characters/dance_modifier.gd

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+extends SkeletonModifier3D
+class_name DanceModifier
+
+## Drives a dance routine onto the skeleton, over whatever clip is playing.
+##
+## Runs AFTER the shooter pose layer and blends over it, so starting a dance
+## takes the arms off the weapon smoothly rather than cutting, and stopping one
+## hands them back the same way. The spring solver runs after both, so hair and
+## cloth follow the dance without anything being asked to make that happen.
+##
+## The routine data — and the reasoning behind why the motion is built the way it
+## is — lives in characters/dance_routines.gd. This is the machine that plays it.
+
+## The routine to play. See DanceRoutines.ROUTINES.
+var routine: Dictionary = {}
+## 0..1. Eased by the owner, so a dance fades in and out rather than snapping.
+var weight: float = 0.0
+## `<model>.rig.json` roles, for bone resolution. See RigRoles.
+var roles: Dictionary = {}
+
+var _idx: Dictionary = {}
+var _resolved := false
+var _t: float = 0.0
+
+## Per-link overlap, in seconds, from the hips outward. Index 0 is the hips.
+const CHAIN := ["DEF-hips", "DEF-spine.001", "DEF-spine.002", "DEF-spine.003"]
+
+
+func _process_modification() -> void:
+	var skel := get_skeleton()
+	if skel == null or weight <= 0.001 or routine.is_empty():
+		return
+	if not _resolved:
+		_idx = RigRoles.resolve(skel, roles)
+		_resolved = true
+
+	var delta := get_physics_process_delta_time() if Engine.is_in_physics_frame() \
+		else get_process_delta_time()
+	_t += delta
+
+	var bpm: float = float(routine.get("bpm", 100.0))
+	var beat := _t * bpm / 60.0
+	var lag: float = float(routine.get("lag", 0.05)) * bpm / 60.0
+	var w := weight
+
+	# ── Hips: the driver ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+	#
+	# Translated, not just rotated. A body that never leaves its own axis reads
+	# as a puppet on a stick; moving the hips is what makes the legs look like
+	# they are carrying someone, and every other channel below is a reaction to
+	# this one.
+	var swing := _wave(beat, 2.0, 0.0)
+	var bob := _wave(beat, float(routine.get("hip_bob_beats", 1.0)), 0.25)
+	var hips: int = _idx.get("DEF-hips", -1)
+	if hips >= 0:
+		# Character-right is -X in skeleton space, up is +Y.
+		var offset := Vector3(-swing * float(routine.get("hip_swing", 0.0)),
+			bob * float(routine.get("hip_bob", 0.0)), 0.0) * w
+		_offset_bone(skel, hips, offset)
+		_add_space(skel, hips,
+			Quaternion(Vector3(0, 0, 1), swing * float(routine.get("hip_roll", 0.0)) * w)
+			* Quaternion(Vector3(0, 1, 0), swing * float(routine.get("hip_yaw", 0.0)) * w)
+			* Quaternion(Vector3(1, 0, 0), bob * float(routine.get("hip_pitch", 0.0)) * w))
+
+	# ── Spine: the same motion, later ───────────────────────────────────────
+	#
+	# Each link reads the wave at `beat - lag * i`, which is the whole of
+	# overlapping action. It is one subtraction and it is the difference between
+	# a rig oscillating and a person moving.
+	var counter: float = float(routine.get("spine_counter", 0.0))
+	var links := CHAIN.slice(1)
+	var n := maxf(links.size(), 1)
+	for i in links.size():
+		var b: int = _idx.get(links[i], -1)
+		if b < 0:
+			continue
+		var at := beat - lag * float(i + 1)
+		var s := _wave(at, 2.0, 0.0)
+		var v := _wave(at, float(routine.get("hip_bob_beats", 1.0)), 0.25)
+		var q := Quaternion(Vector3(0, 0, 1),
+				s * float(routine.get("spine_roll", 0.0)) * w / n) \
+			* Quaternion(Vector3(0, 1, 0),
+				(s * float(routine.get("spine_yaw", 0.0))
+					- s * float(routine.get("hip_yaw", 0.0)) * counter) * w / n) \
+			* Quaternion(Vector3(1, 0, 0),
+				v * float(routine.get("spine_pitch", 0.0)) * w / n)
+		_add_space(skel, b, q)
+
+	_head(skel, beat, lag, w)
+	_arms(skel, beat, lag, w)
+	_legs(skel, beat, w)
+
+
+## Head and neck: the last link in the chain, and the one carrying the spot.
+func _head(skel: Skeleton3D, beat: float, lag: float, w: float) -> void:
+	var at := beat - lag * float(CHAIN.size())
+	var s := _wave(at, 2.0, 0.0)
+	var v := _wave(at, float(routine.get("hip_bob_beats", 1.0)), 0.25)
+
+	var yaw: float = s * float(routine.get("head_yaw", 0.0))
+
+	# SPOTTING. A dancer turning keeps their head pointed at one place for as
+	# long as they can, then whips it round to catch up. It is what stops them
+	# getting dizzy, and it is the single most recognisable thing about a turn —
+	# a head that simply rotates with the shoulders reads as a mannequin on a
+	# turntable.
+	#
+	# So this is not a wave. The head COUNTERS the body's yaw exactly while the
+	# hold lasts, then releases over a short window and lets the neck catch up.
+	var spot: float = float(routine.get("spot", 0.0))
+	if spot > 0.001:
+		var body_yaw: float = s * float(routine.get("hip_yaw", 0.0)) \
+			+ s * float(routine.get("spine_yaw", 0.0))
+		# Where in the two-beat turn we are, 0..1.
+		var u := fposmod(at / 2.0, 1.0)
+		# Hold for the first 70%, then whip round over the next 20%, then arrive.
+		var hold := 1.0 - smoothstep(0.70, 0.90, u)
+		yaw -= body_yaw * spot * hold
+
+	var q := Quaternion(Vector3(0, 1, 0), yaw * w) \
+		* Quaternion(Vector3(0, 0, 1), s * float(routine.get("head_roll", 0.0)) * w) \
+		* Quaternion(Vector3(1, 0, 0),
+			(v * float(routine.get("head_bob", 0.0))
+				+ v * float(routine.get("head_pitch", 0.0))) * w)
+	# Split, so the whole column leans rather than the skull hinging off a rigid
+	# neck.
+	_add_space(skel, _idx.get("DEF-neck", -1), Quaternion.IDENTITY.slerp(q, 0.4))
+	_add_space(skel, _idx.get("DEF-head", -1), Quaternion.IDENTITY.slerp(q, 0.6))
+
+
+## Arms: out from the body, swinging in opposition, elbows folding on the beat.
+##
+## The two arms are half a cycle apart, which is what opposition is. Both read
+## the wave later than the spine did, so the hands are the last thing to arrive —
+## the end of the chain, where overlap is most visible.
+func _arms(skel: Skeleton3D, beat: float, lag: float, w: float) -> void:
+	var at := beat - lag * float(CHAIN.size() + 1)
+	var beats: float = float(routine.get("arm_beats", 2.0))
+	var out: float = float(routine.get("arm_out", 0.0))
+	var swing: float = float(routine.get("arm_swing", 0.0))
+	var elbow: float = float(routine.get("elbow", 0.0))
+
+	for sign_i in 2:
+		var right := sign_i == 0
+		var side := 1.0 if right else -1.0
+		var s := _wave(at + (0.0 if right else beats * 0.5), beats, 0.0)
+		var ua: int = _idx.get("DEF-upper_arm." + ("R" if right else "L"), -1)
+		var fa: int = _idx.get("DEF-forearm." + ("R" if right else "L"), -1)
+		if ua >= 0:
+			# Character-right is -X, so a positive Z rotation lifts the LEFT arm
+			# and drops the right — hence the side flip. `out` is a static lift
+			# that the swing then rides on top of, which is what stops the arms
+			# from passing through the body at the bottom of the stroke.
+			_add_space(skel, ua,
+				Quaternion(Vector3(0, 0, 1), -side * (out + s * 0.35 * swing) * w)
+				* Quaternion(Vector3(1, 0, 0), s * swing * w))
+		if fa >= 0:
+			# The elbow only ever folds, never hyperextends: a signed wave here
+			# bends the forearm backwards through the joint on half of every
+			# cycle, which is the most obvious possible tell.
+			var fold := (0.5 + 0.5 * s) * elbow
+			_add_space(skel, fa, Quaternion(Vector3(1, 0, 0), fold * w))
+
+
+## Legs: knees absorbing the bob, out of phase with each other so the weight
+## visibly transfers from one to the other.
+func _legs(skel: Skeleton3D, beat: float, w: float) -> void:
+	var knee: float = float(routine.get("knee", 0.0))
+	if knee <= 0.001:
+		return
+	var beats: float = float(routine.get("hip_bob_beats", 1.0))
+	for sign_i in 2:
+		var right := sign_i == 0
+		var s := _wave(beat + (0.0 if right else beats * 0.5), beats, 0.25)
+		var thigh: int = _idx.get("DEF-thigh." + ("R" if right else "L"), -1)
+		var shin: int = _idx.get("DEF-shin." + ("R" if right else "L"), -1)
+		var bend := (0.5 + 0.5 * s) * knee
+		# Thigh forward and shin back by twice as much, so the foot stays roughly
+		# under the hip instead of the whole leg swinging out in front.
+		_add_space(skel, thigh, Quaternion(Vector3(1, 0, 0), -bend * 0.5 * w))
+		_add_space(skel, shin, Quaternion(Vector3(1, 0, 0), bend * w))
+
+
+# ── The wave ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+## One channel's value at `beat`, in -1..1.
+##
+## `shape` bends a sine so it HANGS at the extremes and SNAPS between them, which
+## is what an animator's key-and-breakdown pass produces and what a raw sine
+## cannot. At shape 1 this is exactly `sin`; above it the curve gets punchier
+## while staying continuous and staying in -1..1, so no amount of shaping can
+## make a channel overshoot its authored amplitude.
+##
+## `steps` quantises the result instead, for the robot — the one routine whose
+## whole point is that it does NOT move like the others.
+func _wave(beat: float, beats: float, phase: float) -> float:
+	if beats <= 0.001:
+		return 0.0
+	var u := beat / beats + phase
+	var steps: int = int(routine.get("steps", 0))
+	if steps > 0:
+		# Hold a value for a whole step, then jump. Rounded rather than floored
+		# so the extremes are actually reached — a floor never returns +1.
+		return sin(TAU * (round(u * float(steps)) / float(steps)))
+	var s := sin(TAU * u)
+	var shape: float = float(routine.get("shape", 1.0))
+	if is_equal_approx(shape, 1.0):
+		return s
+	return signf(s) * pow(absf(s), 1.0 / shape)
+
+
+# ── Bone plumbing ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+## Move a bone by an offset expressed in SKELETON space.
+##
+## A bone's pose position is in its PARENT's space, so the offset has to be
+## rotated out of skeleton space by the parent's rest basis first. Skipping that
+## sends the hips sideways in whatever direction the rig happens to have called
+## "x", which differs per character.
+func _offset_bone(skel: Skeleton3D, idx: int, offset: Vector3) -> void:
+	if idx < 0 or offset == Vector3.ZERO:
+		return
+	var parent := skel.get_bone_parent(idx)
+	var local := offset
+	if parent >= 0:
+		local = skel.get_bone_global_rest(parent).basis.inverse() * offset
+	skel.set_bone_pose_position(idx, skel.get_bone_rest(idx).origin + local)
+
+
+## Compose a skeleton-space rotation onto a bone's animated local pose. Same
+## contract as ShooterPoseModifier._add_space.
+func _add_space(skel: Skeleton3D, idx: int, q_space: Quaternion) -> void:
+	if idx < 0:
+		return
+	var b := skel.get_bone_global_rest(idx).basis.get_rotation_quaternion()
+	var local := b.inverse() * q_space * b
+	skel.set_bone_pose_rotation(idx, skel.get_bone_pose_rotation(idx) * local)

characters/dance_modifier.gd.uid

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+uid://bab4y7ba0yl87

characters/dance_routines.gd

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+extends Object
+class_name DanceRoutines
+
+## The five emotes, as data.
+##
+## They are procedural rather than authored clips because the shared animation
+## library ships exactly one `Dance_Loop`, and five copies of one clip is not
+## five dances. What the runtime DOES have is a working procedural pose layer
+## over a real skeleton with spring-driven hair and cloth, which is enough to
+## build a dance out of if the motion is constructed the way an animator would
+## construct it rather than the way a programmer reaches for first.
+##
+## ── Why not just wire sine waves to the bones ───────────────────────────────
+##
+## Because that is what "programmer animation" looks like, and everyone can tell.
+## A raw sine moves fastest through the middle and slowest at the ends by exactly
+## the same amount on every channel, all in phase, forever. The result floats. It
+## has no weight, no accent, and no sense that one part of the body is driving and
+## the rest is following.
+##
+## Four principles fix that, and all four are cheap:
+##
+##   OVERLAP        the body is a chain, and a chain does not move as one piece.
+##                  Hips lead, spine follows a beat later, chest later still,
+##                  head last. `lag` below is that, in seconds per link. It is
+##                  the single largest difference between "a rig oscillating"
+##                  and "a person moving", and the spring bones then carry it
+##                  out through the hair and the skirt for free.
+##   ACCENT         a dance HITS poses. `shape` bends the wave so it hangs at
+##                  the extremes and snaps between them — the same asymmetry a
+##                  key-and-breakdown pass produces by hand. `sin` is shape 1.0;
+##                  above that it gets punchier.
+##   WEIGHT         a body that never leaves its own axis reads as a puppet. Real
+##                  dances move the HIPS — side to side, up and down — and the
+##                  rest of the body reacts. `hip_swing` and `hip_bob` are
+##                  translations, not rotations, and they are what make the legs
+##                  look like they are carrying someone.
+##   ANTICIPATION   the counter-move before the move. Handled per routine by
+##                  running a channel at a fraction of a beat AHEAD of the one it
+##                  precedes, rather than by a separate mechanism.
+##
+## ── The shape of a routine ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+##
+## Everything is derived from one `bpm`, so no two channels can drift apart no
+## matter how long the emote runs — which is the other thing that goes wrong when
+## channels are given independent frequencies that are not exact ratios.
+##
+## Channel amounts are radians (rotations) or metres (the two hip translations).
+## `beats` is how many beats that channel takes for one full cycle, so 2 is a
+## side-to-side that takes two beats to return, 1 is once per beat, and 0.5 is
+## twice per beat. Fractions of a beat are how a routine gets a cross-rhythm
+## without leaving the grid.
+
+## `id` is what gets networked, so these strings must stay stable.
+const ROUTINES := [
+	{
+		"id": "two_step",
+		"name": "Two-Step",
+		"icon": "♪",
+		"bpm": 104.0,
+		"lag": 0.055,
+		"shape": 1.35,
+		# The foundation step: weight rocks side to side, the shoulders counter
+		# the hips, the arms hang and swing off the shoulders a beat behind.
+		"hip_swing": 0.075,
+		"hip_bob": 0.022,
+		"hip_bob_beats": 1.0,
+		"hip_roll": 0.16,
+		"hip_yaw": 0.20,
+		"spine_roll": 0.13,
+		"spine_counter": 0.55,
+		"head_roll": 0.22,
+		"head_bob": 0.10,
+		"arm_swing": 0.55,
+		"arm_out": 0.42,
+		"arm_beats": 2.0,
+		"elbow": 0.75,
+		"knee": 0.30,
+	},
+	{
+		"id": "body_wave",
+		"name": "Body Wave",
+		"icon": "〜",
+		"bpm": 88.0,
+		# The whole point of this one is the lag: a wave travelling up the spine
+		# IS overlap, made visible. At 0.13 s per link the crest takes most of a
+		# beat to get from the hips to the head.
+		"lag": 0.13,
+		"shape": 1.15,
+		"hip_swing": 0.03,
+		"hip_bob": 0.045,
+		"hip_bob_beats": 2.0,
+		"hip_pitch": 0.26,
+		"spine_pitch": 0.30,
+		"spine_counter": 0.0,
+		"head_pitch": 0.22,
+		"head_roll": 0.06,
+		"arm_out": 0.85,
+		"arm_swing": 0.20,
+		"arm_beats": 4.0,
+		"elbow": 0.55,
+		"knee": 0.18,
+	},
+	{
+		"id": "robot",
+		"name": "Robot",
+		"icon": "▣",
+		"bpm": 112.0,
+		# No lag, and the motion is QUANTISED — see `steps`. Both are deliberate
+		# violations of everything above, and they work for exactly that reason:
+		# the robot reads as mechanical because the viewer has been shown four
+		# other routines that do not.
+		"lag": 0.0,
+		"shape": 1.0,
+		"steps": 4,
+		"hip_swing": 0.04,
+		"hip_bob": 0.012,
+		"hip_bob_beats": 1.0,
+		"hip_yaw": 0.30,
+		"spine_yaw": 0.34,
+		"spine_counter": 0.0,
+		"head_yaw": 0.42,
+		"arm_out": 1.05,
+		"arm_swing": 0.85,
+		"arm_beats": 2.0,
+		"elbow": 1.35,
+		"knee": 0.10,
+	},
+	{
+		"id": "bounce",
+		"name": "Bounce",
+		"icon": "▲",
+		"bpm": 128.0,
+		"lag": 0.035,
+		# The punchiest shape in the set. A bounce lives entirely in the accent:
+		# the body hangs at the top and slams through the bottom, which is a
+		# gravity read, and a plain sine cannot express it.
+		"shape": 2.2,
+		"hip_swing": 0.03,
+		"hip_bob": 0.070,
+		"hip_bob_beats": 1.0,
+		"hip_roll": 0.08,
+		"spine_pitch": 0.14,
+		"spine_counter": 0.30,
+		"head_bob": 0.16,
+		"head_roll": 0.10,
+		"arm_swing": 0.95,
+		"arm_out": 0.30,
+		"arm_beats": 1.0,
+		"elbow": 1.05,
+		# Deep knees. This is the routine where the legs do the work, and a bounce
+		# with straight legs looks like a character being shaken.
+		"knee": 0.85,
+	},
+	{
+		"id": "spin",
+		"name": "Spin",
+		"icon": "↻",
+		"bpm": 96.0,
+		"lag": 0.07,
+		"shape": 1.5,
+		"hip_swing": 0.05,
+		"hip_bob": 0.030,
+		"hip_bob_beats": 2.0,
+		"hip_yaw": 0.85,
+		"spine_yaw": 0.30,
+		"spine_counter": 0.0,
+		"spine_roll": 0.14,
+		# SPOTTING: the head holds its heading while the body turns under it, then
+		# whips round to catch up. It is what a real dancer does to keep from
+		# getting dizzy, and it is the most recognisable thing about a turn. See
+		# `spot` in DanceModifier — this is not a wave, it is a hold and a snap.
+		"spot": 1.0,
+		"head_yaw": 0.0,
+		"arm_out": 1.15,
+		"arm_swing": 0.25,
+		"arm_beats": 4.0,
+		"elbow": 0.35,
+		"knee": 0.22,
+	},
+]
+
+
+static func count() -> int:
+	return ROUTINES.size()
+
+
+## A routine by index, wrapped so an out-of-range network value cannot crash a
+## remote peer's model.
+static func get_routine(index: int) -> Dictionary:
+	if ROUTINES.is_empty():
+		return {}
+	return ROUTINES[posmod(index, ROUTINES.size())]
+
+
+static func name_of(index: int) -> String:
+	return String(get_routine(index).get("name", ""))
+
+
+static func index_of(id: String) -> int:
+	for i in ROUTINES.size():
+		if ROUTINES[i]["id"] == id:
+			return i
+	return 0

characters/dance_routines.gd.uid

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+uid://8p4yow40ni8p

characters/rig_roles.gd

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+extends Object
+class_name RigRoles
+
+## Canonical bone names -> this rig's actual bone indices.
+##
+## Pulled out of `ShooterPoseModifier._resolve` so the dance layer can use the
+## same resolution instead of carrying a second copy of it. Two copies is how a
+## rig ends up animating correctly under one modifier and not the other.
+##
+## Non-negotiable: never look a bone up by name. `tools/rig_map.py` resolves
+## every rig to ROLES and writes them to the `<model>.rig.json` sidecar, and this
+## reads that. The name fallback below exists only for a model with no sidecar,
+## and it must never be the first thing tried — four characters could not hold a
+## gun because of exactly one hardcoded spelling.
+
+## The library skeleton's spine, hips first. A rig that kept its own names maps
+## onto this through the sidecar's `spine` chain.
+const SPINE := ["DEF-hips", "DEF-spine.001", "DEF-spine.002", "DEF-spine.003"]
+
+## Everything either pose layer asks for.
+const CANONICAL := SPINE + ["DEF-neck", "DEF-head",
+	"DEF-upper_arm.R", "DEF-forearm.R", "DEF-hand.R",
+	"DEF-upper_arm.L", "DEF-forearm.L", "DEF-hand.L",
+	"DEF-thigh.R", "DEF-shin.R", "DEF-thigh.L", "DEF-shin.L"]
+
+
+## Resolve `names` against a skeleton, given the sidecar's role table.
+##
+## The spine needs its own handling because a rig that kept its own skeleton
+## names things differently AND has a different number of spine bones — Taila's
+## hips are `DEF-spine` and her head is `DEF-spine.006`, and she has no bone with
+## "neck" in its name at all. Unresolved, every lean and aim pitch silently did
+## nothing.
+static func resolve(skel: Skeleton3D, roles: Dictionary,
+		names: Array = CANONICAL) -> Dictionary:
+	var alias := {}
+	if not roles.is_empty():
+		var neck: String = roles.get("neck", "")
+		var head: String = roles.get("head", "")
+		var torso: Array = []
+		for n in roles.get("spine", []):
+			if n != neck and n != head:
+				torso.append(n)
+		for i in mini(torso.size(), SPINE.size() - 1):
+			alias[SPINE[i + 1]] = torso[i]
+
+	var idx := {}
+	for n in names:
+		# Canonical names are the role keys with the DEF- prefix, so the limbs,
+		# hips, neck and head all map straight through.
+		var actual: String = alias.get(n, roles.get(String(n).trim_prefix("DEF-"), n))
+		var b := skel.find_bone(actual)
+		if b < 0:
+			b = skel.find_bone(String(n))
+		idx[n] = b
+	return idx

characters/rig_roles.gd.uid

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+uid://coh341vhya5x5

characters/skinned_player_model.gd

@@ -96,7 +96,12 @@ var _rig_info: Dictionary = {}
 ## the same sidecar; drives the per-class cel look and answers `surfaces_of()`.
 var _surfaces: SkinSurfaces = null
 var _spring_mod: SpringBones
+## The emote layer, between the shooter pose and the cloth springs.
+var _dance_mod: DanceModifier
 var is_holding_weapon: bool = false
+## Which hold archetype the equipped weapon uses — see WeaponHoldProfiles. Read
+## by `_process` (a blade releases the off arm) and by the checks.
+var hold_style: String = WeaponHoldProfiles.RIFLE
 ## Which skin this is, so per-character hold tuning can be looked up. Set by
 ## whoever spawns the model; falls back to the GLB's basename.
 var skin_id: String = ""
@@ -239,8 +244,17 @@ func load_model(path: String) -> void:
 		_pose_mod.fingers = _rig_info.get("fingers", {})
 		_pose_mod.name = "ShooterPose"
 		skeleton.add_child(_pose_mod)
+		# Dance AFTER the shooter pose, so an emote blends over the weapon hold
+		# instead of fighting it — the arms come off the gun as the dance weight
+		# rises and are handed back the same way.
+		_dance_mod = DanceModifier.new()
+		_dance_mod.name = "Dance"
+		_dance_mod.roles = _rig_info.get("roles", {})
+		skeleton.add_child(_dance_mod)
 		# Cloth and hair last, so the springs react to the FINAL body pose —
-		# animation plus the shooter lean/slide layer.
+		# animation plus the shooter lean/slide layer, plus any dance. Hair and
+		# a skirt following a dance is entirely this ordering; nothing else is
+		# needed to make it happen.
 		if not _rig_info.is_empty():
 			_spring_mod = SpringBones.new()
 			_spring_mod.name = "SpringBones"
@@ -550,6 +564,14 @@ func _set_shadow_mode_recursive(node: Node, mode: int) -> void:
 var _prev_state: String = ""
 var _oneshot_lock: float = 0.0  # seconds left where a one-shot owns playback
 var _dancing: bool = false
+## Which of DanceRoutines.ROUTINES is playing, and the eased 0..1 blend of the
+## dance layer over everything below it.
+var _dance_index: int = 0
+var _cur_dance: float = 0.0
+## How fast a dance takes the body and gives it back. Slower than the pose
+## layer's other blends on purpose: an emote starting is not a reaction, and
+## snapping into one looks like a bug rather than like a decision.
+const DANCE_SMOOTH := 5.0
 
 
 ## Play a one-shot clip over locomotion for `lock_time` seconds.
@@ -574,8 +596,16 @@ func play_oneshot(canonical: String, lock_time: float = 0.35) -> void:
 
 ## Emote toggle (Dance). Shown while grounded and near-idle; any real
 ## movement breaks it (the controller clears the flag too).
-func set_dancing(on: bool) -> void:
+##
+## `which` selects one of the five routines in DanceRoutines. The base clip stays
+## the library's single `Dance_Loop` underneath — the routine is layered over it
+## by DanceModifier, which is what makes five distinct emotes out of one clip.
+func set_dancing(on: bool, which: int = -1) -> void:
 	_dancing = on
+	if which >= 0:
+		_dance_index = which
+	if _dance_mod:
+		_dance_mod.routine = DanceRoutines.get_routine(_dance_index)
 
 
 ## Play a named gameplay action (reload / throw / shoot) as a one-shot.
@@ -731,6 +761,12 @@ func _process(delta: float) -> void:
 	_cur_slide = lerpf(_cur_slide, slide_target, t)
 	var wall_target := _target_wall if _pose_mod.state == "wall_run" else 0.0
 	_cur_wall = lerpf(_cur_wall, wall_target, lean_t)
+	# The dance blend. Eased both ways, so an emote arrives and leaves rather
+	# than cutting — and so the arms come off the weapon smoothly.
+	if _dance_mod:
+		_cur_dance = lerpf(_cur_dance, 1.0 if _dancing else 0.0,
+			1.0 - exp(-DANCE_SMOOTH * delta))
+		_dance_mod.weight = _cur_dance
 	_update_travel(delta, drive)
 	_pose_mod.strafe = _cur_strafe
 	_pose_mod.fwd = _cur_fwd
@@ -782,7 +818,12 @@ func _process(delta: float) -> void:
 	var hold_l := 0.0
 	if is_holding_weapon and not clip_owns_arms:
 		hold_r = 1.0
-		hold_l = 1.0
+		# A one-handed weapon RELEASES the off arm back to the animation, so it
+		# swings with the run cycle instead of gripping a handguard that is not
+		# there. That released arm is most of what makes a knife read as a knife
+		# from across a map.
+		hold_l = 0.0 if _pose_mod.support_mode == WeaponHoldProfiles.SUPPORT_FREE \
+			else 1.0
 		match st:
 			"slide":
 				hold_l = 0.0      # trailing arm braces the ground
@@ -1018,12 +1059,27 @@ func set_weapon(script_path: String) -> void:
 	is_holding_weapon = script_path != ""
 	if script_path == "" or not skeleton:
 		return
-	# Per-character, per-weapon hold overrides, if any have been tuned. Empty is
-	# the normal case and means "use what the code derives".
+	# How this KIND of weapon is held, then the per-character tuning on top.
+	#
+	# The profile is a defaults layer: it answers "what sort of thing is this"
+	# for a weapon nobody has tuned, and every knob an artist saved in the rig lab
+	# still wins, because the JSON is merged over it with overwrite. Aria's
+	# hand-tuned AK-47 hold is byte-for-byte what it was.
 	var sid := skin_id if skin_id != "" else model_path.get_file().get_basename()
+	var weapon_id := script_path.get_file().get_basename()
 	if hold_tune.is_empty():
-		hold_tune = WeaponHoldTuning.resolve(WeaponHoldTuning.load_all(), sid,
-			script_path.get_file().get_basename())
+		hold_tune = WeaponHoldProfiles.knobs_for(weapon_id)
+		hold_tune.merge(WeaponHoldTuning.resolve(WeaponHoldTuning.load_all(),
+			sid, weapon_id), true)
+	if _pose_mod:
+		# Structural, not tunable — see WeaponHoldProfiles. These decide where the
+		# off hand goes and how it is turned there, and whether the head comes
+		# down to the stock, which no slider on the rifle solve could express.
+		var style := WeaponHoldProfiles.style_for(weapon_id)
+		_pose_mod.support_mode = WeaponHoldProfiles.support_for(weapon_id)
+		_pose_mod.cheek = WeaponHoldProfiles.cheek_for(weapon_id)
+		_pose_mod.full_fist = style == WeaponHoldProfiles.BLADE
+	hold_style = WeaponHoldProfiles.style_for(weapon_id)
 	# Anchors are per character, not per weapon — where a grip sits in a palm is
 	# a fact about the hand — so unlike hold_tune they are not re-read per gun
 	# unless the lab has pushed a live set in.
@@ -1297,6 +1353,16 @@ class ShooterPoseModifier extends SkeletonModifier3D:
 	var gun_stock: float = 0.20
 	# 0..1 through a reload — drives the support hand to the mag well and back.
 	var reload_phase: float = 0.0
+	# What KIND of weapon is being held. See WeaponHoldProfiles: these three are
+	# the differences a slider cannot express, and they are what make a launcher
+	# read as a launcher rather than as a very large rifle.
+	var support_mode: String = WeaponHoldProfiles.SUPPORT_BARREL
+	## How far the head comes down and across to the stock, 0..1. Negative leans
+	## it away, which is what a tube over the shoulder needs.
+	var cheek: float = 0.0
+	## Whether the trigger finger closes with the rest. True for a blade, which
+	## has nothing to keep a finger straight along.
+	var full_fist: bool = false
 	# [child_bone, helper_bone] pairs; see SkinJointHelper.
 	var joint_helpers: Array = []
 
@@ -1319,7 +1385,9 @@ class ShooterPoseModifier extends SkeletonModifier3D:
 	const WALL_ARM_OUT := 0.9    # inner arm reaches out to touch the wall
 	const HOLD_SMOOTH := 8.0     # how fast the hold takes/releases the arms
 
-	const SPINE := ["DEF-hips", "DEF-spine.001", "DEF-spine.002", "DEF-spine.003"]
+	## The library skeleton's spine, hips first. Shared with the dance layer via
+	## RigRoles, which also owns the mapping onto a rig that kept its own names.
+	const SPINE := RigRoles.SPINE
 
 	var _idx: Dictionary = {}
 	var _resolved := false
@@ -1395,33 +1463,13 @@ class ShooterPoseModifier extends SkeletonModifier3D:
 
 	func _resolve() -> void:
 		var skel := get_skeleton()
-		var names := SPINE + ["DEF-neck", "DEF-head",
-			"DEF-upper_arm.R", "DEF-forearm.R", "DEF-hand.R",
-			"DEF-upper_arm.L", "DEF-forearm.L", "DEF-hand.L",
-			"DEF-thigh.R", "DEF-shin.R", "DEF-thigh.L", "DEF-shin.L"]
-		# The names above are the LIBRARY skeleton's. A model that kept its own
-		# rig names things differently and three of them simply do not exist on
-		# it — Taila's hips are DEF-spine, her head is DEF-spine.006, and she has
-		# no bone with "neck" in its name at all. Unresolved, every lean, aim
-		# pitch and slide head-lift below silently did nothing.
-		var alias := {}
-		if not roles.is_empty():
-			var neck: String = roles.get("neck", "")
-			var head: String = roles.get("head", "")
-			var torso: Array = []
-			for n in roles.get("spine", []):
-				if n != neck and n != head:
-					torso.append(n)
-			for i in mini(torso.size(), SPINE.size() - 1):
-				alias[SPINE[i + 1]] = torso[i]
-		for n in names:
-			# Canonical names are the role keys with the DEF- prefix, so the
-			# limbs, hips, neck and head all map straight through.
-			var actual: String = alias.get(n, roles.get(n.trim_prefix("DEF-"), n))
-			var b := skel.find_bone(actual)
-			if b < 0:
-				b = skel.find_bone(n)
-			_idx[n] = b
+		# The canonical names are the LIBRARY skeleton's, and a model that kept
+		# its own rig names things differently — Taila's hips are DEF-spine, her
+		# head is DEF-spine.006, and she has no bone with "neck" in its name at
+		# all. Unresolved, every lean, aim pitch and slide head-lift below
+		# silently did nothing. RigRoles maps them through the sidecar; the dance
+		# layer uses the same call rather than a second copy of it.
+		_idx = RigRoles.resolve(skel, roles)
 		_resolve_hands(skel)
 		_resolved = true
 
@@ -1514,6 +1562,8 @@ class ShooterPoseModifier extends SkeletonModifier3D:
 			_apply_grapple(skel)
 		if _hold_r > 0.01 or _hold_l > 0.01:
 			_apply_rifle_hold(skel)
+			if absf(cheek) > 0.01:
+				_apply_cheek(skel)
 			_close_hands(skel)
 		if recoil > 0.01:
 			_apply_recoil(skel)
@@ -1763,9 +1813,22 @@ class ShooterPoseModifier extends SkeletonModifier3D:
 		dbg_fore = fore_pos
 		dbg_stock = stock_pos
 
-		# 3. Support hand goes to the mag well during a reload (under the
-		#    receiver — the correct side), otherwise to the handguard.
+		# 3. Where the SUPPORT hand goes, which is most of what tells a viewer
+		#    what is being held. See WeaponHoldProfiles.
+		#
+		#    All four modes reuse the geometry above — the weapon is still placed
+		#    first and the arms still solved onto it — they differ in which point
+		#    on it the off hand is sent to.
 		var l_target := fore_pos
+		match support_mode:
+			WeaponHoldProfiles.SUPPORT_CUPPED:
+				# Both hands together on the grip. Down and to the character's
+				# LEFT of the firing fist (`side` is character-right), so the two
+				# hands stack rather than collide.
+				l_target = grip_pos + gun_basis * Vector3(-0.048, -0.038, 0.012)
+			WeaponHoldProfiles.SUPPORT_TUBE:
+				# Hooked under the tube from below, forward of the shoulder.
+				l_target = fore_pos - gun_up * 0.075
 		if reload_phase > 0.001:
 			var mag_well := grip_pos + aim_dir * (gun_fore * 0.35) - gun_up * 0.10
 			var drop := mag_well - gun_up * 0.22 - aim_dir * 0.05
@@ -1853,10 +1916,32 @@ class ShooterPoseModifier extends SkeletonModifier3D:
 				and _hand_frame.has("L"):
 			var hand_l: int = _idx.get("DEF-hand.L", -1)
 			if hand_l >= 0:
-				# -aim_dir so the hand comes at the handguard from the body side
-				# rather than reaching over it backwards.
-				var want := Basis(gun_up.cross(-aim_dir).normalized(), gun_up,
-					-aim_dir)
+				# The hand's target frame, as (along, palm, curl) — the same
+				# three axes `_hand_frame` measured off the rest pose.
+				#
+				# Which way the PALM faces and which axis the fingers CURL about
+				# is the whole difference between wrapping a handguard, cupping a
+				# fist and hooking under a tube. Sending the hand to a different
+				# POSITION without changing its orientation gives a hand that has
+				# been teleported to the new spot still shaped for the old one.
+				#
+				# -aim_dir throughout, so the hand comes at the weapon from the
+				# body side rather than reaching over it backwards.
+				var palm := gun_up
+				var curl := -aim_dir
+				match support_mode:
+					WeaponHoldProfiles.SUPPORT_CUPPED:
+						# Palm presses inward against the grip's exposed panel;
+						# fingers still close along the barrel, over the firing
+						# hand's.
+						palm = side
+					WeaponHoldProfiles.SUPPORT_TUBE:
+						# A vertical foregrip: the palm faces BACK toward the
+						# body and the fingers close about the handle's own
+						# up-axis, not about the tube.
+						palm = -aim_dir
+						curl = gun_up
+				var want := Basis(palm.cross(curl).normalized(), palm, curl)
 				# Then the artist's wrist. Rolling about the barrel is the one
 				# axis a hand wrapping a cylinder is genuinely free in, and it
 				# used to be the only one offered — which left no way to cock the
@@ -1871,6 +1956,42 @@ class ShooterPoseModifier extends SkeletonModifier3D:
 					* skel.get_bone_global_rest(hand_l).basis.get_rotation_quaternion()
 				_set_global_rot(skel, hand_l, g_fa_l, g_hand.normalized(), _hold_l)
 
+	# ── The head against the stock ───────────────────────────────────────────
+	#
+	# A cheek weld is the single most recognisable thing about how a marksman
+	# holds a rifle, and its inverse — the head leaning AWAY — is what says a tube
+	# is resting on that shoulder. Both are silhouette at any distance, long after
+	# the weapon mesh itself has become a few pixels.
+	#
+	# Three axes, all toward the right shoulder, because that is where the weapon
+	# is: down onto the comb, rolled over it, and turned slightly along it.
+	## Full-weld amounts, in radians, at cheek = 1.
+	const CHEEK_PITCH := 0.20   # down onto the comb
+	const CHEEK_ROLL := 0.26    # over toward the shoulder
+	const CHEEK_YAW := 0.09     # turned along the stock
+	## How much of the weld is present at low ready. Not zero: the pose has to
+	## read before the character shoulders the weapon, and a marksman carrying a
+	## rifle already holds their head differently from someone carrying a knife.
+	const CHEEK_HIP := 0.35
+
+	func _apply_cheek(skel: Skeleton3D) -> void:
+		var k: float = cheek * lerpf(CHEEK_HIP, 1.0, ads) * _hold_r
+		if absf(k) < 0.005:
+			return
+		# Positive X pitches the head DOWN and positive Z rolls it toward the
+		# character's right — the same sign conventions as the aim pitch and the
+		# wall-run lean respectively.
+		var q := Quaternion(Vector3(1, 0, 0), CHEEK_PITCH * k) \
+			* Quaternion(Vector3(0, 0, 1), CHEEK_ROLL * k) \
+			* Quaternion(Vector3(0, 1, 0), CHEEK_YAW * k)
+		# Split across neck and head so the whole column leans rather than the
+		# skull hinging off a rigid neck. Weighted toward the head, which is what
+		# actually happens when someone lowers a cheek onto a stock.
+		_add_space(skel, _idx.get("DEF-neck", -1),
+			Quaternion.IDENTITY.slerp(q, 0.35))
+		_add_space(skel, _idx.get("DEF-head", -1),
+			Quaternion.IDENTITY.slerp(q, 0.65))
+
 	# How far each segment of a finger closes, knuckle -> tip, in radians.
 	#
 	# Two different grips. The SUPPORT hand wraps a handguard, so all four
@@ -1904,8 +2025,11 @@ class ShooterPoseModifier extends SkeletonModifier3D:
 				PackedInt32Array())
 			if bones.is_empty():
 				continue
-			# The right index rides the trigger; everything else wraps.
-			var trigger: bool = side == "R" and digit == "index"
+			# The right index rides the trigger; everything else wraps. A blade
+			# has no trigger, and an index left straight along a knife handle
+			# reads as a mistake rather than as discipline — so a full fist
+			# closes every finger the same.
+			var trigger: bool = side == "R" and digit == "index" and not full_fist
 			var amount: Array = CURL_TRIGGER if trigger else CURL_WRAP
 			var scale: float = _t("curl_trigger", 1.0) if trigger 				else _t("curl_wrap", 1.0)
 			for i in bones.size():

characters/weapon_hold_tuning.gd

@@ -169,7 +169,19 @@ static func all_knobs() -> Array:
 ##
 ## Across ALL poses, not just the one on screen: a reset or a save has to know
 ## what `pocket_ads` defaults to even while low ready is being adjusted.
-static func default_for(key: String):
+##
+## WEAPON-AWARE, and it has to be. The hold profile for a weapon class supplies
+## better defaults than the generic spec table — a knife's stock pocket is at the
+## hip, a launcher's is above the shoulder — and the lab SAVES every knob it
+## shows, not just the ones that were moved. Without the weapon here, opening the
+## lab on the knife and pressing save would silently overwrite the blade profile
+## with the rifle spec's values, and the character would go back to holding a
+## knife like an AK with no indication that anything had happened.
+static func default_for(key: String, weapon_id: String = ""):
+	if weapon_id != "":
+		var profile := WeaponHoldProfiles.knobs_for(weapon_id)
+		if profile.has(key):
+			return profile[key]
 	return TuningStore.default_for(all_knobs(), key)
 
 

debug/anim_capture.gd

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func _process(_delta: float) -> bool:
 			sm.set_active_skin(_skin)
 		var nm = root.get_node_or_null("NetworkManager")
 		if nm and nm.has_method("start_singleplayer_match"):
-			nm.start_singleplayer_match("Deathmatch")
+			nm.start_singleplayer_match(GameMode.DEATHMATCH)
 		change_scene_to_file("res://scenes/maps/test_level/test_level.tscn")
 		return false
 	if _frames < 160:

debug/dance_check.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,435 @@
+extends SceneTree
+
+## Do the five emotes move the character, differ from each other, and OVERLAP?
+##
+##     godot --path . -s res://debug/dance_check.gd
+##
+## Three properties, and the third is the one worth checking. "It moves" and
+## "they are different" are easy to satisfy by accident — five sine waves at five
+## frequencies would pass both and would still look like programmer animation.
+## What separates a dance from an oscillation is that the body moves as a CHAIN:
+## the hips lead and the head arrives later. That is measurable, so it is.
+##
+## Sampled from inside the modifier pass, like every other pose check here.
+## Outside it Godot restores the local poses and what gets measured is the
+## animation clip alone — every routine would report identical motion whether or
+## not the dance layer exists at all.
+
+const CAPTURE_BEATS := 4.0
+const SAMPLES := 90
+
+## A routine has to move the character at least this far, in metres of total
+## head travel over the sample window. Below this it is not an emote.
+const MIN_TRAVEL := 0.05
+## Two routines must differ by at least this, comparing their per-frame pose
+## trajectories.
+const MIN_DISTINCT := 0.02
+
+var _fails := 0
+var _probe: Probe = null
+
+
+class Probe extends SkeletonModifier3D:
+	var pose: Array = []
+	## Each bone's OWN local pose rotation, which is what a phase measurement
+	## needs. A bone's GLOBAL rotation contains every ancestor's rotation too, so
+	## the head's global carries the hips' un-lagged swing as a large component
+	## and correlates with it at a lag of zero no matter how much the head itself
+	## is delayed. Measuring globals reported Two-Step as having no overlap at
+	## all when its head is delayed by five links.
+	var local: Array = []
+
+	func _process_modification() -> void:
+		var skel := get_skeleton()
+		if skel == null:
+			return
+		pose.resize(skel.get_bone_count())
+		local.resize(skel.get_bone_count())
+		for i in skel.get_bone_count():
+			pose[i] = skel.get_bone_global_pose(i)
+			local[i] = skel.get_bone_pose_rotation(i)
+
+
+func _init() -> void:
+	await process_frame
+
+	var mgr = root.get_node_or_null("SkinManager")
+	var skin = mgr.get_skin("taila") if mgr else null
+	if skin == null or skin.model_path == "":
+		print("dance_check: no rigged skin to test with")
+		quit(1)
+		return
+
+	var model := SkinnedPlayerModel.new()
+	root.add_child(model)
+	model.skin_id = "taila"
+	model.load_model(skin.model_path)
+	for _i in 60:
+		model.update_state("idle", 0.0, false)
+		await process_frame
+
+	if model._dance_mod == null:
+		_expect(false, "the model built a dance layer")
+		_done()
+		return
+
+	var skel: Skeleton3D = model.skeleton
+	_probe = Probe.new()
+	skel.add_child(_probe)
+	skel.move_child(_probe, skel.get_child_count() - 1)
+
+	_expect(DanceRoutines.count() == 5,
+		"there are five emotes (%d)" % DanceRoutines.count())
+
+	var tracks := {}
+	for i in DanceRoutines.count():
+		tracks[i] = await _sample(model, skel, i)
+
+	_report(tracks)
+	_compare(tracks)
+	_done()
+
+
+## One routine's trajectory: the hips' and head's positions, per frame, in the
+## character's own space, plus the elbow angles for the joint-limit check.
+func _sample(model, skel: Skeleton3D, index: int) -> Dictionary:
+	model.set_dancing(true, index)
+	# Let the blend arrive fully before recording, or the first routine sampled
+	# reports smaller motion than the rest purely because it was still fading in.
+	for _i in 40:
+		model.update_state("idle", 0.0, false)
+		await process_frame
+
+	var mod = model._pose_mod
+	var hips: int = mod._idx.get("DEF-hips", -1)
+	var head: int = mod._idx.get("DEF-head", -1)
+	# Overlap is measured between two links of the SAME chain, not between the
+	# hips and the head.
+	#
+	# Every spine link is driven by the same channels (`spine_roll`, `spine_yaw`,
+	# `spine_pitch`) at `beat - lag * i`, so the only difference between them IS
+	# the lag. The hips and the head are driven by DIFFERENT channels, often at
+	# different periods — Two-Step's hips roll on a two-beat cycle while its head
+	# bobs on a one-beat one — so correlating those two compares signals that do
+	# not have a phase relationship to find.
+	var link_a: int = mod._idx.get("DEF-spine.001", -1)
+	var link_b: int = mod._idx.get("DEF-spine.003", -1)
+	var fa_r: int = mod._idx.get("DEF-forearm.R", -1)
+	var ua_r: int = mod._idx.get("DEF-upper_arm.R", -1)
+	var hand_r: int = mod._idx.get("DEF-hand.R", -1)
+
+	var hip_track: Array = []
+	var head_track: Array = []
+	# The SAME quantity at two points in the chain: how far each bone has been
+	# rotated away from its own rest pose, signed. Correlating the hips' world
+	# TRANSLATION against the head's position RELATIVE to the hips was comparing
+	# two different physical quantities driven by different channels at different
+	# periods, and the peak landed anywhere — it reported the Robot, whose lag is
+	# zero by construction, as the most overlapped routine in the set.
+	var hip_rot: Array = []
+	var head_rot: Array = []
+	var worst_elbow := 180.0
+
+	for _i in SAMPLES:
+		model.update_state("idle", 0.0, false)
+		await process_frame
+		var pose: Array = _probe.pose
+		if pose.size() <= maxi(hips, head) or hips < 0 or head < 0:
+			continue
+		var origin: Vector3 = pose[hips].origin
+		hip_track.append(origin)
+		head_track.append(pose[head].origin - origin)
+		hip_rot.append(_twist(skel, _probe.local, link_a))
+		head_rot.append(_twist(skel, _probe.local, link_b))
+		# The elbow must never open past straight. A signed wave on a forearm
+		# bends it backwards through the joint on half of every cycle, which is
+		# the single most obvious tell in procedural animation.
+		if ua_r >= 0 and fa_r >= 0 and hand_r >= 0 and pose.size() > hand_r:
+			var upper: Vector3 = (pose[ua_r].origin - pose[fa_r].origin).normalized()
+			var lower: Vector3 = (pose[hand_r].origin - pose[fa_r].origin).normalized()
+			worst_elbow = minf(worst_elbow, rad_to_deg(acos(clampf(
+				upper.dot(lower), -1.0, 1.0))))
+
+	model.set_dancing(false)
+	for _i in 30:
+		model.update_state("idle", 0.0, false)
+		await process_frame
+
+	return {"hips": hip_track, "head": head_track, "elbow": worst_elbow,
+		"hip_rot": hip_rot, "head_rot": head_rot}
+
+
+func _report(tracks: Dictionary) -> void:
+	print("\n=== EMOTES ===")
+	for i in tracks:
+		var t: Dictionary = tracks[i]
+		var travel := _travel(t["head"])
+		var hip_travel := _travel(t["hips"])
+		var lag := _lag(t["hip_rot"], t["head_rot"])
+		print("  %-12s head %.3f m   hips %.3f m   upper spine lags lower by %d frames   min elbow %.0f deg"
+			% [DanceRoutines.name_of(i), travel, hip_travel, lag, t["elbow"]])
+
+
+func _compare(tracks: Dictionary) -> void:
+	for i in tracks:
+		var t: Dictionary = tracks[i]
+		var nm := DanceRoutines.name_of(i)
+		_expect(_travel(t["head"]) >= MIN_TRAVEL,
+			"%s actually moves the character (%.3f m)" % [nm, _travel(t["head"])])
+		# 8 degrees of slack: the IK and the idle clip underneath both contribute,
+		# and an elbow that never quite straightens is correct anyway.
+		_expect(t["elbow"] >= 8.0,
+			"%s never hyperextends the elbow (min %.0f deg)" % [nm, t["elbow"]])
+
+	var ids: Array = tracks.keys()
+	for i in ids.size():
+		for j in range(i + 1, ids.size()):
+			var d := _difference(tracks[ids[i]]["head"], tracks[ids[j]]["head"])
+			_expect(d >= MIN_DISTINCT,
+				"%s and %s are different dances (%.3f)"
+					% [DanceRoutines.name_of(ids[i]), DanceRoutines.name_of(ids[j]), d])
+
+	# OVERLAP. The head must trail the hips, because the body is a chain — this
+	# is the property that separates a dance from five bones oscillating in
+	# phase, and it is the whole reason `lag` exists in the routine data.
+	#
+	# The robot is exempt and deliberately so: its lag is zero on purpose, which
+	# is what makes it read as mechanical against the other four.
+	for i in tracks:
+		var rid: String = String(DanceRoutines.get_routine(i).get("id", ""))
+		# Robot: lag zero by construction, which is the point of it.
+		# Spin: the head SPOTS — it holds its heading against the turn and whips
+		# round to catch up, so it is deliberately not a delayed copy of the
+		# hips. Asserting that it follows them would be asserting the opposite of
+		# the technique.
+		if rid == "robot" or rid == "spin":
+			continue
+		var lag := _lag(tracks[i]["hip_rot"], tracks[i]["head_rot"])
+		_expect(lag > 0,
+			"%s moves as a chain — the upper spine trails the lower by %d frames"
+				% [DanceRoutines.name_of(i), lag])
+	# The Robot's own property is that its motion is QUANTISED: it holds a pose
+	# and jumps, where the others move continuously. That is what `steps` in the
+	# routine data produces and what makes it read as mechanical against the
+	# other four.
+	#
+	# Its LAG is deliberately not asserted. Zero lag ought to correlate perfectly
+	# at shift 0, but the signal is a staircase with 16-frame plateaus, so many
+	# shifts score nearly identically and the measured peak wanders — it reported
+	# 21 frames. Asserting a number the measurement cannot resolve would be
+	# asserting noise; the hold fraction below is the property that is actually
+	# there.
+	var robot := DanceRoutines.index_of("robot")
+	var robot_step := _step_size(tracks[robot]["head_rot"])
+	for i in tracks:
+		if i == robot:
+			continue
+		var other := _step_size(tracks[i]["head_rot"])
+		_expect(robot_step > other * 1.5,
+			"Robot JUMPS between poses where %s flows (%.2f vs %.2f of range per frame)"
+				% [DanceRoutines.name_of(i), robot_step, other])
+
+
+## The largest single-frame change, as a fraction of the track's whole range.
+##
+## This is what quantised motion looks like from the outside: long flat stretches
+## punctuated by one big jump. A smooth wave never moves more than a few percent
+## of its range in a frame however punchy its easing.
+##
+## Measured as a JUMP rather than as time-spent-still, which was the first
+## attempt and does not separate them: a shaped wave hangs at its extremes by
+## design, so Two-Step scored the same 0.97 "holding" as the Robot did. The
+## routines differ in HOW THEY LEAVE a pose, not in how long they sit in one.
+func _step_size(rot_track: Array) -> float:
+	var track := _project(rot_track)
+	var n := track.size()
+	if n < 4:
+		return 0.0
+	var lo := 1e30
+	var hi := -1e30
+	for v in track:
+		lo = minf(lo, v)
+		hi = maxf(hi, v)
+	var span: float = hi - lo
+	if span < 0.000001:
+		return 0.0
+	var biggest := 0.0
+	for i in range(1, n):
+		biggest = maxf(biggest, absf(track[i] - track[i - 1]))
+	return biggest / span
+
+
+## Total path length of a track.
+func _travel(track: Array) -> float:
+	var sum := 0.0
+	for i in range(1, track.size()):
+		sum += (track[i] as Vector3).distance_to(track[i - 1])
+	return sum
+
+
+## Mean per-frame distance between two tracks, after removing each one's own
+## average position — otherwise two identical dances at different heights would
+## read as different, and two different dances at the same height as the same.
+func _difference(a: Array, b: Array) -> float:
+	var n := mini(a.size(), b.size())
+	if n == 0:
+		return 0.0
+	var ca := Vector3.ZERO
+	var cb := Vector3.ZERO
+	for i in n:
+		ca += a[i]
+		cb += b[i]
+	ca /= float(n)
+	cb /= float(n)
+	var sum := 0.0
+	for i in n:
+		sum += ((a[i] - ca) - (b[i] - cb)).length()
+	return sum / float(n)
+
+
+## How many frames the head's rotation trails the hips', by NORMALISED
+## cross-correlation.
+##
+## Both signals are the same quantity — a bone's rotation away from its own rest
+## pose — sampled at two ends of the same chain, so the only thing that can
+## differ between them is timing. That is the whole point: an unnormalised
+## correlation between two DIFFERENT quantities peaks wherever their amplitudes
+## happen to line up, which reported the Robot (lag zero by construction) as the
+## most overlapped routine in the set.
+##
+## Pearson, so amplitude cannot influence where the peak falls — a head that
+## moves further than the hips must not read as a head that moves later.
+func _lag(hips: Array, head: Array) -> int:
+	# BOTH ends projected onto the HIPS' axis, not each onto its own.
+	#
+	# Overlap is "the same motion, later", so the measurement has to be of the
+	# same motion. Projecting each end onto its own dominant axis compares
+	# whatever channel happens to dominate at that end, and routines drive
+	# different channels at the two ends: Two-Step's hips are dominated by a
+	# two-beat roll while its head is dominated by a one-beat bob, so the
+	# correlation was between signals of different PERIOD and peaked wherever.
+	var axis := _dominant_axis(hips)
+	var a := _centre(_project(hips, axis))
+	var b := _centre(_project(head, axis))
+	var n := mini(a.size(), b.size())
+	if n < 16:
+		return 0
+	var best := 0
+	var best_score := -1e30
+	# Out to half the window. The correlation of a periodic signal repeats every
+	# period, so the search must stay inside one; Body Wave has the largest lag
+	# in the set by design (0.13 s per link over five links, most of a beat at
+	# 88 bpm) and a short window could not see it at all.
+	for shift in range(0, n / 2):
+		var sum := 0.0
+		var na := 0.0
+		var nb := 0.0
+		for i in range(0, n - shift):
+			sum += a[i] * b[i + shift]
+			na += a[i] * a[i]
+			nb += b[i + shift] * b[i + shift]
+		if na < 0.000001 or nb < 0.000001:
+			continue
+		var score: float = sum / sqrt(na * nb)
+		if score > best_score:
+			best_score = score
+			best = shift
+	return best
+
+
+## Mean-removed copy of a scalar track.
+func _centre(track: Array) -> Array:
+	var n := track.size()
+	if n == 0:
+		return []
+	var mean := 0.0
+	for v in track:
+		mean += v
+	mean /= float(n)
+	var out: Array = []
+	for v in track:
+		out.append(v - mean)
+	return out
+
+
+## How far a bone has been rotated away from its rest pose, as a ROTATION VECTOR
+## (axis times angle).
+##
+## A vector, not a signed scalar. The first version returned `angle * sign of the
+## axis's largest component`, and that is discontinuous: as a rocking bone passes
+## back through its rest pose the angle goes to zero and the axis FLIPS, so the
+## signal jumped the full width of its range in a single frame. Two-Step measured
+## a per-frame step of 0.99 of its own range — which looked exactly like the
+## quantised motion the Robot is supposed to have exclusively, on a routine that
+## is perfectly smooth.
+##
+## The rotation vector passes through zero and comes out the other side pointing
+## the opposite way, which is continuous, and projecting it onto a fixed axis
+## afterwards gives the signed wave the analysis actually wants.
+func _twist(skel: Skeleton3D, local: Array, idx: int) -> Vector3:
+	if idx < 0 or idx >= local.size():
+		return Vector3.ZERO
+	# The bone's OWN rotation away from its rest — not its global, which carries
+	# every ancestor's along with it. See Probe.local.
+	var rest: Quaternion = skel.get_bone_rest(idx).basis.get_rotation_quaternion()
+	var d := (rest.inverse() * (local[idx] as Quaternion)).normalized()
+	# Shortest arc, so a rotation just past 180 degrees does not read as one just
+	# under -180.
+	if d.w < 0.0:
+		d = Quaternion(-d.x, -d.y, -d.z, -d.w)
+	var ang := d.get_angle()
+	if ang < 0.000001:
+		return Vector3.ZERO
+	return d.get_axis() * ang
+
+
+## The axis a track of rotation vectors varies most about.
+func _dominant_axis(track: Array) -> Vector3:
+	var n := track.size()
+	if n == 0:
+		return Vector3.ZERO
+	var mean := Vector3.ZERO
+	for v in track:
+		mean += v
+	mean /= float(n)
+	var axis := Vector3.ZERO
+	var best := 0.0
+	for v in track:
+		var d: Vector3 = v - mean
+		if d.length() > best:
+			best = d.length()
+			axis = d
+	return axis.normalized() if axis.length() > 0.000001 else Vector3.ZERO
+
+
+## A track of rotation vectors flattened to one signed scalar per frame, along
+## `axis` — or along the track's own dominant axis if none is given.
+func _project(track: Array, axis: Vector3 = Vector3.ZERO) -> Array:
+	var n := track.size()
+	if n == 0:
+		return []
+	var use := axis if axis.length() > 0.000001 else _dominant_axis(track)
+	if use.length() < 0.000001:
+		return []
+	var mean := Vector3.ZERO
+	for v in track:
+		mean += v
+	mean /= float(n)
+	var out: Array = []
+	for v in track:
+		out.append((v - mean).dot(use))
+	return out
+
+
+func _expect(ok: bool, what: String) -> void:
+	if ok:
+		print("  OK: ", what)
+	else:
+		print("  FAIL: ", what)
+		_fails += 1
+
+
+func _done() -> void:
+	print("\n=== DANCE SUMMARY ===")
+	print("Failures: %d" % _fails)
+	quit(1 if _fails > 0 else 0)

debug/dance_check.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://tds0trjfr2as

debug/emote_wheel_capture.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+extends SceneTree
+
+## Photograph the radial emote dial, resting and with a wedge aimed at.
+##
+##     godot --path . --windowed --resolution 1280x720 \
+##         -s res://debug/emote_wheel_capture.gd -- <out_dir>
+##
+## Two shots, because the hover state is the one that goes wrong: a wedge whose
+## fill changes without its label changing with it is the exact failure the
+## theme's contrast work exists to prevent, and it is invisible in a shot of the
+## wheel at rest.
+
+var _out := "."
+
+
+func _initialize() -> void:
+	var args := OS.get_cmdline_user_args()
+	if args.size() > 0:
+		_out = String(args[0])
+	_run()
+
+
+func _run() -> void:
+	await process_frame
+	UITheme.apply_global(self)
+
+	var layer := CanvasLayer.new()
+	root.add_child(layer)
+
+	# Something behind it, so the ink edges are being judged against a real
+	# backdrop rather than against black.
+	var back := ColorRect.new()
+	back.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	back.color = Color(0.42, 0.55, 0.72)
+	layer.add_child(back)
+
+	var wheel := EmoteWheel.new()
+	layer.add_child(wheel)
+	wheel.open()
+	for _i in 30:
+		await process_frame
+	await process_frame
+	root.get_texture().get_image().save_png("%s/emote_wheel_rest.png" % _out)
+	print("emote_wheel_capture: saved rest")
+
+	# Aim up-and-right, which lands on the second wedge.
+	wheel.aim_by_vector(Vector2(0.7, -0.7))
+	for _i in 12:
+		await process_frame
+	await process_frame
+	root.get_texture().get_image().save_png("%s/emote_wheel_hover.png" % _out)
+	print("emote_wheel_capture: saved hover, picked=%d" % wheel._hover)
+
+	quit(0)

debug/emote_wheel_capture.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://cxxajtpm3o8bj

debug/fp_weapon_capture.gd

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ func _process(_delta: float) -> bool:
 		if _frames == 40:
 			var nm = root.get_node_or_null("NetworkManager")
 			if nm and nm.has_method("start_singleplayer_match"):
-				nm.start_singleplayer_match("Deathmatch")
+				nm.start_singleplayer_match(GameMode.DEATHMATCH)
 			change_scene_to_file("res://scenes/maps/test_level/test_level.tscn")
 		elif _frames >= 160:
 			for p in root.find_children("*", "CharacterBody3D", true, false):

debug/game_mode_check.gd

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+extends SceneTree
+
+## Do the game modes end, and end on the RIGHT thing?
+##
+##     godot --headless --path . -s res://debug/game_mode_check.gd
+##
+## `GameMode.check_win` is a pure function of the stats and the clock, which is
+## the point of writing it that way: a win condition that can only be exercised
+## by playing a whole match is a win condition nobody tests, and this project's
+## previous one — a five-minute timer that set `match_active = false` and did
+## nothing else — was never exercised at all.
+##
+## The cases below are the ones that actually go wrong: a draw reported as a win
+## for whoever happens to be first in a dictionary, a team mode decided on one
+## player's score instead of the team's, and a team kill counting toward the
+## killer.
+
+var _fails := 0
+
+
+func _init() -> void:
+	# Autoloads are not up during `_init`; LoadoutManager is needed below.
+	await process_frame
+	_check_table()
+	_check_deathmatch()
+	_check_team()
+	_check_gun_game()
+	_check_standings()
+	_done()
+
+
+## Every mode must be able to end. A mode with no score limit and no time limit
+## runs forever, and that is the failure that produced this whole task.
+func _check_table() -> void:
+	for id in GameMode.all_ids():
+		_expect(GameMode.is_valid(id),
+			"'%s' can end (score %d, time %.0fs)"
+				% [id, GameMode.score_limit(id), GameMode.time_limit(id)])
+		_expect(GameMode.display_name(id) != "",
+			"'%s' has a display name" % id)
+	_expect(GameMode.score_limit(GameMode.GUN_GAME) == GameMode.LADDER.size(),
+		"Gun Game's limit IS its ladder length (%d), so adding a rung cannot make the match unwinnable"
+			% GameMode.LADDER.size())
+
+
+func _check_deathmatch() -> void:
+	var id := GameMode.DEATHMATCH
+	var limit := GameMode.score_limit(id)
+
+	var mid := {1: _p("A", limit - 1), 2: _p("B", 3)}
+	_expect(GameMode.check_win(id, mid, 120.0).is_empty(),
+		"deathmatch keeps running one short of the limit")
+
+	var done := {1: _p("A", limit), 2: _p("B", 3)}
+	var r := GameMode.check_win(id, done, 120.0)
+	_expect(r.get("reason", "") == "score" and r.get("name", "") == "A",
+		"deathmatch ends when someone reaches %d, and A won" % limit)
+
+	# On time, the leader takes it.
+	var timed := GameMode.check_win(id, {1: _p("A", 7), 2: _p("B", 4)}, 0.0)
+	_expect(timed.get("reason", "") == "time" and timed.get("name", "") == "A",
+		"deathmatch on time goes to the leader")
+
+	# A DRAW is a draw. Reporting a winner here means reporting whichever key
+	# the dictionary happened to hand over first, which is not a rule.
+	var drawn := GameMode.check_win(id, {1: _p("A", 5), 2: _p("B", 5)}, 0.0)
+	_expect(drawn.get("name", "") == "DRAW",
+		"a tie on time is a DRAW, not a win for whoever is first in the dictionary")
+
+
+func _check_team() -> void:
+	var id := GameMode.TEAM_DEATHMATCH
+	var limit := GameMode.score_limit(id)
+
+	# Two on team 1 with half the limit each: the TEAM has won, though neither
+	# player is close on their own. Deciding this on individual score — which is
+	# what a per-player check would do — never ends a team match.
+	var half := int(limit / 2.0)
+	var stats := {
+		1: _p("A", half, 1), 2: _p("B", half, 1),
+		3: _p("C", 4, 2), 4: _p("D", 4, 2),
+	}
+	var r := GameMode.check_win(id, stats, 300.0)
+	_expect(r.get("reason", "") == "score" and r.get("team", 0) == 1,
+		"team deathmatch is decided by the TEAM's total, not one player's")
+
+	var totals := GameMode.team_scores(id, stats)
+	_expect(totals.get(1, 0) == half * 2 and totals.get(2, 0) == 8,
+		"team totals add up (%d / %d)" % [totals.get(1, 0), totals.get(2, 0)])
+
+	# Balance on join, by count and not by turn — a 4v4 that loses three from one
+	# side must refill the short side, which round-robin on join order does not.
+	var lopsided := {1: _p("A", 0, 1), 2: _p("B", 0, 1), 3: _p("C", 0, 1)}
+	_expect(GameMode.assign_team(id, lopsided) == 2,
+		"a joining player goes to the SHORT team")
+
+	var tied := GameMode.check_win(id, {1: _p("A", 5, 1), 2: _p("B", 5, 2)}, 0.0)
+	_expect(tied.get("name", "") == "DRAW", "level teams on time is a DRAW")
+
+
+func _check_gun_game() -> void:
+	var id := GameMode.GUN_GAME
+	var top := GameMode.LADDER.size()
+
+	_expect(GameMode.check_win(id, {1: _p("A", top - 1)}, 300.0).is_empty(),
+		"gun game keeps running on the last rung")
+	var r := GameMode.check_win(id, {1: _p("A", top)}, 300.0)
+	_expect(r.get("reason", "") == "score",
+		"gun game ends when someone finishes the ladder")
+
+	# Every rung must name a weapon that exists, or a promotion hands the player
+	# nothing and the mode softlocks on that rung.
+	#
+	# Reached through the tree rather than by the autoload's global identifier: a
+	# `-s` tool script compiles its dependencies BEFORE autoloads register, so
+	# naming `LoadoutManager` directly stops this file from loading at all.
+	var loadouts = root.get_node_or_null("LoadoutManager")
+	for i in GameMode.LADDER.size():
+		var w := GameMode.ladder_weapon(i)
+		_expect(loadouts != null and loadouts.weapon_db.has(w),
+			"ladder rung %d ('%s') is a real weapon" % [i, w])
+
+	# Past the end clamps rather than going out of bounds — the winning kill
+	# promotes past the top rung before the match-end RPC lands.
+	_expect(GameMode.ladder_weapon(999) == GameMode.LADDER[-1],
+		"promoting past the top rung clamps instead of erroring")
+
+
+func _check_standings() -> void:
+	var stats := {
+		1: _p("A", 5), 2: _p("B", 9), 3: _p("C", 5),
+	}
+	stats[1]["deaths"] = 2
+	stats[3]["deaths"] = 7
+	var order := GameMode.standings(stats)
+	_expect(order[0] == 2, "standings put the highest score first")
+	_expect(order[1] == 1 and order[2] == 3,
+		"equal scores break on FEWEST DEATHS (kills are equal by definition there)")
+
+
+func _p(who: String, score: int, team: int = 0) -> Dictionary:
+	return {"username": who, "score": score, "kills": score, "deaths": 0,
+		"assists": 0, "team": team, "best_streak": 0, "rung": score}
+
+
+func _expect(ok: bool, what: String) -> void:
+	if ok:
+		print("  OK: ", what)
+	else:
+		print("  FAIL: ", what)
+		_fails += 1
+
+
+func _done() -> void:
+	print("\n=== GAME MODE SUMMARY ===")
+	print("Failures: %d" % _fails)
+	quit(1 if _fails > 0 else 0)

debug/game_mode_check.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://cjpesfuv0vmcs

debug/hold_capture.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+extends SceneTree
+
+## One photograph of a character holding each weapon, from far enough away to
+## see the SILHOUETTE.
+##
+##     godot --path . --windowed --resolution 640x900 \
+##         -s res://debug/hold_capture.gd -- <out_dir> [skin]
+##
+## The rig lab's camera is a close-up on the hands, which is right for tuning a
+## grip and useless for the question this feature exists to answer: can you tell
+## what someone is carrying from across a map. That is a whole-body question, so
+## this frames the whole body, side-on, where the difference between a shouldered
+## tube and a low-ready rifle actually lives.
+##
+## Side-on and not three-quarter, deliberately. A profile is the harshest test of
+## a hold — it shows exactly how far the weapon sits from the shoulder and how
+## the head is tilted, with no foreshortening to hide behind.
+
+const WEAPONS := ["m4", "mp7", "awp", "double_barrel_shotgun",
+	"rocket_launcher", "knife"]
+
+var _out := "."
+var _skin := "taila"
+
+
+func _initialize() -> void:
+	var args := OS.get_cmdline_user_args()
+	if args.size() > 0:
+		_out = String(args[0])
+	if args.size() > 1:
+		_skin = String(args[1])
+	_run()
+
+
+func _run() -> void:
+	# `_initialize` runs BEFORE the autoloads' `_ready`, so SkinManager's table is
+	# still empty here and even its "default" fallback is missing — asking it for
+	# a skin at this point fails on the fallback rather than on the skin asked
+	# for, which reads as "no skin 'taila'" and sends you looking in the wrong
+	# place entirely.
+	await process_frame
+
+	var world := Node3D.new()
+	root.add_child(world)
+
+	var env := WorldEnvironment.new()
+	env.environment = LevelEnvironment.make_environment("sunset")
+	world.add_child(env)
+
+	var key := DirectionalLight3D.new()
+	key.rotation_degrees = Vector3(-38, 155, 0)
+	key.light_energy = 2.0
+	world.add_child(key)
+	var fill := DirectionalLight3D.new()
+	fill.rotation_degrees = Vector3(-20, -40, 0)
+	fill.light_energy = 0.7
+	fill.light_color = Color(0.6, 0.7, 1.0)
+	world.add_child(fill)
+
+	var cam := Camera3D.new()
+	world.add_child(cam)
+	# Side-on, at chest height, far enough back that the whole figure and the
+	# whole weapon are in frame.
+	cam.position = Vector3(3.4, 1.05, 0.15)
+	cam.look_at(Vector3(0, 0.95, 0))
+	cam.fov = 42.0
+
+	var mgr = root.get_node_or_null("SkinManager")
+	if mgr == null:
+		print("hold_capture: no SkinManager")
+		quit(1)
+		return
+	var skin = mgr.get_skin(_skin)
+	if skin == null:
+		print("hold_capture: no skin '%s'" % _skin)
+		quit(1)
+		return
+
+	for weapon in WEAPONS:
+		var model := SkinnedPlayerModel.new()
+		model.skin_id = _skin
+		model.first_person_mode = false
+		world.add_child(model)
+		model.load_model(skin.model_path)
+		for _i in 40:
+			await process_frame
+
+		model.set_weapon("res://weapons/%s.gd" % weapon)
+		model.update_state("idle", 0.0, false)
+		# The hold blends in at ~8/s and the weapon measures itself on `ready`,
+		# so give it several time constants before believing the pose.
+		for _i in 100:
+			model.update_state("idle", 0.0, false)
+			await process_frame
+
+		await process_frame
+		var img := root.get_texture().get_image()
+		var path := "%s/hold_%s.png" % [_out, weapon]
+		img.save_png(path)
+		print("hold_capture: saved ", path)
+		model.queue_free()
+		for _i in 4:
+			await process_frame
+
+	quit(0)

debug/hold_capture.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://c25wpt58v328r

debug/hud_layout_check.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+extends SceneTree
+
+## Dev tool: build a PlayerHUD against a stand-in player, let it lay out, and
+## print where every element actually landed.
+##
+##     godot --headless --path . -s res://debug/hud_layout_check.gd
+##
+## A HUD element that lands at (0, 0) with zero size is the single most common
+## thing to get wrong here, and it is invisible in a headless smoke test and
+## easy to miss in a screenshot. This prints the rects so the answer is a number.
+
+var _frames := 0
+var _hud: PlayerHUD
+
+
+func _initialize() -> void:
+	var stand_in := CharacterBody3D.new()
+	stand_in.name = "StandInPlayer"
+	root.add_child(stand_in)
+
+	_hud = PlayerHUD.new()
+	_hud.player = stand_in
+	root.add_child(_hud)
+
+
+func _process(_delta: float) -> bool:
+	_frames += 1
+
+	# A hidden Control keeps its last rect and contributes nothing to its
+	# container's minimum size, so measuring the ammo card while the stand-in
+	# player holds no weapon reads a stale position from a collapsed column and
+	# reports a layout bug that is not there. Force the states that matter to be
+	# visible, then give the containers a frame to re-sort before measuring.
+	if _frames == 4:
+		# Freeze the HUD first. Its own `_process` hides the ammo card whenever
+		# the player holds no weapon, so anything forced visible here is undone
+		# again before the measurement and what gets read is the stale rect of a
+		# hidden control inside a collapsed column.
+		_hud.set_process(false)
+		_hud._ammo_card.visible = true
+		_hud._ammo_num.text = "30"
+		_hud._ammo_max.text = "/ 30"
+		_hud._weapon_name.text = "DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUN"
+		_hud._chain_row.visible = true
+		for pip in _hud._grenade_row.get_children():
+			(pip as Control).visible = true
+	if _frames < 8:
+		return false
+
+	print("viewport = ", root.get_visible_rect().size)
+	if OS.has_environment("HUD_TREE"):
+		_dump(_hud, 0)
+	var fails := 0
+	for node in _hud.find_children("*", "Control", true, false):
+		var c := node as Control
+		# Only the elements that are supposed to occupy space. Containers that
+		# legitimately shrink to their content are not interesting.
+		if c.name in ["Crosshair", "ReloadRing", "DeathScreen"]:
+			var r := c.get_global_rect()  # GLOBAL: get_rect() is parent-relative and lies about where a nested element really sits
+			print("  %-12s pos=%s size=%s" % [c.name, r.position, r.size])
+			if r.size.x < 100.0 or r.size.y < 100.0:
+				print("    FAIL: expected to fill the viewport")
+				fails += 1
+
+	# The ammo card, which must hug the RIGHT edge inside its margin. It sat
+	# flush against the left instead, because a VBoxContainer hands each child
+	# its own horizontal placement and the alignment flag was on the column.
+	var vr := root.get_visible_rect().size
+	var card := _find_by_class("PanelContainer")
+	if card == null:
+		print("  MISSING ammo card")
+		fails += 1
+	else:
+		var r := card.get_global_rect()
+		var right_gap := vr.x - (r.position.x + r.size.x)
+		print("  %-12s pos=%s size=%s right_gap=%.0f"
+			% ["ammo", r.position, r.size, right_gap])
+		if r.size.x < 60.0:
+			print("    FAIL: collapsed to nothing")
+			fails += 1
+		elif right_gap < 0.0:
+			print("    FAIL: runs off the right edge of the screen")
+			fails += 1
+		elif right_gap > 120.0:
+			print("    FAIL: not anchored to the right edge (gap %.0f)" % right_gap)
+			fails += 1
+
+	print("HUD LAYOUT: %s" % ("PASS" if fails == 0 else "FAIL (%d)" % fails))
+	quit(1 if fails > 0 else 0)
+	return true
+
+
+## The whole Control tree with GLOBAL rects. `HUD_TREE=1` to switch on — when a
+## container collapses, the answer is always visible in its parent chain and
+## never in the leaf you noticed the problem on.
+func _dump(node: Node, depth: int) -> void:
+	for child in node.get_children():
+		if child is Control:
+			var c := child as Control
+			var r := c.get_global_rect()
+			print("%s%s [%s] pos=%s size=%s vis=%s"
+				% ["  ".repeat(depth + 1), c.name, c.get_class(),
+					r.position, r.size, c.visible])
+		_dump(child, depth + 1)
+
+
+func _find_by_class(cls: String) -> Control:
+	for n in _hud.find_children("*", cls, true, false):
+		return n as Control
+	return null

debug/hud_layout_check.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://c340r7urelhhx

debug/map_preview_capture.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+extends SceneTree
+
+## Photograph every map, for the level select cards.
+##
+##     godot --path . --windowed --resolution 640x400 \
+##         -s res://debug/map_preview_capture.gd
+##
+## Writes assets/ui/map_previews/<folder>.png, which the menu picks up by
+## convention — no map_meta key to add, so a new map that ships a preview gets
+## one and a map that does not falls back to its gradient.
+##
+## The cards used to be a two-stop gradient built from `color1` and `color2` in
+## the map's meta file. That tells a player which card they clicked last time and
+## nothing whatsoever about the map, which is the entire job of a level select.
+##
+## ── Framing ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+##
+## The camera stands INSIDE the map, at a spawn point, at eye height, looking
+## across it.
+##
+## The first version framed the whole level from outside by merging every
+## VisualInstance3D's AABB and backing off until it fit. Every map came out as a
+## tiny diorama floating on a table in the middle of an empty sky — and one came
+## out entirely black, because from orbit there was nothing lit in frame. That is
+## a minimap, and a minimap is a different thing from a photograph.
+##
+## What a player wants off a card is the FEEL of a place: its light, its colour,
+## how enclosed it is, what the skyline looks like. All of that only exists from
+## where a player will actually stand, so that is where the camera goes — and
+## spawn points are already authored in every map, so it costs nothing.
+
+const OUT_DIR := "res://assets/ui/map_previews"
+const MAPS_DIR := "res://scenes/maps/"
+## How long to let a map build itself. The procedural ones generate geometry in
+## `_ready` and the neon map streams in props, so a shot taken too early is a
+## photograph of an empty skybox.
+const SETTLE_FRAMES := 90
+
+
+func _initialize() -> void:
+	_run()
+
+
+func _run() -> void:
+	await process_frame
+	DirAccess.make_dir_recursive_absolute(ProjectSettings.globalize_path(OUT_DIR))
+
+	for folder in _map_folders():
+		var cfg := ConfigFile.new()
+		if cfg.load(MAPS_DIR + folder + "/map_meta.cfg") != OK:
+			continue
+		var scene_path: String = cfg.get_value("map", "scene_path", "")
+		if scene_path == "" or not ResourceLoader.exists(scene_path):
+			continue
+
+		var packed: PackedScene = load(scene_path)
+		if packed == null:
+			print("map_preview: could not load ", scene_path)
+			continue
+		var level: Node = packed.instantiate()
+		root.add_child(level)
+
+		for _i in SETTLE_FRAMES:
+			await process_frame
+
+		var shot: Image = await _best_shot(level)
+		var path := "%s/%s.png" % [OUT_DIR, folder]
+		if shot == null:
+			print("map_preview: no usable vantage in ", folder)
+		else:
+			shot.save_png(ProjectSettings.globalize_path(path))
+			print("map_preview: saved ", path)
+
+		level.queue_free()
+		for _i in 6:
+			await process_frame
+
+	quit(0)
+
+
+func _map_folders() -> Array:
+	var out: Array = []
+	var dir := DirAccess.open(MAPS_DIR)
+	if dir == null:
+		return out
+	dir.list_dir_begin()
+	var name := dir.get_next()
+	while name != "":
+		if dir.current_is_dir() and not name.begins_with("."):
+			if FileAccess.file_exists(MAPS_DIR + name + "/map_meta.cfg"):
+				out.append(name)
+		name = dir.get_next()
+	out.sort()
+	return out
+
+
+## Try several vantages and keep the one that produces the best PICTURE.
+##
+## Not the one that satisfies a rule about where cameras should go. Two maps
+## defeated every positional rule tried: fps_blockout is a genuinely dark map
+## where most spawns face an unlit wall, and procedural_arena builds its geometry
+## at runtime so no fixed offset is inside it. Both came out as black rectangles,
+## and a black rectangle passes any check that asks "did the camera end up
+## somewhere sensible".
+##
+## So the tool renders each candidate and SCORES the result. The score wants an
+## image that is both bright and varied: mean luminance alone picks a shot of the
+## empty sky, and variance alone picks a high-contrast corner of a dark room.
+## Their product picks a photograph.
+func _best_shot(level: Node):
+	var bounds := _bounds(level)
+	var centre := bounds.get_center() if bounds.size.length() > 0.01 else Vector3.ZERO
+	var extent: float = maxf(maxf(bounds.size.x, bounds.size.z), 8.0)
+
+	var cam := Camera3D.new()
+	level.add_child(cam)
+	cam.far = maxf(bounds.size.length() * 2.0, 800.0)
+	# A little wider than the game's own view, so a card shows more of the space
+	# than a screenshot of play would.
+	cam.fov = 68.0
+	cam.current = true
+
+	var best_img: Image = null
+	var best_score := -1.0
+	for vantage in _vantages(centre, extent):
+		cam.global_position = vantage[0]
+		var look: Vector3 = vantage[1]
+		if cam.global_position.distance_to(look) < 1.0:
+			continue
+		cam.look_at(look)
+		# Two frames: one for the transform, one for the frame drawn with it.
+		for _i in 3:
+			await process_frame
+		var img := root.get_texture().get_image()
+		var score := _score(img)
+		if score > best_score:
+			best_score = score
+			best_img = img
+	cam.queue_free()
+	return best_img
+
+
+## Candidate camera placements, as `[eye, look_at]` pairs.
+##
+## Every authored spawn point, plus a raised view from each side of the map for
+## the levels that generate themselves and have no spawns by the time this runs.
+func _vantages(centre: Vector3, extent: float) -> Array:
+	var out: Array = []
+	for s in get_nodes_in_group("spawn_points"):
+		if s is Node3D:
+			var p: Vector3 = (s as Node3D).global_position
+			out.append([p + Vector3.UP * 2.2, centre + Vector3.UP * 1.6])
+	# Raised corners, looking in. Higher than eye level, because a generated
+	# arena's floor is not necessarily at the origin and standing "on" it is a
+	# guess where looking down at it is not.
+	for dir in [Vector3(1, 0, 1), Vector3(-1, 0, 1), Vector3(1, 0, -1),
+			Vector3(-1, 0, -1)]:
+		var d: Vector3 = dir.normalized()
+		out.append([centre + d * extent * 0.42 + Vector3.UP * extent * 0.22,
+			centre + Vector3.UP * extent * 0.04])
+	return out
+
+
+## How good a picture is: bright AND varied. See `_best_shot`.
+func _score(img: Image) -> float:
+	var small := img.duplicate() as Image
+	small.resize(40, 24, Image.INTERPOLATE_BILINEAR)
+	var n := 40 * 24
+	var mean := 0.0
+	for y in 24:
+		for x in 40:
+			var c := small.get_pixel(x, y)
+			mean += 0.2126 * c.r + 0.7152 * c.g + 0.0722 * c.b
+	mean /= float(n)
+	var variance := 0.0
+	for y in 24:
+		for x in 40:
+			var c := small.get_pixel(x, y)
+			var l := 0.2126 * c.r + 0.7152 * c.g + 0.0722 * c.b
+			variance += (l - mean) * (l - mean)
+	variance /= float(n)
+	return mean * sqrt(variance)
+
+
+func _bounds(node: Node) -> AABB:
+	var out := AABB()
+	var any := false
+	for child in node.find_children("*", "VisualInstance3D", true, false):
+		var vi := child as VisualInstance3D
+		# Skip anything enormous: a WorldEnvironment's sky or a directional
+		# light's own AABB would swallow the map and push the camera to orbit.
+		var box := vi.get_aabb()
+		if box.size.length() > 100000.0 or box.size.length() < 0.001:
+			continue
+		box = vi.global_transform * box
+		if not any:
+			out = box
+			any = true
+		else:
+			out = out.merge(box)
+	return out if any else AABB()

debug/map_preview_capture.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://esvuwcyncpeb

debug/menu_capture.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+extends SceneTree
+
+## One photograph of every main-menu screen, including the lobby.
+##
+##     godot --path . --windowed --resolution 1280x720 \
+##         -s res://debug/menu_capture.gd -- <out_dir>
+##
+## The lobby is the reason this exists. It only appears after hosting, so it is
+## the screen least likely to be looked at and the one where an unstyled list or
+## a collapsed card would sit unnoticed — which is exactly the class of defect
+## that this project keeps finding by LOOKING rather than by asserting.
+
+const MENU := "res://ui/main_menu/main_menu.tscn"
+
+var _out := "."
+
+
+func _initialize() -> void:
+	var args := OS.get_cmdline_user_args()
+	if args.size() > 0:
+		_out = String(args[0])
+	_run()
+
+
+func _run() -> void:
+	await process_frame
+	change_scene_to_file(MENU)
+	for _i in 60:
+		await process_frame
+
+	var menu := current_scene
+	if menu == null:
+		print("menu_capture: no menu")
+		quit(1)
+		return
+
+	await _shot("home")
+
+	menu._show(menu.LEVELS)
+	await _shot("levels")
+
+	menu._show(menu.MULTIPLAYER)
+	await _shot("multiplayer")
+
+	# Host for real, so the lobby is photographed in the state a player reaches
+	# it in — host controls enabled, own name in the list — rather than in an
+	# empty one that would hide a broken player list.
+	var nm = root.get_node_or_null("NetworkManager")
+	if nm and nm.host_game() == OK:
+		menu._on_connection_succeeded()
+		for _i in 20:
+			await process_frame
+		await _shot("lobby")
+		nm.disconnect_game()
+	else:
+		print("menu_capture: could not host, lobby not shot")
+
+	quit(0)
+
+
+func _shot(tag: String) -> void:
+	for _i in 12:
+		await process_frame
+	root.get_texture().get_image().save_png("%s/menu_%s.png" % [_out, tag])
+	print("menu_capture: saved ", tag)

debug/menu_capture.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://c2fen0sy3bw87

debug/orbit_capture.gd

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ func _process(_delta: float) -> bool:
 			sm.set_active_skin("taila")
 		var nm = root.get_node_or_null("NetworkManager")
 		if nm and nm.has_method("start_singleplayer_match"):
-			nm.start_singleplayer_match("Deathmatch")
+			nm.start_singleplayer_match(GameMode.DEATHMATCH)
 		change_scene_to_file("res://scenes/maps/test_level/test_level.tscn")
 	elif _frames == 160:
 		for p in root.find_children("*", "CharacterBody3D", true, false):

debug/rig_lab.gd

@@ -420,7 +420,8 @@ func _drag_to(mouse: Vector2) -> void:
 
 	var key := _knob_for(_drag_marker)
 	var spec := _spec_for("hold", key)
-	var cur: Vector3 = _knobs["hold"].get(key, WeaponHoldTuning.default_for(key))
+	var cur: Vector3 = _knobs["hold"].get(key,
+		WeaponHoldTuning.default_for(key, _weapons[_weapon].id))
 	if not (cur is Vector3):
 		cur = Vector3.ZERO
 	var lo: float = spec[2]
@@ -490,9 +491,15 @@ func _hold_pose() -> String:
 	return WeaponHoldTuning.pose_for_ads(POSES[_pose][3])
 
 
+## A knob's resting value when nothing has been saved for this character.
+##
+## The weapon is passed through, because the hold's defaults depend on what KIND
+## of weapon it is — see WeaponHoldTuning.default_for. Without it the lab would
+## show a knife the rifle spec's numbers and then save them over the blade
+## profile the moment anyone pressed save.
 func _default_for(group: String, key: String):
 	return RigAnchors.default_for(key) if group == "anchors" \
-		else WeaponHoldTuning.default_for(key)
+		else WeaponHoldTuning.default_for(key, _weapons[_weapon].id)
 
 
 ## Every knob of a group across BOTH poses. Reset works on the whole table, not

debug/roster_capture.gd

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ func _initialize() -> void:
 		_out_dir = args[0]
 	var nm = root.get_node_or_null("NetworkManager")
 	if nm and nm.has_method("start_singleplayer_match"):
-		nm.start_singleplayer_match("Deathmatch")
+		nm.start_singleplayer_match(GameMode.DEATHMATCH)
 	change_scene_to_file("res://scenes/maps/test_level/test_level.tscn")
 
 

debug/spawn_smoke_test.gd

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ func _test_spawn_with_skin(skin_id: String, expect_skinned: bool) -> void:
 	var nm = root.get_node_or_null("/root/NetworkManager")
 	if not _check(nm != null, "NetworkManager autoload exists"):
 		return
-	nm.start_singleplayer_match("Deathmatch")
+	nm.start_singleplayer_match(GameMode.DEATHMATCH)
 	change_scene_to_file("res://scenes/maps/test_level/test_level.tscn")
 
 	# Let the level build and the player spawn + settle.

debug/summary_capture.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+extends SceneTree
+
+## Photograph the end-of-match summary, for a free-for-all and for a team mode.
+##
+##     godot --path . --windowed --resolution 1280x800 \
+##         -s res://debug/summary_capture.gd -- <out_dir>
+##
+## Fed a synthetic result rather than a played match, so the screen can be looked
+## at without spending ten minutes reaching a frag limit — and so the awkward
+## cases (a draw, a long name, a team scoreline) can be put on screen on purpose
+## instead of waiting for them to happen.
+
+var _out := "."
+
+
+func _initialize() -> void:
+	var args := OS.get_cmdline_user_args()
+	if args.size() > 0:
+		_out = String(args[0])
+	_run()
+
+
+func _run() -> void:
+	await process_frame
+	UITheme.apply_global(self)
+
+	var layer := CanvasLayer.new()
+	root.add_child(layer)
+	var back := ColorRect.new()
+	back.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	back.color = Color(0.30, 0.42, 0.62)
+	layer.add_child(back)
+
+	var summary := MatchSummary.new()
+	layer.add_child(summary)
+
+	await _shot(summary, "ffa", {
+		"reason": "score", "name": "Nicholas", "mode": GameMode.DEATHMATCH,
+		"standings": [1, 2, 3],
+		"stats": {
+			1: _p("Nicholas", 25, 25, 11, 4, 7),
+			2: _p("Papaya Enjoyer", 19, 19, 17, 2, 4),
+			3: _p("guest_4471", 8, 8, 24, 9, 2),
+		}})
+
+	await _shot(summary, "team", {
+		"reason": "time", "team": 2, "name": "MAGENTA TEAM",
+		"mode": GameMode.TEAM_DEATHMATCH,
+		"standings": [3, 1, 4, 2],
+		"stats": {
+			1: _p("Nicholas", 14, 14, 9, 3, 5, 1),
+			2: _p("Papaya Enjoyer", 6, 6, 15, 1, 2, 1),
+			3: _p("guest_4471", 17, 17, 8, 6, 6, 2),
+			4: _p("bananaboat", 12, 12, 10, 4, 3, 2),
+		}})
+
+	quit(0)
+
+
+func _shot(summary: MatchSummary, tag: String, result: Dictionary) -> void:
+	summary.show_result(result)
+	for _i in 6:
+		await process_frame
+	root.get_texture().get_image().save_png("%s/summary_%s.png" % [_out, tag])
+	print("summary_capture: saved ", tag)
+
+
+func _p(who: String, score: int, kills: int, deaths: int, assists: int,
+		streak: int, team: int = 0) -> Dictionary:
+	return {"username": who, "score": score, "kills": kills, "deaths": deaths,
+		"assists": assists, "best_streak": streak, "team": team}

debug/summary_capture.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://bnw4gima0hkli

debug/test_level_builder.gd

@@ -4,18 +4,7 @@ class_name TestLevelBuilder
 ## Builds a full test environment from code — parkour geometry, lighting, player, HUD.
 ## Attach to TestLevel root, press F5.
 
-var _speed_label: Label
-var _state_label: Label
-var _chain_label: Label
-var _weapon_label: Label
-var _grapple_icon: TextureRect
-var _dash_icon: TextureRect
-var _grapple_label: Label
-var _dash_label: Label
-var _fps_label: Label
-var _standalone_speed_label: Label
 var _player: CharacterBody3D
-var _debug_ui_panel: PanelContainer
 
 
 func _ready() -> void:
@@ -24,7 +13,6 @@ func _ready() -> void:
 	
 	_build_materials()
 	_build_geometry()
-	_build_hud()
 	
 	# Multiplayer Spawning
 	var spawner = MultiplayerSpawner.new()
@@ -286,6 +274,8 @@ func _spawn_player(pid: int) -> CharacterBody3D:
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_is_ads")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_wall_side")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_is_dancing")
+	# Which of the five emotes, so other players see the one that was chosen.
+	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_dance_index")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_grapple_point")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_is_grapple_shooting")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_skin_id")
@@ -417,298 +407,8 @@ func _spawn_player(pid: int) -> CharacterBody3D:
 	return player
 
 
-# ── HUD ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
-func _build_hud() -> void:
-	var canvas := CanvasLayer.new()
-	canvas.name = "UI"
-	add_child(canvas)
-
-	# ── Crosshair ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-	var crosshair := Control.new()
-	crosshair.name = "Crosshair"
-	crosshair.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_CENTER)
-	crosshair.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(20, 20)
-	canvas.add_child(crosshair)
-
-	var ch_dot := ColorRect.new()
-	ch_dot.name = "Dot"
-	ch_dot.color = Color(1, 1, 1, 0.8)
-	ch_dot.size = Vector2(4, 4)
-	ch_dot.position = Vector2(-2, -2)
-	crosshair.add_child(ch_dot)
-
-	# Crosshair lines
-	for data in [
-		{"pos": Vector2(-10, -1), "size": Vector2(6, 2)},  # Left
-		{"pos": Vector2(4, -1), "size": Vector2(6, 2)},    # Right
-		{"pos": Vector2(-1, -10), "size": Vector2(2, 6)},  # Top
-		{"pos": Vector2(-1, 4), "size": Vector2(2, 6)},    # Bottom
-	]:
-		var line := ColorRect.new()
-		line.color = Color(1, 1, 1, 0.6)
-		line.position = data["pos"]
-		line.size = data["size"]
-		crosshair.add_child(line)
-
-	# ── Info panel background ─────────────────────────────────────────────
-	_fps_label = Label.new()
-	_fps_label.name = "FPSLabel"
-	_fps_label.text = "FPS: 0"
-	_fps_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-	_fps_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(0.9, 0.9, 0.2))
-	_fps_label.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", Color(0, 0, 0))
-	_fps_label.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 4)
-	_fps_label.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_TOP_LEFT)
-	_fps_label.position = Vector2(12, 12)
-	canvas.add_child(_fps_label)
-	
-	_standalone_speed_label = Label.new()
-	_standalone_speed_label.name = "StandaloneSpeedLabel"
-	_standalone_speed_label.text = "Speed: 0.0 m/s"
-	_standalone_speed_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-	_standalone_speed_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(0.3, 1.0, 0.5))
-	_standalone_speed_label.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", Color(0, 0, 0))
-	_standalone_speed_label.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 4)
-	_standalone_speed_label.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_TOP_LEFT)
-	_standalone_speed_label.position = Vector2(12, 45)
-	canvas.add_child(_standalone_speed_label)
-	
-	_debug_ui_panel = PanelContainer.new()
-	_debug_ui_panel.name = "InfoPanel"
-	_debug_ui_panel.offset_left = 12
-	_debug_ui_panel.offset_top = 50
-	_debug_ui_panel.offset_right = 400
-	_debug_ui_panel.offset_bottom = 160
-	var panel_style := StyleBoxFlat.new()
-	panel_style.bg_color = Color(0, 0, 0, 0.55)
-	panel_style.corner_radius_top_left = 8
-	panel_style.corner_radius_top_right = 8
-	panel_style.corner_radius_bottom_left = 8
-	panel_style.corner_radius_bottom_right = 8
-	panel_style.content_margin_left = 12
-	panel_style.content_margin_top = 8
-	panel_style.content_margin_right = 12
-	panel_style.content_margin_bottom = 8
-	_debug_ui_panel.add_theme_stylebox_override("panel", panel_style)
-	canvas.add_child(_debug_ui_panel)
-
-	var vbox := VBoxContainer.new()
-	vbox.name = "InfoVBox"
-	_debug_ui_panel.add_child(vbox)
-
-	_speed_label = Label.new()
-	_speed_label.name = "SpeedLabel"
-	_speed_label.text = "Speed: 0.0 m/s"
-	_speed_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 18)
-	_speed_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(0.3, 1.0, 0.5))
-	vbox.add_child(_speed_label)
-
-	_state_label = Label.new()
-	_state_label.name = "StateLabel"
-	_state_label.text = "State: ground"
-	_state_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 16)
-	_state_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(0.7, 0.85, 1.0))
-	vbox.add_child(_state_label)
-
-	_chain_label = Label.new()
-	_chain_label.name = "ChainLabel"
-	_chain_label.text = "Chain: 0 (+0%)"
-	_chain_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 16)
-	_chain_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(1.0, 0.8, 0.3))
-	vbox.add_child(_chain_label)
-
-
-	# ── Weapon & Ammo Panel ───────────────────────────────────────────────
-	var wp_panel := PanelContainer.new()
-	wp_panel.name = "WeaponPanel"
-	wp_panel.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_BOTTOM_RIGHT)
-	wp_panel.offset_left = -250
-	wp_panel.offset_top = -100
-	wp_panel.offset_right = -20
-	wp_panel.offset_bottom = -20
-	var wp_style := StyleBoxFlat.new()
-	wp_style.bg_color = Color(0, 0, 0, 0.6)
-	wp_style.corner_radius_top_left = 8
-	wp_style.corner_radius_top_right = 8
-	wp_style.corner_radius_bottom_left = 8
-	wp_style.corner_radius_bottom_right = 8
-	wp_style.content_margin_left = 16
-	wp_style.content_margin_top = 12
-	wp_style.content_margin_right = 16
-	wp_style.content_margin_bottom = 12
-	wp_panel.add_theme_stylebox_override("panel", wp_style)
-	wp_panel.grow_horizontal = Control.GROW_DIRECTION_BEGIN
-	canvas.add_child(wp_panel)
-	
-	_weapon_label = Label.new()
-	_weapon_label.name = "WeaponLabel"
-	_weapon_label.text = "Unarmed\n0 / 0"
-	_weapon_label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_RIGHT
-	_weapon_label.vertical_alignment = VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT_BOTTOM
-	_weapon_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-	wp_panel.add_child(_weapon_label)
-
-	# ── Utilities Panel ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-	var util_panel := PanelContainer.new()
-	util_panel.name = "UtilPanel"
-	util_panel.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_BOTTOM_RIGHT)
-	util_panel.offset_left = -200
-	util_panel.offset_top = -180
-	util_panel.offset_right = -20
-	util_panel.offset_bottom = -110
-	var util_style := StyleBoxFlat.new()
-	util_style.bg_color = Color(0, 0, 0, 0.6)
-	util_style.corner_radius_top_left = 8
-	util_style.corner_radius_top_right = 8
-	util_style.corner_radius_bottom_left = 8
-	util_style.corner_radius_bottom_right = 8
-	util_style.content_margin_left = 12
-	util_style.content_margin_top = 8
-	util_style.content_margin_right = 12
-	util_style.content_margin_bottom = 8
-	util_panel.add_theme_stylebox_override("panel", util_style)
-	util_panel.grow_horizontal = Control.GROW_DIRECTION_BEGIN
-	canvas.add_child(util_panel)
-
-	var util_hbox := HBoxContainer.new()
-	util_hbox.name = "UtilHBox"
-	util_hbox.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 20)
-	util_hbox.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	util_panel.add_child(util_hbox)
-
-	var grapple_vbox := VBoxContainer.new()
-	grapple_vbox.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	util_hbox.add_child(grapple_vbox)
-
-	_grapple_icon = TextureRect.new()
-	_grapple_icon.texture = load("res://assets/ui/grapple_icon.jpg")
-	_grapple_icon.expand_mode = TextureRect.EXPAND_IGNORE_SIZE
-	_grapple_icon.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(32, 32)
-	_grapple_icon.stretch_mode = TextureRect.STRETCH_KEEP_ASPECT_CENTERED
-	grapple_vbox.add_child(_grapple_icon)
-	
-	_grapple_label = Label.new()
-	_grapple_label.text = "Grapple"
-	_grapple_label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	_grapple_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 12)
-	grapple_vbox.add_child(_grapple_label)
-
-	var dash_vbox := VBoxContainer.new()
-	dash_vbox.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	util_hbox.add_child(dash_vbox)
-
-	_dash_icon = TextureRect.new()
-	_dash_icon.texture = load("res://assets/ui/dash_icon.jpg")
-	_dash_icon.expand_mode = TextureRect.EXPAND_IGNORE_SIZE
-	_dash_icon.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(32, 32)
-	_dash_icon.stretch_mode = TextureRect.STRETCH_KEEP_ASPECT_CENTERED
-	dash_vbox.add_child(_dash_icon)
-	
-	_dash_label = Label.new()
-	_dash_label.text = "Ready"
-	_dash_label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	_dash_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 12)
-	dash_vbox.add_child(_dash_label)
-
-
-# ── Utility: Key Name ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
-func _get_key_name(action: String) -> String:
-	if not InputMap.has_action(action):
-		return "?"
-	var events = InputMap.action_get_events(action)
-	for e in events:
-		if e is InputEventKey:
-			var code = e.physical_keycode if e.physical_keycode != 0 else e.keycode
-			return OS.get_keycode_string(code)
-		elif e is InputEventMouseButton:
-			if e.button_index == MOUSE_BUTTON_LEFT: return "LClick"
-			elif e.button_index == MOUSE_BUTTON_RIGHT: return "RClick"
-			elif e.button_index == MOUSE_BUTTON_MIDDLE: return "MClick"
-	return "?"
-
-# ── HUD Update ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
-func _process(_delta: float) -> void:
-	if not _player or not is_instance_valid(_player):
-		return
-		
-	if _debug_ui_panel:
-		_debug_ui_panel.visible = SettingsManager.show_debug_ui
-		
-	if _fps_label:
-		_fps_label.visible = SettingsManager.show_fps
-		if _fps_label.visible:
-			_fps_label.text = "FPS: %d" % Engine.get_frames_per_second()
-
-	var vel: Vector3 = _player.velocity
-	var hspeed := Vector2(vel.x, vel.z).length()
-	var total_speed := vel.length()
-
-	if _speed_label:
-		_speed_label.text = "Speed: %.1f m/s (total: %.1f)" % [hspeed, total_speed]
-
-	if _standalone_speed_label:
-		if SettingsManager.show_movement_speed and not SettingsManager.show_debug_ui:
-			_standalone_speed_label.visible = true
-			_standalone_speed_label.text = "Speed: %.1f m/s" % hspeed
-			if _fps_label and _fps_label.visible:
-				_standalone_speed_label.position = Vector2(12, 45)
-			else:
-				_standalone_speed_label.position = Vector2(12, 12)
-		else:
-			_standalone_speed_label.visible = false
-
-	if _state_label:
-		var sm = _player.get_node_or_null("MovementStateMachine")
-		if sm:
-			_state_label.text = "State: %s" % sm.current_state
-
-	if _chain_label:
-		var sm = _player.get_node_or_null("MovementStateMachine")
-		if sm:
-			_chain_label.text = "Chain: %d (+%d%%)" % [sm.chain_count, int(sm.current_chain_bonus * 100)]
-			
-			# Update utility indicators
-			if sm.current_state == "grapple" or sm.is_grapple_shooting:
-				_grapple_icon.modulate = Color(0.2, 1.0, 0.4)
-				_grapple_label.text = "Grappling"
-			else:
-				_grapple_icon.modulate = Color(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
-				_grapple_label.text = "Ready"
-				
-			var dash_rem = sm.get_dash_cooldown_remaining()
-			if dash_rem > 0.0:
-				_dash_icon.modulate = Color(1.0, 0.3, 0.3)
-				_dash_label.text = "%.1f" % dash_rem
-			else:
-				_dash_icon.modulate = Color(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
-				_dash_label.text = "Ready"
-
-	if _weapon_label:
-		var wman = _player.get_node_or_null("HeadPivot/Camera3D/WeaponManager")
-		if wman and wman.weapons.has(wman.active_slot):
-			var active_weapon = wman.weapons[wman.active_slot]
-			var w_name = "Weapon"
-			var cur_ammo = 0
-			var max_ammo = 0
-			
-			if "weapon_name" in active_weapon:
-				w_name = active_weapon.weapon_name
-			elif active_weapon is DoubleBarrelShotgun:
-				w_name = "Double Barrel Shotgun"
-				
-			if "current_ammo" in active_weapon:
-				cur_ammo = active_weapon.current_ammo
-				max_ammo = active_weapon.max_ammo
-			elif "shells" in active_weapon:
-				cur_ammo = active_weapon.shells
-				max_ammo = 2
-				
-			if "reloading" in active_weapon and active_weapon.reloading:
-				_weapon_label.text = "%s\nReloading..." % w_name
-			else:
-				_weapon_label.text = "%s\n%d / %d" % [w_name, cur_ammo, max_ammo]
-		else:
-			_weapon_label.text = "Unarmed\n0 / 0"
+# ── HUD ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+#
+# There is no HUD here any more, and no _process to drive one. See the note in
+# scenes/maps/level_runtime.gd: everything that describes A PLAYER belongs to
+# ui/player_hud.gd, which that player spawns for itself.

debug/ui_capture.gd

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ func _process(_delta: float) -> bool:
 			# rather than a flat colour — that its legibility has to survive.
 			var nm = root.get_node_or_null("NetworkManager")
 			if nm and nm.has_method("start_singleplayer_match"):
-				nm.start_singleplayer_match("Deathmatch")
+				nm.start_singleplayer_match(GameMode.DEATHMATCH)
 			change_scene_to_file("res://scenes/maps/test_level/test_level.tscn")
 		200:
 			_open("_show_main_menu")

debug/ui_contrast_check.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,229 @@
+extends SceneTree
+
+## Reads the BUILT theme and fails if any state puts text on a fill it cannot be
+## read against.
+##
+##     godot --headless --path . -s res://debug/ui_contrast_check.gd
+##
+## The point is that this interrogates `UITheme.build()` rather than the palette
+## constants. A table of colours checked against itself agrees by construction
+## and catches nothing; what goes wrong in practice is a stylebox whose fill was
+## changed without the matching `font_*_color`, or a state Godot draws that
+## nobody remembered exists — `hover_pressed` on a toggle, `font_hover_color` on
+## a PopupMenu. Those are exactly what this finds, because it asks the theme what
+## it will actually draw.
+##
+## WCAG 2.1 floors: 4.5:1 for body text, 3:1 for text at or above ~24 px.
+##
+## ── Two ways text can be legible, and only one of them is a colour pair ───────
+##
+## A label on a BUTTON sits on a solid chip. The fill is right behind the glyphs
+## and nothing else is, so the only thing that can make it readable is the pair,
+## and the fix when it fails is to invert the label with the fill. Those are
+## checked as `SOLID`.
+##
+## A label on a PROGRESS BAR does not have one backdrop. It straddles the filled
+## part and the empty part, and no single text colour can beat both a hot papaya
+## and a near-black at once — the pair is unfixable by construction. What carries
+## it is the heavy ink outline the theme puts on every glyph, which is the same
+## mechanism that keeps menu text readable straight over the 3D scene, and it is
+## the theme's first stated rule for exactly this reason.
+##
+## So that case is checked as `OUTLINED`, against what actually does the work:
+##
+##     outline vs fill    >= 3.0     the outline has to separate from the backdrop
+##     text vs outline    >= 4.5     and the glyph has to separate from its outline
+##     outline_size       >= 4 px    thin enough and there is no outline to read
+##
+## This is a narrower allowance than it looks. It is only granted where the
+## backdrop genuinely varies, and it substitutes two ratios for one rather than
+## waiving the requirement — an unoutlined label over a bar still fails.
+##
+## Semi-transparent fills (PANEL, DEAD_FILL) are measured as if opaque. They are
+## drawn over the dark 3D scene or over a darker panel, so the opaque reading is
+## the pessimistic one for paper-on-dark and the accurate one for ink-on-light.
+
+const FLOOR_BODY := 4.5
+const FLOOR_LARGE := 3.0
+## An outline thinner than this is a hairline, not a backdrop.
+const MIN_OUTLINE := 4
+
+const SOLID := "solid"
+const OUTLINED := "outlined"
+
+## class -> [[stylebox, font colour, large?, mode], ...]
+##
+## Only the pairs Godot really composites. `focus` is drawn OVER `normal` rather
+## than instead of it, so it is checked against its own fill (which is the same
+## fill) and its own font colour.
+##
+## Tree has no `font_hovered_color` in Godot 4 — a hovered row keeps `font_color`
+## and a hovered-selected one keeps `font_selected_color` — so its hover fills
+## are checked against the colours that will really be drawn on them. Asking for
+## a colour the control does not have is itself reported, which is how this was
+## found.
+const PAIRS := {
+	"Button": [
+		["normal", "font_color", false, SOLID],
+		["hover", "font_hover_color", false, SOLID],
+		["pressed", "font_pressed_color", false, SOLID],
+		["hover_pressed", "font_hover_pressed_color", false, SOLID],
+		["focus", "font_focus_color", false, SOLID],
+		["disabled", "font_disabled_color", false, SOLID],
+	],
+	"ItemList": [
+		["panel", "font_color", false, SOLID],
+		["hovered", "font_hovered_color", false, SOLID],
+		["selected", "font_selected_color", false, SOLID],
+		["selected_focus", "font_selected_color", false, SOLID],
+		["hovered_selected", "font_selected_color", false, SOLID],
+	],
+	"Tree": [
+		["panel", "font_color", false, SOLID],
+		["hovered", "font_color", false, SOLID],
+		["selected", "font_selected_color", false, SOLID],
+		["hovered_selected", "font_selected_color", false, SOLID],
+	],
+	"PopupMenu": [
+		["panel", "font_color", false, SOLID],
+		["panel", "font_disabled_color", false, SOLID],
+		["panel", "font_accelerator_color", false, SOLID],
+		["hover", "font_hover_color", false, SOLID],
+	],
+	"TabContainer": [
+		["tab_selected", "font_selected_color", false, SOLID],
+		["tab_unselected", "font_unselected_color", false, SOLID],
+		["tab_hovered", "font_hovered_color", false, SOLID],
+		["tab_disabled", "font_disabled_color", false, SOLID],
+	],
+	"LineEdit": [
+		["normal", "font_color", false, SOLID],
+		["normal", "font_placeholder_color", false, SOLID],
+		["normal", "selection_color:font_selected_color", false, SOLID],
+		["read_only", "font_uneditable_color", false, SOLID],
+	],
+	# The readout straddles both halves of the bar — see the note above.
+	"ProgressBar": [
+		["background", "font_color", false, OUTLINED],
+		["fill", "font_color", false, OUTLINED],
+	],
+}
+
+## Every button-ish theme type gets Button's pair list, since `_button_look`
+## gives them all the same treatment.
+const BUTTON_LIKE := ["OptionButton", "MenuButton", "CheckBox", "CheckButton",
+	"LinkButton"]
+
+
+func _init() -> void:
+	var t: Theme = UITheme.build()
+	var fails: Array = []
+	var checked := 0
+
+	var classes := PAIRS.duplicate()
+	for cls in BUTTON_LIKE:
+		classes[cls] = PAIRS["Button"]
+
+	for cls in classes:
+		for pair in classes[cls]:
+			var sb_name: String = pair[0]
+			var fg_name: String = pair[1]
+			var large: bool = pair[2]
+			var mode: String = pair[3]
+
+			if not _has_flat(t, cls, sb_name):
+				fails.append("%s: no StyleBoxFlat '%s'" % [cls, sb_name])
+				continue
+			var bg: Color = _fill_of(t, cls, sb_name)
+
+			# "a:b" means the fill comes from colour `a` rather than a stylebox —
+			# LineEdit's text selection paints a colour, not a box.
+			var fg_key := fg_name
+			if ":" in fg_name:
+				var parts := fg_name.split(":")
+				if not t.has_color(parts[0], cls):
+					fails.append("%s: no colour '%s'" % [cls, parts[0]])
+					continue
+				bg = t.get_color(parts[0], cls)
+				fg_key = parts[1]
+
+			if not t.has_color(fg_key, cls):
+				fails.append("%s: no colour '%s'" % [cls, fg_key])
+				continue
+			var fg: Color = t.get_color(fg_key, cls)
+
+			checked += 1
+			var floor_ := FLOOR_LARGE if large else FLOOR_BODY
+			var where := "%s/%s + %s" % [cls, sb_name, fg_key]
+			if mode == OUTLINED:
+				fails.append_array(_check_outlined(t, cls, where, bg, fg, floor_))
+				continue
+			var ratio := UITheme.contrast(fg, bg)
+			if ratio < floor_:
+				fails.append("%s = %.2f:1 (needs %.1f) fill=%s text=%s"
+					% [where, ratio, floor_, bg.to_html(false), fg.to_html(false)])
+
+	# The declared table too, for the pairs no theme entry describes — a Label
+	# over a panel, the level card's caption over its scrim.
+	for entry in UITheme.state_table():
+		var name: String = entry[0]
+		var fill: Color = entry[1]
+		var text: Color = entry[2]
+		var large: bool = entry[3]
+		checked += 1
+		var ratio := UITheme.contrast(text, fill)
+		var floor_ := FLOOR_LARGE if large else FLOOR_BODY
+		if ratio < floor_:
+			fails.append("table %s = %.2f:1 (needs %.1f)" % [name, ratio, floor_])
+
+	print("UI CONTRAST: %d pairs checked" % checked)
+	if fails.is_empty():
+		print("PASS — every state reads")
+		quit(0)
+		return
+	for f in fails:
+		print("  FAIL ", f)
+	print("FAIL — %d unreadable state(s)" % fails.size())
+	quit(1)
+
+
+## Text whose backdrop varies, read either directly or against its own outline.
+##
+## The outline is a FALLBACK, not a replacement: where the glyph already beats the
+## backdrop on its own the outline is free to be the same colour as that backdrop
+## and simply do nothing, which is what a paper readout over the bar's near-black
+## trough is. It is only when the direct pair fails — paper over hot papaya — that
+## the outline has to carry it, and then both of its ratios must hold.
+##
+## Returns the failures rather than printing, so the caller keeps the tally.
+func _check_outlined(t: Theme, cls: String, where: String, bg: Color, fg: Color,
+		floor_: float) -> Array:
+	var out: Array = []
+	if UITheme.contrast(fg, bg) >= floor_:
+		return out
+	if not t.has_color("font_outline_color", cls):
+		return ["%s: outlined but no font_outline_color" % where]
+	var edge: Color = t.get_color("font_outline_color", cls)
+	var width: int = t.get_constant("outline_size", cls) \
+		if t.has_constant("outline_size", cls) else 0
+	if width < MIN_OUTLINE:
+		out.append("%s: outline is %d px, needs %d" % [where, width, MIN_OUTLINE])
+	var edge_bg := UITheme.contrast(edge, bg)
+	if edge_bg < FLOOR_LARGE:
+		out.append("%s: outline vs fill = %.2f:1 (needs %.1f) outline=%s fill=%s"
+			% [where, edge_bg, FLOOR_LARGE, edge.to_html(false), bg.to_html(false)])
+	var fg_edge := UITheme.contrast(fg, edge)
+	if fg_edge < floor_:
+		out.append("%s: text vs outline = %.2f:1 (needs %.1f) text=%s outline=%s"
+			% [where, fg_edge, floor_, fg.to_html(false), edge.to_html(false)])
+	return out
+
+
+## Whether the theme has a MEASURABLE box under that name. Only StyleBoxFlat
+## carries a fill colour; anything else is not something to take a ratio against.
+func _has_flat(t: Theme, cls: String, sb_name: String) -> bool:
+	return t.has_stylebox(sb_name, cls) and t.get_stylebox(sb_name, cls) is StyleBoxFlat
+
+
+func _fill_of(t: Theme, cls: String, sb_name: String) -> Color:
+	return (t.get_stylebox(sb_name, cls) as StyleBoxFlat).bg_color

debug/ui_contrast_check.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://78mssihccx1s

debug/visual_capture.gd

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ func _process(_delta: float) -> bool:
 		_shot("menu")
 		var nm = root.get_node_or_null("NetworkManager")
 		if nm and nm.has_method("start_singleplayer_match"):
-			nm.start_singleplayer_match("Deathmatch")
+			nm.start_singleplayer_match(GameMode.DEATHMATCH)
 		change_scene_to_file(_scene)
 	elif _frames == 240:
 		_shot("level")

debug/weapon_hold_check.gd

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+extends SceneTree
+
+## Does the character actually hold each weapon DIFFERENTLY?
+##
+##     godot --path . -s res://debug/weapon_hold_check.gd
+##
+## Every weapon used to be solved as a rifle: stock in the shoulder pocket,
+## support hand out along the barrel, muzzle on the aim line. So a knife, an AWP
+## and a rocket launcher produced the same pose, and the only thing telling a
+## viewer what was being carried was the weapon mesh itself — which at the
+## distance an enemy is usually seen is a few pixels.
+##
+## This asserts the consequence, not the plumbing. Setting `support_mode` and
+## reading it back proves nothing; a hold system is easy to build so that the
+## profile loads, the enum is stored and the JSON round-trips while the arms do
+## not move. So it measures WHERE THE HANDS AND HEAD ACTUALLY ARE, per weapon,
+## and requires the poses to be distinguishable from each other.
+##
+## ── Measured from inside the modifier pass ──────────────────────────────────
+##
+## Godot restores every bone's local pose after `SkeletonModifier3D` runs, so
+## reading `get_bone_global_pose` from a SceneTree script recomputes the globals
+## from the ANIMATION alone — the shooter hold is not in what you measure, and
+## every weapon would report an identical pose whether or not this feature
+## exists. That is the single most expensive trap in this repo; see
+## `references/verification.md`. The `PoseProbe` below is the fix.
+##
+## ── Measured in the SHOULDER's frame ────────────────────────────────────────
+##
+## Not in world space, and not even in skeleton space. The hold breathes — a
+## `sin(_time * 2.2) * 0.012` on the muzzle pitch — and the idle clip moves the
+## whole torso, so no hand is ever at the same place twice and two samples of the
+## SAME weapon would differ by more than two different weapons do. Taking each
+## hand relative to the right shoulder joint, in the chest's own basis, cancels
+## both, because they move the shoulder and the hand together.
+
+const LAB := "res://debug/rig_lab.tscn"
+
+## One weapon per style, plus the two rifles, so the table covers every branch
+## and also shows that two weapons of the SAME style stay close together.
+const CASES := [
+	["ak47", WeaponHoldProfiles.RIFLE],
+	["m4", WeaponHoldProfiles.RIFLE],
+	["mp7", WeaponHoldProfiles.SMG],
+	["awp", WeaponHoldProfiles.SNIPER],
+	["double_barrel_shotgun", WeaponHoldProfiles.SHOTGUN],
+	["rocket_launcher", WeaponHoldProfiles.LAUNCHER],
+	["knife", WeaponHoldProfiles.BLADE],
+]
+
+## Two weapons of DIFFERENT styles must place their hands at least this far
+## apart, in metres, measured in the shoulder frame. Small — these are stylised
+## characters with ~0.47 m arms — but far above the millimetre of noise the
+## shoulder-frame measurement leaves behind.
+const MIN_STYLE_SEPARATION := 0.045
+## Two weapons of the SAME style should agree to within this.
+const MAX_SAME_STYLE := 0.06
+
+var _fails := 0
+var _probe: PoseProbe = null
+
+
+## Snapshot the pose from INSIDE the modifier pass. See the note above.
+class PoseProbe extends SkeletonModifier3D:
+	var pose: Array = []
+
+	func _process_modification() -> void:
+		var skel := get_skeleton()
+		if skel == null:
+			return
+		pose.resize(skel.get_bone_count())
+		for i in skel.get_bone_count():
+			pose[i] = skel.get_bone_global_pose(i)
+
+
+func _init() -> void:
+	await process_frame
+	var lab: Node = load(LAB).instantiate()
+	root.add_child(lab)
+	for _i in 200:
+		await process_frame
+
+	if lab._model == null or lab._model._pose_mod == null:
+		_expect(false, "the lab built a character with a pose layer")
+		_done()
+		return
+
+	var skel: Skeleton3D = lab._model.skeleton
+	_probe = PoseProbe.new()
+	skel.add_child(_probe)
+	# AFTER the pose layer, so what it reads is what renders.
+	skel.move_child(_probe, skel.get_child_count() - 1)
+
+	var samples := {}
+	for case in CASES:
+		var weapon_id: String = case[0]
+		var want_style: String = case[1]
+
+		_expect(WeaponHoldProfiles.style_for(weapon_id) == want_style,
+			"%s is held as a %s" % [weapon_id, want_style])
+
+		# Whether this character has a SAVED hold for this weapon, which is
+		# allowed to disagree with the style profile. See `_compare`.
+		var tuned: bool = not WeaponHoldTuning.resolve(
+			WeaponHoldTuning.load_all(), lab._skins[lab._skin].id,
+			weapon_id).is_empty()
+
+		lab._model.hold_tune = {}
+		lab._model.set_weapon("res://weapons/%s.gd" % weapon_id)
+		# Long enough for HOLD_SMOOTH to arrive and for the weapon's `ready` to
+		# have measured it. The hold blends in at ~8/s, so ~60 frames is several
+		# time constants.
+		for _i in 90:
+			await process_frame
+		samples[weapon_id] = _sample(skel, lab._model)
+		if not samples[weapon_id].is_empty():
+			samples[weapon_id]["tuned"] = tuned
+
+	_report(samples)
+	_compare(samples)
+	_done()
+
+
+## Both hands and the head, relative to the right shoulder, in the chest's basis.
+func _sample(skel: Skeleton3D, model) -> Dictionary:
+	var mod = model._pose_mod
+	var sh_i: int = mod._idx.get("DEF-upper_arm.R", -1)
+	var chest_i: int = mod._idx.get("DEF-spine.003", -1)
+	if chest_i < 0:
+		chest_i = mod._idx.get("DEF-spine.002", -1)
+	var hand_r: int = mod._idx.get("DEF-hand.R", -1)
+	var hand_l: int = mod._idx.get("DEF-hand.L", -1)
+	var head_i: int = mod._idx.get("DEF-head", -1)
+	if sh_i < 0 or hand_r < 0 or hand_l < 0:
+		return {}
+
+	var pose: Array = _probe.pose
+	if pose.size() <= maxi(maxi(sh_i, hand_r), hand_l):
+		return {}
+
+	var shoulder: Vector3 = pose[sh_i].origin
+	# The chest's rotation, so a torso lean does not read as a moved hand.
+	var frame: Basis = Basis.IDENTITY
+	if chest_i >= 0 and chest_i < pose.size():
+		frame = pose[chest_i].basis.orthonormalized()
+	var inv := frame.inverse()
+
+	var out := {
+		"r": inv * (pose[hand_r].origin - shoulder),
+		"l": inv * (pose[hand_l].origin - shoulder),
+		"style": model.hold_style,
+		"support": mod.support_mode,
+		"hold_l": mod._hold_l,
+	}
+	if head_i >= 0 and head_i < pose.size():
+		# The head's TILT, which is what a cheek weld is. Taken as the angle
+		# between the head's up axis and the chest's, signed about forward, so a
+		# weld (toward the weapon) and a lean-away come out opposite.
+		var head_up: Vector3 = pose[head_i].basis.orthonormalized().y
+		var local := inv * head_up
+		out["cheek_deg"] = rad_to_deg(atan2(local.x, local.y))
+	return out
+
+
+func _report(samples: Dictionary) -> void:
+	print("\n=== HOLD POSE PER WEAPON (metres, in the shoulder's frame) ===")
+	for id in samples:
+		var s: Dictionary = samples[id]
+		if s.is_empty():
+			continue
+		print("  %-22s %-9s support=%-7s handR=(%.3f %.3f %.3f) handL=(%.3f %.3f %.3f) offhand=%.2f tilt=%+.1f deg"
+			% [id, s["style"], s["support"],
+				s["r"].x, s["r"].y, s["r"].z, s["l"].x, s["l"].y, s["l"].z,
+				s["hold_l"], s.get("cheek_deg", 0.0)])
+
+
+func _compare(samples: Dictionary) -> void:
+	# Every pair of DIFFERENT styles must be distinguishable.
+	var ids: Array = samples.keys()
+	for i in ids.size():
+		for j in range(i + 1, ids.size()):
+			var a: Dictionary = samples[ids[i]]
+			var b: Dictionary = samples[ids[j]]
+			if a.is_empty() or b.is_empty():
+				continue
+			# The blade releases its off hand to the animation, so comparing its
+			# left hand measures the idle clip, not the hold. Its trigger hand
+			# and its free offhand weight are what distinguish it.
+			var d: float = float(a["r"].distance_to(b["r"]))
+			if a["hold_l"] > 0.5 and b["hold_l"] > 0.5:
+				d = maxf(d, a["l"].distance_to(b["l"]))
+
+			if a["style"] == b["style"]:
+				# ...unless an artist has tuned one of them for THIS character.
+				# The profile is only a defaults layer; a saved hold is meant to
+				# be able to disagree with it, and aria's hand-tuned AK-47 sits
+				# 0.22 m from the untuned M4 for exactly that reason. Asserting
+				# they match would be asserting that the rig lab does nothing.
+				if a["tuned"] or b["tuned"]:
+					print("  --  %s and %s are both %s but %s is hand-tuned (%.3f m apart)"
+						% [ids[i], ids[j], a["style"],
+							ids[i] if a["tuned"] else ids[j], d])
+					continue
+				_expect(d <= MAX_SAME_STYLE,
+					"%s and %s are both %s and hold alike (%.3f m apart)"
+						% [ids[i], ids[j], a["style"], d])
+			else:
+				_expect(d >= MIN_STYLE_SEPARATION,
+					"%s (%s) and %s (%s) are held differently (%.3f m apart)"
+						% [ids[i], a["style"], ids[j], b["style"], d])
+
+	# The blade must actually let go of the off arm — that released arm is most
+	# of what makes a one-handed weapon read as one-handed.
+	if samples.has("knife"):
+		_expect(samples["knife"]["hold_l"] < 0.05,
+			"the knife releases the off arm to the animation (%.2f)"
+				% samples["knife"]["hold_l"])
+	for id in ["ak47", "awp", "rocket_launcher"]:
+		if samples.has(id):
+			_expect(samples[id]["hold_l"] > 0.9,
+				"%s keeps both hands on the weapon" % id)
+
+	# The cheek weld, and its inverse on a shouldered tube. These are the two
+	# poses that read at the greatest distance, so they get their own assertion
+	# rather than relying on the pairwise distance.
+	if samples.has("awp") and samples.has("ak47"):
+		var d: float = float(samples["awp"].get("cheek_deg", 0.0)) - float(samples["ak47"].get("cheek_deg", 0.0))
+		_expect(absf(d) > 1.5,
+			"the sniper welds its head to the stock (%+.1f deg vs the rifle)" % d)
+	if samples.has("rocket_launcher") and samples.has("ak47"):
+		var dl: float = float(samples["rocket_launcher"].get("cheek_deg", 0.0))
+		var dr: float = float(samples["ak47"].get("cheek_deg", 0.0))
+		var da: float = float(samples["awp"].get("cheek_deg", 0.0))
+		_expect((dl - dr) * (da - dr) < 0.0,
+			"the launcher leans the head AWAY, opposite the sniper (%+.1f vs %+.1f)"
+				% [dl - dr, da - dr])
+
+
+func _expect(ok: bool, what: String) -> void:
+	if ok:
+		print("  OK: ", what)
+	else:
+		print("  FAIL: ", what)
+		_fails += 1
+
+
+func _done() -> void:
+	print("\n=== WEAPON HOLD SUMMARY ===")
+	print("Failures: %d" % _fails)
+	quit(1 if _fails > 0 else 0)

debug/weapon_hold_check.gd.uid

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+uid://f7600k001iqr

globals/game_mode.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,265 @@
+extends Object
+class_name GameMode
+
+## What a match IS: how you score, when it ends, and who won.
+##
+## Before this there was a string — `NetworkManager.current_gamemode`, always
+## "Deathmatch" — an OptionButton with one entry in it, and a five-minute timer
+## that counted to zero, set `match_active = false`, and did nothing else. No
+## winner was ever declared, no summary was ever shown, and nothing was tracked
+## beyond a running kill count. A match did not end so much as stop mattering.
+##
+## The three things a mode has to answer are answered here:
+##
+##   HOW YOU SCORE      what a kill is worth, and to whom. In Gun Game a kill is
+##                      worth a rung on a ladder rather than a point.
+##   WHEN IT ENDS       a score limit, a time limit, or both, whichever comes
+##                      first. A mode with neither cannot end and is not a mode.
+##   WHO WON            the top player, or the top TEAM, which are different
+##                      questions and used to be the same one.
+##
+## Deliberately a plain data table with static helpers rather than an autoload:
+## the menu, the lobby, the HUD and the server all need to ask what a mode is,
+## and half of them run before any autoload would be ready.
+
+const DEATHMATCH := "deathmatch"
+const TEAM_DEATHMATCH := "team_deathmatch"
+const GUN_GAME := "gun_game"
+
+## The order they appear in menus. Deathmatch first because it is the one that
+## needs no explanation.
+const ORDER := [DEATHMATCH, TEAM_DEATHMATCH, GUN_GAME]
+
+## `score_limit` of 0 means the mode has no score limit and ends on time alone.
+## `time_limit` is in seconds; 0 means it ends on score alone. At least one of
+## the two must be non-zero or the match cannot end — `is_valid` checks that.
+const MODES := {
+	DEATHMATCH: {
+		"name": "Deathmatch",
+		"blurb": "Everyone for themselves. First to the frag limit takes it.",
+		"score_limit": 25,
+		"time_limit": 600.0,
+		"teams": 0,
+		"friendly_fire": true,
+		"score_noun": "KILLS",
+		# What one kill is worth to the killer.
+		"kill_score": 1,
+		# What dying costs. Zero: a deathmatch that punishes dying rewards
+		# hiding, and this is a game about momentum.
+		"death_score": 0,
+	},
+	TEAM_DEATHMATCH: {
+		"name": "Team Deathmatch",
+		"blurb": "Two squads. Team score is what counts.",
+		"score_limit": 50,
+		"time_limit": 600.0,
+		"teams": 2,
+		"friendly_fire": false,
+		"score_noun": "SCORE",
+		"kill_score": 1,
+		"death_score": 0,
+	},
+	GUN_GAME: {
+		"name": "Gun Game",
+		"blurb": "Every kill promotes you to the next weapon. Finish the ladder.",
+		# The limit IS the ladder length, filled in from LADDER below so the two
+		# can never disagree.
+		"score_limit": 0,
+		"time_limit": 900.0,
+		"teams": 0,
+		"friendly_fire": true,
+		"score_noun": "RUNG",
+		"kill_score": 1,
+		"death_score": 0,
+	},
+}
+
+## Gun Game's ladder, by weapon id (see LoadoutManager.weapon_db). Ordered
+## roughly easiest to hardest to get a kill with, so the last rung is a real
+## finish rather than a formality.
+const LADDER := ["ak47", "m4", "mp7", "dmr", "plasma_gun", "nail_gun",
+	"double_barrel_shotgun", "rocket_launcher", "awp", "knife"]
+
+
+static func all_ids() -> Array:
+	return ORDER.duplicate()
+
+
+static func get_mode(id: String) -> Dictionary:
+	return MODES.get(id, MODES[DEATHMATCH])
+
+
+static func display_name(id: String) -> String:
+	return String(get_mode(id).get("name", id))
+
+
+static func blurb(id: String) -> String:
+	return String(get_mode(id).get("blurb", ""))
+
+
+## The score that ends the match. For Gun Game this is the ladder's length, so
+## adding a weapon to the ladder cannot leave the win condition unreachable.
+static func score_limit(id: String) -> int:
+	if id == GUN_GAME:
+		return LADDER.size()
+	return int(get_mode(id).get("score_limit", 0))
+
+
+static func time_limit(id: String) -> float:
+	return float(get_mode(id).get("time_limit", 0.0))
+
+
+static func team_count(id: String) -> int:
+	return int(get_mode(id).get("teams", 0))
+
+
+static func is_team_mode(id: String) -> bool:
+	return team_count(id) > 1
+
+
+static func friendly_fire(id: String) -> bool:
+	return bool(get_mode(id).get("friendly_fire", true))
+
+
+static func score_noun(id: String) -> String:
+	return String(get_mode(id).get("score_noun", "SCORE"))
+
+
+## A mode with neither a score limit nor a time limit can never end. This is the
+## one invariant worth asserting about the table itself, and debug/game_mode_check
+## runs it over every entry.
+static func is_valid(id: String) -> bool:
+	return score_limit(id) > 0 or time_limit(id) > 0.0
+
+
+## The weapon a player on `rung` of the Gun Game ladder is holding.
+static func ladder_weapon(rung: int) -> String:
+	if LADDER.is_empty():
+		return ""
+	return LADDER[clampi(rung, 0, LADDER.size() - 1)]
+
+
+## Team colours, for the scoreboard, the killfeed and the HUD. Index 0 is no
+## team — free-for-all — which reads as the game's own papaya.
+const TEAM_COLORS := [Color(1.00, 0.47, 0.10), Color(0.22, 0.94, 1.00),
+	Color(1.00, 0.18, 0.52)]
+const TEAM_NAMES := ["", "CYAN", "MAGENTA"]
+
+
+static func team_color(team: int) -> Color:
+	return TEAM_COLORS[clampi(team, 0, TEAM_COLORS.size() - 1)]
+
+
+static func team_name(team: int) -> String:
+	if team <= 0 or team >= TEAM_NAMES.size():
+		return ""
+	return TEAM_NAMES[team]
+
+
+## Which team a joining player goes on: the smallest, ties broken toward team 1.
+##
+## Assigned by COUNT rather than round-robin on join order, because players
+## leave. Round-robin on a 4v4 that loses three from one side stays 4v1 forever;
+## this refills the short side.
+static func assign_team(id: String, stats: Dictionary) -> int:
+	var teams := team_count(id)
+	if teams < 2:
+		return 0
+	var counts := []
+	counts.resize(teams + 1)
+	counts.fill(0)
+	for pid in stats:
+		var t: int = int(stats[pid].get("team", 0))
+		if t >= 1 and t <= teams:
+			counts[t] += 1
+	var best := 1
+	for t in range(1, teams + 1):
+		if counts[t] < counts[best]:
+			best = t
+	return best
+
+
+## Every team's total, as `team index -> score`. Team 0 is never included.
+static func team_scores(id: String, stats: Dictionary) -> Dictionary:
+	var out := {}
+	if not is_team_mode(id):
+		return out
+	for t in range(1, team_count(id) + 1):
+		out[t] = 0
+	for pid in stats:
+		var t: int = int(stats[pid].get("team", 0))
+		if out.has(t):
+			out[t] += int(stats[pid].get("score", 0))
+	return out
+
+
+## Has anyone won yet? Returns `{}` if not, else the reason and the winner.
+##
+## Server-side only — this is the authority on when a match stops. It is a pure
+## function of the stats so it can be unit-tested without a match running, which
+## debug/game_mode_check.gd does.
+static func check_win(id: String, stats: Dictionary, time_left: float) -> Dictionary:
+	var limit := score_limit(id)
+
+	if is_team_mode(id):
+		var totals := team_scores(id, stats)
+		if limit > 0:
+			for t in totals:
+				if totals[t] >= limit:
+					return {"reason": "score", "team": t,
+						"name": team_name(t) + " TEAM"}
+		if time_left <= 0.0:
+			var best := 0
+			var best_score := -1
+			var tied := false
+			for t in totals:
+				if totals[t] > best_score:
+					best_score = totals[t]
+					best = t
+					tied = false
+				elif totals[t] == best_score:
+					tied = true
+			if tied:
+				return {"reason": "time", "team": 0, "name": "DRAW"}
+			return {"reason": "time", "team": best,
+				"name": team_name(best) + " TEAM"}
+		return {}
+
+	# Free-for-all.
+	if limit > 0:
+		for pid in stats:
+			if int(stats[pid].get("score", 0)) >= limit:
+				return {"reason": "score", "player": pid,
+					"name": String(stats[pid].get("username", "Player"))}
+	if time_left <= 0.0:
+		var top = null
+		var top_score := -1
+		var drawn := false
+		for pid in stats:
+			var sc: int = int(stats[pid].get("score", 0))
+			if sc > top_score:
+				top_score = sc
+				top = pid
+				drawn = false
+			elif sc == top_score:
+				drawn = true
+		if top == null or drawn:
+			return {"reason": "time", "player": 0, "name": "DRAW"}
+		return {"reason": "time", "player": top,
+			"name": String(stats[top].get("username", "Player"))}
+	return {}
+
+
+## Players sorted best-first, by score then by fewest deaths.
+##
+## Fewest deaths as the tiebreak, not most kills: at equal score the kills are
+## equal by definition in every mode here, so kills would not break anything.
+static func standings(stats: Dictionary) -> Array:
+	var ids: Array = stats.keys()
+	ids.sort_custom(func(a, b):
+		var sa: int = int(stats[a].get("score", 0))
+		var sb: int = int(stats[b].get("score", 0))
+		if sa != sb:
+			return sa > sb
+		return int(stats[a].get("deaths", 0)) < int(stats[b].get("deaths", 0)))
+	return ids

globals/game_mode.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://b8k2ha37f47ji

globals/network_manager.gd

@@ -7,18 +7,34 @@ signal connection_succeeded
 signal match_state_updated
 signal stats_updated
 signal killfeed_event(victim: String, killer: String, weapon: String, v_color: String, k_color: String)
+## The match is over. `result` carries the reason ("score" / "time"), the winner's
+## name, and the final standings. The HUD raises the summary screen on this.
+signal match_ended(result: Dictionary)
+## A Gun Game player moved up a rung and needs their weapon swapped.
+signal ladder_promoted(peer_id: int, rung: int, weapon_id: String)
 
 const DEFAULT_PORT = 31415
 
 var connected_players: Array[int] = []
 
-# Dict of ID -> { "username": String, "kills": int, "deaths": int, "assists": int, "ping": int }
+## ID -> { username, kills, deaths, assists, ping, color, score, team, streak,
+##         best_streak, rung }
+##
+## `score` is what the MODE counts and is what decides the match — in Deathmatch
+## it tracks kills, in Gun Game it is the ladder rung. `kills` stays a plain
+## kill count regardless, because the scoreboard shows both and they are not the
+## same number in every mode.
 var player_stats: Dictionary = {}
 
 var match_active: bool = false
 var match_time_remaining: float = 0.0
-var current_gamemode: String = "Deathmatch"
+## A GameMode id — see globals/game_mode.gd. Was a display string ("Deathmatch")
+## compared by equality in three places; an id is what the mode table is keyed on
+## and what survives being sent over the wire.
+var current_gamemode: String = GameMode.DEATHMATCH
 var current_scene_path: String = ""
+## Set when the match ends, so a late-arriving HUD can still show the summary.
+var last_result: Dictionary = {}
 
 var _ping_timer: Timer
 
@@ -62,31 +78,54 @@ func disconnect_game() -> void:
 	match_active = false
 	_ping_timer.stop()
 
-func start_singleplayer_match(gamemode: String = "Deathmatch") -> void:
+func start_singleplayer_match(gamemode: String = GameMode.DEATHMATCH) -> void:
 	# Ensure peer is offline if not already connected
 	if not multiplayer.has_multiplayer_peer() or multiplayer.multiplayer_peer is OfflineMultiplayerPeer:
 		multiplayer.multiplayer_peer = OfflineMultiplayerPeer.new()
-	
+
 	connected_players.clear()
 	connected_players.append(1)
+	# Normalised, because `current_gamemode` used to be a DISPLAY string
+	# ("Deathmatch") and half a dozen callers still pass one. GameMode's lookups
+	# all fall back safely, but an id that is not in the table would compare
+	# unequal to GameMode.GUN_GAME and silently disable Gun Game's weapon
+	# issuing — a mode that half works is worse than one that does not load.
+	current_gamemode = gamemode if GameMode.MODES.has(gamemode) \
+		else GameMode.DEATHMATCH
+	player_stats.clear()
 	_init_player_stats(1, SettingsManager.username)
-	
+
+	last_result = {}
 	match_active = true
-	match_time_remaining = 300.0
-	current_gamemode = gamemode
+	# The mode's own clock, not a hardcoded five minutes. Gun Game is a fifteen
+	# minute mode and Deathmatch a ten minute one; both used to be five.
+	match_time_remaining = GameMode.time_limit(gamemode)
 	rpc("sync_match_state", match_active, match_time_remaining, current_gamemode)
 
 func _init_player_stats(id: int, username: String) -> void:
 	# Keep existing color if player re-joins, or generate new
 	var p_color = Color(randf_range(0.2, 1.0), randf_range(0.2, 1.0), randf_range(0.2, 1.0)).to_html(false)
-	
+	var team := GameMode.assign_team(current_gamemode, player_stats)
+	if team > 0:
+		# In a team mode the player's colour IS their team's, because a killfeed
+		# where a teammate and an enemy are both "some random colour" is a
+		# killfeed that cannot be read at a glance.
+		p_color = GameMode.team_color(team).to_html(false)
+
 	player_stats[id] = {
 		"username": username,
 		"kills": 0,
 		"deaths": 0,
 		"assists": 0,
 		"ping": 0,
-		"color": p_color
+		"color": p_color,
+		# What the MODE counts. See the note on player_stats.
+		"score": 0,
+		"team": team,
+		"streak": 0,
+		"best_streak": 0,
+		# Gun Game ladder position.
+		"rung": 0,
 	}
 	stats_updated.emit()
 
@@ -169,20 +208,93 @@ func rpc_load_level(scene_path: String) -> void:
 	print("Loading level: ", scene_path)
 	current_scene_path = scene_path
 	if multiplayer.is_server():
+		# Reset the scores as well as the clock. Loading a level used to restart
+		# the timer and leave every kill from the previous match standing, so the
+		# second match on a server started with someone already at the frag limit
+		# — and now that reaching the limit ENDS the match, it would have ended
+		# on the first kill.
+		last_result = {}
+		for pid in player_stats:
+			for key in ["kills", "deaths", "assists", "score", "streak",
+					"best_streak", "rung"]:
+				player_stats[pid][key] = 0
 		match_active = true
-		match_time_remaining = 300.0 # 5 minutes
+		match_time_remaining = GameMode.time_limit(current_gamemode)
+		rpc("sync_player_stats", player_stats)
 		rpc("sync_match_state", match_active, match_time_remaining, current_gamemode)
 	get_tree().change_scene_to_file(scene_path)
 
 func _process(delta: float) -> void:
-	if match_active:
-		if match_time_remaining > 0:
-			match_time_remaining -= delta
-			if match_time_remaining <= 0:
-				match_time_remaining = 0
-				match_active = false
-		# We emit this so HUDs can update their timers smoothly
-		match_state_updated.emit()
+	if not match_active:
+		return
+	if match_time_remaining > 0:
+		match_time_remaining -= delta
+		if match_time_remaining <= 0:
+			match_time_remaining = 0
+			# Time is a win CONDITION, not an off switch. This used to set
+			# `match_active = false` and stop, so the clock reached zero, the
+			# timer froze at 00:00 and nothing else happened — no winner, no
+			# summary, no way back to the menu. The match did not end so much as
+			# stop mattering.
+			if _is_authority():
+				_check_win()
+	# We emit this so HUDs can update their timers smoothly
+	match_state_updated.emit()
+
+
+## Whether this peer decides the match. True for the server, and true in
+## singleplayer, where there is no peer but somebody still has to call it.
+func _is_authority() -> bool:
+	if not multiplayer.has_multiplayer_peer():
+		return true
+	if multiplayer.multiplayer_peer is OfflineMultiplayerPeer:
+		return true
+	return multiplayer.is_server()
+
+
+## Has anyone won? Called on the server after every kill and when the clock runs
+## out. GameMode.check_win is a pure function of the stats, so the rule lives
+## next to the mode that defines it and can be tested without a match running.
+func _check_win() -> void:
+	if not match_active:
+		return
+	var result := GameMode.check_win(current_gamemode, player_stats,
+		match_time_remaining)
+	if result.is_empty():
+		return
+	result["mode"] = current_gamemode
+	result["standings"] = GameMode.standings(player_stats)
+	result["stats"] = player_stats.duplicate(true)
+	if _is_authority() and multiplayer.has_multiplayer_peer() \
+			and not multiplayer.multiplayer_peer is OfflineMultiplayerPeer:
+		rpc("end_match", result)
+	else:
+		end_match(result)
+
+
+@rpc("authority", "call_local", "reliable")
+func end_match(result: Dictionary) -> void:
+	if not match_active:
+		return
+	match_active = false
+	last_result = result
+	match_state_updated.emit()
+	match_ended.emit(result)
+
+
+## Wipe the scores and start the clock again on the same map and mode. The
+## summary screen's "Play Again".
+@rpc("authority", "call_local", "reliable")
+func restart_match() -> void:
+	for pid in player_stats:
+		for key in ["kills", "deaths", "assists", "score", "streak",
+				"best_streak", "rung"]:
+			player_stats[pid][key] = 0
+	last_result = {}
+	match_active = true
+	match_time_remaining = GameMode.time_limit(current_gamemode)
+	stats_updated.emit()
+	match_state_updated.emit()
 
 # --- PING SYSTEM ---
 func _on_ping_timer() -> void:
@@ -208,19 +320,54 @@ func receive_ping_response(server_time: int) -> void:
 # --- GAMEPLAY EVENTS ---
 @rpc("any_peer", "call_local", "reliable")
 func register_kill(victim_id: int, killer_id: int, weapon_name: String, custom_victim_name: String = "", assist_ids: Array = []) -> void:
-	if multiplayer.is_server():
-		if killer_id != 0 and killer_id != victim_id:
-			if player_stats.has(killer_id):
-				player_stats[killer_id]["kills"] += 1
-				
+	if _is_authority():
+		# A kill after the final whistle counts for nothing. Without this a
+		# rocket already in the air when the clock hit zero could change the
+		# result after the summary was on screen.
+		if not match_active:
+			return
+
+		var clean_kill := killer_id != 0 and killer_id != victim_id
+		# A team kill is not a score. Friendly fire may be ON in a mode and the
+		# kill still must not advance the killer — otherwise the fastest way to
+		# win Team Deathmatch is to shoot your own team.
+		if clean_kill and GameMode.is_team_mode(current_gamemode) \
+				and player_stats.has(killer_id) and player_stats.has(victim_id) \
+				and player_stats[killer_id]["team"] == player_stats[victim_id]["team"]:
+			clean_kill = false
+
+		if clean_kill and player_stats.has(killer_id):
+			var ks: Dictionary = player_stats[killer_id]
+			ks["kills"] += 1
+			ks["streak"] += 1
+			ks["best_streak"] = maxi(ks["best_streak"], ks["streak"])
+			if current_gamemode == GameMode.GUN_GAME:
+				# A kill is a RUNG, not a point, and the rung IS the score — so
+				# reaching the top of the ladder is the same event as reaching
+				# the score limit, and only one win condition has to exist.
+				ks["rung"] += 1
+				ks["score"] = ks["rung"]
+				var weapon := GameMode.ladder_weapon(ks["rung"])
+				ladder_promoted.emit(killer_id, ks["rung"], weapon)
+				rpc("notify_promotion", killer_id, ks["rung"], weapon)
+			else:
+				ks["score"] += int(GameMode.get_mode(current_gamemode).get(
+					"kill_score", 1))
+
 		if victim_id != -1:
 			if player_stats.has(victim_id):
 				player_stats[victim_id]["deaths"] += 1
-				
+				player_stats[victim_id]["streak"] = 0
+				var penalty := int(GameMode.get_mode(current_gamemode).get(
+					"death_score", 0))
+				if penalty != 0:
+					player_stats[victim_id]["score"] = maxi(
+						player_stats[victim_id]["score"] - penalty, 0)
+
 		for aid in assist_ids:
 			if player_stats.has(aid) and aid != killer_id and aid != victim_id:
 				player_stats[aid]["assists"] += 1
-		
+
 		var v_name = player_stats[victim_id]["username"] if player_stats.has(victim_id) else (custom_victim_name if custom_victim_name != "" else "Unknown")
 		var k_name = player_stats[killer_id]["username"] if player_stats.has(killer_id) else "Unknown"
 		
@@ -238,9 +385,46 @@ func register_kill(victim_id: int, killer_id: int, weapon_name: String, custom_v
 		if killer_id == 0 or killer_id == victim_id:
 			k_name = "" # Suicide or world death
 		
-		broadcast_killfeed.rpc(v_name, k_name, weapon_name, v_color, k_color)
-		sync_player_stats.rpc(player_stats)
+		# `.rpc()` on an offline peer does not call locally, so singleplayer got
+		# no killfeed and no stat sync at all. Both paths now go through the
+		# same two calls.
+		if multiplayer.has_multiplayer_peer() \
+				and not multiplayer.multiplayer_peer is OfflineMultiplayerPeer:
+			broadcast_killfeed.rpc(v_name, k_name, weapon_name, v_color, k_color)
+			sync_player_stats.rpc(player_stats)
+		else:
+			broadcast_killfeed(v_name, k_name, weapon_name, v_color, k_color)
+			sync_player_stats(player_stats)
+
+		# The scores just changed, so this is exactly when a match can end.
+		_check_win()
 
 @rpc("authority", "call_local", "reliable")
 func broadcast_killfeed(victim: String, killer: String, weapon: String, v_color: String = "cccccc", k_color: String = "cccccc") -> void:
 	killfeed_event.emit(victim, killer, weapon, v_color, k_color)
+
+
+## A Gun Game player moved up. Broadcast so every client's killfeed can say so
+## and the promoted player's own client can swap their weapon.
+@rpc("authority", "call_local", "reliable")
+func notify_promotion(peer_id: int, rung: int, weapon_id: String) -> void:
+	ladder_promoted.emit(peer_id, rung, weapon_id)
+
+
+## Whether `a` may damage `b`, per the mode. The only place friendly fire is
+## decided, so a mode that turns it off turns it off everywhere.
+func can_damage(attacker_id: int, victim_id: int) -> bool:
+	if attacker_id == victim_id:
+		return true
+	if GameMode.friendly_fire(current_gamemode):
+		return true
+	if not player_stats.has(attacker_id) or not player_stats.has(victim_id):
+		return true
+	var ta: int = int(player_stats[attacker_id].get("team", 0))
+	var tb: int = int(player_stats[victim_id].get("team", 0))
+	return ta == 0 or ta != tb
+
+
+## Which team a peer is on, 0 for free-for-all.
+func team_of(peer_id: int) -> int:
+	return int(player_stats.get(peer_id, {}).get("team", 0))

movement/player_movement_controller.gd

@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ var death_count: int = 0
 var is_dead: bool = false
 
 # UI
-var health_bar: ProgressBar
-var shield_bar: ProgressBar
-var health_label: Label
-var shield_label: Label
+## The first-person HUD — reticle, vitals, ammo, death screen. See ui/player_hud.gd.
+var _hud: PlayerHUD = null
+## Kept because the controller drives them directly: the death screen is toggled
+## by die()/respawn, and the ring is read by the reload logic.
 var death_screen: Control
 
 var ragdoll_instance: Node3D
@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@ var grapple_latch_player: AudioStreamPlayer
 var grapple_swing_player: AudioStreamPlayer
 
 # UI
-var hit_marker: Control
-var _hit_marker_tween: Tween
+## The reload ring, owned by the HUD. Kept here because the reload logic reads it.
 var reload_ring: Control
 
 var grenades: int = 2
@@ -89,6 +88,13 @@ var synced_velocity: Vector3 = Vector3.ZERO
 var synced_is_ads: bool = false
 var synced_wall_side: float = 0.0  # -1 wall left, +1 wall right (wall-run lean)
 var synced_is_dancing: bool = false  # dance emote (B), shown on the model
+## Which of the five routines in DanceRoutines is playing. Replicated, so other
+## players see the emote that was actually chosen rather than always the first.
+var synced_dance_index: int = 0
+## The radial dial, and how long the emote button has been held. -1 means this
+## press was consumed by stopping a dance and must not open the wheel.
+var _emote_wheel: EmoteWheel = null
+var _emote_held: float = -1.0
 
 # Anime speed-lines overlay (local player only)
 var _speedlines: ColorRect = null
@@ -146,7 +152,6 @@ func _ready() -> void:
 	if is_multiplayer_authority():
 		_damage_layer = CanvasLayer.new()
 		add_child(_damage_layer)
-		_setup_hit_marker()
 		_setup_hud()
 		_setup_speedlines()
 	else:
@@ -395,32 +400,6 @@ func _setup_speedlines() -> void:
 	_damage_layer.add_child(_speedlines)
 
 
-func _setup_hit_marker() -> void:
-	hit_marker = Control.new()
-	hit_marker.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_CENTER)
-	hit_marker.modulate.a = 0.0 # Hidden by default
-	_damage_layer.add_child(hit_marker)
-	
-	# Draw an X perfectly centered
-	var length = 12
-	var thickness = 2
-	for angle in [PI/4, 3*PI/4, 5*PI/4, 7*PI/4]:
-		var rect = ColorRect.new()
-		rect.color = Color.WHITE
-		rect.size = Vector2(length, thickness)
-		rect.pivot_offset = rect.size / 2.0
-		# Center the rect itself at (0,0) before offset
-		var center_pos = -rect.size / 2.0
-		# Move it outward along the angle so it doesn't cover the exact center dot
-		rect.position = center_pos + Vector2(cos(angle), sin(angle)) * (length / 2.0)
-		rect.rotation = angle
-		hit_marker.add_child(rect)
-
-	# Reload Ring
-	reload_ring = load("res://ui/reload_ring.gd").new()
-	reload_ring.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_CENTER)
-	_damage_layer.add_child(reload_ring)
-
 func _setup_grapple() -> void:
 	grapple_rope = MeshInstance3D.new()
 	var rope_mesh = CylinderMesh.new()
@@ -462,11 +441,13 @@ func spawn_damage_number(amount: float, hit_pos: Vector3) -> void:
 	
 	var label = load("res://ui/floating_damage_text.gd").new()
 	label.text = str(round(amount))
-	label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-	label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(1.0, 0.6, 0.1))
-	label.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", Color(0, 0, 0, 0.8))
-	label.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 4)
-	
+	label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 28)
+	# The theme's papaya and its violet ink, not an approximate orange on pure
+	# black — these numbers fly over the same 3D scene the rest of the HUD does.
+	label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", UITheme.PAPAYA)
+	label.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", UITheme.INK)
+	label.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 7)
+
 	# Small random offset in 3D space so multiple pellets don't perfectly overlap
 	var offset = Vector3(randf_range(-0.4, 0.4), randf_range(-0.4, 0.4), randf_range(-0.4, 0.4))
 	label.target_pos = hit_pos + offset
@@ -480,13 +461,10 @@ func spawn_damage_number(amount: float, hit_pos: Vector3) -> void:
 	if now - _last_hit_sound_time > 10:
 		_last_hit_sound_time = now
 		hit_player.play()
-		
-		if _hit_marker_tween and _hit_marker_tween.is_valid():
-			_hit_marker_tween.kill()
-			
-		hit_marker.modulate.a = 1.0
-		_hit_marker_tween = create_tween()
-		_hit_marker_tween.tween_property(hit_marker, "modulate:a", 0.0, 0.4)
+		# The confirmation is part of the reticle now, so it lands where the eye
+		# already is and shares its ink outline.
+		if is_instance_valid(_hud):
+			_hud.confirm_hit()
 
 func apply_impulse(force: Vector3) -> void:
 	velocity += force
@@ -674,6 +652,16 @@ func rpc_play_explosion(pos: Vector3, radius: float) -> void:
 func server_take_damage(amount: float, hit_pos: Vector3, attacker_id: int, weapon_name: String, impulse: Vector3) -> void:
 	if not multiplayer.is_server(): return
 
+	# Friendly fire, decided by the MODE and enforced here — on the server, before
+	# the damage is broadcast — so a mode that turns it off turns it off for real
+	# rather than merely declining to award the kill. Team Deathmatch with damage
+	# that lands and a kill that does not count is worse than either.
+	var nm = get_node_or_null("/root/NetworkManager")
+	if nm and nm.has_method("can_damage") and attacker_id != 0:
+		var victim_id := int(str(name)) if str(name).is_valid_int() else 0
+		if victim_id != 0 and not nm.can_damage(attacker_id, victim_id):
+			return
+
 	# Broadcast damage event to all peers so the victim dies on all screens.
 	# Knockback is applied inside rpc_take_damage on the victim's own peer,
 	# since that peer simulates this body.
@@ -860,21 +848,45 @@ func _physics_process(_delta: float) -> void:
 			if Input.is_action_just_pressed("toggle_camera_view"):
 				set_third_person(not third_person)
 
-			# Dance emote (B): toggles while grounded and idle-ish; any
-			# movement/jump/crouch input breaks it.
+			# Emote (B): HOLD to open the radial dial and point at a dance,
+			# release to commit. A tap too short to have aimed anything just
+			# toggles the last one, which is exactly what the button did before
+			# the wheel existed — so the old muscle memory still works.
 			if Input.is_action_just_pressed("emote"):
+				_emote_held = 0.0
+				if synced_is_dancing:
+					# Already dancing: the press stops it, and no wheel opens.
+					# Having to aim at something in order to STOP is the most
+					# annoying possible way to build this.
+					synced_is_dancing = false
+					_emote_held = -1.0
+				elif _emote_wheel:
+					_emote_wheel.open()
+			elif Input.is_action_pressed("emote") and _emote_held >= 0.0:
+				_emote_held += _delta
+			elif Input.is_action_just_released("emote") and _emote_held >= 0.0:
+				var aimed := _emote_wheel.close() if _emote_wheel else -1
+				# A tap replays the last emote; a hold plays whatever was aimed
+				# at. Either way the same grounded-and-slow gate applies.
+				var pick := aimed if aimed >= 0 else synced_dance_index
 				var m := _ensure_machine()
 				var slow: bool = Vector2(velocity.x, velocity.z).length() < 1.0
-				if not synced_is_dancing and m and m.current_state == "ground" and slow:
+				if m and m.current_state == "ground" and slow:
+					synced_dance_index = pick
 					synced_is_dancing = true
-				else:
-					synced_is_dancing = false
 		if synced_is_dancing:
 			var m2 := _ensure_machine()
 			var moving := raw_input.length() > 0.1 or input_jump or input_crouch or input_dash
 			var airborne: bool = m2 and m2.current_state != "ground"
 			if moving or airborne:
 				synced_is_dancing = false
+		# The wheel eats aiming while it is open, so the player picking an emote
+		# does not also spin their character round. Movement is deliberately NOT
+		# blocked — a wheel that roots you in the open is a wheel nobody uses.
+		if _emote_wheel and _emote_wheel.visible and head_pivot:
+			head_pivot.set_process_input(false)
+		elif head_pivot and not head_pivot.is_processing_input() and not is_dead:
+			head_pivot.set_process_input(true)
 
 		var machine := _ensure_machine()
 		if machine:
@@ -949,7 +961,7 @@ func _physics_process(_delta: float) -> void:
 		if visual.has_method("set_wall_side"):
 			visual.set_wall_side(sm.wall_side)
 		if visual.has_method("set_dancing"):
-			visual.set_dancing(synced_is_dancing)
+			visual.set_dancing(synced_is_dancing, synced_dance_index)
 		if visual.has_method("set_grapple_target") and sm.current_state == "grapple":
 			visual.set_grapple_target(synced_grapple_point)
 
@@ -1034,7 +1046,7 @@ func _process(delta: float) -> void:
 			if visual.has_method("set_wall_side"):
 				visual.set_wall_side(synced_wall_side)
 			if visual.has_method("set_dancing"):
-				visual.set_dancing(synced_is_dancing)
+				visual.set_dancing(synced_is_dancing, synced_dance_index)
 			if visual.has_method("set_grapple_target") and synced_movement_state == "grapple":
 				visual.set_grapple_target(synced_grapple_point)
 			# Upper body follows the owner's synced camera pitch
@@ -1088,28 +1100,12 @@ func _process(delta: float) -> void:
 			lvisual.add_gun_recoil()
 		_last_local_ammo = ammo_now
 
-	# Update UI
-	if is_instance_valid(health_bar):
-		health_bar.value = health
-		health_label.text = "%d / %d" % [ceil(health), max_health]
-	if is_instance_valid(shield_bar):
-		shield_bar.value = shield
-		shield_label.text = "%d / %d" % [ceil(shield), max_shield]
-		
-	# Update Reload Ring
-	if is_instance_valid(reload_ring) and is_instance_valid(camera):
-		var wman = camera.get_node_or_null("WeaponManager")
-		if wman:
-			var slot = wman.get("active_slot")
-			if slot != null and wman.weapons.has(slot):
-				var w = wman.weapons[slot]
-				if "reloading" in w and w.reloading and "reload_timer" in w and "reload_time" in w:
-					reload_ring.progress = 1.0 - (w.reload_timer / w.reload_time)
-				else:
-					reload_ring.progress = 0.0
-			else:
-				reload_ring.progress = 0.0
-				
+	# Vitals are pushed (the controller owns health and shield); ammo, the
+	# reticle bloom and the reload ring are pulled by the HUD from the weapon,
+	# which is the authority on all three.
+	if is_instance_valid(_hud):
+		_hud.set_vitals(health, max_health, shield, max_shield)
+
 	if is_multiplayer_authority() and not is_dead:
 		if is_holding_grenade and grenades > 0:
 			_draw_trajectory()
@@ -1139,112 +1135,36 @@ func _process(delta: float) -> void:
 		if shield > max_shield:
 			shield = max_shield
 
+## Build the first-person HUD.
+##
+## Everything it draws lives in ui/player_hud.gd now. This used to be 105 lines
+## of stock ProgressBars and a plain-black death screen inlined here, which is
+## why none of it shared the game's look: a HUD assembled inside a 1500-line
+## movement controller is a HUD nobody styles.
 func _setup_hud() -> void:
-	var margin = MarginContainer.new()
-	margin.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_BOTTOM_LEFT)
-	margin.offset_left = 20
-	margin.offset_bottom = -20
-	margin.grow_vertical = Control.GROW_DIRECTION_BEGIN
-	
-	var vbox = VBoxContainer.new()
-	margin.add_child(vbox)
-	
-	# Add Match HUD overlay
+	# Match state (timer, score, killfeed, scoreboard) is a separate overlay and
+	# is deliberately not part of the player's own HUD.
 	if is_multiplayer_authority():
 		var match_hud_scene = load("res://ui/match_hud.tscn")
 		if match_hud_scene:
-			var match_hud = match_hud_scene.instantiate()
-			add_child(match_hud)
-	
-	# Shield Bar (Top)
-	var shield_box = VBoxContainer.new()
-	var s_title = Label.new()
-	s_title.text = "SHIELD"
-	s_title.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 12)
-	s_title.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(0.4, 0.7, 1.0))
-	shield_box.add_child(s_title)
-	
-	shield_bar = ProgressBar.new()
-	shield_bar.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(200, 20)
-	shield_bar.max_value = max_shield
-	shield_bar.value = shield
-	shield_bar.show_percentage = false
-	
-	var s_sb = StyleBoxFlat.new()
-	s_sb.bg_color = Color(0.1, 0.4, 0.8)
-	shield_bar.add_theme_stylebox_override("fill", s_sb)
-	
-	shield_label = Label.new()
-	shield_label.text = "100 / 100"
-	shield_label.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_CENTER)
-	shield_bar.add_child(shield_label)
-	
-	shield_box.add_child(shield_bar)
-	vbox.add_child(shield_box)
-	
-	# Spacer
-	vbox.add_child(Control.new())
-	
-	# Health Bar (Bottom)
-	var health_box = VBoxContainer.new()
-	var h_title = Label.new()
-	h_title.text = "HEALTH"
-	h_title.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 12)
-	h_title.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(1.0, 0.3, 0.3))
-	health_box.add_child(h_title)
-	
-	health_bar = ProgressBar.new()
-	health_bar.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(200, 20)
-	health_bar.max_value = max_health
-	health_bar.value = health
-	health_bar.show_percentage = false
-	
-	var h_sb = StyleBoxFlat.new()
-	h_sb.bg_color = Color(0.8, 0.1, 0.1)
-	health_bar.add_theme_stylebox_override("fill", h_sb)
-	
-	health_label = Label.new()
-	health_label.text = "100 / 100"
-	health_label.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_CENTER)
-	health_bar.add_child(health_label)
-	
-	health_box.add_child(health_bar)
-	vbox.add_child(health_box)
-	
-	_damage_layer.add_child(margin)
-	
-	# Setup Death Screen
-	death_screen = ColorRect.new()
-	death_screen.color = Color(0, 0, 0, 0.7)
-	death_screen.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
-	death_screen.visible = false
-	
-	var center = CenterContainer.new()
-	center.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
-	death_screen.add_child(center)
-	
-	var d_vbox = VBoxContainer.new()
-	d_vbox.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 20)
-	center.add_child(d_vbox)
-	
-	var d_title = Label.new()
-	d_title.text = "SYSTEM FAILURE"
-	d_title.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 48)
-	d_title.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(1.0, 0.2, 0.2))
-	d_vbox.add_child(d_title)
-	
-	var respawn_label = Label.new()
-	respawn_label.text = "PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT"
-	respawn_label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	respawn_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-	d_vbox.add_child(respawn_label)
-	
-	var tw = create_tween().set_loops()
-	tw.tween_property(respawn_label, "modulate:a", 0.2, 0.8)
-	tw.tween_property(respawn_label, "modulate:a", 1.0, 0.8)
-	
-	if is_multiplayer_authority():
-		_damage_layer.add_child(death_screen)
+			add_child(match_hud_scene.instantiate())
+
+	_hud = PlayerHUD.new()
+	_hud.name = "PlayerHUD"
+	_hud.player = self
+	add_child(_hud)
+
+	# The emote dial rides on the HUD's canvas, above the viewmodel.
+	_emote_wheel = EmoteWheel.new()
+	_emote_wheel.name = "EmoteWheel"
+	_hud.add_child(_emote_wheel)
+
+	# The controller still owns these two — it toggles the death screen on death
+	# and the ring is read by the reload logic — so keep the references it had.
+	death_screen = _hud.death_screen
+	reload_ring = _hud.reload_ring
+	_hud.set_vitals(health, max_health, shield, max_shield)
+
 
 func die(impulse: Vector3 = Vector3.ZERO) -> void:
 	if is_dead: return

scenes/maps/level_runtime.gd

@@ -1,18 +1,7 @@
 extends Node3D
 class_name LevelRuntime
 
-var _speed_label: Label
-var _state_label: Label
-var _chain_label: Label
-var _weapon_label: Label
-var _grapple_icon: TextureRect
-var _dash_icon: TextureRect
-var _grapple_label: Label
-var _dash_label: Label
-var _fps_label: Label
-var _standalone_speed_label: Label
 var _player: CharacterBody3D
-var _debug_ui_panel: PanelContainer
 
 
 func _ready() -> void:
@@ -24,7 +13,6 @@ func _ready() -> void:
 	if not has_node("WorldEnvironment"):
 		LevelEnvironment.add_to(self)
 
-	_build_hud()
 	
 	# Multiplayer Spawning
 	var spawner = MultiplayerSpawner.new()
@@ -125,6 +113,8 @@ func _spawn_player(pid: int) -> CharacterBody3D:
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_is_ads")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_wall_side")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_is_dancing")
+	# Which of the five emotes, so other players see the one that was chosen.
+	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_dance_index")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_grapple_point")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_is_grapple_shooting")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_skin_id")
@@ -252,284 +242,16 @@ func _spawn_player(pid: int) -> CharacterBody3D:
 	return player
 
 
-# ── HUD ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
-func _build_hud() -> void:
-	var canvas := CanvasLayer.new()
-	canvas.name = "UI"
-	add_child(canvas)
-
-	# ── Crosshair ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-	var crosshair := Control.new()
-	crosshair.name = "Crosshair"
-	crosshair.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_CENTER)
-	crosshair.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(20, 20)
-	canvas.add_child(crosshair)
-
-	var ch_dot := ColorRect.new()
-	ch_dot.name = "Dot"
-	ch_dot.color = Color(1, 1, 1, 0.8)
-	ch_dot.size = Vector2(4, 4)
-	ch_dot.position = Vector2(-2, -2)
-	crosshair.add_child(ch_dot)
-
-	# Crosshair lines
-	for data in [
-		{"pos": Vector2(-10, -1), "size": Vector2(6, 2)},  # Left
-		{"pos": Vector2(4, -1), "size": Vector2(6, 2)},    # Right
-		{"pos": Vector2(-1, -10), "size": Vector2(2, 6)},  # Top
-		{"pos": Vector2(-1, 4), "size": Vector2(2, 6)},    # Bottom
-	]:
-		var line := ColorRect.new()
-		line.color = Color(1, 1, 1, 0.6)
-		line.position = data["pos"]
-		line.size = data["size"]
-		crosshair.add_child(line)
-
-	# ── Info panel background ─────────────────────────────────────────────
-	_fps_label = Label.new()
-	_fps_label.name = "FPSLabel"
-	_fps_label.text = "FPS: 0"
-	_fps_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-	_fps_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(0.9, 0.9, 0.2))
-	_fps_label.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", Color(0, 0, 0))
-	_fps_label.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 4)
-	_fps_label.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_TOP_LEFT)
-	_fps_label.position = Vector2(12, 12)
-	canvas.add_child(_fps_label)
-	
-	_standalone_speed_label = Label.new()
-	_standalone_speed_label.name = "StandaloneSpeedLabel"
-	_standalone_speed_label.text = "Speed: 0.0 m/s"
-	_standalone_speed_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-	_standalone_speed_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(0.3, 1.0, 0.5))
-	_standalone_speed_label.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", Color(0, 0, 0))
-	_standalone_speed_label.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 4)
-	_standalone_speed_label.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_TOP_LEFT)
-	_standalone_speed_label.position = Vector2(12, 45)
-	canvas.add_child(_standalone_speed_label)
-	
-	_debug_ui_panel = PanelContainer.new()
-	_debug_ui_panel.name = "InfoPanel"
-	_debug_ui_panel.offset_left = 12
-	_debug_ui_panel.offset_top = 50
-	_debug_ui_panel.offset_right = 400
-	_debug_ui_panel.offset_bottom = 160
-	var panel_style := StyleBoxFlat.new()
-	panel_style.bg_color = Color(0, 0, 0, 0.55)
-	panel_style.corner_radius_top_left = 8
-	panel_style.corner_radius_top_right = 8
-	panel_style.corner_radius_bottom_left = 8
-	panel_style.corner_radius_bottom_right = 8
-	panel_style.content_margin_left = 12
-	panel_style.content_margin_top = 8
-	panel_style.content_margin_right = 12
-	panel_style.content_margin_bottom = 8
-	_debug_ui_panel.add_theme_stylebox_override("panel", panel_style)
-	canvas.add_child(_debug_ui_panel)
-
-	var vbox := VBoxContainer.new()
-	vbox.name = "InfoVBox"
-	_debug_ui_panel.add_child(vbox)
-
-	_speed_label = Label.new()
-	_speed_label.name = "SpeedLabel"
-	_speed_label.text = "Speed: 0.0 m/s"
-	_speed_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 18)
-	_speed_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(0.3, 1.0, 0.5))
-	vbox.add_child(_speed_label)
-
-	_state_label = Label.new()
-	_state_label.name = "StateLabel"
-	_state_label.text = "State: ground"
-	_state_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 16)
-	_state_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(0.7, 0.85, 1.0))
-	vbox.add_child(_state_label)
-
-	_chain_label = Label.new()
-	_chain_label.name = "ChainLabel"
-	_chain_label.text = "Chain: 0 (+0%)"
-	_chain_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 16)
-	_chain_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(1.0, 0.8, 0.3))
-	vbox.add_child(_chain_label)
-
-
-	# ── Weapon & Ammo Panel ───────────────────────────────────────────────
-	var wp_panel := PanelContainer.new()
-	wp_panel.name = "WeaponPanel"
-	wp_panel.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_BOTTOM_RIGHT)
-	wp_panel.offset_left = -250
-	wp_panel.offset_top = -100
-	wp_panel.offset_right = -20
-	wp_panel.offset_bottom = -20
-	var wp_style := StyleBoxFlat.new()
-	wp_style.bg_color = Color(0, 0, 0, 0.6)
-	wp_style.corner_radius_top_left = 8
-	wp_style.corner_radius_top_right = 8
-	wp_style.corner_radius_bottom_left = 8
-	wp_style.corner_radius_bottom_right = 8
-	wp_style.content_margin_left = 16
-	wp_style.content_margin_top = 12
-	wp_style.content_margin_right = 16
-	wp_style.content_margin_bottom = 12
-	wp_panel.add_theme_stylebox_override("panel", wp_style)
-	wp_panel.grow_horizontal = Control.GROW_DIRECTION_BEGIN
-	canvas.add_child(wp_panel)
-	
-	_weapon_label = Label.new()
-	_weapon_label.name = "WeaponLabel"
-	_weapon_label.text = "Unarmed\n0 / 0"
-	_weapon_label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_RIGHT
-	_weapon_label.vertical_alignment = VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT_BOTTOM
-	_weapon_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-	wp_panel.add_child(_weapon_label)
-
-	# ── Utilities Panel ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-	var util_panel := PanelContainer.new()
-	util_panel.name = "UtilPanel"
-	util_panel.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_BOTTOM_RIGHT)
-	util_panel.offset_left = -200
-	util_panel.offset_top = -180
-	util_panel.offset_right = -20
-	util_panel.offset_bottom = -110
-	var util_style := StyleBoxFlat.new()
-	util_style.bg_color = Color(0, 0, 0, 0.6)
-	util_style.corner_radius_top_left = 8
-	util_style.corner_radius_top_right = 8
-	util_style.corner_radius_bottom_left = 8
-	util_style.corner_radius_bottom_right = 8
-	util_style.content_margin_left = 12
-	util_style.content_margin_top = 8
-	util_style.content_margin_right = 12
-	util_style.content_margin_bottom = 8
-	util_panel.add_theme_stylebox_override("panel", util_style)
-	util_panel.grow_horizontal = Control.GROW_DIRECTION_BEGIN
-	canvas.add_child(util_panel)
-
-	var util_hbox := HBoxContainer.new()
-	util_hbox.name = "UtilHBox"
-	util_hbox.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 20)
-	util_hbox.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	util_panel.add_child(util_hbox)
-
-	var grapple_vbox := VBoxContainer.new()
-	grapple_vbox.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	util_hbox.add_child(grapple_vbox)
-
-	_grapple_icon = TextureRect.new()
-	if ResourceLoader.exists("res://assets/ui/grapple_icon.jpg"):
-		_grapple_icon.texture = load("res://assets/ui/grapple_icon.jpg")
-	_grapple_icon.expand_mode = TextureRect.EXPAND_IGNORE_SIZE
-	_grapple_icon.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(32, 32)
-	_grapple_icon.stretch_mode = TextureRect.STRETCH_KEEP_ASPECT_CENTERED
-	grapple_vbox.add_child(_grapple_icon)
-	
-	_grapple_label = Label.new()
-	_grapple_label.text = "Grapple"
-	_grapple_label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	_grapple_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 12)
-	grapple_vbox.add_child(_grapple_label)
-
-	var dash_vbox := VBoxContainer.new()
-	dash_vbox.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	util_hbox.add_child(dash_vbox)
-
-	_dash_icon = TextureRect.new()
-	if ResourceLoader.exists("res://assets/ui/dash_icon.jpg"):
-		_dash_icon.texture = load("res://assets/ui/dash_icon.jpg")
-	_dash_icon.expand_mode = TextureRect.EXPAND_IGNORE_SIZE
-	_dash_icon.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(32, 32)
-	_dash_icon.stretch_mode = TextureRect.STRETCH_KEEP_ASPECT_CENTERED
-	dash_vbox.add_child(_dash_icon)
-	
-	_dash_label = Label.new()
-	_dash_label.text = "Ready"
-	_dash_label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	_dash_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 12)
-	dash_vbox.add_child(_dash_label)
-
-# ── HUD Update ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
-func _process(_delta: float) -> void:
-	if not _player or not is_instance_valid(_player):
-		return
-		
-	if _debug_ui_panel:
-		_debug_ui_panel.visible = SettingsManager.show_debug_ui
-		
-	if _fps_label:
-		_fps_label.visible = SettingsManager.show_fps
-		if _fps_label.visible:
-			_fps_label.text = "FPS: %d" % Engine.get_frames_per_second()
-
-	var vel: Vector3 = _player.velocity
-	var hspeed := Vector2(vel.x, vel.z).length()
-	var total_speed := vel.length()
-
-	if _speed_label:
-		_speed_label.text = "Speed: %.1f m/s (total: %.1f)" % [hspeed, total_speed]
-
-	if _standalone_speed_label:
-		if SettingsManager.show_movement_speed and not SettingsManager.show_debug_ui:
-			_standalone_speed_label.visible = true
-			_standalone_speed_label.text = "Speed: %.1f m/s" % hspeed
-			if _fps_label and _fps_label.visible:
-				_standalone_speed_label.position = Vector2(12, 45)
-			else:
-				_standalone_speed_label.position = Vector2(12, 12)
-		else:
-			_standalone_speed_label.visible = false
-
-	if _state_label:
-		var sm = _player.get_node_or_null("MovementStateMachine")
-		if sm:
-			_state_label.text = "State: %s" % sm.current_state
-
-	if _chain_label:
-		var sm = _player.get_node_or_null("MovementStateMachine")
-		if sm:
-			_chain_label.text = "Chain: %d (+%d%%)" % [sm.chain_count, int(sm.current_chain_bonus * 100)]
-			
-			# Update utility indicators
-			if sm.current_state == "grapple" or sm.is_grapple_shooting:
-				_grapple_icon.modulate = Color(0.2, 1.0, 0.4)
-				_grapple_label.text = "Grappling"
-			else:
-				_grapple_icon.modulate = Color(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
-				_grapple_label.text = "Ready"
-				
-			if sm.has_method("get_dash_cooldown_remaining"):
-				var dash_rem = sm.get_dash_cooldown_remaining()
-				if dash_rem > 0.0:
-					_dash_icon.modulate = Color(1.0, 0.3, 0.3)
-					_dash_label.text = "%.1f" % dash_rem
-				else:
-					_dash_icon.modulate = Color(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
-					_dash_label.text = "Ready"
-
-	if _weapon_label:
-		var wman = _player.get_node_or_null("HeadPivot/Camera3D/WeaponManager")
-		if wman and wman.weapons.has(wman.active_slot):
-			var active_weapon = wman.weapons[wman.active_slot]
-			var w_name = "Weapon"
-			var cur_ammo = 0
-			var max_ammo = 0
-			
-			if "weapon_name" in active_weapon:
-				w_name = active_weapon.weapon_name
-			elif active_weapon is DoubleBarrelShotgun:
-				w_name = "Double Barrel Shotgun"
-				
-			if "current_ammo" in active_weapon:
-				cur_ammo = active_weapon.current_ammo
-				max_ammo = active_weapon.max_ammo
-			elif "shells" in active_weapon:
-				cur_ammo = active_weapon.shells
-				max_ammo = 2
-				
-			if "reloading" in active_weapon and active_weapon.reloading:
-				_weapon_label.text = "%s\nReloading..." % w_name
-			else:
-				_weapon_label.text = "%s\n%d / %d" % [w_name, cur_ammo, max_ammo]
-		else:
-			_weapon_label.text = "Unarmed\n0 / 0"
+# ── HUD ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+#
+# There is no HUD here any more, and no _process to drive one.
+#
+# Reticle, vitals, ammo, ability cooldowns, the chain meter and the debug
+# readout all belong to ui/player_hud.gd, spawned by the player itself. Every
+# one of those describes A PLAYER, so a level that owns them has to reach down
+# into that player's state machine and weapon manager every frame to fill them
+# in — which is exactly what this did, from three byte-identical copies across
+# the three level runtimes. The visible symptom was two ammo panels on screen at
+# once, in two different styles, overlapping in the bottom-right corner.
+#
+# A level owns the level.

scenes/maps/procedural_arena/procedural_arena_runtime.gd

@@ -1,18 +1,7 @@
 extends Node3D
 
 
-var _speed_label: Label
-var _state_label: Label
-var _chain_label: Label
-var _weapon_label: Label
-var _grapple_icon: TextureRect
-var _dash_icon: TextureRect
-var _grapple_label: Label
-var _dash_label: Label
-var _fps_label: Label
-var _standalone_speed_label: Label
 var _player: CharacterBody3D
-var _debug_ui_panel: PanelContainer
 
 
 func _ready() -> void:
@@ -29,7 +18,6 @@ func _ready() -> void:
 		LevelEnvironment.add_to(self)
 	LevelMaterials.apply_toon_recursive(self, 0.0)
 
-	_build_hud()
 	
 	# Multiplayer Spawning
 	var spawner = MultiplayerSpawner.new()
@@ -94,6 +82,8 @@ func _spawn_player(pid: int) -> CharacterBody3D:
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_is_ads")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_wall_side")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_is_dancing")
+	# Which of the five emotes, so other players see the one that was chosen.
+	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_dance_index")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_grapple_point")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_is_grapple_shooting")
 	client_rep_config.add_property(":synced_skin_id")
@@ -221,297 +211,8 @@ func _spawn_player(pid: int) -> CharacterBody3D:
 	return player
 
 
-# ── HUD ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
-func _build_hud() -> void:
-	var canvas := CanvasLayer.new()
-	canvas.name = "UI"
-	add_child(canvas)
-
-	# ── Crosshair ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-	var crosshair := Control.new()
-	crosshair.name = "Crosshair"
-	crosshair.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_CENTER)
-	crosshair.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(20, 20)
-	canvas.add_child(crosshair)
-
-	var ch_dot := ColorRect.new()
-	ch_dot.name = "Dot"
-	ch_dot.color = Color(1, 1, 1, 0.8)
-	ch_dot.size = Vector2(4, 4)
-	ch_dot.position = Vector2(-2, -2)
-	crosshair.add_child(ch_dot)
-
-	# Crosshair lines
-	for data in [
-		{"pos": Vector2(-10, -1), "size": Vector2(6, 2)},  # Left
-		{"pos": Vector2(4, -1), "size": Vector2(6, 2)},    # Right
-		{"pos": Vector2(-1, -10), "size": Vector2(2, 6)},  # Top
-		{"pos": Vector2(-1, 4), "size": Vector2(2, 6)},    # Bottom
-	]:
-		var line := ColorRect.new()
-		line.color = Color(1, 1, 1, 0.6)
-		line.position = data["pos"]
-		line.size = data["size"]
-		crosshair.add_child(line)
-
-	# ── Info panel background ─────────────────────────────────────────────
-	_fps_label = Label.new()
-	_fps_label.name = "FPSLabel"
-	_fps_label.text = "FPS: 0"
-	_fps_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-	_fps_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(0.9, 0.9, 0.2))
-	_fps_label.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", Color(0, 0, 0))
-	_fps_label.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 4)
-	_fps_label.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_TOP_LEFT)
-	_fps_label.position = Vector2(12, 12)
-	canvas.add_child(_fps_label)
-	
-	_standalone_speed_label = Label.new()
-	_standalone_speed_label.name = "StandaloneSpeedLabel"
-	_standalone_speed_label.text = "Speed: 0.0 m/s"
-	_standalone_speed_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-	_standalone_speed_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(0.3, 1.0, 0.5))
-	_standalone_speed_label.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", Color(0, 0, 0))
-	_standalone_speed_label.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 4)
-	_standalone_speed_label.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_TOP_LEFT)
-	_standalone_speed_label.position = Vector2(12, 45)
-	canvas.add_child(_standalone_speed_label)
-	
-	_debug_ui_panel = PanelContainer.new()
-	_debug_ui_panel.name = "InfoPanel"
-	_debug_ui_panel.offset_left = 12
-	_debug_ui_panel.offset_top = 50
-	_debug_ui_panel.offset_right = 400
-	_debug_ui_panel.offset_bottom = 160
-	var panel_style := StyleBoxFlat.new()
-	panel_style.bg_color = Color(0, 0, 0, 0.55)
-	panel_style.corner_radius_top_left = 8
-	panel_style.corner_radius_top_right = 8
-	panel_style.corner_radius_bottom_left = 8
-	panel_style.corner_radius_bottom_right = 8
-	panel_style.content_margin_left = 12
-	panel_style.content_margin_top = 8
-	panel_style.content_margin_right = 12
-	panel_style.content_margin_bottom = 8
-	_debug_ui_panel.add_theme_stylebox_override("panel", panel_style)
-	canvas.add_child(_debug_ui_panel)
-
-	var vbox := VBoxContainer.new()
-	vbox.name = "InfoVBox"
-	_debug_ui_panel.add_child(vbox)
-
-	_speed_label = Label.new()
-	_speed_label.name = "SpeedLabel"
-	_speed_label.text = "Speed: 0.0 m/s"
-	_speed_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 18)
-	_speed_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(0.3, 1.0, 0.5))
-	vbox.add_child(_speed_label)
-
-	_state_label = Label.new()
-	_state_label.name = "StateLabel"
-	_state_label.text = "State: ground"
-	_state_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 16)
-	_state_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(0.7, 0.85, 1.0))
-	vbox.add_child(_state_label)
-
-	_chain_label = Label.new()
-	_chain_label.name = "ChainLabel"
-	_chain_label.text = "Chain: 0 (+0%)"
-	_chain_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 16)
-	_chain_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(1.0, 0.8, 0.3))
-	vbox.add_child(_chain_label)
-
-
-	# ── Weapon & Ammo Panel ───────────────────────────────────────────────
-	var wp_panel := PanelContainer.new()
-	wp_panel.name = "WeaponPanel"
-	wp_panel.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_BOTTOM_RIGHT)
-	wp_panel.offset_left = -250
-	wp_panel.offset_top = -100
-	wp_panel.offset_right = -20
-	wp_panel.offset_bottom = -20
-	var wp_style := StyleBoxFlat.new()
-	wp_style.bg_color = Color(0, 0, 0, 0.6)
-	wp_style.corner_radius_top_left = 8
-	wp_style.corner_radius_top_right = 8
-	wp_style.corner_radius_bottom_left = 8
-	wp_style.corner_radius_bottom_right = 8
-	wp_style.content_margin_left = 16
-	wp_style.content_margin_top = 12
-	wp_style.content_margin_right = 16
-	wp_style.content_margin_bottom = 12
-	wp_panel.add_theme_stylebox_override("panel", wp_style)
-	wp_panel.grow_horizontal = Control.GROW_DIRECTION_BEGIN
-	canvas.add_child(wp_panel)
-	
-	_weapon_label = Label.new()
-	_weapon_label.name = "WeaponLabel"
-	_weapon_label.text = "Unarmed\n0 / 0"
-	_weapon_label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_RIGHT
-	_weapon_label.vertical_alignment = VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT_BOTTOM
-	_weapon_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-	wp_panel.add_child(_weapon_label)
-
-	# ── Utilities Panel ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-	var util_panel := PanelContainer.new()
-	util_panel.name = "UtilPanel"
-	util_panel.set_anchors_preset(Control.PRESET_BOTTOM_RIGHT)
-	util_panel.offset_left = -200
-	util_panel.offset_top = -180
-	util_panel.offset_right = -20
-	util_panel.offset_bottom = -110
-	var util_style := StyleBoxFlat.new()
-	util_style.bg_color = Color(0, 0, 0, 0.6)
-	util_style.corner_radius_top_left = 8
-	util_style.corner_radius_top_right = 8
-	util_style.corner_radius_bottom_left = 8
-	util_style.corner_radius_bottom_right = 8
-	util_style.content_margin_left = 12
-	util_style.content_margin_top = 8
-	util_style.content_margin_right = 12
-	util_style.content_margin_bottom = 8
-	util_panel.add_theme_stylebox_override("panel", util_style)
-	util_panel.grow_horizontal = Control.GROW_DIRECTION_BEGIN
-	canvas.add_child(util_panel)
-
-	var util_hbox := HBoxContainer.new()
-	util_hbox.name = "UtilHBox"
-	util_hbox.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 20)
-	util_hbox.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	util_panel.add_child(util_hbox)
-
-	var grapple_vbox := VBoxContainer.new()
-	grapple_vbox.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	util_hbox.add_child(grapple_vbox)
-
-	_grapple_icon = TextureRect.new()
-	_grapple_icon.texture = load("res://assets/ui/grapple_icon.jpg")
-	_grapple_icon.expand_mode = TextureRect.EXPAND_IGNORE_SIZE
-	_grapple_icon.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(32, 32)
-	_grapple_icon.stretch_mode = TextureRect.STRETCH_KEEP_ASPECT_CENTERED
-	grapple_vbox.add_child(_grapple_icon)
-	
-	_grapple_label = Label.new()
-	_grapple_label.text = "Grapple"
-	_grapple_label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	_grapple_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 12)
-	grapple_vbox.add_child(_grapple_label)
-
-	var dash_vbox := VBoxContainer.new()
-	dash_vbox.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	util_hbox.add_child(dash_vbox)
-
-	_dash_icon = TextureRect.new()
-	_dash_icon.texture = load("res://assets/ui/dash_icon.jpg")
-	_dash_icon.expand_mode = TextureRect.EXPAND_IGNORE_SIZE
-	_dash_icon.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(32, 32)
-	_dash_icon.stretch_mode = TextureRect.STRETCH_KEEP_ASPECT_CENTERED
-	dash_vbox.add_child(_dash_icon)
-	
-	_dash_label = Label.new()
-	_dash_label.text = "Ready"
-	_dash_label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
-	_dash_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 12)
-	dash_vbox.add_child(_dash_label)
-
-# ── Utility: Key Name ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
-func _get_key_name(action: String) -> String:
-	if not InputMap.has_action(action):
-		return "?"
-	var events = InputMap.action_get_events(action)
-	for e in events:
-		if e is InputEventKey:
-			var code = e.physical_keycode if e.physical_keycode != 0 else e.keycode
-			return OS.get_keycode_string(code)
-		elif e is InputEventMouseButton:
-			if e.button_index == MOUSE_BUTTON_LEFT: return "LClick"
-			elif e.button_index == MOUSE_BUTTON_RIGHT: return "RClick"
-			elif e.button_index == MOUSE_BUTTON_MIDDLE: return "MClick"
-	return "?"
-
-# ── HUD Update ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
-func _process(_delta: float) -> void:
-	if not _player or not is_instance_valid(_player):
-		return
-		
-	if _debug_ui_panel:
-		_debug_ui_panel.visible = SettingsManager.show_debug_ui
-		
-	if _fps_label:
-		_fps_label.visible = SettingsManager.show_fps
-		if _fps_label.visible:
-			_fps_label.text = "FPS: %d" % Engine.get_frames_per_second()
-
-	var vel: Vector3 = _player.velocity
-	var hspeed := Vector2(vel.x, vel.z).length()
-	var total_speed := vel.length()
-
-	if _speed_label:
-		_speed_label.text = "Speed: %.1f m/s (total: %.1f)" % [hspeed, total_speed]
-
-	if _standalone_speed_label:
-		if SettingsManager.show_movement_speed and not SettingsManager.show_debug_ui:
-			_standalone_speed_label.visible = true
-			_standalone_speed_label.text = "Speed: %.1f m/s" % hspeed
-			if _fps_label and _fps_label.visible:
-				_standalone_speed_label.position = Vector2(12, 45)
-			else:
-				_standalone_speed_label.position = Vector2(12, 12)
-		else:
-			_standalone_speed_label.visible = false
-
-	if _state_label:
-		var sm = _player.get_node_or_null("MovementStateMachine")
-		if sm:
-			_state_label.text = "State: %s" % sm.current_state
-
-	if _chain_label:
-		var sm = _player.get_node_or_null("MovementStateMachine")
-		if sm:
-			_chain_label.text = "Chain: %d (+%d%%)" % [sm.chain_count, int(sm.current_chain_bonus * 100)]
-			
-			# Update utility indicators
-			if sm.current_state == "grapple" or sm.is_grapple_shooting:
-				_grapple_icon.modulate = Color(0.2, 1.0, 0.4)
-				_grapple_label.text = "Grappling"
-			else:
-				_grapple_icon.modulate = Color(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
-				_grapple_label.text = "Ready"
-				
-			var dash_rem = sm.get_dash_cooldown_remaining()
-			if dash_rem > 0.0:
-				_dash_icon.modulate = Color(1.0, 0.3, 0.3)
-				_dash_label.text = "%.1f" % dash_rem
-			else:
-				_dash_icon.modulate = Color(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
-				_dash_label.text = "Ready"
-
-	if _weapon_label:
-		var wman = _player.get_node_or_null("HeadPivot/Camera3D/WeaponManager")
-		if wman and wman.weapons.has(wman.active_slot):
-			var active_weapon = wman.weapons[wman.active_slot]
-			var w_name = "Weapon"
-			var cur_ammo = 0
-			var max_ammo = 0
-			
-			if "weapon_name" in active_weapon:
-				w_name = active_weapon.weapon_name
-			elif active_weapon is DoubleBarrelShotgun:
-				w_name = "Double Barrel Shotgun"
-				
-			if "current_ammo" in active_weapon:
-				cur_ammo = active_weapon.current_ammo
-				max_ammo = active_weapon.max_ammo
-			elif "shells" in active_weapon:
-				cur_ammo = active_weapon.shells
-				max_ammo = 2
-				
-			if "reloading" in active_weapon and active_weapon.reloading:
-				_weapon_label.text = "%s\nReloading..." % w_name
-			else:
-				_weapon_label.text = "%s\n%d / %d" % [w_name, cur_ammo, max_ammo]
-		else:
-			_weapon_label.text = "Unarmed\n0 / 0"
+# ── HUD ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+#
+# There is no HUD here any more, and no _process to drive one. See the note in
+# scenes/maps/level_runtime.gd: everything that describes A PLAYER belongs to
+# ui/player_hud.gd, which that player spawns for itself.

ui/ability_chip.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+extends Control
+class_name AbilityChip
+
+## A dash or grapple readout: a leaning chip that drains while the ability is on
+## cooldown and snaps back to charged when it is ready again.
+##
+## It replaces a 32 px JPEG icon with a text label under it, tinted red or green
+## by a colour multiply — an approach with three problems. The icon was a photo
+## in a game drawn entirely in flat ink; the tint said "not ready" but not HOW not
+## ready; and the number that did say it was rendered at 12 px, which is below
+## what anyone reads mid-fight.
+##
+## What a player actually needs from a cooldown is one bit at a glance (can I go?)
+## and one magnitude in peripheral vision (how soon?). So the chip answers the bit
+## with COLOUR — volt when charged, ink when not, the same volt-means-now rule the
+## rest of the UI runs on — and the magnitude with a WIPE across the chip, which
+## can be read without focusing on it because it is a shape changing size rather
+## than a number changing value.
+##
+## The ready transition overshoots slightly before settling. A cooldown that ends
+## by silently going bright is easy to miss while looking somewhere else; one that
+## pops is not, and it costs a tween.
+
+## Ability name, drawn on the chip.
+var label: String = "DASH":
+	set(v):
+		label = v
+		queue_redraw()
+
+## 0 = fully charged, 1 = just used. Written each frame.
+var cooldown: float = 0.0:
+	set(v):
+		var c := clampf(v, 0.0, 1.0)
+		var was_ready := cooldown <= 0.001
+		cooldown = c
+		if was_ready and c > 0.001:
+			_pop = 0.0
+		elif not was_ready and c <= 0.001:
+			# Just came back. Fire the overshoot.
+			_pop = 1.0
+		queue_redraw()
+
+## Set while the ability is actively in use (mid-grapple), which is a third state
+## and reads as neither charged nor recharging.
+var active: bool = false:
+	set(v):
+		if v != active:
+			active = v
+			queue_redraw()
+
+const SHEAR := 7.0
+const INK_W := 3.0
+const POP_DECAY := 4.0
+
+var _pop: float = 0.0
+
+
+func _ready() -> void:
+	mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	custom_minimum_size = Vector2(96, 34)
+
+
+func _process(delta: float) -> void:
+	if _pop <= 0.0:
+		return
+	_pop = maxf(_pop - delta * POP_DECAY, 0.0)
+	queue_redraw()
+
+
+func _draw() -> void:
+	var w := size.x
+	var h := size.y
+	if w <= 1.0 or h <= 1.0:
+		return
+
+	var ready := cooldown <= 0.001
+	# The overshoot: a brief lift in the fill, decaying to the resting colour.
+	var lift: float = _pop * _pop
+
+	var fill: Color = UITheme.INK
+	var text: Color = UITheme.PAPER_DIM
+	if active:
+		# In use. Cyan, so it cannot be confused with either of the other two.
+		fill = UITheme.CYAN
+		text = UITheme.ink_for(UITheme.CYAN)
+	elif ready:
+		fill = UITheme.VOLT.lerp(UITheme.PAPER, lift * 0.5)
+		text = UITheme.ink_for(UITheme.VOLT)
+
+	_shear(0.0, w, fill, h)
+
+	# The recharge wipe, left to right over the dark chip.
+	if not ready and not active:
+		_shear(0.0, w * (1.0 - cooldown), UITheme.PAPAYA, h)
+		# Anything the wipe has reached is papaya, anything it has not is ink,
+		# and one text colour has to sit on both. Ink loses against ink; paper
+		# wins against both, and the outline below covers the papaya case.
+		text = UITheme.PAPER
+
+	_shear_outline(0.0, w, UITheme.INK, h)
+
+	var font := get_theme_default_font()
+	if font == null:
+		return
+	var fs := 17
+	var text_size := font.get_string_size(label, HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_LEFT, -1, fs)
+	var at := Vector2((w - text_size.x) * 0.5, (h + text_size.y * 0.62) * 0.5)
+	# Ink outline under the glyphs, same as every Label in the theme, so the
+	# label survives the wipe passing underneath it.
+	draw_string_outline(font, at, label, HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_LEFT, -1, fs, 5,
+		UITheme.INK)
+	draw_string(font, at, label, HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_LEFT, -1, fs, text)
+
+
+func _shear(x0: float, x1: float, col: Color, h: float) -> void:
+	if x1 - x0 < 0.5:
+		return
+	draw_colored_polygon(PackedVector2Array([
+		Vector2(x0 + SHEAR, 0.0), Vector2(x1 + SHEAR, 0.0),
+		Vector2(x1, h), Vector2(x0, h),
+	]), col)
+
+
+func _shear_outline(x0: float, x1: float, col: Color, h: float) -> void:
+	draw_polyline(PackedVector2Array([
+		Vector2(x0 + SHEAR, 0.0), Vector2(x1 + SHEAR, 0.0),
+		Vector2(x1, h), Vector2(x0, h), Vector2(x0 + SHEAR, 0.0),
+	]), col, INK_W)

ui/ability_chip.gd.uid

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+uid://48ja2bu8k6xm

ui/crosshair.gd

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+extends Control
+class_name Crosshair
+
+## The reticle, drawn rather than assembled out of ColorRects.
+##
+## It replaces five white rectangles that were pasted into three different level
+## runtimes, and it exists as one drawn thing for two reasons.
+##
+## The first is that it has to say something. A static cross tells the player
+## nothing they do not already know; a reticle that OPENS as they sprint, jump and
+## fire, and snaps shut when they stop or shoulder the weapon, is the accuracy
+## readout of the whole game and it costs one number per frame. Four separate
+## ColorRects cannot express that without four separate position updates, which is
+## why they never did.
+##
+## The second is the ink. Every other element in this UI carries a heavy dark edge
+## — it is the theme's first rule, and the reason white type stays legible over a
+## sunlit 3D scene. A 2 px white line does not: over pale concrete it disappears
+## exactly when aim matters. Here every stroke is drawn twice, ink underneath and
+## wider, so the reticle reads against the map instead of against luck.
+##
+## The hit confirmation lives here too, rather than as a separate centred Control
+## fading on top. It is the same four strokes rotated 45°, which means the
+## feedback arrives where the player's eye already is and shares the reticle's
+## outline instead of needing its own.
+
+## 0 = tight, 1 = fully bloomed. Written each frame by PlayerHUD from speed,
+## airtime and fire cooldown.
+var spread: float = 0.0:
+	set(v):
+		var c := clampf(v, 0.0, 1.0)
+		if absf(c - spread) > 0.002:
+			spread = c
+			queue_redraw()
+		else:
+			spread = c
+
+## 0 = hip, 1 = down the sights. At full ADS the ticks retract entirely and only
+## the centre dot remains, which is the convention every shooter uses and the
+## clearest possible statement that the shot is going where the dot is.
+var ads: float = 0.0:
+	set(v):
+		var c := clampf(v, 0.0, 1.0)
+		if absf(c - ads) > 0.002:
+			ads = c
+			queue_redraw()
+		else:
+			ads = c
+
+## Hit and kill confirmations, 1 -> 0. Kill is the louder one and it wins.
+var hit: float = 0.0
+var kill: float = 0.0
+
+## Geometry, in pixels at 1080p.
+const GAP_TIGHT := 5.0
+const GAP_BLOOM := 30.0
+const TICK := 9.0
+const STROKE := 2.0
+const INK_GROW := 2.0
+const DOT := 2.2
+## How far the confirmation strokes sit out, and how long they are.
+const HIT_GAP := 13.0
+const HIT_TICK := 8.0
+
+## Decay rates, per second. The hit pop is quick — it has to land inside the
+## rhythm of firing, not linger into the next shot.
+const HIT_DECAY := 3.2
+const KILL_DECAY := 1.7
+
+
+func _ready() -> void:
+	mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	# FULL RECT, and the drawing centres itself in `size`.
+	#
+	# A zero-sized Control on PRESET_CENTER is the obvious way to do this and it
+	# is wrong: the control draws once when it enters the tree, before the
+	# viewport has told it how big the screen is, so the whole reticle lands in
+	# the top-left corner and stays there until something else happens to make it
+	# redraw. Nothing does, because the reticle only redraws when the bloom
+	# changes. Owning the full rect and measuring the centre every draw cannot
+	# get that wrong.
+	# `set_anchors_AND_OFFSETS_preset`, not `set_anchors_preset`. The latter
+	# moves the anchors and leaves the offsets where they were, which for a
+	# control that has never been laid out means an empty rect: the measured
+	# result was anchors spanning the viewport and a size of exactly (0, 0).
+	set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	resized.connect(queue_redraw)
+
+
+func _process(delta: float) -> void:
+	if hit <= 0.0 and kill <= 0.0:
+		return
+	hit = maxf(hit - delta * HIT_DECAY, 0.0)
+	kill = maxf(kill - delta * KILL_DECAY, 0.0)
+	queue_redraw()
+
+
+## A landed shot. Kills pass `fatal` and get the louder, slower magenta pop.
+func confirm(fatal: bool = false) -> void:
+	if fatal:
+		kill = 1.0
+	else:
+		hit = 1.0
+	queue_redraw()
+
+
+func _draw() -> void:
+	_mid = size * 0.5
+	# ADS retracts the ticks and tightens what is left, so the bloom cannot
+	# fight the sight picture.
+	var open := 1.0 - ads
+	var gap: float = lerpf(GAP_TIGHT, GAP_BLOOM, spread) * lerpf(1.0, 0.45, ads)
+	var tick: float = TICK * open
+
+	if tick > 0.5:
+		# Vertical ticks are drawn slightly shorter than horizontal ones. A
+		# perfectly square cross reads taller than it is because the eye
+		# over-weights vertical extent; trimming the verticals is the standard
+		# correction and it is the difference between a reticle that looks
+		# centred and one that looks slightly high.
+		_stroke(Vector2(-gap - tick, 0), Vector2(-gap, 0), UITheme.PAPER)
+		_stroke(Vector2(gap, 0), Vector2(gap + tick, 0), UITheme.PAPER)
+		var v: float = tick * 0.86
+		_stroke(Vector2(0, -gap - v), Vector2(0, -gap), UITheme.PAPER)
+		_stroke(Vector2(0, gap), Vector2(0, gap + v), UITheme.PAPER)
+
+	# Centre dot: the one element that never moves and never fades. It goes
+	# papaya at the hip and volt down the sights, so shouldering the weapon
+	# changes the reticle's colour as well as its shape.
+	var dot_col: Color = UITheme.PAPAYA.lerp(UITheme.VOLT, ads)
+	var r: float = DOT * lerpf(1.0, 1.25, ads)
+	draw_circle(_mid, r + INK_GROW, UITheme.INK)
+	draw_circle(_mid, r, dot_col)
+
+	# Confirmations, over the top: the same cross rotated 45°.
+	if kill > 0.001:
+		_confirm_arms(kill, UITheme.MAGENTA, 1.35)
+	if hit > 0.001:
+		_confirm_arms(hit, UITheme.VOLT, 1.0)
+
+
+## Four diagonal strokes, scaled and faded by `amount`.
+##
+## They grow slightly as they fade rather than merely fading, which reads as an
+## impact rather than as a light being switched off — the same expansion-plus-
+## dissolve that carries an anime impact frame.
+func _confirm_arms(amount: float, col: Color, scale: float) -> void:
+	var grow: float = 1.0 + (1.0 - amount) * 0.5
+	var gap: float = HIT_GAP * scale * grow
+	var tick: float = HIT_TICK * scale
+	var c := Color(col.r, col.g, col.b, amount)
+	var ink := Color(UITheme.INK.r, UITheme.INK.g, UITheme.INK.b, amount)
+	const DIAGONALS: Array[Vector2] = [Vector2(1, 1), Vector2(1, -1),
+		Vector2(-1, 1), Vector2(-1, -1)]
+	for d in DIAGONALS:
+		var dir := d.normalized()
+		_stroke(dir * gap, dir * (gap + tick), c, ink)
+
+
+## Screen centre, recomputed at the top of every `_draw`. Every offset below is
+## relative to it.
+var _mid: Vector2 = Vector2.ZERO
+
+
+## One stroke, ink first and wider so the colour sits inside an outline.
+##
+## Endpoints are given RELATIVE TO CENTRE and offset here, so no caller has to
+## remember to add it.
+##
+## `draw_line` with a round cap would leave the ink poking out past the ends as a
+## dark bead; square caps keep the outline flush with the stroke it is edging.
+func _stroke(a: Vector2, b: Vector2, col: Color,
+		ink: Color = UITheme.INK) -> void:
+	draw_line(_mid + a, _mid + b, ink, STROKE + INK_GROW * 2.0, false)
+	draw_line(_mid + a, _mid + b, col, STROKE, false)

ui/crosshair.gd.uid

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+uid://ck57a8waor1d1

ui/emote_wheel.gd

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+extends Control
+class_name EmoteWheel
+
+## The radial emote dial: hold the emote button, point, release.
+##
+## A radial menu is the right shape for this and a list is not, for one reason:
+## every option is the SAME DISTANCE from where the pointer starts. There is no
+## scanning and no travel budget — the choice is a direction, and a direction can
+## be learned as muscle memory in a way that "the fourth row down" cannot. After
+## a few uses the player stops reading the wheel and just flicks.
+##
+## Which is why the selection is by ANGLE ALONE and not by distance. Pointing
+## anywhere in a wedge selects it, however far out the cursor is, so a fast flick
+## and a careful nudge do the same thing. A dead zone in the middle is the only
+## exception, and it exists so releasing without moving cancels rather than
+## picking whatever happened to be under the cursor at rest.
+##
+## Opened by HOLDING the button rather than toggled by tapping it, because an
+## emote is a thing you do in a lull and a menu you have to close again is a
+## thing that gets you killed. Release commits. A tap too short to have aimed
+## replays the last emote instead, which is what the button did before the wheel
+## existed.
+
+signal picked(index: int)
+signal cancelled
+
+## The wheel is drawn at this radius, and a wedge is selected by pointing at it
+## from further out than the dead zone.
+const RADIUS := 190.0
+const INNER := 76.0
+const DEAD_ZONE := 46.0
+const LABEL_R := 250.0
+
+## How long the open/close ease takes. Short — this is a fast interaction and a
+## slow bloom would defeat the point of it.
+const OPEN_TIME := 0.11
+
+var _routines: Array = []
+var _hover: int = -1
+var _open: float = 0.0
+var _target_open: float = 0.0
+## The direction the pointer has travelled from the wheel's centre since it
+## opened. Accumulated from relative mouse motion rather than read from the
+## cursor position, because the game captures the mouse and the OS cursor does
+## not move.
+var _aim: Vector2 = Vector2.ZERO
+
+
+func _ready() -> void:
+	_routines = DanceRoutines.ROUTINES
+	set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	visible = false
+	set_process(false)
+	set_process_input(false)
+
+
+## Show the wheel and start tracking the pointer.
+func open() -> void:
+	_aim = Vector2.ZERO
+	_hover = -1
+	_target_open = 1.0
+	visible = true
+	set_process(true)
+	set_process_input(true)
+	queue_redraw()
+
+
+## Hide it, and report what was pointed at. Returns the index, or -1 for a
+## cancel (nothing aimed at, or the pointer never left the dead zone).
+func close() -> int:
+	_target_open = 0.0
+	set_process_input(false)
+	var chosen := _hover
+	if chosen >= 0:
+		picked.emit(chosen)
+	else:
+		cancelled.emit()
+	_hover = -1
+	queue_redraw()
+	return chosen
+
+
+func _input(event: InputEvent) -> void:
+	if event is InputEventMouseMotion:
+		# Relative motion, because the game holds the mouse captured — the
+		# cursor's absolute position never changes and reading it would leave
+		# the wheel permanently pointing at nothing.
+		_aim += (event as InputEventMouseMotion).relative
+		_update_hover()
+
+
+## Also drivable from a stick or the keyboard, for a controller or for a player
+## who would rather not move the mouse. Same wedge maths, different source.
+func aim_by_vector(v: Vector2) -> void:
+	_aim = v * (DEAD_ZONE + 1.0) if v.length() > 0.01 else Vector2.ZERO
+	_update_hover()
+
+
+func _update_hover() -> void:
+	var was := _hover
+	if _aim.length() < DEAD_ZONE or _routines.is_empty():
+		_hover = -1
+	else:
+		# Angle from straight UP, clockwise, so the first emote is at twelve
+		# o'clock — the position a player will reach for without thinking.
+		var a := fposmod(atan2(_aim.x, -_aim.y), TAU)
+		var step := TAU / float(_routines.size())
+		_hover = int(floor((a + step * 0.5) / step)) % _routines.size()
+	if _hover != was:
+		queue_redraw()
+		var am := get_tree().root.get_node_or_null("AudioManager")
+		if am and _hover >= 0:
+			am.play_ui("ui_hover")
+
+
+func _process(delta: float) -> void:
+	var t := 1.0 - exp(-delta / maxf(OPEN_TIME, 0.001))
+	_open = lerpf(_open, _target_open, t)
+	if _target_open <= 0.0 and _open < 0.01:
+		_open = 0.0
+		visible = false
+		set_process(false)
+	queue_redraw()
+
+
+func _draw() -> void:
+	if _open < 0.01 or _routines.is_empty():
+		return
+	var mid := size * 0.5
+	# Scale up from 88% as it opens, and fade in. Small, because the wheel has to
+	# be usable the instant it appears — an animation the player has to wait out
+	# is an animation that makes the feature feel slower than the old toggle.
+	var k: float = lerpf(0.88, 1.0, _open)
+	var a: float = _open
+	var count := _routines.size()
+	var step := TAU / float(count)
+
+	# A scrim, so the wheel reads over a bright skybox without needing a heavier
+	# outline than everything else in the UI uses.
+	draw_circle(mid, RADIUS * k * 1.06,
+		Color(UITheme.INK.r, UITheme.INK.g, UITheme.INK.b, 0.55 * a))
+
+	for i in count:
+		var mid_angle := step * float(i)
+		var from := mid_angle - step * 0.5
+		var hovered := i == _hover
+		# Fill follows the state, and the label follows the fill — the theme's
+		# one rule for staying readable. A hovered wedge is papaya and takes ink
+		# glyphs; a resting one is near-black and takes paper.
+		var fill: Color = UITheme.PAPAYA if hovered else UITheme.INK_SOFT
+		_wedge(mid, from, step, INNER * k, RADIUS * k,
+			Color(fill.r, fill.g, fill.b, (0.95 if hovered else 0.82) * a))
+
+		var dir := Vector2(sin(mid_angle), -cos(mid_angle))
+		var r := (INNER + RADIUS) * 0.5 * k
+		_glyph(mid + dir * r, String(_routines[i].get("icon", "*")), 40,
+			UITheme.ink_for(fill) if hovered else UITheme.PAPER, a)
+		# The name sits OUTSIDE the ring rather than inside the wedge, so a long
+		# one is never clipped by its own slice and the type size does not have
+		# to shrink as emotes are added.
+		_glyph(mid + dir * (LABEL_R * k), String(_routines[i].get("name", "")), 22,
+			UITheme.VOLT if hovered else UITheme.PAPER, a)
+
+	# The hub. Volt while a wedge is aimed at, so committing is confirmed before
+	# the button is released rather than after.
+	var hub: Color = UITheme.VOLT if _hover >= 0 else UITheme.INK
+	draw_circle(mid, INNER * k * 0.42,
+		Color(hub.r, hub.g, hub.b, (0.9 if _hover >= 0 else 0.75) * a))
+	draw_arc(mid, INNER * k * 0.42, 0, TAU, 40,
+		Color(UITheme.INK.r, UITheme.INK.g, UITheme.INK.b, a), 3.0, true)
+	if _hover < 0:
+		_glyph(mid, "RELEASE TO CANCEL", 16, UITheme.PAPER_DIM, a * 0.9)
+
+
+## One slice of the ring, as a triangle strip between the inner and outer radii.
+func _wedge(mid: Vector2, from: float, span: float, r0: float, r1: float,
+		col: Color) -> void:
+	var segs := 14
+	var pts := PackedVector2Array()
+	for i in segs + 1:
+		var ang := from + span * (float(i) / float(segs))
+		# A one-degree gap either side, so adjacent wedges read as separate
+		# choices rather than as a solid ring with colour changes in it.
+		ang = from + deg_to_rad(1.2) + (span - deg_to_rad(2.4)) * (float(i) / float(segs))
+		var d := Vector2(sin(ang), -cos(ang))
+		pts.append(mid + d * r0)
+		pts.append(mid + d * r1)
+	# Build an outline path around the strip so the ink edge can be stroked.
+	var outer := PackedVector2Array()
+	var inner := PackedVector2Array()
+	for i in range(0, pts.size(), 2):
+		inner.append(pts[i])
+		outer.append(pts[i + 1])
+	var poly := PackedVector2Array()
+	poly.append_array(outer)
+	inner.reverse()
+	poly.append_array(inner)
+	draw_colored_polygon(poly, col)
+	poly.append(poly[0])
+	draw_polyline(poly, Color(UITheme.INK.r, UITheme.INK.g, UITheme.INK.b, col.a),
+		3.0)
+
+
+## Centred text with the theme's ink outline under it.
+func _glyph(at: Vector2, text: String, fs: int, col: Color, alpha: float) -> void:
+	var font := get_theme_default_font()
+	if font == null or text == "":
+		return
+	var w := font.get_string_size(text, HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_LEFT, -1, fs)
+	var pos := at - Vector2(w.x * 0.5, -w.y * 0.32)
+	draw_string_outline(font, pos, text, HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_LEFT, -1, fs, 6,
+		Color(UITheme.INK.r, UITheme.INK.g, UITheme.INK.b, alpha))
+	draw_string(font, pos, text, HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_LEFT, -1, fs,
+		Color(col.r, col.g, col.b, alpha))

ui/emote_wheel.gd.uid

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+uid://dnxnbswrl04u8

ui/main_menu/level_card.gd

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+extends Button
+class_name LevelCard
+
+## One map on the level select: its photograph, its name, and its mode.
+##
+## The cards used to be a two-stop gradient generated from `color1` and `color2`
+## in the map's meta file. That tells a player which card they clicked last time
+## and nothing at all about the map, which is the entire job of a level select —
+## and the hover state was `use_hdr = true` on the gradient texture, which is not
+## a visible change on any of them.
+##
+## The preview comes from assets/ui/map_previews/<folder>.png, shot by
+## debug/map_preview_capture.gd from inside the map. A map with no preview falls
+## back to its gradient, so nothing breaks for a map that has not been
+## photographed yet.
+##
+## Built on Button rather than TextureButton so it gets focus, keyboard
+## navigation and the theme's state machinery for free. The image sits inside the
+## button's border rather than under it, so the border reads as a frame around a
+## photograph instead of a rectangle behind one.
+
+const INSET := 5
+
+var _plate: ColorRect
+var _label: Label
+var _mode_label: Label
+
+
+func setup(title: String, preview_path: String, gradient: Gradient,
+		card_size: Vector2) -> void:
+	custom_minimum_size = card_size
+	clip_contents = true
+
+	# The frame. Papaya at rest, volt on hover, and the fill stays transparent
+	# so the photograph is what the player sees.
+	var clear := Color(0, 0, 0, 0)
+	add_theme_stylebox_override("normal", _frame(clear, UITheme.PAPAYA, 3))
+	add_theme_stylebox_override("hover", _frame(clear, UITheme.VOLT, 5))
+	add_theme_stylebox_override("pressed", _frame(
+		Color(UITheme.VOLT.r, UITheme.VOLT.g, UITheme.VOLT.b, 0.25),
+		UITheme.VOLT, 5))
+	add_theme_stylebox_override("focus", _frame(clear, UITheme.CYAN, 5))
+	add_theme_stylebox_override("disabled", _frame(
+		Color(UITheme.INK.r, UITheme.INK.g, UITheme.INK.b, 0.7),
+		UITheme.DEAD_EDGE, 3))
+
+	if ResourceLoader.exists(preview_path):
+		var shot := TextureRect.new()
+		shot.texture = load(preview_path)
+		shot.expand_mode = TextureRect.EXPAND_IGNORE_SIZE
+		# COVERED, not scaled: a photograph letterboxed inside a card reads as a
+		# thumbnail in a file browser. Filling the card and cropping reads as a
+		# poster, which is what this is.
+		shot.stretch_mode = TextureRect.STRETCH_KEEP_ASPECT_COVERED
+		shot.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+		_fill(shot)
+		add_child(shot)
+	else:
+		var grad := TextureRect.new()
+		var tex := GradientTexture2D.new()
+		tex.gradient = gradient
+		tex.width = int(card_size.x)
+		tex.height = int(card_size.y)
+		tex.fill_to = Vector2(1, 1)
+		grad.texture = tex
+		grad.expand_mode = TextureRect.EXPAND_IGNORE_SIZE
+		grad.stretch_mode = TextureRect.STRETCH_SCALE
+		grad.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+		_fill(grad)
+		add_child(grad)
+
+	# The name plate: a hard ink band across the bottom rather than a gradient
+	# fade, because the theme is drawn and a soft fade is not.
+	_plate = ColorRect.new()
+	_plate.color = Color(UITheme.INK.r, UITheme.INK.g, UITheme.INK.b, 0.88)
+	_plate.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	_plate.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_BOTTOM_WIDE)
+	_plate.offset_top = -62
+	_plate.offset_left = INSET
+	_plate.offset_right = -INSET
+	_plate.offset_bottom = -INSET
+	add_child(_plate)
+
+	var stack := VBoxContainer.new()
+	stack.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	stack.add_theme_constant_override("separation", -2)
+	stack.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	_plate.add_child(stack)
+
+	_label = Label.new()
+	_label.text = title
+	_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 28)
+	_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", UITheme.PAPER)
+	_label.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", UITheme.INK)
+	_label.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 6)
+	_label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
+	stack.add_child(_label)
+
+	_mode_label = Label.new()
+	_mode_label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 16)
+	_mode_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", UITheme.PAPER_DIM)
+	_mode_label.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", UITheme.INK)
+	_mode_label.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 4)
+	_mode_label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
+	stack.add_child(_mode_label)
+
+	# The label follows the frame, same rule as every other control: hover turns
+	# the frame volt, so the name turns volt with it.
+	mouse_entered.connect(func(): _tint(UITheme.VOLT))
+	mouse_exited.connect(func(): _tint(UITheme.PAPER))
+	focus_entered.connect(func(): _tint(UITheme.CYAN))
+	focus_exited.connect(func(): _tint(UITheme.PAPER))
+
+
+## What pressing this card will start. Shown under the name so the player is
+## never guessing which mode the button they are about to press launches.
+func set_mode_text(text: String) -> void:
+	if _mode_label:
+		_mode_label.text = text
+
+
+func _tint(c: Color) -> void:
+	if _label:
+		_label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", c)
+
+
+func _fill(c: Control) -> void:
+	c.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	c.offset_left = INSET
+	c.offset_top = INSET
+	c.offset_right = -INSET
+	c.offset_bottom = -INSET
+
+
+func _frame(fill: Color, border: Color, width: int) -> StyleBoxFlat:
+	var sb := StyleBoxFlat.new()
+	sb.bg_color = fill
+	sb.border_color = border
+	sb.set_border_width_all(width)
+	sb.set_corner_radius_all(5)
+	sb.shadow_color = Color(UITheme.INK.r, UITheme.INK.g, UITheme.INK.b, 0.6)
+	sb.shadow_size = 4
+	sb.shadow_offset = Vector2(5, 5)
+	return sb

ui/main_menu/level_card.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://2bfw74vxcitf

ui/match_hud.gd

@@ -14,6 +14,35 @@ var _killfeed_vbox: VBoxContainer
 var _scoreboard_panel: PanelContainer
 var _scoreboard_grid: GridContainer
 
+var _summary: MatchSummary
+
+
+func _on_match_ended(result: Dictionary) -> void:
+	_scoreboard_panel.hide()
+	_summary.show_result(result)
+
+
+func _on_play_again() -> void:
+	if not _nm:
+		return
+	# The host decides for everyone; a client's button is disabled.
+	if _nm.multiplayer.has_multiplayer_peer() \
+			and not _nm.multiplayer.multiplayer_peer is OfflineMultiplayerPeer:
+		if _nm.multiplayer.is_server():
+			_nm.restart_match.rpc()
+	else:
+		_nm.restart_match()
+	_summary.visible = false
+	Input.set_mouse_mode(Input.MOUSE_MODE_CAPTURED)
+
+
+func _on_to_menu() -> void:
+	if _nm:
+		_nm.match_active = false
+		_nm.disconnect_game()
+	Input.set_mouse_mode(Input.MOUSE_MODE_VISIBLE)
+	get_tree().change_scene_to_file("res://ui/main_menu/main_menu.tscn")
+
 func _ready() -> void:
 	_nm = get_node_or_null("/root/NetworkManager")
 	# Ensure the comic theme is active even when a level is loaded directly
@@ -98,12 +127,27 @@ func _ready() -> void:
 	
 	_populate_scoreboard_headers()
 	
+	# The end-of-match screen. Built once and hidden, rather than instantiated on
+	# the signal, so the moment the match ends nothing has to be loaded.
+	_summary = MatchSummary.new()
+	_summary.name = "MatchSummary"
+	_summary.visible = false
+	_summary.play_again.connect(_on_play_again)
+	_summary.to_menu.connect(_on_to_menu)
+	add_child(_summary)
+
 	# Signals
 	if _nm:
 		_nm.stats_updated.connect(_update_hud)
 		_nm.killfeed_event.connect(_on_killfeed_event)
 		_nm.match_state_updated.connect(_update_timer)
+		_nm.match_ended.connect(_on_match_ended)
 		_update_hud()
+		# A HUD that loads AFTER the match ended — a late joiner, or a scene
+		# reload — still has to show the result, so it asks rather than only
+		# listening. `last_result` is empty during a live match.
+		if not _nm.last_result.is_empty():
+			_on_match_ended(_nm.last_result)
 
 func _process(_delta: float) -> void:
 	if Input.is_action_just_pressed("scoreboard"):
@@ -125,8 +169,12 @@ func _update_timer() -> void:
 func _populate_scoreboard_headers() -> void:
 	for child in _scoreboard_grid.get_children():
 		child.queue_free()
-	
-	var headers = ["Player", "Kills", "Deaths", "Assists", "Ping"]
+
+	# SCORE is first and is the mode's own noun, because it is what decides the
+	# match. Kills and score are the same number in Deathmatch and different in
+	# Gun Game, which is exactly why both are shown.
+	var noun := GameMode.score_noun(_nm.current_gamemode) if _nm else "SCORE"
+	var headers = ["Player", noun, "Kills", "Deaths", "Assists", "Streak", "Ping"]
 	for h in headers:
 		var l = Label.new()
 		l.text = h
@@ -138,59 +186,59 @@ func _update_hud() -> void:
 	if not _nm: return
 	
 	var my_id = multiplayer.get_unique_id()
-	
-	var leader_name = "None"
-	var max_kills = -1
-	
+	var mode: String = _nm.current_gamemode
+	var noun := GameMode.score_noun(mode)
 	var stats = _nm.player_stats
-	
-	# Sort players by kills for scoreboard
-	var players = stats.keys()
-	players.sort_custom(func(a, b): return stats[a].get("kills", 0) > stats[b].get("kills", 0))
-	
+
+	# Ranked by SCORE, which is what the mode counts — not by kills, which in
+	# Gun Game is the same number by coincidence and in a mode with objectives
+	# would not be.
+	var players := GameMode.standings(stats)
 	_populate_scoreboard_headers()
-	
+
 	for pid in players:
 		var p_data = stats[pid]
-		var p_kills = p_data.get("kills", 0)
-		
-		# Find leader
-		if p_kills > max_kills:
-			max_kills = p_kills
-			leader_name = p_data.get("username", "Player " + str(pid))
-		
-		# Update local kills
+		var p_score = p_data.get("score", p_data.get("kills", 0))
+
 		if pid == my_id:
-			_local_kills_label.text = str(p_kills) + " Kills"
-		
-		# Build Scoreboard Row
+			_local_kills_label.text = "%s %s" % [p_score, noun]
+
+		var row_color := Color(p_data.get("color", "cccccc"))
+		if int(p_data.get("team", 0)) > 0:
+			row_color = GameMode.team_color(int(p_data.get("team", 0)))
+
 		var c_name = Label.new()
 		c_name.text = p_data.get("username", "Player")
 		c_name.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-		c_name.add_theme_color_override("font_color", Color(p_data.get("color", "cccccc")))
+		c_name.add_theme_color_override("font_color", row_color)
 		_scoreboard_grid.add_child(c_name)
-		
-		var c_k = Label.new()
-		c_k.text = str(p_kills)
-		c_k.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-		_scoreboard_grid.add_child(c_k)
-		
-		var c_d = Label.new()
-		c_d.text = str(p_data.get("deaths", 0))
-		c_d.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-		_scoreboard_grid.add_child(c_d)
-		
-		var c_a = Label.new()
-		c_a.text = str(p_data.get("assists", 0))
-		c_a.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-		_scoreboard_grid.add_child(c_a)
-		
-		var c_p = Label.new()
-		c_p.text = str(p_data.get("ping", 0)) + "ms"
-		c_p.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
-		_scoreboard_grid.add_child(c_p)
-	
-	_leader_label.text = "Leader: %s (%s Kills)" % [leader_name, max_kills]
+
+		for value in [str(p_score), str(p_data.get("kills", 0)),
+				str(p_data.get("deaths", 0)), str(p_data.get("assists", 0)),
+				"x%d" % int(p_data.get("best_streak", 0)),
+				"%dms" % int(p_data.get("ping", 0))]:
+			var cell = Label.new()
+			cell.text = value
+			cell.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
+			_scoreboard_grid.add_child(cell)
+
+	# The top line: who is leading, and how far there is to go. A score limit
+	# nobody can see is a win condition players cannot play toward.
+	var limit := GameMode.score_limit(mode)
+	if GameMode.is_team_mode(mode):
+		var totals := GameMode.team_scores(mode, stats)
+		var parts: PackedStringArray = []
+		for t in totals:
+			parts.append("%s %d" % [GameMode.team_name(t), totals[t]])
+		_leader_label.text = "  /  ".join(parts) + (" — to %d" % limit if limit > 0 else "")
+	elif players.is_empty():
+		_leader_label.text = "Leader: None"
+	else:
+		var top = players[0]
+		_leader_label.text = "Leader: %s (%s%s)" % [
+			stats[top].get("username", "Player " + str(top)),
+			stats[top].get("score", 0),
+			"/%d" % limit if limit > 0 else ""]
 
 func _on_killfeed_event(victim: String, killer: String, weapon: String, v_color: String = "cccccc", k_color: String = "cccccc") -> void:
 	var l = RichTextLabel.new()

ui/match_summary.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+extends Control
+class_name MatchSummary
+
+## The end of a match: who won, why, and what everyone did.
+##
+## There was nothing here before. The clock reached zero, `match_active` went
+## false, the timer froze at 00:00, and the players kept shooting each other in a
+## match that had stopped counting. A mode without an ending is a mode without
+## stakes — everything a player does in the last minute only matters if there is
+## a last minute.
+##
+## Built from the theme's own parts, so it reads as the same game as the menu it
+## came from and the HUD it covers.
+
+signal play_again
+signal to_menu
+
+var _result: Dictionary = {}
+
+
+func show_result(result: Dictionary) -> void:
+	_result = result
+	for c in get_children():
+		c.queue_free()
+	_build()
+	visible = true
+	# The summary takes the mouse, which the match had captured.
+	Input.set_mouse_mode(Input.MOUSE_MODE_VISIBLE)
+
+
+func _build() -> void:
+	set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_STOP
+
+	var wash := ColorRect.new()
+	wash.color = Color(UITheme.INK.r, UITheme.INK.g, UITheme.INK.b, 0.86)
+	wash.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	wash.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	add_child(wash)
+
+	var centre := CenterContainer.new()
+	centre.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	add_child(centre)
+
+	var card := UITheme.card()
+	card.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(880, 0)
+	centre.add_child(card)
+
+	var col := VBoxContainer.new()
+	col.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 10)
+	card.add_child(col)
+
+	# ── Who won, and why ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+	var winner := String(_result.get("name", "DRAW"))
+	var title := UITheme.title(winner if winner == "DRAW" else winner + " WINS",
+		68, -2.0)
+	title.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
+	# A winning TEAM's name is written in that team's colour. The wordmark
+	# treatment is papaya by default, which on "MAGENTA TEAM WINS" says the
+	# opposite of what the words do.
+	var win_team := int(_result.get("team", 0))
+	if win_team > 0:
+		title.add_theme_color_override("font_color", GameMode.team_color(win_team))
+	col.add_child(title)
+
+	# The REASON, not just the result. "Time" and "frag limit" are different
+	# stories about the same scoreline and the player was in one of them.
+	var reason := "TIME"
+	if String(_result.get("reason", "")) == "score":
+		reason = "%s LIMIT REACHED" % GameMode.score_noun(
+			String(_result.get("mode", GameMode.DEATHMATCH)))
+	var sub := UITheme.caption("%s  •  %s" % [
+		GameMode.display_name(String(_result.get("mode", GameMode.DEATHMATCH))),
+		reason], 22)
+	sub.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
+	col.add_child(sub)
+
+	var rule := UITheme.divider(0.42)
+	rule.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(0, 20)
+	col.add_child(rule)
+
+	# ── Team scores, if this was a team mode ────────────────────────────────
+	var mode := String(_result.get("mode", GameMode.DEATHMATCH))
+	var stats: Dictionary = _result.get("stats", {})
+	if GameMode.is_team_mode(mode):
+		var totals := GameMode.team_scores(mode, stats)
+		var row := HBoxContainer.new()
+		row.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_CENTER
+		row.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 46)
+		col.add_child(row)
+		for t in totals:
+			var box := VBoxContainer.new()
+			var nm := UITheme.heading(GameMode.team_name(t), 24)
+			nm.add_theme_color_override("font_color", GameMode.team_color(t))
+			nm.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
+			box.add_child(nm)
+			var sc := UITheme.heading(str(totals[t]), 54)
+			sc.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
+			box.add_child(sc)
+			row.add_child(box)
+
+	# ── The standings ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+	var grid := GridContainer.new()
+	grid.columns = 6
+	grid.add_theme_constant_override("h_separation", 34)
+	grid.add_theme_constant_override("v_separation", 6)
+	col.add_child(grid)
+
+	for h in ["#", "PLAYER", GameMode.score_noun(mode), "K", "D", "BEST RUN"]:
+		var lbl := UITheme.caption(h, 20)
+		grid.add_child(lbl)
+
+	var order: Array = _result.get("standings", [])
+	for i in order.size():
+		var pid = order[i]
+		var s: Dictionary = stats.get(pid, {})
+		var place := i + 1
+		# First place gets the volt. It is the only place in this UI outside the
+		# moment of input that volt appears, and winning is worth the exception.
+		var tint: Color = UITheme.VOLT if place == 1 else UITheme.PAPER
+		grid.add_child(_cell(str(place), tint, place == 1))
+		var who := _cell(String(s.get("username", "Player")), tint, place == 1)
+		if int(s.get("team", 0)) > 0:
+			who.add_theme_color_override("font_color",
+				GameMode.team_color(int(s.get("team", 0))))
+		grid.add_child(who)
+		grid.add_child(_cell(str(s.get("score", 0)), tint, place == 1))
+		grid.add_child(_cell(str(s.get("kills", 0)), tint, place == 1))
+		grid.add_child(_cell(str(s.get("deaths", 0)), tint, place == 1))
+		grid.add_child(_cell("x%d" % int(s.get("best_streak", 0)), tint, place == 1))
+
+	col.add_child(UITheme.divider(0.6))
+
+	# ── Out ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+	var buttons := HBoxContainer.new()
+	buttons.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_CENTER
+	buttons.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 18)
+	col.add_child(buttons)
+
+	var again := UITheme.primary_button("PLAY AGAIN", 34)
+	again.pressed.connect(func(): play_again.emit())
+	buttons.add_child(again)
+
+	var menu := Button.new()
+	menu.text = "Main Menu"
+	menu.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 28)
+	menu.pressed.connect(func(): to_menu.emit())
+	buttons.add_child(menu)
+
+	# Only the host may restart a running server; everyone else waits for them.
+	var nm = get_tree().root.get_node_or_null("NetworkManager")
+	if nm and nm.multiplayer.has_multiplayer_peer() \
+			and not nm.multiplayer.multiplayer_peer is OfflineMultiplayerPeer \
+			and not nm.multiplayer.is_server():
+		again.disabled = true
+		again.text = "WAITING FOR HOST"
+
+	UITheme.wire_sounds(self)
+	again.grab_focus()
+
+
+func _cell(text: String, tint: Color, bold: bool) -> Label:
+	var l := Label.new()
+	l.text = text
+	l.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 30 if bold else 26)
+	l.add_theme_color_override("font_color", tint)
+	l.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", UITheme.INK)
+	l.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 6)
+	return l

ui/match_summary.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://ygajwj3bek8k

ui/player_hud.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,682 @@
+extends CanvasLayer
+class_name PlayerHUD
+
+## The first-person HUD, in the same hand as the rest of the game.
+##
+## It is one place now. The reticle used to be five white ColorRects pasted into
+## three different level runtimes, the vitals were two stock ProgressBars with a
+## flat colour override buried 1200 lines into the movement controller, and the
+## ammo count — the single number a shooter's player looks at most — was not on
+## screen at all. Nothing shared the ink edge, the lean or the palette that every
+## menu in the game is built from, so crossing from the main menu into a match
+## looked like crossing into a different product.
+##
+## The layout follows the one rule that matters for a HUD: the player is looking
+## at the CENTRE of the screen, so everything the HUD says is arranged by how
+## urgently it needs to interrupt that.
+##
+##   centre        the reticle, and confirmations, and the reload ring. Read
+##                 constantly, without moving the eye.
+##   bottom left   vitals, and the movement chain above them. Glanced at between
+##                 engagements.
+##   bottom right  ammo, grenades, ability cooldowns. Same.
+##   top left      the debug readout, and only when a setting asks for it.
+##   nowhere else  everything that is not one of those things.
+##
+## Match state — timer, score, killfeed, scoreboard — belongs to ui/match_hud.gd
+## and is deliberately not duplicated here.
+##
+## ── Why this owns the abilities and the chain ────────────────────────────────
+##
+## Those used to be built by the LEVEL, in three separate runtime scripts that
+## each carried their own byte-identical copy of a black rounded panel. A level
+## cannot know a player's dash cooldown without reaching down into that player's
+## state machine every frame, which is what all three did, and it cannot show the
+## right thing in a split-screen or spectator case at all. More immediately: the
+## level's ammo panel and this one's both existed, so the screen showed the ammo
+## count twice, in two different styles, overlapping.
+##
+## The rule is that anything describing THE PLAYER belongs to the player's HUD,
+## and a level owns the level.
+
+## The player this HUD belongs to. Set before adding to the tree.
+var player: Node = null
+
+var crosshair: Crosshair
+var reload_ring: ReloadRing
+var death_screen: Control
+
+var _health: VitalBar
+var _shield: VitalBar
+var _health_num: Label
+var _shield_num: Label
+var _shield_row: Control
+
+var _ammo_num: Label
+var _ammo_max: Label
+var _weapon_name: Label
+var _ammo_card: PanelContainer
+var _grenade_row: HBoxContainer
+
+var _chain_row: Control
+var _chain_num: Label
+var _chain_bonus: Label
+var _shown_chain: int = 0
+
+var _dash_chip: AbilityChip
+var _grapple_chip: AbilityChip
+
+var _debug_box: VBoxContainer
+var _fps_line: Label
+var _speed_line: Label
+var _state_line: Label
+
+var _wman: Node = null
+var _machine: Node = null
+
+## Crosshair bloom sources, all 0..1, combined as the largest rather than the sum
+## so a sprinting player who fires does not blow the reticle off the screen.
+var _fire_bloom: float = 0.0
+var _shown_ammo: int = -1
+
+## Speed at which movement alone fully blooms the reticle.
+const BLOOM_SPEED := 14.0
+## How fast a shot's bloom recovers. Roughly a fifth of a second, which is short
+## enough to keep pace with an automatic weapon.
+const FIRE_RECOVER := 5.0
+const SPREAD_SMOOTH := 12.0
+
+var _spread: float = 0.0
+
+## Below this fraction of a magazine the ammo readout goes volt and the count
+## starts to matter.
+const LOW_AMMO := 0.34
+
+
+func _ready() -> void:
+	layer = 1  # above the weapon viewmodel's canvas, which sits at 0
+	UITheme.apply_global(get_tree())
+	_build_reticle()
+	_build_vitals()
+	_build_ammo()
+	_build_abilities()
+	_build_debug()
+	_build_death_screen()
+
+
+# ── Public API ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+func set_vitals(hp: float, hp_max: float, sh: float, sh_max: float) -> void:
+	_health.max_value = hp_max
+	_health.value = hp
+	_health_num.text = str(int(ceil(hp)))
+	# Health goes volt-tinted when it is the last thing standing between the
+	# player and a respawn. The bar breathes at the same threshold.
+	var frac: float = hp / maxf(hp_max, 1.0)
+	_health_num.add_theme_color_override("font_color",
+		UITheme.VOLT if frac <= VitalBar.LOW_AT else UITheme.PAPER)
+
+	_shield.max_value = sh_max
+	_shield.value = sh
+	_shield_num.text = str(int(ceil(sh)))
+	# A depleted shield is not information worth a permanent row — it hides, and
+	# reappears the moment it starts recharging. One less thing on screen.
+	_shield_row.visible = sh > 0.5
+
+
+## A landed shot. `fatal` gets the louder kill confirmation.
+func confirm_hit(fatal: bool = false) -> void:
+	if crosshair:
+		crosshair.confirm(fatal)
+
+
+# ── Build ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+func _build_reticle() -> void:
+	crosshair = Crosshair.new()
+	crosshair.name = "Crosshair"
+	add_child(crosshair)
+
+	reload_ring = load("res://ui/reload_ring.gd").new()
+	reload_ring.name = "ReloadRing"
+	# Deliberately NOT re-anchored here. The ring centres itself inside its own
+	# full rect; a PRESET_CENTER here ran after its `_ready` and undid that,
+	# which is how it ended up as a zero-sized control at (960, 960).
+	# The ring sits outside the reticle's bloom so a reload in progress never
+	# obscures the ticks, and it is papaya rather than white so it belongs.
+	reload_ring.radius = 34.0
+	reload_ring.thickness = 5.0
+	reload_ring.color = UITheme.PAPAYA
+	add_child(reload_ring)
+
+
+func _build_vitals() -> void:
+	# Full rect plus margins — see the note in `_build_ammo` for why a corner
+	# preset collapses.
+	var margin := MarginContainer.new()
+	margin.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	margin.add_theme_constant_override("margin_left", 34)
+	margin.add_theme_constant_override("margin_bottom", 30)
+	margin.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	add_child(margin)
+
+	# Row pushes left, column pushes down — see the note in `_build_ammo`.
+	var row := HBoxContainer.new()
+	row.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_BEGIN
+	row.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	margin.add_child(row)
+
+	var col := VBoxContainer.new()
+	col.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_END
+	col.size_flags_vertical = Control.SIZE_SHRINK_END
+	col.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 8)
+	col.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	row.add_child(col)
+
+	_build_chain(col)
+
+	# Shield above health: it is the layer that goes first, so it reads as the
+	# outer one. Its whole row hides when empty rather than sitting at zero.
+	var sh := _vital_row("SHIELD", UITheme.CYAN, 30, 200.0)
+	_shield = sh[0]
+	_shield_num = sh[1]
+	_shield_row = sh[2]
+	col.add_child(_shield_row)
+
+	var hp := _vital_row("HEALTH", UITheme.PAPAYA, 46, 250.0)
+	_health = hp[0]
+	_health_num = hp[1]
+	col.add_child(hp[2])
+
+
+## One vital: a tag, the bar, and the numeral BESIDE the bar.
+##
+## Beside, not centred on it — see the note in VitalBar. Returns
+## `[bar, numeral, row]`, because the caller needs all three.
+func _vital_row(tag: String, col: Color, num_size: int, width: float) -> Array:
+	var row := HBoxContainer.new()
+	row.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 12)
+	row.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+
+	var stack := VBoxContainer.new()
+	stack.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 1)
+	row.add_child(stack)
+
+	var label := Label.new()
+	label.text = tag
+	label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 15)
+	label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", col)
+	label.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", UITheme.INK)
+	label.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 5)
+	stack.add_child(label)
+
+	var bar := VitalBar.new()
+	bar.fill_color = col
+	bar.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(width, 22)
+	stack.add_child(bar)
+
+	var num := Label.new()
+	num.text = "100"
+	num.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", num_size)
+	num.add_theme_color_override("font_color", UITheme.PAPER)
+	num.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", UITheme.INK)
+	num.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 9)
+	num.vertical_alignment = VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT_BOTTOM
+	row.add_child(num)
+
+	return [bar, num, row]
+
+
+func _build_ammo() -> void:
+	# FULL RECT plus margins, not a corner preset.
+	#
+	# A MarginContainer anchored to BOTTOM_RIGHT has zero size and grows from the
+	# corner, so its `margin_right` pushes the content INTO a container that is
+	# not there — the card collapsed to a sliver hanging off the right edge of
+	# the screen with the ammo count clipped inside it. Owning the whole rect and
+	# aligning to the end is unambiguous, and it is what the ability row does.
+	var margin := MarginContainer.new()
+	margin.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	margin.add_theme_constant_override("margin_right", 34)
+	margin.add_theme_constant_override("margin_bottom", 30)
+	margin.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	add_child(margin)
+
+	# A BoxContainer's own `alignment` is the reliable way to push content to an
+	# edge; a SHRINK_END size flag on the box itself is not, because the box's
+	# minimum width depends on children that may be hidden and it ends up placed
+	# by its own START. So the corner is built out of two boxes, each aligning on
+	# the axis it actually controls: the row pushes right, the column pushes
+	# down. This is the same scaffold the ability row uses.
+	var row := HBoxContainer.new()
+	row.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_END
+	row.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	margin.add_child(row)
+
+	var col := VBoxContainer.new()
+	col.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_END
+	col.size_flags_vertical = Control.SIZE_SHRINK_END
+	col.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 6)
+	col.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	row.add_child(col)
+
+	# Grenades as pips rather than a number: three of a thing is countable, and
+	# it matches the segmented vitals rather than introducing a second idiom.
+	_grenade_row = HBoxContainer.new()
+	_grenade_row.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_END
+	_grenade_row.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 5)
+	col.add_child(_grenade_row)
+
+	_ammo_card = UITheme.card()
+	_ammo_card.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	col.add_child(_ammo_card)
+
+	var inner := VBoxContainer.new()
+	inner.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_END
+	inner.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 0)
+	_ammo_card.add_child(inner)
+
+	_weapon_name = Label.new()
+	_weapon_name.text = ""
+	_weapon_name.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_RIGHT
+	_weapon_name.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 18)
+	_weapon_name.add_theme_color_override("font_color", UITheme.PAPER_DIM)
+	_weapon_name.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", UITheme.INK)
+	_weapon_name.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 5)
+	inner.add_child(_weapon_name)
+
+	# The two halves of the count are separate labels at different sizes, so the
+	# magazine reads as the number and the reserve reads as context. One
+	# "12 / 30" at a single size makes the player parse a string.
+	var count := HBoxContainer.new()
+	count.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_END
+	count.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 4)
+	inner.add_child(count)
+
+	_ammo_num = Label.new()
+	_ammo_num.text = "--"
+	_ammo_num.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 58)
+	_ammo_num.add_theme_color_override("font_color", UITheme.PAPER)
+	_ammo_num.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", UITheme.INK)
+	_ammo_num.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 10)
+	_ammo_num.vertical_alignment = VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT_BOTTOM
+	count.add_child(_ammo_num)
+
+	_ammo_max = Label.new()
+	_ammo_max.text = ""
+	_ammo_max.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 24)
+	_ammo_max.add_theme_color_override("font_color", UITheme.PAPER_DIM)
+	_ammo_max.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", UITheme.INK)
+	_ammo_max.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 6)
+	_ammo_max.vertical_alignment = VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT_BOTTOM
+	count.add_child(_ammo_max)
+
+
+## Dash and grapple, above the ammo card on the right.
+##
+## Right-hand side because they are the other half of "what can I do right now",
+## which is the question the ammo count answers. Putting cooldowns on the left
+## with the vitals would split that question across the screen.
+func _build_abilities() -> void:
+	var margin := MarginContainer.new()
+	margin.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	margin.add_theme_constant_override("margin_right", 34)
+	margin.add_theme_constant_override("margin_bottom", 190)
+	margin.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	add_child(margin)
+
+	var row := HBoxContainer.new()
+	row.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_END
+	row.size_flags_vertical = Control.SIZE_SHRINK_END
+	row.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 8)
+	row.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	margin.add_child(row)
+
+	_grapple_chip = AbilityChip.new()
+	_grapple_chip.label = "GRAPPLE"
+	_grapple_chip.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(116, 34)
+	row.add_child(_grapple_chip)
+
+	_dash_chip = AbilityChip.new()
+	_dash_chip.label = "DASH"
+	row.add_child(_dash_chip)
+
+
+## The movement chain, above the vitals.
+##
+## Movement is this game's stated first pillar and chaining mechanics is its
+## skill expression, so the chain count is not a debug readout — it is the score
+## of the thing the game is about, and it belongs on the HUD at a size that says
+## so. It hides at zero, because a chain of nothing is not worth screen space.
+func _build_chain(into: Container) -> void:
+	_chain_row = HBoxContainer.new()
+	_chain_row.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 8)
+	_chain_row.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	_chain_row.visible = false
+	into.add_child(_chain_row)
+
+	_chain_num = Label.new()
+	_chain_num.text = "x0"
+	_chain_num.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 40)
+	_chain_num.add_theme_color_override("font_color", UITheme.VOLT)
+	_chain_num.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", UITheme.INK)
+	_chain_num.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 9)
+	_chain_num.pivot_offset = Vector2(20, 20)
+	_chain_row.add_child(_chain_num)
+
+	_chain_bonus = Label.new()
+	_chain_bonus.text = ""
+	_chain_bonus.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", 22)
+	_chain_bonus.add_theme_color_override("font_color", UITheme.PAPAYA)
+	_chain_bonus.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", UITheme.INK)
+	_chain_bonus.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 7)
+	_chain_bonus.vertical_alignment = VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT_BOTTOM
+	_chain_row.add_child(_chain_bonus)
+
+
+## FPS / speed / state, top left, and only when a setting asks for them.
+##
+## Restyled rather than deleted: they are genuinely useful, and in a game about
+## momentum the speed readout is arguably gameplay. What they are not is a reason
+## to have neon green on pure black in the corner of an ink-drawn game, which is
+## what three copies of this used to be.
+func _build_debug() -> void:
+	var margin := MarginContainer.new()
+	margin.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_TOP_LEFT)
+	margin.add_theme_constant_override("margin_left", 18)
+	margin.add_theme_constant_override("margin_top", 14)
+	margin.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	add_child(margin)
+
+	_debug_box = VBoxContainer.new()
+	_debug_box.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 0)
+	_debug_box.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	margin.add_child(_debug_box)
+
+	_fps_line = UITheme.caption("", 22)
+	_fps_line.add_theme_color_override("font_color", UITheme.VOLT)
+	_debug_box.add_child(_fps_line)
+
+	_speed_line = UITheme.caption("", 22)
+	_speed_line.add_theme_color_override("font_color", UITheme.CYAN)
+	_debug_box.add_child(_speed_line)
+
+	_state_line = UITheme.caption("", 18)
+	_debug_box.add_child(_state_line)
+
+
+func _build_death_screen() -> void:
+	death_screen = Control.new()
+	death_screen.name = "DeathScreen"
+	death_screen.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	death_screen.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	death_screen.visible = false
+	add_child(death_screen)
+
+	# Ink wash rather than plain black: the whole game's darkness is a violet
+	# near-black, and a neutral 70% black over it reads as a bug.
+	var wash := ColorRect.new()
+	wash.color = Color(UITheme.INK.r, UITheme.INK.g, UITheme.INK.b, 0.78)
+	wash.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	wash.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	death_screen.add_child(wash)
+
+	var center := CenterContainer.new()
+	center.set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	center.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	death_screen.add_child(center)
+
+	var col := VBoxContainer.new()
+	col.alignment = BoxContainer.ALIGNMENT_CENTER
+	col.add_theme_constant_override("separation", 10)
+	center.add_child(col)
+
+	var title := UITheme.title("DOWNED", 104, -3.0)
+	title.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
+	col.add_child(title)
+
+	var rule := UITheme.divider(0.5)
+	rule.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(520, 18)
+	col.add_child(rule)
+
+	var prompt := UITheme.heading("PRESS FIRE TO REDEPLOY", 30)
+	prompt.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
+	col.add_child(prompt)
+
+	var tw := create_tween().set_loops()
+	tw.set_trans(Tween.TRANS_SINE)
+	tw.tween_property(prompt, "modulate:a", 0.25, 0.7)
+	tw.tween_property(prompt, "modulate:a", 1.0, 0.7)
+
+
+# ── Per-frame ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+func _process(delta: float) -> void:
+	if not is_instance_valid(player):
+		return
+	_update_weapon(delta)
+	_update_crosshair(delta)
+	_update_movement()
+	_update_debug()
+
+
+## Chain count and ability cooldowns, both read off the movement state machine.
+func _update_movement() -> void:
+	var sm := _state_machine()
+	if sm == null:
+		return
+
+	var chain := int(sm.chain_count) if "chain_count" in sm else 0
+	_chain_row.visible = chain > 0
+	if chain > 0:
+		_chain_num.text = "x%d" % chain
+		var bonus: float = float(sm.current_chain_bonus) if "current_chain_bonus" in sm else 0.0
+		_chain_bonus.text = "+%d%% SPEED" % int(round(bonus * 100.0))
+		# Each new link punches the number up and lets it settle. Momentum is the
+		# thing this game rewards, so extending a chain should feel like landing
+		# something rather than like a counter incrementing.
+		if chain > _shown_chain:
+			var tw := create_tween()
+			tw.set_trans(Tween.TRANS_BACK).set_ease(Tween.EASE_OUT)
+			_chain_num.scale = Vector2(1.35, 1.35)
+			tw.tween_property(_chain_num, "scale", Vector2.ONE, 0.28)
+	_shown_chain = chain
+
+	var state := String(sm.current_state) if "current_state" in sm else ""
+	var shooting: bool = "is_grapple_shooting" in sm and sm.is_grapple_shooting
+	_grapple_chip.active = state == "grapple" or shooting
+
+	if sm.has_method("get_dash_cooldown_remaining"):
+		var rem: float = sm.get_dash_cooldown_remaining()
+		# Normalised against the params' own cooldown, so retuning the dash
+		# retunes the readout with it instead of leaving the wipe lying.
+		var total := 1.0
+		if "params" in player and player.params and "dash_cooldown" in player.params:
+			total = maxf(float(player.params.dash_cooldown), 0.001)
+		_dash_chip.cooldown = clampf(rem / total, 0.0, 1.0)
+
+
+func _update_debug() -> void:
+	# Resolved through the tree rather than by the autoload's global identifier.
+	# A tool script launched with `-s` compiles its dependencies BEFORE autoloads
+	# are registered, so naming `SettingsManager` directly makes this whole file
+	# fail to compile under debug/hud_layout_check.gd — which is precisely the
+	# harness that has to be able to load it.
+	var settings := _settings()
+	if settings == null:
+		return
+	var sm := _state_machine()
+	var show_debug: bool = settings.show_debug_ui
+
+	_fps_line.visible = settings.show_fps
+	if _fps_line.visible:
+		_fps_line.text = "FPS %d" % Engine.get_frames_per_second()
+
+	_speed_line.visible = settings.show_movement_speed or show_debug
+	if _speed_line.visible:
+		var v: Vector3 = player.velocity if "velocity" in player else Vector3.ZERO
+		var h := Vector2(v.x, v.z).length()
+		_speed_line.text = "%.1f m/s" % h if not show_debug \
+			else "%.1f m/s  (total %.1f)" % [h, v.length()]
+
+	_state_line.visible = show_debug and sm != null
+	if _state_line.visible:
+		_state_line.text = String(sm.current_state).to_upper()
+
+
+## Ammo, weapon name and grenades, read off whatever is in the player's hands.
+##
+## Read rather than pushed, because the weapon is the authority on its own ammo
+## and there are eleven weapon scripts. A HUD that had to be notified would mean
+## eleven places to forget to notify it.
+func _update_weapon(_delta: float) -> void:
+	var w := _active_weapon()
+	if w == null:
+		_ammo_card.visible = false
+		return
+	_ammo_card.visible = true
+
+	# Named by the weapon, or derived from its script if it forgot to say. A HUD
+	# that silently shows a blank where the weapon's name goes is worse than one
+	# that shows a slightly ugly name.
+	if "weapon_name" in w and String(w.weapon_name) != "":
+		_weapon_name.text = String(w.weapon_name).to_upper()
+	else:
+		var src: Script = w.get_script()
+		_weapon_name.text = src.resource_path.get_file().get_basename() \
+			.replace("_", " ").to_upper() if src else "WEAPON"
+
+	# The shotgun counts shells, everything else counts rounds. Both are "how
+	# many more times can I pull the trigger", which is the only question the
+	# number answers.
+	var now := -1
+	var cap := -1
+	if "current_ammo" in w:
+		now = int(w.current_ammo)
+		cap = int(w.max_ammo) if "max_ammo" in w else -1
+	elif "shells" in w:
+		now = int(w.shells)
+		cap = int(w.max_shells) if "max_shells" in w else -1
+
+	if now < 0:
+		# A melee weapon has no count. Showing "0" would read as empty.
+		_ammo_num.text = "—"
+		_ammo_max.text = ""
+	else:
+		_ammo_num.text = str(now)
+		_ammo_max.text = "/ %d" % cap if cap > 0 else ""
+		var frac: float = float(now) / float(maxi(cap, 1))
+		var reloading: bool = "reloading" in w and w.reloading
+		var col: Color = UITheme.PAPER
+		if now == 0:
+			col = UITheme.MAGENTA
+		elif frac <= LOW_AMMO:
+			col = UITheme.VOLT
+		if reloading:
+			col = UITheme.PAPER_DIM
+		_ammo_num.add_theme_color_override("font_color", col)
+
+		# A shot fired blooms the reticle. Detected from the count dropping
+		# rather than from a signal, for the same reason the count is read.
+		if _shown_ammo >= 0 and now < _shown_ammo:
+			_fire_bloom = 1.0
+		_shown_ammo = now
+
+	_update_grenades()
+
+
+## Grenades as pips, rebuilt only when the count changes.
+##
+## Built once and then shown/hidden rather than freed, because `queue_free` is
+## deferred: a loop that frees down to a target count sees the same child count
+## on the next iteration and frees the whole row.
+func _update_grenades() -> void:
+	var count := int(player.grenades) if "grenades" in player else 0
+	while _grenade_row.get_child_count() < maxi(count, _grenade_pips):
+		var pip := Panel.new()
+		pip.custom_minimum_size = Vector2(17, 17)
+		pip.mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+		# A filled chip with the theme's ink edge, so a 17 px pip still reads
+		# against a bright skybox.
+		pip.add_theme_stylebox_override("panel", UITheme.row(UITheme.CYAN))
+		_grenade_row.add_child(pip)
+	for i in _grenade_row.get_child_count():
+		(_grenade_row.get_child(i) as Control).visible = i < count
+
+
+## The most pips ever needed. Grenades only ever go down during a life and back
+## up on respawn, so this is the starting count.
+const _grenade_pips := 3
+
+
+## Reticle bloom and the ADS blend.
+##
+## Sources are combined with `max`, not by adding: a sprinting player who fires
+## should see the reticle at its bloomed size, not at twice it.
+func _update_crosshair(delta: float) -> void:
+	_fire_bloom = maxf(_fire_bloom - delta * FIRE_RECOVER, 0.0)
+
+	var speed := 0.0
+	if "velocity" in player:
+		var v: Vector3 = player.velocity
+		speed = Vector2(v.x, v.z).length()
+	var move := clampf(speed / BLOOM_SPEED, 0.0, 1.0)
+
+	var state := String(player.synced_movement_state) if "synced_movement_state" in player else ""
+	# Airborne is the least accurate a player can be, and a reticle that says so
+	# is what stops mid-air spraying from feeling arbitrary.
+	var air := 0.75 if state in ["air", "dash", "grapple"] else 0.0
+
+	var want: float = maxf(maxf(move, air), _fire_bloom)
+	_spread = lerpf(_spread, want, 1.0 - exp(-SPREAD_SMOOTH * delta))
+	crosshair.spread = _spread
+
+	var ads := 0.0
+	if "synced_is_ads" in player and player.synced_is_ads:
+		ads = 1.0
+	crosshair.ads = lerpf(crosshair.ads, ads, 1.0 - exp(-14.0 * delta))
+
+	# The reload ring reads the weapon directly, same as the ammo count.
+	var w := _active_weapon()
+	if w and "reloading" in w and w.reloading and "reload_timer" in w \
+			and "reload_time" in w and w.reload_time > 0.0:
+		reload_ring.progress = 1.0 - (w.reload_timer / w.reload_time)
+	else:
+		reload_ring.progress = 0.0
+
+
+## The settings autoload, or null when the HUD is being exercised outside a
+## running game. See the note in `_update_debug`.
+func _settings() -> Node:
+	if not is_instance_valid(_settings_node):
+		_settings_node = get_tree().root.get_node_or_null("SettingsManager")
+	return _settings_node if is_instance_valid(_settings_node) else null
+
+
+var _settings_node: Node = null
+
+
+## The player's movement state machine, or null. Cached, since it is asked for
+## several times a frame and never moves.
+func _state_machine() -> Node:
+	if not is_instance_valid(_machine):
+		_machine = player.get_node_or_null("MovementStateMachine")
+	return _machine if is_instance_valid(_machine) else null
+
+
+## Whatever weapon is in the player's hands, or null.
+func _active_weapon() -> Node:
+	if not is_instance_valid(_wman):
+		var cam = player.get("camera") if "camera" in player else null
+		if is_instance_valid(cam):
+			_wman = cam.get_node_or_null("WeaponManager")
+	if not is_instance_valid(_wman):
+		return null
+	var slot = _wman.get("active_slot")
+	if slot == null or not _wman.weapons.has(slot):
+		return null
+	var w = _wman.weapons[slot]
+	return w if is_instance_valid(w) else null

ui/player_hud.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://hjsfcdnutb4t

ui/reload_ring.gd

@@ -1,22 +1,44 @@
 extends Control
 class_name ReloadRing
 
+## The reload arc, drawn around the reticle.
+##
+## Like Crosshair it owns the full rect and centres itself in `size` rather than
+## sitting at a zero-sized PRESET_CENTER: a control that draws before the
+## viewport has sized it lands in the top-left corner, and only a later redraw
+## moves it — which, for something that redraws on a value change, can be never.
+
 var progress: float = 0.0:
 	set(val):
-		progress = clampf(val, 0.0, 1.0)
+		var v := clampf(val, 0.0, 1.0)
+		if is_equal_approx(v, progress):
+			return
+		progress = v
 		queue_redraw()
 
 var radius: float = 16.0
 var thickness: float = 4.0
 var color: Color = Color(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.8)
 
+
+func _ready() -> void:
+	mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	# Offsets too — see the note in ui/crosshair.gd.
+	set_anchors_and_offsets_preset(Control.PRESET_FULL_RECT)
+	resized.connect(queue_redraw)
+
+
 func _draw() -> void:
 	if progress <= 0.0 or progress >= 1.0:
 		return
-		
-	# Draw background arc (darker)
-	draw_arc(Vector2.ZERO, radius, 0, PI * 2.0, 32, Color(0, 0, 0, 0.4), thickness, true)
-	
-	# Draw progress arc
-	var end_angle = -PI / 2.0 + (PI * 2.0 * progress)
-	draw_arc(Vector2.ZERO, radius, -PI / 2.0, end_angle, 32, color, thickness, true)
+	var mid := size * 0.5
+
+	# Ink track first, wider than the arc, so the ring reads over a bright
+	# skybox the same way every other element in this UI does. The old version
+	# used 40% black, which vanished against pale concrete.
+	draw_arc(mid, radius, 0, TAU, 48, UITheme.INK, thickness + 4.0, true)
+	draw_arc(mid, radius, 0, TAU, 48, UITheme.INK_SOFT, thickness, true)
+
+	# The charged part, sweeping from twelve o'clock.
+	draw_arc(mid, radius, -PI / 2.0, -PI / 2.0 + TAU * progress, 48, color,
+		thickness, true)

ui/ui_theme.gd

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ class_name UITheme
 ##
 ## The look is a charged cel comic — near-black violet ink, hot papaya, and a
 ## lightning yellow that only ever appears at the moment something is pressed.
-## Three rules hold it together:
+## Four rules hold it together:
 ##
 ##   INK EVERYTHING     every panel, chip and letter carries a heavy dark edge.
 ##                      It is what makes flat colour read as drawn rather than
@@ -18,11 +18,28 @@ class_name UITheme
 ##   VOLT MEANS NOW     yellow is reserved for the pressed state and the bolt.
 ##                      Spend it anywhere else and the moment of input stops
 ##                      standing out.
+##   EVERY STATE READS  a fill and the text on it are chosen together, and the
+##                      pair is checked. See `STATE_TABLE` and `contrast`.
 ##
 ## Everything here is static. Screens ask for `apply_global` once and then use
 ## the helpers — `heading`, `card`, `divider`, `chip_button` — instead of
 ## hand-rolling styleboxes, which is how the pause menu drifted 900 lines away
 ## from the rest of the game's look.
+##
+## ── Why the state table exists ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+##
+## The palette has two light accents (papaya, volt) and one very dark one (ink),
+## and a control changes its FILL on hover and press. Text that reads perfectly
+## at rest — paper on near-black — inverts to paper-on-yellow the instant the
+## pointer arrives, which is a contrast ratio of 1.1:1. It is invisible.
+##
+## This is the single most common way a stylised UI becomes unreadable, and it is
+## also the complaint HoYoverse's own audience has levelled at Zenless Zone
+## Zero's menus. The fix is not vigilance, it is arithmetic: `ink_for` picks the
+## legible text colour for any fill, every state declares its pair in
+## `STATE_TABLE`, and `debug/ui_contrast_check.gd` fails the build if one of them
+## drops below the WCAG floor. A state cannot ship unreadable without the check
+## going red.
 
 const FONT_PATH := "res://assets/ui/fonts/Bangers-Regular.ttf"
 
@@ -42,6 +59,14 @@ const MAGENTA := Color(1.00, 0.18, 0.52)
 ## Older screens name the accent `TEAL`; it is the electric cyan now.
 const TEAL := CYAN
 
+## Disabled: the fill goes flat and the label desaturates, but it does NOT go so
+## dim that it stops being a word. A disabled control still has to say what it
+## would do — "Start Match" greyed out is information, an illegible smudge is
+## not. This pair sits above 5:1, where the old 0.42-grey sat at 3.2:1.
+const DEAD_FILL := Color(0.10, 0.10, 0.14, 0.92)
+const DEAD_EDGE := Color(0.30, 0.29, 0.36)
+const DEAD_TEXT := Color(0.55, 0.54, 0.62)
+
 ## How far a chip leans. Applied as opposite corners round and the other two
 ## nearly square, which is as close to a skew as a StyleBoxFlat can get.
 const LEAN := 18
@@ -49,6 +74,85 @@ const LEAN := 18
 static var _theme: Theme = null
 
 
+# ── Contrast ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+## Relative luminance, per WCAG 2.1. Alpha is ignored: a chip's fill is drawn
+## over the panel behind it, and assuming the fill is opaque is the pessimistic
+## reading, which is the one worth checking.
+static func luminance(c: Color) -> float:
+	var ch := [c.r, c.g, c.b]
+	for i in 3:
+		var v: float = ch[i]
+		ch[i] = v / 12.92 if v <= 0.04045 else pow((v + 0.055) / 1.055, 2.4)
+	return 0.2126 * ch[0] + 0.7152 * ch[1] + 0.0722 * ch[2]
+
+
+## WCAG contrast ratio between two colours, 1.0 (identical) .. 21.0 (black on
+## white). 4.5 is the floor for body text, 3.0 for text above ~24 px.
+static func contrast(a: Color, b: Color) -> float:
+	var la := luminance(a)
+	var lb := luminance(b)
+	return (maxf(la, lb) + 0.05) / (minf(la, lb) + 0.05)
+
+
+## The legible text colour for a given fill: ink on a light chip, paper on a dark
+## one. This is what makes a hover safe — the fill is free to become papaya or
+## volt because the label follows it.
+static func ink_for(fill: Color) -> Color:
+	return INK if contrast(INK, fill) >= contrast(PAPER, fill) else PAPER
+
+
+## Every (fill, text) pair the theme puts on screen, as
+## `["<class>/<state>", fill, text, is_large_text]`.
+##
+## Written out rather than derived so the check has something to compare the
+## built theme AGAINST — a table generated from the theme would agree with it by
+## construction and catch nothing. Large text (headings, the wordmark, the HUD's
+## big numerals) is allowed the 3:1 floor WCAG gives it.
+static func state_table() -> Array:
+	var out: Array = []
+	for cls in BUTTON_CLASSES:
+		out.append_array([
+			[cls + "/normal", INK_SOFT, PAPER, false],
+			[cls + "/hover", PAPAYA, ink_for(PAPAYA), false],
+			[cls + "/pressed", VOLT, ink_for(VOLT), false],
+			[cls + "/focus", INK_SOFT, PAPER, false],
+			[cls + "/disabled", DEAD_FILL, DEAD_TEXT, false],
+		])
+	out.append_array([
+		["Label/on_panel", PANEL, PAPER, false],
+		["Label/dim_on_panel", PANEL, PAPER_DIM, false],
+		["Label/title", PANEL, PAPAYA, true],
+		["LineEdit/normal", INK_SOFT, PAPER, false],
+		["LineEdit/placeholder", INK_SOFT, PAPER_DIM, false],
+		["ItemList/normal", PANEL_DEEP, PAPER, false],
+		["ItemList/hovered", INK_SOFT, PAPER, false],
+		["ItemList/selected", PAPAYA, ink_for(PAPAYA), false],
+		["ItemList/selected_focus", PAPAYA_HOT, ink_for(PAPAYA_HOT), false],
+		["PopupMenu/normal", PANEL_DEEP, PAPER, false],
+		["PopupMenu/hover", PAPAYA, ink_for(PAPAYA), false],
+		["PopupMenu/disabled", PANEL_DEEP, DEAD_TEXT, false],
+		["TabContainer/selected", PAPAYA, ink_for(PAPAYA), false],
+		["TabContainer/unselected", INK_SOFT, PAPER_DIM, false],
+		["TabContainer/hovered", PAPAYA_HOT, ink_for(PAPAYA_HOT), false],
+		["Tree/normal", PANEL_DEEP, PAPER, false],
+		["Tree/selected", PAPAYA, ink_for(PAPAYA), false],
+		["Card/label", INK, PAPER, true],
+		["Card/hover_label", INK, VOLT, true],
+	])
+	return out
+
+
+## Which theme types get the chip button treatment. Godot theme types do not
+## inherit styling from Button, so each one has to be told the same thing.
+const BUTTON_CLASSES := ["Button", "OptionButton", "MenuButton", "CheckBox",
+	"CheckButton", "LinkButton"]
+
+
+# ── Styleboxes ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
 ## A leaning comic chip: flat fill, heavy ink edge, hard offset shadow.
 ##
 ## Kept at its original name and argument order — main_menu and match_hud both
@@ -93,6 +197,24 @@ static func panel(bg: Color = PANEL, border: Color = INK,
 	return sb
 
 
+## A tight row chip — a list entry, a popup line, a tab — with the lean dropped.
+##
+## The lean is energy on a button the eye lands on. Repeated down twenty rows of
+## a list it reads as a stack of broken rectangles, so rows get square corners
+## and keep the fill and the edge.
+static func row(bg: Color, border: Color = INK, border_w: int = 2) -> StyleBoxFlat:
+	var sb := StyleBoxFlat.new()
+	sb.bg_color = bg
+	sb.border_color = border
+	sb.set_border_width_all(border_w)
+	sb.set_corner_radius_all(4)
+	sb.content_margin_left = 12
+	sb.content_margin_right = 12
+	sb.content_margin_top = 5
+	sb.content_margin_bottom = 5
+	return sb
+
+
 static func build() -> Theme:
 	if _theme:
 		return _theme
@@ -105,12 +227,10 @@ static func build() -> Theme:
 	# ── Buttons ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 	# Dark chip with a papaya edge at rest; the chip FILLS papaya on hover and
 	# flashes volt on press. The press state drops its shadow, so the chip
-	# visibly slams down into the page rather than just changing colour.
-	_button_look(t, "Button")
-	for cls in ["OptionButton", "MenuButton", "CheckBox", "CheckButton",
-			"LinkButton"]:
-		# Godot theme types do not inherit styling from Button, so each one has
-		# to be told the same thing.
+	# visibly slams down into the page rather than just changing colour. Every
+	# state's text colour comes from `ink_for` its own fill, so the label
+	# inverts WITH the chip instead of vanishing into it.
+	for cls in BUTTON_CLASSES:
 		_button_look(t, cls)
 
 	# ── Labels: ink outline everywhere, for readability straight over 3D ──
@@ -125,45 +245,110 @@ static func build() -> Theme:
 	# ── Inputs ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 	t.set_stylebox("normal", "LineEdit", box(INK_SOFT, PAPAYA, 4, 3, false))
 	t.set_stylebox("focus", "LineEdit", box(INK_SOFT, CYAN, 4, 3, false))
+	t.set_stylebox("read_only", "LineEdit", box(DEAD_FILL, DEAD_EDGE, 4, 3, false))
 	t.set_color("font_color", "LineEdit", PAPER)
+	t.set_color("font_uneditable_color", "LineEdit", DEAD_TEXT)
 	t.set_color("caret_color", "LineEdit", VOLT)
 	t.set_color("font_placeholder_color", "LineEdit", PAPER_DIM)
+	# Selected text: volt fill wants ink glyphs, same rule as a pressed chip.
+	t.set_color("font_selected_color", "LineEdit", INK)
+	t.set_color("selection_color", "LineEdit", VOLT)
+
+	t.set_stylebox("normal", "SpinBox", box(INK_SOFT, PAPAYA, 4, 3, false))
+	t.set_color("font_color", "SpinBox", PAPER)
 
 	# ── Sliders: the filled part is the charged part ─────────────────────
 	t.set_stylebox("slider", "HSlider", box(INK_SOFT, INK, 2, 2, false))
 	t.set_stylebox("grabber_area", "HSlider", box(PAPAYA, INK, 2, 2, false))
 	t.set_stylebox("grabber_area_highlight", "HSlider", box(VOLT, INK, 2, 2, false))
+	t.set_stylebox("slider", "VSlider", box(INK_SOFT, INK, 2, 2, false))
+	t.set_stylebox("grabber_area", "VSlider", box(PAPAYA, INK, 2, 2, false))
+	t.set_stylebox("grabber_area_highlight", "VSlider", box(VOLT, INK, 2, 2, false))
+
+	# ── Progress bars ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+	t.set_stylebox("background", "ProgressBar", row(INK, INK_SOFT, 2))
+	t.set_stylebox("fill", "ProgressBar", row(PAPAYA, INK, 0))
+	t.set_color("font_color", "ProgressBar", PAPER)
+	t.set_color("font_outline_color", "ProgressBar", INK)
+	t.set_constant("outline_size", "ProgressBar", 6)
 
 	# ── Panels / lists ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
 	t.set_stylebox("panel", "PanelContainer", panel())
 	t.set_stylebox("panel", "Panel", panel())
 	t.set_stylebox("panel", "ItemList", panel(PANEL_DEEP, INK, 3))
 	t.set_color("font_color", "ItemList", PAPER)
-	t.set_color("font_selected_color", "ItemList", INK)
-	t.set_stylebox("selected", "ItemList", box(PAPAYA, INK, 4, 2, false))
-	t.set_stylebox("selected_focus", "ItemList", box(PAPAYA_HOT, CYAN, 4, 2, false))
-	t.set_stylebox("hovered", "ItemList", box(INK_SOFT, PAPAYA, 4, 2, false))
+	t.set_color("font_selected_color", "ItemList", ink_for(PAPAYA))
+	t.set_color("font_hovered_color", "ItemList", PAPER)
+	t.set_color("font_outline_color", "ItemList", INK)
+	t.set_constant("outline_size", "ItemList", 5)
+	t.set_stylebox("selected", "ItemList", row(PAPAYA))
+	t.set_stylebox("selected_focus", "ItemList", row(PAPAYA_HOT, CYAN))
+	# Hover keeps PAPER text, so the fill must stay DARK. A papaya hover under a
+	# papaya selection also made the two states indistinguishable — the row you
+	# were pointing at looked exactly like the row you had chosen.
+	t.set_stylebox("hovered", "ItemList", row(INK_SOFT, PAPAYA))
+	t.set_stylebox("hovered_selected", "ItemList", row(PAPAYA_HOT, CYAN))
+	t.set_stylebox("cursor", "ItemList", row(Color(0, 0, 0, 0), CYAN))
+	t.set_stylebox("cursor_unfocused", "ItemList", row(Color(0, 0, 0, 0), PAPER_DIM))
+
+	# ── Trees (settings, loadout lists) ──────────────────────────────────
+	t.set_stylebox("panel", "Tree", panel(PANEL_DEEP, INK, 3))
+	t.set_color("font_color", "Tree", PAPER)
+	t.set_color("font_selected_color", "Tree", ink_for(PAPAYA))
+	t.set_color("font_outline_color", "Tree", INK)
+	t.set_constant("outline_size", "Tree", 5)
+	t.set_stylebox("selected", "Tree", row(PAPAYA))
+	t.set_stylebox("selected_focus", "Tree", row(PAPAYA_HOT, CYAN))
+	t.set_stylebox("hovered", "Tree", row(INK_SOFT, PAPAYA))
+	t.set_stylebox("hovered_selected", "Tree", row(PAPAYA_HOT, CYAN))
+
+	# ── Scrollbars: visible at rest, charged under the thumb ─────────────
+	for cls in ["HScrollBar", "VScrollBar"]:
+		t.set_stylebox("scroll", cls, row(INK, INK_SOFT, 1))
+		t.set_stylebox("grabber", cls, row(PAPER_DIM, INK, 1))
+		t.set_stylebox("grabber_highlight", cls, row(PAPAYA, INK, 1))
+		t.set_stylebox("grabber_pressed", cls, row(VOLT, INK, 1))
 
 	# ── Tabs ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 	t.set_stylebox("panel", "TabContainer", panel())
 	t.set_stylebox("tab_selected", "TabContainer", box(PAPAYA, INK, 6, 3, false))
 	t.set_stylebox("tab_unselected", "TabContainer", box(INK_SOFT, INK, 6, 3, false))
 	t.set_stylebox("tab_hovered", "TabContainer", box(PAPAYA_HOT, INK, 6, 3, false))
-	t.set_color("font_selected_color", "TabContainer", INK)
+	t.set_stylebox("tab_disabled", "TabContainer", box(DEAD_FILL, DEAD_EDGE, 6, 3, false))
+	t.set_color("font_selected_color", "TabContainer", ink_for(PAPAYA))
 	t.set_color("font_unselected_color", "TabContainer", PAPER_DIM)
-	t.set_color("font_hovered_color", "TabContainer", INK)
+	t.set_color("font_hovered_color", "TabContainer", ink_for(PAPAYA_HOT))
+	t.set_color("font_disabled_color", "TabContainer", DEAD_TEXT)
+	t.set_color("font_outline_color", "TabContainer", INK)
+	t.set_constant("outline_size", "TabContainer", 5)
 
 	# ── Popups (OptionButton dropdowns) ──────────────────────────────────
+	#
+	# The dropdown is the one surface where a missing hover colour is fatal: a
+	# PopupMenu draws its hover fill but keeps `font_color` unless
+	# `font_hover_color` is set, so a papaya row under paper text was the least
+	# readable thing in the game and it appeared on every settings menu.
 	t.set_stylebox("panel", "PopupMenu", panel(PANEL_DEEP, PAPAYA, 3))
-	t.set_stylebox("hover", "PopupMenu", box(PAPAYA, INK, 4, 0, false))
+	t.set_stylebox("hover", "PopupMenu", row(PAPAYA, INK, 0))
 	t.set_color("font_color", "PopupMenu", PAPER)
-	t.set_color("font_hover_color", "PopupMenu", INK)
+	t.set_color("font_hover_color", "PopupMenu", ink_for(PAPAYA))
+	t.set_color("font_disabled_color", "PopupMenu", DEAD_TEXT)
+	t.set_color("font_accelerator_color", "PopupMenu", PAPER_DIM)
+	t.set_color("font_separator_color", "PopupMenu", PAPAYA)
+	t.set_color("font_outline_color", "PopupMenu", INK)
+	t.set_constant("outline_size", "PopupMenu", 5)
 
 	# ── Dialogs ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 	t.set_stylebox("panel", "AcceptDialog", panel(PANEL_DEEP, PAPAYA, 4))
 	t.set_stylebox("embedded_border", "Window", panel(PANEL_DEEP, PAPAYA, 4))
 	t.set_color("title_color", "Window", VOLT)
 
+	# ── Tooltips ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+	t.set_stylebox("panel", "TooltipPanel", panel(PANEL_DEEP, VOLT, 2))
+	t.set_color("font_color", "TooltipLabel", PAPER)
+	t.set_color("font_outline_color", "TooltipLabel", INK)
+	t.set_constant("outline_size", "TooltipLabel", 5)
+
 	_theme = t
 	return t
 
@@ -172,15 +357,40 @@ static func _button_look(t: Theme, cls: String) -> void:
 	t.set_stylebox("normal", cls, box(INK_SOFT, PAPAYA))
 	t.set_stylebox("hover", cls, box(PAPAYA, INK))
 	t.set_stylebox("pressed", cls, box(VOLT, INK, 10, 3, false))
+	# Hover-while-pressed is its own stylebox on a toggle button. Without it a
+	# CheckButton the pointer is over reverts to the hover fill, so a toggle
+	# reads as OFF for as long as you are touching it.
+	t.set_stylebox("hover_pressed", cls, box(VOLT, CYAN, 10, 3, false))
 	t.set_stylebox("focus", cls, box(INK_SOFT, CYAN))
-	t.set_stylebox("disabled", cls, box(Color(0.10, 0.10, 0.14, 0.85), Color(0.28, 0.27, 0.33)))
+	t.set_stylebox("disabled", cls, box(DEAD_FILL, DEAD_EDGE))
 	t.set_color("font_color", cls, PAPER)
-	t.set_color("font_hover_color", cls, INK)
-	t.set_color("font_pressed_color", cls, INK)
+	t.set_color("font_hover_color", cls, ink_for(PAPAYA))
+	t.set_color("font_pressed_color", cls, ink_for(VOLT))
+	t.set_color("font_hover_pressed_color", cls, ink_for(VOLT))
 	t.set_color("font_focus_color", cls, PAPER)
-	t.set_color("font_disabled_color", cls, Color(0.42, 0.41, 0.48))
+	t.set_color("font_disabled_color", cls, DEAD_TEXT)
+	# NO OUTLINE on a button label.
+	#
+	# An outline exists to separate a glyph from a backdrop the glyph cannot beat
+	# on its own — over the 3D scene, or across a two-tone progress bar. A button
+	# label has neither problem: it sits on a solid chip, and `ink_for` has
+	# already given it a colour that beats that chip.
+	#
+	# Worse, the theme can only carry ONE outline colour per class, and half the
+	# states here use an ink glyph. Ink glyphs inside a 5 px ink outline are not
+	# outlined, they are five pixels fatter — the selected mode chip rendered as
+	# an unreadable dark blob on volt. The chips keep their heavy ink BORDER, so
+	# the drawn look is unaffected.
 	t.set_color("font_outline_color", cls, INK)
-	t.set_constant("outline_size", cls, 5)
+	t.set_constant("outline_size", cls, 0)
+	# The icon has to invert with the label. A paper glyph on a volt chip is the
+	# same 1.1:1 the text would have been, and a CheckBox is ALL icon.
+	t.set_color("icon_normal_color", cls, PAPER)
+	t.set_color("icon_hover_color", cls, ink_for(PAPAYA))
+	t.set_color("icon_pressed_color", cls, ink_for(VOLT))
+	t.set_color("icon_hover_pressed_color", cls, ink_for(VOLT))
+	t.set_color("icon_focus_color", cls, PAPER)
+	t.set_color("icon_disabled_color", cls, DEAD_TEXT)
 
 
 ## Apply the theme to the whole root window. Idempotent, and cheap enough that
@@ -223,6 +433,17 @@ static func heading(text: String, size: int = 32) -> Label:
 	return l
 
 
+## A quieter line of body copy — a hint, a port number, a mode's description.
+static func caption(text: String, size: int = 20) -> Label:
+	var l := Label.new()
+	l.text = text
+	l.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", size)
+	l.add_theme_color_override("font_color", PAPER_DIM)
+	l.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", INK)
+	l.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 5)
+	return l
+
+
 ## A bolt-struck rule, for separating sections.
 static func divider(strike_at: float = 0.34) -> BoltRule:
 	var b := BoltRule.new()
@@ -240,6 +461,28 @@ static func card() -> PanelContainer:
 	return p
 
 
+## The one loud button on a screen — the thing the player came here to press.
+##
+## Papaya-filled at rest instead of ink-filled, so it is the first thing the eye
+## lands on, and correspondingly ink-lettered. Hover goes hotter and press still
+## flashes volt, so the state ladder is unchanged; only the resting colour moves.
+static func primary_button(text: String, size: int = 44) -> Button:
+	var b := Button.new()
+	b.text = text
+	b.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", size)
+	b.add_theme_stylebox_override("normal", box(PAPAYA, INK, 12, 4))
+	b.add_theme_stylebox_override("hover", box(PAPAYA_HOT, VOLT, 12, 4))
+	b.add_theme_stylebox_override("pressed", box(VOLT, INK, 12, 4, false))
+	b.add_theme_stylebox_override("focus", box(PAPAYA, CYAN, 12, 4))
+	b.add_theme_color_override("font_color", ink_for(PAPAYA))
+	b.add_theme_color_override("font_hover_color", ink_for(PAPAYA_HOT))
+	b.add_theme_color_override("font_pressed_color", ink_for(VOLT))
+	b.add_theme_color_override("font_focus_color", ink_for(PAPAYA))
+	b.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", Color(INK.r, INK.g, INK.b, 0.55))
+	b.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 4)
+	return b
+
+
 ## Sounds and the hover kick for every button under `root` (recursive).
 ##
 ## The kick is a 4% scale-up on hover and a snap back on exit. It is small on

ui/vital_bar.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+extends Control
+class_name VitalBar
+
+## A health or shield bar in the game's own hand: sheared, ink-edged, segmented,
+## with a drain ghost behind the fill.
+##
+## It replaces a stock ProgressBar with a flat colour override, and each of the
+## three things it adds answers a question the ProgressBar could not.
+##
+## SEGMENTS — how much is left, without reading a number. A continuous bar has to
+## be measured against its own ends; a bar cut into blocks of 25 can be COUNTED,
+## and counting is faster than estimating and survives being glimpsed in
+## peripheral vision during a firefight. This is the same reason HoYoverse's
+## action UIs chunk their meters rather than drawing one smooth sweep.
+##
+## THE DRAIN GHOST — how much was just lost. The fill snaps to the new value
+## immediately, because the player must never be told they have more health than
+## they do; a paler ghost holds the old value for a beat and then catches up. The
+## gap between them is the size of the hit, which is information that does not
+## exist anywhere on a bar that simply gets shorter.
+##
+## THE SHEAR — because everything else in this UI leans. A square meter under
+## leaning chips reads as a widget from a different game.
+##
+## The numeral deliberately lives OUTSIDE this control, beside the bar rather
+## than centred on it. Text over a two-tone bar cannot be given a colour that
+## beats both the fill and the trough, which is what debug/ui_contrast_check.gd
+## measured at 2.4:1 on the old HUD. Moving it off the fill fixes that at the
+## source instead of relying on an outline to rescue it.
+
+var value: float = 100.0:
+	set(v):
+		var c := clampf(v, 0.0, max_value)
+		if c < value - 0.01:
+			# Lost some: the ghost stays where it was and the flash fires.
+			_flash = 1.0
+			_lag_hold = LAG_HOLD
+		elif c > value + 0.01:
+			# Gained some: the ghost has nothing to show, so bring it along.
+			_lag = c
+		value = c
+		queue_redraw()
+
+var max_value: float = 100.0:
+	set(v):
+		max_value = maxf(v, 1.0)
+		_lag = minf(_lag, max_value)
+		queue_redraw()
+
+## The charged colour of the fill. Health is papaya, shield is cyan.
+var fill_color: Color = UITheme.PAPAYA:
+	set(v):
+		fill_color = v
+		queue_redraw()
+
+## One block per this many points. 25 gives a 100-point bar four blocks, which is
+## the most the eye can count without moving.
+var per_segment: float = 25.0
+
+## Below this fraction the bar breathes, so low health is felt rather than read.
+const LOW_AT := 0.3
+const LOW_RATE := 5.5
+
+## How long the ghost holds the old value before draining, and how fast it goes.
+const LAG_HOLD := 0.35
+const LAG_RATE := 55.0
+
+const SHEAR := 6.0
+const INK_W := 3.0
+const GAP := 3.0
+
+var _lag: float = 100.0
+var _lag_hold: float = 0.0
+var _flash: float = 0.0
+var _pulse: float = 0.0
+
+
+func _ready() -> void:
+	mouse_filter = Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE
+	custom_minimum_size = Vector2(230, 22)
+	_lag = value
+
+
+func _process(delta: float) -> void:
+	var dirty := false
+
+	if _lag > value:
+		if _lag_hold > 0.0:
+			_lag_hold -= delta
+		else:
+			_lag = maxf(_lag - LAG_RATE * delta, value)
+		dirty = true
+	elif _lag < value:
+		_lag = value
+		dirty = true
+
+	if _flash > 0.0:
+		_flash = maxf(_flash - delta * 4.5, 0.0)
+		dirty = true
+
+	if value / max_value <= LOW_AT and value > 0.0:
+		_pulse += delta * LOW_RATE
+		dirty = true
+	elif _pulse != 0.0:
+		_pulse = 0.0
+		dirty = true
+
+	if dirty:
+		queue_redraw()
+
+
+func _draw() -> void:
+	var w := size.x
+	var h := size.y
+	if w <= 1.0 or h <= 1.0:
+		return
+
+	# Trough: ink fill with a soft inner edge, so an empty bar is still a shape
+	# on the screen rather than a hole in it.
+	_shear_rect(0.0, w, UITheme.INK, h)
+	_shear_outline(0.0, w, UITheme.INK_SOFT, h)
+
+	var frac: float = clampf(value / max_value, 0.0, 1.0)
+	var lag_frac: float = clampf(_lag / max_value, 0.0, 1.0)
+
+	# Ghost first, so the live fill draws over its left end and only the
+	# difference between the two is visible.
+	if lag_frac > frac:
+		var ghost := Color(fill_color.r, fill_color.g, fill_color.b, 0.38)
+		_shear_rect(0.0, w * lag_frac, ghost, h)
+
+	if frac > 0.0:
+		var col := fill_color
+		# Low health breathes toward volt. It never goes fully volt: that colour
+		# means "input landed" everywhere else in the UI and spending it on a
+		# steady state would blunt it.
+		if frac <= LOW_AT:
+			var b: float = 0.5 + 0.5 * sin(_pulse)
+			col = col.lerp(UITheme.VOLT, 0.35 * b)
+		# The instant of damage whites the bar out briefly — the cheapest way to
+		# make a hit register before the number has been read.
+		if _flash > 0.0:
+			col = col.lerp(UITheme.PAPER, _flash * 0.7)
+		_segments(w, h, frac, col)
+
+	# Ink edge last so it sits on top of both fills and reads as a drawn border.
+	_shear_outline(0.0, w, UITheme.INK, h)
+
+
+## The fill, cut into countable blocks.
+##
+## The last block is clipped rather than dropped, so the bar still moves
+## continuously as damage lands inside a block — the segments are for reading
+## the amount at a glance, not for quantising it.
+func _segments(w: float, h: float, frac: float, col: Color) -> void:
+	var count := maxi(int(round(max_value / per_segment)), 1)
+	var seg_w := (w - GAP * (count - 1)) / count
+	var filled := w * frac
+	for i in count:
+		var x0 := i * (seg_w + GAP)
+		if x0 >= filled:
+			break
+		var x1: float = minf(x0 + seg_w, filled)
+		if x1 - x0 < 0.5:
+			continue
+		_shear_rect(x0, x1, col, h)
+
+
+## A parallelogram from x0 to x1 — the bar's lean, matching the theme's chips.
+func _shear_rect(x0: float, x1: float, col: Color, h: float) -> void:
+	draw_colored_polygon(PackedVector2Array([
+		Vector2(x0 + SHEAR, 0.0),
+		Vector2(x1 + SHEAR, 0.0),
+		Vector2(x1, h),
+		Vector2(x0, h),
+	]), col)
+
+
+func _shear_outline(x0: float, x1: float, col: Color, h: float) -> void:
+	draw_polyline(PackedVector2Array([
+		Vector2(x0 + SHEAR, 0.0),
+		Vector2(x1 + SHEAR, 0.0),
+		Vector2(x1, h),
+		Vector2(x0, h),
+		Vector2(x0 + SHEAR, 0.0),
+	]), col, INK_W)

ui/vital_bar.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://1syuhwlflh2p

weapons/double_barrel_shotgun.gd

@@ -3,7 +3,17 @@ class_name DoubleBarrelShotgun
 
 @export var reload_time: float = 1.0
 
-var shells: int = 2
+## The name and the capacity every other weapon in the set declares.
+##
+## This one did not, and it had "2" written inline in four places. The HUD had no
+## way to ask how big a full load was, so the level's ammo panel carried a
+## special case — `elif active_weapon is DoubleBarrelShotgun` — to fill in the
+## name, and the capacity was simply hardcoded there as well. Anything that ever
+## wanted to display this weapon had to know about it specifically.
+@export var weapon_name: String = "Double Barrel"
+@export var max_shells: int = 2
+
+var shells: int = max_shells
 var reloading: bool = false
 var reload_timer: float = 0.0
 var _vm_kick: float = 0.0
@@ -59,7 +69,7 @@ func _process(delta: float) -> void:
 	if reloading:
 		reload_timer -= delta
 		if reload_timer <= 0.0:
-			shells = 2
+			shells = max_shells
 			reloading = false
 
 	# Big single-shot shove that springs back.
@@ -77,7 +87,7 @@ func _input(event: InputEvent) -> void:
 		_try_fire()
 	
 	if event.is_action_pressed("reload"):
-		if shells < 2 and not reloading:
+		if shells < max_shells and not reloading:
 			_start_reload()
 
 func _start_reload() -> void:

weapons/weapon_hold_profiles.gd

@@ -0,0 +1,292 @@
+extends Object
+class_name WeaponHoldProfiles
+
+## How each weapon in the set is HELD — one archetype per class of weapon,
+## rather than one rifle hold for all twelve.
+##
+## ── The problem this exists to fix ───────────────────────────────────────────
+##
+## `ShooterPoseModifier._apply_rifle_hold` did exactly what its name says, to
+## everything. A knife, a rocket launcher and an AK were all solved as a rifle:
+## stock in the shoulder pocket, support hand out along the barrel, muzzle on the
+## aim line. In third person every character therefore stood in the same pose
+## regardless of what they were carrying, and the ONLY thing distinguishing a
+## sniper from a shotgun was the ~30 cm of gun mesh in their hands — which at the
+## distance an enemy is usually seen is nothing.
+##
+## That matters beyond looking wrong. In a shooter the reason a character's pose
+## is readable at range is that it is the fastest available answer to "what is
+## about to happen to me". A shouldered tube means take cover; a blade held low
+## means they have to close the distance; a rifle at low ready means they have not
+## seen you yet. A single hold throws all of that away.
+##
+## It is also the specific thing HoYoverse's team say they chase in Zenless Zone
+## Zero: characters read by SILHOUETTE first, and their designers deliberately
+## refuse to settle on one construction method because a single method limits how
+## distinguishable the results can be. The same argument applies one level down,
+## to how a character holds a thing.
+##
+## ── What a profile controls ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
+##
+## A style is not a bundle of slider values. Three of the differences below
+## cannot be expressed as a number on the existing rifle solve at all, and those
+## are the ones that make the silhouette:
+##
+##   support        where the off hand goes, and how it is ORIENTED there —
+##                  wrapped round a handguard, cupped under a pistol grip, hooked
+##                  under a tube, or released entirely so the animation owns it
+##   mount          whether the weapon's rear sits IN the shoulder pocket, ON TOP
+##                  of the shoulder, or nowhere near it
+##   head           whether the head comes down to the stock (a cheek weld) or
+##                  leans away to clear a tube
+##
+## Everything else — the pocket offsets, the muzzle pitch at low ready, the elbow
+## poles, the finger curls — is an ordinary knob, and the profile just supplies a
+## better DEFAULT for that weapon than one global constant could.
+##
+## ── Layering ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+##
+## This is a defaults layer, underneath everything an artist has tuned:
+##
+##     code constants        the rifle solve's own fallbacks
+##     THIS FILE             per weapon: what kind of thing it is
+##     weapon_holds.json     defaults -> skins.<skin>._all -> skins.<skin>.<weapon>
+##
+## So a character with tuning saved from the rig lab is completely unaffected —
+## aria's hand-tuned AK-47 hold still wins on every knob it sets — and a weapon
+## nobody has tuned stops being held like an AK.
+
+# ── The styles ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+const RIFLE := "rifle"
+const SMG := "smg"
+const SNIPER := "sniper"
+const SHOTGUN := "shotgun"
+const LAUNCHER := "launcher"
+const PISTOL := "pistol"
+const BLADE := "blade"
+
+# ── Where the support hand goes, and how it is turned ────────────────────────
+
+## Wrapped round a handguard, fingers closing ACROSS the barrel. The rifle case.
+const SUPPORT_BARREL := "barrel"
+## Cupped under and around the firing fist. Two hands together, no shoulder
+## contact — a pistol, or any weapon light enough to be held out in front.
+const SUPPORT_CUPPED := "cupped"
+## Hooked UNDER a tube from below, palm up, well forward of the shoulder. The
+## launcher case, where there is no handguard to wrap and the weight is carried
+## rather than aimed.
+const SUPPORT_TUBE := "tube"
+## No support hand at all. The animation keeps the arm, which is what a character
+## carrying a blade should look like — the off hand swings with the run cycle.
+const SUPPORT_FREE := "free"
+
+
+## Style -> the structural rules for it.
+##
+## `pocket_hip` / `pocket_ads` are where the weapon's REAR sits, relative to the
+## right shoulder joint, in skeleton space (x across, y up, z forward). They are
+## the single most important number here: it is what decides whether a weapon
+## reads as shouldered, carried, or held out.
+##
+## `cheek` is how far the head comes down and across to meet the stock, 0..1,
+## applied only as the character shoulders the weapon. Negative leans the head
+## AWAY, which is what a tube over the shoulder requires.
+##
+## `pitch_hip` is the muzzle's droop at low ready, in radians. A launcher's tube
+## rides nose-UP because that is how you carry something you do not want pointed
+## at your own feet; a blade points forward and in.
+const STYLES := {
+	RIFLE: {
+		"support": SUPPORT_BARREL,
+		"pocket_hip": Vector3(0.03, -0.07, 0.06),
+		"pocket_ads": Vector3(0.05, 0.01, 0.07),
+		"pitch_hip": 0.16,
+		"cheek": 0.18,
+		"pole_r_hip": Vector3(-0.55, -0.85, -0.20),
+		"pole_l_hip": Vector3(0.45, -0.90, -0.10),
+		"curl_wrap": 1.0,
+		"curl_trigger": 1.0,
+	},
+	# Compact: the whole weapon is carried closer in, the support hand cannot go
+	# far because there is not much gun in front of the grip, and the firing elbow
+	# tucks rather than flares. This is what stops an MP7 from being posed as a
+	# short rifle with the support arm reaching for a handguard that ended.
+	SMG: {
+		"support": SUPPORT_BARREL,
+		"pocket_hip": Vector3(0.04, -0.10, 0.03),
+		"pocket_ads": Vector3(0.05, 0.00, 0.05),
+		"pitch_hip": 0.24,
+		"cheek": 0.10,
+		"pole_r_hip": Vector3(-0.40, -0.95, -0.15),
+		"pole_l_hip": Vector3(0.35, -0.95, -0.05),
+		"gun_fore": 0.17,
+		"curl_wrap": 1.05,
+		"curl_trigger": 1.0,
+	},
+	# The cheek weld IS the sniper silhouette. The head comes down onto the stock,
+	# the pocket sits high and tight so the optic lands at eye height, and the
+	# support hand goes far out because a long barrel gives it somewhere to go.
+	SNIPER: {
+		"support": SUPPORT_BARREL,
+		# Rides HIGH. A scoped rifle is held so the optic meets the eye, not so
+		# the butt meets the pocket, and raising the whole weapon is what makes
+		# that read — pushing the support hand further out does NOT, because the
+		# reach solver slides it back down the handguard until the arm can get
+		# there, so a longer `gun_fore` on these stylised arms lands the off hand
+		# in exactly the same place as a rifle's. Measured: 0.388 vs 0.387 m.
+		"pocket_hip": Vector3(0.015, 0.005, 0.045),
+		"pocket_ads": Vector3(0.040, 0.075, 0.055),
+		"pitch_hip": 0.12,
+		"cheek": 0.85,
+		"pole_r_hip": Vector3(-0.72, -0.55, -0.22),
+		"pole_l_hip": Vector3(0.22, -1.05, -0.02),
+		"gun_fore": 0.34,
+		"curl_wrap": 1.0,
+		"curl_trigger": 0.85,
+	},
+	# Held lower and squarer than a rifle, with the support hand back on the
+	# forend rather than out at the muzzle, and a hard wrap — a shotgun is gripped,
+	# not balanced.
+	SHOTGUN: {
+		"support": SUPPORT_BARREL,
+		# Carried low and FORWARD, the opposite of the sniper's high tuck. A
+		# shotgun is pointed rather than aimed and the elbows go wide, because
+		# the recoil comes back through them.
+		#
+		# Low and INBOARD does not work, however tempting the symmetry: +x is
+		# toward the character's centreline, so dropping the pocket and pushing
+		# it across at the same time swings the barrel through the chest. It is
+		# visible immediately in debug/hold_capture.gd and in no assertion —
+		# the hands were still exactly where they had been asked to go.
+		"pocket_hip": Vector3(0.030, -0.130, 0.080),
+		"pocket_ads": Vector3(0.045, -0.040, 0.075),
+		"pitch_hip": 0.30,
+		"cheek": 0.22,
+		"pole_r_hip": Vector3(-0.62, -0.80, -0.22),
+		"pole_l_hip": Vector3(0.58, -0.72, -0.16),
+		"gun_fore": 0.22,
+		"curl_wrap": 1.2,
+		"curl_trigger": 1.0,
+	},
+	# The tube goes ON the shoulder, not into it, and the head leans AWAY to clear
+	# it. The support hand hooks under from below, well forward, because there is
+	# nothing to wrap and the job of that arm is to carry weight.
+	LAUNCHER: {
+		"support": SUPPORT_TUBE,
+		"pocket_hip": Vector3(0.055, 0.06, 0.01),
+		"pocket_ads": Vector3(0.065, 0.105, 0.03),
+		"pitch_hip": -0.16,
+		"cheek": -0.30,
+		"pole_r_hip": Vector3(-0.85, -0.45, -0.10),
+		"pole_l_hip": Vector3(0.25, -0.85, 0.10),
+		"gun_stock": 0.30,
+		"gun_fore": 0.30,
+		"curl_wrap": 1.0,
+		"curl_trigger": 0.9,
+	},
+	# No shoulder contact at all. The pocket is pushed forward and outboard of the
+	# joint, which puts both arms out in front of the chest, and the support hand
+	# cups the firing fist instead of reaching for a barrel.
+	PISTOL: {
+		"support": SUPPORT_CUPPED,
+		"pocket_hip": Vector3(0.02, -0.16, 0.16),
+		"pocket_ads": Vector3(0.00, -0.04, 0.30),
+		"pitch_hip": 0.30,
+		"cheek": 0.05,
+		"pole_r_hip": Vector3(-0.45, -0.95, -0.05),
+		"pole_l_hip": Vector3(0.45, -0.95, -0.05),
+		"gun_stock": 0.03,
+		"gun_fore": 0.05,
+		"weapon_scale": 1.0,
+		"curl_wrap": 1.15,
+		"curl_trigger": 0.9,
+	},
+	# One hand. The off arm is RELEASED back to the animation, so it swings with
+	# the run cycle instead of gripping a handguard that does not exist — which is
+	# most of what makes a knife read as a knife at any distance.
+	BLADE: {
+		"support": SUPPORT_FREE,
+		"pocket_hip": Vector3(0.09, -0.20, 0.10),
+		"pocket_ads": Vector3(0.05, -0.06, 0.22),
+		"pitch_hip": 0.55,
+		"cheek": 0.0,
+		"pole_r_hip": Vector3(-0.35, -1.00, -0.10),
+		"pole_l_hip": Vector3(0.45, -0.90, -0.10),
+		"gun_stock": 0.02,
+		"gun_fore": 0.0,
+		"weapon_scale": 1.0,
+		# A blade is held in a full fist — there is no trigger to keep a finger
+		# straight along, and an extended index on a knife handle looks like a
+		# mistake rather than like discipline.
+		"curl_wrap": 1.25,
+		"curl_trigger": 1.25,
+	},
+}
+
+
+## Weapon id (the script's basename) -> style.
+##
+## Keyed on the basename rather than on the class, so this table does not have to
+## load twelve weapon scripts to be read, and so a weapon that has not been
+## written yet can be listed here the moment its file exists.
+const WEAPON_STYLES := {
+	"ak47": RIFLE,
+	"m4": RIFLE,
+	"plasma_gun": RIFLE,
+	"mp7": SMG,
+	"nail_gun": SMG,
+	"dmr": SNIPER,
+	"awp": SNIPER,
+	"double_barrel_shotgun": SHOTGUN,
+	"rocket_launcher": LAUNCHER,
+	"rocket_swarm": LAUNCHER,
+	"mortar": LAUNCHER,
+	"knife": BLADE,
+}
+
+## What an unlisted weapon is held as. A rifle is the safe assumption: it is the
+## only style that reaches for a handguard, and a weapon with no handguard held
+## as a rifle looks odd, where a rifle held as anything else looks broken.
+const FALLBACK := RIFLE
+
+
+## The style name for a weapon id or script path.
+static func style_for(weapon: String) -> String:
+	var id := _id_of(weapon)
+	return WEAPON_STYLES.get(id, FALLBACK)
+
+
+## The default knob table for a weapon — the style's values, ready to be merged
+## under whatever the JSON tuning says.
+##
+## Returns a COPY, because the caller merges the artist's values into it and a
+## shared dictionary would accumulate one character's tuning into every other's.
+static func knobs_for(weapon: String) -> Dictionary:
+	var style: Dictionary = STYLES.get(style_for(weapon), STYLES[FALLBACK])
+	var out := style.duplicate(true)
+	# `support` and `cheek` are structural, not knobs — they are read straight
+	# off the style by the pose layer and must not end up in the tuning table,
+	# where the rig lab would offer sliders for them.
+	out.erase("support")
+	out.erase("cheek")
+	return out
+
+
+## How the off hand is used for this weapon. See the SUPPORT_* constants.
+static func support_for(weapon: String) -> String:
+	var style: Dictionary = STYLES.get(style_for(weapon), STYLES[FALLBACK])
+	return style.get("support", SUPPORT_BARREL)
+
+
+## How far the head comes to the stock, 0..1, negative to lean away.
+static func cheek_for(weapon: String) -> float:
+	var style: Dictionary = STYLES.get(style_for(weapon), STYLES[FALLBACK])
+	return float(style.get("cheek", 0.0))
+
+
+## A weapon id from either an id or a `res://weapons/<id>.gd` path.
+static func _id_of(weapon: String) -> String:
+	if weapon.ends_with(".gd"):
+		return weapon.get_file().get_basename()
+	return weapon

weapons/weapon_hold_profiles.gd.uid

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://bhfyjgkpsvb2x

weapons/weapon_manager.gd

@@ -16,11 +16,26 @@ func _ready() -> void:
 	set_process(true)
 	
 	_setup_viewmodel_viewport()
-	
+
+	# Gun Game promotions arrive as a signal from the server.
+	var nm = get_node_or_null("/root/NetworkManager")
+	if nm and nm.has_signal("ladder_promoted"):
+		nm.ladder_promoted.connect(_on_ladder_promoted)
+
 	# Wait one frame for LoadoutManager to be fully ready if needed
 	await get_tree().process_frame
 	_build_loadout()
 
+
+func _on_ladder_promoted(peer_id: int, _rung: int, weapon_id: String) -> void:
+	# Only the promoted player's own manager acts; every peer receives the
+	# signal because the killfeed uses it too.
+	if player == null or not player.is_multiplayer_authority():
+		return
+	if multiplayer.has_multiplayer_peer() and peer_id != multiplayer.get_unique_id():
+		return
+	equip_ladder_weapon(weapon_id)
+
 func _setup_viewmodel_viewport() -> void:
 	if not camera: return
 	
@@ -200,12 +215,49 @@ func _build_loadout() -> void:
 			player.synced_loadout_melee = ""
 		player.synced_loadout_ready = true
 	
+	# Gun Game hands out the weapon, so the player's own loadout is ignored —
+	# the whole mode is "you get what your rung gives you". Checked here rather
+	# than in the mode so there is one place a loadout is built.
+	if _ladder_mode():
+		var nm = get_node_or_null("/root/NetworkManager")
+		var rung: int = int(nm.player_stats.get(multiplayer.get_unique_id(), {})
+			.get("rung", 0)) if nm else 0
+		equip_ladder_weapon(GameMode.ladder_weapon(rung))
+		return
+
 	_spawn_weapon(1, l["primary_1"])
 	_spawn_weapon(2, l["primary_2"])
 	_spawn_weapon(3, l["special"])
 	if l.has("melee"):
 		_spawn_weapon(4, l["melee"])
-	
+
+	_equip_slot(1)
+
+
+## Whether the current match issues weapons instead of letting players pick.
+func _ladder_mode() -> bool:
+	var nm = get_node_or_null("/root/NetworkManager")
+	return nm != null and nm.current_gamemode == GameMode.GUN_GAME
+
+
+## Replace everything in hand with one issued weapon. Gun Game's promotion.
+func equip_ladder_weapon(weapon_id: String) -> void:
+	if weapon_id == "":
+		return
+	for w in weapons.values():
+		if is_instance_valid(w):
+			w.queue_free()
+	weapons.clear()
+	_spawn_weapon(1, weapon_id)
+	if player:
+		# Remote peers build their view of this player from the synced loadout,
+		# so a promotion has to move that too or everyone else keeps seeing the
+		# gun from the previous rung in their hands.
+		player.synced_loadout_p1 = weapon_id
+		player.synced_loadout_p2 = ""
+		player.synced_loadout_sp = ""
+		player.synced_loadout_melee = ""
+		player.synced_loadout_ready = true
 	_equip_slot(1)
 
 func _build_remote_loadout(p1: String, p2: String, sp: String, melee: String) -> void: