GravityField is now the band term U(eps, inner, outer) (C4 smoothstep fade, closed form and a series for tau > 1).
WellTree is built once per Zone from the orbit tree: node terms, reach, support, the pruned Force/Potential walk and
PullAround (rails). Zone.GetHeight/GetForce/PeriodAround delegate to it; WellReference, _wellOn, _strengths,
Strength() and DrawAhead.Well are gone; GravityLowering and the shader template take the flat term list;
HeightExaggeration halves to 2.0491803.
Does not pass yet: Gravity.cginc is not regenerated and PotentialOwnerTests/OrbitsFromFieldTests still spell the old law.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GameplaySettings carries ShipLayerHeight 3, OrbitalLayerHeight 15, FloaterLayerHeight 0 (authored in Settings.asset).
Entity.LayerHeight (Ship, OrbitalEntity) is the one offset RideHeight adds; DrawAhead.FloaterHeight is the floater
height ItemPickup and MineInstance draw at. HullData.GridOffset (Key 26) and the pickup/mine/prefab GridOffset fields
are gone with every reader. Fixtures (DrawnPose, FireControl*, ImpactFeedback) take heights from the layer owner;
LayerTests pin each kind's layer. FloatingItemsDrawnSmoke follows. ItemPickup/MineInstance.Bind take the settings from
ZoneRenderer. Builds as one commit with its tests; not compile-verified until the cut's head run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- ActionGameManager: the visible hostile/friendly indicators and MenuMap.Position read DrawAhead.Position at Clock.Lead.
- DrawAhead.Round drops its lead parameter: the target's lead is the drawn time less its zone's step time, derived inside,
so a caller cannot pass two times that disagree. Projectile and BallisticFlightTests updated; the hit tests derive their
lead from the drawn time; two assertions that only varied the now-absent lead are removed.
- Zone.RailAt logs "Requested orbit is not part of this zone!" for a missing parent again (DrawnPoseTests.AMissingParentOrbitIsLoggedAtADrawnTime).
Builds: not yet compiled at this commit (verified by the run that follows).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
HUD target, lock, incoming-lock, bearing and sweep markers anchor on DrawAhead.Position / AtBearing at Clock.Lead.
GravityLowering's record fill is DrawAhead.Well (pure, pinned at non-zero lead). Rounds take DrawAhead.Time
instead of float Zone.Time + lead. Sensor ping, shield hit, compass icons, wormhole bearing, loot ViewOrigin and
the guided-projectile aim read the drawn pose. Not built in Unity yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Planets, belts, wells, loot, mines, stations, the chunk reticle and the flow
clock are evaluated through DrawAhead (Time, Orbit, Height, Position) at one
drawn time; the rail law lives once in Zone.Offset; OrbitPositionAt, GetHeight,
ChunkPose, EvaluateBelt and RideHeight take a time. Fixes the planet jumping
against a co-moving ship at display rates above the step rate.
Not yet built or run (Unity presenter files are verified by compile only on
Starfire).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DrawAhead moved xz ahead but carried the last step's y, so on a slope the ship's height stepped once per sim tick.
Entity.RideHeight is the one owner of 'an unparented entity sits on the field'; the step and DrawAhead both call it.
A child is drawn where its parent is drawn.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
AbsorbEvent gains AbsorbLayer. Entity.Capabilities, four publish sites in ApplyDirectHit and Detonate (each before the damage it reports), Feedback.Cue, DrawAhead.Carried (Impact delegates), PlayerGraphicsSettings.ScreenShake. Not yet built or tested; tests follow in the next commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ZoneRenderer loads and subscribes Zone.Clouds like mines and destroys a bank on removal; VapourCloudInstance
places a Fog Patch brush at DrawAhead.Position(cloud.Body, Lead) and thins its _Depth with OpacityAt. The prefab
and scene wiring follow in the next commit; this one compiles but CloudPrefab is unassigned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FireControl.RoundEnd and RoundAt leave FireControl (RoundEnd to DrawAhead verbatim, RoundAt as DrawAhead's private Line);
DrawAhead.Round takes the published outcome, steers a hit or burst from its frozen line at the commit tick onto its
end (burst point, else the impact cell on the target's drawn pose), and RoundStop is deleted. Projectile caches the
last published ShotOutcome and calls DrawAhead only. BallisticFlightTests move to the new signatures; the frozen-line
moving-target test is replaced by impact-cell, steer and no-drawing-function tests. Unverified: not yet built or run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
RoundEnd(shot, known) is the one statement of when a ballistic round's drawn
flight ends: arrival for a hit, burst or unpublished outcome, the frozen range
(never short of arrival) for a miss. RoundAt takes the known outcome and clamps
at RoundEnd. DrawAhead gains Round, RoundStop, RoundOver (pure, no state) so the
blend, stop and done rules are headless-testable. Seven new tests (ten cases).
Unity build: Projectile.cs still calls the old RoundAt, so this commit does not
compile in Unity (the headless test project does not include Projectile). The
next commit moves Projectile onto the statics.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DrawAhead leaves a ship in a wormhole animation where the step put it. The clock is
one static instance; a zone entered inside a step ends that frame's stepping and the
clock resets between frames (SimClock.Reset throws inside Advance). DrawAhead.Time had
no consumer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DrawAhead.Rotation delegates to Turned(pose, angle) so the turn is testable on a tilted pose, where the flat Duel poses make the quaternion product's off-axis terms vanish. Unverified at this commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first verification showed the rotation sense wrong and no shot resolving in 30 s of Duel; both tests now pin what they claim. Unverified at this commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SimClock (engine-free) turns real frame seconds into whole fixed steps; ActionGameManager.Update feeds it outside the pause gate and Zone.Update(Time.deltaTime) is gone, with IntroCutscene (dead, Unity-driven pose writes). Entity.TurnRate is the sum of the rotation actuators' applied turn per sim second, zeroed each Update; DrawAhead reads it so EntityInstance and ShipInstance draw the latest sim state ahead by Lead. Unverified at this commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
