DUKK's floor-to-ceiling white sliver, decoded: the sprite gate only
asked "did this column's ray warp?" — so a REAL body standing in front
of a warp mouth was clipped out of the mouth's columns (leaving a
baffling sliver of a huge close sprite), and a body virtualized
through warp A could paint columns bent by warp B. Every column now
remembers WHICH warp bent its ray and how far away that mouth stood;
a real body paints a column only nearer than its mouth (in front of
the window), and a virtual one only through its own warp's columns,
beyond the mouth. Projectile legs carry the same identity.
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Eric walked a five-player board's corner warp and the world stretched.
The lane rule — carry the along-the-edge offset through unchanged —
is only correct for half the side pairings: for the rest (N to N,
E to N, and their kin, the ones five-player boards deal), the proper
rotation lands the entry axis head-to-head against the exit axis, and
preserving the raw lane smuggled a REFLECTION into the traversal —
rays crossing over at the mouth, parallax inverted, the far room
swimming. warpLaneMirrored computes the pairing's sign from the
rotation itself; castRay mirrors the lane where required, and
warpMotion anchors the far mouth at its opposite corner to stay the
same pure rotation — so sprites and projectile legs agree with the
rays again. The workshop grows ?players=2..6 to stand on any table
size (the mirror-class mouths live on the five-player boards).
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Rubble drawn to span its gap stopped short of the posts, and the
ledger of blame is arithmetic: billboard widths scaled by the vertical
pixel ratio (H/depth) when horizontal pixels-per-world-unit is the
focal length over depth — about 1.4x larger. Every "one cell wide"
volume rendered at seventy percent. Sprites that declare an aspect now
mean WORLD width and use the horizontal scale, so rubble reaches post
to post and hedges brush both walls; plain square token sprites keep
their familiar pixel shape.
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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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A wizard who has seen through an illusion no longer walks toward empty
air where the board shows a dashed ghost: the ray records the first
known-illusion edge it crosses without stopping, and the renderer
stands a wall there at one-fifth opacity, violet ripple running through
it, drawn over the sprites so bodies show through its breath. Untested
illusions get the same tell the board gives — a faint shimmer on their
solid face, maybe stone, maybe not — while a believed illusion stays
honest brick. The workshop rehearses it with ?illusion=H:2,8.
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Entertainment polish for the instant replay, all through one wizard's
eyes. Doors now slide open along their own edge — Wolf3D style — when
anyone steps through in a reel, hold for the crossing, and swing shut;
the raycaster takes a per-edge openness map and doors carry their
texture with them, leaving a sliver of jamb at the far post. A wall
that dies bursts into stone and shakes the camera, then leaves a mound
of rubble at the fallen edge for the rest of the reel (a tenth
paintable sprite, drawn opaque — debris, not light). Jammed locks
seethe: a rusty pulse across the wood, keyed off the view's own door
states. Walking THROUGH a wall shimmers on both faces and washes the
walker's own screen stone-gray. And every home base wears its owner's
emblem on the flagstones — a near-white paintable overlay tinted by
wizard color per cell in the floor cast.
Testing surfaced a real ghost: a body standing near a far warp mouth
also rendered at its virtual position, which can overlap real
corridors — the depth buffer alone cannot clip it. Every column now
remembers whether its ray bent, and a sprite draws only where its warp
side matches the column's; projectile legs carry the same flag.
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A stride into a warp mouth now carries the walker out of the paired
mouth mid-glide, body turned exactly as the rays turn — canWalk admits
a rim edge only where a mouth waits, and the crawler splits the stride
at the crossing. And with painted conjuration sprites arriving, the fx
pass composites them normally instead of additively: painted art is
ink, not light, and additive blending would bloom its outlines white.
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Three polishes aimed at the instant-replay dream. Other wizards and
creatures now GLIDE between steps in first person instead of blinking
cell to cell — a stride tweens, a teleport still simply arrives. A
projectile whose sight line runs through a warp now flies as two
simultaneous legs under the mouths' rigid motion, so the fireball
plunges into the opening on one side and bursts from the pair on the
other, whichever room the camera stands in. And the saved video is no
longer a bare canvas grab: it composites into a shareable 1280x720
frame with the step's caption burned in — gold actor name, the reel's
own words — and the game's name in the corner, so a clip passed along
explains itself.
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The reel's first-person mode now shows the fight, not just the rooms.
The board flourishes' event map is recast into world space (fx3d):
fireballs, bolts, and thrown things streak caster to target as glowing
billboards; landings swell and fade; blows that land on YOU wash the
screen red and jolt the camera; warp-steps and teleports flash violet;
a hurled body glides fast and straight with its eyes held steady. Nine
paintable conjuration sprites ship at public/fx3d (spec for the artist
in research/), shown in the token workshop beside the masonry.
Three rough edges sharpened along the way: sprites now project through
warp mouths under the same rigid motion the rays use, clipped by the
depth buffer to the opening; fire and warp surfaces pull a different
texture slice per world cell so a long blaze reads as one; and the
replay camera only turns toward an actor its eyes could actually see.
Two more gifts: the reel can record its first-person canvas straight
to a downloadable WebM (⏺ save video), and the About tab now shows
visitors the way into the three workshops.
One buried mine defused: rAF hands frame-start times that can precede
the tween's own clock, and a zero-length turn divided by it — one NaN
facing poisoned every ray black and re-triggered the camera effect
forever. The tween clamps and guards its phases now.
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Zero-width planes vanish when seen end-on. Each wall edge now rises as
a thin box — masonry thickest, door joinery slimmer, fire a mere sheet
— so the ray march tests the slabs of every cell it passes through and
wall ENDS present a cap face. Corners, jambs, and junctions read as
stone with depth instead of paper. Warp traversal, stone cells, and
the rim keep their crossings; the frame budget doesn't notice.
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Sight now runs THROUGH the warps as the rules say: a ray reaching a
mouth re-enters at its pair and marches on, the far side swimming in
violet haze. The floor's furniture joins the scene — bushes stand tall,
safes squat, slime and tacks and pits lie low, dropped daggers glint.
And the replay reel gains a 👁 toggle: relive the catch-up or the whole
tale through your wizard's eyes, the camera turning before it strides,
easing between cells, cutting on teleports, and turning toward whoever
acted while you stood still. The /?fpv workshop grows &demo=1 — two
automatons play a stretch and the real Replay component reruns it.
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Stage one of the replay vision: a canvas raycaster over the GameView —
walls on edges marched by DDA, doors with lintels, firewalls that
flicker, rim warp mouths that shimmer violet, token art billboarded and
occluded per column, torchlit vignette. It renders the view a player
would be SENT, so an illusion this wizard has not seen through stands as
solid as stone in first person too. The /?fpv workshop free-flies a
dealt maze with wall collision, a minimap eye-cone, and ?seed=&x=&y=&dir=
to stand the camera anywhere. Next: drive it from the replay reel.
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