Entry 78

Battle in motion: Kite's combat, Orca following and fighting, path finding, the magic portals and the first field's enemies

2026-09-24battletest

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67 ported combat's rules and decisions. It said the runtime still had to move everyone. A lead agent and five helpers have ported that motion layer into piney-battle, behind a small trait the world implements. It covers everything field 14 and its dungeon need.

What moves now

• Kite. ccPlayer::Main, ControlMove and AnimCtrl in full: every act, the combo, and the notes. Also Attack, AttackCancel, BreakSomething and DamageActuate. It is a superset of piney-world's motion.rs, so the world can call it.
• A party member. ccFellow::Main, Move, Action and CheckNote, ccSpcChar::HitCheck, and the ways to follow:
  • FollowPlayer and LeavePlayer;
  • FollowTarget and FollowTargetDirc;
  • the obstacle checks.
• The AI's movement. The whole dungeon path finding, SetPathFindingMap, and the town's landmarks. Also MoveP2P, FollowBeacon, ManualControl and ActInTown, performed for 67's party AI by one runtime (party_motion::Movement).
• The party's thread. ccThSpc: the party's strategy, Kite's shout, and spcBattleCondition.
• The entry control.
  • ccThEntryCtrl, ccEntryObj::routine, entryObject, entryEnemy, initObject;
  • the magic portal (ccMagicCircle and its particles);
  • where entries come from: EntryGimmick, SetMagicCircle for fields and dungeons, and the events' entry_mc. Event 3 makes four portals of goblins around Kite; event 4 makes one on floor 0.
• The enemies. moveEnemy, animEnemy, the note handler, dispEnemy's decisions, the six act helpers, and each race's action. The races are B, G, K, P, V and 1, which make the field's and dungeon's seven enemies:
  • the field: Goblin 130, Mad Grass 219 and Disco Knife 185;
  • the dungeon: Deadly Moth 268, Magical Goblin 151, Chicken Hand 67 and Sword of Chaos 189.

Bugs found on the way

• Self-hits. When a character hits itself, the SP drain now reads HP after the HP drain, as the game does.
• Affect timing. Each EntryAffect is applied when the game makes it. The native checks run the real affect functions, and they caught the deferred version.
• CharHit's default. mask2 is -1, as the game's constructor sets it.

The name of field 14

The agent found that story area 14 is "Bursting Passed Over Aqua Field"; Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground is 15. The disassembler's comments (tools/evscript.py) had indexed the story-area list by position. That list is in eventAreaInfo's order, which skips 13, so every name after that point was off by one. So 69 and 72 said Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground. That is fixed, and those entries corrected.

Checked

• Against the game. Six new harnesses:

  • frame (1 check);
  • kite (10);
  • fellow (18);
  • navi (23);
  • spawn (20);
  • enemy motion (11).

  With 67's six, all 208 checks ran 1,000 cases each with 0 mismatches. Each compares every field, both generators and the ordered call log. The game's own functions run on the Rust eemu.

• Long runs. Each new harness also plays runs of 60-300 frames, compared after every frame. Composition runs put pieces together on the game's side too:

  • the entry control running the real ccEnemy::main, with portals, chases, attacks, deaths and drains;
  • ccFellow::Main with the real path finding;
  • Orca's ActInTown in Mac Anu;
  • ccAI::Brains in a dungeon room;
  • Kite driven by his AI.

• Re-run in a clean worktree. All 13 battle suites pass (the unit modes), with the workspace's tests, clippy, fmt and the docs check.