Most ships cannot climb straight out of a well and use orbits; an overspecced hull like the Longinus still can (operator direction, 2026-10-29). DragScale defaults to 1, unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The allocator already serves a turn by the best-ratio thrusters first; the axis was a fraction of total yaw, so a hull whose best-ratio pair holds little of it (the Longinus's front pair) saturated them in the first tenth of input and lurched on its drives. Ship.BandedTurn maps the player's axis so each band joins over an equal share of travel; full input is still full yaw. AI and the allocator are unchanged (operator request, 2026-10-29).
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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.
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GravityField is the law of one well (logarithmic tail, softened core).
Zone.GetForce and GetHeight sum it over the bodies; GetNormal derives from
the force for ship tilt; Flow and Ship read GetForce. Well strength, core
radius and Roche limit are PlanetSettings curves of mass, height
exaggeration K one global. Deletes GravityAcceleration, GravityReferenceRate,
GravityStrength, the PowerPulse well, GetNormal's finite differences and
BodyData.GravityDepthExponent. Settings.asset carries the calibrated curves.
Tests: PotentialOwnerTests, the moon's moon placement, retired keys over every
BodyData type, a body-derived giant sweep. Not yet built or run (verify job
follows); this commit may not build.
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The lock stops being an intent rewrite in Ship.Update: ThrustAllocator.Allocate takes forwardFloor, which ignores the
stick, asks full forward and holds every column with y > 0 at full (ruling overdrive-forward-floor). Ship allocates in
Entity's new UpdateThrottles phase, after every item's UpdatePerformance and before the power bus and Execute, so
liveness and thrust are the ones Execute acts on (finding liveness-read-before-performance).
Tests follow in the next commits; the test project still compiles, new behaviour is untested here.
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Ship.Update hands the intent (the throttle lock's one line) and every thruster's live
Column(NominalThrust) to one ThrustAllocator and writes each Axis from its throttle.
Thruster gains NominalThrust and Column; the .01 throttle gates become > 0.
Does not build the test project: EvasionTermTests still read the deleted aggregates
(next commit rewrites them). Not compiled in Unity.
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TurnTime has no caller; IAnalogBehavior's only implementer is Thruster. Pure
deletes, no behaviour change. Not compiled in Unity (the operator's); the
Shared tests build at the end.
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ThrottleLockData (union 41) marks the lock; Entity.ThrottleLocked is derived from the
active effects; Ship.Update reads one `move` in place of MovementDirection. Turn is
untouched (ruling overdrive-keep-steering). Not yet verified by a build when committed.
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AetherDriveData and AetherDrive, Union(12) (now a retired-do-not-reuse comment, as 26 is),
HardpointType.AetherDrive (last member, nothing shifts), Ship's drive sets, aggregates and
Axis write, the five request-field rows, GameplaySettings Aether multipliers, ShipInstance's
drive particles, SchematicDisplay's RPM display and AetherDriveUi, the undock refusal's drive
clause, the drive prefab and material, and AetherDb's drive roles and brownout row. The
design is kept at parked/aether-drive.
Adds EveryShippedShipHullHasATopSpeed. ARPG.unity still holds stale serialized references to
the removed SchematicDisplay fields and the RPM Display object; the next commit removes them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Soul gate closed at verdict cut-evasion-term.s5 (head 473a4bcc); remaining Low
test gaps are deferred to a follow-up. Merged under operator ruling
aetheria-release:ruling:completed-cuts-merge. Carries the migrated
GameData/Aetheria.cc (LFS sha256 63250cf2...7ae25); master did not change the
catalog.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ship.Update no longer clamps Turn: Thruster.Axis saturates and AetherDrive.Axis
clamps, which is where the bound is enforced. TurnIsClampedToOne becomes
TheActuatorsBoundATurnBeyondOne and asserts the actuator bounds directly. The turn
rate is pinned against a value computed from each thruster's Torque, Thrust,
TorqueMultiplier and the hull's Mass; the behind-the-hull rule is probed at 85 and
95 degrees.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The law ships felt (normalize(f) * strength * (1/(1-|f|^2) - 1), gated at |f|^2 .001) is
now Zone.GravityAcceleration, per second via a 60 Hz reference rate; Ship.Update applies it
times delta, so ships push as before at 60 fps. Zone.GetForce's separate law is gone and
delegates to it. Floating-body drift at 60 fps now matches the legacy GridObject magnitude.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ruling retire-longinusx. AetherDrive.Manoeuvre and the drive line in Ship.RecalculateEnvelope go: the envelope
sums thrusters only. TheDrivesReportReadsItsStateAndTheShipsSpeed, the EvGemini fixture and the drive-only asserts
are deleted. Sideways jinks and the shooters' target move to the generated Djinni; the gun platforms (FastBlast+-,
ColdFire) are EvLonginus, the Duel's guns on a Longinus. TheThreeShipsOrder becomes TheShipsOrder.
Not built or run on its own: verified together with the mount term at the head.
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Ship.Update reads Turn and feeds the rotation thrusters and aether drives; it no longer reads the
look direction or snaps Direction toward it. Steering.Toward is the one law from heading to demand
(a heading astern now turns at full demand). HelmInput owns the face-the-aim state. Accelerate,
Combat and MoveTo write Turn through Steering.Toward. Entity.LookDirection is renamed Aim in the
simulation, the Unity readers and the tests. Unity player input follows in the next commit.
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Every hit price gains one factor, PDeviation(Evasion, Tracking): how far the target can
and does move off the line of fire within SolutionWindow (0.75 s). Capability is Reach, an
eight-face closed form over the ship's ManoeuvreEnvelope (summed from what each live
thruster and aether drive reports with its own Execute arithmetic, read live: a thruster's
Thrust property is stale until it fires, which is why the Djinni moved 1.6 times its stats,
M25). Behaviour is ManoeuvreTrack, observed once per Entity.Update from the measured
acceleration; a steady burn, coasting and a dither much faster than the window do not
evade, and sideways speed alone does not (ruling evasion-speed). The commit price adds the
term at any flight time, so an instant weapon feels a jinking target. Forecast owns the
term for HitProbability and Inspect, which gain Evasion and PEvasion.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Entity.Target is one slot of TargetRef, read-only from outside
(IReadOnlyReactiveProperty); Entity.SetTarget is its one writer. A chunk is
taken only while the entity can see it, so a rock in darkness cannot be
picked. Every handler, agent, turret and test writes through SetTarget.
- Entity.ChunkInfo (Q14 A): the value the per-tick sensor rule settles at,
computed on demand through Sensor.PassiveRate/Sensor.Gain -- sum of the
active sensors' passive rates over (sensors x TargetInfoDecay), capped at 1.
Stored nowhere; no per-tick loop over chunks. ChunkVisible is the detection
threshold through the chunk path.
- The lost-track rule reads through the chunk path: Activate's reconciliation
and a per-tick check of the one slot drop a chunk target that has gone dark.
- Entity.VisibleChunksInReach (Q13 A): visible chunks within the longest range
among active weapons -- the one reach rule for cycling and programmatic picks.
- Entity-only readers take .Entity: TargetedBy/TargetedByCount, target items,
the stance gate (a chunk has no stance), lock (Q12 A: never on a chunk),
turrets, Combat, Minion, FireControl (a chunk fires untargeted until Cut 4).
TargetRange and the arc gate read a chunk's planar position.
- ActionGameManager: the reticle and next/previous offer visible ships and
visible chunks in reach; nearest stays enemies-only; the target panel,
indicator and fire-control debug take TargetRef. EntityInstance reads .Entity.
- MiningCut3Tests pin parity, darkness, monotone brightness, wear and break,
reach, the chunk query, target survival and loss, TargetRef equality, lock,
and field-kind assignment at generation and first load.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
AetheriaMath predates the CultMath swap and re-implemented helpers CultMath
now owns. Callers use CultMath directly: decay (Ship, AetherDrive, Entity),
damp (VelocityConversion, FieldTester, FieldDriver), first_order_intercept
(TurretController, Combat, GuidedProjectile), quadratic_bezier (FieldDriver)
and smootherstep (Ship). Parameter order matches in every case, and those
formulas have the same float evaluation order, so behaviour is unchanged.
Galaxy's commented-out segment check names distance_to_segment.
The other overloads had no callers and are dropped without a CultMath
counterpart being needed: the double Damp overloads, FindDistanceToSegment,
GetCatmullRomPosition, GetCubicSplinePosition, Smoothstep(x), and the
Deg2Rad/Rad2Deg constants.
AetherDb census, factions and hardpoint-fit are byte-identical to the
pre-cut captures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every Unity.Mathematics using, alias and qualified name under Assets\Scripts
and tools now names CultMath. The nine `using static ...noise;` lines are
gone: snoise lives on CultMath's math. UnityExtensions loses float4.ToColor
and Color.ToFloat4, which duplicate the bridge's ToColor and ToCultMath; the
float3 colour pair stays because the bridge has none.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixed towing system
Tweaked Nebula Flow (a lot)
Extracted environment appearance settings into ZoneEnvironment data structure
Stardust particles now follow global flow field
Fixed various bugs caused by triggering wormhole animation multiple times
Sector -> Galaxy
Fixed bug in hostility system; deserialized entities' PresencePermitted was silently throwing an exception (due to Faction being null during initialization) and thus never updating in response to security level changes
Worked a bit on story processing
Refactored inventory drag & drop to use new global drag & drop management
Enabled Drag & Drop from inventory panel to action bar
Enabled gear and consumable item binding
Fixed stat modifier behavior to allow it to be toggled
Fixed Switch behavior to make it bindable
Added lambda multiplier to aether drive so that stat mod can target it
Added Aetheric Drive hardpoint and item behavior
Added Drive RPM UI to HUD
Fixed death not disabling continue option
Disabling global input when dialog is visible
Fixed loadout generator failure when zero price item present
Replaced fixed top speed with drag coefficients
Implemented hypothermia death, with associated postprocessing and HUD UI
Fixed heatstroke and hypothermia not triggering death events
Fixed target inventory dropdown not working in trade menu
Added ability to rename ship
Added player death on cockpit destruction
Fixed confirmation dialog not using onconfirm callback
Fixed faulty double click in inventory panel
Fading out heat texture when ship has uniform temperature
Fixed inventory panel displaying incorrect default when no cargo bay equipped
Fixed incorrect state for console and weapon effect managers when restarting from in-game menu
Fixed save/reload when ship is docked at a station
Changed title font to Montserrat
Added trailer-specific camera transitions
Added key to hide UI
Fixed input listening while console is open
Added animated zone reveal effect in galaxy map
Added Ping action for sensors
Added debug console commands (e.g. give command to get any item in legendary+ quality)
Temporarily disabled wwise
Fixed infinite loop in weapon penetration code
Guided missiles now predict target position
Fixed hitscan weapons
Fixed invisible enemies bug
Fixed various loadout generator issues (can now generate turrets!)
Fixed wormhole crash when enemy is targeted
Saving/loading current zone time when exiting game (planets keep their positions)
Created slime simulation in test scene - WIP
Removed blueprint system for crafting (and excised anything depending on that)
Implemented smootherstep and used it for wormhole animation
Quality dependent durability and heat exponents are now global instead of item specific
Database list view now groups equipment by manufacturer
Thrusters can now consume energy
Weapons can have reloads even when they don't have ammo
Added ping feature to sensors, pulsing a wave of revealing light into the level
Added IEventBehavior interface, used by sensors and weapons, for behaviors containing event subscriptions which need to be reset when EntityInstance is disposed
Implemented sensor impact for locked weapons (lock speed varies with sensor acquisition)
Added ping cooldown bar to HUD
Added spline curve implementations to AetheriaMath, applied better mapping to wormhole transition animation
Tweaked loadout generator to prefer larger items to a controllable degree (e.g. very important for cargo bays, less for shop inventory), shop inventory bans non-ship hulls and manages internal space more effectively
Added sector map in Galaxy tab of in-game menu
Added player flag to Ship (replaces AGM.PlayerEntities)
Refactored sector map to depend on AGM
Moved sector generation to main menu
Main menu now supports resuming previous playthrough
Database and player settings now statically available via AGM
AGM saves current game state in PlayerSettings on exit
Sector generation is now asynchronous
Added progress callbacks to sector gen + progress dialog in menu
Confirmation Dialog / properties panel can now display dynamic text entry
Added zone title to Zone map
Eliminated ZoneData class (properties moved to ZonePack)
Sector, Zone and Entity serialization now fully functional
Entity settings now separate from player settings
Cleaned up old unused networking message classes
Name files now integrated with database cache
Added ability to save/load additive DB cache files in database panel
Cleaned up Wwise sound setup - removed redundant items & fixed spelling errors
Deleted Wwise cache + added to .gitignore
Redid all of the property panel UI prefabs (oof)
Implemented saving and loading of the game state
Moved sector generation to sector constructor (along with loading from save file)
Entity settings now separate from player settings
Player settings (incl. saved run) now statically accessible from game manager
Added animations and submenus to the main menu
Unified main menu settings and properties panel styles for prefab reusability
Items will switch themselves off below a customizable threshold to avoid damage
Player can toggle thermal override to disable safety shutdown
Selecting an item allows player to select whether the item will override
Clicking on the background of an inventory panel will display general ship settings (including thermal shutdown threshold)
Performance Stat evaluation has been moved to EquippedItem, slight performance improvement
Item online and active status are now reactive properties
Created player settings file to store e.g. shutdown threshold
Fixed crash when entering wormhole while enemies are visible
Fixed issues when jumping to another zone:
All bodies from the old zone are correctly destroyed
Ship controls & UI transfer smoothly to new ship instance
Animation issues are sorted
Converted entity materials to new fade shader
Implemented visibility system
Refactored per-instance entity code to run inside monobehavior on entity instances
Created state machine AI for enemy ships with basic patrol and combat routines
Removed legacy AI code (controller item behaviors)
Added automatic trigger group assignment for matched weapons
Created ship collision system
Created shield VFX and colliders
New damage system, much easier to understand
Splash damage support
Hardpoint armor consolidated with hull armor
Minimap shows view cone
New industry standard palette for temperature display
Temperature range display contains palette
Restoring loadouts now ignores temperature and armor
Items can ignore thermal mass when adding heat
Burst weapons can consume single ammo (mainly shotguns)
New missile type that follows crosshairs
New airburst projectile type that deals splash damage
Auto Shotgun and Charged Shotgun
Created TurretController, which performs basic combat for fixed orbital installations
Projectiles self-destruct at maximum range
Created turret prefab
Outfitted turret in game manager
Entity position is now 3D
Entities responsible for updating their own position and orientation
Barrel positions and orientations available from entity code
Inventory code will display modal dialog for invalid item moves instead of breaking
Yaw articulation working (full 360 rotation still borked)
