Resolves Issue #4463
## Description:
An optional game mode that (almost) guarantees a finish instead of
letting late-game
stalemates drag on.
Originally called sudden death, renamed to Doomsday clock
Once enabled, every side (each player in FFA, each whole team in team
modes)
must hold a rising share of the map. A side below the bar is skulled;
after a
short warn its troops bleed to zero, forcing consolidation to a winner.
### How it works
- **Rising zone:** a grace period, then the required share ramps up
linearly to
each level with 30s pauses between (a battle-royale "zone"). Levels
track the
ofstats FFA territory median (3/5/10/20/30%).
- **Four speed presets** (slow / normal / fast / very fast) change only
the pace:
normal ends ~30 min, very fast ~15.
- **Troop decay:** a linear ramp as a % of max capacity, ~50s from
caught to zero
(10s warn + ~50s ≈ 1 min total).
- **UI:** a HUD panel (live share vs target, wave/decay countdowns,
red/orange
cues) and an on-map skull above flagged players (blinks in danger,
steady while
draining).
### Notes for review
- Off by default; no effect on existing games. However, as discussed we
can add it to the modifier pool for public games to see how popular the
gamemode is vs normal play.
- Sim is deterministic (integer-only, in `src/core`), covered by unit +
integration tests.
- One-line addition to `GameServer.updateGameConfig` so the setting
survives the
host → server → client round-trip.
- Status is packed into the existing name-pass data slot (`pd4.w`: 0/1/2
=
none/danger/draining); the skull is composited into the icon atlas at
load.
### Testing
`npm test`, `npm run lint`, `npx prettier --check .`, `npm run
build-prod` all pass.
### UI:
<img width="243" height="100" alt="Image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c4c9eeb0-4feb-437d-9aac-b2786a841b74"
/>
Dropdown between slow, normal, fast, very fast
Before zone:
<img width="302" height="175" alt="Image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7359a1ea-4951-446d-a23c-0711fe06cc5d"
/>
Zone started, player not affected the pannel also blinks orange for 10s:
<img width="297" height="175" alt="Image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fcc565a5-d5d0-47a7-97ea-d0ba9d9ad899"
/>
Player affected, grace period (Danger):
<img width="314" height="170" alt="Image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ff96d21e-96f3-4ef9-8190-48eecc7aac0f"
/>
Skull icon blinking over player (everyone sees it) - older screenshot,
the clipping has been fixed
<img width="462" height="145" alt="Image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/53899211-33b1-40e1-83f2-77f2096f0cad"
/>
Player affected, grace period ended (Draining):
<img width="360" height="159" alt="Image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4b226d57-da4d-4866-ab5f-db48e4ed1ea2"
/>
Skull icon no longer blinking, everyone can see you are in a state of
decay, and troops are draining:
<img width="732" height="146" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cd10fedb-6e87-4dfc-9fbf-55d3945a7901"
/>
Skull is visible like alliances icon also on player tab
<img width="558" height="81" alt="Image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6acdbe91-bdd0-40c7-942b-3990d4dae87f"
/>
(just UI example, best way to see it is to hop on a solo game and play
against AI)
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
zixer._
Warships now render with a dedicated center accent band so their state
reads at a glance:
- Normal: center + outer ring share the territory color (2-color look),
hull uses the border color.
- Angry (attacking): outer ring and center turn red.
- Retreating to repair: the center blinks black.
The warship sprite center moved to its own gray value (100) in the unit
atlas so the shader can drive it via a new fourth replacement band, with
no per-unit-type branching — the missiles' shared 130 blend band is
untouched.
Warship repair-retreat (warshipState.state === "retreating") now feeds
the existing UnitState.retreating boolean in UnitView, which UnitPass
maps to a FLAG_RETREATING instance flag.
The shell (unit-atlas.png col 7) was a centered 3×3 white square, so it
rendered as a 3×3-world-tile block. Replace it with a single centered
white pixel so shells render as one pixel, matching the original
pixel-shell look. The atlas is sampled with NEAREST and unitSize is 13
(1 atlas px ≈ 1 world tile), so the lone pixel stays crisp.
Update the UnitPass header comments that described the shell as 3×3.
Render a soft radial glow underneath the hydrogen bomb sprite in
UnitPass. H-bomb instances draw an enlarged quad (hBombGlowScale) so
there's room for the halo; a cell-space UV remap keeps the sprite at its
normal size while the margin becomes glow area. The glow is a steady
(non-pulsing) radial falloff in a warm amber, alpha-blended underneath
the sprite and suppressed in alt/affiliation view.
Detection uses a HYDROGEN_BOMB_COL shader define derived from
UNIT_ORDER, so it tracks the atlas layout rather than hard-coding the
column. All other units are unaffected (scale 1, same fillrate); this
stays a single program / two instanced draw calls.
Glow color, scale, strength, and falloff are exposed in
render-settings.json for live tuning via the debug GUI.
# Dynamic flag atlas (runtime TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY)
Replaces the build-time `flag-atlas.png` with a runtime
`TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY`
populated on demand from each player's server-resolved flag URL. Layers
are
deduped by URL (every "Mercia" bot shares one slot), so the per-game
working
set is bounded by unique flags, not player count.
## Why
The store will eventually ship hundreds of custom flags fetched from the
CDN,
which can't be baked into a static atlas. Moving to a runtime array also
lets
the catalog grow without bloating the client bundle.
## Side effect (bonus)
Human players' country flags (`country:US`, etc.) now display next to
their
names in-game. The old atlas only contained nation names, so non-nation
flags
were silently dropped.
## Notes
- Cell size is fixed at 128×85; loaded images are aspect-fit and
centered.
- Layer cap is 512 (clamped to `MAX_ARRAY_TEXTURE_LAYERS`). Past the
cap,
further flag requests render no icon.
- Mipmaps are regenerated after each layer upload.
- Recommend store pipeline caps custom flag uploads at SVG or PNG ≤
256×170,
≤ 50 KB (decode-time RAM and bandwidth, not VRAM).
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
evan
src/client/render/gl/assets/ held 11 atlas files (PNGs + JSON metadata)
that bypassed the asset-manifest pipeline — they were imported via
Vite's ?url query, bundled, and served same-origin instead of going
through the CDN like every other game asset. Moved them to
resources/atlases/, switched the PNG imports to assetUrl("atlases/...")
so they flow through the manifest, and updated the JSON metadata
imports to "resources/atlases/..." paths. Also dropped an orphan copy
of MissileSiloIconWhite.svg (no callers; resources/images/ already had
the canonical version).
render-settings.json stays in src/ — it's renderer tuning config
consumed at bundle time, not a URL-served asset.
Zixer1