Reviewed against the rule issues #6 and #10 set for the buildings: geometry
is rasterised once and thereafter only moved, scaled or faded, because every
NeonDraw call expands into four antialiased polylines.
The planet visuals never got that refactor. The black hole rebuilt ten
glowing paths of twenty-five points every frame - forty polylines - to spin
five rings; each ring is a NeonPiece that rotates now. The research lab spent
nine draw calls a frame, eight of them fixed geometry, to turn one dish and
blink six lights; the dish is a child that rotates and the lights a child
whose modulate breathes. The gas giant's bands genuinely deform, so they
still draw, but its constant rim moved out to a child. NeonPiece gained
add_path, which it needed for open arcs.
And I had broken the rule myself. ScannerGuidance re-queued a redraw of its
arrow every frame for a colour that changes only with the destination - and
it runs with PROCESS_MODE_ALWAYS, so it was re-tessellating through every
dialog that stops the rest of the game. Guarded, and pinned by a test that
counts CanvasItem's own draw signal: 36 rasterisations in 0.6s before, one
after.
Two smaller things from the same pass: the station menu drew its condition
bar by hand where the ship lab already uses a ProgressBar node, so it uses
one now and its _draw is gone; and station/upkeep refreshes were wired into
_refresh_garrison(), which nothing but a test calls, so both menus showed
whatever was true when they opened.
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#204 the Beam Collimator widens the beam instead of adding range to one that
already crosses the screen; beam width becomes a per-shot vessel stat.
#205 the Energy Propulser gains three upgrades - dash recharge, dash reach,
and boosted-cruise drain - which turns three constants into vessel stats.
#206 three further doctrines carry the fleet from ten to twenty.
#207 the prologue's World Ship gets a marker, through the scanner's own
guidance arrow rather than a second one.
#208#210#213#214 four new synthesised sounds: the breach opening, cargo
reaching the hold, a rock breaking, and a gas bomb blooming.
#215 building health bars are larger, plated and framed.
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