others draw as straight alpha, their reference blending not built.
-#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
+/// or `SetBlendMode`; BLEND is the constructor's (`0x76fc64 mov [esi+0xd0],2`). The discriminant
+/// is the EGxBlend the submit sets (`0x76fba2`).
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
 pub enum BlendMode {
-    /// `DISABLE` (0): `GL_ONE, GL_ZERO`, alpha reference 0.
-    Disable,
-    /// `ALPHAKEY` (1): `GL_ONE, GL_ZERO`, alpha reference 224/255.
-    AlphaKey,
-    /// `BLEND` (2): `GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA`.
+    /// `DISABLE` (0): blending off, alpha reference 0 (no test).
+    Disable = 0,
+    /// `ALPHAKEY` (1): blending off, alpha reference 224/255.
+    AlphaKey = 1,
+    /// `BLEND` (2): `GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA`, alpha reference 1/255.
     #[default]
-    Blend,
-    /// `ADD` (3): `GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE`.
-    Add,
-    /// `MOD` (4): `GL_DST_COLOR, GL_ZERO`.
-    Mod,
+    Blend = 2,
+    /// `ADD` (3): `GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE`, alpha reference 1/255.
+    Add = 3,
+    /// `MOD` (4): `GL_DST_COLOR, GL_ZERO`, alpha reference 1/255.
+    Mod = 4,
 }
 
 impl BlendMode {
diff --git a/docs/DEVIATIONS.md b/docs/DEVIATIONS.md
index cbf89384f..b464cabec 100644
--- a/docs/DEVIATIONS.md
+++ b/docs/DEVIATIONS.md
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ Each entry is the first sentence of a `Deviation:` comment, linking to where it
 
 #### shaders
 
-- Bilinear filtering runs on the decoded texel, not on the gamma byte the reference filters, because the booth bake stores linear bytes. ([`src/shaders/ui_quad.wgsl:8`](../crates/benilla-app/src/shaders/ui_quad.wgsl#L8))
+- Bilinear filtering runs on the decoded texel, not on the gamma byte the reference filters, because the booth bake stores linear bytes. ([`src/shaders/ui_quad.wgsl:13`](../crates/benilla-app/src/shaders/ui_quad.wgsl#L13))
 
 #### shutdown
 
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ Each entry is the first sentence of a `Deviation:` comment, linking to where it
 - The reference (`0x4abdc0`) admits 9 and reads one dword past its block; we answer 0 because that read is out of bounds. ([`src/script/battlefield_score.rs:292`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/battlefield_score.rs#L292))
 - `pow(10, n)` is the platform's, where the reference's (`0x73f940`, `fyl2x`) rounds its extended-precision steps at 53 bits, so a power or a fraction term can differ in the last place. ([`src/script/binding_abi.rs:186`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/binding_abi.rs#L186))
 - The disabled-checked leg (`0x785380`) tests and reloads the checked slot (`[+0x4e0]`, `0x785388`/`0x7853a5`), a copy of the checked leg's (`0x785270`), so in 1.12.1 a check box with a checked texture repaints that one and never gets its disabled-checked texture from a path. benilla tests and reloads the slot the method names. ([`src/script/button.rs:585`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs#L585))
-- The slot is read before the handler, where the reference reads it after (`[esi+0x4dc]`), because reading first keeps the borrow simple and no stock handler re-slots its row. ([`src/script/button.rs:1171`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs#L1171))
+- The slot is read before the handler, where the reference reads it after (`[esi+0x4dc]`), because reading first keeps the borrow simple and no stock handler re-slots its row. ([`src/script/button.rs:1170`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/button.rs#L1170))
 - The reference composes the Shortcut with `GetRealZoneText` alone (`0x49efe8`), so in a capital `/leave Trade` sends `Trade - Stormwind City` and leaves nothing; ours uses the join's city-aware name, because the reference's form cannot leave the channel it joined. ([`src/script/channel.rs:480`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/channel.rs#L480))
 - The frame's bottom-left origin is snapped onto the device grid so the border art blits 1:1; the reference ceils the anchor point itself onto it (`0x7666a0`, `0x766750`). ([`src/script/chat_bubble.rs:476`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/chat_bubble.rs#L476))
 - No truncation at 255 characters (`0x49f604`), because vmangos refuses a longer line itself (`Chat.cpp:2177`): it is dropped where the reference sends its first 255. ([`src/script/chat_send.rs:23`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/chat_send.rs#L23))
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ Each entry is the first sentence of a `Deviation:` comment, linking to where it
 - An id outside the seven built windows raises, where the reference serves ten records and silently ignores any other id (`0x4a0be1`), because benilla keeps only the seven and every caller loops `1, NUM_CHAT_WINDOWS`. ([`src/script/chat_window.rs:220`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/chat_window.rs#L220))
 - One past `i32::MAX` clamps where the reference keeps the low 32 bits, for the colours' reason. ([`src/script/chat_window.rs:430`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/chat_window.rs#L430))
 - The reference reads the clock live at each call (`0x42c010`); ours is the session clock the tick advances by the paced frame step, one value per frame, so `GetTime()` deltas and the `elapsed` handed to OnUpdate agree, as FrameXML (CastingBarFrame and kin) assumes. ([`src/script/clock.rs:53`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/clock.rs#L53))
-- With no wheel it scales by the strip's, because the reference reads the missing wheel unguarded. ([`src/script/colorselect.rs:364`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/colorselect.rs#L364))
+- With no wheel it scales by the strip's, because the reference reads the missing wheel unguarded. ([`src/script/colorselect.rs:356`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/colorselect.rs#L356))
 - The reference's `set` registers an unknown name as a new category-5 record (`0x63d569`-`0x63d582`); benilla refuses it, because nothing would read the row and `config.toml` keeps an unknown key anyway. ([`src/script/console_exec.rs:120`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/console_exec.rs#L120))
 - A row that no longer resolves is refused, as `0x4c7300` does, because this path dereferences it unchecked (`0x4f9f35`), a latent null deref. ([`src/script/container.rs:666`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/container.rs#L666))
 - A last `spell_id` key breaks the remaining ties (Charge's six ranks all have `spellLevel` 0), because the reference leaves them to its qsort over an array benilla does not reproduce; ascending id is ascending rank in every 1.12 pet-ability family. ([`src/script/craft.rs:104`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/craft.rs#L104))
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ Each entry is the first sentence of a `Deviation:` comment, linking to where it
 - Nil for a display row with no icon, where the reference answers the unloadable `Interface\Icons\`, because `SetTexture` shows no icon for either. ([`src/script/item_stats.rs:482`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/item_stats.rs#L482))
 - An addon file whose first binding has no header opens a `HEADER_<addon>` row, where the reference files those rows under the previous file's last header, because under a foreign header the player could not find them. ([`src/script/keybind.rs:292`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/keybind.rs#L292))
 - The handle's value is the address of a `CGxTex` (`SMemAlloc(0x54)`, `0x594a96`), which benilla cannot reproduce; each texture ranks instead by a creation stamp, one global sequence number taken when its cache key is first created and taken anew once its last region has let go of it (`super::texel::Texels`). ([`src/script/layer_batch.rs:9`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/layer_batch.rs#L9))
-- The client's Lua has no such bound, as nothing sets a hook (`lua_sethook`, `0x6fba40`, has no caller and no pointer to it), so a load that never ends hangs it. ([`src/script/mod.rs:790`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs#L790))
+- The client's Lua has no such bound, as nothing sets a hook (`lua_sethook`, `0x6fba40`, has no caller and no pointer to it), so a load that never ends hangs it. ([`src/script/mod.rs:792`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/mod.rs#L792))
 - A path that does not resolve is stored, where the reference raises `Invalid model file: %s` (`0x878b44`), because the file loads asynchronously here and the call cannot know yet. ([`src/script/modelframe.rs:341`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/modelframe.rs#L341))
 - Benilla plays no pre-rendered movie (#968), so `StartMovie` answers nil, the reference's "could not start" (`0x78d861`), which the stock `MovieFrame_PlayMovie` answers by hiding the frame and so by returning to the login screen. ([`src/script/movieframe.rs:4`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/movieframe.rs#L4))
 - The reference's free list is FIFO; either keeps every index stable, all an addon can observe. ([`src/script/nameplate.rs:429`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/nameplate.rs#L429))
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ Each entry is the first sentence of a `Deviation:` comment, linking to where it
 - The selection clears to 0, because the header the reference re-selects (`0x4d7b42`, reading 1) has no spell id; the stock window's `> 1` test treats 0 and 1 alike. ([`src/script/trainer/mod.rs:197`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/trainer/mod.rs#L197))
 - A header clears it too, because it has no spell id; the reference stores its `0xffffffff` (`0x4d7b05`) and reads back 1, which the stock window's `> 1` test treats the same as 0. ([`src/script/trainer/mod.rs:871`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/trainer/mod.rs#L871))
 - Index 0 is a no-op, because one stray call would spend the purse; the reference buys every visible service for any index at or below 0 (`0x4da244`, `0x4d8a70`). ([`src/script/trainer/mod.rs:893`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/trainer/mod.rs#L893))
-- Kept apart from `Self::vertex_color`, which the reference's `Texture:SetAlpha` (`0x79b580`) rewrites, because the drawn product differs only on a region that sets both, or a gradient and an alpha, which no stock code does, and a FontString's `SetAlpha` then keeps its font colour. ([`src/script/types.rs:381`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs#L381))
+- Kept apart from `Self::vertex_color`, which the reference's `Texture:SetAlpha` (`0x79b580`) rewrites, because the drawn product differs only on a region that sets both, or a gradient and an alpha, which no stock code does, and a FontString's `SetAlpha` then keeps its font colour. ([`src/script/types.rs:382`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/types.rs#L382))
 - UnitCanCooperate answers 1 for a friendly (5 and up) player, because the engine carries no faction templates; the reference resolves their cooperation masks. ([`src/script/unit/bindings.rs:612`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/bindings.rs#L612))
 - Among whole-name matches ours picks the nearest, because the reference's first-walked pick is order-dependent and reads as a bug. ([`src/script/unit/bindings.rs:1115`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/bindings.rs#L1115))
 - The reference ends the walk at the first whole-string hit (`0x493ca2`), so its pick follows the object list's order; we rank exact, then longer prefix, then nearest (`Rank::beats`), because the nearest namesake is the better pick, and a full tie goes to the lower guid (`Rank::beats_at`), so the VM's walk and the app's scan pick the same unit whatever order each walks in. ([`src/script/unit/by_name.rs:7`](../crates/benilla-ui/src/script/unit/by_name.rs#L7))