Copy and paste only existed for animation keys. Building a scene or a
graph meant placing every object and node again by hand, even when the
same arrangement was needed twice.
- Ctrl+C copies the selected objects with their whole subtree, or the
selected nodes with their links, groups and comments. Ctrl+V pastes
into the scene, container or graph of the visible tab.
- The copy is a snapshot in the editor's own clipboard, in memory. It
holds asset ids, so the system clipboard is not used. It is cleared
when another project opens.
- A paste lands under the mouse pointer when it is over the view, and
keeps its arrangement. Otherwise it lands one grid step beside the
original. Each further copy that still exists moves one step on, so
an undone copy does not count.
- Objects get new ids for the whole subtree. They paste into the one
selected object and keep their look under the new parent. If that
object is the original or an earlier copy, the paste lands beside it
instead of nesting deeper with every Ctrl+V.
- A placed container stays a container. Content copied out of a
container pastes as plain objects. Pasting a container into its own
template is refused.
- Nodes paste only where the palette would offer them. A second Start
or End, a State in a behavior or a behavior calling itself is left
out, and a notice names what was dropped.
- Menus: Copy and Paste in the object menu, a new Paste menu on empty
scene space, Copy in the node and box menus, Paste in the palette.
- Ctrl+V still imports a picture from the system clipboard when the
copy does not fit the tab. While objects are copied, the scene and
container tabs use Ctrl+V for them, as the timeline does for keys.
Not checked in the browser: paste in the container tab, in state
machine, shader and particle graphs, and from the hierarchy menu. The
shared code path covers them.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 175 files, 2531 tests, CHECK EXIT 0
- e2e 51 (new): ALL PASSED, 11 checks with real keys and clicks
- 13 unit tests in tests/editor/clipboard.test.ts, one of them pins
the grid step after undo found during e2e
- 7 counter-checks all fail as expected (6 unit, 1 in the browser)
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Autosave only keeps the latest revision. Before a risky change there
was no way to put a known good state aside and go back to it later.
The main menu now has "Snapshots..." to create, restore and delete
named copies of the open project.
- Server: SnapshotStore.php keeps each snapshot as a copy of the
project JSON under data/snapshots/<project>/ (git-ignored). Four
routes under projects/{id}/snapshots use the same owner check as the
project, so an admin also sees foreign snapshots.
- Create writes the autosave first. With unsaved edits (play with open
edits, failed save, conflict) no snapshot is made and a message says
why. The rule is the pure function in src/editor/snapshots.ts.
- An empty name falls back to the local date and time.
- Restore asks first, then keeps the current state as "Before
restoring <name>". It writes the snapshot back as a new revision and
reloads the project, so the undo list is empty. A restore can itself
be undone by restoring that snapshot.
- Deleting a project deletes its snapshots too. Images, sounds, fonts
and pixel art are content-addressed and never deleted, so a snapshot
can always reach them.
- Client: SnapshotStore and HttpSnapshotStore in src/core/store, the
SnapshotsDialog, and the flows in ProjectSession. A stale revision
(409) becomes StaleRevisionError.
- CI runs the new PHP test in the gate job next to accounts.
Not covered by e2e: the lock during play and the conflict case. Both
are unit tests only.
Tests:
- check.sh: 164 files, 2401 tests, CHECK EXIT 0.
- tests/php/snapshots.test.php: 14 checks, all passed.
- tests/editor/snapshots.test.ts: 5 tests for the time format, the
blocker rule, the routes and 409.
- New e2e module 50 on a throwaway project: create, rename, restore,
undo the restore, delete, then delete the project and get 404 on
its snapshots. 46b expects the new menu entry. e2e 46,50: 20 checks
passed. The check sum goes from 1385 to 1393 (computed).
- Counter-checks, originals restored and compared with cmp: blocker
always allowed fails 1 unit test. No sorting fails 2 PHP checks.
Restore without keeping the old state fails 50c and aborts 50d.
- The first sort test with 2 snapshots passed by chance half the time
because of random ids. It now uses 8.
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Both settings lived in the browser's localStorage, so they did not
travel with the project and differed per machine. They now belong to
the project like the symbol scale. There is no migration, old projects
load with the defaults.
- New module src/core/model/playSettings.ts reads playFrom and
gameScale on load. Unknown or missing values fall back to the start
scene and 100%.
- src/editor/settings.ts is gone.
- Play starts in the project settings dialog is an undo step
(SetPlayFromCommand). It is only recorded on a real change.
- The game view scale is saved with the project but is no undo step,
so Ctrl+Z never undoes a zoom. A scale picked during play is written
to the stored project and survives Stop.
- Save states of persistent Variables assets (saves.ts) stay in the
browser on purpose. They are runtime data of the game, not settings.
Tests:
- 6 new unit tests in tests/editor/play-settings.test.ts: defaults,
save and load, broken JSON, undo of Play starts, scale without undo
step, scale picked during play survives Stop.
- e2e 03g checks the value in the project, nothing in localStorage and
no new undo step. 35f also checks project.playFrom. No new checks,
the sum stays at 1375.
- Counter checks: no write to the stored project in play, no read on
load, and an undo step for the scale each fail exactly their test.
- ./check.sh: 158 files, 2332 tests, CHECK EXIT 0
- e2e 1-17,28,30,35,38-40,46: ALL PASSED, 752 checks
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The game view always stretched the camera picture to fit the pane.
Pixel art came out blurred at odd factors, and there was no way to
see the game at its real size. The view now has a header with a
scale drop-down, and 100 % is the default.
- The header of the new GamePane offers Auto, Fit, 25 %, 50 %,
100 %, 200 % and 400 %. Auto and Fit show the factor they land
on, e.g. "Auto · 100%", and follow the pane when it resizes.
- 100 % means one screen pixel per pixel of the camera resolution
(width x height). The camera zoom scales the world on top of
that, so a zoomed camera still fills the same frame.
- Auto takes the largest fixed step that fits the whole picture
and falls back to 25 % when nothing fits. Fit keeps the old
behaviour.
- A picture larger than the pane is cropped around the camera
centre. Fixed steps start on a whole pixel so pixel art stays
sharp at 100 %.
- The choice is kept in the browser like "Play starts". Nothing
is written into the project.
Found on the way: the first draft applied the step to the world
instead of the camera resolution. The camera zoom then had no
effect at 100 %, which the existing check 12c caught (zoom 1.37
measured as scale 1).
The CI smokes were not run locally, because that would reseed
projects the user works in. All three smoke cameras are 640x360
and fit the 670x383 harness view at 100 %.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 156 files, 2298 tests, CHECK EXIT 0 (before 2290).
- 8 unit tests in tests/viewport/view.test.ts for whole-pixel
steps, cropping, Auto and Fit with fallback, and zoomed cameras.
- 7 e2e checks in 03g. e2e 1-17,28,30,38-40: ALL PASSED, 727
checks.
- Counter-checks: no cropping, no rounding, no factor reported to
the header, and no zoom share each fail their own tests.
- Check total: 1367 (CI at c1a702b) + 7 = 1374, computed only.
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Until now every account could do the same, and managing accounts
meant running make-user.php on the server. Accounts now carry a role,
and admins get a tab in the editor to create, rename, re-role, reset
and delete accounts. Both issues share the same server files, so they
land in one commit.
#180 Roles:
- Every account is admin or user. A missing or unknown role counts as
user, on the server and in the client.
- auth/session and auth/login return {user, role}.
- Auth::requireAdmin() answers everyone else with 403.
- make-user.php takes the role as a third argument. Without it an
existing account keeps its role, so a password reset from the CLI
never demotes an admin.
- Admins see and save other users' projects like their own. Saving
keeps the original owner.
#179 User management:
- The account menu gets "User management" (admins only) and "Plugins"
(everyone). Both open the same closable tab, accounts on top and
plugins below. The fixed Plugins tab is gone.
- Per account: Rename, Role, Password (no old password needed) and
Delete with a confirmation. "New user..." creates one.
- Each account lists its projects with an Open button.
- Delete is refused while the account still owns projects.
- Renaming moves the projects along and ends every session of the
account. transfer takes the same lock as save.
- On their own row an admin can only set the password. The last admin
cannot be demoted or deleted. The server enforces both.
- The account rules live in AccountRules.php and accountRules.ts as
pure functions, so they are testable without a server.
Findings:
- At 1280 px the Delete button reached past the column edge and was
not clickable. The name column is flexible now, and module 49 checks
the layout.
- The server lets an admin delete other users' projects, but the
editor has no button for it yet. Left open in the issue.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 148 files, 2214 tests, exit 0 (was 147 / 2204).
- New tests/php/accounts.test.php, 51 checks, plain PHP. CI runs it
as its own step in the gate job, the host has no PHP.
- New e2e module 49 with 18 checks. CI creates the e2e-admin account
in serve.sh. Modules 14, 38, 46 and the scaffold follow the new tab.
- e2e 1-16,37,38,45,46,49: all passed, 581 checks.
- Counter-checks: owner on save, admin view, default role and self
delete in PHP fail 7, 5, 5 and 1 checks. Unchecked requireAdmin,
a wider column and the caller as owner each fail exactly their
e2e check.
- Check sum 1314 -> 1333 (+1 in 38, +18 in 49), computed.
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Textures are uploaded files named by their content, so they cannot
be edited in place. Pixel art is therefore its own asset type, like
vector art. Its pixels live in the project and the tab rasters them
into a texture that sprites, tiles and animations can use.
- New asset types Pixel art and Palette. The first pixel art of a
project gets a palette with the 16 PICO-8 colours in the same undo
step. Every pixel is a palette index, 0 is transparent.
- Each layer on each frame is its own file data/pixels/<sha256>.px.
The project only holds the names, so undo swaps names. The browser
computes the hash and uploads new cels before the project is saved.
- New route POST ?r=pixels in api/lib/PixelStore.php. It answers 201
and 422 for broken data. data/pixels/ is git-ignored.
- Tools: pencil, eraser, fill (contiguous or all pixels of a colour),
eyedropper, line, rectangle and ellipse (outline or filled), brush
size 1 to 8.
- Layers can be added, deleted, renamed, reordered, hidden, faded and
merged down. Frames can be added, duplicated, deleted and reordered,
with onion skin and a small playing preview.
- Zoom 1x to 32x in whole steps, grid from 8x, a 3x3 tile preview and
Resize... with a 3x3 anchor.
- All frames sit side by side in one image. Each frame is a region
like a cut texture frame, so texture rows offer "Asset / Frame 2"
and the context menu has Create animation from frames.
Decisions:
- Merging down drops the opacity of the upper layer. Indexed colours
know no blends.
- Only the last palette colour can be removed. Otherwise the indices
of every image using the palette would shift.
- Undo stores the whole layer per stroke instead of pixel diffs.
- Alt+click picks a colour. It is a mouse gesture, not a shortcut.
Follow-up issues: #197 import from texture, #198 selection and
flipping, #199 PNG export, #200 more tools.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 136 files, 2049 tests (before 135 / 2011). 34 new in
tests/core/pixel-art.test.ts, 4 from the icon tables.
- e2e module 48 fresh: ALL PASSED, 29 checks, console empty.
- Counter-probes bite: five on the unit tests, upload order (2 tests
fail) and cels not uploaded in the browser (1 check fails).
- Check total 1259 in README is computed (1232 measured in CI + 27).
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Until now only the editor toolbar could pause a running game. A pause
menu inside the game had no way to stop the world while its own graph
kept running, and there was no slow motion.
- Five new nodes: Pause game, Resume game, Is game paused, Set time
scale and Time scale. Pause and resume take effect on the next frame.
- A game pause stops world time, physics, animations, particles and
shader time. Only behaviors with the new "Run while paused" switch
keep running.
- Set time scale 0 freezes the world but graphs keep running, as
agreed in the issue.
- Play and Stop reset the time scale to 1, Load scene keeps it. The
pause belongs to the scene, so Load scene and Restart unpause.
- The toolbar pause stays separate and also freezes the menu. When the
game pauses itself the status line reads "The game paused itself".
- While paused, collision events are not reported, sounds keep
playing, and the editor run ignores both nodes with a log line.
Findings:
- The first status line was longer than any before and got cut with
an ellipsis. It is shorter now.
- The e2e harness did not know the key "p". It does now.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 133 files, 1968 tests, exit 0 (before 132 / 1952)
- npm run build: exit 0
- GM_STEPS=18 fresh: ALL PASSED, 33 checks (before 26)
- 16 new unit tests: 8 catalog cases, game-pause.test.ts, editor run
- 7 new e2e checks in block 18i, driven by real keys in the game
- Six counter-checks all bite: behavior filter, collision lock, world
time, editor run, clock reset and the game clock in the browser
- Check total 1217 in README is computed (1210 + 7), CI measures it
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A shader could only be judged by placing it on a sprite and running
the scene. The shader tab now shows its effect next to the graph, on
the image the user picked last, without a picker to maintain.
- The preview follows the last selection that has an image: a placed
sprite with its overrides, size and tint, a sprite asset, a texture
or a frame. Clicking the shader, a node, a behavior or a scene keeps
the picture.
- Without such a selection, or when the picked image is deleted, a
built-in 64 px test image is shown. Its colour runs with u and v, a
checkerboard shows where a UV lands and the border fades for alpha.
- Each property gets a slider. The sliders belong to the preview and
never write to the project. They start at the sprite's values when
it carries this shader, otherwise at the default.
- The preview has its own clock. Hold and Restart are only enabled
when a Time node is in the graph.
- The graph | splitter | panel layout of the particles tab moves into
PreviewSplit, and both tabs use it.
- A nine-sliced frame is previewed unsliced. This is documented.
Findings:
- The slider row stayed squeezed to a few pixels when the properties
changed while the tab was hidden. The layout was triggered one level
too high. The slider check in block 28n holds this.
- The graph canvas is narrower now, 385 px at a 1280 px window, the
same as in the particles tab. Block 28b clicked at a fixed x+420 and
now uses the measured width.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 132 files, 1952 tests (was 131 / 1941), exit 0
- npm run build: exit 0
- GM_STEPS=28,31 freshly seeded: ALL PASSED, 105 checks
- 11 new unit tests in tests/editor/shader-preview.test.ts
- 7 new e2e checks in block 28n
- Counter-probes: start values ignoring the sprite fail 1 unit test,
a preview ignoring the selection fails 2 e2e checks
- Check total 1209 in README is computed (1202 + 7), CI measures it
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Stages 1 and 2 gave the asset a model and a picture, but the only way
to put a shape into it was a test calling mutate. The tab closes that
gap: what you draw there is what the sprite in the scene carries, with
no extra step, because the fingerprint changes and the picture registry
of #185 redraws.
- The tab has a header with Select, Pen, Grid and Fit, a chequerboard
behind the canvas and the canvas itself as a frame. It paints with
the same commands as the rasterizer, paintDrawing being exported
from viewport/vectorArtPicture.ts for it, so the tab cannot drift
away from the picture.
- Pen sets points on a click and pulls the handles out on a drag, both
of them mirrored; a click on the first point closes the ring and Esc
ends an open line.
- Select drags a point, a handle or a whole shape, a click on an edge
puts a point there, a double click takes one away, and Alt turns a
corner round and back. Delete removes the selected shape.
- The rules grew inside polygonEdit.ts instead of a second module, as
the plan says, so a collider polygon and a frame outline get the
same behaviour where it applies.
- A point on a curved edge splits the curve by de Casteljau instead of
cutting it: both halves together draw exactly what was there before.
- A curved edge is walked instead of measured over its chord, or a
click on the bow of a curve would grab nothing; the same walk carries
the test for the inside of a ring.
- One gesture is one undo step. The preview writes the model directly
and the old state is put back on release before the command runs,
which is the pattern the frame outlines of #141 already use.
- state.ts gained a selection kind "shape". The inspector shows the
rows of the asset for it, the shape list with colour, opacity and
stroke being stage 4.
One counter-check was no counter-check: disabling the pen's closing
tolerance by multiplying it with 0 left the run green, and rightly so,
because the closing click lands on exactly the screen coordinate point
0 came from, so the distance is 0 and <= 0 is true. Only an
unsatisfiable condition really switched it off, and then 2 checks fail.
A second trap on the way: a false && in front of the guard breaks the
TS narrowing, npm run build bails out, and two runs went against the
old bundle.
Tests: check.sh 127 files, 1878 tests, EXIT 0 (was 126 / 1860).
Full e2e suite ALL PASSED - 1172 checks, module 47 alone 17 (was 10).
18 new unit tests in tests/editor/ring-edit.test.ts and 7 new e2e
checks in blocks 47c and 47d. Two counter-checks hold: no de
Casteljau fails 1 unit test, measuring a curve over its chord fails
another. Originals checked back with cmp and rebuilt.
Load scene sets a flag on the World like Stop and Restart do; the swap
happens after the tick, and the last wish of a tick wins. Exactly one
thing crosses over: the SharedState, so global variables and global
machines keep what they know while everything local is built anew.
Loading the scene that is already running rebuilds it, which is what
"reset the level" means when the score must survive.
A run starts either from the start scene (a new project field, set from
the asset panel and marked with an arrow in the list) or from whatever
scene is open. The toggle next to Play says which question is asked and
remembers the answer in localStorage: it is a way of working, not part
of the game.
Sounds no longer end because a scene ends. A voice belongs to the
behavior that started it and stops right after On destroy, so the scene
swap is no longer a special case at all. For the enemy that plays its
explosion and destroys itself in the same breath there is now a
detached input on Play sound.
The scene selector stays usable while a run plays, because a double
click in the asset panel already did the same thing unguarded. It moves
what the editor looks at, not what the run plays.
Sounds follow the road fonts already paved: the file goes to the server
content-addressed under its sha256, the project keeps a named asset that
points at it, and nothing is ever re-encoded. The format is read from the
file's own signature, not from what the browser claims - the same .m4a
arrives as audio/mp4, audio/x-m4a or as nothing at all.
Playing is two nodes. "Play sound" takes the asset and may raise or lower
its volume; every call is its own voice, so two jumps in a row are two
jumps heard. Its loop input is a choice of three - from the asset, on,
off - because a checkbox has to spend one of its two positions on "not
set" and would lose a case: an asset that loops could then never be
played once.
Below the graph core stays browser-free: NodeContext hands out an asset
id, BehaviorSystem resolves it against the project and folds the asset's
own volume and loop into the call, and only viewport/SoundLibrary knows
about Web Audio. A run without a sink plays nothing instead of throwing.
The CI browser is muted, so the ear is no witness: the debug hook counts
started and stopped voices, and step 34 reads that counter.
Four issues that all reach for the same line: how the current state is
read and written. Splitting them into four commits would mean four
states of the tree that do not compile, so they arrive together.
#55 start state — the machine asset carries an optional `start` holding
a State node's id. Right-click a state to set or remove it, a ring in
the node's title says which one it is. A dead id (the state was deleted)
reads as "no start", so nothing has to clean up after a deletion.
#53 entered/exited — `On state entered` and `On state exited`, one exec
output per state. Every change now goes through a single `setState`
that reports it; BehaviorSystem delivers it after the exec flow that
caused it, `exited` of the old before `entered` of the new, round after
round until the queue is empty, with a cap that stops a ping-pong graph
with an endless-loop error. A local machine tells the instance that
switched, a global one tells every instance holding a matching event
node. The start state fires `entered` too: per instance for a local
machine, once per run for a global one.
#57 reading — `Current state` with `name` for showing and `id` for
comparing, `Is in state` with one boolean per state. Neither has a
`run`, so `read` learned `def` and `lookup`, and the catalog test knows
this third kind of node.
#54 seeing it — during a run the state machine tab marks every state
some instance is holding faintly, and the one held by the selected
scene object's instance strongly.
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The renderer is taken off the ticker; the ticker itself keeps running, so
the clock, a live world and the panels still get their step. Drawing now
happens inside a 200 ms trailing window that every pointer, wheel and key
event, every Widget.invalidate/resize, every Stack.relayout, every
EditorState.emit and both library onChange hooks reopen. The window rather
than a single frame is what makes the ~70 direct redraw() calls that never
pass through invalidate() safe, along with repaints an event only starts:
a microtask, a texture upload, a resolved font.
Editor.movesByItself() keeps asking for every frame while Play or an editor
run is on, a time shader is on screen, or the particle or animation preview
is showing.
The FPS counter now counts drawn frames over the time the renderer was
awake. Idle seconds are not slow seconds, so it answers "how smooth while
it moves" and holds its last answer instead of falling to 0 at rest.
Measured on the built stand, 20 s per variant, CPU of all chromium
processes from /proc: kept awake 75.5 % of a core at 60 fps, render on
change 8.8 % with 0 frames drawn, awake again 83.9 % as an order probe.
No colour check can see a missing repaint: pixelAt extracts from the stage
on demand and is just as green on a screen frozen a minute ago. Step 33
watches the new __gm.renderStats() counter instead.
This reverses the design of the previous commit. `PropertyDef.scope` is gone
without replacement: a behavior variable is an object property again, without
exception, and sharing is something you point at rather than something you
declare twice.
A **Variables asset** is declarations and nothing else -- no graph, no position,
never placed, no tab of its own (`TAB_OF_ASSET` is already `Partial<>`, so that
costs no line). A `Variables` node names one through its new `variablesAsset`
setting, empty meaning the behavior's own variables as before, and then reads
and writes one value per key for the whole run. Its property list follows the
chosen source, which was the actual request: a value another graph declared is
now offerable, where before every participant had to declare the name itself.
That deletes more than it adds (-72 lines net): `globalConflicts` and its
run-stopping kind clash, `SetVariableScopeCommand`, the scope picker, both
object-inspector filters and the "shared by the whole run" note on the placed
object. A typo is no longer a silent second variable -- naming an asset is
picking from a list. And two Variables assets may carry the same key without
meeting, because the asset is the key, not the name. The one shape it copies is
the one that already existed: `Set state` picks its machine the same way.
Lifetime is unchanged. The bag is built at `BehaviorSystem.start()` from the
declarations and never written back, so playing in the editor cannot change the
project -- which is the whole reason a counter must not be an object property
(`World.syncToModel` would `commit()` it, and the coin counter would stand at 7
for good).
Full symmetry across that gap, without mirroring anything. Two named wires:
`Inspector.liveVariables` shows the values as they stand while a run is on and
falls back to the declarations when it ends, and `adoptDeclarations()` takes a
key into the run *only where the document changed it since the last sync*.
Without that condition any unrelated project edit would snap a running counter
back to its starting value; a counter-test bends exactly that and falls over.
Nothing was ever cached, incidentally: `GraphInterpreter` only pulse-caches
nodes without a `read`, and the variable node has one. The wire was missing.
The state machine `Scope` row is now an ordinary `enum` row through
`createFieldRow`. It was hand-built from an `HStack` with a ghost dropdown and
began ~34px left of every value above it; the explanations beside `Local` and
`Global` are gone from the menu, the sentence below the row keeps saying it.
Machine scope is otherwise untouched -- `StateMachineAsset.scope`,
`SetMachineScopeCommand`, `stateBag()` and its persistence all stand, so #59
stays closed as built and `Scope` as a type now carries machines alone.
Six counter-proofs, each biting at its own guard. One of them did not bite at
first: the suggestion list was computed twice, in `nodeSection` and
`portSection`, so only the browser test covered the request itself. It is one
named function now, `variableChoices`, with a unit test of its own.
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Particle age and shader time each read performance.now() off their own
library, and the world got the frame's delta straight from the ticker. Three
clocks, so a global time scale would have been three multiplications and a
pause three separate freezes.
core/time.ts holds one clock instead: it accumulates dt x scale per frame
rather than reading the wall clock, and Editor.tick hands the very step it
took to the play session, the editor run and the animation preview. Delta
time, particle age, shader time and that preview are the same quantity now,
so the scale is a single multiplication and a pause is that scale at 0 —
nothing underneath needs rebasing, because the clock itself stands still.
The Math.min(dt, 0.1) caps in PlaySession and EditorRun are gone: the cap
(MAX_FRAME) now sits on the raw frame before scaling, and capping twice would
make the world run slower than the particles at scale 2.
A pause gates the scale rather than overwriting it — effectiveScale() answers
0 while paused, and for anything that is not a positive finite number, while
gameClock.scale keeps its value. A slider later survives a pause that way;
the issue asks for none yet.
The clock goes back to zero at both ends of a run, so a run is reproducible
from second 0 and the scene view looks freshly loaded after Stop. Resetting
only on Stop would not do it: the editor clock runs on afterwards, and the
next Play would start at "seconds since the last Stop".
The trap in that: ParticleField keeps its origin as an absolute second of
this clock, so after a reset it lies in the future and every particle would
age backwards. One line in sync() starts such a field over, which covers the
scene, the game and the tab preview at once — and fixes an older bug of the
same shape, where releasing a particleTime() freeze left the preview empty
for good.
Found while measuring that: ParticlePreview stood at second 0.5 by computing
the clock reading that would mean 0.5 since the field started. Over 200000
random origins the round trip misses the last bit in 18.8% of them and shows
one particle too few in 9.4%, because floor(0.5 * 20) comes out 9. The check
had been flaky since it was written. The panel hands the field the age itself
now (ParticleField.hold), and the faked clock is gone.
833 checks (824 + 9), 931 unit tests (921 + 10).
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The asset type `particles` is placeable and carries a graph at the same time —
`behavior` was the blueprint. Because a continuous emitter gives birth to particle n
at time n/rate, the whole field is a function of the clock rather than of the frames:
no ring-buffer bookkeeping, exact time jumps, reproducibility as a measurable property.
compile.ts follows compileShader's frame but emits JS closures into a Float64Array
instead of GLSL, and without eval; a node with two consumers is evaluated once.
Drawing is one Pixi ParticleContainer per source, so one draw call.
Collision, wind and braking in flight are out for good — that is the price of the
formula model, not an omission.
The tab count goes from nine to ten, which is exactly the case #84 was built for one
day earlier: at 1280 px the row no longer holds every tab, so guard 14b now asks for
hidden.length > 0 instead of === 0.
Nine tabs need 631 px; at 1280x800 the centre column offers 666 px, so the tenth
tab would have spilled under the inspector - the same overflow CI caught in run 5.
TabStrip replaces the bare HStack: it fits the longest prefix that stays inside
the budget, always appends the active tab, and offers the rest behind a fixed
28 px button. The button's width is fixed on purpose - deriving it from the
number of hidden tabs would make width depend on the count and the count on the
width.
The rule itself is a pure function (tabRow.ts), so it is checked without a
browser. setActive() calls relayout() itself because Widget.resize only lays out
on a changed size, and switching tabs does not change any size.
Adding a tab now needs no space arithmetic - only a line in TAB_ORDER,
TAB_LABELS and panes, all three Record<CentreTab, ...>, so forgetting one is a
type error.
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A font asset holds a file and nothing else, the twin of a texture: the server keeps it
content-addressed under data/fonts/{sha256}.{ext}, with the format read from the file's own
four-byte signature (finfo reports fonts inconsistently across libmagic versions). A text
wears one through its ordinary Font property, so overrides, reset, undo and the Properties
node come for free; no font means the editor's own typeface.
The picker lists everything the server holds and renders each row in the face it offers.
The family name is gm-font-<hash16>, never the name inside the file, so two "Regular" cannot
collide. WorldViewport.syncText is the single place that draws it, which covers scene, game
preview and play at once.
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Fragment-side coordinate nodes instead of vertex nodes: the quad stays the
quad, a UV read plus a sample at a computed coordinate covers flip, scroll,
wave, pixelate and scanlines. Time is a uniform only when a Time node reaches
the Output; a viewport that drew a Time shader redraws from the ticker so the
Scene tab animates without a running world. Edge (Mirror/Repeat/Clamp) is a
second texture variant in TextureLibrary because WebGL binds no TextureStyle
resource of the shader. The compiler now emits #version 300 es first: Pixi
only compiles as ES 3.00 when the fragment says so, and textureSize needs it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One rule for every asset type: a click on an asset row selects it, a
double-click (or Enter, or creating it via +) opens its tab. Selection
alone still switches tabs only for nodes, frames and template objects.
- state.openAsset(id) = select + 'open' event; the editor maps the asset
type to its tab via TAB_OF_ASSET. The two special clauses for state
machine and shader assets in the selection handler are gone.
- Creating via + and importing a texture from the picker open the tab;
paste/drop of an image only selects.
- 3 unit tests (event order, re-open of a selected asset, selection never
fires open), 14 e2e checks in step 4.
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The ninth tab (Shader) pushed the row past the centre column: List
ended at 962 while the column ended at 925, so the last buttons sat
under the inspector and clickText('Container') hit the List tab
instead (CI runs 5 and 6, module 16). Tab buttons now use padding 4
via a new Button padding option; e2e step 14b guards the row width
using the widget box rather than getBounds(), which sees only the
label on an untoggled ghost button.
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A shader is an asset carrying a node graph (Texture color, Output, Property,
Color, Add/Subtract/Multiply/Divide, Mix, Luminance) that compiles to the GLSL
fragment of a Pixi filter. The Shader tab reuses the Behavior canvas; a sprite
wears a shader through its Shader picker, and the rows below it are the
graph's Property nodes. Property schema, resolution and deviation take the
project because a sprite's rows now live in another asset. The built-in
registry of the prototype is gone; "Adjust colors" ships as a graph in the
fixture and the three example games.
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A log layer (src/editor/console/log.ts) keeps a 500-line ring buffer and
wraps console.log/info/debug/warn/error, still calling the original. Notices
and behaviour runtime errors go straight to the layer instead of through
console, so editor tests stay quiet and errors can render red. world.log is
untouched: it is per-run structured state that runtime tests and e2e read
directly, not a text stream.
The panel sits under the visible tab, resizable with Splitter('y'), with a
CONSOLE header and a clear button. Each line carries its wall-clock time in
its own dimmed column, so locate() still finds the message text.
The taller centre area drops the graph fit zoom to 0.60, which broke six e2e
checks that assumed one screen pixel is one graph unit and that a fixed
offset from the canvas centre is empty. They now ask __gm.emptySpot(),
__gm.graph.emptySpot() and __gm.graph.zoom() instead of guessing.
locate/locateAll added the unscaled Pixi text width to the global position,
so click points in the scaled graph canvas landed too far right; they use
getBounds() now.
check.sh: 831 tests. Full e2e: ALL PASSED - 671 checks. Smokes 24/19/20.
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A state machine is an asset whose graph holds one `State` node per state
(no ports, name as title), edited in a new "State machine" tab that reuses
the graph canvas: right-click places "State n", snap toggle shared with the
Behavior tab via SnapToggle. `statemachine` is a value kind like texture
(port, literal node, variable, struct field, tagged list item).
Behaviors use it through `State branch` (one exec output per state) and
`Set state` (one exec input per state; the interpreter now hands `run` the
entry port). States live per behavior instance in NodeContext.states, with
no initial state. Ports derive from the inline picker or a wired
`State machine` literal; BehaviorLookup became GraphLookup with
behavior(id) and machine(id).
The Graph tab is labelled "Behavior" (key unchanged). Unit tests
(state-machine, kinds, catalog, ports), e2e step 26 and README added.
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An animation asset is a list of pictures (whole textures or frames) with
frames per second and Loop/Once/Ping-pong playback. A sprite wears it
through its texture property, so the picker, instance overrides and the
Properties node work unchanged; there is no dedicated play node.
A different animation starts from its first frame, the same one set again
runs on, so a graph may choose Run or Idle every frame. The clock lives on
the entity, not in props, which the world writes back as overrides. The
AnimationSystem ticks before behaviors, and On animation finished fires
once when a Once animation reaches its end.
The Animation tab plays a preview above a frame strip: reorder by dragging,
Delete, duplicate, + Frames, pause/resume, and wheel zoom about the pointer
with pan and Fit. Scene and Container tabs show the first frame; edit mode
has no clock. Right-clicking a texture creates an animation from its frames.
Button now measures its label with the bold font it draws in, which cut
the Animation tab and red dialog buttons short.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Split GraphCanvas (1076 -> 831 lines) into EdgeLayer and graphMenus;
the port and marker menus were the same list and are now one function.
Value specs of the inspector and the list tab share valueSpecs.ts, and
the remaining copies (compound commands, type glyphs, typed asset
lookup, name rule, play/editor world setup, marquee) are merged.
Four copies had already drifted apart; merging them fixes:
- "Disconnect N links" in the port menu is one undo step, not N
- "+ Add collider" is hidden on a placed container instance, as in
the hierarchy menu, instead of always failing
- a bool property coerced from the text "false" becomes false
- a port command on an unknown node type reports instead of crashing
Comment-only edits leave the bundle byte-identical. README corrected in
35 places (step limit, jump-run clock, suite duration, 409 body, ...).
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A list property in the inspector was a single text field holding a comma
separated line -- unreadable past a handful of items, and it could not
carry anything but text. It becomes a button ("3 items") that opens a
sixth centre tab, where every item is a row built by the very widget the
inspector would build for that item kind.
The renderer was free: a PropertyDef of kind 'list' already carries
`items`, so item i becomes a synthetic def of that kind -- number, text,
boolean and colour rows appear without a new branch.
The way into the tab goes through the state (EditorState.listSlot,
openList(), event 'list'), like every other tab switch here; a tab may
not call showTab itself. ListSlot lives next to Selection rather than in
the tab folder, or state.ts would have to import upwards.
A row's handlers must not close over a snapshot of the list: they outlive
a commit, since the tab only rebuilds when the length changes, and the
second edited row would otherwise revive the value the first replaced.
showTab switched five `visible` lines by hand, where a sixth tab is
silently forgotten; it is a Record<CentreTab, Widget> now.
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A rebuild destroys the widget being typed in, and a typed value can change the
very structure that decides whether a rebuild is needed -- a field that says
how many ports a node has. That made such a field unusable: every keystroke
previewed, the preview emitted 'project', refreshValues() saw the signature
change and threw the row away. Dragging the value worked only because a drag
keeps receiving globalpointermove on the destroyed widget.
So refreshValues() now postpones a due rebuild while the focus sits inside the
inspector, and runs it as soon as the field is left. Values are safe in the
meantime: TextField.setValue ignores an edit in progress.
Two handles for that in the toolkit. FocusManager.isWithin(node) also replaces
the parent chain refreshLive() walked by hand, and changeHandlers lets a panel
notice that the focus has gone -- there was no signal for that before.
Nothing in the editor can trigger this today, since the Sequence setting that
did is gone. It is the ground for the List tab, where a row that adds or
deletes an item changes the structure while you type. The e2e check therefore
builds the case out of real parts: type into a field, set the object's parent
from outside -- the parent is part of the structure signature -- and confirm
the input survives and the rebuild follows on Escape.
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src/viewport/ held three classes only src/editor/ ever used, and framing.ts sat
under graph/ although the scene view wants the same bounds sum. The graph, the
texture and the container tab repeated the same header, subscription and
disposal code with two silent divergences: the graph tab said "nothing shown"
with null instead of '', and the texture tab refell back to the first asset on
a selection change but not on a project event.
These arrive together because GraphCanvas ties them: it reads framing from its
new home, hands its fold marks to folding.ts, and its '' change is what
GraphEditor must agree with.
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Pause is a sub-state of play, not a third mode: the toolbar button and
Ctrl+Enter stop ticking the world, the clock included. A held frame still
drops the input edges, so resuming does not fire a pause worth of keys in
one go.
The editor run missed the case it is most wanted for. hasEditorRun only
looked at the stored scene objects, so a behavior inside a placed
container never started one; the world now builds from resolveObjects and
writes back through objectRef, keeping the move as an instance edit
instead of baking the instance out.
Keys and clicks go to the run while the Game tab is on screen, where no
key means anything to the editor, and are handed back on leaving it -
held keys released, so nothing keeps walking unpressed.
A behavior object carries a "Run in editor" switch next to Enabled. When
it is on, the behavior ticks outside of Play and works on the saved model
directly - Unity semantics: what it moves is a real change, autosaved and
not undoable.
Input stays with the editor, so On key never fires while typing. The
editor run never bakes placed containers into the model, since that would
silently drop their instanceEdits.
syncToModel reports whether it wrote anything, and the dirty flag is only
raised on change - otherwise a behavior moving something every frame
would trigger ~60 saves a second.
An instance edit was dropped as soon as its value matched the template
object. With nested containers the template is not what the value falls
back to: the outer container holds an edit for the object below it, and
that one wins. If the inner template happened to carry the same value the
user typed, the edit was thrown away and the value jumped to whatever the
container in between says.
Reported against the Jump-and-Run project: a coin narrowed to 8 inside
"level", then set back to the sprite's own 24 in the scene, snapped back
to 8. Reproduced through the inspector before touching anything.
InstanceTarget now offers `base`: the template with the edits of every
container in between woven in. Everything that judges deviation uses it -
setOverride/setName/setPosition, both Revert commands, and the gold marks
in the inspector. Writing still goes into the real template, which is
where "apply to container" belongs.
`base` is built on every read. Apply writes into the template and then
asks whether the edit still deviates, so a base captured beforehand would
answer for the template as it was - the e2e suite caught exactly that.
Also in here, because it corrects the commit before it: placing an asset
by double-clicking its row is gone, as asked for in asset-doppelklick.md.
Dragging is the only way to place now. That took AssetPanel.place, the
PlacementTarget interface, Editor.placementTarget and the two worldCenter()
methods that existed only to feed it. A double-click on a scene asset still
makes it the active scene.
The context menu entry is gone; dragging replaces it entirely. The drop
target is the view under the pointer, not the active tab, so the same
gesture works for scenes and for container templates.
While dragging, an outline shows the footprint the object will have plus
a crosshair on its origin, turning red when the drop would be refused.
Preview and command share one function (placementRejection), so the
outline cannot promise something the drop then rejects.
A left-press used to select the list row immediately. Since the container
tab follows the selection, it switched to the very container being dragged
and every drop would have nested it inside itself. The list now selects on
release without a drag: picking something up is not the same as choosing it.