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feat(light): render-quality tiers 3-4 — cones, falloff, soft shadows, gels, normals, day/night (#49)
The remaining lighting tiers from the original proposal, all extending the
deterministic accumulation core (light.ludic) — no new ECS plumbing:

- Light.spot: cone / flashlight lights (direction + spread degrees), with a
  self-contained integer atan2-in-degrees and a feathered edge.
- Light.falloff: a brightness-ramp exponent (1 linear, 2 quadratic, …) via
  repeated fixed multiply.
- Light.soft: soft shadows — an area-sampled light so an occluder edge fades
  through a penumbra instead of a hard cut.
- Light.gel + Light.clear_gel: colour cookies — a light gels from its centre
  colour to a rim colour.
- Light.normal + Light.clear_normals + Light.height: a normal G-buffer so
  surfaces shade by facing (N·L), not distance alone (tier 3).
- Light.time_of_day: a day/night ambient ramp from a single 0..1 value.

The engine lighting system (systems_light.ludic) consumes matching optional
Light2D fields — direction/spread/falloff/softness/gel — each defaulting off so
an older five-field Light2D lights exactly as before. Every tier is integer +
Q16.16 fixed, so scenes light identically on every run and headless.

Worked example + regression: examples/library/light_tiers.ludic (1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1).
Nine new docs/language/light pages. Full suite 76 passed, self-host C-free
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-31 16:35:41 +03:00

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light-falloff Light.falloff light namespace-method Light.falloff Light.falloff(exponent) Set the brightness-ramp exponent for later lights (1 linear, 2 quadratic…). 6 Light falloff

Sets the falloff curve applied to every light emitted after it. A light's brightness ramps from full at the centre to zero at its radius; the ramp is raised to exponent, so 1 is the original linear falloff, 2 is quadratic (a softer, more concentrated core), 3 cubic, and so on. Like the occluder store, the setting persists across frames until changed — a game sets it once, or per light, and it rides alongside the short Light.point / Light.spot signatures. Integer exponent, Q16.16 ramp — deterministic.

Parameters:

  • exponent — the ramp power, an integer >= 1 (1 = linear, the default)
program Demo {
  property Torch { x: int = 0, y: int = 0 }
  model Lamp { Torch }
  handler Render phase Update {
    Screen.clear(0)
    Light.ambient(Color.rgb(24, 24, 32))
    Light.falloff(2)                                        # a tighter, quadratic glow
    Light.point(80, 60, 70, Color.rgb(255, 210, 130), 1.0)
    Screen.show()
  }
}