Every board effect the cockpit had no art for landed as the same purple
lightning-ring sprite, so a body stepping through a warp mouth wore the
ring over its own portrait. Eric wanted the purple wall to do the
animating. The portal effect now becomes a "surge" keyed by the mouth's
index in board.warps: the veil hung in that opening floods with its
texture, the swirl quickens and pales, and a ripple runs out to the
jambs before it settles back — nothing drawn over whoever stands in it.
The director used to steer the eyes toward that ring's cell on the pov
wizard's own crossing; it now aims at a surging mouth the same way, so
the heist's pinned frames render as before. Illusion and Pass Wall
crossings keep the shimmer sprite — stone has no veil to surge.
Scene gate: 29 of 30 frames unchanged. stone-gaze-s10-board drifts
0.21% with or without this change (the dashed sight line's phase), a
pre-existing flake left unblessed.
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