#80 - desktop combat. The mouse aims, the left button fires, and the number
keys pick the weapon: 1 the fleet's guns, 2 and up the abilities. The twin
sticks are built for thumbs; on a desktop they mean dragging a virtual stick
with a pointer that could simply BE the crosshair.
The pointer path hands its heading to FireStickController rather than driving
weapons itself, so exactly one thing in the scene aims a gun, and a held stick
wins - a finger on it is a deliberate act, a mouse resting somewhere is not.
Abilities gained fire_at(), which aims and fires in one call instead of
pretending to be a press-drag-release touch.
It is gated on the absence of a touchscreen, because Godot emulates a mouse
button from every touch and without that a tap on a phone would fire the guns.
The gate has an explicit override, and not for tidiness: headless reports a
touchscreen, so with the automatic answer alone the aiming could never be
exercised by a test and the only covered behaviour would be the guard.
#81 - the bottom-left control hint is gone, from both scenes and from
GameController.
#82 - a chaser is destroyed by the impact when it reaches a vessel. It used to
pass through the wreck untouched and line up another pass, which made a
ramming enemy strictly better than any other. Data-driven per enemy
(dies_on_contact), because a sniper that happens to drift into a ship has not
spent itself doing it - and routed through take_damage, so it dies exactly as
it dies to gunfire. The enemy is told about the impact BEFORE the ship
resolves its own damage, since resolving it can free the ship.
#83 - the research tree's buy button is gone; tapping a node twice buys it.
Deliberately "the same node twice" rather than a timed double-tap: no window
to miss on a slow phone, no accidental purchase while browsing, and the first
tap always does something visible, so the second is never a blind commitment.
The status line now says "Tap again to research" - with the button gone it is
the only thing distinguishing an affordable node from an unaffordable one.
test_enemy_collision asserted the exact behaviour #82 reversed, and now checks
the ram costs both. Suite 117/117.
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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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