The audit Eric called for, delivered whole. Open doors are DOORWAYS
now: stone jamb posts at both ends and a lintel hung across the top
(paintable as textures/doorframe.png), the way through open to the eye.
Battle damage shows — the engine's per-edge wallDamage wears painted
cracks into any wall, heavier as harm mounts. The wall safe stands as
a strongbox volume instead of a flat token. Hedges take root: an
underbrush floor decal covers the whole square beneath them (Eric's
report — a billboard at center depth can't reach the floor trapezoid's
near edge), and the hedge itself widens past the cell. Rubble
stretches across the fallen wall's full gap, corner piles landing at
the posts, exactly as its art was painted.
The first-person effect gaps close: victory now throws SIX fireworks
climbing over the winner's home with gold washing the screen; sector
rotations flash violet and heave the whole world; the Thumb of God
lands with a burst and a shudder; walls conjured from nothing rise in
stone dust; and every hazard pratfall plays — pit falls (with a dark
drop and jolt for the faller's own eyes), ooze slips, tack yelps,
thorn snaps, slime, dust. Dying in first person fades long and dark.
And the whole tale travels: a finished game's full replay carries the
share button too — turn -1 mints a link to every turn of the game,
each through its wizard's own eyes, titled for the winner's triumph.
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The flat token billboards give way to terrain that inhabits the room.
Pits, slime, tacks, and the dimensional warp's rings are painted INTO
the flagstones — the home-tile decal pass grows into a general per-cell
overlay grid, one texture per cell, alpha-blended texel by texel. Thorn
and rose hedges fill their square wall to wall at half height, drawn
with a near-bias so the wizard standing among the thorns peeks over the
top. The killer ooze rises as a full translucent cube of jello, bricks
and bodies visible through it; dust billows; and each dimensional warp
mouth throws an additive pillar of violet light up from its floor ring.
Billboards learn aspect, translucency, glow, and draw-order bias to
carry it all.
Nine paintable starters ship — four floor decals under textures/, five
standing volumes under terrain3d/ (spec updated for the artist, hedges
wide, jello solid, warpglow as light) — shown in the token workshop,
rehearsable in place with /?fpv&terrain=thornbush@3,7;jello@4,7.
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Eric Wagoner
