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claudeandClaude Opus 5.5 94ad6b3429
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Stop drawing bullets past the edge of sight -- but never sooner than is safe
Bullets were drawn everywhere on screen, including out in the black past
the edge of sight: shots that could not reach you, streaking across the
dark. They now fade out beyond sight, under one condition that bounds the
whole change: no enemy bullet may hit you without having been on screen,
at full strength, for at least WARNING_TIME (0.75s) first.

So each enemy bullet is drawn out to the edge of sight or to however far
it could close in that window with you running straight at it -- its own
speed, plus acceleration over the window, plus yours -- whichever is
further, and fades over 80 units beyond. With today's content the edge of
sight always wins: the fastest enemy bullet is 300 u/s, so head-on it is
on screen 0.83s before it lands. The speed term is what keeps that true
when something faster is added. Player shots fade at the edge of sight
however fast they are, since they cannot hurt you; a Sniper's 1500 u/s
shot was the commonest thing crossing the dark.

Shadow does not hide a bullet. One behind a wall within sight range is
still drawn over the darkness, because you can step round the corner into
it, and hiding it would be exactly the invisible hit the condition rules
out.

The guarantee is tested the hard way: every emitter in the content, and
bullets far faster than any of them, simulated head-on against a player
running at them, measuring how long each was fully drawn before it
landed. The rule's weakenings -- no speed term, forgetting the player's
own approach, ignoring acceleration -- each fail it. The connect screen's
backdrop passes no eye and draws everything, as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 13:57:50 +02:00

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GDScript

extends Node
## Boot the client windowed, capture a few screens, and quit.
##
## SHOT_DIR=/tmp/shots godot --path . res://tools/screenshot.tscn
##
## This exists because UI is the one part of the game the rest of the tooling
## cannot check. `check.sh` proves it parses, the suite proves the theme
## resolves, the smoke test proves nothing errors -- and all three passed
## while the entire interface rendered unstyled, because Godot's theme
## inheritance breaks at the first non-Control parent and nothing had ever
## looked at the screen.
##
## Needs a real display, so it is not part of any automated gate. Run it after
## touching anything under src/ui/ and open the files.
const GAME := preload("res://src/game.tscn")
const GAME_SCENE := preload("res://src/view/game_scene.gd")
## Its own store and its own account, like every diagnostic. Without these the
## tool hosted a listen server on the player's REAL character store as the
## player's REAL account, and walked their character into dungeons to take
## pictures -- with health carried between runs, a stray hit would have stuck,
## and a death would have retired someone's character for a screenshot.
const STORE := "user://screenshot_characters.json"
const ACCOUNT := 777001
## Frame numbers, not seconds: the point is a deterministic sequence, and a
## windowed client at 60fps gets there in about four seconds.
const AT_MENU := 200
const ENTER_GAME := 204
const AT_GAME := 370
const OPEN_MENU := 380
const AT_INGAME_MENU := 410
const OPEN_SETTINGS := 420
const AT_SETTINGS := 450
const OPEN_CREDITS := 460
const AT_CREDITS := 490
const OPEN_UPGRADES := 500
const AT_UPGRADES := 530
const OPEN_ROSTER := 540
const AT_ROSTER := 570
const ENTER_DUNGEON := 580
const AT_DUNGEON := 650
const TO_TUNNEL := 660
const AT_TUNNEL := 720
const AT_TUNNEL_DEBUG := 730
const TO_BOSS := 740
const AT_BOSS := 810
const ESCAPE_START := 830
## A safety net only: the run normally ends the moment the escape shot is taken.
const DONE := 1710
var _frame: int = 0
var _left_shot: bool = false
var _game: Node = null
var _menu: Control = null
var _dir: String = "user://"
func _ready() -> void:
GameOpts.parse()
GameOpts.store_path = STORE
GameOpts.account_override = ACCOUNT
DirAccess.remove_absolute(ProjectSettings.globalize_path(STORE))
Engine.physics_ticks_per_second = SimConfig.TICK_RATE
Settings.load_and_apply()
var from_env := OS.get_environment("SHOT_DIR")
if not from_env.is_empty():
_dir = from_env
# Made rather than assumed. The example in CLAUDE.md points at a fresh
# /tmp/shots, and a missing directory fails every capture one at a time
# with an error that names the file rather than the folder.
DirAccess.make_dir_recursive_absolute(_dir)
get_window().size = Vector2i(1280, 720)
_menu = preload("res://src/ui/main_menu.gd").new()
add_child(_menu)
## Put the player at the quartermaster on BOTH sides. Setting only the client's
## predicted position does not hold: reconciliation pulls it back to whatever
## the server says within a tick or two, the game scene notices it is no longer
## at the NPC, and closes the screen again.
func _stand_at_the_npc() -> void:
var npc: Vector2 = Net.client.upgrade_npc
Net.client.predicted_pos = npc
var inst := Net.server.instance_of(Net.LOCAL_PEER)
if inst != null:
var p: SimPlayer = inst.world.players.get(Net.LOCAL_PEER)
if p != null:
p.pos = npc
_game.set("_upgrades_open", true)
func _process(_delta: float) -> void:
_frame += 1
# Held until the shot is taken; one frame of it is not enough.
if _frame > OPEN_UPGRADES and _frame <= AT_UPGRADES:
_stand_at_the_npc()
# On an entrance for the hub shot, so its prompt is in the picture.
if _frame > AT_GAME - 40 and _frame <= AT_GAME:
_stand_on_a_portal()
# Same reason: the game scene owns this screen's visibility too and decides
# it every frame, so one assignment lasts exactly one frame.
if _frame > OPEN_ROSTER and _frame <= AT_ROSTER:
_show_the_roster()
# Held, because the boss is firing and one landed ring would end the shot.
# High until just before the picture and low after, so the damage trail
# -- the part of the bar the drop took -- is still draining when it is taken.
if _frame > TO_BOSS and not _left_shot:
# Forty frames, not ten: at a high frame rate ten is shorter than one
# snapshot, and the picture showed the health from before the drop.
_hold_health(0.62 if _frame < AT_BOSS - 40 else 0.22)
# Captured by progress rather than by frame count. The channel is one second
# of server ticks and frames run as fast as the display allows, so a fixed
# frame number lands anywhere from a quarter of the way in to after it has
# completed -- and a completed escape teleports the player out mid-sequence.
if _frame >= ESCAPE_START and not _left_shot:
Net.client.request_escape = true
if Net.client.my_escape >= 0.45:
_grab("leaving")
Net.client.request_escape = false
_left_shot = true
Net.shutdown()
get_tree().quit(0)
return
if _frame == AT_BOSS - 30:
Net.server._grant_xp(Net.LOCAL_PEER, 46)
# Frames, not seconds, and this runs as fast as the display allows -- so
# early enough that the banner's fade-in is over even at a high frame rate.
if _frame == AT_BOSS - 60:
_game.get_node("HUD").banner("LEVEL 7", "a choice waits at the quartermaster")
match _frame:
AT_MENU:
_grab("menu")
ENTER_GAME:
_menu.queue_free()
Net.host(27455)
_seed_character()
Net.start_local_client()
_game = GAME.instantiate()
add_child(_game)
AT_GAME:
_grab("game")
OPEN_MENU:
_game.get_node("GameMenu").open()
AT_INGAME_MENU:
_grab("menu_ingame")
OPEN_SETTINGS:
_game.get_node("GameMenu").close()
_game.get_node("SettingsScreen").open()
AT_SETTINGS:
_grab("settings")
OPEN_CREDITS:
_game.get_node("SettingsScreen").visible = false
_game.get_node("CreditsScreen").open()
AT_CREDITS:
_grab("credits")
OPEN_UPGRADES:
# Driven with a made-up offer rather than by earning one: the point
# here is the card layout, and levelling a character up first would
# make the shot depend on a dungeon run.
_game.get_node("CreditsScreen").visible = false
# The game scene owns this screen's visibility and re-asserts it
# every frame, closing it unless the player is at the NPC -- so
# setting `visible` directly lasted exactly one frame. Stand the
# player at the quartermaster and open it the way the game does.
_stand_at_the_npc()
var offer: Array[StringName] = [
Upgrades.SPLIT_SHOT, Upgrades.POISON, Upgrades.ERASER]
var taken: Array[StringName] = [Upgrades.SNIPER, Upgrades.SPREAD]
_game.get_node("UpgradeScreen").refresh(2, offer, taken)
AT_UPGRADES:
_grab("upgrades")
OPEN_ROSTER:
_show_the_roster()
AT_ROSTER:
_grab("roster")
ENTER_DUNGEON:
# The fog is what these two are for, and the hub is the worst place to
# judge it: one big room with little in it to cast a shadow.
_game.set("_roster_open", false)
_game.get_node("CharacterSelect").set_fallen("")
Net.server._send_to_dungeon(Net.LOCAL_PEER)
AT_DUNGEON:
_grab("dungeon")
TO_TUNNEL:
_stand_in_a_tunnel()
AT_TUNNEL:
_grab("tunnel")
# The same view with F1's overlay: the outline is where each fog ray
# stopped, which is the quickest way to tell a rendering mistake from
# a geometry one.
_game.get_node("WorldView").debug_hitboxes = true
AT_TUNNEL_DEBUG:
_grab("tunnel_debug")
TO_BOSS:
_game.get_node("WorldView").debug_hitboxes = false
_stage_a_boss_fight()
AT_BOSS:
_grab("boss_fight")
DONE:
Net.shutdown()
get_tree().quit(0)
## Put the roster on screen with a made-up set of characters.
##
## Made up for the same reason the upgrade offer is: the point is the layout,
## and earning three characters at three different health levels first would
## make the shot depend on a dungeon run. One whole, one badly hurt, one barely
## alive -- health survives a run now, so the wounded rows are the reason this
## screen is worth a picture at all.
##
## Walking off the quartermaster first is not optional: the game scene re-opens
## the upgrade screen every frame the player is standing on the NPC, and it
## draws over this one.
func _show_the_roster() -> void:
var away: Vector2 = Net.client.upgrade_npc + Vector2(600.0, 0.0)
Net.client.predicted_pos = away
var inst := Net.server.instance_of(Net.LOCAL_PEER)
if inst != null:
var p: SimPlayer = inst.world.players.get(Net.LOCAL_PEER)
if p != null:
p.pos = away
_game.set("_upgrades_open", false)
_game.set("_roster_open", true)
# A death, as it is announced on the screen a death sends you to.
_game.get_node("CharacterSelect").set_fallen(GAME_SCENE.fallen_line(
{"name": "Quillfell", "level": 9, "where": "The Choir Vault"}))
var roster: Array[Dictionary] = [
_roster_entry("Whole", 4, 1300, 1300, Color(0.5, 0.9, 1.0)),
_roster_entry("Bruised", 7, 1600, 940, Color(1.0, 0.8, 0.4)),
_roster_entry("Nearly", 11, 2000, 160, Color(1.0, 0.5, 0.5)),
]
_game.get_node("CharacterSelect").refresh(roster, "c4")
## A character worth photographing: levelled, carrying things, so the HUD has
## something in every slot and a bar that is not empty. Made in the scratch
## store before the local client says hello, so it is who the client resumes.
func _seed_character() -> void:
var store := Net.server.store
var c := store.create_character(ACCOUNT, "Ash")
store.grant_xp(ACCOUNT, c.id, Progression.total_xp_for_level(6) + 260)
var bag: Array[StringName] = [Items.HEALTH_POTION, Items.WARDENS_RATION,
Items.HEALTH_POTION, Items.NONE]
store.set_inventory(ACCOUNT, c.id, bag)
store.flush()
func _stand_on_a_portal() -> void:
if Net.client == null or Net.client.portals.is_empty():
return
var at: Vector2 = Net.client.portals[0]["pos"]
Net.client.predicted_pos = at
var p := _player()
if p != null:
p.pos = at
func _player() -> SimPlayer:
var inst := Net.server.instance_of(Net.LOCAL_PEER)
return inst.world.players.get(Net.LOCAL_PEER) if inst != null else null
func _hold_health(share: float) -> void:
var p := _player()
if p != null:
p.hp = maxi(1, int(float(p.max_hp) * share))
## Into the boss arena, low on health, with a party member beside you and a
## few messages in the feed: everything on the HUD that only exists mid-fight,
## in one picture.
##
## The party member is a world player with no socket behind it -- added to the
## simulation and the roster, never to the instance's send list, so the server
## never tries to talk to it.
func _stage_a_boss_fight() -> void:
var inst := Net.server.instance_of(Net.LOCAL_PEER)
if inst == null:
return
var at := inst.boss_spawn + Vector2(-200.0, 60.0)
Net.client.predicted_pos = at
var me := _player()
if me != null:
me.pos = at
me.spawn_grace = 0
var friend := inst.world.add_player(999, "Wren")
friend.pos = at + Vector2(-40.0, -70.0)
friend.colour = Color(1.0, 0.75, 0.45)
friend.hp = int(float(friend.max_hp) * 0.6)
friend.spawn_grace = 0
Net.server.peer_names[999] = "Wren"
Net.server.peer_instance[999] = inst.id
# And one out of sight, so the marker pointing the way to them shows.
var away := inst.world.add_player(998, "Lark")
away.pos = at + Vector2(-560.0, 260.0)
away.colour = Color(0.55, 0.85, 1.0)
away.spawn_grace = 0
Net.server.peer_names[998] = "Lark"
Net.server.peer_instance[998] = inst.id
Net.server._broadcast_roster()
var hud := _game.get_node("HUD")
hud.notify("+ Health Potion", Items.get_def(Items.HEALTH_POTION).tint)
hud.notify("Warden's Ration used", Items.get_def(Items.WARDENS_RATION).tint)
## Move the player, on both sides, into the tunnel closest to where it spawned:
## somewhere with walls close on two sides and a corner in view, which is where
## the old fog looked worst.
func _stand_in_a_tunnel() -> void:
var inst := Net.server.instance_of(Net.LOCAL_PEER)
if inst == null or inst.rooms.is_empty():
return
var map := inst.world.map
var start: Rect2i = inst.rooms[0]
var spawn := map.to_tile(inst.world.spawn_point)
var best := Vector2i(-1, -1)
var best_d := INF
for ty in map.height:
for tx in map.width:
if map.at(tx, ty) != MapGrid.Kind.FLOOR:
continue
var here := Vector2i(tx, ty)
var in_room := inst.boss_room.has_point(here)
for r: Rect2i in inst.rooms:
if r.grow(1).has_point(here):
in_room = true
if in_room:
continue
# A couple of tiles clear of the first room, so the tunnel's walls
# are on screen and not just the doorway.
if start.grow(3).has_point(here):
continue
var d := float((here - spawn).length_squared())
if d < best_d:
best_d = d
best = here
if best.x < 0:
return
var at := map.tile_centre(best.x, best.y)
Net.client.predicted_pos = at
var p: SimPlayer = inst.world.players.get(Net.LOCAL_PEER)
if p != null:
p.pos = at
## One roster row in the shape decode_characters produces.
func _roster_entry(who: String, level: int, ceiling: int, current: int,
tint: Color) -> Dictionary:
return {
"id": "c%d" % level,
"name": who,
"level": level,
"xp": 0,
"progress": 0.4,
"max_hp": ceiling,
"hp": current,
"active": true,
"colour": tint,
"inventory": [0, 0, 0, 0] as Array[int],
}
func _grab(shot_name: String) -> void:
var path := "%s/shot_%s.png" % [_dir, shot_name]
var err := get_viewport().get_texture().get_image().save_png(path)
if err != OK:
printerr("could not write %s (error %d)" % [path, err])
return
print("saved ", path)