The fleet's guns picked their own targets and fired on their own, so combat
happened whether or not the player did anything - there was nothing to aim and
nothing to decide, and the right half of the screen held nothing at all.
Firing is now an action. VesselWeaponComponent no longer seeks a target; it
shoots along a heading, and the only thing that supplies one is the new
right-hand stick via FireStickController. A fleet arriving from another scene
starts with its guns silent, which is the correct resting state.
A subtle dashed guide runs from the fleet along the aimed heading while the
stick is held, out to the guns' OWN range - read from a weapon that is
actually aboard, so the line can never promise reach the fleet does not have.
Layout: the two sticks take the bottom corners, the pivot pair is centred
between them at the bottom edge, and the laser and gas bomb sit on an arc up
and left of the fire stick where a thumb already is. Those four are now round
- IconButton grew a round_frame mode, and the in-world action controls use it
while panel and menu buttons stay square, so the two kinds of button read as
different kinds of thing.
Worth recording, because it cost a screenshot to find: a script-declared
property set BEFORE the `script = ExtResource(...)` line in a .tscn is
silently dropped. Godot's parser has no idea the property exists yet. The
round frames were all correctly set in both scenes and none of them applied.
Also fixed researtch_lab_garrison.tres, which was authored under the void
profile - that is the black hole surface, so a lab garrison was spawning on
black holes.
Suite 110/110. test_enemy_combat's whole premise was auto-fire; it now holds
the real stick toward the enemy rather than poking weapon components, so it
exercises the path the player uses. test_fire_stick is new and covers the
change itself: an idle stick leaves a target parked well inside range
untouched, which is precisely what the old gun would never have done.
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_finish_pivot_tap() granted a full PIVOT_MIN_STEP rotation on every
button/key release with no rate limit, so tapping fast enough rotated
the formation far beyond PIVOT_SPEED's smooth held-rate cap - well
above what holding the button down can ever produce. Each of those
artificially-frequent re-seats (Fleet.apply_formation()) forced every
ship into a fresh max-speed catch-up dash toward its new slot with no
time to settle between dashes, and since outer-wedge ships swing
further per pivot than inner ones, spamming made them visibly diverge
in speed while each ship's own bounded max_speed made the fleet read
as constantly pinned at its speed ceiling.
Added a per-direction cooldown (the time a genuine hold needs to reach
PIVOT_MIN_STEP on its own) so tap-spam can't out-pace holding the
button. Deliberately NOT shared between CW/CCW: a quick correction tap
the other way right after an overshoot is normal play, and
test_keyboard_input.gd already covers Q and E each independently
producing their own minimum step back-to-back - only repeatedly
re-tapping the SAME direction needed capping.
GameState.fleet_speed_multiplier (1.0-3.0) is applied at the point of
use - Fleet's cruise anchor and Ship's own max_speed/acceleration -
rather than baked into stored stats, so a stat upgrade researched
mid-boost can't corrupt the base value and the fader takes effect
immediately with no re-apply step.
Ship.arrive_radius is scaled by the same multiplier: at higher speeds
each physics tick covers a proportionally larger step, and once that
step outgrows a fixed arrive_radius the ship can overshoot its
snap-to-target zone every tick while chasing a target that's now also
receding faster - visible as the fleet stretching apart under boost.
Scaling it preserves the same "snaps onto its slot" tightness at any
boost level that 1.0x already has.
SpeedFader.gd is a self-contained vertical drag control (TouchJoystick's
raw-touch idiom, not _gui_input) that writes straight to the autoload
rather than reporting a value for something else to apply. It also
resets the multiplier to 1.0 the instant fleet.has_capability("distorder")
goes false, so a fleet can never be left permanently boosted by a vessel
it no longer has.
VesselDistorderComponent carries no per-shot behaviour (energy drain
while boosted is #62) - its presence is what matters. Registered in
VesselDefinitions, wired into the crafter/hangar/ship-lab menus per
#57's note (5/5/6 -> 6/6/7 columns).
A manually aimed instant beam, modelled on the gas bomber's press-drag-
release aiming (GasBombController/VesselGasBomberComponent) but firing
the moment the touch releases - no projectile travel time. Damage,
beam_range and cooldown are resolved per ship from base_stats/upgrades
(VesselLaserComponent.apply_stats(), the same pattern
VesselWeaponComponent uses) rather than hardcoded in the controller, so
the new damage/range/cooldown ship-lab upgrades actually reach them.
Cooldown lives on the component (per ship), not the controller (per
fleet) - two laser ships give two shots, the exact bug already fixed
for bombers in eb79efd.
LaserController.gd is reused unmodified by both Main.tscn and
PlanetSurface.tscn (relative ../Fleet, ../Camera2D, ../UI/LaserButton
paths, matching GasBombController), so it works identically in space
and on a landed surface. Wired into GameController's touch/drag
first-refusal chain alongside the bomb controller.
The crafter, hangar and ship-lab menus were already generic over
VesselDefinitions.fleet()/.all() - only the per-vessel Main.tscn nodes
are hand-placed, not the logic - so this repacks those rows to
5/5/6 columns and extends BuildController's onready arrays. No new
signal handlers were needed. Also fixes test_vessel_composition.gd's
hardcoded fleet-catalog size again (4 -> 5) now that laser is a fifth
fleet-eligible vessel.
Note for later tickets: a brand-new class_name script (LaserController)
resolves fine as a static type when its own file is the godot -s entry
point, but the identical type hint fails to parse ("Could not find
type") when the script holding it is only reached indirectly - e.g.
Main.tscn loaded from inside a _screenshot_tool.gd preview. Untyped
Node + duck-typed calls sidesteps it; GameController.gd's
laser_controller field documents this in place.
A fleet of neon-outlined ships explores a procedurally generated, seeded
infinite world: tap/joystick steering, pinch zoom, formation pivoting,
planet landings, an ore economy with extractors and haulers, and player
built structures (mothership, ship crafter, command centre).
All art is hand-drawn with draw_* calls rather than textures, and the
backgrounds are camera-relative shaders so they stay precise at large
world coordinates.
Includes a 35-test headless suite (tests/run_tests.sh) plus screenshot
tooling that renders real frames through Xvfb and Mesa softpipe, since
--headless has no GPU.
Excluded from version control: .godot/ (import cache, and it holds
export credentials), builds/, android/build/ and packaged APKs - all
regenerable, and ~325 MB combined.
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