spaceship/tests/test_camera_settles.gd

extends SceneTree

# Headless gameplay test: run with
#   godot --headless -s res://tests/test_camera_settles.gd
# Regression test for a permanently-drifting camera. GameController followed
# the fleet with an exponential lerp and no snap threshold, so it approached
# the fleet centroid asymptotically and NEVER arrived - the camera kept
# moving by a fraction of a pixel every single frame, forever, even with the
# fleet completely stationary. That kept the background shaders' camera_pos
# uniform changing every frame, which made screen tearing permanently visible
# as horizontal bands of the background sliding sideways against each other.
#
# Verifies the camera reaches an EXACTLY stable position (bit-identical
# frame to frame) once the fleet has stopped, not merely a nearly-stable one.

var main_scene: Node
var fleet: Node
var camera: Camera2D
var elapsed: float = 0.0
var stage: int = 0
var last_pos: Vector2
var identical_frames: int = 0


func _initialize() -> void:
	var packed: PackedScene = load("res://Main.tscn")
	main_scene = packed.instantiate()
	root.add_child(main_scene)
	fleet = main_scene.get_node("Fleet")
	camera = main_scene.get_node("Camera2D")


func _process(delta: float) -> bool:
	elapsed += delta
	match stage:
		0:
			main_scene.get_node("AsteroidField").set_process(false)
			main_scene.get_node("EnemySpawner").set_process(false)
			# Send the fleet somewhere well away from the camera so the
			# follow actually has distance to close.
			fleet.move_to(Vector2(1500, 900))
			elapsed = 0.0
			stage = 1
			return false
		1:
			# Wait for the fleet to genuinely arrive AND the camera to close
			# the remaining distance - a fixed delay is unreliable here, since
			# the trip length depends on the ships' braking curve.
			if elapsed > 30.0:
				print("TEST_CAMERA_SETTLES: FAIL (fleet/camera never arrived)")
				quit(1)
				return true
			for ship in fleet.ships:
				if ship.position.distance_to(ship.move_target) > ship.arrive_radius:
					return false
			# Wait for the snap itself to fire, not merely for the camera to
			# get close: the final approach is still an active lerp, and
			# sampling during it would just measure normal convergence rather
			# than the perpetual drift this test is about.
			if camera.global_position.distance_to(fleet.get_centroid()) > 0.0001:
				return false
			last_pos = camera.global_position
			identical_frames = 0
			elapsed = 0.0
			stage = 2
			return false
		2:
			# With the fleet settled, the camera must be BIT-IDENTICAL frame
			# to frame. Any residual drift (however small) means the lerp is
			# still creeping and the tearing-visibility bug is back.
			if camera.global_position == last_pos:
				identical_frames += 1
			else:
				print("camera still drifting: %s -> %s (delta=%.9f)" % [
					last_pos, camera.global_position,
					last_pos.distance_to(camera.global_position)
				])
				print("TEST_CAMERA_SETTLES: FAIL (camera never stops moving)")
				quit(1)
				return true

			last_pos = camera.global_position
			if identical_frames < 30:
				return false

			var centroid: Vector2 = fleet.get_centroid()
			var on_target: bool = camera.global_position.distance_to(centroid) <= 1.0
			print("camera stable for %d frames at %s (fleet centroid %s)" % [
				identical_frames, camera.global_position, centroid
			])
			if on_target:
				print("TEST_CAMERA_SETTLES: PASS")
				quit(0)
			else:
				print("TEST_CAMERA_SETTLES: FAIL (settled, but not on the fleet)")
				quit(1)
			return true
	return false