Earn bucks from every mode (takedowns, outruns, escapes, derby kills, medals,
a cut of crash damage) and spend them on performance parts of deeply
questionable provenance: K-MART MEGA WING, GO-FASTER STRIPES, SERVO FLAME KIT,
BLINGY MAGS, SERVO NEONS, BUNNINGS DRAINPIPE, TURBO THRU THE BONNET. Every
part gives a real stat bump AND bolts a procedural eyesore onto the car, sized
off the model AABB so the same tat fits a BUBBLA or a Kingswood. Fully kitted:
+35% power, +1.1 grip, +0.55 boost.
Per-car, persistent (user://garage.save), player-only -- stats apply to a
DUPLICATE of the shared CarStats so tuning your Lazza doesn't secretly tune
every Lazza in the city, and the save path is redirectable so the smoke test
can never wipe real progression. Bolt-ons attach after the deformer snapshot:
the wing survives every crash, as is right and proper.
GARAGE button + bucks readout in the menu; shop screen with prices, blurbs and
FITTED states. Smoke covers the earn/buy/duplicate-stats roundtrip.
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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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The last two design-doc gameplay items land:
- Road Rage: 90 s, wreck as many rivals as you can. They recover on their own
(no hold_wreck) so the supply never dries up, and a 220 m leash teleports
strays back to the road ahead of the player. Bronze/silver/gold at 4/8/12.
- Oncoming: driving against the RacePath tangent while actually on the road
(within 7 m of the line, above 12 m/s, heading dot < -0.55) trickles boost
with a periodic toast. Runs in cruise, race and rage.
Crashbreaker finally looks the part: layered Fx.explosion (70-particle additive
fire bloom, rising smoke, 60-spark shower) inside a thin additive shockwave
shell -- the old opaque orange bubble drowned the fire out completely, so it
became a fast-fading front-culled dome instead. Plus a 0.8 camera shake.
Menu is a title screen: FLUX-generated key art (battered sedan, flying hubcap,
bridge, jacarandas -- the hubcap is canon now) behind a scrim, outlined golden
title. Art prompt asks for no lettering; the plate gibberish is FLUX being FLUX.
Smoke coverage for both mechanics. The oncoming test taught a harness lesson:
setting global_position on a continuous_cd body SWEEPS it there, wrecking the
car before the test began -- teleport via PhysicsServer3D.body_set_state.
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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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9 junction events across 6 levels, auto-generated from real OSM intersections
(tools/osm_junction.py): each crossing street's ways become lane-offset convoy
streams, deterministic speeds/intervals/models -- learnable puzzles, not dice.
Menu lists CRASH JCT entries; crash -> 9s settle with camera-relative
aftertouch on the wreck and a one-shot crashbreaker shockwave (blast() on
traffic, radial impulse on debris, orange boom). Damage tally vs
bronze/silver/gold targets. Fixed zero-normal UV projection that striped
roads. Smoke test drives a full junction run to tally (k, gold).
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Modes: Cruise / Crash Mode (60s damage dollars) / Race (3 laps, rubber-banded
rivals). Burnout loop: boost earned by drift, near miss, smash; takedowns refill
and grow the meter to 4x; hard crashes shed det_* panels and trigger Impact Time
slow-mo. Traffic follows the level RacePath frozen-kinematic and goes dynamic
when whacked. tools/build_cars.py builds six Aussie shitbox GLBs (profile
extrusion + detachable doors/mirrors/bumpers/bonnet/boot). Smoke test covers
all three modes headless.
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Drop-in content: cars/<id>/stats.tres (+optional car.glb), levels/<id>/level.glb
or .tscn with a Spawn marker. Raycast arcade car (boost, drift, drift-earns-boost),
chase cam, HUD, menu built from registry scan. Placeholder Woolies carpark with
shuntable parked cars. Headless smoke test + windowed screenshot harness.
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