The game is now called Shitbox Infinity (project name, window title,
title screen, README). The Gitea repo keeps its name until John renames
it -- gitea redirects, and the remote gets a set-url then.
The Shed (levels/the_shed) is the payoff for the whole garage arc: a
drivable suburban block on a quiet cul-de-sac. Single-storey brick
house with a corrugated roof and a porch light that works at night;
paling fence (new FLUX texture) with a gate gap for the driveway; hills
hoist mid-spin with three towels on it; wheelie bins at the gate and a
spare fleet shitbox parked on the street; gums; neighbours across the
road so you feel watched.
The shed itself is a 10x12 corrugated double garage on a slab: FLUX
pegboard wall, workbench, fluoro batten (a real light at night), and a
painted bay. The tools you OWN (Garage.tools()) stand in it as the real
TRELLIS'd cashies models -- sockets and the code reader ON the bench,
the engine crane by the wall, ramps at the bay mouth -- while unowned
tools leave an oil-stained outline of where they'll go. The rest of the
tool library is permanent clutter via the new shared ToolProps helper
(dragway.gd refactored onto it too).
Roll into the bay in Cruise, hold still 1.4 s, and game.gd opens the
garage -- diegetic shopping. Headless suites have no current_scene to
swap, so the trigger sets garage_requested first and the smoke suite
asserts on that: owned-tool display (sockets present, ramps absent on
the test save), bay marker found, bay trigger fires. Suite covers 9
levels now.
Scale lessons baked in: facade_brick at 0.14 tiling reads as a
three-storey office (0.045 reads domestic), and corrugated iron at 0.35
has metre-wide ridges (1.4 reads like roofing).
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Two proper venues off the real Ipswich pair, both built in code.
Willowbank Dragway (levels/willowbank_dragway): a true 402 m dual-lane
strip -- concrete launch pad, FLUX-rubbered lanes, crowd grandstand with
canopy, red control tower, distance boards at 60ft/eighth/1000ft,
checkered finish under a scoreboard gantry, sand trap and tyre wall,
smashable SL_ light towers and a staging paddock of parked fleet cars.
Between the lanes: a working christmas tree, six bulbs driven by game.gd
through material_override emission.
Drag mode grew the event around it. Every drag now stages at the tree
(three ambers, green at 2.7 s); rolling >2 m early is a RED LIGHT that
bogs your launch. The opposition is a six-rung ladder of preset locals
(Nanna's Shopping Run through The Willowbank Widowmaker), each with its
own fleet car, power and reaction time. Beating your current rung climbs
the ladder and pays an escalating purse ($250-$1600, top dog repeats);
crossing at all pays $50; and every car keeps a persistent quarter-mile
PB worth $150 when beaten. Losing no longer ends the run early -- you
still cross for your ET, with a 10 s grace if you dawdle. Ladder rung
and PBs persist in the garage save (schema extended compatibly).
Queensland Raceway (levels/qld_raceway): the National Circuit digitised
from the official track map and scaled to its exact 3126 m lap. The road
is one generated quad strip with trimesh collision; kerbs, gravel traps
and tyre stacks derive automatically from centreline curvature, sponsor
hoardings space themselves down the straights, and the SF straight gets
the checkered line, gantry, pit wall and the mandatory red pit complex.
Plus the pond. Race/cruise/rage all run on its RacePath.
Trap for the diary: Godot front faces wind CLOCKWISE. The first cut of
the road ribbon wound CCW and rendered invisible from above while
colliding perfectly -- the smoke suite passed and the screenshot showed
four cars gridded on open grass.
Three new FLUX textures (crowd, dragstrip, sand; the sand prompt tripped
Cloudflare's NSFW filter, of all things, and fell back to local). Smoke
suite covers tree staging, the held rival, rung-0 identity, green-bulb
emission, red-light innocence, PB/rung persistence and the 3126 m lap.
Also swept stale shot_*.png.import debris and ignored the pattern.
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A Time column in the menu picks day / dusk / night per run:
- Dusk: low orange sun under a FLUX-generated equirectangular panorama (golden
hour rakes the heritage facades -- best light in the game).
- Night: dim blue moonlight, city-glow panorama, headlight spotlights on the
player, and every street lamp gets a real OmniLight under its lantern.
Because the light is parented to the lamp's physics body, toppling the lamp
takes its pool of light with it.
Panorama seams are wrap-blended in post (PanoramaSky tiles horizontally and
FLUX edges never match on their own); flux_local.py learned non-square
generation (1024x512) for exactly this.
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Three new modes, all our own code:
- Pursuit (Simpsons Hit & Run's meter): smashing in cruise fills heat, at full
the police hunt you. Open 250 m for 6 s to escape, get pinned 4 s to be busted.
Heat decays, so picking a fight is a choice not a timer.
- Drag (NFSU2's): the gearbox IS the event. The builder finds each level's
longest genuinely straight run of wide road (442-628 m across the five OSM
levels) and drops DragStart/DragEnd, so no level needs hand-authored coords.
- Derby: five opponents in the carpark, last one running. Reuses the pursuit AI,
each hunting a different car so it's a brawl not a mob.
Crash damage now shows: total control-point travel drives paint dulling,
roughness and a scratch layer, so scuffs and crumple can never disagree.
Junction generator fixes, all found by measurement rather than inspection:
- streams[:6] truncated after street A's ways, so junctions where A yielded 3+
usable ways shipped with ZERO cross traffic. Interleaved before capping;
every event now has 2-4 crossing streams.
- RADIUS 170 -> 95 spread the convoy over a 340 m window, so you threaded the
intersection through a 20 m gap. Margaret x Edward was unwinnable: 27 convoy
cars alive, zero collisions, $0.
- Launch points now walk the street to exactly SPAWN_DIST and pick the busiest
shared node, and _clear_spawn() unblocks a buried start. Albert x Adelaide
went from $0 (drove 1 m into a building) to $91k.
- build_all_junctions.sh records the street pairs, which existed nowhere before.
Fixes from an adversarial review (23 confirmed findings), the worst being:
- Derby could only ever be LOST: wrecked opponents un-wrecked 2.2 s later via
Car._recover, so "last one running" was unreachable and the kill bounty could
be farmed to the boost cap off one revived car. They now hold their wreck.
- Drag reported WON to a beaten player: the AI's lookahead wrapped on a 2-point
path, U-turning before the line so its distance-to-finish grew again.
- The scratch layer used BLEND_MODE_MIX, whose mask defaults to white -- it
replaced the paint entirely rather than scuffing it. Now MUL.
- Drag on a level with no strip left the car at the origin, half-buried, unable
to end. Cop spawns used an unflattened basis. Stale "WANTED" HUD text.
Test harness: smoke covers all seven modes, and failures now exit instead of
hanging -- a failed assert in a headless SceneTree halts the script but leaves
the tree spinning, which cost 53 minutes of wall clock to notice.
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Taps the last big unused seam in the OSM data: 140 highway=traffic_signals per
CBD level become pole + mast arm + two lantern heads with emissive lenses.
Timber power poles with catenary-sagging wires run down one side of every
residential street. Billboards now cycle three fictional ad designs.
Cloudflare's free tier (10k neurons/day) ran out mid-session, so flux_texture.sh
now falls back to the local MODELBEAST farm automatically -- transparent, same
output contract. tools/crop_poster.py trims generated billboards to the poster
face by saturation, since FLUX renders them in situ with sky and support pole
however the prompt is worded.
Fixed: signal lenses were built as 0.04 m beams and beam() bails under 0.05 m,
so they silently never existed -- caught by inspecting the exported GLB, not
the screenshot.
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Every OSM level now spawns 50 shuntable parked fleet cars + 40 wheelie bins
from builder-emitted PP_/WB_ markers (kerbside + real amenity=parking rows;
asleep until rammed, absent in junctions to keep the puzzles deterministic).
Traffic bumped in cruise/crash.
Brisbane pass: red busway asphalt, jacaranda canopies on a fifth of the street
trees, Queenslander weatherboard + corro on building=house, art deco + glass
apartment facade variants, fictional shop-fascia signs above awnings, rooftop
billboards. Southbank gets the Wheel of Brisbane (by its mapped ticket office)
and the Grand Arbour's bougainvillea tendrils along the mapped footway.
Verified: smoke green, 50+40 smashables counted on southbank, screenshots of
the wheel, arbour trail, red busway, and one authentic parked-car rear-ending.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Builder now uses the furniture OSM already carries (footways, lamps, benches,
bins, bollards, bus stops, crossings): raised chamfered footpaths, shopfront
bands, awnings in three fabrics, parapets, layered fig/palm trees, zebra bars,
dashed centre lines, Queen St Mall winged canopies. ACES tonemap + SSAO + fog
in game.gd. flux_texture.sh gains size/luma clamping (FLUX renders "pale" as
blown-out white); gen_textures.sh + check_textures.py manage the set. Woolies
carpark rebuilt textured, parking the real fleet. Fixes: fractional OSM layer
tag crash, zero-length-normal UV projection, blood-red mall pavers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
southbank, albert_parklands, story_bridge, kangaroo_point + queen_st_mall
rebuilt textured. Level builder now does: FLUX facade/road/grass/water/rock/
steel materials with box-projected UVs (roofs split to plain grey), parks,
multipolygon river water (solid, cars skim it), tree nodes as low-poly cones,
natural=cliff walls, and a procedural steel cantilever truss along a named
bridge way (Story Bridge / Bradfield Highway, 338m). osm_xml_to_json.py
assembles water relations; osm_level_args.py gains trace: mode for race paths
that follow one iconic road. 11 textures via Cloudflare Workers AI
flux-1-schnell (tools/flux_texture.sh, creds from .env never printed).
Data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
