Every map's startup position and default landing zone is its baked
spawn. The old rule (upward triangle nearest the origin) put the skater
over the void on MegaPark and on the roof of Industrial Skate Park and
StartPark, because park origins sit at a corner and retail floors are
sometimes wound downward.
New map_starts.py resolves each district's start from retail data: the
world row's start locator (parks), a chosen fe_locations row for
districts with several (University career start, Industrial Haystings
Park, DownTown Rosalita Skate Park, Maloof street), or the district's
only fe_locations row. Position and heading come from the district's
global_locators records; the heading is now written into the .skate
header. Districts without an authored start fall back to geometry:
compact parks use the new ground_spawn search, city-sized districts keep
the original rule (ground_spawn put Industrial under the streets).
See docs/hails-additions/04-map-spawns.md.
Roster work paths under deep checkouts exceed MAX_PATH (260), leaving
pro skaters unavailable. If LongPathsEnabled is off, setup asks once for
elevation to enable it and relaunches itself, since Windows reads the
setting at process start. Declining keeps the previous behaviour.
See docs/hails-additions/02-long-paths.md.
extract-xiso stops parsing options at the first image path, so
`-x <iso> -d <dir>` extracted into the working directory and then failed
on "-d" as a second image (exit 1 -> "Conversion failed"). Use
`-x -d <dir> <iso>` in both call sites.
See docs/hails-additions/01-iso-extraction.md.
Apply probe SH to online customiser characters after remote bind, restore received sun shadows, and ship Skyline driving, fullscreen, and renderer improvements on the branch.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <[email protected]>
Branch channel now reports already-current and missing-release cases clearly instead of a generic 404 error, and remote smoke/skids initialize without requiring local F10 spawn.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <[email protected]>
CI artifacts require GitHub auth, so skyline-driving-update now publishes downloadable release assets and the updater prefers those over Actions artifacts.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <[email protected]>
Expose append-only mesh buffers for mod skid/smoke rendering, sync rear-wheel VFX over multiplayer, rebuild Skyline audio assets, and let the updater install from any CI branch.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <[email protected]>
Sanitize non-finite SIMD lanes in offboard air selection, add solid dynamics and mod replication APIs, improve setup refresh without re-extracting assets, and harden Build-Release.ps1 for older PowerShell hosts.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <[email protected]>
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