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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-normal Light.normal light namespace-method Light.normal Light.normal(x, y, width, height, nx, ny) Stamp a surface normal over a rectangle so lights shade it by facing (N·L). 10 Light normal

Stamps a surface normal over a screen rectangle into the light pass's normal buffer. Where a normal is stamped, a light shades the surface by the angle it faces — the Lambert term N·L — not by distance alone: a wall facing a torch is bright, one turned away is dim, giving flat sprites a sense of relief (tier 3). nx and ny are the normal's x/y as a fixed in [-1, 1] (a surface facing straight at the camera is 0, 0); the z component is derived. Unstamped pixels are unaffected, and the buffer is allocated only when you stamp — clear it each frame with Light.clear_normals. Deterministic (Q16.16 dot product).

Parameters:

  • x, y, width, height — the screen rectangle to stamp
  • nx, ny — the surface normal's x/y, a fixed in [-1, 1]
program Demo {
  property Wall { x: int = 0, y: int = 0 }
  model Block { Wall }
  handler Render phase Update {
    Screen.clear(0)
    Light.ambient(Color.rgb(24, 24, 32))
    Light.clear_normals()
    Light.normal(60, 50, 16, 24, 0.7, 0.0)                 # this face is tilted rightward
    Light.point(120, 62, 90, Color.rgb(255, 240, 200), 1.0)
    Screen.show()
  }
}