The serialized component keeps its own values, so changing the C# field
initialisers in the previous commit never reached the shipping scene (the
standing 'a serialized field ignores the C# initializer' rule). Colour was
already fixed in code, so only rate and size were still stale.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Found by running the A0 style-proof against the SHIPPING scene instead of
ArtStaging (which judges static glTF bakes on an import shader, with zero
SkinnedMeshRenderers and no Animator — it cannot answer "does the game look
like this").
Player-facing bugs fixed:
- AC_PlayerTopDown/AC_EnemyTopDown "Death" had ZERO outgoing transitions.
Any State enters on IsDead and nothing ever leaves. The player ghost is a
persistent entity, so its Rukhanka animator never resets: once you died you
rendered sprawled on the seabed permanently — sim fully respawned, moving and
fighting, visually a corpse. Added Death -> Idle on (IsDead == false).
- AmbientMotionSystem drift was still the deleted biome system: key 0 =
"meadow", MeadowMoteColor (0.62, 0.85, 0.60) = GREEN motes, 600 of them in a
36x7x24 box following the camera — the most off-palette thing in the frame.
Its x>500 region probe pointed at space now holding zero renderers. Collapsed
to one cold marine particulate; dropped the 4 dead mote colours + AridWind.
- FeedbackFx.MakeParticleMaterial built Sprites/Default with NO texture, so
every procedural particle rendered as a hard SQUARE. Added a procedural soft
dot (no Resources.Load — build-stripped; asset-free presentation is the rule).
- Game.unity carried a stock Unity "Directional Light" (warm-WHITE, 1.05, Soft)
outranking KeyWarm as a second competing shadow caster, plus 6 orphaned
LandmarkLights — four at x=1030/1530 lighting a kilometre of empty water, two
with no renderer within 12u, two of them purple. All 7 deleted. Added RimCold
for silhouette separation; key:fill set to the tuned 3.9:1; WarmPool -> Soft.
ArtStaging (kept as a lighting lab): KeyWarm 0.15 -> 0.85 — it was the only
shadow-caster yet sat BELOW GloamFill 0.22, which destroys form by definition
and is what read as "flat". StagingAmbiance was attached to nothing and its
flora wiring searched for a Game.unity parent, which is what read as "static";
it also force-played the combat one-shot pool, now restricted to looping
emitters. Flicker raised to a measured x2.11 cold swing vs x1.03 warm.
304/304 EditMode green; death-recovery, palette and particulate all verified
live in Game.unity Play.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
H2 was the audit's sharpest finding: in Game.unity every player spawned
with four ability sockets pointing at SparkIds the baked AbilityDatabase
did not contain, so all four resolved to Damage=0 Range=0 Cooldown=0.
Melee and dash were the only working combat verbs in the built game.
Cause: the 5 LANTERN Sparks were added to GymSub.unity and never to
Gameplay.unity.
- Gameplay.unity's AbilityDatabaseAuthoring now carries all 9 defs (the
4 legacy ids keep their numbers; Sparks are 5-9) with their effect
prefabs. Live-verified in Play: sockets now read
Vortex 8dmg/6range/420cd, Blink 20range/1cd, Hook & Pull
15dmg/25range/120cd, Light Zone 6dmg/5range/480cd.
- Removed 6 orphaned authoring GameObjects the purge left behind in the
subscene (StorageSpawner, StructureCatalog, ItemDatabase,
SpitterProjectileConfig, BoonCatalog, MetaCatalog) and the RoomDressing
object in Game.unity — the latter is what scattered 47 Synty desert
props into the seabed murk.
- Deleted 4 now-unreferenced prefabs: EnemySpit, Pylon, Storage, Wall.
- Frame rename (M4): FrameKind.Warrior/Ranger -> Bathynaut/Harpooner,
93 identifier sites. Byte values pinned (2/3), so no ghost-hash or save
impact. The menu said "Warrior"/"Ranger" to players three weeks after
the frames were renamed in design.
- Menu now reads LANTERN / "Light is territory — co-op descent" instead
of "PROJECT M" / "Frontier colony — co-op" (the Awakening-Engine
tagline, two directions stale).
- Removed the "Replay Tutorial" button and the Settings ONBOARDING
section: both drove coach-marks DR-051 deleted. The settings fields
still round-trip so existing settings files load unchanged.
All four project scenes + all prefabs verified free of missing scripts.
Server measured at 59.6 ticks/s against a 60 Hz target. 295/295 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- PostFX_Lantern.asset: the ONE shared grade (ACES, bloom 0.6 cool-tinted for the
HDR gloam, vignette 0.28, faint teal filter) applied to Game, DevSandbox, and
ArtStaging; PostFX_DarkSciFi / PostFX_Daylight / Sky_DaytimeProcedural deleted.
- Env_SeabedKit.prefab: ArtStaging's environment (seabed, flora, rocks, marine
snow, caustics, warm pool, gloam fill, key light, StagingAmbiance animator)
prefab-ized and placed in Game + DevSandbox; ArtStaging connected to it.
- Scene surgery: old DevSandbox.unity deleted; Gym.unity RENAMED DevSandbox.unity
(GUID preserved -> GymSub wiring + the F1/F2 dev scripts that gate on the
'DevSandbox' name come back to life). SyntyWorld root deleted from DevSandbox;
BaseBiome/ExpeditionBiome/Slot1 deleted from Game.
- RenderSettings unified: no skybox, Exp2 teal fog {0.02,0.10,0.12} @ 0.035, flat
near-black ambient {0.03,0.055,0.08}; camera clearFlags -> solid deep-water.
- ScenePolicy.IsGameplayScene() replaces the six scene.name=="Game" string gates
(Game + DevSandbox share the dynamic look; menu/ArtStaging untouched).
- WorldAtmosphereSystem rewritten as water-column murk (LANTERN defaults; biome
variants re-meant to kelp/trench/gloam-bloom; Ground_Arid tint block deleted).
390 green; Play-verified in Game: murk values live, warm-vs-cold reads, no errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Second ground iteration ("better but could be further improved"): the remaining
plainness was single-texture ground — noise only modulated brightness, never
MATERIAL. Now each biome bakes a unique 1024 splat-blended base map (zero
repetition at macro scale) with the fine texture moved to the detail slot as a
high-pass layer at real tiling:
- Meadow: grass + dirt + clover patches masked by fbm; the worn paths
(storage->warpgate, storage->base-gate) and a congregation-wear disc at the
storage crystal are baked INTO the splat as organic dirt zones (exact
plane-UV mapping probed: u=0.5-x/90 — both axes inverted).
- Arid: sand + sand2 + arid-dirt patches + a subtle arena-wear disc at the
quad center (= the room origin on both quads) + warm/cool hue drift.
- Detail slot: generated 2048 high-pass (full - 128-blur, 1.4x) of the
grass/sand textures, LINEAR import, tiled 22x/26x — crisp up close, the
splat carries identity at distance.
- Superseded assets removed: the overlay WornPath quads + material + texture
(double-darkened over the baked wear and caught fog as a ghostly rectangle)
and the old macro-noise detail textures.
Biome tint MPB + normals unchanged and still active. Measured ground luminance
0.30/0.33 (edit ambient) — play fog/dark ambient pulls it down; tints remain
the one-line brightness knob.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator: base flora too dense + "the waving/shader doesn't look great".
Diagnosis: EVERY Synty flora prop (both biomes) uses the Synty/Foliage
VERTEX-wind shader — the transform root-tilt sway has been double-animating
all flora since 1.5, and ground-flush carpet props (Flowers_Flat,
Grass_*_Plane) visibly lift their edges when tilted.
- AmbientMotionConfig.SwayEnabled -> false (code default + the serialized
scene value): idle motion = the authored per-vertex shader wind (tips bend,
bases planted). Knob kept for A/B; walk-through RUSTLE stays as the
reactive layer the shader can't provide.
- AmbientMotionSystem: flat carpet props excluded from the flora cache
entirely — no tilt even from rustle.
- Flower density thinned deterministically: Flowers_Flat keep 40%,
Wildflowers/Sunflowers keep 50%, center (r<13) thinned harder (x0.6) —
17/38 drifts off; play/build area reads clear, flowers become ring accents.
Console clean; sway/rustle knobs remain live-tunable in the scene.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 1.5b ground bundle (operator: "the ground is very plain"):
- Ground materials rebuilt: Grass/Sand base maps at real tiling (22x/26x, was a
2x smear across 90-130u) + Synty normal maps + a generated 0.5-centered macro
noise detail texture (LINEAR import — sRGB detail mul2x darkens 2.3x) with
baked rim vignette. Meadow ground moved OFF the shared Synty asset onto
project-owned Mat_Ground_Meadow.
- WorldAtmosphereSystem: per-room-biome ground tint on the expedition quads via
MaterialPropertyBlock (Meadow green / Cavern blue / Blight purple; Arid sand
default), lerped alongside the existing fog/ambient palettes.
- RoomDressingSystem + RoomDressingConfig (new, client-only observe-only):
26 biome-flavoured cosmetic props per room, scattered inside the room's ACTUAL
shape (same RoomLayoutMath authority as the server, distinct 0xD2E55 hash
stream), deterministic from the replicated run seed, torn down with the room,
colliders stripped. 47 curated prefab refs wired in Game.unity (build-safe).
- Base: 357 curated flora props re-enabled (bushes/wildflowers/grass clumps;
buildings/pond/FX stay parked) + generated worn-dirt paths storage->warpgate
and storage->base gate.
Live-verified: dressing 26/26 inside x[981,1023] z[-11,12] y=0, 11 varieties,
0 colliders; teardown on run end; Meadow tint converged to exact target; 470
EditMode green; console clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 1.5 long-term #8, the LAST 1.5 item (design review wf_e14dd739-069:
both HIGHs + the distinct MEDs verified before the session limit ate the
duplicate verifiers; unverified leftovers reasoned-closed in the spec).
Cover = a BlightClutter ghost (Variant 4) with a baked Environment-layer
BoxCollider: the runtime ghost's collider joins BuildPhysicsWorld ->
blocks the player CC and the enemy sweep while alive, and the gap opens
the instant the entity dies. Both hit paths already break it (the
clutter chassis); 8 hits to carve.
Review folds:
- HIGH: the 07-07 anti-stuck nudge would phase enemies THROUGH cover
after ~1.5s (it exists to prevent room soft-locks). The nudge is now
COVER-AWARE: a SphereCast identifies the blocker; a live BlightClutter
ghost suppresses the phase (no soft-lock possible - the blocker is
destructible); static-geometry wedges still nudge.
- HIGH: yield==durability made tanky cover an economy faucet. Deposit
is DECOUPLED from the decrement at both hit sites: ScrapPerHit=0 =
breaks in Remaining hits, yields NOTHING; fractional POSITIVE yields
still credit >=1 (the B1 immortal-sink test pinned this - zero means
zero, positive floors to 1).
- MEDs: HitRadius 1.2 (visual core, not a shot-eating disc), NO cover
in Boss rooms (no boss depenetration backstop), scatter keep-out >=7u
from the room origin (player landing + portal), Variant=4 explicit
(the clutter block's explosive reroll cannot leak).
- Old static layer removed: 8 WorldColliders_RoomCover colliders
(subscene) + the RoomCover_Visuals root (Game.unity).
Verified live: 3 cover ghosts spawned with SOLID baked colliders;
BLOCK - NudgeUntilTick stayed 0 across 3.5s of forced zero-progress
(old code arms at 1.5s); DEPENETRATE - an enemy shoved inside a live
rock exited to 1.7u (backstop holds against ghost colliders); CARVE -
the rock died to the real sweep and the spot probed OPEN. 470/470
EditMode; console clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Art look LOCKED by the operator from the artlook_* side-by-sides:
clean dark-Synty; PixelOutline._MasterEnabled=0 shipped (feature stays
dev-toggleable via F3; other fullscreen effects remain backlog).
New AmbientMotionSystem (client-only PresentationSystemGroup, the
"world alive" anti-static beat, zero netcode):
- per-biome DRIFT particles from one world-space emitter following the
camera (meadow motes / arid wind-blown dust / cavern motes / blight
spores; palette keys on camera-X region + replicated room biome,
mirroring WorldAtmosphereSystem's switch)
- idle SWAY on the ACTIVE cosmetic flora prop roots near the camera
(LOD children follow the root; probed: none static-batched)
- walk-through RUSTLE: flora brushed by the local player
(GhostOwnerIsLocal idiom) gets a decaying energy shake
Rotations write around a cached base (lossless when toggled off);
knobs in AmbientMotionConfig (scene object, code defaults when absent).
Verified live: drift palettes exact in both regions (meadow
0.62/0.85/0.60 -> arid 0.85/0.68/0.45 on region cross), flora beside
the player rocked (0,0)->(-4.0,+5.0) deg within the rustle+sway
envelope, 466/466 EditMode, console clean. Discovery for follow-up:
the BASE biome's flora props are authored INACTIVE (84 bushes etc.) -
the base has no sway targets until some are re-enabled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dark-ambient, dynamic-light-first look (RoR2/Death Scourges reference),
built filter-agnostic so the pixel style composes on top:
- New DynamicLightSystem (client-only, PresentationSystemGroup): pooled
point lights follow projectile ghosts; pulsing portal light during
RoomExplore (same ExpeditionPortalPos authority as the beacon); soft
resource-node glow that fades with harvest-shrink; short impact
FLASHES fed by CombatFeedbackSystem's burst funnel (EmitColored +
SpawnVfx -> RequestFlash). Knobs in DynamicLightConfig (scene object,
code defaults when absent).
- Atmosphere darkened: WorldAtmosphereConfig/System palettes moved to
the dark set (base cool dusk, arid burnt dusk, per-room biome consts
darkened); scene fog switched Linear -> ExponentialSquared (the
system's per-region DENSITY writes were dead in Linear mode);
trilight ambient lowered; directional 1.9 -> 1.05 slightly warm.
- 6 landmark mood lights (warpgate cyan, artefact violet x2, survey
camp warm x2, cabin warm); URP additional-lights-per-object 4 -> 8
(was starving the existing Aether lights).
- Art-look gate material: Assets/Screenshots/artlook_{base,room}_
pixel{ON,OFF}.png over the lit scene.
Verified: lights live in Play (20 static at base incl. new landmarks;
pooled dynamics active in-room: node glows + impact flashes), fog/
ambient values confirmed live, 466/466 EditMode, console clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full-screen URP post effect on the active PC renderer that pixelates the
scene to a fixed low-res grid and draws depth + normal edge-detection
outlines, with color posterization and tone controls, for a stylized
"3D pixel art" look. Runs via Unity's built-in Full Screen Pass feature
(no custom C#); reads camera depth/normals so it applies to DOTS entities
and GameObjects identically.
- PixelOutline.shader/.mat: pixel-snap fill + gamma-space posterize +
brightness/contrast/saturation + depth/normal outlines. Normal
threshold tuned high so outlines don't flood small characters.
- PC_Renderer.asset: FullScreenPassRendererFeature (Depth|Normal, after
post-processing).
- PostFX_Daylight.asset: tonemapping ACES -> Neutral (poppier color).
- Game.unity: brighter base atmosphere (ambient + fog pushed back) and a
stronger directional key light so the fill reads under the effect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
'sand 1' shipped pure-white BaseColor - the whole desert washed out and
characters/telegraphs sat on a bright field. Project-owned copy
(Mat_Ground_Arid_Dark, 0.72/0.68/0.63) assigned to both room-slot grounds;
the Synty pack asset stays pristine. Clarity doctrine: ground darker +
lower-detail than characters.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SLICE A - rooms become places: ExpeditionBiome duplicated to sub-slot 1
(X+1500) - ground, 205 decor children, rim cliffs, ambience; collider ring +
3 landmark colliders duplicated in the subscene; NEW in-room cover at BOTH
slots (4 collidable rocks each: Environment-layer box colliders in the
subscene + matching Synty rock meshes in Game.unity, placed clear of the
landing point, portal spot, spawn ring and boss spawn). Half of all rooms
previously played on a literal void.
SLICE C - owned FX wired: VFXConfig gains Portal + EnemySpawn slots
(FX_Portal_Round_01 / FX_Dust_Big_01 from PolygonParticleFX); the portal
beacon prefers the authored effect (procedural pillar stays as fallback);
enemies get a spawn-emerge cue on the ghost add-edge (primed-scan guard
skips the connect flood).
SLICE D (teaching) - the two undiscoverable verbs are now taught: dash on
the Move step, class ability + attack on the Rooms step (scheme-aware
glyphs); How-to-Play Controls adds Class ability + Dash rows and fixes the
wrong RT glyph; Loop step 1 mentions class pick + prep; the stale '50
starting Ore' now interpolates Tuning.StartingOre.
456/456 EditMode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first pass crushed readability ('can't see anything'): dark ground x low ambient x dim sun x +12 contrast (clipped everything below midtone to black) x vignette x dark fog. Rebalanced toward legibility while keeping the dark-frontier mood: ColorAdjustments contrast 12->4 (the main fix), post-exposure 0.55->0.85, saturation 0->4; sun 0.9->1.5 cool-white; ambient intensity 0.62->1.0 with lifted cool ambient colors; vignette 0.32->0.20; ground material lifted ~18%->~28% value; fog pushed out (start 18->26, end 42->60); Core beacon range 9->13. Ground, player silhouette, Ore ring and shadows now all read; Core stays the bright cyan peak.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Research-grounded transform of the base arena from a bright meadow into a dark 'Aether Siege Outpost' reading as a concentric bullseye (Core -> Ore ring -> dark perimeter). Camera (Game.unity): pitch 45->58, FOV 55->44, dist 13->17, lead 1->0.5, follow 8->6, targetH 1.3 (telephoto so Core + arena read together, near-iso enemy spacing). Lighting: sun dimmed+cooled 1.6->0.9, ambient 1.0->0.62 dark-cool, fog Linear 18->42 dark; WorldAtmosphere base darkened. Post-FX (PostFX_Daylight): ACES kept, bloom gated (thr 1.0->1.2 + clamp 10), exposure/contrast up, saturation +6->0, added ShadowsMidtonesHighlights cool-shadow/warm-highlight split, vignette 0.15->0.32. Ground re-tinted dark teal-grey; ~390 meadow-cheer objects cut. Core staged as hero (crystal 14m->4.6m cyan glow + cyan beacon light). Ore ring pulled into the arena (23.5-27m -> 6-11.5m, count 10->12) and recoloured AMBER (new Mat_OreNode_Amber, emissive, no atlas bleed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
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>
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>
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