game.staging.shots

The camera language of RED DOT RISING: four builders, each returning a plain definition table the director plays.

local Shots = require("game.staging.shots")

Shots.intro()              -- the opening, 12.8 s over four shots
Shots.liftBeat(from, to)   -- two seconds across the shaft at that floor
Shots.won()                -- the loft bed at sunrise, 8.6 s
Shots.lost()               -- the morning over the keeper's own view, 3.4 s

Because they are data, a shot can be read and evaluated without anything having to run:

local eye, at, fov = cutscene.evaluate(Shots.intro().shots, 2.5)

What a definition carries

The geometry these numbers are measured against

The scene's, and it is fixed: a 14 x 14 m atrium centred on the origin, floor tops at y = 0 / 6 / 12, a 4 x 4 m lift shaft through the middle (x and z within 2 m of centre), walls to the parapet at y = 13.2 with open sky above, and the NEKO-9 sign over the north parapet at (0, 14.4, 7.4) facing south into the atrium.

Two rules every path here obeys:

• A move that crosses a floor slab passes through the shaft — x and z inside the opening at the moment y crosses 6 or 12 — which is why the descents are polylines rather than straight chords.
• A shot's last lens is the lens the shot after it opens on, and the opening's last lens is the gameplay camera's own 72 degrees, so the hand-back to first person is not a jump cut in focal length.