Entry 151

The tests turn the player with the stick

2026-10-168mplay

Filescrates/rugrats/src/actors/player.rscrates/rugrats/src/levels/golf.rscrates/rugrats/tests/play.rs

face set the heading. It now turns with the stick as a player does, and three kinds of aiming each use their own input:

• Standing, free (turn_to): a way's heading is the camera's turned by a multiple of 512, and a turn over SNAP_TURN (1024) goes round in place to it while a smaller one snaps (0x8005be24). A tap of Down turns the body round in place; the follow camera swings after it about 12 a frame (levels 3, 6, 11), so its heading passes every value mod 512, and the way within 8 of the wanted heading is pressed then. Where the camera does not swing (a fixed camera, or the hub standing), the nearest way: up to 256 off, as a pad player gets there.
• Frozen (steer, the pie toss and level 2's throws): the stick only turns the body, 160 a frame, and letting go stops it; the way on past the wanted heading is held while more than 80 off. The pie toss and the goose loop now aim this way frame by frame, with Triangle on top.
• Golf (golf_aim): Left and Right step the aim 25 a frame, 8 with Square; with no common factor the presses reach the solver's heading exactly. The course still plays at par.

Port fix found by it: in golf's aim (state 14) Left took 185 a frame, the frozen player's stick turn (160) on top of golf's 25. The original's 0x8005be24 has its own case for state 14 that only steps the target by 25 or 8 (docs/levels/golf.md, Aiming; seen 25 a frame). Player::script_aims, set by golf while walking in and aiming, keeps the stick off the target.