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Capital ships & support art: - New Flagship capital ships (world/flagship.gd) spawn a small point-defense formation at each team's spawn marker, independently targeting the nearest enemy in range with a slow unmissable-looking missile and a faster bullet stream -- keeps a team from parking on the enemy spawn and farming respawns. - Per-race/role bullet sprites for turret fire (assets/images/effects/ bullets/), flagship art for both factions, minimap now draws flagship blips, bot_ai awareness tuned to notice them. Settings screen (items 20-21 in CLAUDE.md) -- was a stub, now five real sections shared between the main menu and the in-game pause menu: - Diagnosed and fixed a "movement looks blurry/laggy" report down to three independent causes: physics-tick vs. display-refresh judder (fixed via Godot's built-in physics interpolation, plus a frame-rate-cap + VSync dropdown so each player can match their own monitor), missing mipmaps on every minified ship texture (real GPU sampling shimmer, unrelated to frame timing), and a periodic hitch from the matchmaking heartbeat spinning up a new HTTPRequest thread every 8 seconds instead of reusing one. - Nameplates get their own manual per-frame interpolation, since Godot's physics interpolation only covers Node2D/Node3D, not the Control-based Label they're built from. - Audio: Master/Music/SFX volume sliders backed by a real bus layout (default_bus_layout.tres) -- the project had no volume control at all before this. - Window mode (Fullscreen/Exclusive Fullscreen/Windowed), a colorblind-friendly enemy-color toggle (also fixes the minimap's own separate, inconsistent yellow enemy color), and keyboard rebinding for every action with a live capture UI. - New GameConfig.settings_focused flag (same pattern as chat_focused/ team_select_focused) so a key-rebind capture can't also move the ship or toggle the pause menu underneath the panel. Spawn intro: a ship's first-ever appearance now eases in from a random direction (fast off the start, decelerating into its landing spot) instead of popping into place -- purely a cosmetic sprite offset, so collision/camera/networking are untouched and every peer (including bots) sees the same warp-in. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Sprite & Tileset Creation Brief
For briefing other AI tools/artists on ship and tileset art needs. Not a design doc of record — see racesclasses.md for the authoritative faction/ship spec this is derived from.
Project Summary
Fast-paced top-down arena shooter inspired by Subspace Continuum, built in Godot 4.7, targeting Steam Deck + PC. Set inside the tight corridors of factories, refineries, mining stations, and shipyards — not open void. Tone: grounded blue-collar sci-fi (think The Expanse), arcade-fast rather than hard-sci-fi sim.
Factions (2 total)
A third faction, "Apex Dynamics," was cut to simplify the art pipeline — don't reference it.
- Inner Sphere Navy (ISN) — disciplined military. Gunmetal-gray, wedge-shaped hulls, hard militaristic angles, dense armor plating, prominent forward-facing gun turrets. Wins fights by tanking a choke point.
- Outer Rim Collective (ORC) — scrappy belters/miners. Blocky patchwork of mismatched metal plating, exposed hydraulic wiring, external fuel tanks, bolted-on industrial hardware. Wins by controlling terrain and denying space.
Ships
Top-down; each faction fields the same 3-role structure, re-skinned to its own theme.
| Class | Role | On-screen height target |
|---|---|---|
| Fighter | single, high-precision/high-damage shot | ~52px |
| Gunner | rapid-fire spray/burst, low damage per shot | ~58px |
| Tank | bigger, slower, fires bullets + missiles | ~82px |
- ISN roster: Patriot (Fighter), Barrage (Gunner), Behemoth (Tank)
- ORC roster: Rail-Jack (Fighter), Scrap-Spitter (Gunner), Iron-Clad (Tank)
What already exists
An idle sprite + a thrust/flame-sprite swap for all 6 ships. Scrap-Spitter and Iron-Clad's flame art is currently just a placeholder copy of their idle sprite — real thrust poses for those two are an open gap. Ships rotate freely at runtime from one nose-up sprite (no per-frame rotation animation used), so multi-angle rotation frames aren't required, just nice-to-have.
New / open needs
- Real flame/thrust frames for Scrap-Spitter and Iron-Clad
- Asteroid / environmental hazard sprites (next on the roadmap, currently unbuilt)
- Factory/shipyard arena tilesets — pipes, turbines, catwalks, industrial hazards, tight choke-point corridors (CSGO-tight map philosophy, not sprawling)
- Faction docking/hub tilesets (ISN naval station vs. ORC scrap/asteroid base) — speculative, not yet greenlit
- Top-down 4-direction walking character sprites for hub areas — only needed if hubs get built
Keep pixel art style consistent across everything; ships need to read as instantly distinct by faction even mid-fight in tight corridors.