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adminandClaude Opus 5.5 42a3759d9d Cut a sound into named clips, as a texture into frames (#357)
A sound could only be cut to one stretch, set on the asset itself. To
play two parts of one file, the file had to be imported twice. Now a
sound is always the whole file, and its clips are the stretches of it,
each with a name and a cut of its own.

- A clip is { id, name, props } on SoundAsset.clips. Its id shares the
  generator with asset ids, so a sound field holds a sound or a clip,
  as a texture field holds a texture or a frame.
- props are the cut: start, end, the fades and their curves, reverse.
  Volume, loop, sound FX and bus stay on the sound for all its clips.
  The cut rows left the sound's schema for CLIP_ROWS.
- findSound resolves either id. Play sound, the Sample of an
  instrument, a Reverb impulse, song items, the scheduler and the test
  sound of the Sound FX tab all go through it.
- Every sound field offers each sound followed by its clips, "Kick",
  "Kick / Clip 1". A clip that is gone reads as "<id>?".
- The Sound tab has a strip under the ruler with the clips as bands.
  A drag there makes a clip, a click picks one, beside the bands the
  sound. Only the picked clip has handles. Reverse, fades and curves
  in the header work on it and are greyed out without one.
- Whole file is gone from the header, as the user asked.
- Picking a clip is a selection of its own, like a frame. The
  inspector shows its name, its cut rows and Delete clip. Delete
  takes it away without asking, as with a frame. Ctrl+Z brings it
  back.
- Copies get fresh clip ids: Duplicate, Embed a copy, a song
  duplicated with its takes, and the copy a split or paste makes of
  an embedded take. An item on a clip plays the same clip of its copy.
- A double-click on a song item playing a clip opens its sound with
  the clip picked. The Sound row of an item on an embedded take
  offers the take and its clips, which no list shows.
- A new take stays the whole sound. Clips are made by hand, as the
  user decided.
- No migration in the code, as the user decided. The one project
  with cut sounds was changed over by hand.

Deviation from the issue: deleting a used clip does not warn. A frame
does not warn either, and the issue had promised "like a frame".

Tests:
- Unit sound-clips (new): 11 green, 7 counter-checks each red
- Unit sounds, embedded: adjusted to clips, green
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 90 checks (3 new, 12 rewritten)
- Counter-check in the browser: clips left out of the sound fields,
  the picker check fails
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 271 files, 4194 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 20:18:47 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 23cb34f781 Keep a recorded take inside its song (#355)
A take used to land in the Assets panel as "Song – Take N", next to
every other sound of the project. Now a song can keep a sound, a
pattern or a sound FX to itself: an ordinary asset whose new field
`owner` names the song. Everything that finds an asset by its id
finds it, so playing, the tabs and the game need no change. Only
the places that list assets leave it out.

- `core/music/embedded.ts` holds the rules: which types can be
  embedded, `listedAssets`, the title "Song › Take 1", and the
  rows an embedded sound hides (Loop, Bus).
- One user per embedded asset. `SetSongCommand` settles the song
  after every edit: a place naming an asset an earlier place
  claimed, or one of another song, gets a copy, and what nothing
  names any more goes in the same undo step. The outcome is worked
  out once, so a redo brings back the same copies.
- A split, Ctrl+D and a paste get that for free. The clipboard
  keeps the embedded assets of the copied items, so a paste after a
  delete brings the take back.
- Deleting a song deletes what it keeps. Duplicating it copies
  that and points the copy at the copies. A duplicate of an
  embedded asset is a project asset.
- The item menu has Open, Make project asset and Embed a copy.
- An embedded item carries a bullet in front of its name. The
  first pick was a diamond, which the gate's font test refused:
  the UI font has no glyph for it.
- A take is "Take 1", 2, … numbered per song. With the song gone
  while it uploads, it becomes a project sound under a free name.
- Left out of: the Assets panel, every asset picker, the sound FX
  menu of a track, the test sound of the Sound FX tab and the
  naming of new assets. Delete on an embedded asset only says
  where it lives. A ping lights up its song.
- Loading drops an `owner` whose song is gone, the asset stays as
  a project asset. No migration: older projects have no owner.

Tests:
- Unit embedded (new): 13 green, 6 counter-checks each red
- Unit take, song, song-edit, asset-fx, asset-ref, serialize and
  neighbours: 116 green
- e2e 65 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 47 checks (1 new)
- Counter-check e2e 65 (asset panel unfiltered): exactly that
  check red
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 269 files, 4167 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 10:36:25 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 daeffe0f9d Route the tracks of a song through a graph (#350)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m47s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 14m20s
Every track of a song went straight into its output. Now the Song tab
has a second view, Routing: a graph with a node per track and one
Output, the links between them sends. A track can go into other
tracks, into several at once, and a link has its own volume and the
point of the track it taps.

- The song asset has a graph like an instrument (SongTrack, SongOutput).
  heldSongGraph keeps it in step with the tracks on load and in
  SetSongCommand: a node per track named after it, one output, a new
  track and every track of an old song linked to the output. Links of
  gone tracks, doubled links and links closing a loop are dropped.
- A link carries an optional send (volume in dB, tap). The inspector
  shows Volume and Mode for a picked link of a song: Post volume (Post
  pan), Pre volume (Post FX), Pre volume (Pre FX). SetSendCommand.
- NodeDef has two new flags. `fixed` nodes are never added or deleted
  by hand. Links between `acyclic` nodes may not close a loop, checked
  in canConnect, dropTargetPort and ConnectCommand.
- songBuses gives each track its sends instead of one `into`, and a
  bus `song:<song>:<track>:#items` for its own items. That bus is what
  solo closes on a track that only passes a soloed one on.
- Mute and solo now act on the sends (trackGates). A muted track passes
  nothing on, on any tap. A soloed track is heard with what goes into
  it, through the tracks it goes through, their own items silent.
  Only sends on a way through a soloed track stay open, so a track
  going into it and into the output is heard through it only.
- SoundLibrary: a bus has either `into` or sends. Each send is tap,
  delay, level, target. busLatency takes the latest way (arrivalOf),
  and each send is held back so all ways of a track arrive together
  (sendDelays). Taps are wired again whenever a chain comes or goes.
- The Song tab has Timeline and Routing in its header. The routing
  uses GraphCanvas with an empty palette. A track linked nowhere shows
  "Goes nowhere". Delete takes links, never a track node.
- Game playings route the same way, the output being the master of
  the playing.

Decided without asking: a send ranges -60 to +12 dB like a track,
default 0 dB Post. Mute closes the sends, the track's own level stays.

Found on the way: the inspector built the Mode row with the send as it
was when the rows were made. Setting Volume and then Mode wrote the old
volume back. Both rows now read the current send when they change.

Tests:
- Unit song-routing (new): 13 green. Sound library: 4 new, 94 green.
  11 counter-probes (loop on load, canConnect, solo, solo past the
  soloed track, mute, preFx latency, graph sync, delete guard, delays,
  taps, glide), each red.
- Existing tests adjusted to the new bus names and send shape: song,
  bus-fx, song-play, graph registry, edge description.
- e2e 65 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 43 checks (5 new). The first
  run caught the inspector bug. Counter-probe with the old closure:
  2 FAILED.
- Gate on melektaus-atx: typecheck, lint, format clean, 2 tests red
  (registry rule, edge shape), fixed and rerun locally: 56 green.
- Not rerun after the per-send solo fix: e2e 65 and the gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 20:18:09 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 3a52f2290f Mix sounds through buses and a master (#325)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m36s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 14m30s
Until now every sound went straight to the speakers. There was no
point where all of them came together, so nothing could turn the
music down against the effects, and a compressor or a shared echo
over everything had nowhere to sit. The bus technique of #346 was
there already, only the end of the chain was missing.

- Bus asset (Audio): Volume, Sound FX and Into. Into is empty for
  the master and never offers the bus itself nor a bus that already
  goes into it. The list is worked out when the menu opens, so a
  change made meanwhile counts. A loop that is in a project anyway
  sends the buses on it into the master.
- The master is no asset. Its volume and sound FX are two new rows
  under Master in Project settings, one undo step each. A project
  written before has 1 and none, which is how it sounded.
- Sound, instrument, pattern and song have a row Bus, empty for the
  master. Play sound, Play note, Play pattern and Play song have an
  input bus: From the asset, Master or a bus. Inside a song or a
  pattern only the bus of the song or pattern counts.
- Set bus volume (bus, volume, time, easing) and Bus volume. An
  empty bus is the master. The volume set holds for the whole run,
  across scenes, over that of the asset. GameRun resets it at start
  and end. Set sound FX parameters without a voice now reaches the
  sound FX of the bus picked in its new bus input.
- SoundLibrary: the master is the bus "mix", each bus "mix:<id>".
  Every bus, the playing masters of #346 included, ends there, and
  only the master is heard. setMix sets them up once a context
  exists, so an editor nobody listened to opens no audio device. The
  same mix again changes nothing, which lets the editor hand it over
  on every change of the project.
- The tabs play as the game does: Sound, Sound FX, Instrument,
  Pattern and Song tab through the bus of their asset and the master.
- Pause game does nothing to the buses (the user's answer 4b). A
  game that wants quiet in its pause menu sets a bus volume itself.
- Streaming long music files is #349, split off as asked.

Finding on the way: the Into menu first worked from a list made when
the inspector row was built. After another bus was sent into the
open one, e2e 34 saw it still offered. It is now asked on open.

The SoundLibrary tests expected voices to end at the destination.
They now end in the master, which adds its input, level and pan to
every wiring and two gains to every list. Those expectations are
updated, nothing else in them changed.

Tests:
- Unit buses (new): 15 green. Ten counter-checks, each red on its
  own: loop check, bus picked, reset at run start, bus of Set sound
  FX parameters, master volume in the settings, and in SoundLibrary
  default into the master, voices into the master, run volume over
  the mix, no context before a play, a playing on its bus.
- Unit sound-library: 90 green (5 new). Node catalog: 416 green
  (9 new cases).
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 75 checks (3 new). The voice
  of the Sound tab was heard on mix:<bus>, that bus into the other,
  that one at 0.5 into the master. Master volume 0.6 via the dialog,
  undo back to 1.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 262 files, 4072 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 19:13:32 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 4c7861b5b8 Keep the frame rate up while painting a big tilemap (#347)
Painting on the 60x60 map of a project with fifty objects dropped the
editor to 20 to 39 fps. A profile of a brush stroke showed four causes,
none of them the brush itself.

- Each frame of a stroke previews the model. The asset and hierarchy
  panels then built every row anew, so every label became a new text
  and a new upload to the GPU. One run spent 46 % of the main thread
  in those uploads. ListView.setItems now keeps a row whose item draws
  the same (sameListItem) and builds only the rows that changed.
- The brush drew the whole scene on every pointer event, on top of the
  preview. Now the preview draws what the stroke changed, once a frame.
  The rectangle tool asks for one drawing a frame for its box.
- An animated tile made the view draw in the tick and the preview drew
  it again in the same frame. animate now asks just before the frame
  is drawn and stays out when the view was drawn since the tick began.
- layoutSymbols ran on every drawing and costs up to the cube of the
  symbols. SymbolLayoutMemo keeps the spots while no anchor moves.
- A painted cell made the map read every "x,y" key again, and once
  more for each of the eight neighbours of every cell. layerCells reads
  a layer once per content into an index by place. layerTiles and the
  blocking cells take their neighbours from there (neighboursIn).
  parseCellKey reads a key without split, with the same results.

The test hook sceneRedraws counts how often the scene view was drawn.

Not done: a painted cell still works out the tiles and blocking cells
of the whole map again, so that part grows with the map.

Tests:
- Brush stroke on a copy of the project (stein2, Chrome): 20 to 39 fps
  before, 47.5 after, 55 to 57 without painting. Labels drawn again
  during the stroke 2012 before, none after. Scene drawings per frame
  1.32 before, 1 after.
- One painted cell, headless: 28 to 16 ms on 60x60, 109 to 49 ms on
  the same map doubled to 120x120.
- frame-preview: 2 new, red with the old pointer redraw.
- tilemap: 3 new (key reading, index, refresh), list-ping 1 new,
  symbol-layout 1 new. 5 single reversals turned each red.
- e2e 39,40 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 107 checks (1 new, a fast
  stroke: 6 drawings in 6 frames, no label drawn again). With the row
  reuse and the pointer redraw reverted it fails: 24 drawings in
  3 frames, and the panels draw their labels again.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 260 files, 4038 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 16:54:59 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 101b12504e Play a sound backwards with a Reverse switch on the asset (#321)
A sound asset can now play its stretch backwards. The switch sits on
the asset, so every way the sound is heard plays it reversed: Play
sound, a song item, an instrument's Sample and a Pitch in a sound FX.
There is no Reverse node in the sound FX graph. The user dropped it,
because playing backwards needs the whole sound in advance, which a
bus or a Chip does not have.

- The cut gets a `reverse` flag, stored as the asset property
  `reverse` (default off). The cut name ends in `~reverse` when it is
  on, so a reversed sound over the whole file is a cut of its own.
- The handles keep marking the same part of the file. The reversed
  copy is made once, like any cut, and the fades follow what is heard:
  Fade in ramps at the end handle, Fade out at the start handle.
- The Sound tab has a toggle with a left-pointing play triangle. Its
  playhead runs from right to left, and the wave draws the ramps at
  the edges they now belong to. The inspector has a Reverse row.
- The icon is a tab header icon (`HEADER_ICON_SVG`, next to the snap
  magnet), not a top bar icon. The first gate run had it in the top
  bar set, and the test that fixes that set went red.
- A song item draws the waveform of a reversed sound backwards.
  Lengths stay as they are.
- The header label reads "Fade in" instead of "Fade in (ms)" and the
  fade fields are 8 px narrower. With the new button the readout was
  cut to "0.03 s of 0..." at 1280 px, now it shows in full. The
  inspector keeps the unit.

Tests:
- Unit sounds 22, sound-library 85 (1 new each). Counter-checks:
  without turning the samples round, without moving the fade in to
  the end, and without mirroring the peaks, all red.
- e2e 34: ALL PASSED, 72 checks (2 new). The reversed stretch starts
  with the last samples of the forward one, and the playhead ran
  0.75, 0.60, 0.45, 0.30, 0.15 over the whole file.
- Gate: first run red, 1 of 4031 (the top bar icon list). After
  moving the icon, CHECK EXIT 0, 260 files, 4031 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 16:08:37 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 29b604dc07 Fade a sound's start and end apart, each along its own curve (#345)
A cut sound had one edge fade for both ends, always a straight ramp.
Now its start and its end each have a fade of their own, and each
fade has a curve of its own.

- Fade in (ms) and Fade out (ms) replace Edge fade (ms), 5 ms each by
  default. Like before they apply only to an edge inside the file.
- Fade in curve and Fade out curve each offer Linear (the default),
  Equal power, S-curve, Exponential and Logarithmic. A fade out runs
  its curve backwards.
- The Sound tab's header has a field and a curve dropdown per edge.
  Each dropdown shows its curve as a small picture, rising or falling,
  and names it in its tooltip. With two named dropdowns the header was
  too wide at 1280 px and cut off the readout on the right.
- The inspector shows the same four rows, the curves by name.
- The wave draws each ramp in its curve rather than as a line.
- A cut plays by
  <file>#<start>~<end>~<fadeIn>~<fadeOut>~<curveIn>~<curveOut>.
- No migration, as asked in the issue: the old fade key is no longer
  read, so saved sounds start with 5 ms each and Linear on both.

Tests:
- Unit sounds, sound-library: 96 tests
- Counter-check (fade out along the fade in's curve): 1 red
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED - 69 checks
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 256 files, 3978 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 09:48:59 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 6b49a0bea7 Give each account its own folder of uploaded files to delete (#344)
Uploaded images, fonts and sounds belonged to nobody. Every account
saw every file in the pickers, and only an administrator could
delete one, through the API alone. Now every account uploads into a
folder of its own, sees its own files and nobody's, and can delete a
file of its own that no project uses.

- Files are stored as data/<kind>/<folder>/<sha256>.<ext>, and the
  folder is part of asset.file. A name without a folder belongs to
  nobody.
- The folder is a random 12-character name kept in users.json and
  given with the first upload. Renaming an account moves no file, and
  a released game's URLs carry no account name.
- The list shows the caller's own files and nobody's. An
  administrator sees all, each with owner and deletable.
- DELETE takes the name with its folder. It answers 403 unless the
  file is the caller's or the caller is an administrator, and 409
  while a project, snapshot or release of any account names it
  (FileUsage). The 409 names the caller's own projects only.
- The pickers have a Delete button. The first press asks, the second
  deletes, and a refusal shows the server's reason.
- A deleted account's folder stays and only administrators see it.
- tools/migrate-file-owners.php moved every used file into the folder
  of the account using it (a copy each for two accounts) and rewrote
  projects, snapshots and releases. A project's revision goes up, so
  an open editor gets a conflict instead of saving old names back.
- Font families are named after the hash alone, so a folder never
  ends up in a CSS family name.

Run on stein2 on 2026-10-07, backup in
/root/config-backup-20261007/data-before-344: 25 files used,
27 copies, 8 projects, 53 snapshots and 1 release rewritten, 30
unused files stay nobody's. Afterwards all 600 references resolve to
a file in their owner's folder.

Found while building: the Delete button cut its new label to "Del…"
because a button does not measure itself again on a new text. The
picker now lays its button row out again.

Tests:
- PHP files.test.php (new): 46 checks, counter-check 3 red
- Unit core + editor: 220 files, 3403 tests
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED - 67 checks (2 new)
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 256 files, 3977 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 08:25:13 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 f1f4a57589 Cut a sound to a stretch of its file in its own Sound tab (#343)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m32s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 18m20s
A sound asset now opens in a tab that shows its file as a waveform.
Two handles set where the sound starts and ends in the file, and that
stretch is the sample: Play sound, a song item and an instrument's
Sample all play it and nothing else. The file itself is never changed.

- The asset has three new rows: Start (s), End (s) and Edge fade (ms).
  End 0 is the end of the file, the fade is 10 ms by default. Older
  assets have no values and play the whole file as before.
- Every way of playing asks playedSoundOf() for a name instead of the
  file: the file, or <file>#<start>~<end>~<fade> for a cut.
- SoundLibrary makes the cut from the decoded file the first time that
  name plays and ramps each edge inside the file over the fade. Length
  and peaks of a cut are read from the file without a copy.
- Cut buffers can be made again at any time, so the library lets the
  oldest go past 64 Mi samples. A voice holds its buffers itself.
- The tab draws min/max per pixel from 256-sample block peaks, and the
  samples as a line when zoomed in far. Wheel zooms, the middle button
  pans, as in the music tabs. Wave, cut and ruler sit under a mask,
  so a handle panned out of view does not draw over the panels beside.
- Dragging a handle moves that edge, dragging elsewhere spans a new
  stretch. One drag is one undo step for both edges. Whole file puts
  the handles back, Play or Space plays the stretch with a playhead.
- The inspector preview and the Sound FX preview play the cut too, and
  the song lanes draw and repeat it.

Tests:
- Unit: sounds 20, wave-view 8 (new), sound-library 68, plus 258 in
  the touched areas (instrument, song, pattern, inspector, tabs)
- e2e 34 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 57 checks (7 new)
- Gate on melektaus-atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 253 files, 3936 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 21:42:21 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 8f9c250eb6 Lay patterns and sounds out on tracks and play them as a song #334
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m29s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 16m29s
Patterns could only be heard one at a time, in their own tab or from
a behavior. A song lays patterns and sounds out on tracks along one
time axis and plays them through the scheduler of #332, the third
piece of the music tools of #330.

- New asset type song under the heading Songs, with four empty tracks,
  120 BPM in 4/4 and a grid of a bar. Tempo, meter and grid are rows
  in the inspector. Tracks, items and the loop are the asset's data,
  held to their rules on load and in every command.
- A track has a name, volume, pan, mute and solo. Each is heard on a
  bus of its own, so a change reaches what is sounding at once.
- A pattern item repeats its pattern for as long as it is, with a
  transpose and another instrument if wanted. A sound item plays its
  sound as a clip at its own speed, round and round, through a sound
  FX if wanted. Both have a volume on top of their track's.
- Cut back at the left end or split, an item starts as far into what
  it plays as the cut is: ticks into a pattern, seconds into a sound.
- The tab shows the heads with M, S, volume and pan, the ruler of the
  Pattern tab and the items, a pattern with its notes, a sound with
  its waveform, a missing asset red. Patterns and sounds are dragged
  in from the Assets panel. Body, right and left end move, lengthen
  and cut back, Alt leaves the grid. Ctrl+C/V/D/A, Ctrl+E splits
  where playing starts, Delete, arrows. A double-click opens a
  pattern item in its tab.
- What is picked is a new selection of its own, so the inspector
  shows the item or the track, with a button to delete it.
- The scheduler plans clips beside notes. Where the playhead starts
  or jumps back inside a clip, it is taken up that far into its
  sound. A clip fades out at the end of its item or of the loop.
- The editor plays one piece at a time: a pattern started stops the
  song and the other way round.
- The rules are pure functions in core/music/song, editor/song/
  songView and songEdit.

Findings:
- The suites of 4ea752f and 2a3b90b were red at e2e 54: the Pattern
  pushed Struct below the fold of the + menu. The module now scrolls
  to it, as e2e 47 does for Vector art. It also left the menu open,
  which made e2e 55 fail behind it.
- The Assets panel only dragged assets a scene can place. Patterns
  and sounds are dragged now as well, and a scene says why it does
  not take one instead of calling every asset a scene.

Tests:
- song.test.ts (new, 14) and song-edit.test.ts (new, 9): model,
  round trip, sequence of patterns and clips, mute and solo, cuts,
  clips on the scheduler, moving, sizing, trimming, splitting,
  duplicating, hits, head parts. sound-library.test.ts +5: clip
  offset, end fade, pitched clip, track bus, peaks.
- e2e 65 (new) on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 18 checks. e2e 54 and
  55 with the fix: ALL PASSED, 33 checks. e2e 4 with 30 asset
  types: ALL PASSED, 62 checks.
- Gate on melektaus-atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 250 test files, 3884 tests.
- Counter-checks: no taking up of a clip, no pattern offset, no clip
  end each fail 3, 1 and 1 tests.
- Probe on stein2: the tab with four tracks, before and while
  playing, looked at in two screenshots.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 16:28:25 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 4ea752feef Draw notes for an instrument in a piano roll and loop them #333
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m22s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 13m18s
Notes could only be played one at a time, by a key or a behavior. A
pattern is a stretch of notes for one instrument, drawn in a piano
roll and played in time through the scheduler of #332. Songs (#334)
will lay patterns out on tracks.

- New asset type pattern under the heading Patterns. Instruments are
  listed under Instruments now, since a heading is one per type.
- Notes are a start and a length in ticks, a note number and a
  velocity, kept to their rules on load and in every command. The
  instrument, the length in bars, the grid, the meter and the tempo
  are rows in the inspector. The loop is the asset's own data, the
  whole pattern while none is set.
- Grids from 1/1 to 1/32 and the triplets 1/4T to 1/32T, all whole
  ticks. The meter only moves the bar lines, the notes stay put.
- The tab shows the keys down the left, a ruler with bars, beats,
  loop and start along the top, the notes between them and a
  velocity lane below. Keys the instrument plays nothing for are
  grey, the names of a drum kit stand on its keys.
- A click draws a note on the grid line before the pointer, as long
  as the last one drawn or lengthened and as hard as the last
  velocity set. The body moves a note, the right end lengthens it,
  Alt leaves the grid. A drag on empty grid picks with a band, Shift
  adds, a right-click deletes.
- Keys: Space plays, Delete, Ctrl+C/V/D/A, the arrows by a semitone
  or a grid step and with Shift by an octave or a bar. A paste lands
  where playing starts. Every gesture is one undo step.
- A click on the ruler sets where playing starts, a drag the loop or
  one of its ends, its menu loops a bar or the whole pattern.
- The wheel scrolls, Shift across, on the ruler or with Alt it zooms.
  Ctrl+wheel stays with the browser, Pixi listens passively.
- Play runs the loop through the scheduler. An edit goes to it on
  the next window without a restart, a new loop or tempo counts from
  what is planned. Another pattern shown or a project opened stops it.
- The time axis and the ruler are their own pieces in editor/music
  for the song tab. The rules of the roll are pure functions in
  rollView and rollEdit.

Findings:
- Music.play could start after a stop that came while it was still
  loading its files. A run counter makes the late start give up.
  Music.edit now loads what a new note needs as well.
- A click on an end of the loop would have set the loop again. A
  press there only moves the end once it is dragged.

Tests:
- pattern.test.ts (new, 9) and piano-roll.test.ts (new, 16): model,
  grids, meter, held notes, sequence, commands, loop, round trip,
  drum names, time lines, rows, hits, bands, lane, edit rules.
- e2e 64 (new) on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 20 checks. e2e 4 with
  29 asset types: ALL PASSED, 62 checks.
- Gate on melektaus-atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 247 test files, 3839 tests.
- Counter-checks: the move without its clamp, the sequence without
  the end of the pattern, the duplicate offset without whole grid
  steps each fail 1 test. Without passing edits to the scheduler the
  e2e check for a note drawn while playing fails, the rest passes.
- Probe on stein2: the tab with a drum kit, before and while playing,
  looked at in two screenshots.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 15:06:51 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 8a4e4a6762 Play sounds as notes of an instrument asset #331
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 2m40s
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m14s
A sound could only be played as it was, one at a time. An instrument
is a node graph that makes a note a sound: Notes nodes bring the note
in, Samples play sound assets for it, the effects of a sound FX shape
it and the Output sums the layers. Its tab plays it from a keyboard,
a behavior with Play note. It is what patterns and songs (#330) will
play.

- New asset type instrument, under the heading Music, not placeable.
  A new one starts as Notes into a Sample into the Output.
- Notes are counted as MIDI does: 60 is C4, names like C#4, sharps
  only, the lowest C-1. Notes has From and To, outputs any, note,
  frequency and velocity, and with Single notes a trigger per note,
  each with an optional name for a drum kit.
- New port type trigger, only into the trigger of a source. Inputs
  can take any number of edges now (PortDef.many): a trigger, and
  the Output, which plays everything into it side by side.
- Sample plays a sound asset. Follow note shifts it by note - root
  through the pitch worklet of #317, so it keeps its length. Gate
  fades it out at the end of the note, One-shot plays through. Loop
  runs between Loop start and Loop end, also in the worklet.
- Parameters declares the instrument's own parameters with a
  default. Sound FX sends the sound through a sound FX asset, its
  parameters as inputs, the sound set in where its Input was.
- compileInstrument walks the graph once per note. A trigger is on
  only for the notes it stands for, a silent source silences what it
  alone feeds, a Mix with a silent side is the other side. velocity
  and the parameters stay open for the voice. Builds are cached per
  note until the graph or a sound or FX it names changes.
- The player takes a note as one voice of several layers, each way
  with its own file and volume. release fades the gated ways out,
  one-shots play on. playNote can release after a duration.
- Play note plays one note with velocity, volume, duration and
  detached, and hands out voice for Set sound FX parameters and
  Stop sound. Velocity is always loudness. Instrument parameters
  picks values for the instrument's parameters like Sound FX
  parameters does for an FX, renames follow.
- The tab has the graph, a header field per parameter, Stop, and
  128 keys below. Keys without sound are grey. A key plays while it
  is held. Focused, the computer keyboard plays as in a tracker by
  KeyboardEvent.code, the arrows move the octave.

Findings:
- A label of the keys set fill on the shared small text style and
  darkened every small label of the editor. Caught in a screenshot
  before the commit, the keys have a style of their own now.
- Suite task 523 on cf6799a failed two checks of e2e 34 that timed
  audio by the page's clock: a 2.95 s echo tail was gone after 1 s,
  and Quad in was further along than 0.7 s allow. Both time on the
  audio clock now through a new hook __gm.sound.clock().

Tests:
- instrument.test.ts (new, 22): notes, asset, palette, round trip,
  compile per note, drum kit, zones, Mix, velocity and parameters,
  Sound FX node with rename, problems, cache, Play note, the keys
- sound-library +7 (layers, release, duration, early release, loop
  region in buffer and worklet), pitch-player +2 (loop region),
  node-catalog +4, graph adjusted. 582 tests in the touched files.
- e2e 4 and 34 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 34 with 44 checks (+7)
- Gate on melektaus-atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 243 test files, 3750 tests
- Counter-checks: any always on, release ending one-shots, Sound FX
  inputs ignored, loop region ignored. 3, 2, 1 and 1 tests failed.
- Browser probe on stein2: keys, held key, Single notes names and
  the header looked at in screenshots.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 10:07:40 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 e7a360db73 Offer the easings of an animation key on Lerp and sound FX ramps
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m15s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 15m36s
A timed Set sound FX parameters ran only linearly, and a Lerp had four
quadratic eases of its own. An animation key already had the full set.
Now all three offer the same choice: Linear, Step, the ten curves from
Sine to Bounce with In, Out or In-out, and a drawn Curve asset.

- easingParams in src/core/graph/nodes/easing.ts gives a node the
  fields Easing, Direction and Curve from the key's own lists, and
  easingOfParams reads them back as a key interpolation.
- There is no migration. A Lerp saved with the old in, out or inOut
  runs linear until its easing is picked again.
- Set sound FX parameters hands the easing to the player. Linear and
  Step stay ramps of the audio clock, every other easing goes to
  setValueCurveAtTime as 200 samples a second, in semitones and dB.
- Step now reaches its end at t 1. A key never asked for that, it
  reads the next key itself, so animations play as before.
- The curve-in-use count and the warning for a gone curve cover the
  sound node too.

Tests:
- node-catalog: Lerp with cubic in, quad out and in-out, a curve
  without a direction, step, an unknown easing as linear. The sound
  node hands on a curve, step and a gone curve as linear.
- sound-library: an eased change becomes a curve in semitones and
  decibels, a step a jump at the end.
- node-catalog and curve after dropping the old values: 399, green.
- e2e 6, 34, 53 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 198 checks. In Chrome a
  2 s Quad in from depth 7 to -5 read speed 0.864 early and 0.5 at the
  end, a 1 s Step held 1 and then jumped to 0.5.
- Counter-check: with curves sent as linear ramps, the curve test of
  the sound library fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 22:05:00 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 ed2b58b3c0 Load the sounds of a project ahead of their first play
A sound was fetched and decoded on its first Play sound. That play
started late, its beginning was not heard, and a graph that tuned the
voice in the meantime had moved on by the time it started. Images and
fonts were already loaded when a project opens. Sounds now are too.

- projectFiles lists the sounds of a project, and preloadProjectFiles
  hands them to the new soundLibrary.preload. That covers the editor
  and the published game.
- Preloading opens no audio device. It decodes with an
  OfflineAudioContext at 48 kHz. The real AudioContext is still made
  on the first play, and a source resamples where the device runs at
  another rate.
- A run started right after opening a project can still find a sound
  loading. It then starts late as before.

Tests:
- sound-library: a preload makes only the offline context, and a
  play after it starts at once, opening the device only then.
- sound-library + project-files: 18 tests, green.
- e2e 34 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 30 checks.
- Counter-check: decoding with the real AudioContext again fails the
  new test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 21:47:00 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 183f356c99 Let a game hand values to the parameters of a sound FX #311
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m10s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 14m15s
A sound FX played the same every time: its numbers were settings of
the nodes. Now the Input declares parameters with a default, every
number of Gain, Pitch and EQ is an input they can feed, and a Play
sound hands in values for them.

- Input declares number parameters in the inspector, each with a
  Default (DeclaredPort.default, SetPortDefaultCommand). They are
  outputs of the Input. Input and Output count as terminals now, one
  of each per graph.
- Gain, Pitch and EQ take their numbers at inputs under the keys the
  settings had, so saved graphs sound as before without a migration.
  Each value is held to its range however it arrives.
- The compiler gives an FxPlan with the parameters still open.
  fxChainOf fills them in when a voice starts. The player still only
  sees an FxChain.
- New behavior node Sound FX parameters: names an FX and picks its
  parameters like a Variables node picks variables. Each picked one is
  a number input that starts at the FX's default. Its output has the
  new port type fxparams, which only fits Play sound's fx params.
- Play sound warns when the parameters name another FX than the one
  it plays. Names the FX does not know are left out.
- Renaming a parameter at the Input renames it in every Sound FX
  parameters node naming that FX, edges and values included.
- The Sound FX tab has a number field per parameter in its header.
  Play uses those values, they are never written into the asset.
- A value counts from the start of a voice. Changing a playing voice
  is #315, a Mix node is #316.

Tests:
- soundfx.test.ts 22 (+11): parameters in the plan, held values, a
  0-by-default stage, EQ band, save with defaults, wrong port types,
  default command with undo, Sound FX parameters into Play sound,
  defaults of picked ones, node problems, mismatch, rename with undo
- node-catalog 368 (+3): Play sound fx params, Sound FX parameters
- e2e 34: ALL PASSED - 28 checks (+2: header field plays depth 5,
  a Sound FX parameters node gives the game's voice depth 7)
- Gate on melektaus-atx: typecheck, lint, prettier clean, 240 test
  files, 3636 tests green
- Counter-check: with fxChainOf ignoring the values and the rename
  not followed, 5 of the new tests fail.
- Browser probe: header fields, inspector Default and the picked
  parameter looked at in two screenshots.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 17:26:20 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 de14f0f9e2 Play a sound through a graph of gain, pitch and EQ effects #311
A sound could only be played as it was uploaded. A Sound FX asset is
a node graph like a shader: Input, effects, Output. Play sound has a
new input fx that sends the voice through it.

- New asset type soundfx ("Sound FX"), not placeable, with a graph
  and its own tab. The heading in the asset panel is "Sound effects",
  so it does not take the click meant for the + menu entry.
- Nodes in core/soundfx/nodes.ts, category sound, port type audio
  that only fits audio: Input, Output, Gain (dB), Pitch (semitones),
  EQ (80 Hz and 12 kHz shelves, peaks at 250 Hz, 1 kHz and 4 kHz).
- compileSoundFx walks back from the Output with the shared graph
  emitter. An input takes one edge, so the result is one line: a
  pitch and a list of gain and filter stages. A node without input
  or a graph without Output reports a problem on the node.
- Pitch is the playback rate of the source. It applies to the whole
  sound and also changes its length, the node description says so.
- The BehaviorSystem resolves fx and hands the line to the AudioSink.
  An fx that is missing or does not compile plays the sound dry.
- SoundLibrary wires source, stages, volume, destination in that
  order. stats().last now also names pitch and stage count.
- The tab header picks one of the project's sounds and plays it
  through the graph as it stands. Stop there ends only its own voice.

Tests:
- soundfx.test.ts (new, 11), sound-library (9, +2 for the wiring),
  node-catalog (+1 for fx), graph and asset-groups adjusted
- e2e 34: ALL PASSED - 26 checks (+5: + menu opens the tab, palette,
  2 effects, tab Play and game Play through the FX at -12 st)
- Gate on melektaus-atx: typecheck, lint, prettier clean, 239 of 240
  test files green. The red one was sound-library (its fake
  AudioContext had no playbackRate), fixed afterwards, gate not
  re-run in full.
- Counter-check: without the audio rule in portsCompatible the port
  test fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 16:45:42 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 7b1796baac Let a container animation reach alike-named objects in another one
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m10s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 15m43s
An animation over a container aims its rows at template ids. Played on
another container, those ids are not there, so every row below the
root was skipped without a word. "Enemy - Hit" built over the Slime
flashed the slime's Sprite but never the skeleton's.

- When the template id is not found below the object, the runtime
  takes the names on the way to the row's target in the root and
  walks the same names below the object, level by level.
- The id still comes first, so the root's own instances bind as
  before.
- A name missing at some level, or taken twice, skips the row, as
  a gone target always did.
- The rule is the pure function targetNamePath in animation.ts. The
  AnimationSystem only walks the children.

Tests:
- animation.test.ts: 84 tests, all green (+2). One plays over a
  second container built alike, renamed and with the name twice.
  The other names a row two containers deep.
- Counter-check: with the name fallback off, the new runtime test
  fails (1 of 84).
- Project cbbf160bb7e8 (revision 14407), Demo scene: "Enemy - Hit"
  and "Enemy - Die" change Flash and scale on the skeleton's Sprite.
  Without the fallback the skeleton stays unchanged.
- The gate did not run before this commit. CI covers it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 11:16:42 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 3e05cbbed5 Let pixel art and vector art be nine-sliced and sorted (#308)
Nine-slice and the sort line hung on the texture frame alone. Drawing
and sorting already read both off the TextureRef every picture hands
out, but the generated pictures always said "no slice, no line". So
the feature moves from the frame to the picture, without a second
copy of any rule.

- PictureCut (border, fill, sortLine) is one type. TextureFrame
  extends it, PixelArtAsset and VectorArtAsset carry it as a whole.
  The texture file format does not change, and no migration is needed.
- The rules in texture.ts take a cut and a size: cutSortLine,
  setCutSlice, rawCutSlice and the rest replace the frame* versions.
  serialize.ts reads all three through one readCut.
- cutTarget.ts resolves a target to cut and size: a texture frame, a
  pixel frame's size or the vector canvas. It lives apart from
  texture.ts because vectorart.ts reaches texture.ts itself.
- SetSliceCommand and SetSortLineCommand take that target instead of
  (assetId, frameId). They refuse an asset that draws no picture.
- generatedRef fills slice and sortLine from the drawing. The whole
  strip of a pixel art asset with several frames gets none, it is no
  picture of that size. With one frame asset and frame are the same.
- Nine-slice scale is one shared schema row, now also on pixel art and
  vector art.
- cutSection.ts holds the NINE-SLICE and SORTING rows once. The frame
  inspector and the drawing inspector both build them.
- SheetCanvas draws a drawing's lines that are set, dashed as in the
  Texture tab. They are not dragged there, the painting tools own the
  canvas (as proposed in the issue).
- drawOrder falls back to the picture's height when a ref has no
  rect, or a sort line on vector art would have been ignored.

Tests:
- Gate: 232 files, 3542 tests (+8: drawing-cut.test.ts, and vector
  art in sort-by-y.test.ts). Three counter-proofs bite: no cut on a
  drawing, a cut on the whole strip, no height fallback.
- e2e 48: 44 checks (+1, sum 1732). 48l-ii reads red and blue where
  12-pixel borders at scale 2 put them. Without borders both spots
  read green.
- Looked at: the Pixel art tab with the lines, and the sliced sprite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 19:53:51 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 d9c6bbfa4d Add a node that names the render layer of an object (#305)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m14s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 14m18s
The issue asked for Set render layer, Set sees and Render layer of. As
with #211, a probe showed that writing already works. A Properties
node of the object's type writes Render layer during a run, Inherit
included, and one of type Camera writes Sees. The next picture follows
both. As agreed, only Render layer of is built, and writing stays with
Properties.

- Render layer of is a data node with the input object and the outputs
  name and number. It answers the layer that holds, so an object
  without a choice of its own names its parent's.
- NodeContext.renderLayerOf answers the number with the same rule the
  drawing uses (renderLayerAlong). The new field renderLayers on
  GraphLookup brings the names to the node.
- hasRenderLayer in PropertySchema says which types are drawn.
- Decided here: for an object that is not drawn (a camera, a
  behavior, a collider) the name is empty and the number -1, as Layer
  of does without a collider.

Changing the render layer or Sees during a run had no test so far.
Three unit tests now hold the proof from the issue.

Tests:
- Gate: 231 files, 3534 tests (3526 + 8), exit 0
- e2e 6: 149 checks passed, e2e 63: 13 checks passed (+1)
- Unit: the coin moves into the overlay with Set and back with
  Inherit, a HUD container takes its sprite along, the main camera sees
  a second layer once its Sees is set, and Render layer of names the
  inherited layer, and none for a behavior
- Node catalog: four cases for Render layer of
- 63c3 moves a sprite onto UI in a Play run: the main camera no longer
  draws it, and the log reads "UI" and "1"
- Three counter-probes fail 1, 1 and 2 tests: without inheriting in
  the node, without the check for a drawn type, and without
  inheriting in the drawing
- "layer of" in the palette still finds Layer of first (6z-x)
- The e2e sum is 1731 (1730 plus 1)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 19:25:47 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 1d0fa7b947 Let the game view zoom up to 20x
A small camera on a large screen stopped at 6x. The steps now go on
in whole numbers up to 20, both in the zoom menu of the Game tab and
for Auto, which takes the largest step that fits whole.

- GAME_SCALE_STEPS in playSettings.ts runs 0.25, 0.5, 1 to 20.
  Prettier wraps the longer line.
- e2e 60 keeps its own copy of the steps to work out what Auto should
  pick. The copy follows the new list.

Tests:
- view.test.ts: 23 passed (every step is used as its own factor)
- e2e 60: ALL PASSED - 19 checks (Auto still picks 4 at 1280x800)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 18:50:41 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 808e1eefc2 Clean up duplicates and dead code, and fix the + menu check (#85)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m2s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 15m29s
Refactoring round 9 covers everything since round 8 (14972d0): 62
commits with about 29 000 new lines in src, api, tools and tests.
Behaviour is unchanged. The one fix is in a check: e2e 04 counted 25
asset types, and the shader function from #303 makes 26, so the run
of a526e1b failed there.

Duplicate code (jscpd over src, 50 tokens, without the two licence
texts: 35 clones / 289 lines before, 29 / 232 after):

- ShaderPicture (new, viewport/shaderPicture.ts) is the picture a
  camera's shader and a particle field's shader are laid over. It
  keeps the render texture while its size holds and frees the
  replaced one once the shader holds the new one. CameraShade and
  ParticleField.shadeField drew it the same way, line for line.
- CameraShade builds its mesh on the first draw. Before, every redraw
  of a view without a camera shader built a mesh and threw it away.
- emptyHost in inspector/host.ts builds the empty host the Inspector,
  the Variables tab and the Tilemap panel start from.
- paddedQuad(null) is the plain unit quad. symbols.ts and
  shaderPasses.ts each wrote it out by hand.
- In graph/nested.ts, calls of shader functions and On behavior
  nodes are followed by one walk, `reaches`, over ids `namedBy` a
  node type.

Dead code:

- ShaderEditor.colorFieldOf and the getter CurveCanvas.snapping had
  no reader.
- 22 values used only in their own file lose their `export`. Types
  and the node catalogues of shaders and particles stay exported.
- Kept on purpose: PhysicsSystem.holdsJoint is read by tests only,
  but it is their one view of whether a joint holds.
- A pass with stricter lint rules over every file changed since
  round 8 found no bug. PixelArtEditor.started is now readonly.

Comments and docs:

- Ten comments told history ("since #190", "used to", "any more").
  They now describe what is. The bundle is md5-identical before and
  after, and the four e2e files minify to the same bytes.
- README: joint and shader function in the asset list, joints on the
  Physics row, what the Shaders page covers, two CI runners.
- e2e 04 keeps the number of asset types once, as ASSET_TYPE_COUNT.
- screenshot.png in the README is a new picture of the editor
  (3840x2160 instead of 1825x1140), taken by the user.

Tests:
- Gate on melektaus-atx: 229 files, 3514 tests, CHECK EXIT 0
  (+3 for emptyHost, +1 for the unit quad).
- e2e 1-4, 31, 63 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 195 checks. That is
  the + menu of 04, the field shader of 31 and the camera shader of
  63, both through ShaderPicture.
- No new e2e check, so the sum stays 1728.
- Counter-checks, each put back and compared with cmp: reaches that
  never goes on fails 1 test, listensTo reading the wrong parameter
  fails 1, emptyHost dropping what a panel hands in fails 1, folding
  without a relayout fails 1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 17:38:39 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 a526e1b40f Use a shader graph as a node in other shaders (#303)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m16s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 14m37s
A calculation needed in several shaders (a greyscale, a noise, an
outline) had to be built again in every one of them. A shader
function keeps it as an asset of its own, called like a behavior is
since #16.

- New asset type `shaderfunction` ("Shader function"), edited in the
  Shader tab. The panel beside the graph shows no picture, the
  readout counts its inputs and outputs.
- Two new nodes: `Function input` and `Function output`. Their
  declared ports, numbers or colours only, are the ports of every
  call. One of each per function, like Start and End.
- The call is node `ShaderCall`, named after the function. The
  palette lists every function, it can be dragged in from the Assets
  panel, and a double-click opens it.
- The compiler sets the function in where it is called
  (`inlineFunctions`). It renames the copied nodes `<call>/<node>`
  and turns an unconnected port into a constant. Passes, Time, the
  Edge cut and the corner walk then see a plain graph.
- A problem inside a function is reported at the call, in the
  function's words. The function's own tab checks it on its own
  (`checkShaderFunction`).
- `ShaderLibrary` keys a shader on its graph and on every function it
  calls, however deep, so a change reaches every caller.
- The port commands mirror a new, renamed or removed port into every
  call, as for a behavior's Start and End. `NodeDef.portKinds` holds
  the two ends to Number and Color.
- As agreed in the issue: no `Property`, `Color property`, Output or
  Vertex output in a function, and `Time` is the caller's clock.
- Own decision: a `Pass` may stand in a function. It becomes a pass
  of the calling shader, so a wide blur can be a function.
- A function calling itself, also through another, says so at the
  node and is not set in. The palette does not offer such a call.
- The Shader tab showed only the compiler's problems. A call nothing
  reaches was never compiled and looked healthy, so a call now also
  shows its own problem there, as in a behavior.

Tests:
- Gate: 228 files, 3510 tests, CHECK EXIT 0 (+13: 11 in
  tests/core/shader-functions.test.ts, 2 for the new icon)
- e2e 28: 100 checks, all passed (+3 in 28l-viii). Called and in
  place both #606060/#a2a2a2, halved in the function #303030/#515151.
- Counter-check: a fingerprint without the called functions fails 1
  unit test, and in the browser the change check (#606060 stays).
- The first e2e runs found two faults, both fixed: a double-click
  only selected the function, and an unreached call of itself
  showed no problem.
- e2e total 1728 is computed (1725 + 3).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 17:09:53 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 2e55071fa5 Lay a shader over a camera's whole picture (#299)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m2s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 14m59s
A shader so far worked only on its own wearer. Effects over the whole
game picture, such as a vignette, grey, scanlines or a red flash on a
hit, had no place to live. A camera now wears one, drawn the way a
field shader of a particle source is (#170).

- The camera gets a Shader row and, while one is picked, a Shader
  resolution row. The shader's properties follow as camera rows. They
  load, animate and appear in a Properties node under Type Camera.
- Every view keeps masks and objects in one container. CameraShade
  renders it into the camera's picture, cleared to the background,
  and draws the shader over the frame. Game tab and play.html take
  the container off the stage while the picture stands in for it.
- Screen pixels gives the picture as many pixels as it covers on
  screen. Camera pixels uses View width x View height and scales up
  without smoothing.
- A pixel counts as a camera pixel in both (the user's choice). The
  uniform uPixelScale makes Texture size read View width x View
  height, so a Blur keeps its reach at any game scale.
- Each camera wears its own shader, overlay cameras included. A red
  flash on the game camera leaves the HUD of an overlay camera alone.
- The scene view's eye has a Shader switch on the Camera row, off by
  default. With it on, the main camera's shader lies over its frame,
  below symbols and gizmos, and the world around it stays drawn.
- New tool tools/perf-camera-shader.mjs measures the cost.

Measured on stein2 (HD 630, Game tab at Fit 1310x679): a camera
shader that hands the picture through stays inside the scene's own
spread of 3 to 5 fps between runs. A Blur of 4 cost 4 to 8 fps.

Tests:
- Gate on melektaus-atx: 227 files, 3497 tests (3487 + 10).
- e2e 63 alone: 11 checks (6 + 5), e2e sum 1725 counted.
- 63e-63i: pass-through is byte-equal and upright at 100%, flat red
  reaches the corners while the overlay keeps its green, Texture
  size reads 640 x 360 in both resolutions at Fit, no shader draws
  as before, and the scene view shows it only with the switch on.
- Counter-checks: a camera left out of the shader wearers fails 1
  unit test. Counting screen pixels fails 63g with #ab6000.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 16:03:09 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 b2326085ed Show each camera only its layers and lay overlay cameras on top (#302)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m2s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 14m26s
A camera could only show the whole scene, so a HUD drawn in the world
would run through a camera shader (#299) with everything else. Render
layers say which cameras see an object, and overlay cameras draw their
own picture over the main one.

- The project has a list of up to 16 render layers, edited in Project
  settings next to the collision layers. It is a list of its own, read
  by the same rules (`layerNamesOf`).
- Sprites, texts, tilemaps, particle sources and containers carry a row
  `Render layer` under their switches. Its default `Inherit` takes the
  parent's layer, at the top the first one.
- A camera has `Sees` (all layers by default) and `Overlay`. The main
  camera is the first one switched on without Overlay, so two plain
  cameras still draw through the first one only.
- Every view through a camera keeps only what that camera sees and lays
  one see-through view per overlay camera over itself. That view is a
  `WorldViewport` of its own, handed its view and frame from below.
- An overlay is fitted into the main camera's whole picture without
  distortion. One of the same size and zoom covers it exactly.
- `z` sorts within one camera only. The pictures lie on top of each
  other as a whole, which is what a shader per camera (#299) needs.
- The Game tab's preview now collects the scene once per redraw. Before
  it collected it twice, with the cameras it would have been five times.
- `SetCollisionLayersCommand` became `SetLayerNamesCommand`, which
  takes the list it sets.

Follow-ups: #304 (the mouse through a chosen camera) and #305 (change
the render layer at run time).

Tests:
- Gate: 226 files, 3487 tests (3480 + 7)
- e2e 63 (new): 4 checks. A green overlay sprite at z -10 covers a
  red main sprite at z 1000, in the preview and in the running game.
  A `UI` sprite in front of the main camera and a `Default` one in
  front of the overlay stay away. Without Overlay the second camera
  draws nothing. The settings dialog adds a render layer at the end.
- Counter-checks: inheriting from parents switched off fails 1 unit
  test. Overlays never drawn fails the two overlay checks in e2e 63.
- e2e total 1720 (1716 + 4), computed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 15:32:52 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 f1e3bd8378 Let a joint glide on a rail and drive it with a motor (#154)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m4s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 14m2s
Step 2 of the joints: a door that opens by itself, a lift and a
piston need a joint that slides along one line and a motor that turns
or pushes. A graph also needs to read how far such a joint stands.

- Slider: a fifth joint type on Rapier's prismatic joint. Its rail is
  the joint's own x axis, so turning the joint turns the rail. Joints
  now carry Scale, Rotation and Mirror like a sprite.
- Limit distance with Min and Max, in world units from where the
  object was placed.
- Motor on hinge and slider: Off, Speed or Target, with Motor speed,
  Motor target and Max force (0 = no limit). Target goes there at no
  more than the speed and slows down for the last stretch.
- Changing speed, target or force keeps the engine joint. Switching
  the motor on or off builds it again.
- New node Joint position: value and speed of a hinge (degrees,
  counting past a full round) or a slider (world units).
- Scene view draws a slider's rail dashed, with a tick at each limit.
- shownFor in the schema takes a list of choices that must all hold.

Findings, measured with a probe against Rapier 0.20:
- A prismatic joint holds both bodies at one angle. Held to the scene
  or to an object without a rigidbody, the joint's own anchor body is
  turned by the placed difference, so nothing jumps. Between two
  rigidbodies the held one is turned to match, and the console says
  so once.
- Rapier reads no joint angle back. The position is worked out from
  the two bodies.
- A hinge motor is weak on a small body at the end of a long arm
  (box 20 on an arm of 100 does not lift itself). More solver
  iterations would help but cost every scene. A door of 100 x 20
  reaches -90 and holds it. This is written in the wiki.

Tests:
- Unit: 16 new in joints.test.ts, 1 in joint-links, 3 catalog cases.
- e2e 41: 27 checks (25 + 2), block 41f with a real mouse in the
  inspector and the motor in play (59.1 of 60 units in 1 s).
- 9 of 9 unit counter-probes fail as they should.
- Gate: 220 files, 3436 tests (3416 + 20), CHECK EXIT 0.
- e2e total 1701 is counted (1699 + 2), the full suite did not run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 10:09:45 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 4407c02078 Keep who played an animation beside its player, not on it
d6fd000 wrote the behaviors that played an animation on the player
itself. A player is plain data, and those behaviors are entities of
the run with their parents and children. The actor smoke reads the
world as JSON and threw "Converting circular structure to JSON" as
soon as its graph had played a walk animation.

- The starters live in a WeakMap next to the player and are read
  with startersOf. The player carries no field for them any more.
- The animation system reads them from there when a pass ends. What
  a behavior hears does not change.
- Only the hook the check scripts read the world through was hit.
  The editor and a running game never serialise a player.

Tests:
- Gate on melektaus-atx: 219 files, 3400 tests, CHECK EXIT 0. It
  ran on the working tree, which also held the fix to e2e 47 and
  the kept panel sizes that are not committed yet. Seven of the
  tests belong to those.
- One new unit test: a player played by an asker that reaches back
  to its holder stays plain data, through JSON and structuredClone,
  and names the asker once. Its counter-probe bites.
- Smokes on melektaus-atx: 24, 19 and 21 checks, all pass. Before
  the fix the third stopped after 9 checks.
- e2e 6,17-26 on melektaus-atx: 480 checks, all pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 23:15:21 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 d6fd000160 Let a behavior hear the end of an animation it played itself
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m11s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 12m9s
A behavior that played an animation on the parent of its owner never
heard it finish. On animation finished listened to the owner and to
what stands below it, and the parent stands above.

- Play animation notes on the player which behavior asked for it.
- On animation finished hears, as before, every animation on the
  owner or below it, and now also every animation the behavior
  played itself, on whatever object. Its output object names that
  object.
- Two behaviors that both played the same animation on the same
  object each hear its end once.
- A behavior that is called by Run behavior or heard by an On node
  counts as the behavior it sits in.
- The description of the node and the engine prompt say so.

Tests:
- Gate on melektaus-atx: 218 files, 3392 tests, CHECK EXIT 0.
- Two new unit tests: the behavior hears the animation on the parent
  of its owner while a bystander does not, and two starters hear it
  once each.
- Both counter-probes bite.
- e2e 6,17-26 on melektaus-atx: 480 checks, all pass.
- No new e2e check, and nothing was looked at in the browser. The
  rule for called and heard behaviors has no test of its own.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 22:37:04 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 7dd3ae1131 Tie two objects with a hinge, a spring, a rope or for good (#154)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m19s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 11m41s
Two bodies could not be connected: no door on a hinge, no lamp on
a rope, no wheel on an axle. This is the first step of the issue,
the four joints without a motor. The slider and the motors follow
in a second step under the same issue.

- Joint is a new asset type, placed as a child of the object it
  holds, like a collider or a rigidbody. "Add joint…" in the
  object menu makes one or places one the project has. An object
  takes as many as it needs.
- Where the joint sits is the point it holds its object at. A
  hinge and a fixed joint have that one point only. A spring and a
  rope end at a connected anchor on the other object, counted in
  that object's own units, or in the scene's without one.
- The rows follow the type: length, stiffness and damping for a
  spring, length for a rope, an angle limit for a hinge. Length 0
  takes the distance the two ends were placed at. The limit counts
  from how the two were placed.
- The connected object is an object reference in the schema of the
  type. Pasting, containers and removing treat it as they treat
  every reference since #258.
- shownFor is a new schema option: a row is shown while an enum of
  the same bag holds one of the named values.
- The object needs a rigidbody, its own or one further up. Without
  one the joint holds nothing and the console says so once.
- A connected object without a rigidbody is a moving anchor: the
  joint has a kinematic body of its own that follows it.
- A connected object destroyed while playing makes the joint let go
  with a hint. Removed in the editor the reference empties, so the
  joint holds on to the scene. The issue asked for "inactive" there.
- "Add joint" ties two objects while the game runs, from a joint
  asset as the template. Destroy on the joint lets go, there is no
  Break joint node. Destroy with keep children takes the joints
  along with the object.
- The scene view draws a line from each joint to what it holds on
  to and rings the held point. A selected spring or rope has a
  round handle on its far end, and dragging it is one undo step.
- Joints hold in Play only. The editor run simulates nothing
  (#148), and the inspector of a placed joint says so.
- Rapier counts a revolute joint's limits absolutely, not from the
  start, so the placed angle is added. Measured with a probe.
- The + menu has 25 types now and no longer fits under its button
  on a canvas 800 high. It scrolls there, and e2e 04 scrolls to
  the last entry instead of expecting it in view.

Tests:
- Gate on melektaus-atx for this state: 218 files, 3390 tests
  (3336 + 54), exit 0.
- e2e 1-16,24,39-46,51,52,57,58 on melektaus-atx: 831 checks, all
  pass. Module 41 alone: 25 checks (21 + 4).
- 54 new unit tests: 40 in joints.test.ts (rope, spring, pendulum,
  limit, fixed, the other end, the node, containers, paste), 6 for
  the line the scene view draws, 4 catalog cases of the node. The
  remaining 4 come from tests that make a case per asset type.
- Four new e2e checks in module 41: Add joint from the menu, the
  rope to the hook with its line and handle, dragging the handle
  with one undo, the bob hanging in Play next to one that falls.
- e2e 04, 40 and 46 count the new type in their lists.
- 21 of 22 unit counter-probes fail their tests. The other one is
  equivalent: Rapier ignores removing a joint that left with its
  body, the guard stays.
- Three browser counter-probes fail their checks (2, 1 and 2).
- One screenshot looked at: icon, line, handle and the rope rows.
- The e2e sum of 1691 is counted (1687 + 4, 1687 measured by CI
  on e066613). The full suite and the smokes did not run.
- Not seen in the browser: spring, hinge with limit and fixed
  joint, the node Add joint, a connected object that moves, joints
  inside a container, the released game. Unit tests cover them
  but the last. Limits under a mirrored parent are not handled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 21:43:12 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 c88f57cf0a Let a project choose how its game link is zoomed (#279)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 2m52s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 14m31s
The page of a released game always drew the camera at Auto, the
largest whole step that fits. A camera of 300x180 in a window of
1280x800 stands at step 4 and leaves a border left and right. The
issue asks for Fit next to it. Answered there: a setting of its own
rather than the scale of the Game tab, and no switch for the player.

- The project has a field gameLinkZoom, 'auto' or 'fit'. A document
  without it reads as 'auto', so nothing changes for a project that
  is there already. No format bump.
- Project settings has a row "Link zoom" with a menu of Auto and
  Fit. It is an undo step of its own, SetGameLinkZoomCommand.
- GameScreen hands the field to cameraView where it passed a fixed
  'auto'.
- gameScale, the scale of the Game tab, is not touched and does not
  reach the link.
- The released copy is frozen, so the change reaches the link only
  with "Update release".

Decided here:

- The row is called "Link zoom", not "Game link zoom" as proposed.
  The longer label is wider than the label column of the dialog and
  pushed its button 12 px out of line with the others.
- The undo step keeps the name "Game link zoom", which is what the
  tooltip of the undo button shows.
- A note under the row says "The released game at the largest whole
  step that fits, or filling the window."

Tests:
- Gate on melektaus-atx: 211 files, 3227 tests (3219 + 8), exit 0
- e2e 60 on melektaus-atx: 19 checks, all pass
- e2e 35,46,59,60: 74 checks, all pass
- No full run and no smokes. The sum of 1671 (1668 + 3) is reckoned,
  1668 is what CI counted for 9e869df.
- Eight unit tests: the default, saving and loading, values that
  are not a choice, undo, gameScale left alone, the factor of Fit
  for a window larger and smaller than the camera, and the rule
  behind Apply.
- Three e2e checks in block 60i of module 60, with the real mouse:
  Auto to Fit in the dialog, update the release, open the link
  without a session and measure scale, frame and pixels. Fit reads
  4.267 where Auto reads 4.
- Nine unit counter-probes and three browser counter-probes all fail
  their tests.
- Not checked in the browser: Fit in a window smaller than the
  camera, which has a unit test, and Fit under a display scale above
  100 %. Nothing was looked at after the build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 13:53:10 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 345289982b Scale, turn and mirror the shapes of a vector drawing (#291)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 2m57s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 14m25s
A shape could only be moved and reshaped point by point. Whoever
wanted it larger or turned pulled every point alone, and for several
shapes or a group there was no way at all. The answers in the issue
settle the rest: the change is baked into the points, nothing of it
is remembered, and the line width stays.

- With Select the selection stands in a frame of eight squares and a
  knob, drawn like the one of the scene view. It holds one shape,
  several shapes or a group, the same selection that is dragged as
  one.
- A corner square scales from the opposite corner, a square on an
  edge in its own direction. Shift keeps the proportions, Alt scales
  about the middle.
- The knob turns round the middle of the frame, with Shift in steps
  of 15 degrees. After the pull the frame stands upright again.
- The inspector has a band TRANSFORM with X, Y, Width, Height and
  Rotate by, and the buttons Flip horizontal and Flip vertical.
- Points, handles, gradients and texture tiles are taken through the
  same matrix. The rule is a pure function in vectorTransform.ts,
  transformShapesCommand makes one undo step of any number of
  shapes.
- A press goes to a point or a handle first, then to the frame, then
  to a line. shapeFrame.ts holds where the handles are and what a
  pull of each means.

Decided here:

- The frame stands 15 pixels off the shapes. The points of a shape
  lie on its bounds, so a square on the bounds would cover them.
- The knob only turns. In the scene view it scales as well.
- A side cannot be pulled through the opposite one, the frame keeps
  at least 1 pixel.
- Coordinates are rounded to a thousandth of a pixel, so a quarter
  turn is exact.
- A texture tile stays upright under a turn and grows to the bounds
  of the turned tile. The bands of a gradient stay square to its
  axis under an uneven scale.
- The switch Scale stroke of the proposal is not built.

Found on the way:

- The inspector of a shape is now taller than the window. Two checks
  of module 47 no longer found their row or button on the screen and
  use the new hook inspectorButton, which scrolls there first.
- Not solved: with a shape at the top edge of the view the knob lies
  outside the tab. The wiki names it under the limits.

Taken over from #217: the e2e check for two selected shapes without
a group, and unit tests for the snap of the common offset and for
the gradients of the shapes dragged along.

Tests:
- Gate on melektaus-atx: 209 files, 3176 tests (3121 + 55), exit 0
- e2e 47,48 on melektaus-atx: 112 checks, all pass
- No full run and no smokes. The sum of 1664 (1660 + 4) is reckoned,
  1660 is what CI counted for 6d79cf5.
- 55 unit tests: 25 in tests/core/vector-transform.test.ts and 30 in
  tests/editor/shape-frame.test.ts
- Four e2e checks in block 47k of module 47: pull a corner, turn
  with Shift, type width and rotation, drag two shapes without a
  group
- 47 unit counter-probes and four browser counter-probes all fail
  their tests. Four of the unit ones did not at first: two showed
  dead code, which is gone, two got tests.
- Not checked in the browser: the edge squares, Alt, the cursors,
  the flip buttons and the rows X, Y and Height

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 11:20:55 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 275e50af01 Let a tile report a touch instead of blocking it (#160)
A tile could be solid, one-way and scaled, but not report without
blocking. Water, lava, spikes or a goal zone needed a trigger object
of their own laid over the map. Now a tile has a switch Trigger, and
the collision events name the tile and the cell they met.

- A tile has the switch "Trigger (reports, never blocks)" under
  Solid. Its cells hold nothing up: no Move, no falling body, no
  ray. They raise On collision enter, stay and exit with the tilemap
  as other.
- The three events have the outputs tile, cell x and cell y. Without
  a tile, tile is empty and the cell is -1, -1.
- The three events have the input per cell. Off, the default, gives
  one event per area: cells of the same tile that touch side by
  side. On gives one event per cell.
- The scene view outlines trigger cells in yellow like a trigger
  collider, merged to rectangles but never with solid cells.
- Is touching with the map counts trigger tiles, and Set tile works
  while the game runs.
- Both systems find the touches with the same overlap check in
  runtime/systems/tileTriggers.ts, not through the physics engine.

Decided here:

- Trigger wins over Solid. A tile with both does not block, as with
  a collider.
- Water beside lava is two areas, and so are two ponds that touch
  only at a corner.
- An area names the cell nearest to the centre of the collider, and
  on exit the cell it named last.
- The solid cells of a map still do not name their tile.
- Normal, impulse and point are 0, as with a trigger collider.
- Collision scale and outlines shape a trigger cell like a solid
  one. One-way, friction and bounciness have no effect.

Tests:
- Gate on stein2: 205 files, 3104 tests (3067 + 37), exit 0
- e2e 39,40: 106 checks. e2e 1-8,39-43: 490 checks. Both on
  melektaus-atx. No full run, the sum of 1648 (1645 + 3) is
  reckoned and CI measures it.
- 37 unit tests in tests/core/tile-triggers.test.ts, nearly all
  against both systems
- Three e2e checks with a real mouse in block 40l-iv
- 24 unit counter-probes fail tests. Two did not at first, tests
  were added for them.
- Two browser counter-probes fail their checks
- Two screenshots looked at (yellow outline, the node with per cell)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 07:28:39 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 2ff3a78607 Put the shapes of a vector drawing on layers and in groups (#190)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 2m41s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 7h24m17s
A vector drawing was one flat list of shapes. With many shapes the
list got hard to read, and several shapes could not be kept or moved
together. Now the shapes stand on layers, as in pixel art, and can be
put into groups that nest.

- A drawing has layers, each with a name and an eye. A hidden layer
  is neither in the tab nor in the picture a sprite wears, and its
  shapes cannot be pressed. One layer is the one worked on: the pen
  and Add shape draw onto it, and SHAPES lists what is on it.
- The inspector has a list LAYERS over the shapes. Its plus adds a
  layer, the cross on a row removes it with all on it, the last one
  stays. A double-click renames, a drag sorts.
- Group (Ctrl+G) puts the selected shapes into a group, Ungroup
  (Ctrl+Shift+G) takes it away. A group stands over its rows in the
  list, the rows one step in, and a row is dragged into a group or
  out of it.
- In the tab a press on a shape takes its outermost group, and a drag
  moves the group as one undo step.
- The model has layers with a tree of shapes and groups instead of a
  flat shapes array. The rules are pure functions in
  core/model/vectorTree.ts. A drawing saved before opens with all its
  shapes on one layer.
- SortableList takes rows with a depth and drops into a tree. The
  flat lists of tilemap and pixel art run as before.

Decided here:

- A group has no transformation of its own and cannot be hidden or
  locked. Rotating and scaling is the follow-up #291.
- A group is never empty: the one that loses its last shape goes
  with it.
- Several selected shapes are dragged together, grouped or not, and
  a click on a shape of the selection keeps the selection. This is
  what #217 asked for.
- Shift+click selects like Ctrl+click. With Select, Shift pans only
  beside the shapes, as in the scene view. The middle button pans
  anywhere, and with the pen and Paint Shift pans as before.
- A row of the list picks one shape of a group alone.
- Shapes change their layer through a row Layer in the inspector,
  which is there from two layers on. Rows are not dragged between
  layers.
- A group cannot span two layers, the button is off then.
- The pen does not draw onto a hidden layer, the hint says so.
- Groups are always shown unfolded.
- The four order buttons work inside the own group or layer.

Tests:
- Gate: 204 files, 3067 tests (3008 + 59), exit 0
- e2e 47,48: 108 checks. e2e 39,40,47,48 before the Shift change:
  209 checks. No full run, the sum of 1645 (1639 + 6) is reckoned
  and CI measures it.
- 59 unit tests: 36 in tests/core/vector-tree.test.ts, 23 in
  tests/editor/vector-layers.test.ts
- Six e2e checks with a real mouse in block 47j
- 47 unit counter-probes for layers and groups and three for the
  Shift click all fail tests, run on stein2
- Three browser counter-probes fail their checks
- Two screenshots looked at (group in the list, hidden layer)
- Only unit tested: the row Layer, sorting and removing layers,
  copying a group, the Shift pan beside the shapes

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 23:13:43 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 1aa824ecb4 Keep objects through a Load scene with a switch (#165)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 2m37s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 13m2s
A Load scene destroyed every object of the old scene. A player, a HUD
or a music object had to be built again in each scene, with its state
pushed through shared variables. A top-level object with the new switch
Keep on scene load now travels into the next scene as the same entity,
with everything below it.

- The switch is a common property right under Enabled, off by default,
  on the asset and on a placed object. The inspector shows the row on
  top-level objects of a scene only, as answered in the issue.
- runtime/keptObjects.ts holds the rules as pure functions.
  keptEntities picks what travels, objectsToBring copies the stored
  objects as the run parents them, and bringObjects puts them into the
  next scene.
- World.instantiate takes a handed entity as it is instead of making
  one. The next syncToModel then writes the run's values into the
  scene.
- BehaviorSystem.release takes the running instances out before the
  old world is destroyed, and the next system adopts them. They hear
  no On destroy and no second On start, and their sounds play on.
- PhysicsSystem.resume gives a dynamic body the velocity and spin it
  had.
- Duplicates: the object brought along wins. The next scene does not
  build its own object with the same id, which is the way back into
  the scene the object came from.
- Decided here: the next scene does not build a top-level object of
  the same asset that is kept itself either. The issue only names the
  id. With the id alone a level that places its own player would hold
  two after a swap.
- Decided here: kept objects land behind the scene's own, the switch
  is no animation row, and collisions are found anew.

A finding, fixed along with it: Load scene did not build a scene as it
is stored, but as the run had left it. A moved object stayed moved and
a destroyed one stayed gone. The way back into a scene needs a clean
build.

- GameRun copies a scene's objects and groups before it first builds
  it and puts them back before it builds it again.
- GameRun.end puts every such scene back. The player calls it on stop,
  so spawned objects no longer stay for "Click to play again".
- The consequence: an edit made in a scene during Play is gone the
  next time that scene is loaded.

Tests:
- Gate: 199 files, 2944 tests (2929 + 15), exit 0
- e2e, full run: 1625 checks passed (1619 + 6), exit 0
- Smokes: 24 / 19 / 21, exit 0
- 15 unit tests in tests/core/keep-on-scene-load.test.ts
- Six e2e checks in module 35: the switch is set with a real mouse,
  the child has no row, the object is in the new scene, its counter
  still reads 1, its sound plays on, and the stored scenes are
  unchanged after Stop
- Eleven tests with fixed row lists only count the new schema row
- 16 unit counter-probes all fail tests, run on stein2. One did not
  fail at first (same id not left out), it has its own test now.
- The browser counter-probe fails 4 of the 6 new checks
- Not looked at in the browser: the switch as a port of the Properties
  node, and a released game with a kept object

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 17:30:16 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 3e8c88c66d Add a node that names the collision layer of an object (#211)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 2m36s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 13m16s
The issue asked for three nodes: Set layer, Set collides with and Layer
of. A probe showed that the finding behind the first two is outdated.
The Properties node of type Collider already writes both settings while
the game runs, and both collision systems see the change at once. As
agreed, only Layer of is built, and writing stays with Properties.

- Layer of is a data node with the input object and the outputs name
  and number. The name is what the project calls the layer.
- NodeContext.collisionLayerOf answers the number, and the new field
  collisionLayers on GraphLookup brings the names to the node.
- layerHolderOf in solids.ts says whose layer counts. An object stands
  for its first collider child, a collider or tilemap for itself.
- Decided here: a collider that is switched off counts too, because
  its layer is set either way.
- Decided here: without a collider the name is empty and the number
  is -1.
- The node is a read, not a run, so it answers at the moment it is
  asked. Right after a Set in the same flow it names the new layer.
- The output number was not asked for. It fits the layer port of
  Properties as it is.

Changing the layer during a run had no test at all so far. Five tests
now hold it in both systems.

Tests:
- Gate: 198 files, 2929 tests (2914 + 15), exit 0
- e2e 1-6: 285 checks passed (06: +2 for block 6z-x)
- Five unit tests for the change during a run: a mover is blocked,
  passes and is blocked again, a ray with a layer filter follows the
  change, and a dynamic body falls through the ground in Play
- Six unit tests for Layer of, three against each system, and four
  cases in the node catalog
- 6z-x finds the node in the palette, checks its ports and logs
  "Ghost" and "1" for the owner's collider in a Play run
- Two counter-probes for the change during a run fail 1 and 4 tests,
  and only new ones, so those places were unguarded before
- Six counter-probes for Layer of fail 2 to 3 tests each. All eight
  ran on stein2, not in the container.
- The browser counter-probe fails 6z-x with "Layer 1" and "1"
- The e2e sum of 1619 is calculated (1617 measured in CI run 276,
  plus 2). Neither the full suite nor the smokes ran for this state.
- Not looked at in the browser: that the layer port of Properties
  shows the same picker as the inspector.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 16:16:43 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 c1cc80bb45 Add nodes that ask whether an animation still runs (#233)
A graph could start, pause and stop an animation and hear it finish,
but it could not ask in between whether one runs or how far it is.
Two data nodes answer that now.

- Animation playing takes an object and an animation and gives
  playing, progress and time left (s). It answers at the moment it is
  read: right after Play animation in the same pass it says on, and in
  the frame On animation finished fires it says off.
- With Animation at None it answers for the running animation started
  last on the object.
- Animation length gives the seconds of one pass, from the timeline
  and the frame rate alone.
- The rule is a pure function in src/core/model/animation.ts
  (playerStatus, leadingPlayer). The nodes reach an animation's
  length through a new field animation on GraphLookup.
- animationPort is exported so both nodes show the same picker as
  Play animation.

Decided in the issue: a Once (reset) counts as running while it blends
out, and progress and time left also hold for Loop and Ping-pong, at
the place of the playhead. On Ping-pong progress falls again on the
way back and time left counts to the next turn.

Decided here, the issue says nothing on it:
- A paused animation does not count as running. Progress and time
  left stand still.
- One that Stop animation fades out does not count as running, and
  its time left is 0.
- Time left of a Once (reset) includes its blend out. While it blends
  out progress is 1 and time left is the rest of the fade.

Finding, not fixed: on the node the name of the chosen animation
overlaps the output label progress in the same row. That comes from
the fixed node width in NodeView and was seen in the Fit view only.

Tests:
- Gate: 198 files, 2903 tests (2891 + 12), exit 0
- e2e 1-6: 282 checks passed, 06 has +2 for block 6z-ix
- Nine unit counter-probes fail, 1 to 4 tests each
- The browser counter-probe fails 6z-ix with ["false","false"]
- e2e total 1615 is computed, not measured in a full run. The smokes
  were not run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 10:57:31 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 cfd288c4b7 Halve the frame time of a playing scene with a tilemap (#284)
The performance panel showed Physics and Editor as the large parts of
a frame in a scene of 222 entities. Nearly all of it came from a
tilemap that only stands there.

- Whoever writes cells in place now says so with cellsChanged. Only
  then does cellsVersion compare the content. The comparison ran about
  60 times per frame and was the largest single item at 14 percent.
- The four writers call it: the painter during and at the end of a
  stroke, PaintTilesCommand on execute and on undo. A new writer that
  forgets it stays invisible.
- The game view is drawn once per frame in play. With an animated tile
  in view it was drawn twice, once by the run and once by animate().
  animate() now gets the redraw count from the start of the tick.
- TilemapField builds the geometry of a mesh only when its source
  changes: the cells, the tile size, the origin or the image. For that
  groupByTile and layerRows return the same objects for the same list.
- PhysicsSystem skips a tilemap whose source and switch are unchanged.
  The switch is kept because a map that starts switched off would
  otherwise have dead colliders once it is switched on.
- World.syncToModel looks entities and assets up in a map per pass
  instead of a linear search per object.

Measured on stein2 with a copy of the reference project, ms per frame:
Physics 2.64 to 0.97, Drawing 6.89 to 2.56, Editor 1.95 to 1.31.

Left open: syncToModel still mirrors every entity every frame. That
is its own issue.

Tests:
- Gate: 198 files, 2887 tests (2883 + 4), exit 0
- e2e 1-17,28,33,39-43,59: 810 checks passed, 40 has +3
- Smokes: 24 / 19 / 21, exit 0
- Three unit tests wrote cells directly and now call cellsChanged
- Eleven counter-probes fail. Two did not at first: the stroke needed
  a check of its own, the physics test has to start with the map
  switched off. That last one was repeated on stein2 only.
- e2e total 1613 is computed, not measured in a full run

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 09:52:57 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 6491888f56 Stop offering private variables as new animation rows (#270)
A behavior variable switched private is hidden from the placed object
and from the Properties node, but the row dialog of an animation kept
offering it. Rows that exist already stay as they are, as decided in
the issue.

- offeredDefs in src/core/model/animation.ts is what the dialog offers
  now: what the target can animate, less private variables and less
  what another row animates already. The filter moved there from
  RowDialog.ts, so it can be tested without the editor.
- animatableDefsOf is unchanged. The label and the runtime read it, so
  a row on a variable that went private keeps playing and keeps its
  label.
- Deviation from the proposal: under Change target the row's own
  variable stays on offer, private or not. The dialog would open with
  no property and a disabled button otherwise. Other private variables
  are not offered there either.
- The command does not refuse a private variable. Only the dialog does
  not offer it.

Finding, not fixed: e2e 56 fails when it runs alone, in 56a-ii from
#257 (typing "9" did not arrive: focus is BODY). With 55 before it the
module passes, so a full run does not show it. It was not measured on
HEAD without this change.

Tests:
- Gate: 198 files, 2883 tests (2882 + 1), exit 0
- e2e 55,56: 27 checks passed, 56 has +56e
- e2e 25: 31 checks passed, it uses the same dialog
- Three unit counter-probes each fail the new test
- The browser counter-probe fails 56e, mood shows up in the dialog
- e2e total 1610 is computed, not measured in a full run

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 07:45:05 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 5e21d473a4 Fix references into nested placements and on asset delete (#285, #286)
Two findings from #269. A reference from a container into a placement
nested in it was dead from the start, and deleting an asset left
references to the objects it took along showing "(missing)".

- A reference is stored the way its holder shows the object. In a
  container tab that is q~x for content of a nested placement q.
- referenceCandidates translates it when the container is placed: in
  placement r, q~x becomes r~q/x. pathOfId and idOfPath in instance.ts
  do the mapping, objectChoices offers the same spelling the other way.
  The rule holds at any depth.
- Storing q/x as proposed in #285 was dropped. The container tab would
  then have had to translate its own ids.
- No migration. All projects and snapshots hold three references, none
  of them with ~ or /.
- Create container lets a reference to content of a member placement
  follow it. It was left dead before.
- Paste lets such a reference point into the copy. It kept pointing at
  the original before. Both go through the new renamedReference.
- Delete asset records what every holder shows before the cascade and
  clears every reference to an object that is gone afterwards, with
  dropReferencesToGone from #269. The row shows None, undo restores
  the references (#286).

Tests:
- Gate: 198 files, 2882 tests (2873 + 9), exit 0
- Unit object-references: 26 passed (17 + 9)
- e2e 1-17,57: 566 checks passed, 57 has +57i and +57j
- Six unit counter-probes fail between 1 and 3 tests each
- The browser counter-probe fails 57i and 57j as described in the
  issues
- e2e total 1609 is computed, not measured in a full run

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 07:28:49 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 214218d1b2 Clear references to a template object in every scene on delete (#269)
Deleting an object in a container tab only cleared references inside
the template. Placements in scenes and other containers kept their
instance edit and showed "(missing)" in the inspector.

- shownObjectIds records which objects every holder shows before the
  delete. dropReferencesToGone compares that with the state after it
  and clears each reference that no longer resolves.
- A reference is resolved from its own place with referenceCandidates,
  the same way the runtime does. One rule covers instance edits,
  nested placements and full ids like p~crate.
- A cleared instance edit is dropped when it now says the same as the
  template's own value. Without such a value a marked None stays, as
  if picked by hand, and Reset hands the row back to the template.
- All cleared references come back with a single undo.
- References that were already dead in saved projects stay untouched.

Findings, not fixed here:
- A reference from container D into a nested placement q is stored as
  q~<id>, but the copy is named r~q/<id> in every placement of D. The
  runtime finds nothing, so that reference is dead from the start.
- Delete asset removes placed objects by cascade but does not clear
  references to them.

Tests:
- Unit object-references: 17 passed (13 + 4)
- Gate: 198 files, 2873 tests, exit 0
- e2e 1-17,57: 564 checks passed, 57 has 13 (+1 for 57h)
- Five unit counter-probes and one browser counter-probe fail as
  expected
- e2e total 1607 is computed, not measured in a full run

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 22:35:51 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 0f6e628616 Check the declared type when a graph writes a typed variable (#271)
A list variable with an item type only kept its shape in the editor.
A graph could write any list into it at runtime, and the List node had
no type at all. Now the declaration decides what a write may store.

- Writing a list into a typed list variable leaves out every item that
  does not have exactly the fields of the type. The rest is written and
  the console names each item that was left out, like Add item does.
- The same rule holds for typed list fields inside a struct variable
  and for lists inside typed items, at any depth.
- A typed struct variable refuses a struct with a field the type does
  not have, and a value that is no struct. A struct with missing fields
  still merges in as before, so a partial Pack keeps working.
- The check runs in the Variables node (own variables and Variables
  assets) and in the Properties node when it sets a behavior variable
  of another object.
- Ports learn their declaration through GraphLookup: what a variable
  declares about its type, and which behavior owns a graph. The rule
  itself lives in the new src/core/graph/typedValues.ts, fitsType moved
  there from SetItem.
- The List node gets a Type setting. With a type its items are shaped
  and marked, follow the struct asset, count when the type is deleted
  and offer Split into fields in For each. The mark never reaches the
  running game.
- A type on a List node holding something other than structs is
  refused with a console line.
- Setting the List node back to None removes the marks, unlike a list
  variable. A node list has no per-item type row, so marked items could
  never be freed there. Undo brings everything back.
- tests/core/kinds.test.ts looked for the value as the first parameter
  of a literal. Type now comes first on the List node, so the test
  finds the value by its key.

Tests:
- Gate: 198 files, 2869 tests (2856 + 13), CHECK EXIT 0
- e2e 55: 19 checks (+55j write at runtime, +2 for 55k List node)
- e2e 54: 16 checks, smokes 24 / 19 / 21
- Five mutations, each fails between 1 and 4 tests
- e2e total 1606 is computed (1603 + 3), no full run

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 22:08:22 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 ded71a92c9 Pick the target of an object variable in the Scene View (#276)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 2m32s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 10m45s
Choosing the target of an object variable meant finding its name in
a dropdown. With many objects, or several with the same sprite, the
name alone does not say which one it is. The eyedropper lets you
click the object where you see it instead.

- Every object dropdown gets an eyedropper button next to it. This
  covers variables, struct fields and list entries, in the Inspector
  and in the Variables tab.
- The button opens the Scene View or the container tab the object
  lives in. A strip above the view names the field and the current
  candidate and offers Take and Cancel. The cursor is a crosshair.
- A click picks a candidate and writes nothing yet. The candidate
  gets its own cyan frame, the selection stays on the object with
  the variable.
- Clicking follows the selection rule. `pickOn` in
  `src/viewport/pick.ts` uses `pressOn` and only counts objects the
  dropdown offers. A click on empty space keeps the candidate.
- Enter or Take writes through the same handlers as the dropdown.
  That is one undo step, or none if nothing changes.
- Esc, Cancel, a right click in the view or a second click on the
  button cancel without writing. So do a tab switch, another
  selection, undo, redo, play and loading a project.
- After Take or Cancel the editor goes back to the tab the pick came
  from.
- While the eyedropper runs, the view does not drag, marquee, paint,
  show handles or open its context menu. Panning and zooming stay.

Found on the way:

- Started from the Variables tab, the click missed the object. The
  Scene View is hidden while that tab is open, and the layout skips
  hidden children. The strip appeared then, the view moved down by
  32 px but kept its old height. `Editor.display()` now lays the row
  out again after showing it.

Tests (on melektaus-atx):

- unit pick and object-pick: 27 passed, 13 new
- gate: 196 files, 2844 tests, CHECK EXIT 0. Two more come from
  svg-icons, which checks every icon twice.
- e2e 57: ALL PASSED, 12 checks, 5 new (57e to 57g)
- Counter-checks work. Without the layout fix 57g fails. Picking
  objects the dropdown does not offer fails 2 tests. Writing on
  cancel fails 2 more.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 06:31:41 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 6d4247ebf8 Paste where the view shows it, editor offsets included (#263)
Paste mixed two frames. The pointer comes from the Scene View, which
draws every object moved by the editor offsets of it and its parents.
Paste turned that point into a local position through the parents'
plain world transform, so the copy landed beside the pointer by the
offset of the parent it went into. Without a pointer, an original with
an offset of its own had its copy placed beside its game position,
which the view does not show.

- A copied root now remembers where the view showed it
  (`ClipRoot.shown`, from `editorTransform`) instead of its world
  position.
- New `editorLocalPositionFor` in `properties/transform.ts` turns a
  shown point into a local position through the parent chain with the
  editor offsets, as the view draws it. Paste uses it.
- The copy itself still gets no editor offset of its own, as since
  #240. In the game it stands where it was drawn, minus the offsets of
  its parents.
- Re-parenting under a parent with an offset still keeps the game
  position, so the object jumps in the view by that offset. That is a
  different rule from paste and is left as it is.

Tests:
- Unit (clipboard, groups, references, transform): 50 passed, 2 new.
- e2e 51 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 12 checks, 1 new (51f).
- Gate on melektaus-atx: 195 files, 2829 tests, CHECK EXIT 0.
- Counter-checks: without the paste fix both new unit tests fail
  (copy at 540/470 instead of 500/500) and 51f fails by exactly the
  60/-40 offset. With the root remembering its world position again,
  the own-offset unit test fails.
- No full run. The e2e total of 1591 is 1590 plus 1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 22:36:30 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 9b5eeaab57 Empty a deleted tile's cells on every tilemap (#268)
Deleting a tile left the cells painted with it in the tilemaps. They
drew nothing, blocked nothing and did not show in the delete dialog,
but still read as a tile for "Tile at" and stopped a fill.

- DeleteAssetCommand empties the cells of a deleted tile on every
  layer of every tilemap in the same step. Undo puts the tile and its
  cells back together.
- The delete dialog counts them, for example "3 cell(s) on 1
  tilemap(s) are painted with it and become empty." (cellsPainted).
- presentTile treats a cell naming a missing tile as empty. "Tile at"
  (World.tileAt) and floodFill use it, so cells already in existing
  files read and fill as empty. There is no migration.
- The brush, the rectangle and the fill check the tile in hand. A
  tile deleted after it was picked no longer paints new invisible
  cells, the editor says "Choose a tile to paint with." instead.
- Unchanged on purpose: the picker still reports such a cell as
  naming a tile that no longer exists, and erasing removes it.

Tests:
- ./check.sh: 195 files, 2823 tests, CHECK EXIT 0 (+6).
- GM_STEPS=39,40: ALL PASSED, 100 checks (4 new in 40t).
- Full e2e sum is now 1590 (1586 confirmed by CI on round 8, plus 4).
- Counter-checks, all fail as expected: 5 in unit tests (delete
  without emptying, undo without cells, fill and "Tile at" without
  presentTile, wrong map count) and 3 in the browser (dialog without
  count, delete without emptying, brush without the check).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 19:00:22 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 14972d057f Refactoring round 8: hide data files, safe saves, Esc as Cancel (#85)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m53s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 11m55s
Recurring cleanup round over the code since round 7 (bc688f3). The
issue now also asks to fix bugs and small inconsistencies found on the
way, so unlike the rounds before, this one changes behaviour in a few
places. Duplicated code in api went from 23 clones with 228 lines to
none (jscpd, at least 50 tokens). In src it stays at 22 clones with
271 lines, the same before and after.

Bugs:
- nginx served project and snapshot files as they were, so anyone who
  knew a project id could read it without signing in. Every file the
  API writes now goes through AtomicFile (temp file, mode, rename).
  Projects, snapshots, releases, accounts and sessions are 0640, and
  nginx answers 403 for them.
- Any signed-in account could delete a shared image, font or sound,
  which projects of other accounts may wear. Deleting one is now for
  administrators only. The editor never deleted a file, so the
  client's delete is gone.
- Two saves of one project could run at once. The lock file was
  removed after each save, so a waiting save and the next one locked
  different files. The lock file now stays, and deleting a project
  takes the lock as well.
- Bytes that are no picture got a 500 instead of a 422, because the
  error handler also threw for warnings silenced with @.
- A session file was rewritten in place. A request reading it at that
  moment found it empty and was signed out. It is replaced atomically.
- Delete did nothing for a shape picked in the vector art list. Delete
  now goes through removeSelection, one case per kind of selection,
  and a kind without a case fails the type check.

Inconsistencies:
- Escape on a question does what its Cancel does. Cancel on "Delete
  project?" and "Restore snapshot?" leads back to the picker or the
  list like the other questions did, and so does deleting a project.
- Editor texts use American spelling throughout, like the port names:
  48 British spellings in 45 lines (colour, centre, initialised).
- objectName and groupName replace eleven copies of "own name, else
  the asset's" and three of "Group". One copy fell back to the object
  id instead of "?".

Duplicates, dead code, comments:
- routeFiles serves images, fonts and sounds instead of three copies.
  HashedFileStore holds what the three stores shared: keeping a file
  under its hash with its name, listing and deleting. The stores keep
  only which bytes they take and what a record says.
- AtomicFile replaces nine copies of temp file plus rename.
- removeShapes is the one way the canvas, the inspector button and
  Delete take shapes out.
- GraphInterpreter.fire was called by tests only. The 54 calls use a
  helper in tests/helpers.ts now.
- FileStore.delete, HttpFileStore.delete and the PluginApi type were
  unused. A doc comment in actions.ts sat above the wrong function.

Checked and left as is:
- solidCells is used by tests only. It is the per-cell view before the
  merge into rectangles, the one place the largest-scale rule shows.
- An undo checker ran all 124 commands of the unit tests and compared
  the project before and after undo. The only differences are empty
  ports, groups and notes lists where there were none, which the file
  format drops anyway.

Docs:
- README: the check sum.
- Wiki, own commit: API (admin-only deletes, 422, file modes, lock
  file), Home (the "Not yet" list named three things that exist),
  Concepts, Keyboard, Vector art, Architecture and Development, and
  the 38 characters Gitea flagged as ambiguous on eight pages.
- .gitignore: the lock files, and pasted-*.png in any folder, which
  keeps the screenshot archive out.

Tests:
- ./check.sh: 195 files, 2817 tests, exit 0 (+2 for the name helpers).
- PHP: accounts 52 in the web container and 53 in the CI image with
  the race test (+2), snapshots 15 (+1), releases 20.
- Full e2e run: ALL PASSED, 1586 checks (+6 in 12, 47, 49 and 50).
- Smokes jumprun, tetris, actor: 24, 19 and 21 checks. The example
  project files were restored byte for byte afterwards.
- The file stores of HEAD and of this commit give byte-identical
  output for the live folders and for store, list and delete in a
  throwaway folder.
- Counter-checks, all fail as expected: a 500 for bad bytes fails 12,
  no admin check fails 49, removing the lock file again loses saves
  in 3 of 3 runs (151 to 170 of 321), Delete ignoring shapes fails 47,
  Escape that only closes fails 50, and dropping the shape case fails
  the type check (TS2366).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 18:12:55 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 bc688f3efc Refactoring round 7: split BehaviorSystem, fewer copies (#85)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m50s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 12m3s
Recurring cleanup round over the code since round 6 (056a622), 105
commits. Behaviour is unchanged. Duplicated code in src went from 29
clones with 229 lines (0.32 %) to 14 clones with 109 lines (0.15 %),
measured with jscpd and the same settings as round 6.

- BehaviorSystem.ts shrinks from 941 to 589 lines. Collecting the
  pulses (keys, timers, collisions, animations) moved to
  behaviorPulses.ts. The NodeContext the nodes receive moved to
  behaviorContext.ts. Imports from outside stay the same, TimeScaled
  is still exported from BehaviorSystem.ts.
- PointKindButton and drawPointGrip replace the "Point:" button with
  its menu and the point and handle drawing that the curve and the
  vector art tab each had on their own.
- lerpVec, cubicAt and splitCubic in src/core/util/vec.ts replace four
  copies of the cubic curve and two de Casteljau splits.
- mapNested in Properties.ts is the one walk over lists and structs
  that liveObjects and objectRefs did separately. withFieldRenamed
  and withoutField replace three copies of renaming a struct field
  and two of removing one.
- jsonBody and staleRevision build the JSON body and turn a 409 into
  StaleRevisionError for all stores. The auth store turns a 401 into
  its error in one place.
- Smaller helpers: structAssetFrom for the two "Make struct type"
  commands, shownObject in the inspector, selectedItem for the size
  gizmo and the polygon corners, solidTiles in the tilemap collision,
  requireVariablesAsset and requireBehaviorVariable.
- Left as is on purpose: the plain forwarding from the collision and
  physics systems to Solids, the pointer wiring of the canvases and
  the identical last lines of the two make commands.
- Removed unused code: tilemapTileIds and tilemapsUsing were never
  called since #128 and #131. EditorState.runtimeProject became unused
  with GameRun in #266. The assetId getter of the make commands was
  read only by a test.
- 60 values used only in their own file lost their export. The shader
  and particle node catalogues stay exported as in round 6.
- Five comments that told history now describe the current state. The
  doc comment of BehaviorSystem sits on the class again.
- README lists the struct, clip area and curve assets and mentions the
  game link from #266.

Findings:
- Deleting a tile that is painted on a tilemap leaves its cells in
  place, and they draw nothing. The delete dialog does not mention the
  tilemaps. That was probably the job of the unused tilemapsUsing.
  Left as is, because fixing it changes behaviour.
- The solid filter for tile surfaces was untested. A bent filter
  stayed green. A new test in tests/core/surface.test.ts now fails
  against it.

Tests:
- ./check.sh: 195 files, 2815 tests, exit 0 (one test removed with
  tilemapsUsing, one added for tile surfaces).
- Full e2e run: ALL PASSED, 1580 checks.
- Smokes jumprun, tetris, actor: 24, 19 and 21 checks, all passed.
  The example project files were restored byte for byte afterwards.
- Counter-checks, 12, all fail as expected: 10 in unit tests (among
  them mapNested, splitCubic, cubicAt, staleRevision, the stay pulse,
  the late timer and the time scale), 2 in the browser (Point button
  always enabled fails 47, selectedItem without a hit fails 29).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 16:16:37 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 24d360aeec Add zoom steps and a larger start caption to the game link (#266)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 4m5s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 12m45s
The released game only ever zoomed in whole steps up to 400%, so a
small camera on a large screen stayed far smaller than it could be.
The "Click to play" caption was drawn in the 11 px panel title size
and was easy to miss.

- GAME_SCALE_STEPS gains 300%, 500% and 600%. The game tab picker,
  Auto in the editor and the game link all read the same list.
- The start caption takes its size from the new Theme.captionSize
  (16) instead of a constant in GameScreen.
- The player page keeps the default arrow cursor at all times. It no
  longer switches to the hand over the caption.

Tests:
- view.test: Auto for 320x180 in 2000x2000 is now 6, with cases
  for 3 and 5. play-settings.test takes 2.5 and 8 as invalid steps.
- e2e 60 checks the caption against the panel title size and the
  arrow cursor before and after the start. Module 03 follows the new
  step list.
- ./check.sh 2808 tests, CHECK EXIT 0 (before the last Theme tweak,
  which changes no test). Full e2e run ALL PASSED, 1574 checks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 14:14:54 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 94c1055895 Throttle what the editor shows while a game runs (#265)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m40s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 11m9s
With the behaviors fixed, the scene Performance test still ran at
about 23 fps with 500 entities. The rest of the frame went to the
editor: every spawn or destroy rebuilt the hierarchy with all its
rows, redrew the scene view behind the game tab and refreshed every
panel. The game itself is cheap. What the panels show of it now
follows a preset in the project settings.

- New section While playing in the project settings with three
  presets: Live, Balanced and Minimal. Every project reads as
  Balanced, including those saved before the setting existed.
- Live keeps today's behavior. Balanced brings hierarchy and panel
  values up to date 4 times a second and stops redrawing the hidden
  scene view. Minimal updates hierarchy and values only on pause and
  throttles the graph tabs as well.
- The graph and state machine tabs stay live under Balanced. At 4
  updates a second the beads on exec edges stutter, and the tabs
  draw only while on screen. This differs from the issue proposal.
- The game itself is never throttled. Pause, step and stop bring
  every panel up to date at once, and a change of structure that
  falls between two updates is kept for the next one.
- The rule lives in editor/playThrottle.ts as panelPolicy and
  PanelClock. PlaySession asks it after every frame.
- Objects spawned at the top level go into a hierarchy group named
  after their asset, so hundreds of gold pieces fold into one row.
  Groups start folded.

Measured on a throwaway copy of Performance test, 3 s each, fps:

- About 500 entities: Live 38.6, Balanced 56, Minimal 60.6.
- About 315 entities: Live 56.9, Balanced 60.5, Minimal 60.6.
- p95 frame time at 500 entities: 60 ms, 41 ms and 23 ms.

Tests:

- ./check.sh: 193 files, 2799 tests, CHECK EXIT 0.
- GM_STEPS=1,18,59: ALL PASSED, 54 checks.
- Full e2e run (local): ALL PASSED, 1562 checks.
- tests/editor/play-throttle.test.ts: presets, update rates, kept
  structure changes, flush, spawn group and loading old projects.
- New e2e module 59: preset chosen with the mouse, measured update
  rates, scene view behind the game tab, Minimal with pause.
- Module 03 now expects spawned objects in their group row after the
  next update.
- Counter-checks: 4 in unit tests and 2 in the browser, each failing
  as expected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 11:53:04 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 0c41cb97b1 Clip the children of an object to a clip area (#260)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m43s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 11m7s
An inventory grid could not scroll, because nothing could cut a child
off at an edge. A game also had no way to hear the mouse wheel. Both
are needed for a scrolling list, a dialog text or a window with more
content than room.

- A new object type Clip area has width and height and turns, scales
  and mirrors with its parent. The size gizmo drags width and height.
- Everything below a clip area, on every level, is drawn only inside
  its rectangle, in the Scene view as in the game. Nested areas cut to
  their intersection. The rule works on a convex polygon, so a turned
  area cuts right as well.
- On click, Is hovered and On mouse wheel do not hit a cut-off part.
  The Scene view does not pick it either.
- In the Scene view the area is a dashed frame that is grabbed only at
  its edge, so a click inside lands on the content. The eye under
  Shape hides the frame. In the game the area is invisible.
- While an object below an area or one of its parents is selected, the
  Scene view shows the cut-off part at 30 % opacity and it can be
  grabbed there. The rule lives in core/properties/clip.ts.
- The Properties node knows the type Clip area.
- The new event node On mouse wheel fires by the rule of On click. Its
  delta counts in notches, positive is down, and a frame's turns
  arrive as one value. It also gives x and y.

Limits:

- Only sprites and texts show the faded rest. Tilemaps and particles
  are cut and can be grabbed when open, but are not shown faded.
- Masks by texture shape are out, as noted in the issue.

Tests:

- ./check.sh: 2773 tests, CHECK EXIT 0.
- Full e2e run (local): ALL PASSED, 1549 checks, measured.
- tests/core/clip-areas.test.ts: 12 tests for the cut rule, scene and
  game, save and load, hits, the wheel with and without owner, the
  notch conversion and the open rule.
- e2e 58, 5 checks with real mouse and wheel: the scene cuts (74 of 74
  red inside, 0 outside), a click on the cut part picks nothing, the
  selected rest is faded and grabbable, the game cuts, one notch
  logs 1.
- e2e 04 and 46 count the object types and the eye rows. They now
  include Clip area.
- Counter-checks: 6 in unit tests and 3 in the browser, all fail as
  expected. The originals were restored and checked with cmp.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 07:08:00 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 89aa92d2e3 Put a shader on a text and draw pixel fonts sharp (#169)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 4m5s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 11m40s
A text could not wear a shader, and a pixel font was always smoothed.
Pixi's Text takes no custom shader. It also shares one texture between
texts of the same content and style, and the filter is not part of that
key, so two equal texts with different filters would overwrite each
other.

- TextPicture rasters a text into a texture of its own and draws it
  like a sprite. Shader, time animation and edge mode work without a
  special path. A new text, font or size rasters again and keeps the
  shader.
- The old texture is dropped only after the shader holds the new one.
  Before, Pixi warned about a destroyed texture that was still bound.
- A text has a Shader row with the shader's property rows below, as a
  sprite has. Overrides, saving, animation and the Properties node
  (type Text) know them. A shader parameter named like an own row of
  the text loses to that row, as on the particle source.
- The font asset has a Filter row, Linear or Nearest. The row existed
  three times already (texture, vector art, pixel art) and is now one
  helper filterRow.
- Nearest rasters the text 8 times finer and cuts every 8x8 block to
  one texel: at least half covered is full, else empty. Chrome on
  Windows smooths canvas text sideways through DirectWrite whatever
  filter we set later. The cut removes those half pixels on every
  system, and the texture stays one texel per world unit.

Found on the way:

- On a font that is no pixel font thin strokes break apart under
  Nearest. For a pixel font at its own size this does not matter.

Not done:

- The preview in the Shader tab does not take a selected text as its
  picture, it shows the test picture then.

Tests:

- ./check.sh: 189 files, 2759 tests, CHECK EXIT 0.
- text-shader.test.ts with 10 tests: rows and name precedence, a
  clamped override, save and load, animation, the font filter, and
  sharpCoverage on a smoothed edge and at the texture border.
- e2e 30 has 7 new checks: red glyphs through the shader picked with
  the mouse, the shader survives a new text, red in the game, soft
  edges under Linear, clean 4x4 blocks under Nearest, and half covered
  texels (Linear 238, Nearest 0).
- Full local run before the Nearest cut: all passed, 1543 checks.
  GM_STEPS=1,30 on the final bundle: all passed, 32 checks. The sum
  1544 in the README is counted from these two runs, not measured.
- Counter-checks fail as expected: in the browser no shader on a text
  fails 30h-30j, an always linear sampler fails the Nearest check, the
  old 1:1 raster leaves 107 half covered texels and fails 30k-ii.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 06:01:28 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 ef2600493f Read the pixel size of a texture in a graph (#262)
A graph had no way to know how big a picture is. An icon sprite with a
fixed size therefore stretched every icon of another size, an 8x8
pixel-art icon in a 16x16 slot was drawn twice as big.

- New data node Texture size. It takes a texture, a frame or a pixel
  art and hands out width and height in pixels, 0 x 0 for none.
  Wired into a sprite's width and height, the picture shows pixel for
  pixel.
- GraphLookup gets textureSize. The project answers it with the same
  pictureSize rule a sprite uses to size itself.

Tests:

- ./check.sh: 2749 tests, CHECK EXIT 0.
- 2 catalog cases (a picture, no picture) and one test against a real
  project: pixel-art sheet, single frame, missing texture.
- No e2e check and no counter-check for this node.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 06:01:27 +02:00