The previous drawCellBottom calls fired only for cells containing a
tracked entity. While walking this worked acceptably because the
sprite's sub-pixel tween kept the visual overlap plausible, but while
standing still the sprite is pixel-aligned with the cell and the opaque
leaf-edge pixels in the grass bottom row paint over the player's feet.
This change removes the per-entity isGrassCell checks and replaces them
with a single post-sprite pass that overdraws every visible grass cell.
TileRenderer:
- ensureWindow now builds grassCells (all paths) and grassBatch (DMG/SGB
shader path) alongside winBatch during the existing tile scan loop.
A grassSeen table deduplicates cells so each cx/cy pair is only
recorded once despite having two bottom-row tiles.
- drawGrassOverdraw: DMG/SGB draws the grassBatch under color0KeyShader
in one call; GBC iterates grassCells and calls drawCellBottomRaw per
cell (pre-keyed images can't share a SpriteBatch).
- markGrassOverdrawRedraw: iterates grassCells and calls
markCellBottomRedraw for the post-zone OBP-replay pass (GBC only).
- releaseBatches cleans up grassBatch and grassCells.
OverworldController (flat path):
- Entity loop draws sprites only; grass overdraw fires once after the
loop via drawGrassOverdraw + markGrassOverdrawRedraw.
OverworldController (tilt path):
- Grass cells are injected into the billboard sort queue keyed on the
world-pixel foot of each cell's bottom tile row (cy*16+16), so they
depth-sort correctly against entities at different y positions. Each
grass cell billboards via drawCellBottomRaw inside the upright pass.
Fixes: standing-in-tall-grass feet overdraw (Gen 2 confirmed, Gen 1
improved); NPCs and Pikachu follower in grass benefit automatically.
Parity test: tests/parity_grass_seam.lua 10/10, engine 228/228.
the launcher runs before Game:load, so #767's Strings hooks had nothing
filling the catalog and a restart could not help - the ordering is the same
every launch. reads lang/strings.lua from enabled mods only, data not the
entry chunk, sandboxed.
plus a plain pixel fallback on the ui faces, or the kana draw as tofu.
drawBox left the color white, which tiles ignore but ttf text does not, so
every label after a box drew white on white.
typechart only loaded on entering a battle, so the summary screen got raw
type ids back instead of display names.
lets a translation keep chosen characters on the rom tiles instead of the ttf.
needed for japanese: sizing the font for kana makes latin narrower, which
knocks the party menu numbers out of line.
The scattered per-call-site prefix rewrites were a parallel track that any
future newImage("assets/generated/...") would silently bypass. Replace
them with NxAssetOverlay: installed once from love.load on NX only, it
wraps newImage / newImageData / newSource / filesystem.read / getInfo so a
missing assets/generated path falls back to the active version's
blue|yellow copy. Call sites return to plain love loader calls, and
Assets.resolve goes back to being the platform-free mod-override point.
Two deliberate exceptions remain: the chip-audio worker (separate Lua
state) keeps receiving the prefix explicitly via audio.programPrefix, and
data/generated module loads keep using CacheFs.readActive.
A new guard test (tests/engine/nx_generated_guard_test.lua) fails CI on
any direct love loader call with a literal assets/generated path, so the
class of bug cannot regress by accident. scripts/test.sh --quick is
green across all tiers.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Desktop and Android keep mountVersion as the overlay; only love-nx
resolves assets/generated to yellow|blue/ save-dir paths.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
NX fused mount often cannot expose assets/generated; open the real
yellow|blue/assets/generated file with newImage instead of FileData.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Probe generated canaries after mountVersion and always readActive for
prefixed caches so sprites are not blanked by empty PhysFS stubs.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Mirror Data:load's versioned CacheFs read in Assets so Yellow-only NX
Play survives intro without needing a Red root cache mask.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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