game.clowns.Clown

What a clown DOES, once game.clowns.Roster has built it. Mounted by the Roster on the clown's own root; it finds the figure's joints by name, remembers the pose they were built in, and writes a new pose over that base every frame — a permanent breathing sway, plus whichever reaction was last asked for.

Fields

• kind — which clown this is.
• entryDepth — metres the figure walks in from during enter.
• action — the reaction currently playing.

Methods

• :react(name) — enter, idle, attack, hit, guard, laugh, die. Every reaction is a pose over the base plus an envelope in time, so one interrupted half-way still lands somewhere sensible. guard and die hold.
• :bind(hipY) — re-read the joints and the rest pose, and tell the driver how tall this figure stands. The Roster calls it once the parts are built.

Notes

• Reach it through the Roster's handle rather than directly; the handle is what the Director holds.
• The reactions live in one REACTIONS table — a duration and the function that poses the figure, per name. A new reaction is a row in it.
• The sway runs on every frame of every figure, and it is meant to be seen at the seat: the hips shift weight, the chest breathes, and the head, the hat and the ruff each follow on their own frequency a beat behind.