Lands tasks 1.0-1.8 of multiplayer-todo.md: the pure-function test runner,
net_codec (wire format quantizers/pack-unpack), NetworkManager (ENet
transport, manual polling, min-RTT clock sync), MatchNet (handshake,
protocol/tick-rate gating, roster with team+ready state), lobby.tscn (team
columns, switch team, ready toggle), server_boot.tscn (headless dedicated
server with structured logging and an overrun watchdog), and main_menu.gd's
Host/Join-by-IP UI (connecting overlay, cancel, bounded failure path).
Followed by an adversarial review (Opus subagent) that found and fixed two
real bugs - an unvalidated player_name broadcast that let one client's
oversized name head-of-line-block the reliable channel for everyone, and a
server-side roster leak across a host/re-host cycle - plus three gaps in
the test suite itself where a claim of "verified" wasn't actually backed
by what the test checked. All five two-process smoke tests plus the
pure-function suite are green with the strengthened assertions in place.
Lands the non-networked Phase 0 tasks from multiplayer-todo.md (ship/camera/
arena refactors, sim constants, background FPS handling) plus a first pass
at exposing graphics/performance settings (presets, resolution scaling,
vsync, FPS cap, perf overlay) and a GPU profiling harness for the
real-hardware follow-up in task 0.15b.
Adds a [layer_names] section to project.godot (Ships/Ball/Arena/
GoalSensor) and sets collision_layer/collision_mask on the 4 physics
body roots (Ship, Ball, Goal Area3D, ArenaBoundary StaticBody3D),
which previously all sat on the default layer 1 / mask 1 so every
body broadphase-tested against every other.
Ships collide with ships/ball/arena but no longer test against the
goal sensor; the goal's mask (Ball only) is the physics-level fix for
what goal.gd's is_in_group("ball") check was doing defensively in
code (left in place, now a no-op guard). ArenaBoundary's runtime-
generated CollisionShape3D children inherit layer/mask from the
StaticBody3D root automatically.
Verified live via godot-mcp under Jolt Physics: ship-vs-ship and
ship-vs-ball collisions still transfer momentum, the ball still
bounces off arena walls, a ball entering a goal still fires
goal_scored (score updates / HUD reset), and a ship teleported into a
goal recess produces zero overlapping bodies on the goal Area3D (was
reachable before, physics-level fix confirmed, not just the code
guard). Headless smoke test (free_play.tscn) is clean.
SDFGI ran with default cascades in a volume that was almost entirely
transparent, so its low-resolution probes had little solid geometry to
capture and contributed blotching across large flat surfaces. With the
boundary now an opaque deck plus an unshaded additive field, it earns
nothing, and the existing ReflectionProbe and ambient carry the lighting.
Each arena also gains a shadowless fill light opposite its key light so the
deck is not lit from a single direction, and passes its own tint through to
the boundary's containment field so the three arenas read differently.
use_debanding was absent. Glow runs at hdr_scale 2.0 with adjustment_contrast
above 1.0, which amplifies 8-bit quantisation on exactly the kind of smooth
gradients the new shell is made of.
The remaining project.godot churn is Godot's own key reordering on save.
Enable glow/bloom, color adjustments, and MSAA+FXAA across all three
arenas so emissive ship/station accents actually bleed light and edges
read cleanly. Expose the player-facing knobs (anti-aliasing mode, glow
intensity, brightness) through a new Settings screen off the main menu,
persisted via a VideoSettings autoload that scales each arena's own
tuned Environment values on load rather than overwriting them.
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