diff --git a/ReleaseConsumerProject/Packages/manifest.json b/ReleaseConsumerProject/Packages/manifest.json
index 9b8f7a6..bfb6fa3 100644
--- a/ReleaseConsumerProject/Packages/manifest.json
+++ b/ReleaseConsumerProject/Packages/manifest.json
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     "org.gamecult.cultlib": "https://github.com/GameCult/CultLib.git?path=/unity/org.gamecult.cultlib#cultlib-unity-v1.0.13",
     "org.gamecult.eve.plugin-fields": "https://github.com/GameCult/EvePlugins.git?path=/plugins/eve-plugin-fields/unity/org.gamecult.eve.plugin-fields#eve-plugin-fields-unity-v0.2.0",
     "org.gamecult.eve.surface": "https://github.com/GameCult/EveUnity.git?path=/packages/org.gamecult.eve.surface#eveunity-surface-v0.2.2",
-    "org.gamecult.eve.unity-scene": "https://github.com/GameCult/EveUnity.git?path=/packages/org.gamecult.eve.unity-scene#eveunity-scene-v0.3.39",
+    "org.gamecult.eve.unity-scene": "https://github.com/GameCult/EveUnity.git?path=/packages/org.gamecult.eve.unity-scene#eveunity-scene-v0.3.40",
     "org.gamecult.eve.unity-uitoolkit": "https://github.com/GameCult/EveUnity.git?path=/packages/org.gamecult.eve.unity-uitoolkit#eveunity-uitoolkit-v0.1.1"
   },
   "testables": [
diff --git a/ReleaseConsumerProject/Packages/packages-lock.json b/ReleaseConsumerProject/Packages/packages-lock.json
index b4362f2..dd2dc39 100644
--- a/ReleaseConsumerProject/Packages/packages-lock.json
+++ b/ReleaseConsumerProject/Packages/packages-lock.json
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
       "hash": "140e1bd963a0033e66777a3b2c5fe6e9c97dfe32"
     },
     "org.gamecult.eve.unity-scene": {
-      "version": "https://github.com/GameCult/EveUnity.git?path=/packages/org.gamecult.eve.unity-scene#eveunity-scene-v0.3.39",
+      "version": "https://github.com/GameCult/EveUnity.git?path=/packages/org.gamecult.eve.unity-scene#eveunity-scene-v0.3.40",
       "depth": 0,
       "source": "git",
       "dependencies": {
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
         "com.unity.mathematics": "1.3.2",
         "com.unity.modules.particlesystem": "1.0.0"
       },
-      "hash": "35ff288aabc03130a61228579f1b09bac4345b5c"
+      "hash": "3c8d127ef8d0d8e6c9a45f92a8bbd553d87e6a07"
     },
     "org.gamecult.eve.unity-uitoolkit": {
       "version": "https://github.com/GameCult/EveUnity.git?path=/packages/org.gamecult.eve.unity-uitoolkit#eveunity-uitoolkit-v0.1.1",
diff --git a/docs/aetheria-released-package-witness.md b/docs/aetheria-released-package-witness.md
index 235c136..aa1b984 100644
--- a/docs/aetheria-released-package-witness.md
+++ b/docs/aetheria-released-package-witness.md
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 The warm-cache released-package witness passes with:
 
-- `org.gamecult.eve.unity-scene` `0.3.39`, commit
-  `35ff288aabc03130a61228579f1b09bac4345b5c`;
+- `org.gamecult.eve.unity-scene` `0.3.40`, commit
+  `3c8d127ef8d0d8e6c9a45f92a8bbd553d87e6a07`;
 - `org.gamecult.eve.plugin-fields` `0.2.0`, commit
   `382a23d8f8a07e4b5eef5f81f84655861a858367`;
 - `org.gamecult.eve.surface` `0.2.2`, commit
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The warm-cache released-package witness passes with:
 - the generic `ReleaseConsumerProject` client connected directly to the
   Aetheria daemon.
 
-Evidence is in `artifacts/aetheria-daemon-gravity-fog-forward`. The PlayMode test
+Evidence is in `artifacts/aetheria-daemon-gravity-fog-dither`. The PlayMode test
 passed and recorded provider-owned reconciled movement, look, targeting,
 tractor press, tractor release, contact-gated cargo collection, and action
 receipts. The daemon-owned look direction reached the SoA body rotation,
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Fields splat layers. Its surface contract contains logical ports such as
 names or pass indices. The selected `unity-scene` provider asset variant owns
 that concrete shader ABI through `unity.volume.*` metadata. The released
 generic lowerer resolved the provider shader and dither texture, rasterized all
-four layers, and composited `22` pilot-camera frames from daemon frame `226`.
+four layers, and composited `22` pilot-camera frames from daemon frame `232`.
 The provider variant advertises the fossil shader's raymarch, temporal-history,
 and composite passes plus their logical ports. EveUnity allocates and resets the
 history targets generically; a partial temporal ABI fails closed.
@@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ Camera-channel facts:
 
 - provider-authored player renderers: `13`, including the lowered tractor effect;
 - pilot changed pixels: `230,400`;
-- pilot average luminance: `0.1889651`;
-- pilot bright pixels: `13,302`;
+- pilot average luminance: `0.1893132`;
+- pilot bright pixels: `13,948`;
 - map-channel renderers: `11`;
-- map changed pixels: `4,213`;
+- map changed pixels: `4,365`;
 - native cockpit progress bars: `7`;
 - daemon tractor power at capture: `1.0` after the held input completed its
   authored ramp;
@@ -85,10 +85,13 @@ Visual inspection confirms that map glyphs are absent from the pilot frame and
 present in the map-only frame. Correcting the fossil camera mode removed the
 false top-down dark disk, but the active volume now resolves as a nearly uniform
 saturated orange horizon rather than the fossil's blue gravity-shaped fog sea.
-This is transport and lowering proof, not visual parity. The first concrete ABI
-divergence is that the fossil derives dither sampling coordinates from the
-render target and dither texture dimensions while the current surface supplies
-zeroes. That lifecycle input must be lowered generically; EveUnity must not
+This is transport and lowering proof, not visual parity. Release `0.3.40` now
+derives dither sampling coordinates from the active viewport and provider
+texture dimensions through a generic logical-port relation. The resulting
+raymarch remains nearly flat orange (`R 0.8896-0.8960`, `G 0.5493-0.5532`,
+`B 0.3096-0.3118`, alpha `0`), so that real ABI correction is not the missing
+visual mechanism. The next diagnosis must compare camera/world sampling and
+field viewport placement before changing authored tuning. EveUnity must not
 compensate with Aetheria-specific lighting or fog rules.
 Substance is not part of this path; later texture baking belongs in Blender.
 Aetheria currently bundles ambientCG's 1K `Metal012` color, normal, and
diff --git a/scripts/run-aetheria-daemon-world-witness.ps1 b/scripts/run-aetheria-daemon-world-witness.ps1
index 110a91c..3350577 100644
--- a/scripts/run-aetheria-daemon-world-witness.ps1
+++ b/scripts/run-aetheria-daemon-world-witness.ps1
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ param(
 )
 
 $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
-$expectedEveUnityCommit = "35ff288aabc03130a61228579f1b09bac4345b5c"
+$expectedEveUnityCommit = "3c8d127ef8d0d8e6c9a45f92a8bbd553d87e6a07"
 $expectedEveFieldsCommit = "382a23d8f8a07e4b5eef5f81f84655861a858367"
 $expectedEveUnityUiToolkitCommit = "4d0cbe0185bdc4fc65eb63503a7c5cb578539669"
 $expectedCultLibCommit = "feb5c71513e71d681699f462fe3682b3168c6f73"