Entry 83

The skills' other effects: skill starts, rings, the shock wave, heals, cures, stat changes and the resistant shield

2026-09-24renderbattletest

Filescrates/piney-effect/src/skillstart.rscrates/piney-effect/src/shockwave.rscrates/piney-effect/src/heal.rscrates/piney-effect/src/ability.rscrates/piney-effect/src/shield.rscrates/piney-effect/src/effect.rscrates/piney-effect/src/element.rscrates/piney-effect/src/spell.rstools/test_effect_skill_rs.pydocs/engine/effects.md

79 ported the attack spells, the hits and the portals, but not what the game shows around every other skill. A second effects agent has added those to piney-effect.

What is ported

• A skill's start.
  • effSkillStart: both forms, 0x001d35f0 by skill id and 0x001d3650 by ccSkillParam.
  • effSkillStartEffect (0x001d39d0).
  • The start's controller, which at count 7 calls the summons circle for a spell or the circle for a physical skill.
  • The exec and force rings (82-84), coloured by element.
  • The circles (85, 86).
• The physical skills' shock wave. effPhysicalSkillHitShockWave (0x001d2790): the element's smoke and debris, the waves 79-81, the camera shake and sound 35.
• Heals and cures.
  • effHeal and effHealSkill;
  • effCure, effSanity and effResurrect, with their generator tables;
  • effOpenBox and effRemoveTrap.
• Stat changes. effAbilityUp and effAbilityDown with checkEffAbilityColor and their seven textures; setConditionEffect uses them.
• The resistant shield. effResistantShield (gcmn 0x00501ab0, 0x00501cb0) and its element on the ported element manager.

The API only grows: new starters, a new element, and two host methods with defaults. effects.md lists which piney-battle outputs call which starter, and when in the frame.

Checked

• Against the game. tools/test_effect_skill_rs.py compares, every frame:

  • each start's result;
  • the slots, elements and draws;
  • the events;
  • both generators' states.

  Each group first sweeps every relevant value once:

  • all 304 skills;
  • every element;
  • heal levels -8 to 16;
  • conditions 0-40;
  • every shield case.

  Then come random cases. The final run covered 36,605 frames with 0 mismatches.

• Mutation check. Eighteen single-constant changes to the port were made deliberately; the harness caught all 18.

• The shield's animations. They were added to the draw harness: 690 animation draws, 0 mismatches.

• Re-run in a clean worktree. All seven effect suites pass, with the workspace's tests, clippy, fmt and the docs check.

• Shots. The rings and circle at Kite's feet, the fire blow's burst, the cure's glow, the blue shield.