docs/technical/scene-runtime.md

@@ -74,28 +74,32 @@ It tracks:
 - `gameMapLoaded`: map data and visible map nodes settled
 - `gameStageLoaded`: Rapier gameplay stage mounted
 - `showGameStage`: true when the map is ready enough to mount gameplay content
-- `shadowsReady`: renderer, shadow lights, and scene matrices have been forced once after the scene is mounted
-- `gameplayReady`: true when map, stage, octree, and the shadow warmup are all ready
+- `gameplayReady`: true when map, stage, and octree are all ready
 
-The base game-scene readiness condition before the shadow warmup is:
+The game-scene readiness condition is:
 
 ```ts
 showGameStage && gameStageLoaded && octree !== null;
 ```
 
-After that condition is met, `SceneShadowWarmup` runs one final loading step:
+Shadows are configured once when `Lighting` mounts (renderer `shadowMap.enabled`, sun
+`shadow.autoUpdate = true`, bias and frustum from `SHADOW_CONFIG` in
+`src/data/world/lightingConfig.ts`). The shadow map then refreshes every frame and
+follows the player camera through the sun's `target`. The earlier `SceneShadowWarmup`
+step has been removed — the visible loading overlay no longer waits for a forced
+shadow refresh because `autoUpdate` covers steady-state rendering.
 
-```txt
-Activation des ombres -> Ombres prêtes -> Gameplay prêt
-```
+### Avoiding global scene remounts
 
-This keeps the loading overlay visible until the renderer shadow map, shadow-casting light, and mounted scene graph have all been explicitly refreshed.
-
-After the warmup, shadow maps switch back to manual refreshes driven by `Lighting`.
-The sun still follows the player camera, but the shadow map is only marked dirty
-when the camera has moved enough and a short refresh interval has elapsed. This
-keeps shadows present after loading without paying for a full shadow render every
-frame across the dense vegetation chunks.
+Heavy stage components (`GameStageContent`, `Player`, dialogues) load assets via
+`useGLTF`/`useTexture` without preload (e.g. `EbikeSpeedometer` calls `useTexture`
+when the bike mounts). To prevent any late suspension from bubbling up to the
+root `<Suspense>` boundary in `src/pages/page.tsx` and unmounting the entire
+world (which would trigger a redundant octree rebuild and shadow re-config), the
+game stage block and the spawn-player block are wrapped in their own
+`<Suspense fallback={null}>` boundaries inside `src/world/World.tsx`. Any new
+sibling that suspends late should be added inside one of these boundaries or get
+its own.
 
 The debug physics scene is ready when:
 

docs/technical/three-debugging.md

@@ -20,3 +20,50 @@ If DevTools still opens a bundled file, stop the dev server, clear Vite's cached
 rm -rf node_modules/.vite
 npm run dev:three-debug
 ```
+
+## Visual debug toggles
+
+The `Debug` folder of the runtime debug GUI exposes inspection toggles backed by
+`src/managers/stores/useDebugVisualsStore.ts`:
+
+- **Show Player Model** — renders the main character GLTF in front of the
+  current camera (`src/components/debug/DebugPlayerModel.tsx`). The model is
+  positioned in camera-local space so it stays visible regardless of pitch.
+- **Show Octree** — overlays the collision octree as colored line segments,
+  one wireframe per spatial cell (`src/components/debug/DebugOctreeVisualization.tsx`).
+  Cells are colored by depth. Use it to inspect collision precision around
+  doorways or passages.
+- **Octree Max Depth** — caps how deep the octree visualization recurses
+  (default 6). Increase to see leaf-level subdivisions; decrease to keep the
+  scene readable when the tree is large.
+
+The octree visualization reads the live `Octree` instance from `World`. The
+mesh uses `depthTest: false` and a high `renderOrder`, so cells stay visible
+through opaque geometry.
+
+## Shadow rendering intermittence (open investigation)
+
+Shadows occasionally fail to render on initial load even though the
+`Lighting` configuration runs to completion (verified through diagnostic logs).
+The issue is not deterministic across runs with identical config. Suspected
+contributors:
+
+- WebGL context restoration timing (`webglcontextrestored` rebinds shadow map
+  state in `src/pages/page.tsx`).
+- First-frame shadow map being rendered before any mesh has its
+  `castShadow`/`receiveShadow` flag set; `autoUpdate=true` should fix it on the
+  next frame, but a single dropped frame is still visible at very first paint.
+- HMR/state interactions in dev mode that do not occur in production builds.
+
+Mitigations already applied:
+
+- Shadow config centralized in `src/data/world/lightingConfig.ts`
+  (`bias=0`, `normalBias=0`, `cameraSize=95`, matching the historically working
+  values from `develop`).
+- Late-suspension Suspense boundaries in `World.tsx` to prevent global scene
+  remounts that would re-run shadow setup mid-load.
+
+If the issue reproduces in production, capture a screenshot plus the
+`[diag]`-style logs from `useOctreeGraphNode`, `Lighting`, and `GameMapCollision`
+to confirm whether the third configuration pass is happening (which would
+indicate a remaining suspending hook outside the existing Suspense boundaries).

src/world/GameMapCollision.tsx

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import {
 } from "@/data/world/octreeCollisionConfig";
 import { getMapModelScaleMultiplier } from "@/data/world/mapInstancingConfig";
 import { useCharacterDebugStore } from "@/managers/stores/useCharacterDebugStore";
+import { useGameStore } from "@/managers/stores/useGameStore";
 import { WorldBoundsCollision } from "@/world/collision/WorldBoundsCollision";
 import type { MapNode } from "@/types/map/mapScene";
 import type { OctreeReadyHandler, Vector3Tuple } from "@/types/three/three";
@@ -125,21 +126,24 @@ export function GameMapCollision({
   const settledCollisionNodesRef = useRef(new Set<number>());
   const loadedNotifiedRef = useRef(false);
   const [settledCollisionNodeCount, setSettledCollisionNodeCount] = useState(0);
+  const mainState = useGameStore((state) => state.mainState);
   const terrainHeight = useTerrainHeightSampler();
   const collisionNodes = nodes.filter(isCollisionNode);
+  const includeCharacterCollisions = mainState !== "ebike";
+  const characterCollisionCount = includeCharacterCollisions
+    ? CHARACTER_IDS.length
+    : 0;
   const collisionSourceCount =
-    collisionNodes.length + proxyNodes.length + CHARACTER_IDS.length;
+    collisionNodes.length + proxyNodes.length + characterCollisionCount;
   const collisionReady =
     mapReady && settledCollisionNodeCount >= collisionNodes.length;
   const characterCollisionSignature = useCharacterDebugStore((state) =>
-    CHARACTER_IDS.map((id) => {
-      const character = state.characters[id];
-      return [
-        ...character.position,
-        ...character.rotation,
-        ...character.scale,
-      ].join(",");
-    }).join("|"),
+    includeCharacterCollisions
+      ? CHARACTER_IDS.map((id) => {
+          const character = state.characters[id];
+          return [...character.position, ...character.rotation].join(",");
+        }).join("|")
+      : "characters-hidden",
   );
   const collisionRebuildKey = collisionReady
     ? `${collisionNodes.length}:${collisionSourceCount}:${characterCollisionSignature}`
@@ -221,7 +225,7 @@ export function GameMapCollision({
             />
           ))
         : null}
-      {mapReady ? (
+      {mapReady && includeCharacterCollisions ? (
         <CharacterCollisionProxies terrainHeight={terrainHeight} />
       ) : null}
       {mapReady