your corpse answers the mouse, and a cinematic's last holes close

- a corpse is a body you can hover, cursor and click: it enters the same ray pass as units with the winner switched on type at publish (the reference's own shape — one trace over every object), the cursor classifier is transcribed whole (lootable-by-me → the pickup cursor, grayed by range; else the insignia leg behind the learned-skill latch; your own body falls through to the clear), and right-click is "not mounted AND lootable" → CMSG_LOOT; CORPSE_FIELD_FLAGS bit 5 is the PvP insignia flag, not "reclaimable" as an old note had it; the widening also caught that a GameObject anywhere on screen could steal the click from a nearer corpse, and that a left-click on a body cleared your target as if you had clicked ground
- the cinematic sweep closes eleven holes: a shot plays its sequence band's WIDTH, not its end — two shipped fly-bys band away from zero and ran long with their opening frames frozen (the Night Elf intro measured 102333 → 102000 ms); CMSG_NEXT_CINEMATIC_CAMERA announces every shot, the first included — the old "between shots" reading meant it was sent NEVER, since every 1.12 sequence row carries exactly one camera; the ack invariant is stated once (one CMSG_COMPLETE_CINEMATIC per accepted trigger, over-acking tolerated, under-acking never — a dropped ack despawns the world around you until relog); the hardware cursor hides for the shot; and the music cut lands in the frame that starts it — it was one frame late, exactly long enough for a first login's zone fanfare to start under the narration and be stamped as played
- RunBinding exists, and a fly-by stops handing the world its mouse: CinematicFrame's OnKeyDown hands the SCREENSHOT chord back to its binding through RunBinding, a global we never had, so every press during a fly-by raised and took no picture; and the mouse was fully live under a shot — right-drag turned the character, clicks picked targets through the flying camera, both buttons walked the body — so the pointer now reads as over the UI while a shot plays
- AdvanceTime and ReplaceIconTexture are carved off the bytes: AdvanceTime really is a no-op in the reference (its one reachable call is mov eax,1; ret), ReplaceIconTexture is a material swap over a model's type-14 texture slots that stores nothing on the widget, and SetModel(nil) RAISES — the "documented clear" our binding claimed was invented, not read; and the addon roster now says WHOSE package is short when a .toc names files the folder doesn't hold — nine of the corpus's twenty-nine load failures are the addon's own manifest, which the real client also shrugs off ("Couldn't open %s", carry on), so they stop reading as our defects

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UIParent.xml

@@ -16,8 +16,18 @@
         transcription of the whole routing table would be a list of no-ops that reads as coverage.
 
         Known seam, stated: the real client PARENTS every FrameXML frame under UIParent (scale/
-        visibility cascade); benilla's top-level frames still attach to the screen root. Same
-        rect, so anchors agree - re-parenting is a separate arc if a cascade consumer appears.
+        visibility cascade). benilla is PART WAY there - 41 of our top-level frames declare
+        parent="UIParent" where the reference declares 104, and 32 frames the reference parents
+        (MainMenuBar, PlayerFrame, TargetFrame, the four MultiBars, UIErrorsFrame, the panels)
+        still attach to the screen root because the transcription dropped the attribute. Same
+        rect, so anchors agree.
+
+        The cascade consumer this note was waiting for HAS appeared (decision 1724): a cinematic
+        hides the HUD by doing `UIParent:Hide()` in the reference, and benilla substitutes an
+        engine-side draw-kill that also switches the mouse feed off - which is how the world came
+        to take every click of a race intro. Restoring the dropped parents is the fix; it is a
+        whole-UI arc (draw order, strata, ALT-Z, the world map's own full-screen row) and so is
+        proposed rather than taken.
     -->
     <Frame name="UIParent" setAllPoints="true" frameStrata="MEDIUM">
         <Scripts>

crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/UiPanels.xml

@@ -293,9 +293,17 @@
 
         -- SetFullScreenFrame(frame) — UIParent.lua l.852-866. ONE line dropped: the reference also
         -- does `UIParent:Hide()`/`:Show()` around the swap, hiding the whole game UI behind the
-        -- fullscreen frame. benilla has no UIParent frame (the note on `slots` above), and the only
-        -- full frame we ship — the world map — already paints its own full-screen blackout
-        -- (WorldMapFrame.xml), which is what that Hide buys the reference.
+        -- fullscreen frame.
+        --
+        -- BOTH of the reasons this note used to give are now FALSE (decision 1724). A real
+        -- `UIParent` frame exists (UIParent.xml), and the world map is no longer the only `full`
+        -- row: `CinematicFrame` is a second one, and it paints nothing by design. So this dropped
+        -- line is exactly what makes a cinematic hide the HUD through `crate::ui_hide::UiHidden`
+        -- instead of through here — and `UiHidden` also means "the UI takes no mouse", which is
+        -- ALT-Z's meaning and the reason the world took every click of a fly-by.
+        --
+        -- Restoring it needs the HUD parented to UIParent first (the 32 dropped `parent="UIParent"`
+        -- declarations 1724 measured); hiding UIParent today would reach almost nothing.
         function SetFullScreenFrame(frame)
             local oldFrame = slots.fullscreen
             slots.fullscreen = frame

crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/benilla.toc

@@ -455,7 +455,9 @@ ScriptLogFrame.xml
 # requirement rather than legibility is **after BuffFrame.xml**: the toast re-anchors
 # TemporaryEnchantFrame out of its own way, and that frame is declared there.
 HelpFrame.xml
-# The cinematic letterbox (the race-intro fly-by's two black bars, and the ESC that skips it).
+# The cinematic frame: the ESC that skips a fly-by, and the SCREENSHOT chord it hands back. It
+# draws NOTHING — the letterbox moved to Bevy UI nodes in `crate::cinematic` (decision 1699),
+# because the lane this frame paints into is dark for the whole shot.
 # Needs UiPanels.xml far above for ShowUIPanel/HideUIPanel and its own UIPanelWindows row; needs
 # nothing else, and nothing needs it — the engine reaches it purely by firing CINEMATIC_START.
 # Seated late because it is an outermost, screen-owning layer, like the two windows below it.