Entities without a existing parent entity will still load but not visible

[thoys]

Parented entities without an existing parent entity will still load but not visible.

E.g.

• Particles show up but are not deletable.
• Scripts could run audio but are not deletable.

To reproduce, edit your models.json.gz file to have an entity with a parentID which is not an id that exists. You could either have a particle or a sound playing entity to get a good result.

[ctrlaltdavid]

This may have been fixed in HiFi master - PR 16361 ~14 Nov 2019.

[two-one-five]

Was that PR merged or will I need to retrieve it from the repo for K3?

[two-one-five]

Long term... @HifiExperiments and I concluded that this might be a good route:

1. Don't let entities that don't have existing parents do anything on load. (such as render or create sound)
2. When you export a domain, wipe all invalidly parented entities so you don't eternally carry around cruft from deployment to deployment.

[ctrlaltdavid]

This problem could bear retesting now that HiFi master has been merged into the Vircadia code.

[daleglass]

It's possible the master merge made changes in this regard, should be retested

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