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cues

The sound of the camera moving. Five one-shots, synthesised from an envelope over a waveform and cached as `.soundClip` assets beside this module.

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What it does

game.staging.cues

The sound of the camera moving. Five one-shots, synthesised from an envelope over a waveform and cached as .soundClip assets beside this module.

CueThe moment
revealThe sky opening over the plain, under the first shot of the opening. A sub swelling beneath a slow open fifth, with a rise of air over it.
beat_hotThe cargo starting to cook. A low thud with a scorched edge.
beat_coldThe cargo starting to freeze. A brittle shiver falling away.
swingThe camera leaving the rover for the airlock. A rise that blooms.
fallThe line of first light coming over a rover that stopped. A long fall with the floor dropping out from under it.

They are deliberately quiet and low. The music, the ambience bed and Peary Station's voice belong to the sound slice; a camera cue that competed with those would be wrong even if it were pretty.

local Cues = require("game.staging.cues")
Cues.ensure()              -- build the clips once, then find them again
Cues.play("reveal", 0.5)   -- volume scales the cue's own level in the mix
Cues.info("reveal")        -- sampleRate, channels, frames, durationMs
Cues.names()
Cues.teardown()            -- take the players out of the world; the clips stay

Every cue is computed in Luau and encoded through audio.encodePcm, so nothing here depends on a service being reachable: a staged moment cannot arrive silent because a network call failed.

Interface

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conforms to

zero/source-extract/v2

game.staging.cues — the sound of the camera moving. The staging slice owns five moments, and each of them is felt before it is understood: the sky opening over the plain, the frame biting in when the cargo starts to cook or to freeze, the swing onto the airlock, the fall away from a rover the light has caught. This module is what those five sound like. Every cue is SYNTHESISED here, from an envelope over a waveform, and encoded with `audio.encodePcm` through `asset.create("soundClip", …)`. Nothing here asks a generation service for anything, so a staged moment cannot end up silent because a network call failed or a credit ran out. They are deliberately quiet and low: the sound slice owns the music, the bed and the voice, and a camera cue that competed with those would be wrong even if it were pretty. local Cues = require("game.staging.cues") Cues.ensure() -- make the clips once, then find them Cues.play("reveal", 0.5) Cues.teardown()

Audio

noiseSource(seed: number) → void

Synthesis. A deterministic noise source, a one-pole filter, and the envelopes — everything these five cues are made of.

argtypedescription
seednumber

ad(t: number, dur: number, a: number, d: number) → number

Attack/decay envelope: rises over `a` seconds, falls over `d`, held between.

argtypedescription
tnumber
durnumber
anumber
dnumber

render(dur: number, fn: Render) → buffer

argtypedescription
durnumber
fnRender

makeReveal( ) → buffer

The sky opening: a sub swelling under a slow open fifth, with a rise of air over the top of it.

makeBeatHot( ) → buffer

The cargo starts to cook: a hard low thud with a scorched edge.

makeBeatCold( ) → buffer

The cargo starts to freeze: a brittle shiver falling away.

makeSwing( ) → buffer

The camera leaves the rover for the airlock: a rise that blooms.

makeFall( ) → buffer

The line passes over a rover that stopped: a long fall with the floor dropping out from under it.

resolveOne(cue: string) → any

One literal resolve per clip. Literal because a computed asset reference cannot be pinned when this world is installed somewhere else, and one per clip rather than a listing because a listing records EVERY soundClip in the world as a dependency of this module, including every other slice's.

argtypedescription
cuestring

indexExisting( ) → void

ensure( ) → boolean

Find the staging cues' clips. Safe to call every frame; it indexes once. It does NOT create anything: the clips are authored content that lives in the world's source, written once by `build()`, so the game only ever looks them up.

build(force: boolean?) → void

Write every cue's clip into the world's source, synthesising the ones that are not there. An authoring step: run it once from an `execute` in edit mode, then commit what it wrote.

argtypedescription
forceboolean?Rewrite clips that already exist.

info(cue: string) → any

What a cue's clip actually holds — sampleRate, channels, frames, durationMs — without decoding it.

argtypedescription
cuestringThe cue name.

names( ) → void

The cue names this module makes.

ensureRoot( ) → any

Playing them.

ensurePlayer(cue: string) → any

argtypedescription
cuestring

play(cue: string, volume: number?) → void

Play a staging cue. `volume` scales the cue's own level in the mix.

argtypedescription
cuestringOne of `reveal`, `beat_hot`, `beat_cold`, `swing`, `fall`.
volumenumber?0..1, scaling the cue's own place in the mix.

teardown( ) → void

Take the cue players out of the world. The clips themselves stay — they are content.

Sub-parts

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stage_beat_cold.soundClip
soundclip · born here
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# SoundClip Managed audio asset. `data.zaud` is the engine-native ZAUD payload the runtime decodes and plays; compression settings live in the `.metadata` `settings` block (edit to re-encode).
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stage_fall.soundClip
soundclip · born here
❒asset
# SoundClip Managed audio asset. `data.zaud` is the engine-native ZAUD payload the runtime decodes and plays; compression settings live in the `.metadata` `settings` block (edit to re-encode).
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ns
module · born here
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# ns The shared contract of *First Light: Nearside*. Every slice of the game requires this module and nothing else of each other's. ```luau local NS = require("game.ns") ``` ## What it carries - **Constants** — `NS.ROUTE` (the corridor: `startZ`, `finishZ`, `halfWidth`), `NS.DAWN` (the terminator's start, speed and the hot/cold distances), `NS.CARGO`, `NS.FUEL`, `NS.ROVER`, `NS.PALETTE`, `NS.AUDIO`, `NS.NAMES` (the entity names the scene authors) and `NS.COMPONENTS` (the component identities the entrypoint mounts). - **The light** — `NS.lightAt(dz)` and `NS.bandAt(dz)` read the sunlight at a distance from the dawn line, `dz = z - terminatorZ`. The rules and the lighting both read these, so the meter and the picture agree. - **The screen** — `NS.screen()` and `NS.unit(fraction)`: every layout is stated against the live screen size, never in pixels chosen for one frame. - **Events** — `NS.on(name, fn)` / `NS.emit(name, payload)`; the names are in `NS.EVENTS`. - **Phases** — `NS.phase()`, `NS.setPhase(p)`, `NS.resume()`, `NS.tick(dt)`, `NS.runTime()`. Phases: `title → howto → intro → playing ⇄ paused → won | lost`. - **Surfaces** — `NS.provide(name, table)` / `NS.get(name)` / `NS.whenProvided(name, fn)`. The shapes are in `/zero/source/design/spec.md`. - **Maths** — `clamp`, `lerp`, `smooth`, `approach`, `hash`, `rgb`. ## Notes - Module-local state (phase, surfaces, handlers) resets on hot reload of this file; components re-provide their surfaces in `awake`. - The route runs north, +Z. South of the terminator is sunlight.
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stage_reveal.soundClip
soundclip · born here
❒asset
# SoundClip Managed audio asset. `data.zaud` is the engine-native ZAUD payload the runtime decodes and plays; compression settings live in the `.metadata` `settings` block (edit to re-encode).
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stage_beat_hot.soundClip
soundclip · born here
❒asset
# SoundClip Managed audio asset. `data.zaud` is the engine-native ZAUD payload the runtime decodes and plays; compression settings live in the `.metadata` `settings` block (edit to re-encode).
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stage_swing.soundClip
soundclip · born here
❒asset
# SoundClip Managed audio asset. `data.zaud` is the engine-native ZAUD payload the runtime decodes and plays; compression settings live in the `.metadata` `settings` block (edit to re-encode).
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backing path · game/staging/cues.module

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