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wuwiandClaude Opus 5 ff973cf6bb Splatter: the pull IS the shot — direction aims, length is power
The ball economy made it harder in the wrong way: waiting for a ballboy is
friction, not difficulty, and walking with the finger was one gesture too many
for anyone to discover. Both are out — a spent ball hands you a fresh one
again, and the thumb only ever does the slingshot.

The brake moves into the gesture instead. The pull's LENGTH is now the shot's
power and nothing else: under TUNE.zSplatQ it merely staggers, at full draw
it's quality 1.0 with the PERFECT flash and hitstop. A lazy rhythm of short
pulls can't kill anything, so tempo stops being a strategy.

The pull's DIRECTION is a ray, not a landing point, which is the ergonomic fix
for having to drag off the bottom of the phone: distance to the target no
longer costs drag length. The first shambler standing in the lane eats the
ball, whether it's 5 or 21 metres away, and the cone widens with range so
distant lanes stay pickable. Full power now sits at 95px of travel.

Also gone: the free predictive auto-lock on a directionless aim (zombieTarget
returns null with no direction, and a bare hold no longer fires at all). Melee
goes back to cleaving the cluster — it's the panic button — with the 1s
cooldown left in as the brake. The reticle reads power throughout: cool blue
only staggers, hot red kills, the drawn band grows behind you, and the pull
clicks the moment it crosses the kill threshold.

Verified by simulated touch gestures: 10px cancels, 35px = 0.31 (stagger),
60px = 0.60, 95px = 1.00; the same 60px pull reaches shamblers at 5m, 21m and
diagonally; 22 serves in 30s, so the pace is back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 15:31:37 +03:00

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// All tuning and constants. TUNE is live-editable in game via the T panel;
// the exported consts below are structural values that code shares but the panel doesn't show.
export const TUNE = {
camZ: 42, camY: 9, camF: 406, horizon: 40, // camF/horizon are per-orientation, set in fitViewport
gravity: 9.2, // slightly floaty vs 9.8 for readability
spinFactor: 0.9, // extra dive on quality shots (fake topspin)
bounceY: 0.58, bounceXZ: 0.78,
playerSpeed: 5.4, aiSpeed: 4.3,
reach: 1.3, aiReach: 1.6, // tight contact radius: the assist positions you, the tap must be honest
swingWindup: 0.06, // s before contact window opens
swingWindow: 0.16, // s contact window length
baseShotSpeed: 16, qualityShotSpeed: 12, // horizontal m/s = base + q*quality; perfect timing = real pace
serveSpeed: 21, serveQualitySpeed: 7,
aimError: 2.4, // m of scatter at quality 0
perfectMs: 45, // |offset from window center| for PERFECT
aiQualityMin: 0.45, aiQualityMax: 0.85, aiFlub: 0.09,
aiReaction: 0.45, // s before the CPU reads your shot — well-aimed corners are winners
autoAssist: matchMedia('(pointer: coarse)').matches ? 1.15 : 0, // auto-run speed factor (mobile)
zSpeed: 0.7, // zombie shamble speed m/s
zSpawnEvery: 3.0, // s between spawns in game 1 — shrinks by zSpawnStep per finished game
zSpawnMin: 1.0, // spawn-gap floor late in a run
zSpawnStep: 0.22, // spawn-gap reduction per finished game
zMax: 3, // shamblers on court in game 1 (cap grows +1 per game to zMaxCap; 0 = spawns off, for tests)
zMaxCap: 14, // absolute shambler cap
changeoverT: 4.5, // s the changeover breather lasts (after odd games, as the rules demand)
gameBeatT: 1.6, // s the game-end beat lasts on even (non-changeover) games
eatenR: 0.9, // m a shambler must close to eat you — matches the visual sprite overlap
zSnap: 1.4, // m free-aim magnetism: a zombie this close to your flick's landing point is the target
killsPerPoint: 3, // splatter: zombie kills to score ONE tennis point (1 = every kill scores, old behavior)
zSplatQ: 0.5, // min shot quality to splatter; below = stagger pushback
zPushback: 1.4, // m a staggered zombie is knocked back
splatterOverT: 0.1, // s the spent-ball 'over' beat lasts before the next serve is armed
// the slingshot: the pull's DIRECTION picks a lane, its LENGTH is power. Deliberately DECOUPLED —
// reaching a far shambler must not cost a longer drag than the screen has room for. The old
// mapping (pull length = reach) is why you had to drag off the bottom of the phone.
pullMin: 18, // px of pull below which the release cancels — no shot, nothing spent
pullFull: 95, // px of pull for a full-power shot. Keep this well inside one thumb's travel.
pullQMin: 0.12, // shot quality at pullMin, scaling to 1.0 (= PERFECT) at pullFull. Below
// zSplatQ it only staggers, so a lazy flick can't kill: THE anti-spam knob.
aimCone: 0.45, // lane half-width per meter of range — the aim cone widens with distance
aimReach: 22, // m the aim ray runs when no shambler stands in the lane
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
meleeCool: 1.0, // s between racket swishes — melee is the panic button, not the default
zPierce: 0.75, // pace a ball keeps after a splatter — hot balls plow through lined-up pairs
ballChangeFirst: 3, // game of the first new-balls delivery (real rule: 7, then every 9 — too sparse here)
ballChangeEvery: 4, // games between deliveries after the first
bombMax: 3, // bomb balls in a fresh tin
wCap: 3, // per-type cap on the courtside rack — tins accumulate, but only so many
rackH: 22, // px height of the bottom weapon rack (feel knob: how much court it covers)
bombRadius: 2.5, // m blast radius of a bomb ball
hordeLen: 12, // s a horde wave lasts
hordeRate: 2.5, // zombies spawned per second during a horde
mgRate: 6, // machine-gun pellets fired per second during a horde
mgPickupLen: 8, // s the machine-gun tin (4th delivery) auto-fires outside hordes
fps: 60, // frame cap — 30 halves battery/heat but Oliver felt it; smoothness wins (0 = uncapped)
runnerSpeed: 3.2, // runner ('f') speed multiplier over the shamble
runnerVMax: 4.2, // hard runner speed cap — the late-game ramp must stay humanly reactable
shamblerHp: 2, // splat-quality hits a classic shambler ('a'/'b') soaks before it dies — only the runner ('f') is still one-shot glass
setCardT: 2.0, // s the centered SET card holds (the 'kurze unterbrechung' before the horde)
bruteHp: 2, // splat-quality hits (or pellets) a brute ('g') soaks before it dies
shieldDown: 1.5, // s a shield zombie's ('s') chair stays dropped after a block — the kill window
meleeRange: 1.7, // m — a racket swish cleaves shamblers this close to you
racketHp: 3, // splat-quality hits a racket zombie (mini-boss) takes before it dies
racketSpeed: 2.8, // m/s the racket zombie shambles to chase a ball
racketQMax: 0.55, // its return quality is capped here (slower, sloppier than the tennis CPU)
racketFlub: 0.2, // chance the racket zombie whiffs a return
missHud: 0, // show the last miss reason on screen (full log: T.G.missLog) — off; dev-only
killPips: 1, // splatter: show the kills-to-next-point pips on the scoreboard
};
export const COURT = { L: 23.77, W: 8.23, dblW: 10.97, netZ: 11.885, netH: 0.914, netW: 10.06 };
COURT.svcFar = COURT.netZ - 6.4; // far service line
COURT.svcNear = COURT.netZ + 6.4; // near service line
// world sizes (meters)
export const PLAYER_H = 1.88;
export const BOY_H = 1.2;
export const UMP_H = 3.0;
export const UMP_X = 5.6; // chair right beside the doubles line — x 7.1 projected off-screen in portrait
// contact rules: outside this height band the ball can't be hit (below = it's past you)
export const CONTACT = { minY: 0.24, maxY: 2.3 };
// volleys (pre-bounce contact) get extra forgiveness: the ball passes at full speed and
// there's no bounce cue to time against, so reach and swing window widen by these factors
export const VOLLEY = { reach: 1.4, window: 1.8 };
// how deep from the far/near baseline a player's interception zone extends
export const ZONE_DEPTH = 9.5;
// recovery positions between shots
export const HOME = { P: { x: 0, z: 22.8 }, O: { x: 0, z: 2.5 } };
// where the near player is allowed to move
export const P_BOUNDS = { x: 6.5, zMin: COURT.netZ + 1.2, zMax: 26 };
// serve toss: release height and upward speed (apex derives from these + gravity)
export const TOSS = { y0: 1.8, vy: 4.6 };
// shot target depth from the receiving baseline, by aim (up = deep, none = mid, down = short)
export const SHOT_DEPTH = { deep: 3.0, mid: 5.4, short: 8.6 };
// how long swing/serve poses hold before returning to idle (s)
export const POSE_TIME = 0.38;
// the server's idle ball bounce: sideways offset to the free hand, apex height, tempo.
// tempo drives the ball, the hand sprite AND the pock sound — one value, always in sync.
export const BOUNCE_IDLE = { dx: 0.5, apex: 0.55, tempo: 3.6 };
// generated sprite sheets: the idle pose is this many pixels tall; all scales derive from it
export const SPRITE_H = 112;