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m3ultra
65da434678 Real terrain: DEM elevation under every level
tools/fetch_dem.py pulls the open AWS terrarium elevation tiles for each
level's bbox (derived from the OSM geometry itself -- the fetch bboxes were
never recorded) and writes an f32 heightmap. The builder bilinear-samples it:
roads/footpaths/crossings drape (subdivided to ~8 m so long OSM segments stop
chording across curved ground), buildings lift rigidly to the lowest terrain
under their footprint with a 2 m foundation skirt, trees/props/planters ride
their own base heights, and the flat ground slab becomes a real terrain mesh.
Bridges get an explicit deck profile (lerp between end heights plus a hump)
instead of draping down into the river, the truss follows the deck, and the
Bradfield Highway now genuinely flies over Kemp Place -- the game has an
underpass. Kangaroo Point's cliffs are an actual 20 m drop, Edward Street
climbs to 55 m at Spring Hill.

Junction events bake spawn/convoy heights (osm_junction.py grew a pure-python
DEM sampler); the game respects marker heights everywhere it used to hardcode
ground=0.

Bugs the terrain surfaced, all found by measurement:
- Long road segments chorded across curved ground: the car visually sank to
  its windows mid-block. Fixed by subdividing draped ribbons.
- The 9 m terrain grid aliases cliff edges and bulged metres ABOVE the finely
  draped roads: a car spawning there was inside the terrain sheet and got
  depenetrated through the floor into the void (y = -710). Fixed by giving
  roads real collision and carving the terrain grid down wherever a draped
  road sample lands (11k+ carve samples on Kangaroo Point alone).
- The junction validator and tuner drove throttle-only, which cross-slope
  drift turned into 40-86 m misses; they now hold aim like a player would.
- Edward x Elizabeth launched down a 17% grade, went airborne at the crest
  and wedged off-street: unwinnable geometry, not a bug. Swapped for
  Elizabeth x George on the flat lower CBD. All 9 junctions validate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 15:08:42 +10:00
m3ultra
0c13c82eac Pursuit, drag and derby modes; crash-damage paint; junction fixes
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 23:07:41 +10:00