spaceship/planets/PlanetAtmosphereController.gd
Loïc Wisniewski 209169206b #108: the prologue - the convoy, the ambush, and the breach
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>
2026-08-23 20:59:12 +02:00

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GDScript

extends Node2D
# Space-side: bootstraps the fleet on Main.tscn startup (a fresh 5-ship
# fleet at the origin on first launch, or GameState's surviving ship
# count/position if we just returned from a planet's surface), shows an
# "enter atmosphere" prompt (name + button) when the fleet is standing on
# a landable planet, and - on press - fades out and swaps to a completely
# separate PlanetSurface.tscn scene (not an overlay toggled in place), so
# asteroids/enemies genuinely cannot exist there rather than merely being
# hidden. Fleet size and the world position/zoom to return to are handed
# off via the GameState autoload, since change_scene_to_file() tears down
# this whole scene tree.
@export var fade_duration: float = 0.4
@export var prompt_debounce_time: float = 0.15
@onready var planet_field: Node2D = get_node("../PlanetField")
@onready var asteroid_field: Node2D = get_node("../AsteroidField")
@onready var fleet: Node2D = get_node("../Fleet")
@onready var camera: Camera2D = get_node("../Camera2D")
@onready var planet_name_label: Label = get_node("../UI/PlanetNameLabel")
@onready var enter_button: IconButton = get_node("../UI/EnterAtmosphereButton")
@onready var world_map: Control = get_node("../UI/WorldMap")
@onready var build_controller: Node2D = get_node("../BuildController")
@onready var fade_rect: ColorRect = get_node("../FadeOverlay/FadeRect")
var current_planet: Node2D = null
var transitioning: bool = false
var pending_planet: Node2D = null
var pending_time: float = 0.0
func _ready() -> void:
enter_button.pressed.connect(_on_enter_pressed)
if GameState.has_return_position:
fleet.spawn_ships(GameState.surviving_ship_count, GameState.return_world_position,
GameState.surviving_vessel_types)
camera.position = GameState.return_world_position
camera.zoom = Vector2(GameState.return_camera_zoom, GameState.return_camera_zoom)
GameState.has_return_position = false
elif GameState.intro_active:
# #108: the prologue opens with a convoy, and crews it itself. This
# node still runs first, so spawning the ordinary opening fleet here
# would be immediately thrown away - and worse, would be the fleet
# for the one frame before the director replaced it.
pass
else:
# A brand new game. STARTING_SHIP_COUNT rather than a literal: this
# said 5, which was the old BASE_FLEET_SIZE written out by hand, and
# it silently became "however many slots exist" once max_fleet_size()
# clamped it. The opening fleet size is one decision and it lives in
# GameState.
fleet.spawn_ships(GameState.STARTING_SHIP_COUNT, Vector2.ZERO)
# AsteroidField/PlanetField normally only populate nearby chunks once
# their own check_interval timer elapses (~1s) - fine during normal
# continuous play (things appear far off-screen, gradually), but
# right after a fresh scene load it means an empty-looking world for
# a second before asteroids/the planet visibly pop in. Force an
# immediate synchronous populate now that the fleet is correctly
# positioned, so nothing is missing on the very first visible frame.
# DEFERRED, not called straight through. Everything above runs inside the
# single frame that builds Main.tscn, and these two populate 25 and 49
# chunks of world on top of it - 150-odd asteroids plus planets and their
# visuals. On a phone browser that frame is where the scene appeared to
# hang forever: nothing can paint until it ends, so a slow frame and a
# freeze look identical. One frame later is still immediate to the eye,
# and it lets the scene draw first.
asteroid_field.update_chunks.call_deferred()
planet_field.update_chunks.call_deferred()
func _process(delta: float) -> void:
if transitioning:
return
if world_map.visible or build_controller.is_showing_building_prompt():
# Context actions belong to BuildController. This controller owns the
# debounced planet selection and label, and suppresses both while a modal
# screen is open.
current_planet = null
pending_planet = null
planet_name_label.visible = false
return
# Debounced: only commit a visible/hidden change once the raw
# landing-detection result has stayed the same for prompt_debounce_time
# in a row, instead of reacting to every single frame's reading. Belt
# and suspenders on top of get_planet_fleet_is_on() already using the
# fleet's centroid (a single stable number - see Planet.gd) rather
# than any individual ship's position, so this only has to absorb
# genuine sub-debounce-window boundary crossings, not constant noise.
var detected_planet: Node2D = planet_field.get_planet_fleet_is_on()
if detected_planet != pending_planet:
pending_planet = detected_planet
pending_time = 0.0
else:
pending_time += delta
if pending_time < prompt_debounce_time or pending_planet == current_planet:
return
current_planet = pending_planet
if current_planet != null:
planet_name_label.text = current_planet.planet_name
planet_name_label.visible = true
else:
planet_name_label.visible = false
func _on_enter_pressed() -> void:
if transitioning or current_planet == null:
return
transitioning = true
planet_name_label.visible = false
enter_button.visible = false
GameState.has_return_position = true
GameState.surviving_ship_count = fleet.ships.size()
GameState.surviving_vessel_types = fleet.vessel_types()
# The planet's own position, not fleet.get_centroid() - the fleet only
# needs to be somewhere within the planet's landing radius (not
# centered exactly on it) for the prompt to show, so the centroid can
# be tens of units off from the planet. Returning should always place
# the fleet back at the planet itself.
GameState.return_world_position = current_planet.position
GameState.return_camera_zoom = camera.zoom.x
GameState.planet_name = current_planet.planet_name
GameState.planet_id = current_planet.planet_id
GameState.planet_definition_id = current_planet.definition_id
var tween: Tween = create_tween()
tween.tween_property(fade_rect, "color:a", 1.0, fade_duration)
tween.tween_callback(_enter_surface)
func _enter_surface() -> void:
get_tree().change_scene_to_file("res://surface/PlanetSurface.tscn")