Moddable ships: starter command, top-speed fix, Wren stand-in package, thrust-scale test pins #1
2026-11-10
Merge master into moddable-ships-wiring
#3 landed the same --top-speed fix this branch already carried; both conflicting files keep this branch's version (same behavior, stronger test). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-06
fly <hull> reaches unoffered hulls through their Loadout; authoring doc no longer says console-only
A hull no maker offers is drawn by no generator, so fly now falls back to a catalog Loadout of the named ship hull (Loadouts.Materialize with the game's chooser). The authoring doc claimed a product-less package is console-only; it is unreachable unless a Loadout fits it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-05
Wren: product renamed Wren Courier; 'Wren' collided with a shipped product and compose excluded the package
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tests that pin a thruster's authored push read it at ThrustScale 1
e0c1daa4e made thrust a tenth of authored by default (GameplaySettings.ThrustScale = .1), which broke twelve tests that pin what a thruster, a hull or a brain does (Brownout, ConditionRatio, Longinus top speed, the evasion, approach and envelope tests, SimRateEquivalence). Their fixtures now state ThrustScale 1: they pin mechanics, and a retune of the global knob does not move them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wren: the starter's first package, a stand-in light courier in GameData/Mods
Written by ship-authoring starter --like Djinni, priced, with an unoffered Aeronautics Unlimited product (so the census counts it sold and no faction fields a box). Tests: it composes into the catalog, its mounts take catalog gear, and the fitted ship moves under thrust. Drop the directory to remove it; replace the model through Blender and Package to make it a real hull. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ship-authoring starter: a complete flyable package for authors with no Blender
Writes <mods>/<id>/ship.cc and ship.glb: a shipped hull's stats, a 4x6 grid with two drives, a radiator, two energy guns and the internal modules, and a boxed model carrying every anchor. The package is read back through ShipModCatalog.ReadPackage, so the GLB's node ids and mesh roles are judged by the reader the game boots with. Refuses to overwrite a package. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ship-authoring stats --top-speed adds the VelocityLimit a hull made without --like lacks
validate refuses a ship hull with no top speed, and stats --top-speed refused a hull with none, so a package made without --like could not be made valid by any command (follow-up package-hull-top-speed). The flag now adds exactly one VelocityLimit and edits it on a later run; two stay refused. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>