The sky + weather (rain cylinder) are retail's LScape — 'the outside seen through the exit portal.' Retail PView::DrawCells (pseudo_c:432709) draws LScape clipped to the OutsideView when outside_view.view_count>0, then does a conditional Z-buffer-ONLY clear (432731) before the indoor cells. acdream now does the same:
- sky.vert writes gl_ClipDistance against the SAME binding=2 TerrainClip UBO the terrain reads. The OutsideView planes are screen-space (NDC) half-spaces encoded as clip-space planes (nx,ny,0,dw); the test dot(plane,gl_Position)>=0 reduces after perspective divide to nx*ndcX+ny*ndcY+dw>=0 — projection-INDEPENDENT — so the same plane set clips the sky EXACTLY despite its separate dome projection. count==0 (outdoor) → all distances +1 → full-screen, bit-identical. Lighting/fog math untouched.
- GameWindow: relocated the sky pre-scene + weather post-scene draws to their retail LScape positions, each in a local 8-plane clip bracket so sky.vert confines them to the doorway indoors / full-screen outdoors. Added the conditional doorway depth-ONLY Z-clear (no color → no blue hole), scissored to the OutsideView AABB. drawSkyThisFrame = seen_outside policy AND (outdoor OR exit-portal-in-view) — a sealed interior with no exit portal in view draws no sky (kills the full-screen-sky interim regression). Sky pre/post particle passes (particle.vert has no gl_ClipDistance) scissored to the doorway bbox.
- ClipFrameAssembly gains HasOutsideView + OutsideViewNdcAabb (the doorway NDC AABB, computed for BOTH Planes and Scissor terrain modes — unlike TerrainScissorNdcAabb which is Scissor-only).
- The pre-login goto SkipWorldGeometry moved BELOW the sky draw so the live sky still renders during the EnterWorld handshake (clipAssembly is null/no-clip pre-login → full-screen).
Build green; App tests 160/160. Stage 4 tests + verify-annotations follow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>