DEVLOG | May 6, 2026
Bullet impact glyphs and tracers readable near horizon
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. 3 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, bullet, smoke.
What moved
implementation moved through restore stable gun cadence, make tracers readable near horizon, and add bullet impact glyphs.
There is still local uncommitted work in research and implementation, so this day should be read as active state rather than a sealed checkpoint.
What I learned
The combat model is becoming less abstract. Hits need to be legible, not just registered, and the visible feedback has to stay tied to the underlying state instead of becoming decorative noise.
Source trail
- Local conversation signal: 15 working sessions.
- implementation 6c4c71e: restore stable gun cadence
- implementation 864aedf: make tracers readable near horizon
- implementation 232aa24: add bullet impact glyphs
- research has 15 visible working-tree entries locally.
- implementation has 4 visible working-tree entries locally.
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.