🛠️ Dev & infra

• Connection issues partially fixed, a few cases remain.
• Local dev environment simplified further (mini-presentation + group Godot session held during the week).
• Planets are now in a single reference frame on the server side → dynamic server meshing needs to be adapted, but the code will end up simpler.
• .blend files → dedicated cloud (read-only for everyone, restricted write access). It will only be opened once backups are in place. Exports and textures stay in the Godot Git repository.
• Ongoing bugs: players not seeing each other, and T-pose (players as well as NPCs) that seems to trigger when someone was already connected before you.
• Docs + scripts for materials and Blender export delivered on the 3D side.

🌤️ Atmosphere & shading (warpzone_bar)

• Shadow precomputation in progress: the light source is too far away, chunks are poorly lit. Part of it will remain real-time. A detailed post is coming.
• Atmosphere configured per planet, brightness added on moons.
• Stellar data check: star temperature changed from 3555 K to 4831 K, equilibrium temperatures of Gaïa and Sandbox recalculated, Sandbox atmospheric composition corrected. The new JSON will be integrated and reset on pre-prod.

🪐 Planetology (bitogno)

• Gaïa receives about 2× Earth's UV → vegetation impossible. Proposal: swap Gaïa and Sandbox, since Sandbox is protected by its corundum cloud. A moon will be added to Gaïa (tilt / rotation speed).
• Corundum veil: ceiling around 3500 m, thickness to be reviewed (considered too thin), white in full daylight and pinkish at sunrise/sunset. To be done with volumetric clouds. Kainan warns about the risk of an overly dazzling render.
• Winds from the equator toward the poles, polar anticyclone, very cold poles. No surface water on Sandbox (soil rich in extractable water, ice on moon 2).
• The star will be renamed Tarsis Alpha. Definitions of all planets + wiki to be redone.

🎮 Game design (Kainan)

• Meeting tomorrow evening: engine stats as a priority, roads if time allows.
• Helmeted NPCs for UV protection → fewer faces to produce. Idea of domes or covered areas in cities.
• Elevator / freight lift to climb back up from canyons, to be added to the MVP doc. The tech will also be used for elevators.
• Vehicles: spawn in a closed hangar for rental missions, tow truck for heavy damage, consequences if the vehicle is returned damaged. Interchangeable modules at the back of the truck.
• Housing: containers ready, materials and layout still to be decided.

✅ Follow-up

• ddurieux: cloud + backups, cliff export script, server meshing adaptation, biomes per zone.
• bitogno: finalize the JSON, biome listing, wiki update.
• warpzone_bar: explanatory post on shadows, validation of the figures.
• Voice call to schedule during the week on QGIS layers / biomes.