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10 changes: 10 additions & 0 deletions engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/core/modes/StateIngame.java
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Expand Up @@ -130,6 +130,16 @@ public void dispose(boolean shuttingDown) {

boolean save = networkSystem.getMode().isAuthority();
if (save && storageManager != null) {
// storageManager.startSaving() calls saveGamePreviewImage() synchronously, which reads
// whatever ScreenGrabber.saveScreenshot() finds already sitting in the final post-processing
// FBO. The main loop's last call into render() was at least one frame ago - normal gameplay
// frames keep that FBO current, but nothing has touched it since, so without a render here
// the screenshot is whatever was left over, typically stale or blank (#5321). worldRenderer
// is still live at this point - only disposed further down - so one more pass populates the
// FBO with real content immediately before it gets read.
if (worldRenderer != null) {
worldRenderer.render(RenderingStage.MONO);
}
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printf '%s\n' '--- Screenshot and FBO binding path ---'
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Move the preview render before teardown. StateIngame.dispose(boolean) disposes ChunkProvider and module assets before worldRenderer.render(...). WorldRendererImpl.render() then calls RenderableWorldImpl.update(), which updates the disposed ChunkProvider and its disposed chunks. Render the preview before these disposal calls.

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In `@engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/core/modes/StateIngame.java`
around lines 133 - 142, Move the worldRenderer.render(RenderingStage.MONO)
preview call in StateIngame.dispose(boolean) to before ChunkProvider and
module-asset disposal begins, ensuring WorldRendererImpl.render() cannot access
disposed resources while preserving the final-frame screenshot behavior.

Apply the same fix in
`@engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/world/WorldRendererImpl.java`
around lines 151 - 154.

storageManager.waitForCompletionOfPreviousSaveAndStartSaving();
}

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15 changes: 15 additions & 0 deletions engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/world/WorldRendererImpl.java
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import org.terasology.engine.logic.console.commandSystem.annotations.CommandParam;
import org.terasology.engine.logic.permission.PermissionManager;
import org.terasology.engine.logic.players.LocalPlayerSystem;
import org.terasology.engine.registry.CoreRegistry;
import org.terasology.engine.rendering.ShaderManager;
import org.terasology.engine.rendering.assets.material.Material;
import org.terasology.engine.rendering.backdrop.BackdropProvider;
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initRenderingSupport();
initRenderingModules();

// ScreenGrabber lives only in this.context - the child ContextImpl this class builds over the
// constructor's outer context plus its own ServiceRegistry (see the constructor). ContextImpl's
// lookup walks child-to-parent, never the other way: a parent context has no path to a child's
// exclusive registrations. ReadWriteStorageManager.saveGamePreviewImage() resolves ScreenGrabber
// via the static CoreRegistry, which is bound to the outer/parent context - so without this,
// that lookup returns null and save preview images come out black (#5321). This was removed once
// on the theory that ScreenGrabber "should already be resolvable from CoreRegistry" because it's
// in the ServiceRegistry LwjglRenderingSubsystemFactory populates - that ServiceRegistry is this
// child context's, not the parent's, so the theory doesn't hold; restored.
ScreenGrabber screenGrabber = context.get(ScreenGrabber.class);
if (screenGrabber != null) {
CoreRegistry.put(ScreenGrabber.class, screenGrabber);
}

console = context.get(Console.class);
MethodCommand.registerAvailable(this, console, context);
}
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