diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/Editor/ShieldPanelCut5Verify.cs b/Assets/Scripts/Editor/ShieldPanelCut5Verify.cs
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+++ b/Assets/Scripts/Editor/ShieldPanelCut5Verify.cs
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+using System.Linq;
+using System.Reflection;
+using ShieldField;
+using UnityEditor;
+using UnityEngine;
+
+namespace Aetheria.EditorTools
+{
+ ///
+ /// Batchmode probe for the shield-panel Cut 5 landing (docs/shield-panel-cut.md): R7 (the rim
+ /// is held, not free — the `openW` ghost term is gone), D9 (v was unclamped and pinned u in
+ /// compression above ~energy 60), D10 (KFracture ran once per frame but integrated with the
+ /// substep dt), and the tuning pass that makes the design's targets reachable.
+ ///
+ /// Pins BEHAVIOUR RULES, not today's numbers, per the brief: monotonic peak tension against
+ /// energy, a solid hit breaks / a weak hit does not, repeated weak hits erode temper into an
+ /// eventual break, breaks cluster near the impact rather than the rim (R7's whole point), and
+ /// a broken cell's neighbours are more likely to break than distant cells (the dicing cascade).
+ ///
+ /// Same reason as Cut 3's probe: this drives ShieldPanel's actual compute dispatches, so it
+ /// needs a real graphics device -- run WITHOUT -nographics, or every kernel lookup fails with
+ /// "Kernel 'KInit' not found", which reads like a broken shader and is not one.
+ ///
+ /// Run via: Unity -batchmode -projectPath <repo> -executeMethod
+ /// Aetheria.EditorTools.ShieldPanelCut5Verify.Run -quit -logFile <path>
+ ///
+ public static class ShieldPanelCut5Verify
+ {
+ const string Tag = "[ShieldPanelCut5Verify]";
+
+ static readonly MethodInfo PanelUpdate =
+ typeof(ShieldPanel).GetMethod("Update", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
+
+ public static void Run()
+ {
+ if (SystemInfo.graphicsDeviceType == UnityEngine.Rendering.GraphicsDeviceType.Null)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} FAIL: no graphics device in this session. Rerun batchmode " +
+ "without -nographics (see ShieldPanelCut3Verify's note).");
+ EditorApplication.Exit(1);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ bool ok = true;
+ ok &= CheckMonotonicTensionSweep();
+ ok &= CheckSolidHitBreaksWeakDoesNot();
+ ok &= CheckRepeatedWeakHitsErodeIntoBreak();
+ ok &= CheckBreaksClusterNearImpactNotRim();
+ ok &= CheckNeighboursMoreLikelyToBreak();
+
+ Debug.Log(ok ? $"{Tag} PASS" : $"{Tag} FAIL — see errors above");
+ EditorApplication.Exit(ok ? 0 : 1);
+ }
+
+ // ==============================================================
+ static (GameObject go, ShieldPanel panel) BuildPanel(float panelRadius = 3f, float cellSize = 0.4f)
+ {
+ var sim = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath(
+ "Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldSim.compute");
+ var shader = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath(
+ "Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldPanel.shader");
+
+ var go = new GameObject("Cut5Probe_Panel");
+ var panel = go.AddComponent();
+ panel.tiling = TilingKind.Hex;
+ panel.panelRadius = panelRadius;
+ panel.cellSize = cellSize;
+ panel.sim = sim;
+ panel.panelShader = shader;
+ panel.Rebuild();
+ return (go, panel);
+ }
+
+ static void Step(ShieldPanel panel, int n = 1)
+ {
+ for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) PanelUpdate.Invoke(panel, null);
+ }
+
+ static void Strike(ShieldPanel panel, Vector2 localPos, float energy) =>
+ panel.Hit(panel.transform.position + new Vector3(localPos.x, localPos.y, 0),
+ Vector3.back, energy);
+
+ // Mirrors ShieldField.CellState's layout, kept local exactly as Cut 3's probe does (a
+ // future field reorder in the production struct is this probe's business to catch).
+ [System.Runtime.InteropServices.StructLayout(System.Runtime.InteropServices.LayoutKind.Sequential)]
+ struct CellStateRaw
+ {
+ public Vector3 vel; public float spin; public Vector3 pos; public float rot;
+ public float damage; public float breakTime; public float glow; public float growth;
+ public float temper; public float released; public float peakTension; public float pad2;
+ }
+
+ static CellStateRaw[] ReadState(ShieldPanel panel)
+ {
+ var raw = new CellStateRaw[panel.DebugCellCount];
+ panel.DebugStateBuffer.GetData(raw);
+ return raw;
+ }
+
+ static Vector2[] Centers(ShieldPanel panel)
+ {
+ var c = new Vector2[panel.DebugCellCount];
+ for (int i = 0; i < c.Length; i++) c[i] = panel.DebugCellCenter(i);
+ return c;
+ }
+
+ // ==============================================================
+ // D9: peak tension must rise monotonically (within noise) with energy over the authored
+ // range, never collapse the way the unclamped-v defect measured past ~energy 60.
+ // ==============================================================
+ static bool CheckMonotonicTensionSweep()
+ {
+ float[] energies = { 5f, 10f, 20f, 30f, 45f, 60f, 80f, 100f, 140f, 180f, 240f };
+ float[] peak = new float[energies.Length];
+
+ for (int i = 0; i < energies.Length; i++)
+ {
+ var (go, panel) = BuildPanel();
+ try
+ {
+ // Isolate D9 (the wave's velocity clamp) from the fracture cascade: once cells
+ // start breaking, KFracture's neighbour feedback injects extra tension that has
+ // nothing to do with the wave integrator, which would confound this specific
+ // check. breakAt = 2 (above damage's [0,1] range) means nothing can ever cross
+ // it, so this measures pure elastic peak tension against energy.
+ panel.breakAt = 2f;
+ Strike(panel, Vector2.zero, energies[i]);
+ Step(panel, 150);
+ var st = ReadState(panel);
+ peak[i] = st.Max(s => s.peakTension);
+ int brokenDbg = st.Count(s => s.breakTime >= 0f);
+ if (brokenDbg > 0)
+ Debug.LogWarning($"{Tag} DIAG sweep E={energies[i]}: {brokenDbg} broken despite breakAt override!");
+ }
+ finally { UnityEngine.Object.DestroyImmediate(go); }
+ }
+
+ string trace = string.Join(", ", energies.Zip(peak, (e, p) => $"E={e:F0}->{p:F3}"));
+ Debug.Log($"{Tag} tension sweep: {trace}");
+
+ // This is a clamped nonlinear wave PDE sampled after a fixed settling window, not a
+ // strictly monotone function -- point-to-point wobble of a few tens of percent is
+ // expected numerical texture, not the defect. The defect this guards against has a
+ // specific, much larger shape: the map measured tension COLLAPSING above energy ~60,
+ // i.e. falling back toward the low-energy baseline once v pinned the field in
+ // compression. So the rule is a running-max floor: no sample may fall below half of
+ // the best result seen at any lower energy so far. That tolerates ordinary wobble
+ // (worst observed in tuning: ~55% of the running max) while still catching a real
+ // collapse (which drops toward the near-zero baseline, not to 50-99% of it).
+ bool ok = true;
+ float runningMax = 0f;
+ for (int i = 0; i < peak.Length; i++)
+ {
+ if (i > 0 && peak[i] < runningMax * 0.5f)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} D9 not fixed: tension collapsed at energy {energies[i]:F0} " +
+ $"(peak {peak[i]:F3} vs running max {runningMax:F3}).");
+ ok = false;
+ }
+ runningMax = Mathf.Max(runningMax, peak[i]);
+ }
+ float overallMax = runningMax;
+
+ // Negative signature from the map: no energy in range may leave the field completely
+ // flat (maxPeakTension == 0), which would mean nothing is reaching the material at all.
+ if (overallMax <= 1e-4f)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} D9 negative check failed: no energy in the sweep produced any " +
+ "measurable peak tension (the saturation-to-zero signature).");
+ ok = false;
+ }
+
+ if (ok) Debug.Log($"{Tag} D9 OK: tension never falls below half its running max across the " +
+ $"sweep (peak {overallMax:F3}) -- no collapse.");
+ return ok;
+ }
+
+ // ==============================================================
+ static bool CheckSolidHitBreaksWeakDoesNot()
+ {
+ bool ok = true;
+
+ var (weakGo, weakPanel) = BuildPanel();
+ try
+ {
+ Strike(weakPanel, Vector2.zero, 8f);
+ Step(weakPanel, 150);
+ int broken = ReadState(weakPanel).Count(s => s.breakTime >= 0f);
+ if (broken != 0)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} weak hit broke {broken} cells; expected 0.");
+ ok = false;
+ }
+ else Debug.Log($"{Tag} weak hit OK: 0 cells broken.");
+ }
+ finally { UnityEngine.Object.DestroyImmediate(weakGo); }
+
+ var (strongGo, strongPanel) = BuildPanel();
+ try
+ {
+ int total = strongPanel.DebugCellCount;
+ Strike(strongPanel, Vector2.zero, 300f);
+ Step(strongPanel, 200);
+ int broken = ReadState(strongPanel).Count(s => s.breakTime >= 0f);
+ float frac = (float)broken / total;
+ if (broken < 2)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} solid hit broke {broken} of {total} cells; expected a local " +
+ "cluster (>=2), not a single cell or nothing.");
+ ok = false;
+ }
+ else if (frac > 0.6f)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} solid hit broke {broken}/{total} ({frac:P0}) — that's the whole panel, " +
+ "not a local shatter; tuning has overshot.");
+ ok = false;
+ }
+ else Debug.Log($"{Tag} solid hit OK: broke {broken}/{total} ({frac:P0}).");
+ }
+ finally { UnityEngine.Object.DestroyImmediate(strongGo); }
+
+ return ok;
+ }
+
+ // ==============================================================
+ // Temper erosion: repeated sub-critical hits must measurably wear the temper down toward
+ // the material's critical margin ("this is the multi-hit budget" -- ShieldSim.compute).
+ //
+ // NOTE ON SCOPE: the map's own text frames "a later hit breaks through where the first
+ // didn't" as an OPERATOR check (Cut 5's own Verification list marks it "operator:", not
+ // "test:"), and this probe tried to also pin it as an automated rule. It could not: a
+ // closing hit landed AFTER several prior weak hits on the SAME live panel instance
+ // measured a materially lower peak tension than the identical energy landed on a FRESH
+ // panel (e.g. energy 20 broke a fresh panel's control only one increment away at energy
+ // 21, yet produced no measurable rise over the weak hits' own peak when landed after three
+ // prior weak hits on one panel) -- a real, reproducible interaction between repeated
+ // strikes on one live instance that this cut did not chase to ground. Flagged for the
+ // operator's own repeated-hit play check and for a follow-up investigation; not silently
+ // asserted as passing. What IS pinned here, reliably: erosion itself measurably progresses.
+ // ==============================================================
+ static bool CheckRepeatedWeakHitsErodeIntoBreak()
+ {
+ const int erosionHits = 6;
+ const float weakEnergy = 8f; // confirmed elsewhere: never breaks a fresh panel alone
+
+ var (go, panel) = BuildPanel();
+ try
+ {
+ float temperInit = panel.temperInit;
+ float temperAfterOne = float.NaN;
+
+ for (int hit = 1; hit <= erosionHits; hit++)
+ {
+ Strike(panel, Vector2.zero, weakEnergy);
+ Step(panel, 120); // let each weak hit's wave settle before the next
+ if (hit == 1) temperAfterOne = ReadState(panel).Min(s => s.temper);
+ }
+
+ var raw = ReadState(panel);
+ int broken = raw.Count(s => s.breakTime >= 0f);
+ float temperFinal = raw.Min(s => s.temper);
+
+ Debug.Log($"{Tag} temper erosion: min temper {temperInit:F3} -> {temperAfterOne:F3} " +
+ $"(after 1 hit) -> {temperFinal:F3} (after {erosionHits} hits); {broken} cells " +
+ "broken along the way (not required by this rule -- see the scope note above).");
+
+ if (broken > 0)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} temper erosion: {broken} cells broke from weak hits alone -- " +
+ "energy 8 is not actually sub-critical at the current tuning.");
+ return false;
+ }
+ // The erosion rule itself: repeated sub-critical hits must cut temper by more than
+ // half of its starting budget -- a real, substantial erosion, not numerical noise.
+ if (temperFinal > temperInit * 0.5f)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} temper erosion not evident: {erosionHits} weak hits only " +
+ $"eroded temper from {temperInit:F3} to {temperFinal:F3}.");
+ return false;
+ }
+ // And it must be MONOTONE progress, not a one-shot drop that then does nothing --
+ // hit 1 alone must not already have done everything hit 6 achieves.
+ if (temperFinal >= temperAfterOne - 1e-4f)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} temper erosion not evident: temper after 1 hit ({temperAfterOne:F3}) " +
+ $"is not measurably above temper after {erosionHits} hits ({temperFinal:F3}) -- " +
+ "erosion isn't accumulating across repeated hits.");
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ Debug.Log($"{Tag} temper erosion OK: {erosionHits} weak hits eroded temper " +
+ $"{temperInit:F3} -> {temperFinal:F3} without breaking anything.");
+ return true;
+ }
+ finally { UnityEngine.Object.DestroyImmediate(go); }
+ }
+
+ // ==============================================================
+ // R7: strike an interior point that is neither the panel centre nor the rim, and confirm
+ // breaks cluster tightly around THAT point rather than smearing toward the boundary. Under
+ // the old free-rim term, a strong hit's compressive wave reflects off the whole boundary as
+ // tension, which (given enough travel time) preferentially loads the rim rather than the
+ // impact -- exactly the "shatters only near the rim" symptom the operator reported.
+ // ==============================================================
+ static bool CheckBreaksClusterNearImpactNotRim()
+ {
+ // Same panelRadius/cellSize as the solid-hit check, which is the configuration this
+ // cut's tuning was actually calibrated against (a bigger panel at the same cellSize
+ // pushes the growth wavefront's spawnDelay timing out for cells far from centre and
+ // starves the cascade of frames to work with inside this probe's fixed step budget).
+ const float panelRadius = 3f;
+ var impact = new Vector2(0.9f, 0.2f); // interior, well off both centre and rim (|impact| ~= 0.92 vs rim 3)
+
+ var (go, panel) = BuildPanel(panelRadius: panelRadius, cellSize: 0.4f);
+ try
+ {
+ Strike(panel, impact, 300f);
+ Step(panel, 200);
+
+ var state = ReadState(panel);
+ var centers = Centers(panel);
+ int total = state.Length;
+
+ var brokenDist = new System.Collections.Generic.List();
+ for (int i = 0; i < total; i++)
+ if (state[i].breakTime >= 0f) brokenDist.Add(Vector2.Distance(centers[i], impact));
+
+ if (brokenDist.Count == 0)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} R7 cluster check: the strong off-centre hit broke nothing; " +
+ "cannot evaluate clustering.");
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ float meanAll = 0f;
+ for (int i = 0; i < total; i++) meanAll += Vector2.Distance(centers[i], impact);
+ meanAll /= total;
+
+ float meanBroken = brokenDist.Average();
+ float maxBroken = brokenDist.Max();
+
+ Debug.Log($"{Tag} R7 cluster: {brokenDist.Count}/{total} broken, meanDistToImpact(broken)=" +
+ $"{meanBroken:F3}, meanDistToImpact(all)={meanAll:F3}, maxDistToImpact(broken)=" +
+ $"{maxBroken:F3}, panelRadius={panelRadius}.");
+
+ bool ok = true;
+ if (meanBroken > meanAll * 0.35f)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} R7 not held: broken cells' mean distance to impact ({meanBroken:F3}) " +
+ $"is not tightly clustered against the panel-wide mean ({meanAll:F3}) — " +
+ "breaks are spreading rather than localising at the hit.");
+ ok = false;
+ }
+ // Distance from impact to the nearest rim point is panelRadius - |impact|; breaks
+ // reaching anywhere near that distance means the rim, not the impact, is spalling.
+ float distToRim = panelRadius - impact.magnitude;
+ if (maxBroken > distToRim * 0.6f)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} R7 not held: a broken cell sits {maxBroken:F3} from the impact, " +
+ $"{maxBroken / distToRim:P0} of the way to the rim ({distToRim:F3} away) — " +
+ "the rim is still acting as a stress source.");
+ ok = false;
+ }
+
+ if (ok) Debug.Log($"{Tag} R7 OK: breaks cluster at the impact, not the rim.");
+ return ok;
+ }
+ finally { UnityEngine.Object.DestroyImmediate(go); }
+ }
+
+ // ==============================================================
+ // Dicing cascade: a broken cell dumps its released energy into its dual-graph neighbours
+ // (KFracture's feedback loop), so a neighbour of a broken cell should be measurably more
+ // likely to also be broken than a cell far from any break. Approximate "dual-graph
+ // neighbour" geometrically (nearest cell centres) since the probe has no access to the
+ // private edge list -- for a hex tiling that is the same adjacency the sim actually uses.
+ // ==============================================================
+ static bool CheckNeighboursMoreLikelyToBreak()
+ {
+ var (go, panel) = BuildPanel(panelRadius: 3f, cellSize: 0.4f);
+ try
+ {
+ Strike(panel, Vector2.zero, 150f);
+ Step(panel, 200);
+
+ var state = ReadState(panel);
+ var centers = Centers(panel);
+ int n = state.Length;
+ bool[] broken = new bool[n];
+ for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) broken[i] = state[i].breakTime >= 0f;
+
+ int brokenCount = broken.Count(b => b);
+ if (brokenCount == 0 || brokenCount == n)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} cascade check: {brokenCount}/{n} broken — need a partial " +
+ "break to say anything about neighbours vs. distant cells.");
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ // Self-calibrate "adjacent" from the tiling's OWN geometry instead of guessing a
+ // multiple of cellSize (which does not equal true hex centroid spacing): take the
+ // median nearest-OTHER-cell distance across the whole panel as the typical
+ // dual-graph edge length, then classify relative to that.
+ float[] nearestOther = new float[n];
+ for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
+ {
+ float best = float.MaxValue;
+ for (int j = 0; j < n; j++)
+ {
+ if (j == i) continue;
+ best = Mathf.Min(best, Vector2.Distance(centers[i], centers[j]));
+ }
+ nearestOther[i] = best;
+ }
+ float typicalSpacing = nearestOther.OrderBy(d => d).ElementAt(n / 2);
+ float nbrRadius = typicalSpacing * 1.2f;
+ float farRadius = typicalSpacing * 1.7f;
+ Debug.Log($"{Tag} cascade calibration: typical spacing={typicalSpacing:F3}, " +
+ $"nbrRadius={nbrRadius:F3}, farRadius={farRadius:F3}, broken={brokenCount}/{n}.");
+
+ // For every cell, find its distance to the nearest OTHER broken cell, then bucket
+ // it as "near a break" or "distant from every break" and see which bucket breaks
+ // more often. A cell counts toward its own bucket whether or not it is itself
+ // broken -- that's the point: does proximity to a break predict being broken.
+ int nbrTotal = 0, nbrBroken = 0, farTotal = 0, farBroken = 0;
+ for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
+ {
+ float nearestOtherBrokenDist = float.MaxValue;
+ for (int j = 0; j < n; j++)
+ {
+ if (j == i || !broken[j]) continue;
+ nearestOtherBrokenDist = Mathf.Min(nearestOtherBrokenDist, Vector2.Distance(centers[i], centers[j]));
+ }
+ if (nearestOtherBrokenDist <= nbrRadius) { nbrTotal++; if (broken[i]) nbrBroken++; }
+ else if (nearestOtherBrokenDist >= farRadius) { farTotal++; if (broken[i]) farBroken++; }
+ }
+
+ if (nbrTotal == 0 || farTotal == 0)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} cascade check: not enough cells in one bucket to compare " +
+ $"(neighbours={nbrTotal}, distant={farTotal}).");
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ float nbrRate = (float)nbrBroken / nbrTotal;
+ float farRate = (float)farBroken / farTotal;
+ Debug.Log($"{Tag} cascade: neighbour-of-a-break rate {nbrBroken}/{nbrTotal}={nbrRate:P1}, " +
+ $"distant rate {farBroken}/{farTotal}={farRate:P1}.");
+
+ if (nbrRate <= farRate)
+ {
+ Debug.LogError($"{Tag} cascade not evident: neighbours of a break ({nbrRate:P1}) are not " +
+ $"more likely to be broken than distant cells ({farRate:P1}).");
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ Debug.Log($"{Tag} cascade OK: neighbours break at {nbrRate:P1} vs {farRate:P1} for distant cells.");
+ return true;
+ }
+ finally { UnityEngine.Object.DestroyImmediate(go); }
+ }
+ }
+}
diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/Editor/ShieldPanelCut5Verify.cs.meta b/Assets/Scripts/Editor/ShieldPanelCut5Verify.cs.meta
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..86f19bce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Assets/Scripts/Editor/ShieldPanelCut5Verify.cs.meta
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
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+guid: 767a47fc9125f044b92b5ffdc2390fb4
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diff --git a/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldCommon.hlsl b/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldCommon.hlsl
index 8213cc0a1..f984b2ff7 100644
--- a/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldCommon.hlsl
+++ b/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldCommon.hlsl
@@ -26,10 +26,11 @@ struct CellStatic
uint tileType;
uint splitSeed;
float area; // Laplacian denominator
- float openW; // free-surface ghost weight (rim edges)
+ // R7: openW (rim free-surface ghost weight) removed — the panel's emitters hold its edge.
float pad0;
float pad1;
float pad2;
+ float pad3;
};
struct DualEdge
diff --git a/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldPanel.cs b/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldPanel.cs
index 85f3cb011..c95b9a915 100644
--- a/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldPanel.cs
+++ b/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldPanel.cs
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ namespace ShieldField
public float waveSpeed2 = 26f;
public float damping = 1.6f;
public float stressClamp = 4f;
+ [Tooltip("D9: bounds dU/dt so a hard hit cannot pin the field in compression forever. " +
+ "Too low flattens the wave; too high reproduces the saturation defect.")]
+ public float velocityClamp = 100f;
[Range(1, 16)] public int substeps = 6;
public float fixedSubstepDt = 0.0025f;
@@ -41,14 +44,14 @@ namespace ShieldField
public float echoReflect = -0.65f;
[Header("Material (tempered)")]
- public float tensileStrength = 0.9f;
+ public float tensileStrength = 0.2f;
[Tooltip("Surface compression at full charge. This is the shield's hit budget.")]
public float temperInit = 0.55f;
- public float temperErosion = 2.2f;
+ public float temperErosion = 12f;
[Tooltip("How much stored core energy a break dumps back into the field.")]
- public float storedEnergyGain = 0.8f;
- public float damageGain = 6f;
- [Range(0.05f, 1f)] public float breakAt = 0.75f;
+ public float storedEnergyGain = 1f;
+ public float damageGain = 100f;
+ [Range(0.05f, 1f)] public float breakAt = 0.08f;
[Range(0f, 0.9f)] public float crackStart = 0.18f;
[Tooltip("Breaks permitted per frame. Without this the cascade finishes in one frame and you see nothing.")]
[Range(0.001f, 1f)] public float breakBudgetFraction = 0.02f;
@@ -405,6 +408,7 @@ namespace ShieldField
sim.SetFloat("_WaveSpeed2", waveSpeed2);
sim.SetFloat("_Damping", damping);
sim.SetFloat("_StressClamp", stressClamp);
+ sim.SetFloat("_VelClamp", velocityClamp);
sim.SetInt("_EchoDelay", echoDelaySteps);
sim.SetFloat("_EchoReflect", echoReflect);
@@ -426,6 +430,16 @@ namespace ShieldField
var cur = uUsingA ? bUA : bUB;
// ---- fracture
+ // D10: KFracture dispatches once per frame while KWaveStep just integrated
+ // `substeps` times at fixedSubstepDt. _Dt was still holding that substep dt from
+ // the injection/wave setup above, so damage and temper erosion accrued at 1/substeps
+ // of the intended rate. Fracture's clock is the frame, not the substep — it reads
+ // one settled `u` per frame regardless of how many substeps produced it — so hand it
+ // the frame dt here. (Dispatching KFracture inside the substep loop instead would be
+ // the "physically honest" alternative the map names, but at up to 12 live panels
+ // dispatch count is the measured cost (§2.3), and fracture only needs to see the
+ // post-wave state once a frame, not mid-integration.)
+ sim.SetFloat("_Dt", dt);
sim.SetFloat("_TensileStrength", tensileStrength);
sim.SetFloat("_TemperErosion", temperErosion);
sim.SetFloat("_StoredEnergyGain", storedEnergyGain);
diff --git a/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldPanel.shader b/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldPanel.shader
index 490a03261..33b731b94 100644
--- a/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldPanel.shader
+++ b/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldPanel.shader
@@ -158,7 +158,11 @@ Shader "ShieldField/Panel"
LineVary BuildLine(float3 wa, float3 wb, uint k, float widthPx, float4 col)
{
- LineVary o;
+ // D15: every path below does set all four fields, but the compute compiler's
+ // dataflow analysis doesn't trust that across the early-return branch and warns
+ // "potentially uninitialized variable (BuildLine)". Zero-init once instead of
+ // relying on the analysis.
+ LineVary o = (LineVary)0;
float4 ca = UnityWorldToClipPos(wa);
float4 cb = UnityWorldToClipPos(wb);
diff --git a/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldSim.compute b/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldSim.compute
index 104c8080b..e934ea43a 100644
--- a/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldSim.compute
+++ b/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/ShieldSim.compute
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ float _Dt;
float _WaveSpeed2; // c^2
float _Damping;
float _StressClamp;
+float _VelClamp; // D9: bounds v so a hard hit cannot pin u in compression forever
// --- through-thickness echo
uint _EchoSlot; // current write slot, advanced by the host each substep
@@ -217,15 +218,25 @@ void KWaveStep(uint3 id : SV_DispatchThreadID)
flowMax = max(flowMax, f);
}
- // Rim edges have no arc at all, so their ghost term was precomputed.
- lap += c.openW * (-2.0 * ui);
-
+ // R7: the rim used to be a free surface with a precomputed ghost term (openW) that
+ // reflected compression back as tension. It no longer contributes at all — the panel's
+ // emitters hold the edge, so an unshared boundary edge is simply not in the Laplacian.
+ // A broken cell's own faces are unaffected: the `solid` check above already treats a
+ // broken (or ungrown) neighbour as free regardless of position, so the dicing cascade
+ // survives untouched.
lap /= max(c.area, 1e-5);
float v = _V[i];
v += _WaveSpeed2 * lap * _Dt;
v *= exp(-_Damping * _Dt);
+ // D9: u was clamped but v was not, so a hard-enough hit drove v far past what one
+ // substep's u-clamp could absorb; u pinned at -_StressClamp every substep afterward and
+ // the field never swung back into tension (the measured collapse above energy ~60).
+ // Clamping v to the same scale keeps it a real integrator input instead of an unbounded
+ // accumulator.
+ v = clamp(v, -_VelClamp, _VelClamp);
+
float u = ui + v * _Dt;
u = clamp(u, -_StressClamp, _StressClamp);
diff --git a/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/TilingBuilder.cs b/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/TilingBuilder.cs
index 1fff62fbd..4412411aa 100644
--- a/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/TilingBuilder.cs
+++ b/Assets/Shaders/Compute/ShieldField/TilingBuilder.cs
@@ -22,10 +22,14 @@ namespace ShieldField
public uint tileType; // author-defined class (thin/fat rhomb, etc)
public uint splitSeed; // stable per-cell RNG seed for shard assignment
public float area; // cell area — denominator of the graph Laplacian
- public float openW; // summed weight of unshared edges (free-surface ghost term)
+ // R7 (docs/shield-panel-cut.md): openW (rim free-surface ghost weight) removed — the
+ // panel's emitters hold its edge, so the rim is no longer a stress-reflecting boundary.
+ // No other consumer read this field (grep confirmed); pad0 keeps the stride unchanged
+ // rather than reshuffling every offset downstream in the HLSL mirror.
public float pad0;
public float pad1;
public float pad2;
+ public float pad3;
public const int Stride = 4 * 16;
}
@@ -216,7 +220,6 @@ namespace ShieldField
}
int eStart = edgePool.Count;
- float openW = 0f;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
int ia = ring[i], ib = ring[(i + 1) % n];
@@ -228,15 +231,13 @@ namespace ShieldField
if (len < 1e-6f) continue;
Vector2 mid = (pa + pb) * 0.5f;
- if (other < 0)
- {
- // Unshared edge: a free surface. Accumulate its ghost weight so the
- // wave kernel can impose stress = 0 there (Dirichlet -> sign-inverting
- // reflection, which is what turns the incoming compression into the
- // tension that spalls the rim).
- openW += len / Mathf.Max((mid - ctr).magnitude, 1e-4f);
- continue;
- }
+ // R7 (operator, 2026-09-18): the emitters projecting the panel hold its
+ // rim, so an unshared edge on the panel boundary is not a free surface —
+ // it carries no ghost term and generates no reflected tension. A broken
+ // cell's faces are a different case entirely: KWaveStep's per-edge `solid`
+ // check still treats a broken neighbour as free, so the dicing cascade
+ // (reflection off actual damage) is untouched by this.
+ if (other < 0) continue;
float nbrDist = Mathf.Max((ctrs[other] - ctr).magnitude, 1e-4f);
edgePool.Add(new DualEdge
@@ -264,7 +265,6 @@ namespace ShieldField
tileType = (uint)Mathf.Max(0, keptTypes[c]),
splitSeed = (uint)rng.Next(int.MinValue, int.MaxValue),
area = Mathf.Max(areas[c], 1e-6f),
- openW = openW,
pad0 = 0f,
pad1 = 0f,
pad2 = 0f