standin

A battle written into `kessrel.units` by the crowd slice itself, for the frames when no sim is writing one: ten regiment blocks formed across the line and a tide pouring down the canyon from the Maw, or — in `heroes` mode — one of each caste alone in clear ground. It is off unles…

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game.crowd.standin

A battle written into kessrel.units by the crowd slice itself, for the frames when no sim is writing one: ten regiment blocks formed across the line and a tide pouring down the canyon from the Maw, or — in heroes mode — one of each caste alone in clear ground. It is off unless something turns it on, and it stands down the moment K.battle.running goes true, because the sim's table is the real one and two writers would fight over every record.

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game/crowd/standin — a battle in the unit table, written by the crowd slice itself, for the frames when no sim is writing one. The crowd renders `kessrel.units`; the sim fills it. Those are two slices and they do not finish at the same moment, so without this the only way to look at ten thousand bodies is to wait for somebody else's code. This module writes a plausible field into the same buffer under the same contract — ten regiment blocks formed across the line, a tide pouring down the canyon from the Maw, a scatter of contact and of dying — so the population, the compute pass, the materials, the tracers and the frame rate can all be proved on their own. It is OFF unless something turns it on, and it stops the moment `K.battle.running` goes true, because the sim's table is the real one and two writers would fight over every record.

ensure( ) → void

put(d: { number }, i: number, x: number, y: number, z: number, heading: number, kind: number, state: number, stateTime: number, seed: number) → void

Write one unit's two records into the flat vec4 array.

arg	type	description
d	{ number }
i	number
x	number
y	number
z	number
heading	number
kind	number
state	number
stateTime	number
seed	number

clear(d: { number }, from: number, to: number) → void

arg	type	description
d	{ number }
from	number
to	number

writeHumans(d: { number }, t: number, contact: number) → void

The ten regiments, formed up across the line in blocks, facing north.

arg	type	description
d	{ number }
t	number
contact	number

writeAliens(d: { number }, t: number, advance: number) → void

The tide. Skitters fill the canyon from the line to the Maw, densest at the head, thinning as they come down onto the guns; brutes among them; the titans behind. A share of them are in contact and a share are dying, which is what the death fall and the ichor need to be visible at all.

arg	type	description
d	{ number }
t	number
advance	number

pour(lo: number, hi: number, kind: number, spread: number, rowGap: number, perRow: number) → void

arg	type	description
lo	number
hi	number
kind	number
spread	number
rowGap	number
perRow	number

writeHeroes(d: { number }, t: number) → void

arg	type	description
d	{ number }
t	number

fill(buf: any, t: number) → boolean

Fill the buffer once for the given clock. Returns whether it landed.

arg	type	description
buf	any
t	number

tick(buf: any, t: number, dt: number) → boolean

Called every frame by the crowd while `enabled`; the tide walks forward so the field is never a photograph.

arg	type	description
buf	any
t	number
dt	number

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