S7: first person at 107°, the placeholder rifle and the lean

Play as Client on L_S7Range: a dedicated server world and two clients, 9 October 2026. Client 1 is the player; client 2 watches. Placeholder lighting, materials and arms throughout.

Open for you: the copy's shadow on the first-person arms and rifle. The player now sees his own shadow from every light, the street lamp included, through a shadow-only copy of his body (your option 1; the engine's own sun-only path is switched off). The copy's shadow also lands on the first-person arms and rifle, which the engine's path never did: it skips first-person pixels (VirtualShadowMapProjection.usf:445). At the five light angles below, 0.8 % to 78.5 % of the arms' and rifle's pixels go darker, worst with the sun overhead and under a lamp behind him, and the shapes are the body's pose rather than the arms'. What to do about it is your call after a look.

What works. First person at 107° (the rifle drawn at 82° and scale 0.4), eye 162 cm above the feet. The rifle in the hands in first person and in the body's hands for everyone else, with one rifle each (the player no longer sees his own world rifle). Lean left and right, 20 cm, on Q and E: the view moves, and the other client sees the body lean (replicated in 0.25 cm steps, read back as −80 and +80). Crouch. The body holds Lyra's rifle pose on every client.

First person

**Leaning left.** The view moves 20 cm left; the horizon stays level (no camera roll, by design).

Shadows

Own shadow in sun — **His own shadow in sun, before the copy** (the engine's sun-only path). The first-person arms and rifle cast none, so there is one shadow.

**Under the street lamp, before the copy**, sun off in client 1's world and the exposure raised for this one picture. Client 2's lamp shadow is there; client 1's own is not.

Under the lamp with the copy — **Under the street lamp, with the copy** (15). His own shadow is there now. The body's shadow holds no rifle yet (below, not in this round).

Client 2 under the lamp — **Client 2's view under the lamp** (16): client 1's shadow once.

Sun, copy and engine path — **In sun, the copy and the engine's sun path both on** (17): still one shadow, because the darker of the two is kept.

Sun, copy only — **In sun, the copy with the engine's path off** (20), the setting now in the project: the same one shadow, for 0.07 ms more shadow depth than no copy, against 0.43 ms with both on.

Client 2 in sun — **Client 2's view in sun** (18): client 1's shadow once; client 2's own, from his copy, at the lower left.

Sun behind — **The sun behind him, with the copy** (19): the shadow runs ahead.

The copy's shadow on the arms and rifle (the open item)

The engine's path switched off, the pose frozen and the view the same each time. In each strip: the copy casting, then not casting, then in red what changed by more than 12 of 255. The share counts the arms' and rifle's pixels only; two identical frames differ on 0.1 % of them.

Capture	Light	Arms and rifle darker with the copy	Mean drop (of 255)
21	Low sun behind him (12° up)	11.9 %	25
22	Sun behind and to the side (30° up, 45° round)	0.8 %	16
23	Sun overhead (88° up)	78.5 %	37
24	Facing the sun (20° up)	5.6 %	19
25	Street lamp behind and above, sun off	48.1 %	46

21 strip — **21, low sun behind.** The rifle's top and the right sleeve lose their light.

22 strip — **22, behind and to the side.** A sliver on the left forearm.

23 strip — **23, overhead.** The rifle and the right arm are almost wholly in shadow.

24 strip — **24, facing the sun.** A patch on the left forearm.

25 strip — **25, the lamp behind and above.** The left arm and the rifle's top in shadow; the hands' shadows on the floor are the body's pose, not the arms'.

21 whole frame — **21, the whole frame.**

23 whole frame — **23, the whole frame.**

25 whole frame — **25, the whole frame**, the exposure raised for this picture.

26 client 2 — **26, client 2's view** with the engine's path off: client 1's shadow once.

What client 2 sees

Client 1 leaning left — **Leaning left** (his left, so to the right of the picture).

Client 1 leaning right — **Leaning right.**

Against the wall and the corner

Leaning towards the wall — **Leaning right, the wall on the right.** The first-person rifle is drawn whole over the wall.

Facing the wall — **Leaning, facing the wall** 5 cm from the capsule. The rifle does not clip.

At the outside corner — **Leaning at the outside corner.**

Client 2 sees the wall lean — **Client 2's view of the wall lean.** The world rifle's barrel meets the wall: the third-person rifle can clip, a later fix.

A 20 cm lean with a 12 cm probe never reaches a wall the 40 cm capsule already touches, so a flat wall or an outside corner does not stop the lean; only geometry overhanging at head height would.

Not in this round

Item	When
The hit-body overlay, the metrics and outcome tables, the burst clip	With the server hits (the next milestone)
The arms' own animation and hand IK on the rifle (the hip pose is Lyra's idle on hidden-bone Manny arms)	The arms blueprint, after this round
Hold or toggle lean; the lanes at 10 m and 30 m, the low wall and the dummy	With the hit bodies
The body's shadow holds no rifle (15, 20): the third-person pose has no rifle hold yet	With the hand IK and arms work, after your look
Lighting, materials and exposure (fixed at EV 9.5)	Placeholders

Play it

Open L_S7Range (/HFGameplay/Raid/S7Range).
Play as Client with 2 players (Play, Net Mode: Play as Client, Number of Players: 2).
WASD and the mouse; Q and E lean, held.
For a moving target, type hf.s7.TargetRoutine 2 in the console: client 2 strafes, leans and crouches on an 8 s loop.