The movement look-ahead added its 2.5u lead raw onto the framed point and smoothed only the final camera position, so the lead target snapped with the instantaneous input -- start/stop panned the view and reversing direction swung it ~5u (the jarring walk-shift).
Fix with the genre-standard separate view-position technique: ease a dedicated _leadOffset toward the desired lead via a new gentle LeadSharpness knob, independent of FollowSharpness. Cut the lead magnitude 2.5->1.0 (AimLeadDistance, 0 = fully centred like Diablo/PoE) and pull the default zoom 16->13 (~19% closer). Code defaults + the live Game.unity Main Camera values both updated. See 2026-06-11_Camera_Feel_LookAhead_Zoom.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
An attack clip that keys ONLY the Root bone makes Rukhanka collapse every un-keyed bone (Hips/Spine/legs) to identity for the duration of the state -> the body folds halfway into the floor (player MeleeSwing + enemy Attack; writeDefaultValues does NOT prevent it -- confirmed since even a pure yaw, which is height-preserving, still sank). Fix: build the attack clips FROM the full idle pose (every bone keyed) + a Root YAW twist on top, so nothing is un-keyed. Applied to both runtime clips (PlayerMeleeSwing/EnemyAttackWindup) and both editor recipes (PlayerRigTools/EnemyRigTools) so rebuilds stay correct. Operator-verified in Play.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CombatFeedbackSystem.UpdateEnemyDanger paints a red ground danger cone at each enemy while its AttackWindup counts down -- oriented along the enemy facing, sized to EnemyStats.AttackRange, brightening + scaling as the strike nears (intensity = 1 - ticksRemaining/22) so the player reads WHERE + WHEN to dodge. Client-only observe-only; one pooled mesh per winding-up enemy, pruned each frame. Play-verified (14-enemy wave, 8 telegraphs at once, zero errors).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The procedural attack clips key only the Root bone, but the Attack/MeleeSwing states had writeDefaultValues=true -> a partial (Root-only) clip resets every un-keyed bone (Hips/Spine/legs) to Rukhanka defaults (~identity), collapsing the body into the floor (player + enemy). Root carries the mesh-positioning offset (localPos -0.90, identity rot) while Hips/Spine carry the authored orientation. Fix: writeDefaultValues=false on the attack states (leave un-keyed bones in pose, only lean the Root). Patched both controllers + both recipes (PlayerRigTools/EnemyRigTools) so a rebuild can't regress. Rule: partial bone-subset overlay clips => writeDefaultValues=false.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
byte Archetype on AbilityDefBlob (AbilityArchetype enum: Projectile/Hitscan/Cone/Aoe), authored on AbilityDefinition + baked in AbilityDatabaseAuthoring, read at dispatch in AbilityFireSystem -- NOT folded through EffectiveAbilityStats/StatRecomputeSystem (static identity, not a tunable stat; MC-4 review BURST-1). All current abilities are Projectile (0) -> zero behaviour change; the dispatch read-point is the de-risk spike for MC-6 hitscan/cone/aoe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rukhanka swing animation: PlayerRigTools builds a procedural Root-bone PlayerMeleeSwing.anim and adds an IsAttacking param + MeleeSwing state to AC_PlayerTopDown (mirroring the enemy attack recipe -- no authored Synty Generic melee clip exists). PlayerAnimationDriveSystem pulses IsAttacking from the replicated MeleeCombo swing window (local + remote, NetworkTick wrap-safe, re-triggers per chained hit). CombatFeedbackSystem flashes a procedural cone slash-arc mesh matching the LIVE cleave range + half-angle on each swing (finisher wider/warmer) -- the arc IS the range telegraph. Addresses 'range isn't clear + no animation'.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Melee combo (left-click / pad-West) becomes the player's primary verb; the ranged projectile is demoted to right-click / pad-left-trigger. Predicted, owner-replicated combo Step (path-dependent -> [GhostField] anchor + absolute-write idempotency, NOT derived like the dash), server-only cleave mirroring ProjectileDamageSystem (SourceTick-stamped DamageEvent + KnockbackState), dash-cancellable movement-commit, 9 live TuningConfig knobs, and swing juice scaling with the combo step. The MC-6 archetype byte is deferred (the melee is its own verb). See DR-030.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Data-driven ItemDatabase catalog + per-player replicated InventorySlot ([GhostField] OwnerSendType.All, a StatModifier twin). Harvest reroutes to the firing player's personal inventory (optional ComponentLookup<GhostOwner> in ResourceHarvestSystem; remainder/un-owned -> ledger); the G-key InventoryDepositRequest RPC moves the bag into the shared ledger the build economy spends. Catalog asset (Aether/Ore/Biomass + Stone Pickaxe) wired into the Gameplay subscene; read-only HUD inventory panel. ushort ItemId subsumes ResourceId; byte Category/Tier baked for gear-tier progression. Session-only (no SaveData bump).
Play-validated host+client: catalog baked into both worlds, the re-baked player ghost carries InventorySlot with a clean handshake, a server write replicates to the client owner, the deposit RPC round-trips, and the HUD renders catalog names. See DR-026.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the sci-fi-colony dressing with two cosmetic classic-URP biomes in Game.unity: a lush Meadow_Forest base sanctuary (origin) and a hostile Arid_Desert survey expedition (+1000) - ~380 collider-stripped instances, warpgate/outpost landmarks, cyan/orange Aether accent lights. Warm daylight sun + Trilight ambient + a procedural daytime skybox + a cloned daylight post-FX grade (ACES kept). New client-only WorldAtmosphereSystem(+Config) cross-fades per-region fog/ambient by camera X>500 (mirrors HudSystem). Cosmetic-only - colliders stripped, never the subscene - so zero sim/netcode/PhysicsWorld impact (adversarially verified). Shadow-casting disabled on small foliage. EditMode 214/214. See DR-025.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extends the DR-022 player pipeline to Husk enemies. A Husk is an ownerless
interpolated ghost = structurally a remote player, so the new client-only
EnemyAnimationDriveSystem mirrors PlayerAnimationDriveSystem's remote path:
velocity from LocalTransform-delta (prevPos cache, pruned every frame), facing
from LocalTransform.Rotation (AnimParamMath.PlanarForward), maxSpeed from baked
EnemyStats, IsAttacking from the already-replicated AttackWindup telegraph. No
new [GhostField], no server/asmdef/ghost-hash change.
Monster-mash roster: Werewolf (Grunt), Werewolf-Undead (Swarmer), Kaiju (Brute),
built by the reusable, GUID-preserving EnemyRigTools editor tool (materials +
AC_EnemyTopDown + EnemyAttackWindup clip + 3 rigged prefabs). WaveSystem now
preserves the baked variant Scale (was reset to 1 by LocalTransform.FromPosition).
See DR-023. EditMode 208/208; validated in Play (rigs skin, scales replicate,
locomotion + attack telegraph drive correctly).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Delete the NetConnectionUI GameObject from Game/DevSandbox/SampleScene + ConnectionUI.cs (the UITK frontend menu owns Host/Join+IP now); repoint 4 stale doc-comments (GameBootstrap done in commit C; DebugOverlay/ConnectionConfig/EditorAutoHostSystem here) to MainMenuController/WorldLauncher; remove the Assets/_Recovery crash-recovery scenes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rebuild the in-game HUD on UI Toolkit (HudUi/HudSystem, Aether palette) consistent with the menu; build-palette bar (BuildPaletteState) drives cursor->cell ground-ghost preview (green/red via BuildPreviewMath), left-click place / right-click cancel / rotate; fire suppressed in build mode; combat juice restyle. +4 BuildPreviewMath EditMode tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Netcode frontend pattern: UITK main menu / pause / settings (MenuUi + controllers), on-demand world lifecycle (WorldLauncher/SessionRunner), GameBootstrap menu branch; Graphics/Audio settings (SettingsService/GameVolume); single-slot save foundation (SaveData/SaveService, born-correct load at director spawn, autosave on Siege->Calm + quit); RuntimePanelSettings + theme; BuildTool menu; 10 EditMode tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Server-only production chains (never predicted): components + server systems + pure byte-only math (ProductionMath/ConveyorMath/MachineSlotMath), authoring + 3 machine prefabs wired into the Gameplay subscene, StructureCatalog rows, BuildPlace Direction/RuntimePlacedTag, Tuning, and 35 EditMode tests (catch-up gating, conveyor shuffle-invariance, SaveData v2 round-trip).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add BefourStudios SciFi environment packs, Gabriel Aguiar VFX, and the
ShaderCrew Toon Shader embedded packages, plus combat/enemy/wave/death
gameplay systems and supporting vault docs/screenshots.
Rename 11 vendor textures from uppercase .PNG/.HDR to lowercase so the
case-sensitive Git LFS filters (*.png/*.hdr) match on case-sensitive
filesystems (Linux CI, case-sensitive macOS), not just locally where
core.ignorecase=true masks the gap. Each .meta moved with its asset so
GUID references are preserved. All ~1000 binaries tracked via LFS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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