A composition can now sit in a scene like a container and play there.
Its items become real objects while they run, so behaviors, colliders
and events work on them as on any other object.
- A composition is placeable with its own symbol, transform and render
layer. The scene view shows its picture at frame 0. A click on that
picture selects the placement, not a single item.
- CompositionSystem spawns each item as an object under the placement
when it begins, with the id <placement>~<item>. On start and the
other events run. The object is destroyed when the item ends.
- The top track lies in front no matter which item started first.
World.arrange() orders the entity list and the scene objects.
- Clips and driven videos follow the same rules as compositionAt().
Loop, restart, stop and the game pause work.
- New nodes: Play composition (with restart), Stop composition and the
event On composition finished. They were planned for step 4 but come
now, because without autoplay nothing could play otherwise.
- The editor run ignores Play composition and says so in the log. It
writes into the saved project, and the items would stay behind.
- contentId() moved to instance.ts. The animation system uses it for
nested ids too.
- Compositions get no "Sort with parent" for now.
Tests: the gate passed with 301 files and 4643 tests, 18 more than
step 1. 13 of them are in tests/core/composition-play.test.ts. The
first gate run failed in event-order.test.ts, which counts the event
nodes and now finds 19. Five counter-checks each turned exactly their
test red. Two order tests stayed green without the fix at first and
were rebuilt. e2e 68 is new and passed with 5 own checks. Its
counter-check without arrange() failed as expected.
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A behavior could move sprites around but had no way to look at or
change the tilemap it was standing on. Doors, breakable blocks and
"is there ground ahead?" checks all need that.
- New nodes Tile at, Set tile, World to cell and Cell to world. The
conversion honours position, rotation, scale and mirroring of the
placed map. A small Tile literal node lets a graph compare what it
read against a fixed tile.
- The layer is picked by name from all tilemap layers in the project
through a new field kind. "First layer" takes the map's first one.
Because layer is an input, a text can also be wired in.
- Each placement keeps only its edited cells in liveTilemap.ts,
layered over the asset's cells. A second placement of the same map
stays untouched, and the asset itself is never written.
- A read sees a Set tile from earlier in the same flow. Drawing picks
up the edit at once and neighbouring autotile edges adapt.
- Solids see the edits straight away, so a Move in the same frame
already hits the new cell. Rapier rebuilds its shapes on the next
step.
- After Stop the map is back to what was painted. The editor run shows
the edit in the scene view while it lasts and does not touch the
project.
- An unwired tilemap input means no map, like Get position. Cells
outside the grid are refused and done reports false.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 155 files, 2271 tests, CHECK EXIT 0 (before 2245).
- tests/core/tile-access.test.ts (14), one physics test for a floor
set at runtime, catalog entries for the five nodes.
- e2e 39,40: all passed, 86 checks (before 81), five new in 40s.
- Counter-checks: collision ignoring edits fails 3 unit tests, the
solids cache missing same-tick edits fails only the "at once" test,
drawing ignoring edits fails the 2 drawing checks, the editor run
not reporting a new tile fails only its check.
- 40s uses a still tile. The animated fixture tile redraws every frame
and hid the last counter-check at first.
- Check total 1351 + 5 = 1356, computed. CI confirmed 1351 at cb32b4b.
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Issue #193 asked where friction, bounciness and density of a tile
live. Tiles had a fixed surface (friction 0.5, bounciness 0) and a
collider could not use the outline drawn on a texture frame (#141).
Both gaps are closed here.
- A collider has a fifth shape "Frame collision" with a Frame row.
The frame is picked like a sprite's texture and stored as the
value 'frame'.
- The shape is linked, not copied. Redrawing the outline in the
texture tab changes every collider using that frame, in the editor
and on the next play.
- The frame centre sits on the collider origin, one image pixel is
one unit. The shape turns, scales and mirrors like any other.
- Every outline ring blocks. Each ring is split into convex parts the
same way a polygon is.
- Without a frame, with a whole texture or with a frame that has no
outline, the collider is drawn red as a box and blocks nothing.
- Move, Rapier, raycast, detection, hit test, drawing and footprint
all resolve the frame. At runtime an entity looks the frame up
live in the current project.
- A tile has Friction and Bounciness next to Solid and One-way. The
rows only show when Solid is on. Defaults and mixing rules match
the collider. Density is left out because a tilemap never moves.
- Tilemap cells are grouped by surface as well as by one-way angle.
Ice and stone never merge into one rectangle, and every cell brings
its surface to Move and Rapier.
Findings:
- A tile with a collision scale below 1 is no longer flush with a
neighbour of another surface. It is inset there like at an open
side, the same as next to one-way tiles today.
- A bounce test first measured 0.84. The ball had landed on the hero
at the origin, not on the tile. On the tile it measures 0.993.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 130 files, 1931 tests, exit 0 (was 129 / 1917).
- 14 new unit tests in tests/core/surface.test.ts. The Move tests run
against the editor run and the physics system.
- 3 new e2e checks: 40l (surface rows follow Solid), 42e (collider
has frame size, a walker climbs the slope in the frame).
- GM_STEPS=1-8,39-43 freshly seeded: ALL PASSED, 376 checks.
- Three counter-probes bite: Move ignores the tile surface (2 fail),
Rapier ignores it (1 fails), frame shape falls back to a box
(5 fail).
- Check sum 1198 is computed (1195 + 3), the full run belongs to CI.
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Part (a) of the animation rework: model, commands, saving, runtime and nodes.
- AnimationAsset holds a root (sprite, text, container or scene) and rows; a row keys one
property of the root or of an object inside it, keys sit on whole frames.
- The last key decides the length (its frame counts as a frame of its own). The playhead runs
between frames, so numbers and colors blend every tick even at 10 fps; everything else holds.
- Playback gains `once-reset`, which puts back what was there before the start. A row can be
relative, adding to where its target stood.
- Play / Pause / Stop animation act on an object; each instance plays on its own, the later
start wins on a shared property, and a behavior writing the same property still writes last.
- A sprite no longer wears an animation through `texture`. "Create animation from texture"
builds a sprite plus a texture row keyed frame by frame instead.
- The Animation tab shows a placeholder until the timeline editor (part b) lands.
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The asset type `particles` is placeable and carries a graph at the same time —
`behavior` was the blueprint. Because a continuous emitter gives birth to particle n
at time n/rate, the whole field is a function of the clock rather than of the frames:
no ring-buffer bookkeeping, exact time jumps, reproducibility as a measurable property.
compile.ts follows compileShader's frame but emits JS closures into a Float64Array
instead of GLSL, and without eval; a node with two consumers is evaluated once.
Drawing is one Pixi ParticleContainer per source, so one draw call.
Collision, wind and braking in flight are out for good — that is the price of the
formula model, not an omission.
The tab count goes from nine to ten, which is exactly the case #84 was built for one
day earlier: at 1280 px the row no longer holds every tab, so guard 14b now asks for
hidden.length > 0 instead of === 0.
An animation asset is a list of pictures (whole textures or frames) with
frames per second and Loop/Once/Ping-pong playback. A sprite wears it
through its texture property, so the picker, instance overrides and the
Properties node work unchanged; there is no dedicated play node.
A different animation starts from its first frame, the same one set again
runs on, so a graph may choose Run or Idle every frame. The clock lives on
the entity, not in props, which the world writes back as overrides. The
AnimationSystem ticks before behaviors, and On animation finished fires
once when a Once animation reaches its end.
The Animation tab plays a preview above a frame strip: reorder by dragging,
Delete, duplicate, + Frames, pause/resume, and wheel zoom about the pointer
with pan and Fit. Scene and Container tabs show the first frame; edit mode
has no clock. Right-clicking a texture creates an animation from its frames.
Button now measures its label with the bold font it draws in, which cut
the Animation tab and red dialog buttons short.
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Split GraphCanvas (1076 -> 831 lines) into EdgeLayer and graphMenus;
the port and marker menus were the same list and are now one function.
Value specs of the inspector and the list tab share valueSpecs.ts, and
the remaining copies (compound commands, type glyphs, typed asset
lookup, name rule, play/editor world setup, marquee) are merged.
Four copies had already drifted apart; merging them fixes:
- "Disconnect N links" in the port menu is one undo step, not N
- "+ Add collider" is hidden on a placed container instance, as in
the hierarchy menu, instead of always failing
- a bool property coerced from the text "false" becomes false
- a port command on an unknown node type reports instead of crashing
Comment-only edits leave the bundle byte-identical. README corrected in
35 places (step limit, jump-run clock, suite duration, 409 body, ...).
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PropertyValue was number | string | boolean | list. A struct joins it, which
costs two things the typechecker found rather than I did.
An object on a data edge used to mean a live entity, so asEntity would have
taken a struct for one and asString would have read .name off it. EntityHandle
now carries a symbol brand – a symbol so no field name can impersonate it, and
it never serializes, which suits a thing that exists only while the game runs.
It is built in exactly one place.
String(value) would have written a struct as [object Object] at 39 call sites.
They go through textOf(), which is identical for primitives.
normalizeGraph dropped everything but primitives from node params, so the List
node lost its value on every save ([3,1,4] round-tripped to undefined).
Variables were spared: they have a schema, params have none.
- Position is now { x, y, z }; higher z draws on top, ties keep hierarchy order
- Viewport sorts the objects layer deterministically (syncDrawOrder)
- Inspector shows a Z field; asset properties that differ from the schema
default are marked bold with a reset button (ResetAssetPropertyCommand)
- isModified() helper, unit tests, E2E checks and seed updated
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Canvas-only 2D game editor/runtime built on PixiJS v8 + Vite + TypeScript.
- core: asset model (Scene/Camera/Sprite), scene objects with sparse
overrides, property schema + resolve, command stack (undo/redo),
serialization and project store interface (16 unit tests)
- ui: custom in-canvas widget toolkit (panels, fields, color picker,
list/scroll, popup) with a hidden <input> keyboard bridge
- editor: asset/hierarchy panels, schema-driven inspector, toolbar
- viewport: box rendering, camera frame, selection gizmo, drag/zoom/pan
- runtime: world/entity instantiation for play mode, input, camera follow
- api: PHP JSON project store with revision counter (409 on conflict)
- tools: CDP-based e2e smoke test
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