Add tools/blender/gen_nebula.py (previously nebula_decoration.blend had
no generator script, unlike ship/ball) to rebuild the station with
inset/extrude panel-line greeble and three separate emissive window
strips, and give debris its own rockier, damage-scarred materials
instead of cloning the station's hull material.
Ship gets a greebled hull, tapered nose, swept canopy, twin engine nacelles,
and tail fin (built via the vendored Blender MCP, generator committed at
tools/blender/gen_ship.py) in place of the 5 flat primitives. The ball is
fully remodeled as a smooth round sphere with a crossed emissive accent
pattern (gen_ball.py), replacing the old flat-shaded gold_ball rather than
just tweaking its material.
Node names (Nose/TailFin) are preserved for Ship._apply_team_color(), and
the RigidBody3D/CollisionShape3D physics on both ship.tscn and ball.tscn are
untouched so RL-trained bots and flight feel stay valid. Each part's mesh is
extracted to a standalone .res (tools/blender/extract_meshes.gd) rather than
referenced via glb::ArrayMesh_xxx sub-paths, which don't reliably resolve
across scene files and were silently rendering both models invisible.
Introduce arena_02 (Nebula) and arena_03 (Asteroid Field) alongside
arena_01, listed in a new ArenaRegistry (scripts/arena_registry.gd) as
the single source of truth for available arenas. Free Play lets the
player pick an arena from the main menu; Match/Spectate each pick one
at random per session; Training keeps its own fixed arena_01.
Nebula gets an RL-style visual treatment: a near-invisible glass
boundary material shared by all arenas, a baked equirect nebula sky
texture, a drifting-dust particle system, and a Blender-modeled
station/debris/planet decoration set. GameMode gains a
_get_arena_scene_path() hook so modes can instantiate their arena in
code instead of hardcoding it in the scene.
Josh Creek