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  • Adds per-bone display shapes (octahedron, sphere, cube, arrow, line, circle, ring, and a custom-mesh proxy), plus scale, offset, and rotation, so complex rigs are not drawn as identical octahedrons.
  • Adds groups (multi-membership, group colour, isolate), 32 display layers, per-bone hide, selection lock, and independent translate/rotate/scale locks that the gizmo honours.
  • Persists the document in a .bonedisplay.json sidecar and in glTF scene extras (qtmesh.bone.display). The Bone Display inspector section starts collapsed.

Closes #561.

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  • QTMESH_TESTS_SKIP_OGRE_PREFLIGHT=1 ./build_local/bin/UnitTests --gtest_filter='BoneDisplay*' (8 tests)
  • Open a skinned mesh, expand Skeleton → Bone Display, change shape and colour, and confirm the viewport bone updates while it stays selected
  • Toggle a layer, isolate a group, lock selection, and lock a transform channel; confirm click and gizmo behaviour
  • Save and reopen the asset and confirm the sidecar (and glTF extras on glb) round-trips

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  • New Features
    • Added controls for customizing bone shapes, meshes, size, position, rotation, color, visibility, selection, and transform locks.
    • Organize bones into color-coded groups and 32 layers, with controls to isolate groups and manage layer visibility.
    • Bone display settings are saved and restored with supported entity and scene imports and exports.
    • Bone visibility, selection, and locked transform channels are respected during picking and manipulation.

Complex rigs were drawn as identical octahedrons. Persist per-bone display metadata with the asset and in glTF extras so groups, layers, and locks survive save and reload.

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  • qml/PropertiesPanel.qml
  • src/BoneDisplay.cpp
  • src/BoneDisplay.h
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  • src/BoneDisplayController.h
  • src/BoneDisplay_test.cpp
  • src/MeshImporterExporter.cpp
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  • src/TransformOperator.cpp
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The pull request adds per-bone display settings, including shapes, transforms, colors, groups, layers, visibility, and locks. It adds inspector controls, applies settings in skeleton rendering and bone interaction, and saves or loads settings through sidecars and glTF extras.

Changes: Bone Display

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bone display model and editing rules
src/BoneDisplay.h, src/BoneDisplay.cpp, src/BoneDisplay_test.cpp
Adds the data model and operations for bone display properties, groups, layers, visibility, selection, and transform locks. Tests cover group membership, layer visibility, isolation, locks, and color selection.
Controller and inspector controls
src/BoneDisplayController.h, src/BoneDisplayController.cpp, qml/PropertiesPanel.qml, src/mainwindow.cpp, src/CMakeLists.txt
Adds controller accessors and setters for selected-bone settings. The PropertiesPanel adds shape, transform, color, group, visibility, lock, and layer controls. The application registers the controller as a QML singleton.
Viewport display and bone interaction
src/SkeletonDebug.h, src/SkeletonDebug.cpp, src/TransformOperator.cpp
SkeletonDebug applies configured shape, transform, color, and visibility settings to bone visuals. TransformOperator filters bone selection and prevents gizmo movement on locked channels.
Entity and scene persistence
src/BoneDisplay.cpp, src/BoneDisplayController.cpp, src/MeshImporterExporter.cpp, src/BoneDisplay_test.cpp, tests/CMakeLists.txt
Adds JSON document and scene conversion, sidecar file operations, and glTF extras support. Import and export paths save and load entity and scene settings. Tests cover serialization and GLB binary preservation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant PropertiesPanel
  participant BoneDisplayController
  participant BoneDisplay
  participant SkeletonDebug
  User->>PropertiesPanel: Edit a bone display setting
  PropertiesPanel->>BoneDisplayController: Call the setting setter
  BoneDisplayController->>BoneDisplay: Apply the setting
  BoneDisplayController->>SkeletonDebug: Refresh overlays after shape or transform edits
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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 91627

Resolve the persistence and interaction defects before merging: reopening exported rigs can lose shapes, visibility, and locks, failed exports can alter existing settings, and bone actions can target an unexpected selection. Keyboard-only users also cannot operate the layer controls.

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Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 2.68% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Linked Issues check Inconclusive [ #561 ] The display model, inspector, SkeletonDebug, and TransformOperator implement shapes, custom entity proxies, colors, groups, layers, visibility, and selection and channel locks. The controller… Provide reviewable evidence of the project save/load and glTF export call paths, including how they write and restore bone-display metadata.
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Title check Passed The title clearly summarizes the main bone display changes.
Description check Passed The description covers the features, persistence, and test plan. It omits the template's Technical Details, Features, and Bugfixes headings, but includes the main technical information in the summary.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed [#561] The changes support bone display controls, viewport rendering, selection and gizmo locks, persistence, and automated tests. The build and QML registration changes integrate those features. No u…
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[#561] The changes support bone display controls, viewport rendering, selection and gizmo locks, persistence, and automated tests. The build and QML registration changes integrate those features. No unrelated change is identified.

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[ #561 ] The display model, inspector, SkeletonDebug, and TransformOperator implement shapes, custom entity proxies, colors, groups, layers, visibility, and selection and channel locks. The controller records scene.skel.display.* breadcrumbs. BoneDisplay tests cover membership, layer masks, and lock evaluation. Persistence remains uncertain: the PR description claims glTF extras are saved, but the controller summary describes sidecar saves and glTF extras as a load fallback. The persistence section of the controller diff was truncated, and the importer/exporter diff was unavailable. The available evidence does not establish that project save/load and glTF export round-trip the metadata.

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Provide reviewable evidence of the project save/load and glTF export call paths, including how they write and restore bone-display metadata.

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Due to the large number of review comments, Critical, Major severity comments were prioritized as inline comments.

Minor comments: 1

src/BoneDisplay.cpp: 1

254-350: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

Preserve additional GLB chunks when updating extras.

If an export fails before replacing an existing .vrm, saving non-default bone display settings can still rewrite that file. The rewrite discards additional chunks, so consumers lose their producer-specific data. Preserve those chunks when writing the updated GLB.

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Review comment at @src/BoneDisplay.cpp around lines 254 - 350:
Update readGlb and writeGlb so rewriting a GLB to update bone display extras
preserves every unrecognized chunk and its original order alongside the JSON and
BIN chunks. Carry the additional chunk data through the rewrite rather than
discarding it, while retaining the existing JSON and BIN handling.
Nitpick comments: 2

src/BoneDisplay_test.cpp: 2

46-49: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Test the highest display layer.

A regression that rejects layer 31 would pass the current layer test. Add checks for assigning layer 31 and toggling its visibility.

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     EXPECT_FALSE(setBoneLayer(&doc, QStringLiteral("Hips"), 32, true));
+    Document highLayer;
+    EXPECT_TRUE(setBoneLayer(&highLayer, QStringLiteral("Hips"), 0, false));
+    EXPECT_TRUE(setBoneLayer(&highLayer, QStringLiteral("Hips"), 31, true));
+    EXPECT_EQ(boneOrDefault(highLayer, QStringLiteral("Hips")).layers, 0x80000000u);
+    EXPECT_TRUE(layerBit(boneOrDefault(highLayer, QStringLiteral("Hips")).layers, 31));
+    EXPECT_TRUE(isVisible(highLayer, QStringLiteral("Hips")));
+    EXPECT_TRUE(setVisibleLayer(&highLayer, 31, false));
+    EXPECT_FALSE(isVisible(highLayer, QStringLiteral("Hips")));
     EXPECT_FALSE(setVisibleLayer(&doc, -1, false));
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Review comment at @src/BoneDisplay_test.cpp around lines 46 - 49:
Extend the bone-layer test using a separate Document to verify setBoneLayer
accepts layer 31 and layerBit reports it set. Also verify isVisible reflects the
layer’s visibility and changes after setVisibleLayer toggles layer 31 off;
retain the existing rejection check for layer 32.

224-228: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Check the rewritten BIN chunk byte-for-byte.

The marker check can pass if the BIN chunk type or padding changes. Parse the rewritten GLB, validate its chunk structure, and compare the BIN payload with the original bin.

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Review comment at @src/BoneDisplay_test.cpp around lines 224 - 228:
Update the rewritten-GLB check around reread and stored to parse the file,
validate its chunk structure and BIN chunk type, and compare the BIN payload
byte-for-byte with the original bin instead of checking for the BINDATA marker.

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minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
Review comments at @qml/PropertiesPanel.qml:
- Around line 5213-5220: Validate the complete text in all nine scale, offset,
and rotation fields before calling their setters; do not let partial parses such
as “2garbage” apply a value. For invalid edits, restore the field’s previous
value, reusing the existing controller values and field update patterns.
- Around line 5438-5452: Update the new group submission handler around
BoneDisplayController.addGroup to surface duplicate- or blank-name errors in the
QML interface, using the controller’s returned result or error without assuming
a new API. Clear newBoneGroupName.text only after group creation succeeds;
preserve the entered name when creation is rejected.
- Around line 5357-5385: Update both layer-grid delegates in the PropertiesPanel
so each layer is a focusable, checkable control with a distinct accessible layer
name and a checked state reflecting whether that layer is active. Support
keyboard and assistive-technology activation, preserving the existing bone-layer
assignment behavior in BoneDisplayController.setBoneOnLayer and the
corresponding visible-layer behavior.

Review comments at @src/BoneDisplay.cpp:
- Around line 192-204: Update both layer-mask readers, including the one that
assigns `b.layers` and the `visibleLayers` reader, to reject non-finite,
out-of-range, negative, and fractional values before casting. Preserve the
existing validation errors and integer-mask behavior.
- Around line 74-80: Update readVec3 and the corresponding color-component
parsing path to verify every component is a numeric JSON value before calling
toDouble(); reject the input with the existing error mechanism if any component
is not numeric, while preserving the current finite-value checks.
- Around line 796-821: Update mergeGltfExtras and gltfExtrasPayload to use the
scene selected by the root scene index when accessing bone-display extras.
Default to scene 0 when the root scene index is absent, and preserve safe
handling when the scenes array is empty or the selected index is out of range.
- Around line 757-762: Update sidecarPath to include the asset’s extension in
the sidecar filename so assets such as rig.gltf and rig.glb use distinct
sidecars, while keeping the sidecar in the asset’s directory.

Review comments at @src/BoneDisplay.h:
- Around line 104-108: When a configured bone is renamed, migrate its display
settings from the old name to the new name so it retains its visibility and lock
state and export no longer keeps a stale old-name entry; restore the original
mapping and settings when undoing the rename. Locate the rename and undo
handling that updates the `bones` and `groups` state in `BoneDisplay`, and
preserve the existing behavior for bones without configured settings.

Review comments at @src/BoneDisplayController.cpp:
- Around line 583-584: Check the result of QFile::remove in the stored.isEmpty()
branch and propagate removal failure through the scene exporter so export cannot
report success while the stale sidecar remains.
- Around line 510-519: Update both export paths to propagate failures when
writing glTF extras, including when the sidecar succeeds but the GLB rewrite
fails; do not report export success unless both writes succeed. Report the
failure to the user, using the existing export error-reporting mechanism and
preserving the current behavior for successful writes.
- Around line 499-502: Check the result of QFile::remove in the stale-sidecar
path before continuing to writeSidecarFile; treat an already-absent sidecar as
success, but propagate a removal failure to the exporter so the save is not
reported as successful.
- Around line 543-558: Update the document selection in loadEntity so a scene
document is applied only when its node or entity name matches; remove the
fallback that applies the sole document after both matches fail.

Review comments at @src/MeshImporterExporter.cpp:
- Line 4276: Ensure the Ogre XML export branch calls writeBoneDisplaySidecar
with the export URI and entity, so bone-display settings are saved alongside the
XML and restored on reimport.
- Line 5988: Update the loadSceneBoneDisplaySidecar flow to recognize embedded
entity-format bone-display data and apply it to the imported rig when
sceneNodeEntities contains exactly one entity, preserving the existing
scene-format loading behavior.
- Line 5538: Update the export flow around writeSceneBoneDisplaySidecar so
display-setting keys use the same exported bone names as the glTF output,
including its extras. Apply the name mapping consistently to both the sidecar
and glTF extras, preserving the existing display settings for each bone.
- Line 4830: Update the export flow containing writeBoneDisplaySidecar so it
writes the sidecar only after the asset export succeeds. Return before this call
when export fails or throws, preserving the existing failure handling.

Review comments at @src/SkeletonDebug.cpp:
- Around line 1049-1059: Update the Circle mesh construction in the
`SkeletonDebug/CircleMesh` ensure callback so its triangles render from both
sides, including when viewed from below the local plane. Preserve the existing
circle geometry and vertex colors.
- Around line 1084-1091: Update the color key generation around the quant lambda
and mColorMaterials lookup to distinguish colors by their full RGBA values
instead of 8-bit quantized buckets, and use those same full values when
constructing the material name. Ensure distinct RGBA colors cannot reuse another
color’s cached material.

Review comments at @src/TransformOperator.cpp:
- Around line 1488-1495: Update the bone gizmo flow around
BoneDisplayController::isChannelLocked so visibility changes refresh the gizmo,
and reject a drag when the selected bone is hidden. Use the existing visibility
or layer state and refresh mechanism; preserve the current channel-lock behavior
for visible bones.
- Around line 1058-1061: Update the refused-selection branch around
display->canSelectBone(ent, boneQ) to distinguish a locked-bone pick from
successful selection. Propagate that result to the right-click handler so it
consumes the click without opening a menu or acting on the previously selected
bone.

---

Minor comments:
Review comments at @src/BoneDisplay.cpp:
- Around line 254-350: Update readGlb and writeGlb so rewriting a GLB to update
bone display extras preserves every unrecognized chunk and its original order
alongside the JSON and BIN chunks. Carry the additional chunk data through the
rewrite rather than discarding it, while retaining the existing JSON and BIN
handling.

---

Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @src/BoneDisplay_test.cpp:
- Around line 46-49: Extend the bone-layer test using a separate Document to
verify setBoneLayer accepts layer 31 and layerBit reports it set. Also verify
isVisible reflects the layer’s visibility and changes after setVisibleLayer
toggles layer 31 off; retain the existing rejection check for layer 32.
- Around line 224-228: Update the rewritten-GLB check around reread and stored
to parse the file, validate its chunk structure and BIN chunk type, and compare
the BIN payload byte-for-byte with the original bin instead of checking for the
BINDATA marker.

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Multi-entity export prefixes bone names with the scene node, and Qt Quick reads #rrggbbaa as alpha-first. Map those names on save and load, and show the swatch in #aarrggbb.

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Reject non-numeric sidecar values, keep display settings across a bone rename, and stop a locked or hidden bone from taking the context menu or the gizmo. Ogre XML export writes the sidecar, and a failed Assimp export no longer replaces it.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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