Reported from play: "ore vein is still not sparkling" — so the switch fix
landed and the sparkle still was not there.
Reproduced offline in the `fxview` GameObject lane (`WOW_CAPTURE=fxview
WOW_FX_GO=310 WOW_FX_GO_TYPE=3`, a copper mining node), which runs the real
chain. Everything upstream works: the gate fires, `attach_spell_fx` spawns the
instance (`kit spawn … Particles\LootFX.mdl`), and `WOW_PARTICLE_CENSUS` finds
all four of LootFX's emitters at the node's position, live, ungated and drawn —
while the captured frame is byte-identical to one taken with the sparkle gated
off. Nothing was missing; nothing was visible.
The attach cascade's last rung is the host's origin, and for a unit that is
right: `0x13` is attachment 19, Base, which creature models author at the ground
point under the feet, and the loot sparkle is a ground twinkle. A 1.12
GameObject model authors no attachment points at all (`copper_Miningnode_01.m2`:
0 — `benilla-m2`'s `dump_attach`), so the cascade fell through to the node's
pivot, which is inside the rock: that model's own 397 vertices run y ∈ [-3.83,
+2.73], and `Particles\LootFX.m2` is a ~1 yd twinkle (four emitters, 0.06–0.14
yd particles, ~0.9 yd reach) with nowhere to go.
So a host with no attachment point seats the effect at the top centre of its own
box. Not its middle — a node is modelled around its pivot, not above it, and
this one's box centre is 0.55 yd underground, which capture-tested as invisible
too, as did half the box height. At the box top the capture differs from the
gated-off one; a peacebloom, whose model is small, already showed at the pivot.
The placement is ours and says so: SuperWoW publishes no source and the
reference has no object arm to copy. It stays subtle by design — row 14 of
`SpellVisualEffectName` scales 1.0 — so it reads as a few twinkles over the node,
not a beacon. If that is not what the real client shows him, the next lever is
the effect's scale, and that one wants his eyes, not mine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
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