- Implement EngineSound system that pitches engine-heavy.mp3 based on rear
wheel angular velocity, with rate smoothing to avoid stair-stepping
- Add continuous menu music across Intro → MainMenu → LevelSelect scenes
- Add per-level voice-over support (level01: "Get the Money!")
- Redesign level01 with hand-crafted terrain sections (Flat, Incline,
Jump, Roller, Descent, Bumps, Flat, Descent, Bumps, Flat)
- Editor: per-section width and vertical scale (vScale) controls
- Editor: smooth entry blending between sections using angle-based
interpolation (avoids slope overshoot from naive height blending)
- Editor: new size-panel UI with range/number inputs and smooth checkbox
- Fix KidManager re-boarding: ejected kids must be settled before
re-boarding to prevent mid-air teleportation
- Load audio assets in PreloadScene; handle missing voice files gracefully
- Ejection: drop GFORCE.ejectThresholdG from 6 to 0.5 - the bouncier
suspension isolates the chassis from shock, so the old threshold was
effectively unreachable and kids were never actually being ejected.
Ejected kids now pop straight up through the roof (ignoring chassis
velocity/tilt) and fly under a lighter gravity (KID.ejectedGravityScale
0.35, applied via KidManager's beforeupdate handler) for a floaty,
Snuggle-Truck-style arc.
- Cut maxLeanAngularVelocity and leanTorqueStep in half for a slower,
more gradual lean that's easier to fine-tune mid-air.
- Parallax: far layer is now screen-fixed, scaled uniformly (no stretch),
and pans exactly once from start to goal by level progress; mid/near
layers are bottom-anchored and tiled at their own uniform scales. Kids
render at depth -1 so the bus always draws over them.
- Level builder: size camera bounds to the level's actual terrain min/max
Y (with padding, 1000px floor) instead of a fixed 1000 height, so long
runs of declines no longer push the bus below the camera's reach.
- Add level 04 "Mega Drop" (5 kids, extended terrain ending in the mega
drop sequence).
- New browser level editor (editor.html + src/editor/): assemble levels
from snap-together section generators (flat/inclines/hills/ditch/jump)
with a live canvas preview, metadata form, and export to ready-to-drop
levelNN.js source; example export registered as level04.js.
- Add parallax background sprites (bg_far/mid/near).
- Bus retune: softer, bouncier suspension (stiffness 0.45->0.35, damping
0.08->0.035, travel 12->30, restitution 0.3->0.45) with wheel rest
point raised 22->34 for a bouncier stance; drive force cut ~60%
(0.011->0.0045) for a much longer runway and lower top speed.
- Gravity 1 -> 0.675 for ~1.5x hang time off jumps; constraintIterations
2 -> 10 so the soft wishbone springs converge within one step.
- Bus: clamp each wheel to the underside of its wishbone anchor line on
every matter afterupdate, fixing wheels punching through to the
mirrored solution and sticking high on the chassis after hard impacts;
add no-op destroy() for the world listener.
- CameraRig: speed-driven horizontal lookahead (bus framed ~10% from the
left edge at rest, out to 1/3 of the screen at speed) via followOffset;
PlayScene scales the g-force grace period to 5.5s for the new gravity
and calls the new update()/destroy() hooks.
- Extend level01's terrain runway by 30x.
Brian Fertig