ShitboxInfinity/README.md

Burnout Infinity: Shitbox

Burnout 3-style arcade racer, Aussie shitboxes, Woolies carparks. Godot 4.6 + Blender, native Apple Silicon.

Run

/Applications/Godot.app/Contents/MacOS/Godot --path .

Controls: WASD/arrows drive, Shift drift, Space boost, R reset (or retry after Crash Mode), Esc menu.

Modes

• Cruise — free roam with traffic.
• Crash Mode — 60 seconds, rack up damage dollars ramming traffic and parked cars.
• Crash Junctions — pick a "CRASH JCT" entry in the level list: launch into scripted cross-traffic convoys at a real intersection, then Aftertouch-steer your wreck (arrows) and detonate the Crashbreaker (space). Damage tally + bronze/silver/gold. Events live in levels/<id>/junctions.json; generate more from real intersections with tools/osm_junction.py <area.json> <out.json> <lat0> <lon0> "Name|Street A|Street B".
• Race — 3 laps vs 3 rubber-banded rivals on the level's RacePath.

The boost loop is Burnout 3's: earn boost by drifting, near-missing traffic, and smashing things. Wrecking a rival near you = TAKEDOWN — refills the meter and grows it (up to 4x). Hard crashes shed body panels and trigger Impact Time slow-mo.

Cars

A car is a folder: cars/<id>/stats.tres + optional car.glb. Models are built procedurally — specs live in tools/build_cars.py, one dict per car (silhouette profile, dimensions, paint). Rebuild all GLBs with:

/Applications/Blender.app/Contents/MacOS/Blender -b -P tools/build_cars.py

Model convention (any GLB works, hand-modelled or generated):

• Nose faces +Y in Blender (imports as Godot -Z forward).
• Node origin 0.75 m above ground level (the controller's ride height).
• Objects named det_* are detachable — the game rips them off on impact (doors, mirrors, bumpers, bonnet, boot).
• Current fleet: Datto 120Y, Gemmy TX, Kingswood HQ, VL Terbo, XF Fungoon, Excel Hilton. Piss-take names on purpose: real model names and badges are trademarks.

To improve a silhouette: supply a side-on photo + front three-quarter photo, tweak the profile points in the spec, rebuild, screenshot.

Stats are low-key reversed: the shitboxier the car was in real life, the better it performs here. The Excel X3 is the fastest car in the game; the muscle cars are all bark.

Downloaded models (from shitboxes/, gitignored + .gdignore'd) convert via:

/Applications/Blender.app/Contents/MacOS/Blender -b -P tools/import_shitbox.py -- "<file>" <car_id> <length_m> [yaw_deg]

Imported cars don't shed det_* panels until someone cuts their doors out in Blender.

Real-world levels from OpenStreetMap

Real street grids, our art style, clean collision, ODbL-licensed. Fetch a bbox from the OSM API, convert, build (queen_st_mall was made exactly like this):

curl -A 'BurnoutShitbox/1.0' 'https://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/map?bbox=<minlon>,<minlat>,<maxlon>,<maxlat>' -o area.xml
python3 tools/osm_xml_to_json.py area.xml area.json   # see git history / osm_level_args.py
ARGS=$(python3 tools/osm_level_args.py area.json "<spawn way name>" "<loop street 1,2,3,4>")
Blender -b -P tools/build_level_osm.py -- area.json <level_id> <origin_lat> <origin_lon> $ARGS

Don't reconstruct from Street View imagery (ToS + melted collision). Use photos as reference to hand-detail hero landmarks on the OSM base.

Levels so far: woolies_carpark, queen_st_mall, southbank, albert_parklands, story_bridge (procedural steel truss along Bradfield Highway), kangaroo_point. Textures in assets/textures/ are FLUX-generated (Cloudflare Workers AI) -- regenerate or add with tools/flux_texture.sh "" assets/textures/.jpg (creds read from .env, never printed). The builder box-projects UVs; facades pick glass/brick/concrete/heritage by height and id hash.

Add a level

Make a folder levels/<id>/ containing level.glb (or level.tscn). Blender convention:

• Solid objects: suffix the name with -col (Godot generates collision on import).
• An Empty named Spawn where the car starts.
• A curve/path named RacePath (loop) enables Race mode and traffic.
• Export glTF Binary to levels/<id>/level.glb. It appears in the menu.

Tests

/Applications/Godot.app/Contents/MacOS/Godot --headless --path . --import
/Applications/Godot.app/Contents/MacOS/Godot --headless --path . --script tests/smoke.gd

Visual check (opens a window, saves a PNG):

/Applications/Godot.app/Contents/MacOS/Godot --path . --script tests/screenshot.gd -- car=datto_120y mode=crash frames=280 out=shot.png

Design doc

docs/BurnoutInfinityShitbox.pdf — research report on the original game. Still to come: crash deformation (control-hull vertex displacement, equations in the PDF), oncoming-lane boost, Road Rage mode, sound, real level GLBs from Blender.