We only ever built the inner region-to-region borders, never a wall
at the island's own outer rim (girdle) — nothing stopped the player
walking off into the (collision-less) pavilion below. Added
_build_edge_barrier(): 6 invisible BoxShape3D walls along the girdle
chords.
Also found the actual bug behind "one POI is outside": a facet's true
outer boundary is a straight hexagon chord, not an arc, so its usable
radius varies with angle — girdle_radius only at the two corners,
dropping to girdle_radius*cos(30°) (~87%) at the facet's own bisector.
Ort6 was placed at exactly the bisector angle with radius 44, just
past the true edge (~43.3 there) despite being "inside" the naive
[table_radius, girdle_radius] range. Moved it to angle 38°/radius 36,
comfortable inside the true boundary at that angle.
Verified headless: pushing the player outward with constant velocity
for 3 simulated seconds pins it at radius 42.64 (never crosses the
~43.3 true edge), settled and on_floor=true throughout. Re-verified
the POI/gate group logic still passes after moving Ort6.
poi.tscn now uses the checkerboard debug texture instead of the ruins
sprite, and poi.gd gained a marker_color export (multiplied into the
existing visited/undiscovered dimming) so each POI marker can be
tinted a distinct color. Six instances placed inside region k=0's
wedge (angle ~12-48°, radius ~18-38, clear of the border walls),
tagged with the "region1_pois" group, in red/orange/yellow/green/
blue/purple.
Simplified InteractionManager's "Erkunden" content to a plain
placeholder ("Das wurde besucht.") instead of the old random
animal-track flavor text, and removed the now-dead handle_explore()
submenu it drove. Added InteractionManager.open_message() for POIs
that need an info popup without the explore/rest/close menu.
New poi_gate.gd/.tscn: a portal placed near region k=0's table-edge
border. Checks whether every POI in "region1_pois" has been visited;
if not, shows a "not yet" message, otherwise teleports the player to
target_position (the center) — a one-way shortcut past the border
wall rather than an opening in it, matching the "explore everything,
then unlock the way onward" progression the user described (this
pattern will repeat per outer region later).
Verified headless: all 6 POIs register in the group with correct
names/colors, gate refuses the transition at 0/6 and 5/6 visited and
allows it at 6/6, and the teleport lands the player exactly on
target_position.
Island geometry (table/girdle/crown/pavilion radii, border spacing)
scaled down ~5x. The player capsule, camera distance and mountain/
forest scale factors were already correctly tuned to the small world
scale established elsewhere in main.tscn; the island itself was the
outlier (girdle radius 260 vs. a ~0.5-tall player), making border
props and the player look like specks. Shrinking the island was the
smaller change versus rescaling every already-tuned system.
Player now spawns partway out on one outer facet (region) instead of
on the center table, so a walk toward the middle is an actual journey
around/through the outer regions rather than starting there.
Verified headless with a physics simulation on the new sloped spawn
point: player settles and stays on_floor=true, no fall-through.
Player gets its own CapsuleShape3D (was a small CylinderShape3D, never
actually shared with anything — the shared oversized capsule flagged
earlier only affects the 4 mountain props, unrelated to the player).
Real cause of the fall-through: the crown collision is a zero-thickness
trimesh and the player spawned with exactly zero clearance sitting
right on the surface, a classic tunneling setup. Fixed by giving the
trimesh backface_collision (collide from both sides) and spawning the
player with a bit of headroom so it settles onto the floor instead of
starting embedded in it. Verified headless: player now falls from
spawn height to rest exactly on the surface and stays on_floor=true
over a 3s simulated run.
Promote debug/HexDiamondIsland.gd to terrain.gd at project root now
that main.tscn depends on it, and swap it in for the old flat
checkerboard Ground (Player/Camera/POI untouched, table sits at the
same y=0 the old ground surface used).
Add _build_region_borders(): places mountain.glb/mountain2v5.glb/
forest.glb (same models, scale factors and hitbox sizes already used
elsewhere in main.tscn) continuously along the 6 ridges between table
corners and girdle corners, i.e. the shared edges between adjacent
outer regions.
Godot 4.6 exploration game with player movement, step-rotation camera
rig, and POI interaction system (explore/rest/close menu). main.tscn
is a test scene with placeholder props; debug/ holds unwired terrain
prototypes (voxel river, procedural island mesh, cross-shaped hub
