feat(maps): give Rockforge's dwarven teleporter a warm focal glow

[zoeyrose]

Important

Evidence policy update (2026-08-11): #66 is complete through #124; any wording
below treating it as a future prerequisite is superseded. #126/#127 retire the
committed renderer-review capture surface. The removed files were generated
review artifacts, not authored gameplay art. Any requirement below to commit
rendered screenshots, contact sheets, manifests, proof maps, or capture tooling
is superseded. Keep authored semantic review in
maps/light-source-review.json (rationales, current digests, complete coverage,
and zero unreviewed emitters). Optional smooth/discrete diagnostics belong only
under ignored build/ or deployment output; summarize conclusions in the PR,
but never commit or gate merge on those files.

Follow-up to #65 and its implementation in #67, with the compatible main integration tracked by #66.

Outcome

Give Rockforge City's unique dwarven teleporter one coherent, art-matched focal light by moving illumination ownership from four invisible helpers onto the visible multipart machine.

Keep this map-local. A single authored machine does not justify a global lighting contract for the dwarven_teleporter archetype.

Evidence

The world has one multipart dwarven_teleporter, at (6, 6) in the darkness-3 map maps/shattered_islands/strakewood_island/rockforge/rockforge_a_0301. It has no direct radius or color. Its complete 2-by-2 footprint is covered by four neutral light9 helpers at (6, 6), (7, 6), (6, 7), and (7, 7).

The machinery is visually bright, but its metal, energy aperture, and surrounding Rockforge palette need rendered comparison before a hue is selected. Established warm gold ffe060 is the starting direction; cold or arcane color should be used only if the actual animated frames support it.

This is separate from #86 and the stock-green exit work: it is a multipart map fixture, not a type-66 portal object, and it already has a deliberately large four-helper composition.

Scope

• Render the teleporter and adjacent Rockforge rooms in smooth and discrete Classic lighting, starting from established warm gold ffe060.
• Move the intended footprint onto the visible multipart root or another single deliberate owner; do not make each child emit.
• Reconcile all four neutral light9 helpers atomically so the result does not become a four- or five-source stack.
• Keep any room-scale neutral fill that serves independent navigation, but document why it remains separate from the machine.
• Preserve multipart layout, animation, direction, destination/teleport behavior, walls, obstruction, coordinates, and every gameplay field.
• Keep the shared dwarven_teleporter archetype non-emitting unless future placement evidence supports a separate global decision.

Acceptance criteria

• The Rockforge machine has one coherent, reviewed focal-light owner and an art-matched established palette color.
• The four current light9 helpers are removed, retained, or re-scoped with explicit rendered evidence; no accidental stacked source remains.
• Light follows the visible multipart root without duplicating across child objects or leaking materially through nearby walls.
• Teleport behavior, destination, animation, direction, multipart structure, obstruction, and every non-light field remain unchanged.
• The room stays readable in smooth and discrete Classic lighting without becoming uniformly tinted.
• The chore(maps): audit authored light-source colors #65 inventory, review records, map semantic digest, evidence manifest, and affected rendered evidence are refreshed.
• python3 tools/world_content_audit.py lights --check, python3 tools/validate.py, and git diff --check pass.

Release lines

Land only after #65/#67 are integrated on 1.x and #66 supplies the matching field/audit contract on main. The affected map is compatible across the release lines. Deliver separate linked pull requests, with Classic 1.x owning rendered runtime evidence and main independently validating the authored mirror.

[zoeyrose]

Status update: #66's main lighting contract is complete via #124, so the compatible main companion for this issue is now unblocked. The 1.x companion #117 now incorporates #127 at b342d5632563730b12806414041cd4a4f575e07d and retains schema-v5 semantic review with zero unreviewed sources. Per #126/#127, committed PNG sheets/manifests and capture-only tooling are superseded; optional diagnostics belong under ignored build/ paths.

[zoeyrose]

1.x merge gate

PR #117 has been reconciled onto the exact current 1.x tip and is ready for maintainer merge:

• base: 1.x@7575b438ae985bfa4a2347776a27c37368f5ee0a
• exact head: 1f6d9e3c4599cbd92b87452164177f62d70bbfb3
• state: open, ready, one commit, mergeable (CLEAN)
• exact scope: maps/light-source-review.json and maps/shattered_islands/strakewood_island/rockforge/rockforge_a_0301

Checks at that exact head:

• Content validation: pass
• Conventional PR title: pass
• Syntax prototypes (ubuntu-24.04): pass
• Syntax prototypes (windows-2025): pass

Validation and review:

• focused light audit: 101 archetypes, 4 artifacts, 11,436 instances across 632 maps; 5,727 explicit colors, 5,814 intentional neutral, zero unreviewed
• full validator: 129 tests plus lossless content, schema, catalog, contracts, syntax prototypes, licensing, runtime collection, and both 1.8.2 archives pass
• exactly nine light9 helpers are removed and replaced by one map-local radius-9 ffe060 source on the visible teleporter root
• the five helpers beyond the issue's original four-helper inventory were included, eliminating the complete overlapping stack
• the shared archetype stays non-emitting and non-light fields are unchanged
• cumulative feat(archetypes): make braziers, cauldrons, and fireplaces emit firelight #91/feat(maps): pilot crystal-owned colored light in Zechna Temple and Brynknot Abyss #102 ledger semantics are preserved; only the Rockforge map record/digest and navigation rationale change
• retired evidence/capture paths and capture-bound fields remain absent
• git diff --check and JSON parsing pass

Merge order: squash-merge #117 first. After its resulting squash and both live branch tips are re-queried, build and validate the separate canonical main companion for #99. Do not advance to #98 / PR #118 yet.

[zoeyrose]

Canonical main merge gate

The 1.x companion was merged first as required:

• PR feat(maps): give Rockforge teleporter a focal glow #117
• resulting squash: 941a2e12c89a72ad6d4ea25a4a519e369c3b2e76

The canonical main companion is now ready for maintainer merge:

• PR: feat(maps): give Rockforge teleporter a focal glow #163
• base: main@12770b5022dca657ae26d5b4ca59cbf0107fd954
• exact head: 9740b7af5c62aa4efb73b4ffca8a78ad57413afe
• state: open, ready, one commit, mergeable (CLEAN)
• exact scope: maps/light-source-review.json and maps/shattered_islands/strakewood_island/rockforge/rockforge_a_0301

Checks at that exact head:

• Content validation: pass
• Conventional PR title: pass
• Syntax prototypes (ubuntu-24.04): pass
• Syntax prototypes (windows-2025): pass

Validation and review:

• focused light audit: 101 archetypes, 4 artifacts, 11,436 instances across 632 maps; 5,727 explicit colors, 5,814 intentional neutral, zero unreviewed
• full validator: 129 tests plus lossless content, schema, catalog, contracts, syntax prototypes, licensing, and runtime collection pass
• exactly nine light9 helpers become one map-local radius-9 ffe060 source on the visible teleporter root
• the authored map matches merged 1.x byte-for-byte; the shared archetype stays non-emitting and non-light fields are unchanged
• cumulative feat(archetypes): make braziers, cauldrons, and fireplaces emit firelight #91/feat(maps): pilot crystal-owned colored light in Zechna Temple and Brynknot Abyss #102 ledger semantics and main-native metadata/classic_views are preserved
• retired evidence/capture paths and capture-bound fields remain absent
• git diff --check and JSON parsing pass

Merge order: squash-merge #163 now, then re-query both live tips before beginning #98 / PR #118.