The old 'cat' used a char-goblin sprite (green monster). Replaced with actual
pixel cats from the Pet Cats Pack (CC-0, commercial-ok):
- html/assets/cats/cat1..6-idle.png — 6 cats, 10-frame 50x50 idle strips.
- catSprites.js: loads + animates a cat sprite (RK.drawCatCanvas), flips to face left.
- tileRenderer: draws entities with kind 'cat' via the cat sprite path (shadow + frame).
- tavernLife: spawns a RANDOM cat that wanders the customer floor (not behind the
bar), injected as kind 'cat' with its catSprite id. Degrades to a villager if
catSprites.js isn't loaded.
- tavern.html loads catSprites.js.
Client-only (no server change). Suite 57 suites / 413 tests green.
Used the sheet's hand-labelled roguelikeSheet_meta.json to pick the RIGHT tiles
instead of guessing:
- New tile kinds + coords (window, counter, keg/barrel, shelf, table, chair,
crate, rug, door) in sceneModel TAVERN_LEGEND/TILE_OF + assetPacks tileMap.
- tavernMap redesigned: windowed walls, a bar counter with a shelf of bottles
behind it and a keg (beer!) at each end, six tables each with a chair, a
central rug, corner barrels/crates, and a door. Chairs are walkable so standing
on one reads as sitting. Warm wood floor color (was a dark green in the fallback).
- Bartender now stands BEHIND the bar (spawn + roam confined to the row between
the top wall and the counter, sealed off by it).
Still TODO from feedback: a cat (no cat sprite on the sheet — needs an asset) and
richer bar bottles. Suite 57 suites / 413 tests green.
- The imported .tmx tavern room renders as a block-scatter in the browser (the
client falls back to the walkable grid, drawing furniture/walls as generic
blocks). Gate it behind TAVERN_DESIGNED_ROOM=true and default to the hand-built
procedural tavern (tavernMap.js) — bar + tables + walls — which renders reliably
through the theme atlas.
- Remove the tavern 'cat': it used the char-goblin sprite, so it read as a green
monster stuck in the wall. Gone until there's a real critter sprite.
A player who never customized arrives as avatar 'default' — not a char/skin/model,
so avatarVisuals resolved it to 'legacy' kind with no sprite and the renderer drew
the grey fallback circle (while NPCs with explicit char-* avatars rendered fine).
Coerce any unknown/'default' avatar to 'char-villager' on the 2D topdown path so
nobody is ever a grey dot in a room of people. iso/3d keep their own fallbacks.
Two tavern rendering bugs in Tiled mode:
1. The 'you' cell looked like a flaming dot. The warm torch light + drifting
embers are a DUNGEON effect (the player carries the torch) but _composite/
_ensureEmbers ran on every scene, so in the tavern they painted a flame on
the 'you' avatar while other players rendered normally. Gate both to
scene.isDungeon.
2. Tavern tiles showed as flat 'blocks' that never refreshed. The tile atlas
image loads async; switching INTO the tiled renderer (e.g. entering the
tavern) before it's ready paints the flat-colour fallback once and never
repaints until the next scene update. Hook atlas.onReady to re-render the
last scene the moment the atlas is ready.
Client-only; no server change. Deploy = git pull + restart (or just pull, it's
static assets).
① assetPacks.js merges the server-authoritative catalog (from the entitlement snapshot) into RK.PACKS — operator-added packs now appear client-side and existing packs pick up server definitions, retiring the client half of the split-brain. ② A confirmed direct/single_game payment now records as 'buy 1 credit + spend it': balance nets to zero but total_credits_purchased advances (recordDirectEntryPurchase), so direct play unlocks the same tier/threshold cosmetics as buying credits, and the client gets a fresh entitlement snapshot. +2 tests. Suite 49/345 green.
P1 foundation (branch feat/credits-catalog-foundation). Remaining: the buy modal reflects the unified credits model; a later pass can fully collapse single_game into the credit spend path.
Tavern: revert the per-cell 'varied floor/wall' tiles to coherent single tiles — mixing wood/stone/plank per cell read as visual noise (assetPacks.js).
Play area: draw the keyboard-focus outline inset (outline-offset -2px) so the yellow border shows on the right edge, which the container's overflow:hidden was clipping (ui.js).
Smirk: a locked wallet now shows a friendly 'unlock in the extension, then Retry' hint instead of a red error, and the LOCKED error code is preserved through connect()/signMessage(). Current Smirk builds auto-open the unlock popup on connect(); older builds throw LOCKED, which the Retry button re-invokes (smirkAuth.js).
The skin/hair/cloth-base/gear palette-ramp recoloring on the top-down Tiles character sprites looked bad, so it's disabled: tintedTileCanvas() now returns null, making every caller (drawCharTileCanvas, charTileTexture, in-game + customizer preview + Pixi) fall through to the native Kenney sprite art.
The customizer's top-down editor drops the Cloth/Skin/Hair and per-gear color rows and keeps only equipment PIECE selection (body/head/shield/weapon). The ASCII '@' color picker is unchanged (shown in the ascii/color branch, driven by colors.base via avatarVisuals.tintColorFor). Iso skin tint and premium generated-skins are untouched. Suite 46/317 green.
- tavernLife.js: client-side NPCs (bartender, patrons, cat) with autonomous
movement, random speech bubbles, and real-player chat bubbles
- T2b: spectator camera — watch live dungeon runs from inside the tavern
(game list, spectate_start/update, ESC to leave)
- R1: sceneFromGameState adapter — converts dungeon game state to render-kit
Scene with lighting grid and entity mapping
- R2: pre-populated Kenney roguelikeSheet tile defaults for the tiled renderer
- Dungeon renderer support: TileRenderer + AsciiRenderer handle lightGrid,
dungeon features/items/monster entities
- 3 new tests (242 total, 36 suites, all passing)
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