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gromandClaude Opus 5 1287c328e0 creature_anim: the loot sparkle's switch starts where its CVar does
Reported from play: no sparkle on a mining vein, while lootable mobs sparkled
fine. That split is the diagnosis — only the GameObject arm reads the switch.

`LootSparkleMode` derived `Default`, so it booted `false` while its row
registered `"1"`. A boot fires `CvarChanged` only for rows `config.toml`
actually carries, and writing `"1"` over a value already `"1"` is a no-op that
fires nothing either, so nothing could ever tell the resource its real default —
not the boot, and not the player toggling the CVar. The feature was inert for
everyone who had never written that row.

`vplates.rs`'s `VPlateMode::default` carries this warning in as many words,
from `NameplateOcclusion` shipping inert the same way, and this is the same
mistake one feature later. So: a hand-written `Default`, and the twin of that
module's test, reading the registered row rather than restating it. Swept the
rest — of the 32 resources a `CvarChanged` observer writes, 6 derive `Default`
and every one of their rows registers `"0"`, so this was the only one.

The doc row kept two stale claims and both are corrected: the test has had two
arms (the activate bit *or* `GAMEOBJECT_TYPE_CHEST`) since it was widened, and
`FxStage` is immaterial here — `Particles\LootFX.m2`, the `"HARDCODED Loot Art"`
row's own model, holds one 2400 ms sequence with `flags = 0`, and bit 0 clear
loops, so `FxAnimLife::arm` repeats it whatever the stage says.

Still unverified in world: whether veins, herbs and chests sparkle, and whether
anything sparkles that should not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-17 13:41:47 -06:00
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