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CosmicClash/Game/scripts/game_mode.gd
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Josh Creek 0e42182cce fix(*): jitter kickoff resets to break deterministic same-model mirror matches
GameMode.reset_ball()/reset_ships() teleported to exact, identical spawn
transforms every kickoff. Combined with deterministic bot inference
(action_noise = 0 by default), two ships running the same policy from a
mirror-symmetric state produced mirrored, non-diverging play instead of a
real contest — most visible when both sides use the same exported model.

Adds a small position/yaw jitter (well under anything a player would
notice as "not a real kickoff") so kickoff-style resets stop being
bit-for-bit identical.
2026-07-22 18:01:21 +01:00

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class_name GameMode
extends Node3D
# Base for game modes (Free Play, Match; later Vs-AI and multiplayer).
# A mode's scene contains an Arena (the stadium) and a HUD; the mode itself
# spawns the ball, ships, controllers, and camera in code — variable ship
# counts with mixed controller types (player/AI/network) is exactly what
# future modes need. Subclasses override _start() and _on_goal_scored().
@export var ship_scene: PackedScene = preload("res://objects/ship.tscn")
@export var ball_scene: PackedScene = preload("res://objects/ball.tscn")
const CAMERA_RIG_SCENE = preload("res://scenes/ship_camera_rig.tscn")
const MAIN_MENU_SCENE_PATH = "res://scenes/main_menu.tscn"
var arena: Arena
var ball: RigidBody3D
var ships: Array[Ship] = []
var _ship_spawn_transforms := {}
func _ready():
# Group lets the HUD discover the game mode for timer/score signals
add_to_group("game")
for child in get_children():
if child is Arena:
arena = child
break
if not arena:
push_error("GameMode: scene has no Arena child")
return
for goal in arena.get_goals():
goal.goal_scored.connect(_handle_goal_scored)
_start()
# Virtual: subclasses spawn their ball/ships/camera here.
func _start() -> void:
pass
# Virtual: the ball entered the goal owned (conceded) by `_conceding_team`.
func _on_goal_scored(_conceding_team: int) -> void:
pass
# Debounce: a fast ball can re-trigger the goal area before the deferred
# reset teleports it away, which would double-count the goal.
var _goal_cooldown := false
func _handle_goal_scored(conceding_team: int) -> void:
if _goal_cooldown:
return
_goal_cooldown = true
get_tree().create_timer(0.5).timeout.connect(func(): _goal_cooldown = false)
_on_goal_scored(conceding_team)
func spawn_ball() -> RigidBody3D:
ball = ball_scene.instantiate()
add_child(ball)
ball.global_transform = arena.get_ball_spawn()
return ball
func spawn_ship(team: int, spawn_index: int = 0, controller: ShipController = null) -> Ship:
var ship: Ship = ship_scene.instantiate()
ship.name = "ShipTeam%d_%d" % [team, ships.size()]
add_child(ship)
var spawns := arena.get_ship_spawns(team)
var spawn_transform := spawns[spawn_index] if spawn_index < spawns.size() else Transform3D.IDENTITY
ship.global_transform = spawn_transform
ship.team = team
if controller:
ship.set_controller(controller)
ships.append(ship)
_ship_spawn_transforms[ship] = spawn_transform
return ship
func spawn_camera_rig(target: Ship) -> ShipCameraRig:
var rig: ShipCameraRig = CAMERA_RIG_SCENE.instantiate()
add_child(rig)
rig.target = target
return rig
# Tiny per-reset randomization, well below anything a player would notice as
# "not a real kickoff" — just enough that two ships running the identical
# deterministic AI policy (action_noise = 0) don't start every kickoff from a
# bit-for-bit mirror-symmetric state. A perfectly symmetric state feeds both
# controllers identical (canonicalized) observations, so they emit mirrored
# actions and can lock into a repetitive, non-scoring stalemate — much more
# visible bot-vs-bot (same model both sides) than bot-vs-human, since a human
# never satisfies "identical policy" in the first place. See training_mode.gd's
# _end_eval_episode, which randomizes eval episode states for the same reason.
const KICKOFF_POSITION_JITTER := 0.3
const KICKOFF_YAW_JITTER := deg_to_rad(15.0)
func reset_ball() -> void:
if is_instance_valid(ball):
_reset_body(ball, _jittered(arena.get_ball_spawn(), KICKOFF_POSITION_JITTER, 0.0))
func reset_ships() -> void:
for ship in ships:
if is_instance_valid(ship):
_reset_body(ship, _jittered(_ship_spawn_transforms[ship], KICKOFF_POSITION_JITTER, KICKOFF_YAW_JITTER))
func _jittered(to: Transform3D, position_jitter: float, yaw_jitter: float) -> Transform3D:
var offset := Vector3(randf_range(-position_jitter, position_jitter), 0.0, randf_range(-position_jitter, position_jitter))
var basis := to.basis
if yaw_jitter > 0.0:
basis = basis.rotated(Vector3.UP, randf_range(-yaw_jitter, yaw_jitter))
return Transform3D(basis, to.origin + offset)
func _reset_body(body: RigidBody3D, to: Transform3D) -> void:
# Deferred: a RigidBody3D transform can't be set mid-physics-step
body.set_deferred("global_transform", to)
body.set_deferred("linear_velocity", Vector3.ZERO)
body.set_deferred("angular_velocity", Vector3.ZERO)
# A kickoff reset is a teleport: without this, physics interpolation
# smears the body across the arena for a frame
body.call_deferred("reset_physics_interpolation")
func _unhandled_input(event):
if event.is_action_pressed("ui_cancel"):
get_tree().change_scene_to_file(MAIN_MENU_SCENE_PATH)