The user's capture run + a code read pinned it in one step: every
particle pass under an interior root is id-filtered (the landscape
slice's Scene pass, the per-cell pass, and the dynamics pass all
require AttachedObjectId != 0 plus owner-set membership). An UNATTACHED
emitter - AttachedObjectId == 0: portal swirls, campfires, ground
effects anchored at a position - drew NOWHERE when the viewer root was
interior. The outdoor root has the dedicated T3 pass for exactly this
class (its own comment records that "unattached ones had NO pass on
outdoor-node frames"); the identical hole on interior-root frames was
never plugged. Walking out flips to the outdoor root and the T3 pass
picks the swirl up - "appears when I walk out again", verbatim.
The [outstage] capture corroborated the rest of the chain healthy
under the interior root: outside-stage routing correct, cone PASS for
the portal-family dynamics, 57 attached emitters matched and drawn
through the doorway. Only the unattached class was orphaned.
Fix: RetailPViewDrawContext.DrawUnattachedSceneParticles - invoked ONCE
per interior-root frame at the END of the landscape stage:
- pre-clear, because drawn after the depth clear + seals an outdoor
emitter beyond the door plane z-fails against the seal's door-plane
stamp;
- after the #124 look-in sub-pass, so swirls blend over far-building
interiors;
- once per frame, not per slice - alpha particles must not double-draw
(the #121 lesson);
- mutually exclusive with the outdoor T3 pass by root kind (interior
invokes this; outdoor keeps T3).
Residual (documented in the issue): unattached INDOOR emitters now draw
pre-clear and get overpainted by the room's shells - the same
invisibility they had before this fix; the proper per-emitter cell
classification is a future port.
[outstage-pt] probe extended with the unattached emitter count (the
probe's blind spot was exactly where the bug hid).
Suites: App 259+1skip / Core 1439+2skip / UI 420 / Net 294 green.
Awaiting the user gate: the swirl through the doorway. #132 (candle
flame vs through-opening background) remains open - different
mechanism, background-dependent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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