tram

The player pawn of Helsinki Life: a toy HKL tram, modelled once as a runtime mesh and stood up per player with that player's colour on its paintwork.

local Tram = require("game.pieces.tram")
local pawn = Tram.spawn(parent, 1, "pawn_green")
pawn:setPose({ x, y, z }, yawDegrees, leanDegrees)
pawn:setVisible(false)
pawn:despawn()

The hull is a side profile - raked nose, domed roof, waist band - extruded across the width by game.pieces.meshkit. On top of it sits the detail that makes it read as a made thing: a three-pane window strip per side with doors between, a recessed raked windscreen and rear window, the cream band carried round both ends, bogies and bumpers, headlamps and tail lamps that glow, a trolley pole with its contact bow, and the route number on the nose board and both flanks. The four seats carry real Helsinki lines - 3, 6, 9, 1.

Forward is the entity's own -Z, so a pawn travelling south down the board stands at yaw 180 and shows its face to the player. M.SCALE is the size the model is stood on the board at, chosen so four pawns sharing one tile at HL.pawnSlot - 1.1 board units apart - stand clear of each other.

Finishes come from game/pieces/materials/: piece_paint (tinted per player), piece_cream, piece_glass, piece_metal, piece_lamp, piece_tail.