- corpses render: a corpse create spawned a real entity, latched its guid for the reclaim send, and drew nothing — one missing EntityKind variant folded it into the catch-all and four downstream lanes then failed by default, not even the debug cube fired; the reference forks once, on the bones flag: a fresh body builds a character composite from the corpse's OWN appearance bytes and 19 item slots through the same compositor a living player is dressed by (its own hide-helm/hide-cloak bits honoured, the ranged slot never dresses, and weapons never dress because the client looks a packed display word up as a guid — we reproduce the outcome, not the dead lookup), while a bone pile takes its race and sex's DeathSkeleton, sixteen of which ship; the pose is one settled arm — Dead, or Drowned when the body lies more than 0.66666669 yd under a liquid surface — and a corpse is not a unit, so clicking one no longer sends a selection for a guid no unit owns
- a lit particle takes its MODEL's committed light node, not the sky's: indoors the reference lights an object's particles from the object's own node — the footprint's baked floor colours on the fixed interior axis plus the room's placed lights — never the day/night sun; a particle quad carries exactly one normal, world up, one constant per draw, so the whole node collapses to three floats, published off the same fold the model's mesh renders from so a mesh and its own particles can never disagree about the room they stand in; in Onyxia's Lair the 78 lit falling-rock emitters on the 26 anchors that classify interior now take the room's light
- and that lit lane is FIXED FUNCTION, not the mesh's soft SH curve: the shipped client null-binds both shader slots for a particle batch and re-zeroes the shader mask at the head of every batch, so a model and its own particles share the same committed light words and legitimately differ in the curve applied to them — the mesh's wrapping lobe against the hardware's max(N·L, 0) is 0.900 vs 0.869 on the key axis, up to the three nearest room lights arrive diffuse-only under GL's own 1/(0.7d + 0.03d²) falloff (a light at or below the emitter cannot reach it at all), and the clamp sits on the product, never the multiplier, because it is GL that clamps the lit vertex colour
- the cinematic letterbox has no aspect test in it: CinematicFrame.lua's if guards a recompute, not whether there are bars — below 4:3 the reference's bar textures simply stand at their declared 1024x128 on the client's native 1024x768 sheet, which is height/6, the same formula evaluated at exactly 4:3 — so one expression covers every window shape, min((h − min(w/2, h))/2, h/6): a 2:1 picture when wide, bars at 4:3 too; and a shown keyboard frame swallows EVERY key, not the ten names the host used to feed it — you could walk around underneath your own intro; the proof is the reference's own handler, which has to RunBinding("SCREENSHOT") by hand to get one key back; ESC still skips, and a W already held when the shot starts keeps running, which is faithful too
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- cinematics play: `SMSG_TRIGGER_CINEMATIC` resolves through `CinematicSequences.dbc` → `CinematicCamera.dbc` → a `Cameras\*.m2` whose camera record is an eye path, a look-at path and a roll — cubic tracks with the full step / linear / Bézier / Hermite dispatch the bone loops collapse to step-or-linear (every shipped fly-by is Bézier), planted at the row's origin and facing (`Rz(+facing)`, checked against vmangos's own waypoint table: 8.5 yd mean on the human path, 154 with the other sign); FOV is per shot (the Undead intro authors 90°, the rest 45°), roll is authored around whole turns, the flight ends at the sequence band's end, a trigger arriving before the loading cover lifts is latched and started when it does, ESC skips through `CinematicFrame`'s own `OnKeyDown` (`StopCinematic` has zero native callers), and every path acks — natural end, ESC, or an unresolvable trigger immediately, as before; `.debug play cinematic <id>` replays any of them
- a cinematic hides the HUD — `UIParent:Hide()` reaches nothing here because the HUD frames are not its children, so the ALT-Z draw-level hide is used and the letterbox moves out of FrameXML onto Bevy UI nodes where that hide cannot reach it, recomputed per frame (bars only wider than 4:3, the picture cropped to 2:1) — and the restore only un-hides a UI this module hid
- a lit particle's normal is world up, one constant per draw, not camera-facing: Onyxia's always-on floor haze read about four times brighter from a level camera than from above because the shader dotted a to-eye normal against a fixed light; the reference uploads row 2 of the view matrix — world +Z carried into eye space — on every vertex and carries the light into the same frame, so the rotation cancels; 400 lit emitters (the waterfalls, chimney and campfire smoke, Westfall dust, Dun Morogh snow) stop brightening and dimming as you turn
- the `play` profile drops ThinLTO — rustc #86049 was intermittently poisoning the incremental link with `_anon.<hash>.llvm.<id>` symbols promoted by an earlier compile (48 unresolved across 7 codegen units; 1065 such symbols → 0 after) — and `benilla-formats` stops taking `image` with default features, which had been compiling a complete AV1 encoder into a crate that writes two PNGs: 499 → 466 workspace crates
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- lava and slime surfaces creep on the building path — the two liquid types the reference animates, and only those
- particle blend 1 is AlphaKey: the rock elemental throws tumbling chips instead of flat pale squares
- standing in a sealed room, outdoor creatures are never submitted to the scene at all — the reference's own election, not a hide
- an animation clip's arm frame fires no event keys, matching the client's walker rule frame for frame
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- the world engine splits from the game into a benilla-world crate — 112 files, and the wall is ratcheted to zero names of the game inside the engine
- the engine's public doorway is counted and gated at 32 items, and the render materials, shaders and asset cache move down to benilla-assets
- the game's files leave the engine's asset root — game:// is its own space — and a spike binary boots the engine with no game attached
- weather rides along: snowfall emission is denominated in the reference's frame cap, and a long teleport retires the stranded precipitation field instead of leaving it behind
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