Entry 155

A level starts where its start cinematic leaves the player

2026-10-1656mplay

Filescrates/rugrats/src/world/game/mod.rscrates/rugrats/src/levels/grandpas_teeth.rscrates/rugrats/tests/play.rs

The oracle, with each level's start cinematic played (the probe's --ret 0x80074958=0 had skipped them), shows the player afterwards where the cinematic's last frame posed it, not at the loader's place: level 13 (22739, -5365, -5925) heading 711, level 15 (44863, 8587, 12281) 2899, level 18 (2333, 779, -926) 1647 (the port started it on the hub's spot), level 20 (25993, 779, 17711), level 21 (4225, 779, 4176) 734, level 2 out of the playpen. The stream's last frame holds exactly these (Frame::poses by id): its actors are the level's own objects (0x80073c34) and stay where it leaves them.

Game::open_from now plays that out before the level's EpisodeStart: with the start cinematic the app plays (not the hub's, golf's, or level 2's from its checkpoint), the last frame's pose with the player's id moves the player (onto the floor; heading -2 atan2(y, w) of the root key, as the oracle's headings come out), and the poses of characters the loader put in a room move them (level 7's babies, in none, stay out of play). A level's own EpisodeStart still moves the player after (level 3's respawn, level 11's Spike at (25252, 751, 995)). Level 2's hand-placed start is gone for it. the_start_cinematics_leave_the_player_as_the_original holds five of them.

Level 10 now starts with Chuckie outside the playpen, as cine 44 leaves him; the test goes home to the pen's own place. Level 11's bones by walk: up behind the run-up, so the jump needs no turn (92 frames a bone instead of about 150), which keeps the ring inside its 110 s with Tommy where the cine put him.