Indoor cells rendered "almost black" because the hardcoded ambient at
GameWindow.cs:8342-8345 was an early-2026 guess (0.10, 0.09, 0.08 — half
retail brightness, warm-tinted) rather than the retail value. The named
retail decomp (acclient.pdb, Sept 2013 EoR build) shows
CellManager::ChangePosition @ 0x004559B0 calls
SmartBox::SetWorldAmbientLight(0.2f, 0xFFFFFFFF) whenever the player's
CObjCell::seen_outside flag is 0 — a flat 0.20 white floor, not a
dungeon-tone warm color.
Investigation also confirmed:
- EnvCell.dat does NOT carry inline lights — CEnvCell::UnPack reads
numVisibleCells where Binary Ninja's heuristic decomp inferred
"num_lights". Retail's CObjCell.light_list is populated at runtime via
add_light() calls from neighbouring cell light registrations + per-cell
static-object Setup.Lights, NOT from the dat byte stream.
- Setup.Lights from indoor static objects (entity.SourceGfxObjOrSetupId
prefix 0x02xxxxxx) DO flow through LightInfoLoader.Load (line 5765)
and reach LightManager via LightingHookSink. The wire is intact; the
per-frame Tick + UBO upload chain (line 6865-6867) is intact.
- Retail's particle system does NOT emit lights from particles themselves.
The light comes from the owning Setup's LightInfo records.
Pre-existing failures in DispatcherToMovementIntegrationTests, BSPStepUpTests,
and MotionInterpreterTests are on the branch already and unrelated to this
change (verified by stashing + retesting).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
