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Marks

The rules slice owns three moving things a player has to read from a distance: a rival swarm, the dust it kicks up while it works, and a crop duster with its spray trail. This module builds their meshes and materials; `Rivals` and `Sprayers` own the entities.

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What it does

Marks — what the round puts on the farm

The rules slice owns three moving things a player has to read from a distance: a rival swarm, the dust it kicks up while it works, and a crop duster with its spray trail. This module builds their meshes and materials; Rivals and Sprayers own the entities.

Everything draws through one lit vertex-colour shader, so a cloud, a plume and an aircraft each cost one material and no textures. Clouds and plumes are scattered unlit triangles rather than solid volumes: sparse geometry reads as mist without needing a blend mode.

Marks.material(name, tint, emissive)      -- cached by the LOOK, not the label
Marks.cloudMesh(n, rx, ry, rz, tri, colour, jitter, seed)
Marks.columnMesh(n, radius, height, tri, colour, seed)
Marks.dusterMesh() / Marks.plumeMesh()
Marks.rivalCloudMesh(seed) / Marks.dustColumnMesh(seed)
Marks.spawnProxy(name, parent, mesh, material)
Marks.headingQuat(heading)                -- heading 0 = +Z, the game's convention

spawnProxy replaces any leftover of the same name before spawning. A module hot reload re-runs the slice's init and entering play despawns temporary entities, so without it every reload would leave another dead aircraft parked over the farm.

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SLICE: rules — the things the round puts on the farm so a player can SEE it. The rules slice owns three moving objects the player has to read from a distance: a rival swarm, the dust it kicks up while it works, and a crop duster with its spray trail. This module builds their meshes and materials once and hands back reusable pieces; Rivals and Sprayers own the entities. Everything here draws through one shader (prop_vertexcolor) with per-vertex colour, so a cloud, a plume and an aircraft cost one material each and no textures. Clouds and plumes are scattered unlit triangles rather than solid volumes: sparse geometry reads as mist without needing a blend mode, which is the same trick the swarm placeholder uses and is already proven here.

Model

material(name: string, tint: { number }, emissive: number) → any

One material per look. `tint` multiplies the vertex colour; `emissive` lifts it out of the shading so a pale plume still reads inside a long shadow.

argtypedescription
namestring
tint{ number }
emissivenumber

makeRng(seed: number) → void

Deterministic noise, so a rival's cloud looks the same shape every round.

argtypedescription
seednumber

newBuffers( ) → Buffers

pushTri(b: Buffers, ax: ?, ay: ?, az: ?, bx: ?, by: ?, bz: ?, cx: ?, cy: ?, cz: ?, r: ?, g: ?, bl: ?, a: ?) → void

argtypedescription
bBuffers
ax?
ay?
az?
bx?
by?
bz?
cx?
cy?
cz?
r?
g?
bl?
a?

pushBox(b: Buffers, cx: ?, cy: ?, cz: ?, hx: ?, hy: ?, hz: ?, r: ?, g: ?, bl: ?) → void

An axis-aligned box, for the aircraft's slabs.

argtypedescription
bBuffers
cx?
cy?
cz?
hx?
hy?
hz?
r?
g?
bl?

finish(b: Buffers) → any

argtypedescription
bBuffers

dusterMesh( ) → any

A crop duster: fuselage, high wing, tail. Nose points +Z, which is the heading convention the whole game uses (heading 0 = +Z).

plumeMesh( ) → any

The trailing spray. Built centred on the origin; the entity that carries it is placed behind the aircraft, so the mesh never has to be rebuilt.

rivalCloudMesh(seed: number) → any

A rival's cloud, in the same flattened-sphere shape the player's swarm has.

argtypedescription
seednumber

dustColumnMesh(seed: number) → any

Dust standing over a working rival — the thing you actually spot from the far side of the farm. Wide and warm rather than tall and white, so it reads as crop dust in low sun and not as a plume of steam.

argtypedescription
seednumber

spawnProxy(name: string, parent: any, mesh: any, mat: any) → any

Spawn a named proxy, replacing any leftover of the same name. A module hot reload re-runs the slice's init, and without this every reload would leave another dead aircraft parked over the farm.

argtypedescription
namestring
parentany
meshany
matany

headingQuat(heading: number) → void

Heading (radians about +Y, 0 = +Z) as the quaternion an entity wants.

argtypedescription
headingnumber

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