From bb8978c127894598342e740596ef5f6e2707c995 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cyd <cyd@falloutshelterarcade.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 19:53:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Retire the near-eye cull by default: the eye-shroud is
 authentic content

The death sequence re-flushes the view with hither=1/yon=2 -- a thin
render shell that reveals geometry parked around the camera: the
escape-pod interior and the "blue swirly" ring dome (period VHS stills
of a 4.10 death match: violet concentric ripples, drifting center,
static canopy silhouette at the frame edge). Normal play clips the
shroud via the standard hither plane, so nothing leaks; the cull was
only masking authentic content. VRVIEW_NEARCULL=1 re-enables it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 dpl3-revive/patha/vrview.py | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dpl3-revive/patha/vrview.py b/dpl3-revive/patha/vrview.py
index 63950fd..9b970d9 100644
--- a/dpl3-revive/patha/vrview.py
+++ b/dpl3-revive/patha/vrview.py
@@ -44,11 +44,14 @@ def inst_visible(nodes, inst):
     return len(b) >= 20 and struct.unpack_from('<I', b, 16)[0] != 0
 
 
-# First-person near-eye cull (the cockpit-canopy "vertical line" fix).
-# VRVIEW_NEARCULL=0 disables it: with the camera at the true chain eye the
-# always-armed cockpit/bay assembly should render as the authentic canopy
-# surround instead of a stray sliver -- A/B toggle for that investigation.
-NEARCULL = os.environ.get('VRVIEW_NEARCULL', '1') != '0'
+# First-person near-eye cull -- DEFAULT OFF (VRVIEW_NEARCULL=1 re-enables).
+# It was the cockpit-canopy "vertical line" workaround, but the eye-shroud
+# it culls IS authentic content: the escape-pod interior and the death
+# "blue swirly" ring dome live parked around the camera, normally clipped
+# by the standard hither plane (0.25) and revealed when the death sequence
+# re-flushes the view with hither=1/yon=2 (period VHS stills match). The
+# true-eye camera renders the canopy correctly, so the workaround retires.
+NEARCULL = os.environ.get('VRVIEW_NEARCULL', '0') != '0'
 
 
 # NOTE: vrboard.do_flush stores the flush payload MINUS the leading remote word,