The camera holds still: the ball-follow lean zeroed on Oliver's verdict

The flattened body curve stays (farK 0.25 — 'really good, helped a ton'); the
broadcast lean was 'distracting' and its knobs sit at 0 like the aimCam pair.
The plumbing stays for the T panel. PROJECT.md: farK is now a settled feel
decision.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

PROJECT.md

@@ -344,6 +344,12 @@ zombie (now an occasional opponent, `TUNE.racketEvery`, not the every-game fixtu
   starts flashing brightness. `assets/_sheet_crowd1.png` is the pre-brightening original.
 
 ## Settled feel decisions — do not regress silently
+- **Far bodies draw off a flattened scale curve; the camera holds still.** `TUNE.farK` 0.25
+  (render.js `farB`): the court projects true, bodies grow toward the far baseline (~20% at the
+  back), anchored so the near player never changes. Oliver: *"new perspective is really good —
+  helped a ton."* The ball-follow lean built alongside it (`farCamY`/`farCamZ`) was vetoed the
+  same day — *"the camera movement is distracting"* — and sits at 0 like the aimCam pair: every
+  camera-motion experiment on this game has now lost to a still camera.
 - **Two-stage serve**: touch = reticle, drag = aim, release = fire, drag back under `pullMin` =
   cancel. The pull's DIRECTION picks the lane, its LENGTH is power — deliberately decoupled so a
   far shambler never costs a longer drag than the screen has.
@@ -408,8 +414,9 @@ zombie (now an occasional opponent, `TUNE.racketEvery`, not the every-game fixtu
 ## Session log: the far court, without spending the lens (2026-08-13)
 
 Oliver: the far-side opponent is barely visible in portrait, and the lens (camZ/camF, already at its
-measured ceiling — see fitViewport) and world height were the only knobs he knew. Two new ones, both
+measured ceiling — see fitViewport) and world height were the only knobs he knew. Two new ones.
-AWAITING HIS PHONE VERDICT — nothing here is settled yet:
+VERDICT (same day): the scale curve is settled-in (*"really good — helped a ton"*), the lean was
+vetoed (*"the camera movement is distracting"*) and its knobs sit at 0 — see the settled list:
 
 - **`TUNE.farK` — bodies draw off a flattened scale curve, the court projects true.** The 16-bit
   tennis trick: `s' = s·(sNear/s)^farK`, anchored at the player's deepest stance (he is untouched),

index.html

@@ -431,6 +431,6 @@ if (location.hostname !== 'splatter-tennis.wuwi.one') {
     </div>
   </div>
 </div>
-<script type="module" src="src/main.js?v=210"></script>
+<script type="module" src="src/main.js?v=211"></script>
 </body>
 </html>

src/config.js

@@ -283,10 +283,11 @@ export const TUNE = {
   // BALL-FOLLOW LEAN (tennis + match only): while the ball is on the FAR half the camera eases
   // toward camY+farCamY / camZ+farCamZ — a broadcast-style lean into the deep court. It pivots
   // about the near player's feet (see fOff in render.js), so his stance and the pull room the
-  // apron math promised never move. Both 0 = the camera holds still. Defaults are deliberately
+  // apron math promised never move. Both 0 = the camera holds still, which is where Oliver
-  // shy of visible: the phone (not the desktop pane) is where a moving camera gets its verdict.
+  // landed ("the camera movement is distracting") — the same verdict the aimCam pair got. The
-  farCamY: 0.35,    // m of camera rise while the ball is far (steepens the look-down)
+  // flattened body curve above carries the far-court read on its own.
-  farCamZ: -0.6,    // m of camera dolly while the ball is far (negative = closer)
+  farCamY: 0,       // m of camera rise while the ball is far (steepens the look-down)
+  farCamZ: 0,       // m of camera dolly while the ball is far (negative = closer)
   backstopZ: -1.8,  // z of the far backstop — must sit IN FRONT of the -2 retire line, or balls die before they reach it
   backstopKeep: 0.55, // pace a ball keeps after the rebound — still lethal, slower
   backstopPop: 1.8,   // m/s of lift off the fence, so the rebound travels back instead of dying at the net posts