[QA] Code-generated hidden entities (VisibilityComponent) don't show in the Bevy editor

[balducciv]

🛠️ Build version:

0.44.0-mac-arm64 (PR #1363, Bevy renderer branch)

📔 Issue Description:

Entities created via code with VisibilityComponent.create(entity, { visible: false }) do not render in the Bevy editor viewport at all — same as they wouldn't render in Preview. Per #1367 ("Hidden items are visible in the editor - dev-visibility"), the editor should still show hidden entities during authoring so they can be found/edited, only hiding them at actual runtime.

This appears to be the same underlying gap as the #1373 collider issue: dev-only editor affordances (visibility, selectability) work correctly for drag-and-drop/authored entities, but are not applied to code-generated entities in the Bevy renderer.

👣 STR:

1. Create a new scene, enable Bevy Renderer (Settings > Editor > Scene renderer)
2. In src/index.ts, add:

   import { engine, Transform, MeshRenderer, MeshCollider, VisibilityComponent } from '@dcl/sdk/ecs'

   const cube = engine.addEntity()
   Transform.create(cube, { position: { x: 8, y: 1, z: 8 } })
   MeshRenderer.setBox(cube)
   MeshCollider.setBox(cube)
   VisibilityComponent.create(cube, { visible: false })

3. Save, and look at the editor viewport (not Preview)

✔️ Expected Result:

The entity should still render in the editor viewport (dev-visibility), while being correctly hidden once Preview/runtime starts.

❌ Actual Result with evidence:

The cube does not render in the editor viewport at all — identical to its (correct) behavior in Preview. For comparison, a drag-and-drop asset with its Visibility toggle set to hidden via the Inspector correctly still shows in the editor and correctly hides in Preview.

➗ Reproduction:

🔁 Always - (reproduced consistently)

🖥️ Operative system and additional Notes:

macOS, Apple M3 Pro. Likely related root cause to the #1373 code-generated-entity collider bug — both point to dev-only editor behaviors not being applied to code-authored entities in the Bevy renderer path.

VisibilityComponent.create(cube, { visible: false })

VisibilityComponent.create(cube, { visible: true })

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Platform update — confirmed reproducing on Windows too

Retested on Windows 11 using the exact STR/code from this issue, in a fresh scene (to rule out the entity-state corruption issue seen while retesting #1445).

Confirmed: VisibilityComponent.create(cube, { visible: false }) on a code-generated entity does not render in the Bevy editor viewport — same behavior as originally reported on Mac.

Conclusion: not platform-specific — reproduces on both macOS (Apple M3 Pro) and Windows 11 (Intel i7-12650H, NVIDIA RTX 4060 Laptop GPU).

[nearnshaw]

We determined this is the expected behavior