The smooth brass case back of the pocket watch reflects large bright
sky regions of the Venice dawn environment at HDR values well above 1.
With the old threshold of 1.0 the entire metal surface passed the
bloom extract, and the blurred additive result washed it out to flat
white. Only genuinely hot highlights (HDR >= 3, near-white after ACES)
should bloom.
- Default bloomThreshold 1.0 -> 3.0; Stats slider range extended to 8
with a logarithmic scale
- Texture mip generation: transition the whole mip chain to
TRANSFER_DST up front; blitting into never-transitioned destination
mips triggered one validation warning per level
Play no longer switches to fullscreen direct rendering: PIE now keeps
the editor UI alive and renders the primary camera into the Viewport
panel (new SceneRenderer::SetGameView flag; kDisplayDirect stays a
manual fullscreen preview for later release form). Editor camera stops
being driven during PIE, and viewport click-pick is gated off while
playing (clicks are game input now).
The Play/Stop buttons move out of the menu bar into a dedicated main
toolbar row below it (centered, UE Main Toolbar semantics): green Play
when idle; Pause (yellow, highlighted while paused) + Stop (orange)
while playing. Ctrl+P hotkey kept. Stats "Pause Simulation" merged
into the toolbar Pause; viewport overlay shows PAUSED accordingly.
Details: multi-parameter components (RigidBody/Joint/CharacterController/
Animation) now use SeparatorText category headers in UE Details style;
all parameter labels normalized to Pascal Case.
Stats: rearranged into View / Scene / Rendering / Physics / Performance
collapsing groups. Clear Color moved to Scene, Debug View to Rendering,
GPU Timings + Frame merged into Performance; bare top-level widgets and
the now-obsolete Environment group removed.
Skybox/SkyLight are now Actor-carried components instead of resident
global settings, matching UE where SkyAtmosphere/SkyLight/fog are
Actors added from Place Actors and configured in Details.
- New SkyboxComponent (active + envPath asset slot) and SkyLightComponent
(active + ambientColor); first-active entity wins per frame
- SceneRenderer collects env from components into FrameSceneData
(DrawSkybox/envPath/ambient); Renderer performs delta sync - env
reloads only when the resolved path changes, neutral fallback when
empty or unloadable
- App-side env plumbing removed: kEnvPaths table and getEnvIndex/
setEnvIndex callbacks deleted; StatsPanel keeps ClearColor + debug
view, env params move to Details
- Serializer: scene-level Settings stores ClearColor only; env
components serialize per entity; legacy v1 scenes (Environment header
+ Settings.AmbientColor/DrawSkybox) auto-migrate into an Environment
entity on load for visual parity
- Inspector: Skybox/Sky Light sections with .hdr asset slot dropdown
and Add Component entries; Outliner "+ Create" popup offers
Empty/Light/Camera/Environment
EditorCamera (UE FEditorViewportClient semantics) owned by SceneRenderer:
own TransformComponent + reused Camera controller. BuildFrame dispatches
render source by display mode — editor form always renders from the
editor camera (usable in empty scenes), game form renders from the
scene's primary camera entity. AlignTo copies an entity pose into the
editor camera ("Align Viewport to Camera" button in Inspector). F focus
and viewport gizmo now follow the same dispatch. main.cpp stripped of
dangling sandbox camera/spinner state; onSceneLoaded hook removed.
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