DEVLOG | May 2, 2026

Crash impact audio and devlog site

This was a research-and-implementation day: less about ceremony, more about tightening the shape of the thing until it behaved a little more like itself. 17 commits landed or were available locally. There was also a decent amount of local conversation around the work, but the useful part is the trail it leaves: questions asked, decisions narrowed, and a few assumptions made explicit. The center of gravity was issue, bundle, map, terrain.

What moved

research moved through refresh runtime bundle terrain semantics, add generated two-field bundle tooling, add replacement asset handoff contracts, document recent ghidra research passes, merge flight sim revival work, and merge cursor environment setup branch.

implementation moved through add internet launch plan, document launch project workflow, document website style source, draft project automation prompt, increase default map zoom, tighten account safety planning, hide 3d labels with hud toggle, and fix map aircraft heading.

What I learned

The visual effects work keeps coming back to timing and restraint. Smoke reads best when it behaves like consequence: brief enough to belong to the event, persistent enough to tell you what just happened.

Source trail

• Local conversation signal: 67 working sessions.
• research 8baa0d3: refresh runtime bundle terrain semantics
• research 3deffc1: add generated two-field bundle tooling
• research bab3a0b: add replacement asset handoff contracts
• research 98624a0: document recent ghidra research passes
• research f963045: merge flight sim revival work
• research 100eb82: merge cursor environment setup branch
• implementation 1027bb9: add crash impact audio
• implementation f25fe5d: tune client smoke plume
• implementation 33356a0: remove map range labels
• implementation 166422b: add internet launch plan
• implementation d71b354: document launch project workflow
• implementation 2d9b6b6: document website style source
• implementation 9ed9437: draft project automation prompt
• implementation e794189: increase default map zoom
• implementation b017638: tighten account safety planning
• implementation dacb2f2: hide 3d labels with hud toggle
• implementation 3bd1589: fix map aircraft heading

The research lane stays research, and the implementation lane stays implementation. This post is a narrative summary of local work, not a publication of raw originals.