Hunter shot: replicated laser beam + X-ray hit flash; snapshot apply in-place reseed

- Laser.shader + HunterLaserBeam: additive HDR beam, fade in/out over opacity
  and thickness, code-driven LineRenderer, tunable emission multiplier.
- FirstPersonMode: TryShoot computes world endpoint, fires beam with lateral
  muzzle offset (right) so it isn't dead-center from hunter view.
- NetworkPlayerSetup: shot relay RPCs (owner->server->all) + hit-flash RPC
  (server->all), flash OR-branch in ComputeXRay.
- MatchManager: hit reveal broadcasts X-ray flash first, delays hider removal
  by hitRevealDelay so the glow is visible before the body vanishes.
- MeshPainter reseed: in-place fast path avoids full GPU backend teardown on
  snapshot apply (no ~70MB RT churn), fixes spawn/paint-load hitch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Assets/Scripts/Network/MatchManager.cs

@@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ public class MatchManager : MonoBehaviour
     [Min(0f)]
     [SerializeField] private float shootCooldown = 0.4f;
 
+    [Tooltip("Seconds a shot hider stays lit with the X-ray glow before it is actually removed from play " +
+             "(Classic: hidden as found; Conversion: respawned as a hunter). Gives the just-shot flash time to " +
+             "be seen. The hider stays a live target during this window; 0 = remove instantly (no visible flash).")]
+    [Min(0f)]
+    [SerializeField] private float hitRevealDelay = 0.35f;
+
     [Header("Concealment reveal")]
     [Tooltip("A hider whose ConcealmentMeter EmbeddedPercent reaches this value (while a match is running) is " +
              "revealed through walls with the material's X-ray glow, so nobody can hide by burying itself deep " +
@@ -192,6 +198,9 @@ public class MatchManager : MonoBehaviour
     // empties. _phaseRoutine is the running Hide->Seek->Resolution coroutine (stopped if the match is ended
     // early via the authority's Back-to-Lobby).
     private readonly HashSet<ulong> _pendingHiders = new HashSet<ulong>();
+    // Server-only. Hiders that were hit and are in their X-ray flash window, not yet removed. Kept out of the
+    // seek-end check by staying in _pendingHiders; this set only dedupes a second shot during the flash.
+    private readonly HashSet<ulong> _revealingHiders = new HashSet<ulong>();
     // Server-only. Live NGO clientId -> persistent per-install id, reported by each client on connect. The
     // clientId is ephemeral (reused after a disconnect); the value is stable across that client's restarts.
     private readonly Dictionary<ulong, string> _persistentIds = new Dictionary<ulong, string>();
@@ -398,6 +407,7 @@ public class MatchManager : MonoBehaviour
 
         // A hider that leaves mid-match can never be found - drop it so "all hiders found" can still trigger.
         _pendingHiders.Remove(clientId);
+        _revealingHiders.Remove(clientId); // and out of the in-flight flash set (its resolve coroutine no-ops)
         // Free the ephemeral clientId -> identity mapping (the clientId will be reused by a later joiner).
         _persistentIds.Remove(clientId);
 
@@ -517,6 +527,7 @@ public class MatchManager : MonoBehaviour
         RespawnAll(id => hunterIds.Contains(id) ? hunterPrefab : hiderPrefab, matchSpawnCenter);
 
         _pendingHiders.Clear();
+        _revealingHiders.Clear();
         foreach (ulong id in _net.ConnectedClientsIds)
             if (!hunterIds.Contains(id)) _pendingHiders.Add(id);
 
@@ -656,13 +667,40 @@ public class MatchManager : MonoBehaviour
         MarkHiderFound(targetClientId);
     }
 
-    // Server-only. Resolves a hit on a hider for the active mode, and drops it from the pending set; the seek
-    // loop ends the phase early once that empties (no hiders left to find/convert). Classic flags the avatar
-    // found (replicated by its NetworkPlayerSetup -> free-cam); Conversion respawns it as a Hunter.
+    // Server-only. Resolves a hit on a hider: flashes its X-ray glow on every client, then (after hitRevealDelay
+    // so the flash is actually seen) drops it from the pending set and applies the mode outcome - Classic flags
+    // the avatar found (replicated by its NetworkPlayerSetup -> free-cam); Conversion respawns it as a Hunter.
+    // The hider stays in _pendingHiders during the flash so seek doesn't end early on the last hit; the seek
+    // loop ends the phase once _pendingHiders empties (no hiders left to find/convert).
     private void MarkHiderFound(ulong hiderClientId)
     {
-        _pendingHiders.Remove(hiderClientId);
+        if (_revealingHiders.Contains(hiderClientId)) return; // already flashing / being resolved
+
         if (_net.ConnectedClients.TryGetValue(hiderClientId, out var c) && c.PlayerObject)
+        {
+            var setup = c.PlayerObject.GetComponent<NetworkPlayerSetup>();
+            if (setup) setup.FlashHitReveal(hitRevealDelay); // light it up on every client, now
+        }
+
+        _revealingHiders.Add(hiderClientId);
+        StartCoroutine(ResolveHitAfterReveal(hiderClientId));
+    }
+
+    // Server-only. Waits out the reveal flash, then removes the hider and applies the mode outcome. Split from
+    // MarkHiderFound so the glow is visible before the avatar leaves play (Classic hide / Conversion despawn).
+    private IEnumerator ResolveHitAfterReveal(ulong hiderClientId)
+    {
+        if (hitRevealDelay > 0f) yield return new WaitForSeconds(hitRevealDelay);
+
+        _revealingHiders.Remove(hiderClientId);
+        if (_net == null || !_net.IsServer) yield break;
+
+        _pendingHiders.Remove(hiderClientId);
+
+        // A Back-to-Lobby (EndMatch) during the flash tears the match down and respawns everyone; don't then
+        // convert/found a stale avatar.
+        if (Phase == MatchPhase.InMatch &&
+            _net.ConnectedClients.TryGetValue(hiderClientId, out var c) && c.PlayerObject)
         {
             if (matchMode == MatchMode.Conversion)
                 ConvertToHunter(hiderClientId, c.PlayerObject);
@@ -672,6 +710,7 @@ public class MatchManager : MonoBehaviour
                 if (setup) setup.ServerMarkFound();
             }
         }
+
         string verb = matchMode == MatchMode.Conversion ? "converted to hunter" : "found";
         Debug.Log($"[MatchManager] Hider {hiderClientId} {verb} - {_pendingHiders.Count} hider(s) left.", this);
     }

Assets/Scripts/Network/NetworkPlayerSetup.cs

@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ public class NetworkPlayerSetup : NetworkBehaviour
     private bool _lastXRay;
     private bool _frozenApplied;
     private bool _lastFrozen;
+    private float _xrayFlashUntil; // Time.time deadline for the just-shot X-ray flash (local per client)
+    private HunterLaserBeam _laser; // shot beam visual, lazily attached on the hunter avatar
 
     public override void OnNetworkSpawn()
     {
@@ -361,6 +363,10 @@ public class NetworkPlayerSetup : NetworkBehaviour
     // The X-ray reveal predicate for this avatar on the local machine.
     private bool ComputeXRay()
     {
+        // Just-shot flash: a hunter's hit lights this hider up for a brief window (server-broadcast), on top
+        // of the normal reveal triggers, so the moment of the hit reads before the hider leaves play.
+        if (Time.time < _xrayFlashUntil) return true;
+
         // Buried-hider reveal: already gated to hider + running match on the owner before it is published.
         if (_embeddedReveal.Value) return true;
 
@@ -369,6 +375,52 @@ public class NetworkPlayerSetup : NetworkBehaviour
         return ComputeResolutionFreeze();
     }
 
+    // --- Hunter shot beam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // Cosmetic and client-trusted (a co-op hide & seek, matching the ReportHit trust model). The local
+    // shooter draws its own beam instantly for responsiveness and relays the world-space segment to the
+    // server, which echoes it to every other client. The RPCs live on the hunter avatar (this
+    // NetworkObject), so they only run on this shooter's instances - other avatars never draw a beam.
+
+    /// <summary>Owner-only. Draws the shot beam locally now and replicates the world-space segment so every
+    /// other client sees the same shot.</summary>
+    public void FireShot(Vector3 start, Vector3 end)
+    {
+        if (!IsOwner) return;
+        EnsureLaser().Fire(start, end);
+        FireShotServerRpc(start, end);
+    }
+
+    [ServerRpc]
+    private void FireShotServerRpc(Vector3 start, Vector3 end) => FireShotClientRpc(start, end);
+
+    [ClientRpc]
+    private void FireShotClientRpc(Vector3 start, Vector3 end)
+    {
+        if (IsOwner) return; // the shooter already drew it locally
+        EnsureLaser().Fire(start, end);
+    }
+
+    private HunterLaserBeam EnsureLaser()
+    {
+        if (!_laser) _laser = GetComponentInChildren<HunterLaserBeam>(true);
+        if (!_laser) _laser = gameObject.AddComponent<HunterLaserBeam>();
+        return _laser;
+    }
+
+    // --- Hunter hit flash ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    /// <summary>Server-only. Flashes THIS hider's through-walls X-ray glow on every client for
+    /// <paramref name="seconds"/> (the just-shot feedback), overriding the normal reveal predicate for that
+    /// window. MatchManager delays the actual removal by the same span so the glow is seen before it leaves play.</summary>
+    public void FlashHitReveal(float seconds)
+    {
+        if (!IsServer) return;
+        FlashHitRevealClientRpc(Mathf.Max(0f, seconds));
+    }
+
+    [ClientRpc]
+    private void FlashHitRevealClientRpc(float seconds) => _xrayFlashUntil = Time.time + seconds;
+
     // True if THIS machine's local player is a Hunter role variant (so it must not see hiders during hide).
     // Shared with MatchHud. Called per frame per avatar during hide/seek, so the GetComponent result is
     // cached per local PlayerObject; a respawn/conversion swaps the object and refreshes the cache.