Introduces a new "Object" entity type that blocks movement but not sight/bullets, distinct from walls and pickups:
- **Data**: New `objects` array in level JSON (`{x, y, frame}`), with `data/wolfenstein-objects.json` as the frame registry (Tall Bush, Gold Eagle)
- **Artwork**: New `objects.png` spritesheet registered in `wolfenstein-artwork.json`; placeholder texture via `paintObject()` in WolfensteinArt.js
- **Logic**: Objects stored in `state.objects`, with a derived `map.objectBlocked` Set checked only by movement collision (`isWallCell`) — raycaster/sight/bullets never read it, so objects are see-through and shoot-through by construction
- **View**: Rendered as billboard sprites in `_drawSprites` with ground-anchored positioning (bottom edge on floor) and asymptotic depth sorting that stays below the weapon viewmodel
- **Editor**: New "Object" tool category with dynamic dropdown; click open floor to place/remove (toggle), click wall is a no-op; teal square indicator on board
- **Validation**: `validateLevel` checks objects sit on open floor; save/load round-trips with graceful degradation for pre-existing saves
- **Tests**: Verifies object blocks player movement but bullets pass through
**Analysis of the Diff:**
1. **Binary Files:** `walls.png` and `walls.psd` are updated. This suggests an asset update, likely related to the "wolfenstein" theme mentioned in the paths.
2. **JavaScript File:** `tools/verifyWolfenstein.js` is modified.
* A new test case is added under `section('4. Enemy AI');`.
* The test verifies that an enemy (guard) alerts when hit by a projectile, specifically in a scenario where:
* Visual detection (LOS+FOV) is blocked/blind (guard facing away).
* "Heard gunfire" alert path is blocked (different room/door logic).
* The test sets up a specific level layout, forces a door open, fires a pistol, and checks if the enemy's state changes from 'idle' to something else (alerted) and health drops.
* It explicitly mentions fixing an issue with `stepDoors` auto-close countdown underflow by setting `timer`.
**Synthesis:**
The primary functional change is adding a test case to ensure that direct hits alert enemies even when other alert mechanisms (vision, sound through doors) fail. The asset changes are likely incidental or part of the same feature branch (Wolfenstein theme).
**Drafting the Commit Message:**
* **Subject:** Add test for enemy alert on direct hit bypassing vision/sound checks
* **Body:**
* Update Wolfenstein wall assets (PNG/PSD).
* Add verification test in `verifyWolfenstein.js` ensuring enemies alert when shot, even if they cannot see the player or hear gunfire through doors.
* Fix door timer initialization in the test to prevent auto-close interference during projectile flight.
**Refining for Conciseness:**
Subject: Add enemy hit-alert test and update Wolfenstein assets
Body:
- Update `walls.png` and `walls.psd`.
- Add a test case in `verifyWolfenstein.js` verifying that direct hits alert enemies unconditionally, independent of vision cone or room-based sound alerts.
- Ensure door state is correctly initialized in the test to prevent auto-close interference with projectile simulation.
Let's make it standard conventional commit style if possible, or just clear and descriptive.
**Final Polish:**
Subject: Add test for unconditional enemy alert on direct hit
Body:
Update Wolfenstein wall assets (`walls.png`, `walls.psd`).
Add a new test case in `verifyWolfenstein.js` to verify that enemies alert when directly hit by a projectile, even when visual detection (LOS/FOV) and sound-based alerts (through doors) are inactive. This ensures the direct-hit alert path works independently.
Also fixes door timer initialization in the test setup to prevent auto-close logic from interfering with the projectile simulation.
This looks good. I will provide just the message as requested.
- Add new `wallArt` level data array with per-cell decal frames
- Integrate wall art rendering into WolfensteinView using same texture sampling as walls
- Add Wall Art tool to WolfensteinEditor with dynamic dropdown from JSON registry
- Create wolfenstein-wallart.json frame registry for easy decal management
- Add validation ensuring wall art sits on actual wall cells
- Support wall art in save/load system with backward compatibility
- Alert idle enemies when shot, even outside vision cone
Replace all-or-nothing per-sprite depth checks with per-column occlusion
testing. This allows walls to correctly hide only the parts of sprites
(like dead guards) that are behind them, rather than hiding the entire
sprite if any part is occluded.
Implementation details:
- Walk outward from the sprite's center column to determine the visible
span based on the wall depth buffer.
- Use Phaser's `setCrop` to clip the sprite to the visible columns, which
is more performant than redrawing per-column like walls.
- Add `OCCLUSION_EPS` tolerance to prevent flickering when sprites are
positioned exactly against walls due to float precision issues.
This refactors weapon/enemy combat systems to support per-weapon cooldowns,
fire modes (auto/semi), and data-driven damage rolls via ammo types. Guards
now use the pistol's stats for ranged attacks and can be stunned by non-lethal
hits. The level editor now includes a directional facing picker for newly placed
enemies and displays enemy orientation as arrows instead of dots.
Key changes:
- Logic: Replaced single weaponCooldownMs with per-weapon cooldowns map; added
prevFireHeld for semi-auto trigger-edge detection; guards now reference real
weapon definitions via rangedWeapon; projectiles carry ammoType and resolve
damage at hit time using rollDamage(); non-lethal ranged hits apply stunMs to
enemies, freezing their AI until it expires.
- Rules: Added ammoTypes array with damageMin/damageMax; weapons now specify
fireMode and ammoType (projectiles) or damage (melee); enemy definitions
include stunMs and reference weapon IDs instead of hardcoded projectile stats.
- Editor: Added FACING_DIRS constants and drawFacingPicker() overlay that lets
users click N/S/E/W neighbor cells to set a just-placed enemy's facing;
enemies now render as directional arrows showing their spawn orientation;
pendingFacingEnemy state tracks the in-progress pick across tool switches,
undo/redo, and level resets.
- View: Added GUARD_FRAME.stunned (frame 9) which takes visual priority over
all other states when e.stunMs > 0, ensuring the flinch pose displays even if
the enemy's internal state still reads 'attack' or 'chase'.
- Data: Expanded level-e1m1 to 19x21 grid with repositioned doors/enemies/exit;
bumped SAVE_VERSION to 2 since player.cooldowns and prevFireHeld are new
required fields absent from v1 saves.
- Tests: Added coverage for semi-auto trigger-edge behavior, stun application
and duration, melee non-stun behavior, damage roll range bounds, and guard
projectile ammo type/cooldown spacing; updated existing tests to use new
cooldowns/ammoType fields and toggle fireHeld for repeated shots.
Add computeRooms + alertEnemiesInPlayerRoom: a gunshot now alerts every
idle guard sharing the player's room regardless of range/LOS/cone. A
door cell is always treated as a room boundary for this purpose, even
when fully open — two rooms joined only by a doorway stay distinct
("gunfire carries through the room, not through doorways").
Fix _guardFacing side-walk/side-idle flip: was `rel > 0`, read
backwards in-game, now `rel < 0`.
Cover with three verifyWolfenstein cases: same-room alert fires,
behind-closed-door does not, through-open-door does not (door forced
slide=1 / wall zeroed to exercise the slide-independent path).
- Implement 90° field-of-view check for idle/patrolling guards (only alerts when player is within cone, in range, and has clear line of sight)
- Change patrol behavior: 0-1 waypoints ping-pong, 2+ waypoints form a one-way loop (home → nodes → home → ...)
- Reduce patrol speed to 50% of chase speed for natural movement
- Update editor to display loop closing line when 2+ patrol nodes exist
- Add new weapon sprite images (gattling, machinegun, plasma, rocket, shotgun)
- Extend map parser to support patrol route definitions via `opts.patrols`
- Add patrol routes to e1m1 (guard at 2.5,18.5) and e1m2 (guard at 9.5,8.5)
- Add comprehensive tests for vision cone (inside/outside edge cases) and patrol loop/ping-pong behavior
- Replaced the single-circle bullet texture with a three-circle design
(brass/copper body, bright tracer core, and off-center highlight) for
better readability against various backgrounds
- Reduced bullet texture size from 16×16 to 12×12 to match the more detailed
design
- Decreased bullet render scale from 0.18 to 0.1 in the view to make bullets
appear as small rounds rather than floating dots
- Updated documentation in sprites.md to reflect the new bullet design, size,
and scale changes
Introduce a first-person weapon viewmodel for the pistol that peeks up
from behind the HUD, completing the classic FPS look. The viewmodel
features a subtle, smoothed bob and sway animation that responds to
player movement (forward/strafe), ramping in and out to avoid
snapping.
- Add `paintWeaponPistol` to `WolfensteinArt` as a small procedural
placeholder (360x260) for when real art is absent.
- Update `WolfensteinView` to handle both real and procedural weapon art
with appropriate origins and base positions.
- Implement `_drawWeapon` with bob/sway logic and smooth strength
transitions.
- Register the new sprite key in `wolfenstein-artwork.json`.
- Document the new `wolfenstein-weapon-pistol` asset in `sprites.md`,
including its size, depth, and behavior.
- Add directional billboarding for guards: front/side/back idle & walk
frames selected by relative angle to camera, with flipX for left side
- Add shooting pose (always shown when guard is in attack state)
- Add 2-frame walk cycle (300ms) for moving guards (chase/alert/patrol)
- Add death sequence: fall (350ms) → ground (2s) → fade (800ms),
view-only state in WolfensteinView, pooled sprite destroyed on completion
- Wire guard sheet texture from artwork JSON (enemies.png, 9×7 grid,
frames 0-8 used)
- Add E key as alternate interact key for opening doors
- Update door hint text to show [SPACE/E]
- Update sprites.md with full animation/facing/death documentation
The raycaster's door geometry now takes the live `doors[]` state instead of a boolean flag, so partially-open door cells let render rays pass through the already-slid portion to show what's genuinely beyond, rather than painting a flat "socket" fill. `intersectDoorMidplane` returns a slide-shifted `textureX` so the door texture visibly translates into the wall as it opens.
`WolfensteinView` samples the new `wolfenstein-doors` sheet the same way it does walls (source-texel column, vertical crop, multiply shading), falling back to the flat tan placeholder. Added the doors.png/.psd assets and a `sheets.doors` entry in the art manifest. Updated sprites.md to document the new sheet, the see-through behavior, and that this stays render-only (gameplay raycasts are unaffected).
Editor (WolfensteinEditor.js):
- Decouple the board from grid size: fixed 900px viewport with independent
pan (right-drag / WASD / arrows) and zoom (wheel / +/- / F to fit)
instead of squeezing the whole grid in; add a whole-level map overview
minimap with click-to-jump.
- Grids up to 1000 cells/side (was 48); painting past the edge auto-grows
the grid (preserving content, re-sealing borders) instead of being refused.
- Rebuild the toolbar as a categorized DOM radio + dropdown panel (Wall /
Door / Pickup / Enemy / Patrol / Zone / Erase) instead of a flat list.
- Add a Patrol tool: select a guard, then click tiles to add/remove
waypoints; routes are drawn (dim for all, highlighted for the selection).
- Throttle the reachability validate during paint-drag; flush it before
Test Play / Export; queue game assets in preload() like ZumaEditor.
Doors (WolfensteinLogic.js, WolfensteinRaycaster.js, WolfensteinView.js):
- Player now opens doors by pressing Space (HUD "[SPACE] Open" prompt when
one is in range); enemies still shove them open. Doors animate open/closed
via a slide value (400ms) instead of popping, and stay solid for
gameplay until fully open.
- Render doors as recessed mid-cell geometry (real depth, producing the "H"
doorway shape) via a door-aware render-only raycast — collision/LOS are
unchanged; the door visibly slides sideways into a dark socket as it opens.
Enemy AI (WolfensteinLogic.js):
- Idle enemies with an authored patrol route ping-pong along
[home, ...nodes] until they spot the player; validate patrol nodes.
Rendering (WolfensteinView.js, assets, data):
- Add textured wall rendering: per-column 1px source-texel sampling from
the new walls.png spritesheet, darkened with a 'multiply' grey to match
the existing side/fog shading, with per-wall-type flat-color fallback.
- Wire in assets/images/wolfenstein/walls.png and point the art manifest at it.
Misc:
- level-e1m1.json: reworked to a taller (20-row) map exercising the new
wall/door types; playerRadius 0.25 -> 0.35.
- sprites.md: document exact wall-sheet size, the sliding/recessed door
behavior, guard sheet usage, and standalone image sizes/proportions.
Movement & collision:
- stepSeparation (TALogic) replaces the hard "snap unit to nearest clear
tile centre" correction with a circle-vs-blocked-tile push proportional
to overlap, damped by separationStiffness — no more teleport-yank,
corner-bouncing, or stalling in exact-width corridors (caught as an
AI-vs-AI win-rate regression in testing).
- servicePathQueue now routes at a unit's exact required clearance instead
of padding +1, so traffic spreads across all passable tiles rather than
funneling into a few wide chokepoint corridors.
- TAArt's structure painter falls back to a generic spinning glyph for
topperFrame buildings.
Upgrades (new rule: upgradesFrom):
- A building may be placed directly on top of a friendly building it
names at the same tile/footprint, consuming it for a 50% refund of the
replaced building's OWN cost (not a price discount) — implemented via
TALogic.findUpgradeTarget and an army-aware canPlaceAt.
- New definitions: nuclearplant (upgrades energygen, frame 22) and
advancedmassgen (upgrades massgen, frame 24).
- compileRules (TARules) validates upgradesFrom references and topperFrame;
sprites.md documents the semantics.
- New map m06 "Annihilation" (medium, snowfields, Klaxon skill 5, seed
90123 — pre-vetted from the original sweep for early-economy balance).
Tests (tools/verifyTotalAnnihilation.js):
- Section 4d: pathfinding routes around obstacles and a unit threads a
corridor exactly its own width.
- Section 5b: obstacle push is a bounded per-tick nudge (not a
teleport), settles clear without oscillation, a unit ordered past an
obstacle arrives, and no stuck-give-up flagging.
- Upgrade suite: exact 50% refund credited in place, fresh-ground builds
still work, enemy-owned and mismatched-type targets rejected, reverse
nuclearplant/energygen pairing, and canPlaceAt without an army never
grants upgrade placements.
- New `upgradesFrom` rule: a building def (Nuclear Power Plant on the
Energy Generator, Advanced Metal Generator on the Mass Generator) may
be placed exactly on a friendly, finished building of the named type,
consuming it for a 50% refund of its build cost instead of needing
clear ground (TALogic findUpgradeTarget / consumeUpgrade / buildCommand)
- New `topperFrame`: a second sprite stacked on the finished structure
that spins continuously (the Advanced Metal Generator's centrifuge,
frame 26), hidden while under construction; TAArt sizes the sheet for
it and paints a generic spinner-glyph fallback
- New rules: Nuclear Power Plant (frames 22-23) and Advanced Metal
Generator (frames 24-26) in totalannihilation-rules.json
- TARules: validate topperFrame and upgradesFrom (real building with a
cost); TAWorldView renders/spins the topper; verifyTotalAnnihilation
checks topper frames fit and were painted
- Test section covering upgrade placement (ownership, type match, exact
footprint, refund amount, army-less fallback) and sprites.md updated
for frames 22-26
- Introduce Megatank: medium commander with Twin 150mm Cannon and Side Rocket Pods
- Implement multi-barrel weapon system (barrels + barrelSpacing) in TALogic and TARules
- Lower DEFENCE_MIN_SKILL from 4 to 3; make first Laser Tower proactive, not reactive
- Rebalance unit triangle: Tank now counters Rocket Tank; rockets weak vs vehicle armour
- Re-seed campaign missions m05 (67890) and m06 (80808) with updated maps and briefings
- Skirmish default theme uses rules default (tropics) instead of hardcoded grasslands
- Add intro video before main menu
- Update sprite docs and verification tests for new balance
- Introduce Megatank: medium commander with Twin 150mm Cannon and Side Rocket Pods
- Implement multi-barrel weapon system (barrels + barrelSpacing) in TALogic and TARules
- Lower DEFENCE_MIN_SKILL from 4 to 3; make first Laser Tower proactive, not reactive
- Rebalance unit triangle: Tank now counters Rocket Tank; rockets weak vs vehicle armour
- Re-seed campaign missions m05 (67890) and m06 (80808) with updated maps and briefings
- Skirmish default theme uses rules default (tropics) instead of hardcoded grasslands
- Add intro video before main menu
- Update sprite docs and verification tests for new balance
- Add morale bonus from buildings (e.g., Holo Simulator): flat +N% to total
colony production, uniformly boosting construction, defense, industry,
ecology, and research
- Add espionage restraint (offDrift): setting Intelligence to 'off' toward
an empire with neutral-or-better opinion drifts their attitude upward by
1/turn, giving a way to improve relations without gifting (gated on not
being at war and their opinion of you being >= 0)
- Display morale bonus in colony view when applicable
- Reduce planetShotDamageMult from 10 to 6
- Add verification tests for both new mechanics
- Starbases no longer count toward attacker power in holdsOrbit(), invade(),
resolveCombats(), pendingBattlesFor(), and prepareBattleAt(). A starbase
never leaves its home system, so it must never alone enable orbital
superiority or pick fights with neighbouring hostile colonies (Brian, 2026-08-15).
- VegaAI manageFleets 2a/2b now uses targetColonyAt() instead of colonyAt()
to resolve the colony it is actually at war with. At multi-colony stars
this fixes the bug where an idle fleet sitting on a hostile undefended
colony would silently check a different (not-at-war) colony sharing the
star and never bombard/invade (Brian, 2026-08-15).
- Add test suite 5f (starbases cannot attack alone) and 5g (AI bombard/invade
at contested multi-colony stars).
Bumps the planetShotDamageMult config value in mastervega-rules.json
to significantly increase damage dealt during planetary bombardment
or planet defense scenarios.
- defenseHp is now a pure per-battle ammo gauge (one full-strength
shot per planetDefensePerShot points, remainder as fractional shot)
instead of in-battle damage tracking; no longer written back after
battle outcome
- Planet now has a real range limit (planetRange, 1200) — previously
the only entity with no range check at all
- Per-shot damage scales with the defending empire's best known weapon
tech (weaponAvgDmg) instead of a flat HP-proportion curve
- defenseHp is only wiped to 0 when the planet is actually DESTROYED,
fixing the bug where a defeated planet could be re-attacked multiple
times in one turn with full strength each time
- Added combat config: planetDefensePerShot (5), planetShotDamageMult (1)
- Added combatV2 config: planetRange (1200)
- Comprehensive tests for range gating, shot formula, ammo exhaustion,
multi-battle-same-turn fix, and tech-scaled damage
Add siegeFreezesDefense mechanic (default true) that stops a colony's
passive defenseHp trickle and blocks defensive building completion at the
front of the build queue while a hostile warship fleet is present.
This fixes the recurring "Under Attack" notification loop reported by Brian
where defenseHp would regenerate each turn, re-arming the pendingBattlesFor
gate and triggering fresh popup notices for an already-beaten colony.
Also adds an AI dispatch throttle in manageFleets: idle fleets no longer
open redundant attack orders against colonies the empire already holds orbit
over with defenseHp beaten to 0. Excluded fleets fall through to rally logic
and naturally join the existing siege or find a fresh front.
New helpers: isDefensiveBuildingId, isHostileWarshipFleet, hasHostileWarshipFleet
— shared across processColony, pendingBattlesFor, and VegaAI to ensure a
single definition of "under active siege".
Includes tests (sections 5d, 5e) covering regen freeze, build queue freeze,
siegeFreezesDefense=false toggle, and AI throttle.
- **Visual Feedback**: Introduce VegaBombardScreen.js — a two-stage popup for
bombard/invasion results featuring JIT-loaded videos (per planet type or
invading species) and animated stat bars showing population, factory, and
building losses.
- **Expanded Consequences**: Factory and building destruction now scale with
the population kill ratio. On colony wipeout, weapon Mark gates planetary
ruin/ruination (toxic/radiated/dead/asteroids) via a weighted probability table.
- **AI & Tactics**: Ursaal now queue troop transports alongside warships for
invasion fleets. Added `bombardHoldFireChance` trait (0–1) to let species
defer bombing when invasion troops are staged, preserving intact colonies
without creating fortress-world stalemates.
- **Battle Logic Fixes**: Correct `prepareBattleAt` and `pendingBattlesFor` to
properly handle stars with multiple colonies, ignore transport-only fleets,
and suppress pending battles when planetary defenses are depleted.
- **UI/Reporting**: Wire player-initiated and AI-initiated attacks into the
new popup queue. Add `bombard` and `invasionFailed` to notable turn report
events with detailed outcome descriptions.
- **Testing & Tooling**: Add comprehensive verification tests for planet
destruction distribution, building damage rates, hold-fire chances, and
battle edge cases. Expose `window.game` for devtools debugging.
- Replace flat planetDefenseBase (20) with proportional planetDefenseScale
(0.06), so colony defense damage scales purely with current defenseHp.
A near-depleted colony now barely scratches attackers, while a fully
tech'd one still tops out ~110 damage — fixing "attacked with the
strength of a much-better-defended planet" (Brian, 2026-08-14).
- Add AI war memory: track consecutive losses per enemy and escalate
attackMultiplier up to 3x so repeated losing attacks stop dribbling
small fleets. A win resets the streak. Prevents permanent phoney wars
where both sides build to equal strength and nothing moves.
- Show "Under Attack" notice (one-button, no formation picker) when AI
attacks the player, since formation choice is meaningless for defense.
- Add planetary beam fire SFX for combat view.
- Add event `seq` cursor for war memory to survive event list trimming.
- Full test coverage for planet damage formula and AI escalation behavior.
- Add "Galactic Expansion" colony focus and "Expansion" allocation focus
for early-game land grab phase (one colony ship per discovered open world,
then 2 frigate escorts per colony ship)
- Introduce fleetUrgency() — sliding-scale fleet recommendation based on the
coldest contacted relationship, throttled pre-contact to avoid premature
militarization
- Hide Council menu button until the Council has actually convened (lastResult)
- Add tooltip to disabled population send button explaining why it's off
- Rename "Production" allocation preset to "Industrial Buildout"
- Expand Colony Improvement recommendation to fire when factories are well
below cap, not just near cap
- Add comprehensive tests for all new logic paths
- relationsRows now filters out empires the human hasn't contacted, matching
the existing contact-gating behavior of rankingRows (Brian, 2026-08-14)
- Expand GNN alert suppression from espionage-only to include tech breakthroughs
via new ALERT_STORY_KINDS set, skipping ranking/relations pages for these
one-off notifications
- Update verifyMasterOfVega tests to assert uncontacted empires are excluded
from relationsRows while confirming names can still appear in contacted
rows' war/trade/ally lists
- Replace □/■ glyphs with channel-specific icons inside the lock toggle boxes
- Introduce `allocation.png` (5 frames) and register it in the artwork config
- Add hover tooltips explaining each channel's production role and MOO1-style
overflow behavior
- Expose slider `zone` for tooltip attachment and adjust icon/layout positioning
- Update sprite documentation and include minor audio asset update
- Add leader detail pop-over (VegaLeaderDetail.js) with portrait, bio, and
current posting bonuses displayed in fleet and colony views
- Add leader portrait click-to-zoom in the Leaders screen
- Add leader skill summary formatting (leaderSkillSummary) for readable
bonus descriptions across UI components
- Integrate leader skills into espionage power/defense and invasion attack
calculations in VegaLogic.js
- Cap bombard() at once per (attacker, colony) per turn via lastBombardTurn
tracking; fixes UI double-click and AI double-bombard bugs
- Contact-gate GNN breakthrough stories and ranking charts on first contact,
matching existing rankingRows behavior
- Round population displays throughout the UI (toFixed(1) → Math.round)
for cleaner presentation
- Bump colony ship and transport base costs in rules data
- Add leaders.png artwork reference to mastervega-artwork.json
- Add tests for bombard cap and GNN contact-gating in verifyMasterOfVega.js
When a fresh espionage notification is pending, skip ranking metrics and
relations pages so the alert reads as a focused notification rather than
being interleaved with unrelated charts. Reopening GNN without pending
events (using history) always shows the full experience, providing an
escape hatch for players who want the charts.
- Add "peace request" diplomacy: player can ask an AI to end a war with a
third empire, and AIs can ask the player the same. Refusing costs attitude.
Implemented in VegaDiplomacy.js (wouldAcceptPeaceRequest/requestPeace/offerPeaceRequest),
VegaAudience.js (Demand Peace button + war picker), and full chat lines for
all species in VegaChat.js.
- Extract openFormationPicker to VegaScreens.js and wire it into
MasterOfVegaGame.js so the player chooses a formation before every battle.
AI opponents still pick silently.
- Fix Combat V2 planet positioning (fixed at worldWidth * 0.75 instead of
formation-relative), pass typeId for real planet art, and apply the
Planetary Shield building's shieldBonus (was hardcoded to 0).
- Add icon images to research screen tech field headers.
- Add comprehensive tests for peace requests and prepareBattleAt fixes.
Introduce a full-screen, click-advanced ceremony (VegaCouncilSession.js)
that replays runCouncil()'s result delegate-by-delegate instead of hiding
the tally behind the turn-report. Three fixed stages — Roster, Voting,
and Verdict — with a persistent 2:3 portrait anchor video, green-screen
ticker, live scoreboard with animated bars, and sting-then-loop audio.
Key changes:
- VegaLogic.js: expose per-voter `voters` breakdown and `pendingSession`
flag so the UI can replay the session before the victory check.
- MasterOfVegaGame.js: consume `pendingSession` in `runToHumanTurn()`
before `state.over`, ensuring a decisive council still gets its ceremony.
- VegaTurnReport.js: remove `council` from NOTABLE_TYPES (ceremony handles
it); keep `councilRefused` as a distinct war-declaration row.
- assetManifest.js / Sounds.js: register video + sting/loop audio cues.
- VegaScreens.js: add `D.council` depth value.
- verifyMasterOfVega.js: assert voter breakdown consistency and pending
session lifecycle.
Introduce a full-screen, click-advanced ceremony (VegaCouncilSession.js)
that replays runCouncil()'s result delegate-by-delegate instead of hiding
the tally behind the turn-report. Three fixed stages — Roster, Voting,
and Verdict — with a persistent 2:3 portrait anchor video, green-screen
ticker, live scoreboard with animated bars, and sting-then-loop audio.
Key changes:
- VegaLogic.js: expose per-voter `voters` breakdown and `pendingSession`
flag so the UI can replay the session before the victory check.
- MasterOfVegaGame.js: consume `pendingSession` in `runToHumanTurn()`
before `state.over`, ensuring a decisive council still gets its ceremony.
- VegaTurnReport.js: remove `council` from NOTABLE_TYPES (ceremony handles
it); keep `councilRefused` as a distinct war-declaration row.
- assetManifest.js / Sounds.js: register video + sting/loop audio cues.
- VegaScreens.js: add `D.council` depth value.
- verifyMasterOfVega.js: assert voter breakdown consistency and pending
session lifecycle.
Introduce GNN, a galaxy-wide news broadcast feature that reports major
events to the player via a full-screen takeover UI with anchor desk
video, story pages, MOO1-style animated rankings, and a diplomatic
relations reference.
Key changes:
- VegaGnn.js: headless event classification, anchor copywriting, and
ranking logic (Phaser-free, testable in Node)
- VegaGnnScreen.js: full-screen UI with looping anchor video,
green-screen ticker terminal, story renderers (diplomacy/tech/
territory/espionage), animated bar-chart rankings, and relations page
- HUD: new GNN button with unread bullet cue; auto-opens after turns
when stories are pending, on-demand via button
- VegaLogic.js: new `lastColony` event (reduced to single world),
`attacker` field on elimination events, `gnn` state with history
buffer, export empireFleetPower for multi-empire rankings
- VegaColoniesScreen.js: export and generalize createAdvisorTerminal
for reuse by GNN's ticker
- mastervega-rules.json: flag ~16 headline-worthy techs with
gnnHeadline (research-sourced only, not espionage-stolen)
- Assets: eager-load GNN anchor video, sting/loop audio, and populate
all 10 species colony advisor videos in mastervega-artwork.json
- verifyMasterOfVega.js: comprehensive 7b test section covering
classification, consumption, describeGnnStory, anchorLine, attacker
threading, ranking metrics, relationsRows, serialization, and AI soak
Highlight colony pills in warm orange-brown when their current focus
(colony or allocation) disagrees with the advisor's recommendation,
mirroring the yellow-outline signal already used in dropdowns.
Refactor recommendAllocationFocus to avoid oscillation: instead of
reading the colony's own slider (which would flip between Default
at 0.20 and Research at 0.50), check for an eligible research
building and population ≥ 3, and include the building name in the
advice message.
- Add full-screen intro video (mov-intro.mp4) that plays once on fresh game
entry, with skip prompt on first keypress and immediate skip on second
- Include intro soundtrack (intro-theme.mp3) and updated menu title image
- Skip video on Load-slot resume to avoid interrupting returning players
- Add orange highlight to Colony/Allocation Focus pills when their setting
disagrees with the advisor's recommendation (recommendColonyFocus/
recommendAllocationFocus)
Introduce VegaColoniesScreen.js, a spreadsheet-style screen that displays
and manages all of the player's colonies at once, grouped by star and
sorted by population. Features include:
- JIT-loaded advisor video panel (one 1:1 muted loop per species, falling
back to the species portrait when no clip is recorded)
- Retro terminal with typing animation, scanlines, and glitch effects
that displays advisorColonyReport commentary for the selected colony
- Inline Colony Focus and Allocation Focus pills with dropdown pickers
showing the advisor's live recommendation outlined in yellow
- Population transfer (arm-and-target idiom matching fleet orders)
- Manage button delegating to the existing single-colony flyout
Refactor VegaColonyView.js to use shared applyColonyFocus and
applyAllocationFocus setters from VegaLogic.js so both the flyout and
inline pills apply identical side effects. Add empireColoniesByStar
grouping helper for the spreadsheet view. Wire a "Colonies" entry into
the Empire dropdown menu in MasterOfVegaGame.js. Add advisorVideos
entries to mastervega-artwork.json with JIT-loading helpers in VegaArt.js.
Update verifyMasterOfVega.js to validate the new assets, lazy-loading
behavior, and all new logic functions.
- Replace horizontal scanline sweep with an occasional diagonal shimmer effect
that crosses the button face at a 22° angle with a 1.5s pause between passes
- Add three white border lights that slowly orbit the button's stroke outline
(~3.6s per full revolution), drawn above all other layers
- Reduce corner brackets from all four corners to upper-right and lower-left
only, matching the chamfered panel's 45° cuts
- Extract reusable perimeter utilities (_computePerimeter, _perimeterPoint)
cached once at construction to avoid per-frame arc-length recomputation
- Wire shimmer and border lights into hover enter/exit and destroy lifecycle
- Replace four separate HUD buttons (Research, Diplomacy, Council, Leaders)
with a single "Empire" dropdown button, freeing HUD space for future
buttons like "Colonies"
- Add toggleEmpireMenu/openEmpireMenu/closeEmpireMenu with a popover panel
containing the four options, click-outside-to-dismiss, and ▸/▾ indicator
on the button label
- Fix ghost button glow washout by introducing GHOST_ALPHA (0.85) constant
and using it instead of hardcoded 0.3 alpha for ghost button backgrounds
- Change ghost button hover text color from glow color to textDark for
consistent readability
- Remove unused glowHex from SCHEMES config
- Add VegaButton.js: a Master of Vega-local cyberpunk button with chamfered
panels, neon glow, scanline sweep, and corner-bracket hover animations.
Supports cyan/magenta/red/green schemes.
- Swap Button imports across 12 Vega modules to use VegaButton.js and add
scheme options (green for accept, red for reject/war, magenta for actions).
- Fix multi-colony targeting in VegaLogic.js: introduce targetColonyAt() to
resolve the correct colony by orbit when multiple exist at a star. Update
bombard(), invasionForecast(), and invade() to accept an optional orbit
parameter. Add immediate scene.log() feedback in VegaSystemView.js.
- Implement weighted 4:3:2:1 fleet mix (frigate:destroyer:cruiser:battleship)
in pickFleet(), replacing the old equal-count-per-hull diversity logic.
- Add BASELINE_WEAPON fallback in VegaShips.js so warships with zero weapon
tech still deal damage instead of silently doing nothing.
- Guard VegaDiplomacy.js proposeOrOffer calls with canNegotiate to prevent
diplomacy-incapable species (e.g., Lithox) from queuing peace offers the
human can never answer.
- Update verifyMasterOfVega.js with comprehensive tests for all new behavior.
- Hulls: frigate turnRateBase 150→340, brakeSeconds 11→1.0 (X-wing agility);
destroyer turnRateBase 100→230, brakeSeconds 2.8→1.35 (midpoint leaning frigate).
- Fix battleship (and all slow hulls) no longer holding position: added
anticipatory retrograde pre-turning in computeShipMove, comparing
worstTurnTime vs timeToRange so the nose begins flipping before braking
range, with urgency-blended facing to avoid "running away" appearance.
(Was accidentally crutched by strong avoidAccel collision avoidance.)
- Fix parked ships coasting indefinitely: velocity now starts from 0 when
hasTask is false instead of carrying residual velocity forever.
- V2 damageMultiplier (2.8): scales weapon raw output before shield
mitigation, V2-only, doesn't touch live engine balance. Shortens battle
duration meaningfully across test scenarios.
- V2 maxDurationSeconds (240) and disengageFraction (0.9): decoupled from
shared rules.combat.maxRounds. Counterintuitively, the old disengage
timer was an implicit duration cap; extending it let genuine fights play
out while damageMultiplier handles the shortening.
- Species-colored beams: VegaCombatViewV2.js now renders beams in a
vibrant, saturation-boosted version of the firing ship's species color,
memoized. Missiles keep fixed orange.
- Mirror-match bias tolerance widened 0.25→0.30 (expected variance cost
of lower TTK from higher damage multiplier).
- Frigate stationary-target check inverted: now asserts it CAN hold
position (alongside battleship/cruiser/destroyer). Added agility ordering
data-integrity checks on hulls block.
Implement continuous velocity vectors (vx/vy) replacing the old
kinematic position clamp. Each hull gets brakeSeconds-derived
linearAccel so stopping distance naturally falls under or over beamRange,
producing battleship hold-position vs frigate strafe-run behaviour
without hull-specific tactic branches.
Key mechanics:
- Thrust magnitude scaled by facing alignment (cos of angle to task
direction), honouring "turn and engage thrusters" without locking
thrust to facing (which caused battleships to never stop).
- GOLDEN_ANGLE-spaced approach points fan out ships sharing a target.
- avoidAccel (60) is a gentle, hull-independent collision avoidance
budget — ships can overlap when objectives require it.
- Target avoidance uses reduced radius (0.35×) so engagement isn't
fought by personal-space calculations.
Data: add brakeSeconds to all hulls, avoidAccel to combatV2 constants.
Verifier: rewrite turn-rate check to time-to-range metric, add hold-vs-
strafe gradient and max-delta-speed checks, relax cloak/singularity to
"doesn't hurt" invariant.
Introduce `VegaCombatV2.js`, a parallel headless combat engine that simulates
individual ships (not stack aggregates) in continuous time rather than discrete
rounds. Ships have per-hull `sizeScale`, `sizeSpeedMult`, and `turnRateBase`
fields; every entity tracks its own cooldown, position, facing, and angular
momentum. Damage and movement are banked per-tick to preserve fairness.
Accompanying files:
- `VegaCombatViewV2.js` — zoomable/pannable Phaser view with parallax starfield
- `VegaCombatCamera.js` — cursor-anchored zoom + drag-to-pan (listener cleanup
on destroy to avoid stacking across battles)
- `VegaFormations.js` — formation strategy plumbing (chosen per side, not yet
read by movement/targeting)
- Hull-specific destroy audio cues and vega buildings art
Wired behind `?movsim`'s Live/V2 toggle in `VegaCombatSim.js` — the live engine
and all real player battles are untouched.
Also fixes several latent bugs discovered during the rewrite:
- Trap 26: simultaneous wipe-out now checks draw before single-side wins
- Trap 27: movement is banked (two-phase) like damage
- Trap 28: weighted-random targeting tames chaotic nearest-neighbour sensitivity
- Trap 29: fleet gap clamped to 85% world width to prevent starvation
- Trap 30: `RANGE_EPS` tolerance prevents steering-induced standoffs
See `docs/mastervega-build-plan.md` for full design notes.
Brian Fertig