A node that unlocks a structure borrows that structure's own menu icon, so
the tree and the build menu cannot disagree about what a shipyard looks
like. Doctrines and permanent bonuses, which have no building to point at,
carry an explicit one.
Drawn as child IconButtons with their frame turned off rather than
reimplemented in the tree's _draw: the glyphs already exist there and are
not trivial, and a dozen of them copied here would be two places to change
every time one is redrawn. They are inert - MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE means the
tree's raw-input handling still sees every press, exactly as it did when
there was nothing on top of the nodes - and hidden rather than clipped when
scrolled off the panel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#111. Six vessels were authored as one row of 65px buttons with 105px
captions overlapping each other, so "Energy Propulser" was clipped and the
price was crushed onto a second line under it. Laid out in code now, in two
rows of three, and the price is GLYPHS rather than words - every resource
already has a mark the resource bar and the transfer list draw, so a price
reads as a number beside a symbol instead of "15 ore · 5 gas" eating the two
lines the vessel's own name needed.
#120. The hangar's icons give up height so their captions have somewhere to
go - vessel names are two and three words long and were wrapping into a box
barely tall enough for one line, so "Gas Bomber" read as "Gas". And there is
a rule between the two halves now: what is parked here and what is flying
are different questions, and with only a heading between them the grids read
as one long list.
The divider is drawn by the menu itself rather than by a separate node,
because its y comes from the same layout pass that places both grids - a
line positioned independently would drift away from the sections it divides
the first time either changed size.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both read raw touches, and the project no longer turns clicks into them - the
same routing gap #93 fixed in the research tree. The boost was unreachable on
a desktop and the formation could not be rearranged at all.
Wrappers over the same press/drag logic in each case, never a second
implementation, so the touch and mouse paths cannot drift apart. The wheel
replaces the pinch in the formation editor: a mouse has no second finger, and
zoom is the other half of what that panel does.
The fader gets first refusal on a mouse press in GameController, so dragging
the boost does not also pan or zoom the world behind it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Waves are on a fifty-second clock, which makes anything that happens during
one - the alert, the pathing, buildings taking damage, an outpost garrison
earning its keep - slow to look at even once.
It skips the warning as well as the peace: the point of the button is to see
the wave, and waiting out a nine-second alert every time would make it
useless as a tool. Gated on dev mode, the same gate the main menu already
uses for the map editor, so it does not exist in a shipped build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Landed as one piece across #122, #123 and #124: the frame is useless without
a script, and the script has nowhere to run without the frame.
The director drives the REAL scene rather than being a scene of its own. It
wants the real fleet, the real enemies and the real asteroid field, and it
makes "then the game starts" cost nothing - the director stops steering,
clears the flag, and what is left running is the ordinary game.
The script is a list of beats, each with a deadline as well as its own
completion test, so a beat whose condition is never met - a player who
refuses to fly at the ambush - runs out rather than wedging the prologue.
skip() ends the whole thing at any point and lands in exactly the state
playing it through does, so the game has one way to start rather than two
that have to be kept in step. The test pins that equivalence.
"No action button available, only movements" is enforced where the buttons
are decided, not by the director reaching in: the ability controllers set
their own visibility every frame and would have put them straight back, and
the map button belongs to the map. The joystick, the pivot and the fader
stay.
The convoy is ten hulls where a new game's fleet is one, so it needs an
explicit fleet-size override - a plain number rather than a fake doctrine,
because nothing about the player's own progression should be bent to fit a
cutscene. It is carriers rather than transporters: transporters belong to
hubs and are not fleet-eligible, so a convoy of them would be silently
filtered down to its escorts.
The ambush is chasers and only chasers. "Easy enough" is the requirement,
and a sniper against a convoy the player cannot yet fight properly is
neither easy nor a good first impression.
The breach takes the wheel through one check in GameController, covering the
stick, the keyboard and the released-again path together - three separate
gates would be three chances for one of them to keep steering. The shake is
written to camera.offset, never to its position, because GameController owns
where the camera is and would smooth a shake away.
The vessel that survives is chosen as the interceptor rather than whichever
happened to be first in the list, and the prologue ends on exactly a new
game's opening position.
Also: PlanetAtmosphereController no longer spawns the opening fleet while
the prologue is arming, and the tests that are about what the GAME starts
from now say so by turning the prologue off.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Godot writes one beside every script and the repo tracks them; these are the
ones for the files added across #99-#107 and the ability seam.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Landed together: a board of standing orders nothing acts on is a notepad,
and a planner with nowhere to read the plan from has nothing to do.
The targets are GLOBAL, not per building. There is one plan for the whole
game, and a second planning centre is another place to read and edit it
rather than a competing one - per-building targets would let two centres
hold contradictory orders and tell the crafters to satisfy both.
The census is the harder half. Every vessel is counted exactly once wherever
it happens to be: flying in the fleet, parked in the hangar, stationed at an
outpost, or in the air between any two of those. Miss the in-flight ones and
the planner queues a replacement for a vessel that is merely en route. The
fleet is the one place GameState cannot see, so Fleet pushes its composition
on every change, alongside the cargo capacity and distorder count that
already went that way.
Three rules keep the planner from fighting the player. It tops up and never
rewrites, so an order placed by hand stays exactly where it is. Everything
counts, including what is already queued, or it re-queues the same shortfall
every tick and buries the player in hulls. And nothing happens without a
planning centre - though the plan is remembered when one is destroyed, so
rebuilding picks up where it left off.
Vessels on order are counted separately from the census on purpose: they do
not exist yet, so the readout can say "4 of 6, 2 building" rather than
claiming six. The per-row note says where the vessels actually are, because
a plan can look unmet while everything it asked for is sitting at an
outpost.
The build menu goes to three columns past eight entries. #54 already
tightened its rows to 223px to fit a fourth, explicitly to avoid a
scrollable menu, and a ninth structure needs a fifth row that will not fit
at any spacing a button, a label and a cost can share. Three columns take
nine into three rows - fewer than it uses today, not more.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Landed together because an outpost you cannot crew is decoration, and a
garrison menu with no building to hang it off is nothing at all.
#102, the building. Researched at "Forward Bases", two prerequisites deep
and cheaper than any mid-game structure - the ticket asks for early, and the
answer to waves attacking your buildings should arrive at about the time the
waves can hurt them. It is drawn as a watch mast on a tripod with two open
berths, deliberately the least machinery of any structure here: it makes
nothing and refines nothing, it holds a position. 120hp, more than a
crafter, because being shot at is its job.
#103, the garrison. Two separate things live on its record, and conflating
them was the first thing to get wrong: the ORDER, what the player asked for,
and the CREW, who is actually there. This menu edits the order only; #104
fills the crew. Keeping the order as a wish is what lets an outpost ask for
a hull nobody has built yet and wait for it, rather than the request
evaporating - and it is why the panel shows "here / ordered" instead of one
number.
"Only ships that attack can be assigned" is expressed as capabilities rather
than a list of types, so a new armed vessel is eligible the day it is added
and an unarmed one never is by accident. Today that means the interceptor
and the laser vessel; a shield, a hauler and an engine block cannot hold a
position however much one might want them to.
Two berths by default, and Garrison Bays raises it at outposts ALREADY
standing - the same shape as freight_yards for hubs, because a bonus that
only reached new buildings would mean demolishing and rebuilding to collect
it.
The panel builds its own rows from the catalog rather than from nodes placed
in the scene, so adding an armed vessel later needs no scene surgery.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The old spawner put one enemy on the map every 3-6 seconds for ever. There
was no rhythm to the danger and nothing to prepare for. Enemies now arrive
in waves: a long quiet, a warning, an attack, and quiet again once the wave
is dead.
The clock lives in GameState, because Main.tscn is destroyed on every trip
to a planet surface and a wave must not be cancelled, nor restarted from
zero, by a landing. The spawning does not: GameState cannot see the world,
so EnemySpawner reads the phase and puts the enemies in it. That also
settles what happens when a wave turns while the player is on a surface -
the wave is waiting in space when they come back.
EnemySpawner keeps its name deliberately. It is still the thing that puts
enemies in the world, and 88 test files already say
`get_node("EnemySpawner").set_process(false)` to ask for a quiet map.
Strength is a function of the FLEET, per the ticket, with the wave number as
a slower second term so a player who never grows still meets escalation. The
budget is spent most-expensive-first, so a large wave is heavier rather than
merely longer, and min_strength keeps the first waves to chasers whatever
the arithmetic says.
"No timer should be visible" is enforced rather than merely observed:
GameState offers wave_warning_pulse(), a 0..1 throb, and no
remaining-seconds accessor at all, so the alert cannot drift into being a
countdown. The test pins both - that no such accessor exists, and that the
alert's own text contains no digits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The research table's LOCAL column was not merely equal to BANKED, it was the
same store: research lives on the mothership, the mothership is also the
bank, and building_inventory() redirects any bank-capable building to
bank_inventory itself. ResourceBar now drops LOCAL wherever it resolves to
the bank and lets the remaining two columns share the width. Anywhere else -
a crafter, a lab, the transfer panel - the column is untouched.
The "Research" heading went with it. It named a panel you can only reach by
pressing the research button, and it cost the tree canvas 128px, which the
table and the tree have now taken back.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The card is authored at a fixed 704x1200 around a portrait phone. On a
window wider than it is tall the stretched canvas is about 1080 units high,
so the card sat at y=-60 and hung over both edges - and the confirm and
cancel buttons are anchored to its own bottom edge, so they went off screen
with it. The popup was not merely ugly on a desktop, it was a dead end:
nothing on it could be pressed.
NeonPanel now fits itself to the viewport and re-fits when the window
changes. It only ever shrinks; growing the card would stretch proportions
that are tuned rather than fluid. The fitting adjusts offsets around a
fixed centre, so it applies only to a card pinned to a point - a panel
stretched between different anchors already follows its parent and is left
alone.
Verified across portrait, 16:9, ultrawide and small-laptop shapes, on the
card and on both buttons.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two separate faults, both reported on the same ticket.
The menu was inert under a mouse. Input reaches the tree as raw events
through BuildController._unhandled_input, because a Control that consumes
them through the GUI system swallows the drag, and the tree only ever read
touch events. That was invisible while the project set
emulate_touch_from_mouse and every click arrived as a synthetic touch; with
that setting gone, nothing selects and nothing scrolls, and there is no
other way to research anything on a desktop. The press and the pan are now
the behaviour, with touch and mouse as two ways in to them. Motion pans only
while the button is held - a hovering pointer must not drag the tree out
from under the reader - and the wheel scrolls, which is the first thing a
desktop player reaches for.
The panel also still had the buy button's hole in it. That button went away
in #83 and nothing moved down into the space, leaving ~180px of dead panel
below the readout while the tree above it stayed cramped. The readout moves
down 154px and the canvas takes the height: 1190px to 1344px.
The test drives clicks through BuildController rather than into the view,
since the missing piece was the routing - calling the view directly would
have passed against the bug as reported.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Everything lived in one flat directory, so a diff gave no clue what area it
touched and finding the file you wanted meant knowing its exact name. Twelve
folders now, grouped by what a thing IS rather than what type it is - a
vessel's definition, its component scenes and its upgrade resources sit
together, because that is the set you read when you change one of them.
buildings core controllers enemies logistics planets
resources shaders surface ui vessels vfx world
332 files moved and every res:// reference rewritten - 306 files touched,
including the autoload and main-scene paths in project.godot. Nothing renamed:
this is purely where files sit, so the diff is a pile of pure moves and no
behaviour is buried in it. ui_theme.tres, icon.svg and web_shell.html stay at
the root, where Godot and the export preset expect them.
Verified three ways, because a suite alone would not have caught all of it:
the full 117 pass, the web export builds clean, and the game renders.
The export is why that matters. The FIRST export after the move failed with
"Attempt to open script 'res://GameState.gd'" - the old path - while
project.godot on disk plainly said res://core/GameState.gd. That is this
project's documented Android FUSE mtime trap: Godot served a cached copy of a
file whose content had changed. A `touch` fixed it. Nothing in the test suite
would have found that, because the suite runs from a copy on a native
filesystem - the one place the bug cannot happen.
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