Patch Notes Page 90

v0.0.644

Added contextual ambient soundscapes across outdoor and interior play spaces.
Daytime now loops birds-chirping.mp3 outdoors.
Nighttime now loops night-cricket.mp3 outdoors, with sporadic eagle-owl.mp3 calls.
ambient-pub.mp3 now loops while inside the pub interior and stops after leaving.
Added proximity-based campfire ambience from Fire-tagged map tiles.
campfire-burning.mp3 now fades in as the player approaches fire sources and fades out with distance.
Improved runtime ambient audio control stability.
Ambient loops now stop cleanly on run reset, menu transitions, and shutdown.
SFX channel controls now support per-channel looping and volume updates for continuous ambient playback.

Fixed Dragon launch and fly strips freezing on frame 0.
Dragon sprite-state updates no longer overwrite per-state strip segment progress each tick.
Launch one-shot and fly directional loops now advance in sequence for all facing directions.
Stabilized Dragon segmented animation state handling.
Dragon-only animation fields now persist between ticks unless direction/state actually changes.

Fixed Dragon visibility flicker and animation frame popping.
Dragon boss directional sheets now sample as one-row horizontal strips (right/up/left/down frame segments), matching the actual sprite layout.
Launch, walk, melee, hover, fly, and fire-breath animations now stay on valid frame bounds instead of intermittently sampling off-strip frames.
Updated Dragon animation documentation to match shipped sprite assets.
Dragon asset/spec notes now describe horizontal strip layout and left-to-right directional ordering.

Fixed Dragon vertical-strip animation playback.
Added column-major sprite animation rendering so Dragon sheets animate down the strip as authored.
Dragon launch and fly strips now advance in full sequence instead of stalling/static frame sampling.
Tightened Dragon close-range attack gating.
Dragon melee and flame-breath action selection now uses hitbox edge distance (not center distance), preventing far-range attack starts.
Retuned Dragon engagement ranges for closer combat (meleeRange and firebreathRange).

Tightened Dragon melee engagement to close range.
Reduced Dragon melee trigger radius so it only attempts melee when very near the player.
Refined Dragon launch and attack timing for full-sequence playback.
Launch state timer now includes a small playback buffer to better guarantee full directional launch strip completion.
Melee and flame-breath one-shots now include small timer buffers for cleaner full-strip playback at variable frame rates.
Adjusted Dragon melee cadence to feel more natural with animation speed.
Lowered melee cooldown tuning range and enforced a minimum recovery tied to melee animation duration.
Melee attack speed now better matches the visual strike timing instead of feeling abrupt or desynced.

Improved Dragon chase pathing and unstick behavior.
Dragon ground chase now uses nav-grid-aware steering and sidestep fallback when direct pursuit is blocked.
Added local open-cell fallback steering so Dragon can recover from blocked approaches instead of freezing in place.
Added Dragon attack-state deadlock guard.
Dragon melee/launch/fire one-shot exit now also honors state timer expiry as a safety fallback.
Prevents Dragon from remaining stuck in a non-moving action state if animation flags desync.
Preserved attack commitment behavior.
Dragon still stops to execute full melee animation by facing direction, then resumes chase/other behavior.

Fixed Dragon action playback re-entry so attack/launch one-shots replay each use.
Dragon now explicitly resets one-shot animation playback state on melee, flame-breath, and launch entry.
Repeated melee attacks now restart the melee strip each swing instead of reusing a stale finished frame.
Reduced Dragon walk-strip resets while moving.
Dragon look-direction updates are no longer forced every chase/fly tick by AI steering.
Sprite-state directional smoothing now has stable source direction, improving walk animation loop continuity.

Fixed Dragon walk animation playback stability.
Dragon walk direction selection now uses diagonal deadband smoothing to avoid rapid row flips.
Walk strips now loop in-sequence more consistently while Dragon is moving.
Tightened Dragon close-range attack behavior.
Reduced Dragon melee range to require near-contact before melee starts.
Reduced Dragon flame-breath engagement range so breath is used close to the player instead of long range.
Enforced full Dragon one-shot action playback for launch/melee/fire breath.
Dragon launch now waits for one-shot animation completion before transitioning to hover.
Dragon melee and flame-breath states now also wait for one-shot completion before returning to walk/chase.