Entry 190

"The spells' screen noise on the field UI; the effects' smoke callers all accounted for"

2026-09-26battle

Filescrates/piney-game/src/fx.rscrates/piney-game/src/area.rscrates/piney-world/src/field_world.rscrates/piney-fieldui/src/lib.rscrates/piney-game/src/session.rsdocs/engine/battle.mddocs/engine/effects.md

A sweep of the docs for "not ported" found a line in battle.md's "What the runtime still lacks": "The effects' camera shakes, noise and flashes are not carried out yet." The shakes and flashes have been carried out for some time: area.rs takes them from the effects each frame. The noise was not. fx.rs dropped piney-effect's Event::Noise with a comment saying so.

The noise. A blast in the camera's reach (checkCameraShakeRange: within 67.5 degrees of the view and 2000 of the eye) calls ccMenu->noiz->SetNoizBs(20) as well as cameraShake. The callers:

• the tornado spells at count 40;
• the convergence, upheaval and fall systems;
• the summons.

On screen the last frame is laid over this one 2.8% larger at alpha 0x50, fading (field-ui.md, the noise's +4). The field UI already had ccNoiz for interNoiz and the event instructions.

Now:

• FieldFx::take_noises hands the frame's requests over.
• GameFx keeps Noise events for it, as it keeps the shakes and flashes.
• AreaMode gives each to the new FieldUi::noise_bs, which is SetNoizBs.

a_spell_lands_through_the_effects used to cast Tornado the moment the goblin came out, some 2,500 away, where the blast is out of the camera's reach. It now walks Kite to within 1,200 of the goblin first. The noise's count then reads 19: the 20 set, less the one frame drawn before the read. The tornado's level and blows are checked as before.

The smoke. effects.md listed WORLD::DrawSteam and ccGimSymbol as callers of effSmoke that were not ported. Both are ported, in field_ambient and gimmick.rs's obj_main. Every caller in Infection was listed with the disassembler's cross references. Those not ported are the later volumes' bosses:

• ccBoss04 and ccBoss06's OnThinkBackDash;
• ccBoss08_b;
• ccBossEffLightBallShock and ccBossEffRockTower.

effVirusCrystal is ported for the virus boxes (ccGimBox::virusMain). Only ccRtownPC::eventMode's call is left, in the mode that volume 2's event 114 gives.