Found by running the A0 style-proof against the SHIPPING scene instead of
ArtStaging (which judges static glTF bakes on an import shader, with zero
SkinnedMeshRenderers and no Animator — it cannot answer "does the game look
like this").
Player-facing bugs fixed:
- AC_PlayerTopDown/AC_EnemyTopDown "Death" had ZERO outgoing transitions.
Any State enters on IsDead and nothing ever leaves. The player ghost is a
persistent entity, so its Rukhanka animator never resets: once you died you
rendered sprawled on the seabed permanently — sim fully respawned, moving and
fighting, visually a corpse. Added Death -> Idle on (IsDead == false).
- AmbientMotionSystem drift was still the deleted biome system: key 0 =
"meadow", MeadowMoteColor (0.62, 0.85, 0.60) = GREEN motes, 600 of them in a
36x7x24 box following the camera — the most off-palette thing in the frame.
Its x>500 region probe pointed at space now holding zero renderers. Collapsed
to one cold marine particulate; dropped the 4 dead mote colours + AridWind.
- FeedbackFx.MakeParticleMaterial built Sprites/Default with NO texture, so
every procedural particle rendered as a hard SQUARE. Added a procedural soft
dot (no Resources.Load — build-stripped; asset-free presentation is the rule).
- Game.unity carried a stock Unity "Directional Light" (warm-WHITE, 1.05, Soft)
outranking KeyWarm as a second competing shadow caster, plus 6 orphaned
LandmarkLights — four at x=1030/1530 lighting a kilometre of empty water, two
with no renderer within 12u, two of them purple. All 7 deleted. Added RimCold
for silhouette separation; key:fill set to the tuned 3.9:1; WarmPool -> Soft.
ArtStaging (kept as a lighting lab): KeyWarm 0.15 -> 0.85 — it was the only
shadow-caster yet sat BELOW GloamFill 0.22, which destroys form by definition
and is what read as "flat". StagingAmbiance was attached to nothing and its
flora wiring searched for a Game.unity parent, which is what read as "static";
it also force-played the combat one-shot pool, now restricted to looping
emitters. Flicker raised to a measured x2.11 cold swing vs x1.03 warm.
304/304 EditMode green; death-recovery, palette and particulate all verified
live in Game.unity Play.
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Camera: runtime POV switcher (StagingCameraSwitcher; V/]/[ cycle, 1-4 jump) with POV_1_Game matching
the in-game rig (Pitch45/Dist13/FOV55) as the default + hero/front/close-up; deep-water SolidColor
clear kills the no-skybox corner bleed at the wide game framing.
Character (the 'reads like a lamp' fix, operator-directed): darkened the helmet to dark gunmetal with
a dim lit porthole and moved the warm beacon to the shoulder lamp (light is carried, not the head);
color-blocked the body into a brass-and-teal deep-sea-diver palette (brass armour / dark-teal
undersuit / dark-metal kit) for value contrast + identity at game scale; bulked the back tank-rig
silhouette. Master .blend keeps rig+pose+materials re-editable; posed static GLB reimported into the
connected prefab instance with instance material overrides reset to the GLB's diver materials.
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Global fill cut (KeyWarm 1.25->0.15, CausticsSpot 32->9, GloamFill 0.5->0.22) so the scene
goes dark-except-where-ours-reaches; WarmPool point light -> downward warm SPOT = a defined
ground-territory disc that lights the suit top-down (a low point light was blasting the chest
into a blown bloom streak). Suit lamp + Drowner gloam emissives extracted from .glb sub-assets
to durable .mat assets (M_Suit_LampWarm_Staging, M_Drowner_GloamAccent_Staging). Recomposed the
triad (crate in-pool / Drowner faced-to-camera at the lit edge / suit center). Grayscale-verified:
the beacon dome is the value winner + the warm disc reads as territory. Suit pose still T-pose
(a Blender rig sitting; A3-adjacent).
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- PostFX_Lantern.asset: the ONE shared grade (ACES, bloom 0.6 cool-tinted for the
HDR gloam, vignette 0.28, faint teal filter) applied to Game, DevSandbox, and
ArtStaging; PostFX_DarkSciFi / PostFX_Daylight / Sky_DaytimeProcedural deleted.
- Env_SeabedKit.prefab: ArtStaging's environment (seabed, flora, rocks, marine
snow, caustics, warm pool, gloam fill, key light, StagingAmbiance animator)
prefab-ized and placed in Game + DevSandbox; ArtStaging connected to it.
- Scene surgery: old DevSandbox.unity deleted; Gym.unity RENAMED DevSandbox.unity
(GUID preserved -> GymSub wiring + the F1/F2 dev scripts that gate on the
'DevSandbox' name come back to life). SyntyWorld root deleted from DevSandbox;
BaseBiome/ExpeditionBiome/Slot1 deleted from Game.
- RenderSettings unified: no skybox, Exp2 teal fog {0.02,0.10,0.12} @ 0.035, flat
near-black ambient {0.03,0.055,0.08}; camera clearFlags -> solid deep-water.
- ScenePolicy.IsGameplayScene() replaces the six scene.name=="Game" string gates
(Game + DevSandbox share the dynamic look; menu/ArtStaging untouched).
- WorldAtmosphereSystem rewritten as water-column murk (LANTERN defaults; biome
variants re-meant to kelp/trench/gloam-bloom; Ground_Arid tint block deleted).
390 green; Play-verified in Game: murk values live, warm-vs-cold reads, no errors.
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ProjectM/EmissiveGloam — URP HLSL, HDR emission (Bloom-catching), with the
readability 'steady=true / flicker=false' channel as a material param
(_FlickerAmount), no script. Applied to the staging flora bulbs (cold, flicker).
The other two master shaders already exist (Lit URP graph, AnimatedLitShader).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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