Two changes after user feedback that externals sit near-but-wrong (shield inset
into the hull, thruster floating close):
- Scale: the joint table's slots 5–7 are per-axis scale (a GN_ShieldG frame ships
at 0.5, GN_Jet FX at 2.4–6.5) and were being ignored, rendering scaled parts at
the wrong size. ScenePart now carries `s` and applies R·(S·v)+T.
- External placement is fundamentally approximate: a GN_* frame is the mount
PIVOT (f105's two GN_ShieldG frames are both on the centreline), while the
part's outboard/rotational offset lives in a detail sub-rig / runtime code this
static pass can't recover. So assemble_ship gains `include_external`: the hull
tier (rou_ nodes) is exact and always drawn; the external tier (bridge / shield
/ engine at GN_ frames) is opt-in via a "Show external parts" checkbox in the
Ships browser, off by default so the clean, correct hull is the default view.
The module doc is corrected to the scene-graph mechanism (the old "draw parts
untransformed" claim was wrong).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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