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Replace the door-specific static-animation seed with one retail description-then-enter-world initializer shared by normal and reactive spawns. This preserves authoritative Dead and On/Off states, prevents replacement corpses from returning to Ready, and pins the lifecycle with Core and App tests. Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>
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# Animation Runtime Crib
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## Live entity lifecycle invariant
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`CreateObject` creates a live entity and a real `DeleteObject` destroys it.
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`ObjDescEvent (0xF625)` is neither: it changes appearance on the existing object.
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For an appearance update, preserve:
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- `WorldEntity` object identity and local `Id`
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- `AnimatedEntity`, `AnimationSequencer`, frame/range/rate state
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- movement-controller and animation-manager bindings
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- physics host, collision registration, dead reckoning, and selection state
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Replace only resolved `MeshRefs`, palette override, part overrides, and visual
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bounds, then invalidate the entity-classification cache. The paperdoll may clone
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the updated appearance separately.
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Retail oracle chain:
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`SmartBox::HandleObjDescEvent` → `SmartBox::UpdateVisualDesc` →
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`ACCObjectMaint::SetVisualDesc` →
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`CPhysicsObj::DoObjDescChangesFromDefault` →
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`CPartArray::DoObjDescChanges`.
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Regression history: treating `0xF625` as despawn/respawn severed the player
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controller from the active animation state, so unequipping armor froze character
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animation and made animation-dependent door interaction appear frozen. Fixed as
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issue #203 on 2026-07-11 and user-gated in a Release client.
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## CreateObject enter-world invariant
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The wire motion is applied while the new physics object is still detached, and
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only then is the object placed in the world:
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`ACCObjectMaint::CreateObject` → `CPhysicsObj::set_description` (`0x00514F40`)
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→ apply MovementData → `CPhysicsObj::enter_world` (`0x00516170`) →
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`CPartArray::HandleEnterWorld` (`0x00517D70`) →
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`MotionTableManager::HandleEnterWorld` (`0x0051BDD0`).
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The final call strips every description-time transition link and drains the
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manager queue. This is not optional cleanup. A corpse CreateObject carries
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`NonCombat + Dead`, while a door carries `NonCombat + On/Off`; both come from
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the same wire MovementData path.
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Issue #204 exposed a structural trap: the persistent Dead rest pose can be
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static, so corpses use the same static/reactive registration branch as doors.
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That branch had been data-driven at its gate but door-hardcoded in its
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initializer, which discarded Dead and left Ready playing. Every spawn branch
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must call the shared wire-driven description-then-enter-world initializer,
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keyed by data and never by object name/type. 2026-07-12.
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