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.
Implements issue #14. A dedicated thread owns SDL3 (3.4.16, statically
linked via sdl3 =0.20.0) and publishes per-slot snapshots re-expressed as
the XInput-shaped XboxState, so the TU3 conversion in skate-core is
unchanged. Conversions are exact for XInput-backed pads (stick Y via
bitwise NOT, trigger round-to-nearest). SKATE3_INPUT=xinput selects the
original transport, which is also the fallback if SDL fails to start.
Optional settings/controller.json maps paddles to XInput buttons.
Build: scripts/Ensure-CMake.ps1 locates CMake (PATH or Visual Studio's
copy) for the SDL source build. sdl3-sys is vendored with a build.rs
patch setting CMAKE_MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY from crt-static, because SDL's
CMake (policy CMP0091) ignores cmake-rs' -MT and the static-CRT release
build failed with unresolved __imp_* symbols.
See docs/hails-additions/03-sdl3-gamepad-input.md and vendor/README.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.
Add generalized engine access and challenge mods, repair SKATE turn handling, and improve collision prediction and physics transitions. Reduce mod snapshot and material update overhead, preserve authored GLB materials with lighting and shadows, and improve CPU profiling.
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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