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Fix sprite facing via UV-mirror; crane wades left-right with long pauses
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
fec2039
Root cause of "fish/birds swim reversed": a THREE.Sprite ignores a negative
scale.x (its shader uses the matrix-axis length), so the scale.x facing flip in
Fish.js and Birds.js never actually mirrored anything — everything always faced
head-right, so anything moving left looked reversed. Verified with a headless
screenshot. Fix: keep scale.x positive and mirror the texture's U coords
(repeat.x=-1, offset.x=1) when travelling left.
Also:
- Crane: stand IN the shallow water (y=-0.12, z=-1.2), walk only left/right
(fixed z, no toward-camera drift), and pause 30-60s hunting before roaming
- Water-bird wake: shorter spawn interval so ripples form a continuous trail
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Crane on the surface + wade onto water; fix reversed fish; subtler bird wake
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
b48241f
- Crane: drop from y=-0.45 (sunk in the ground) to y=-0.05 so its feet sit on
the surface, and extend its roam from the grassy bank out onto the near water
so it wades the shoreline instead of standing only on land
- Fish: facing flip was inverted (swam tail-first); head now leads travel
- Water-bird wake: thinner, smoother, softer ripple that expands less and fades
out — natural instead of the bold wide oval
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cranes: roam the shoreline with a walk cycle, pause and eat only when stopped
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
b5fdc37
- Pull cranes in from x=±16 (off-frame) to roam within x≈±12, visible
- Each crane wanders random shoreline spots (x + slight z land/water),
strides its legs while walking, and lingers 4–11s at each spot
- Head-dip eating + crane call now fire only while stopped, never mid-walk
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add white wake ripples behind swimming water birds
mlmihjaz
e868059
Goats fade/respawn off-screen, not mid-view (exitX 26, short fade)
mlmihjaz
acc4130
Make butterflies much smaller (scale 0.45)
mlmihjaz
4fe7cd7
Add land bees+butterflies over grass flowers; flip bird facing
Uniform pond colour, remove jumping-fish arrows, fish facing, smaller bees, side flowers
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
6861beb
- Water: blue-tint the sand floor, flatten the back wall to a uniform blue
and match the far backdrop, raise surface opacity so the pond reads as
one even colour instead of blue + tan/light-blue two-tone.
- LakeLife: disable idle jumping fish (read as moving arrows); shrink bees
to 0.55; move the flowering colony + bees from the UI-hidden centre to
the left foreground.
- Fish: flip sprite facing so fish swim head-first, not in reverse.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scale lily blooms to their pad size
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
5bce4c6
The bloom was a fixed size on every pad regardless of pad size. Parent
all bloom parts to one group scaled by pad size (avg 0.33 -> ~1x) so the
flower is proportional to its pad.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tuck water-bird eyes into the head
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
3c926ba
Eyes were bulging off the head; reduce the forward/side offset and size
so they sit flush on the head surface.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Give water birds eyes
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
4a6a350
Add white eye + dark pupil on each side of the water-bird head; they
previously had only a beak.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gold buttons matching speaker, professional fish texture
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
86e4b9c
- CSS: ghost buttons (Show answer / Skip / Slow) now use the speaker
button's gold/amber glossy palette instead of cyan.
- Fish: redraw the sprite texture at 2x res with back-to-belly shading,
a scale pattern, body stripes, gradient finned rays, gill arc, pectoral
fin and a glossy eye so fish read as real, not kid-drawn.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Even lake color, remove shark, smaller tree tops, crane dip, grass flowers, slower waves
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
044f11b
- Water: flatten surface gradient so the lake is one even colour (a strong
light->dark gradient made half look lighter); slow the wave motion and
texture scroll.
- Scene3D: disable the shark (kept the class/import).
- Forest: shrink the two upper cone puffs and pull them down so tree tips
are smaller and less tall.
- Crane: deepen the head dip so the beak reaches the water surface.
- Ground: scatter ~280 tiny yellow/red wildflowers through the grass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fix green pond, shrink waves, pin water/land seam
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
ffc6336
Root cause of the green water: the 200x80 grass ground plane sat at
y=-0.01 directly under the water, so the translucent surface showed grass
through it. Moved the ground plane behind the water far edge (z=-2.5) so
only the land behind the water keeps grass; under the water you now see
the sand/blue backdrop instead of green.
Waves: amplitude cut to very small, and faded to zero at the two Z edges
so the shoreline no longer bobs as a moving light/dark line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Water: lower wave amplitude (waves were too big); switch surface to a
professional lake-blue palette and raise opacity to 0.6 so the green
ground no longer bleeds through the transparent surface.
- LakeLife: enlarge and lift the lily bloom (taller petals on a green
calyx) so it sits above the water/wave line and is actually visible.
- Fish: shrink aquarium fish further (~0.18..0.73).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scene polish: lily flowers, bees, water birds, waves, splash, buttons
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
9dbd243
- LakeLife: replace omelet-shaped flower with pointed-petal water lily;
add bees orbiting flowered pads; add black water birds that paddle the
open water and dip to peck; round splash droplets (sprite map) instead
of squares.
- Ground: halve goat vertical bob and leg-swing amplitude.
- Scene3D: Hor+ FOV compensation on resize so the side cranes no longer
drop out of frame on narrow / zoomed-out windows.
- Water: fix waves not rendering — displace the surface along its normal
(local Z) for real vertical ripples instead of sliding verts sideways;
recompute normals; bigger amplitude; more transparent surface; brighter
and more numerous wavelet/glint texture.
- CSS: cold icy glossy 3D style for the ghost buttons.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Make aquarium fish smaller with wider random size spread
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
e213b30
Old size was 0.9-1.6 (narrow, read as uniform). New size uses a power
curve, ~0.35..1.3, biased toward many small fish with occasional larger
ones so the school looks varied rather than same-sized.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fix lily-pad z-fighting and add bottom-centre flowering colony
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
56aa9ab
Pads were all pinned to y=0.01, so overlapping pads in a cluster shared a
plane and z-fought (flicker on the left bank). Each pad now gets a
sub-mm incremental Y step so overlaps stay flush without flickering.
Added a 6-8 pad foreground colony centred at cx=0, cz~9.5 to fill the
empty near-camera centre, with ~half forced to flower via a new
LilyPad({ flower: true }) option.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Slow goat leg animation and make typing input glassier
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
56a3eff
Goat leg swing frequency lowered 6 -> 4 (~33% slower kick) in Ground.js.
#typed background alpha reduced .35 -> .18 (.55 -> .32 on focus) so the
typing field reads as glass like the surrounding card.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fix localStorage auth fallback trapping accounts on one device
mlmihjaz+1: Claude Opus 4.8
24ea5ee
backendReachable() no longer memoizes failures, so a single cold-start
probe miss can't permanently route the session to localStorage. Added a
5s timeout on the probe.
register()/login() refuse the device-local fallback in production
(localFallbackAllowed gates it to localhost / explicit opt-in), throwing
a retry error instead of silently forking an account that breaks login
from any other device.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Inverted-triangle fish tail (point at body, base flared back)
Replaces the previous side-rotated ConeGeometry tail (which read as a
solid wedge with the point at the wrong end) with a 2D ShapeGeometry
triangle: point at (0, 0) attaches to the body, base at x=-0.24 flares
to ±0.14 vertically. DoubleSide material so the tail stays visible
when the fish rotates mid-jump.
Tail anchor pulled to x=-0.06 so the triangle's point overlaps the
body's rear instead of starting at the back edge — reads as an
attached fin, not a detached flag.
Applied to both the resident JumpingFish and the one-shot
CelebrationFish so all 56 jumping fish during a celebration share
the same silhouette.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Trigger
- GameUI: scene3d.celebrate() now fires from the master case, _onLevelUp,
and _onFinish (finish fires three staggered bursts at 0/0.6/1.2 s)
- Scene3D + main.js stub expose celebrate() so the call is safe even when
the 3D scene failed to init
LakeLife.celebrate() — the spectacle
- Spawns 50 one-shot CelebrationFish staggered over 2.5 s; each is a small
Three.js mesh (body + tail + fin), random colour from a 14-shade rainbow
palette, random scale 0.7-1.4×; v_y ≈ 5.5-9.5 m/s so peak heights run
≈ 1.5-4.6 m under G=9.8; auto-disposes (geometry + material) on landing
- Resident fish also launchSoon() with a +2.0-4.0 m/s boost so the
existing pool joins in
- Every frog forceHop()s — each picks its own pad target with a small
random delay so they stagger naturally
- Five CelebrationBursts spread across the 2 s window so the rainbow
particles keep raining the entire time the fish are airborne
JumpingFish.launchSoon(delay, boostVy)
- Sets cooldown to delay and queues …
Per-user backend word sync, sea wavelets, and pond surface life
Persistence
- Store.js: IndexedDB + localStorage mirror + in-memory last-resort fallback;
per-user namespacing keyed by lowercased email; auto-migrate guest progress
on first login (one-shot, flagged in localStorage); idb transaction errors
no longer permanently disable the IDB connection
- Backend sync: new POST/GET /api/me/words on the Node server with a
user_words SQLite table (email, w, status, streak, ok, bad, seen, stars).
Store.js debounces uploads (~1.2 s) and pulls remote-merged-into-local
before loadProgress so the same account picks up on any browser/device
- Vite proxy /api → :7860 so backend sync actually runs in dev mode (was
silently failing same-origin before, which is why incognito never saw
saved progress)
- GameUI: visible bottom-right "Saved" toast on every Store.onSave, top-right
Report Problem button with diagnostic dump + wa.me link, dismissable
"Recently fixed" card under it
Water
- Replace single-axis sin/cos vertex waves with 5-layer multi…
Clear leaderboard: remove fake peer seed, use backend leaderboard API
