- Add canvas-drawn comet head, arrival fireball, and damage-radius ring textures in Fx.js, replacing the old single-dot streak/ring combo
- Switch all ram-related (and general glow) sprites from ADD to SCREEN blend to fix the "dark box" artifact over semi-transparent nebula backgrounds
- Introduce ember trail particles that linger ~1 s behind the hull during the dash, plus a flickering comet head that rides the ship and is released on impact
- Add `ramBlast()` impact sequence: ignition flash, blooming fireball, exact damage-radius ring, shock ripples, and debris sparks
- Wire in the heaviest camera shake beat (`ram`) and layer the data's sfxEvent under a thunder boom at impact
- Bump skill fx `ringLifeMs` to 480 so the damage-radius ring lingers long enough to read
- Add dev CDP harnesses (`cdp.mjs`, `ram-shot.mjs`, `ram-video.mjs`) and reference stills/video for the charge's three key frames
- Replace dot tracers with elongated glowing bolts (trail band + core streak + head bloom)
and a directional muzzle flare in both the range and main-game contexts.
- Add enemy impact reads: core flash, directional sparks along the travel vector,
cyan arc ripple on shield hits vs orange shards on hull hits, white craft hit-flash,
and a polished damage-number pop.
- Add player shield-sphere strike effect: full-sphere outline + bright arc centered on
the laser's incoming bearing, radial ripple, spark burst, and a shield-collapse cue
when shields break to hull.
- Add subtle world-camera shake on player hits, enemy kills, and shield-break while
keeping the HUD/combat bar perfectly still via the fx-ui camera split.
- Expose new visual knobs (bolt size/trail, muzzle, arc span, shake intensity) in
data/combat.json; fix Fx.update destroying ships on tintFlash expiry.
Brian Fertig