islaApocalypse/Core/Scripts
beezm 3fd14c0389 feat: ISLA_BLUEPRINT_PATH + ISLA_EXPORT_DIR so tooling never touches the runtime root (terrain-water task 25, FILE SAFETY)
The task-25 file-safety rules make this structural rather than procedural. Two
env overrides, both loud on use:

  ISLA_BLUEPRINT_PATH — MapDataParser.LoadMapData loads an explicit blueprint
    FILE instead of the seed-named one in the runtime root, so capture tooling
    reads straight from a batch folder.
  ISLA_EXPORT_DIR     — MapGenerator writes EVERYTHING a run produces (both
    blueprints and every stage snapshot) into a task folder instead of the root.

Why this is needed and not merely tidy: generation ALWAYS wrote
user://MapData_Seed_<seed>.dat, and my task-22/23/24 capture scripts copied a
blueprint over that path and then rm'd it — which destroyed the blueprint the
developer had staged there to view a world in 3D. With these overrides a run
touches nothing in the root, so there is nothing to clean up afterwards and no
delete anywhere in the drivers. Verified this task: the developer's staged
MapData_Seed_1280587109.dat kept md5 dc2bc61b3eb7 across four generations and a
3D capture.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 21:11:14 -04:00
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BiomePalette.cs roads: enable Rugged+Trail carving + per-tier character (D-022) 2026-08-05 03:53:32 -04:00
BiomePalette.cs.uid baseline: working salvaged prototype on Godot 4.7.1 (pre-F1) 2026-08-05 01:45:41 -04:00
BlockData.cs baseline: working salvaged prototype on Godot 4.7.1 (pre-F1) 2026-08-05 01:45:41 -04:00
BlockData.cs.uid baseline: working salvaged prototype on Godot 4.7.1 (pre-F1) 2026-08-05 01:45:41 -04:00
BlockRegistry.cs feat: render the water we already had (terrain-water task 13, Phase C1) 2026-08-09 02:32:04 -04:00
BlockRegistry.cs.uid baseline: working salvaged prototype on Godot 4.7.1 (pre-F1) 2026-08-05 01:45:41 -04:00
BLUEPRINT_FORMAT.md docs: stepped river water, WBTB type 2, and the C0b finale in the generator README (terrain-water task 23) 2026-08-11 19:57:25 -04:00
BlueprintFormat.cs fix: shrink erosion's crater exclusion to the strike core; add FULL/FEATHER modes (terrain-water task 19) 2026-08-10 05:50:22 -04:00
BlueprintFormat.cs.uid chore: Godot .uid files for the new task-02 scripts 2026-08-07 00:17:46 -04:00
BlueprintWriter.cs fix: shrink erosion's crater exclusion to the strike core; add FULL/FEATHER modes (terrain-water task 19) 2026-08-10 05:50:22 -04:00
BlueprintWriter.cs.uid chore: Godot .uid files for the new task-02 scripts 2026-08-07 00:17:46 -04:00
ChunkData.cs feat: render the water we already had (terrain-water task 13, Phase C1) 2026-08-09 02:32:04 -04:00
ChunkData.cs.uid baseline: working salvaged prototype on Godot 4.7.1 (pre-F1) 2026-08-05 01:45:41 -04:00
ConfigManager.cs feat: tributary water (tapered), significant-lake targeting, finer steps + deeper beds (terrain-water task 24) 2026-08-11 20:24:38 -04:00
ConfigManager.cs.uid baseline: working salvaged prototype on Godot 4.7.1 (pre-F1) 2026-08-05 01:45:41 -04:00
Constants.cs feat: render the water we already had (terrain-water task 13, Phase C1) 2026-08-09 02:32:04 -04:00
Constants.cs.uid baseline: working salvaged prototype on Godot 4.7.1 (pre-F1) 2026-08-05 01:45:41 -04:00
Enums.cs roads: enable Rugged+Trail carving + per-tier character (D-022) 2026-08-05 03:53:32 -04:00
Enums.cs.uid baseline: working salvaged prototype on Godot 4.7.1 (pre-F1) 2026-08-05 01:45:41 -04:00
MapDataParser.cs feat: ISLA_BLUEPRINT_PATH + ISLA_EXPORT_DIR so tooling never touches the runtime root (terrain-water task 25, FILE SAFETY) 2026-08-11 21:11:14 -04:00
MapDataParser.cs.uid baseline: working salvaged prototype on Godot 4.7.1 (pre-F1) 2026-08-05 01:45:41 -04:00
MarchingCubes.cs roads: enable Rugged+Trail carving + per-tier character (D-022) 2026-08-05 03:53:32 -04:00
MarchingCubes.cs.uid baseline: working salvaged prototype on Godot 4.7.1 (pre-F1) 2026-08-05 01:45:41 -04:00
MATH_MARCHING_CUBES.md docs: fix MATH_MARCHING_CUBES §4 polarity + dims 2026-08-05 21:32:51 -04:00
README.md docs: water at rest across the Core/Client/Server READMEs (terrain-water task 13) 2026-08-09 02:33:06 -04:00

/Core/Scripts

Pure C# data structures, shared enums, and static maths. Compiled into the shared assembly used by both /Server and /Client.

"Pure data, zero state." These scripts define what things are and how to calculate them. They never track live game events — who is online, which chunks are loaded, what time it is.

What's actually here

Voxel materials

  • BlockData.cs — struct describing one block type (ID, name, IsSolid, BaseColor).
  • BlockRegistry.cs — the byte-ID master list (AIR 0, BEDROCK, STONE, DIRT, SAND, the three grasses, SNOW, WASTELAND_DIRT, ASPHALT, WATER) with a safe GetBlock lookup. Block IDs are never serialized — the blueprint stores heights, biome ordinals and water data, never block IDs, and chunks are not persisted — so appending to this table is wire-safe. WATER is a registry identity only: it is not written into ChunkData.BlockIDs, because water is drawn as its own surface rather than as part of the terrain iso-surface (see Client/README.md).
  • BiomePalette.cs — decides which material sits where, given biome, depth, and whether the column is roadbed. Two paths on purpose: an integer classification that decides what is stored in each voxel, and a float-depth version used for rendering that returns the two materials either side of a boundary so colours fade rather than snap.

⚠ Note that BlockRegistry and the mesher's colour table hold different RGB values for some blocks. The mesher's table is what you actually see; BlockData.BaseColor is currently unused by rendering.

Shared identifiers

  • Enums.csBiome, TownTier, MapHalf, RoadTier.

    Biome and TownTier are the .dat wire format (u8 in the v2 container, i32 in legacy v1). They are declared without explicit values, so each member's ordinal is the number written to disk. Append only, at the end — never reorder or insert. The v2 reader range-checks ordinals so drift fails loudly at parse time, but only the append-only rule keeps old files meaning the same thing. Legacy v1 has no gate and no validation at all. RoadTier is exempt: road tiers live in separate sections of the file, so it is never serialized.

World data

  • BLUEPRINT_FORMAT.md — the byte-accurate .dat container contract (v2 tagged sections + the v1 legacy summary). Read this before touching the writer or parser.
  • BlueprintFormat.cs — the single registry of v2 constants: magic, version gate, section tags (FourCC), validation bounds, re-encode sentinels.
  • BlueprintWriter.cs — writes a WorldBlueprint as a v2 file. Blueprint-typed on purpose: the map generator and the round-trip harness are both just callers.
  • MapDataParser.cs — decodes a .dat blueprint into a WorldBlueprint (heightmap, biome map, towns, four road tiers, and — v2 only — the embedded generation params, per-town highway-node flag, and the optional water-bodies data: WaterBodyIds, WaterBodies table, WaterSurfaceQ). Dispatches on the first byte: v2 tagged-section files get validation (version gate, size bounds, section-length and ordinal range checks); legacy v1 files still load, intact, with a deprecation warning. The water sections are consumed at runtime since task 13 — the server reads them per column and the client draws the result (see Server/README.md).
  • ChunkData.cs — one chunk's density and block-ID fields, +1 padded on every axis so the mesher can reach into the neighbouring chunk, plus the per-column data the renderer needs — including WaterSurfaceY (world Y of the water surface, or Constants.NO_WATER), WaterDepthM (true depth from blueprint heights) and HasAnyWater.
  • Constants.cs — chunk dimensions, ISO_LEVEL, VOXEL_SCALE, and the visual/road tunables (material blend band; per-tier road width, shoulder, grade smoothing and surface), plus the water-at-rest tunables: HEIGHT_SCALE (the one raw-height→metres mapping, shared by the terrain surface and the water sheet so they cannot drift apart), NO_WATER, and the depth-shading colour/alpha ramp.

Maths

  • MarchingCubes.cs — density field → ArrayMesh, with analytical normals and deterministic integer-keyed vertex welding.
  • MATH_MARCHING_CUBES.md — an explainer of the algorithm.

Rules

  1. No Godot node inheritance. Pure classes, structs and statics.
  2. No _Process / _Ready. Nothing here is attached to a live scene object.
  3. Dependencies flow inward only. /Server and /Client reference /Core; /Core never references them.