--- title: "Cover shooter: API" package: "@phaser-ae/cover-shooter" tier: Pro version: 3.0.0-3 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-20 description: "The rules of a light-gun stop-and-shoot game: the camera moves from stop to stop, enemies pop up, and the player shoots, ducks behind cover, reloads and races the timer." url: https://phaser.io/packs/cover-shooter/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Cover shooter: API `@phaser-ae/cover-shooter` — Light-gun stop-and-shoot rules on rail-route and light-gun: pop-up enemies, red-flash shots, cover, timers, rescues, branches and bosses. ## The pack ### `coverShooter` ```ts function coverShooter(): Pack<{ coverShooter: typeof api }> ``` Install the cover shooter API. ## Helpers ### `actor` ```ts function actor(kind: string, at: Partial, o: Partial> = {}): ActorSpec ``` An actor spec. ### `areaBuilder` ```ts function areaBuilder(id: string, name: string, opts: Partial> = {}): AreaBuilder ``` Start authoring an area. ### `conditionHolds` ```ts function conditionHolds(c: Condition, flags: Readonly>): boolean ``` Does a condition hold for these flags. ### `COVER_STEP` ```ts const COVER_STEP: number ``` The default fixed step: 1/60 s. ### `coverDifficulty` ```ts function coverDifficulty(name: DifficultyName): CoverDifficulty ``` Built-in difficulty presets. Arcade is the original tables. ### `createCoverShooter` ```ts function createCoverShooter(def: CoverDef): CoverShooter ``` Build a session. ### `fmtTime` ```ts function fmtTime(seconds: number): string ``` Format seconds as the arcade's 00'00"00. ### `groundAt` ```ts function groundAt(boxes: readonly SceneryBox[], x: number, z: number, fallback: number): number ``` The highest walkable top under (x, z), or `fallback` when there is none. ### `houseOfTheDeadChapters` ```ts function houseOfTheDeadChapters(): StageDef[] ``` The four chapters of the arcade game. ### `houseOfTheDeadKinds` ```ts function houseOfTheDeadKinds(): ActorKind[] ``` The House of the Dead actor kinds. ### `houseOfTheDeadPreset` ```ts function houseOfTheDeadPreset(o: HouseOfTheDeadOptions = {}): CoverDef ``` The House of the Dead (Sega 1996). ### `houseOfTheDeadProjectiles` ```ts function houseOfTheDeadProjectiles(): CoverProjectile[] ``` Projectiles: axes, knives, barrels, wrecking balls, darts, web balls and fireballs; all can be shot down. ### `insideBox` ```ts function insideBox(b: SceneryBox, p: Vec3, margin = 0): boolean ``` Is a point inside a box. ### `isWalkable` ```ts const isWalkable = (b: SceneryBox): boolean=> … ``` Do actors stand on this box. ### `lineOfSight` ```ts function lineOfSight(boxes: readonly SceneryBox[], from: Vec3, to: Vec3): boolean ``` Can a point see another: no occluding box between them. ### `occludes` ```ts const occludes = (b: SceneryBox): boolean=> … ``` Does this box stop shots and block sight (walkable boxes never do: an actor stands on them). ### `overFootprint` ```ts function overFootprint(b: SceneryBox, x: number, z: number, margin = 0): boolean ``` Is a ground point (x, z) over a box's footprint (with a margin). ### `popUp` ```ts function popUp(o: { from?: "below" | "left" | "right" | "above" | "behind" | "none"; aim?: number; shots?: number; gap?: number; rest?: number; first?: number; dist?: number } = {}): ActorStep[] ``` Script: pop up from cover, aim, fire, duck and repeat (Time Crisis gunmen). ### `rayBox` ```ts function rayBox(b: SceneryBox, origin: Vec3, dir: Vec3, maxT = Infinity): { t: number; normal: Vec3 } | null ``` Where a ray enters a box: distance along the (unit) direction and the face normal, or null. ### `sceneryRay` ```ts function sceneryRay(boxes: readonly SceneryBox[], origin: Vec3, dir: Vec3, maxT = Infinity, filter: (b: SceneryBox) => boolean = () => true): { t: number; normal: Vec3; box: SceneryBox } | null ``` The nearest box a ray meets within `maxT`, among the boxes `filter` accepts. ### `SEE_THROUGH_MODELS` ```ts const SEE_THROUGH_MODELS: ReadonlySet ``` Models that never stop a shot or block sight by default (lights, water surfaces, skirting). ### `shamble` ```ts function shamble(o: { stop?: number; windup?: number; rest?: number; first?: number; from?: "below" | "left" | "right" | "above" | "none" | "behind" } = {}): ActorStep[] ``` Script: lumber toward the camera and strike when close; repeat (zombies). ### `standAndFire` ```ts function standAndFire(o: { from?: "below" | "left" | "right" | "above" | "none"; aim?: number; shots?: number; gap?: number; rest?: number; first?: number } = {}): ActorStep[] ``` Script: step out and keep shooting from the open (no cover). ### `timeCrisisKinds` ```ts function timeCrisisKinds(): ActorKind[] ``` The Time Crisis actor kinds (accuracy from the GameSurge enemy guide; see the docs). ### `timeCrisisPreset` ```ts function timeCrisisPreset(o: TimeCrisisOptions = {}): CoverDef ``` Time Crisis (Namco 1995). ### `timeCrisisProjectiles` ```ts function timeCrisisProjectiles(): CoverProjectile[] ``` Projectiles: grenades, bazooka rockets and Sherudo's daggers. ### `timeCrisisStages` ```ts function timeCrisisStages(): StageDef[] ``` The three stages of the arcade game. ### `validateCover` ```ts function validateCover(def: CoverDef): void ``` Validate a definition; throws with a clear message. ### `WALK_MODELS` ```ts const WALK_MODELS: ReadonlySet ``` Models actors stand on by default. ### `wave` ```ts function wave(actors: ActorSpec[], o: Partial> = {}): WaveDef ``` A wave. ## Types ### `ActorKind` ```ts interface ActorKind ``` A kind of actor: enemies, bosses, civilians, breakables, items and switches. - `id: string` — Unique id. - `role?: Role | undefined` — Rules role (default `'enemy'`). - `hp?: number | undefined` — Hit points (default 1). Bosses: the session's hit counter. - `radius?: number | undefined` — Sphere radius when there are no regions (default 40). - `regions?: CoverRegion[] | undefined` — Hit regions in the actor's frame (`x` right, `y` up from its feet, `z` toward the camera). - `script?: ActorStep[] | undefined` — The script it runs when a spawn gives none. - `speed?: number | undefined` — Walking speed, units per second (default 150). - `accuracy?: number | number[] | undefined` — Chance each hitscan shot hits (Time Crisis: red soldiers 0.9 for the first, blue 0.2–0.4). Default 0.3. - `points?: number | undefined` — Points for a kill. - `headPoints?: number | undefined` — Points for each hit on a part named 'head' (cumulative: House of the Dead headshots). - `stagger?: { time: number; knock?: number | undefined } | undefined` — Hit reaction: seconds staggered (attack interrupted) and units knocked back. - `reel?: number | undefined` — Bosses: seconds it reels after each damaging hit (unhittable, attack interrupted). - `timeBonus?: { max: number; decay: number } | undefined` — Time Crisis orange soldiers: seconds added for a kill, `max` falling to 0 over `decay` seconds of its life. - `drop?: string | undefined` — Breakables: the item kind it drops. - `reward?: { points?: number | undefined; lives?: number | undefined } | undefined` — Items: what shooting it gives. - `rescue?: { time: number; points?: number | undefined; lives?: number | undefined } | undefined` — Civilians: rescued if every attacker grabbing it dies within `time` seconds; reward on rescue. - `protect?: string | undefined` — Civilians: the protected label light-gun reports (default 'civilian'). - `sets?: string | undefined` — A flag set when it is destroyed (switches also set `shot:`; any named actor killed sets `killed:`). - `boss?: { name?: string | undefined; phases: BossPhase[]; points?: number | undefined } | undefined` — Bosses: phases, a name and points for the kill. - `flies?: boolean | undefined` — It flies or hangs (helicopters, bats, items, wall switches): it may be placed above the ground. Everything else stands on the ground (spawn heights must be 0). - `blocks?: boolean | undefined` — Holds the stop until it is gone (default true for enemies and bosses, false otherwise). - `look?: Look | undefined` — Presentation hints. ### `ActorMode` ```ts type ActorMode = | "hidden" | "enter" | "idle" | "move" | "leap" | "aim" | "fire" | "throw" | "approach" | "windup" | "strike" | "stagger" | "reel" | "exit" | "rescued" | "flee" ``` What an actor is doing (for presenters' animation). ### `ActorSpec` ```ts interface ActorSpec ``` One actor in a wave. - `kind: string` — Kind id. - `at: StopPoint` — Its spot in the stop frame. - `delay?: number | undefined` — Seconds after the wave fires (default 0). - `script?: ActorStep[] | undefined` — A script instead of the kind's. - `name?: string | undefined` — A name for rescues, flags and branches (`rescued:`, `lost:`, `shot:`). - `grab?: string | undefined` — Civilians it is attacking (names, comma-separated): their rescue fails if it is still alive when their time is up. A switch can hold civilians the same way (a cage). - `hp?: number | undefined` — Hit points instead of the kind's. - `drop?: string | undefined` — Item kind it drops when destroyed (overrides the kind's). ### `ActorState` ```ts interface ActorState ``` A live actor (plain data). Its rail-route target has the same id. - `id: string` — Id (the rail target's). - `kind: string` — Kind id. - `section: string` — Section whose stop frame `pos` is in. - `name: string` — Name from its spawn ('' when unnamed). - `pos: StopPoint` — Position in the stop frame. - `home: StopPoint` — Its authored spot. - `script: ActorStep[]` — The script it runs (plain data). - `step: number` — Current step index. - `t: number` — Seconds into the current step. - `loops: Record` — Loop counters by step index. - `mode: ActorMode` — What it is doing. - `modeTime: number` — Seconds in the current mode. - `hidden: boolean` — Out of sight behind cover: shots cannot hit it. - `motion: { from: StopPoint; to: StopPoint; time: number; arc: number } | null` — Motion of the current step: start, end, duration, arc height. - `shots: { left: number; index: number; next: number }` — Shots or throws left in the current step, and the index of the next for accuracy lists. - `stagger: number` — Seconds of stagger or reel left. - `age: number` — Seconds alive. - `grab: string` — Civilian it is attacking ('' for none). - `hp: number` — Hit points (bosses: the session's counter; others mirror the rail target). - `hpMax: number` — Maximum hit points. - `phase: number` — Boss phase index. - `drop: string` — Item it drops. - `fired: number` — Seconds since it last fired (presenters' muzzle flash). - `danger: boolean` — The last shot it fired will hit unless the player takes cover (presenters' red flash). - `lost: string[]` — Body parts shot off. - `done: boolean` — Rescued, killed or gone: no longer acting. - `delay: number` — Seconds before it appears (a wave member's `delay`); not drawn or hittable until then. - `lastPart: string` — The part its last hit struck (a kill by a 'head' hit is a headshot). - `boss: boolean` — A boss (the session counts its hit points and phases). - `pending: boolean` — A boss phase's minions and banner wait for the camera to reach the phase's scene. ### `ActorStep` ```ts type ActorStep = /** Come out from cover: from an offset (behind a crate, dropping from the ceiling, round a corner) to the actor's spot (`at` moves the spot first). Unhittable for the first half. */ | { do: "enter"; from?: Side | undefined; time?: number | undefined; dist?: number | undefined; at?: Partial | undefined } /** Go back into cover (the reverse of `enter`); unhittable from half way. */ | { do: "hide"; to?: Side | undefined; time?: number | undefined; dist?: number | undefined } /** Move to a point of the stop frame (missing fields keep the current value). */ | { do: "move"; to: Partial; time: number } /** Move by an offset. */ | { do: "shift"; by: Partial; time: number } /** Jump in an arc to a point (ninjas between pillars). */ | { do: "leap"; to: Partial; time: number; height?: number | undefined } /** Do nothing for a while. */ | { do: "wait"; time: number } /** Raise the gun: the wind-up before `fire` (scaled by the difficulty's `windup`). */ | { do: "aim"; time: number } /** Fire hitscan shots at the player. Each shot hits with `accuracy` (the kind's by default; a list gives the first shots' chances, the last repeating). */ | { do: "fire"; shots?: number | undefined; gap?: number | undefined; accuracy?: number | number[] | undefined } /** Throw or launch projectiles (grenades, rockets, knives, axes, fireballs) that can be dodged in cover or shot down. `needs`: a part that must still be on (a barrel shot out of a zombie's hands is not thrown). */ | { do: "throw"; projectile: string; count?: number | undefined; gap?: number | undefined; accuracy?: number | undefined; from?: StopPoint | undefined; needs?: string | undefined } /** Close in to `reach` of the camera (at the kind's speed), wind up for `windup` seconds, then strike. */ | { do: "melee"; windup?: number | undefined; reach?: number | undefined; damage?: number | undefined } /** Walk toward the camera until within `stop` units. */ | { do: "approach"; stop: number; speed?: number | undefined } /** Leave the scene (`escape` marks it as got away). */ | { do: "exit"; to?: Side | "away" | undefined; time?: number | undefined; escape?: boolean | undefined } /** Jump to one of these steps, chosen at random (seeded): a boss's random attack variations. */ | { do: "branch"; to: number[] } /** Jump back to a step (default 0) up to `times` times (default for ever). */ | { do: "loop"; to?: number | undefined; times?: number | undefined } /** Call minions mid-script (boss summons, the Hanged Man's bats). */ | { do: "summon"; actors: ActorSpec[] } /** Set a session flag. */ | { do: "flag"; name: string; value?: boolean | number | string | undefined } ``` One step of an actor's script. Times are seconds at the Arcade difficulty. ### `AreaBuilder` ```ts interface AreaBuilder ``` An area being authored. - `stop(id: string, at: Vec3, look: Vec3, opts?: Partial>): StopBuilder` — Add a stop: `at` and `look` are world floor points; options go onto the section. - `box(model: string, at: Vec3, size: Vec3, color: string, extra?: { yaw?: number; glow?: number; walk?: boolean; solid?: boolean }): AreaBuilder` — Add world-space scenery. - `room(x0: number, x1: number, z0: number, z1: number, o: { h: number; floor: string; wall: string; ceiling?: string; y?: number; open?: Array<"n" | "s" | "e" | "w">; lamps?: string; trim?: string }): AreaBuilder` — A room: floor, walls and optionally a ceiling, spanning `x0..x1` and `z0..z1` (world). - `build(): AreaDef` — The finished area. ### `AreaDef` ```ts interface AreaDef ``` An area: part of a stage with its own timer start (Time Crisis) and scenery. - `id: string` — Id. - `name: string` — Name for banners ('AREA 1'). - `time?: number | undefined` — Timer at the start of the area (default the timer's `start`). - `sections: SectionDef[]` — The stops in order. - `scenery?: SceneryBox[] | undefined` — Scenery. - `mood?: { sky?: string | undefined; fog?: string | undefined; fogEnd?: number | undefined; light?: number | undefined } | undefined` — Presentation: background, fog and light. ### `BossPhase` ```ts interface BossPhase ``` A boss phase: what the boss does until its hit points fall to `until` (a fraction of the maximum). - `until?: number | undefined` — The phase ends when hp / max falls to this (default 0: the last phase). - `scene?: string | undefined` — Move the camera to this section when the phase begins (Time Crisis boss scenes, the Hanged Man's rooftop). - `at?: StopPoint | undefined` — The boss's spot for the phase (stop frame of the current scene). - `script: ActorStep[]` — The looping attack pattern. - `weak?: Record | undefined` — Damage multiplier per region this phase; regions not listed take none (shots are blocked). Default: the kind's regions. - `spawn?: ActorSpec[] | undefined` — Minions that join at the start of the phase. - `guarded?: boolean | undefined` — The boss cannot be hit while this phase's minions live. - `stun?: number | undefined` — Seconds it reels at the start of the phase (unhittable, not attacking). - `extend?: number | undefined` — Seconds added to the timer when the phase begins. - `banner?: string | undefined` — A banner for presenters ('ACTION!', 'WEAK POINT'). ### `Condition` ```ts type Condition = | { flag: string; is?: boolean | number | string | undefined } | { all: Condition[] } | { any: Condition[] } | { not: Condition } ``` A condition on session flags. ### `CoverDef` ```ts interface CoverDef ``` The full game. - `title?: string | undefined` — Title. - `view: { w: number; h: number }` — The screen the gun points at (logical pixels; aim and hit tests use it). - `camera?: CameraDef | undefined` — Camera (field of view, aspect). - `eye?: number | undefined` — Eye height above the floor (default 160). - `speed?: number | undefined` — Camera travel speed between stops (default 360 units per second). - `stages: StageDef[]` — Stages in order. - `kinds: ActorKind[]` — Actor kinds. - `projectiles?: CoverProjectile[] | undefined` — Enemy projectiles. - `gun: CoverGun` — The gun. - `cover?: CoverRules | null | undefined` — The cover pedal, or null for no cover (The House of the Dead). - `timer?: TimerRules | null | undefined` — The area timer, or null for none. - `lives: { start: number; max?: number | undefined; immunity?: number | undefined }` — Lives: at the start, most held, and seconds of immunity after a hit (default 1). - `warn?: number | undefined` — Seconds a hitscan shot takes from its flash to impact at Arcade (default 0.3). - `fireWhileMoving?: boolean | undefined` — Shooting allowed while walking between stops (default false). - `continues?: number | undefined` — Continues (default 3; Infinity for free play). - `continueSeconds?: number | undefined` — Continue countdown seconds (default 10). - `scoring?: ScoringRules | undefined` — Scoring, results and endings. - `difficulty?: CoverDifficulty | undefined` — Difficulty (default Arcade). - `timing?: Partial<{ intro: number; clear: number; ending: number; over: number }> | undefined` — Seconds of the intro, clear, ending and game-over screens. - `startStage?: number | undefined` — Starting stage index (default 0). - `seed?: number | undefined` — Seed. - `step?: number | undefined` — Fixed step (default 1/60). - `hiScore?: number | undefined` — High score kept across sessions. - `records?: Record | undefined` — Best stage times kept across sessions (stage id to seconds). - `maxActors?: number | undefined` — Resource bound: actors alive at once (default 64). ### `CoverDifficulty` ```ts interface CoverDifficulty ``` Easy / Normal / Arcade scaling. Arcade is the original tables (all 1, no extra lives). - `name: string` — Preset name. - `accuracy: number` — Enemy hit chance multiplier. - `windup: number` — Wind-up multiplier: aiming, melee and boss attack wind-ups take this much longer. - `warn: number` — Red-flash multiplier: the time between a hitting shot's flash and its impact. - `speed: number` — Enemy speed multiplier (walking, projectiles). - `lives: number` — Extra lives at the start. - `time: number` — Timer extension multiplier. ### `CoverEvent` ```ts type CoverEvent = | { type: "phase"; phase: CoverPhase } | { type: "stage"; stage: number; name: string } | { type: "area"; area: string; name: string } | { type: "wait"; section: string } | { type: "action"; section: string } | { type: "section-clear"; section: string } | { type: "time-extend"; seconds: number; timer: number } | { type: "time-up" } | { type: "cover"; down: boolean } | { type: "shot"; x: number; y: number; onScreen: boolean } | { type: "reload"; via: string } | { type: "reloaded" } | { type: "dry" } | { type: "hit"; actor: string; kind: string; region: string; part: string; at: Vec3 } | { type: "impact"; at: Vec3; normal: Vec3 } | { type: "blocked"; actor: string; kind: string; at: Vec3 } | { type: "limb"; actor: string; kind: string; region: string; at: Vec3 } | { type: "kill"; actor: string; kind: string; at: Vec3; headshot: boolean; points: number } | { type: "escape"; actor: string; kind: string } | { type: "enemy-aim"; actor: string } | { type: "enemy-fire"; actor: string; hits: boolean; at: Vec3 } | { type: "ricochet"; actor: string } | { type: "throw"; actor: string; projectile: string; id: string } | { type: "projectile-shot"; id: string; kind: string; at: Vec3; points: number } | { type: "windup"; actor: string } | { type: "strike"; actor: string; hits: boolean } | { type: "player-hit"; cause: string; lives: number } | { type: "civilian-hit"; actor: string; name: string; lives: number } | { type: "rescued"; actor: string; name: string; points: number; lives: number } | { type: "civilian-lost"; actor: string; name: string } | { type: "item"; actor: string; kind: string; points: number; lives: number } | { type: "switch"; actor: string; name: string; flag: string } | { type: "life-up"; lives: number } | { type: "boss"; actor: string; kind: string; state: "appear" | "phase" | "reel" | "defeated"; phase: number } | { type: "branch"; from: string; to: string; label: string } | { type: "score"; points: number; reason: string } | { type: "stage-clear"; stage: number; time: number; record: boolean } | { type: "continue"; left: number } | { type: "game-over"; score: number; time: number } | { type: "ending"; ending: string; score: number; time: number } ``` Events for presenters and sound. ### `CoverGun` ```ts interface CoverGun ``` The player's gun: light-gun's definition without the view (the session supplies it). - `weapons: WeaponDef[]` — Weapons (the first is the pistol). - `primary?: string | undefined` — Primary weapon id. - `parts?: Record | undefined` — Body parts. - `protect?: ProtectDef | undefined` — Protected targets (civilians): penalties are applied as lives. - `combo?: ComboDef | undefined` — Streaks. - `smoothing?: number | undefined` — Crosshair smoothing (seconds; default 0). ### `CoverInput` ```ts interface CoverInput ``` Input each step. Aim is in view pixels; every field is optional. - `x?: number | undefined` — Crosshair x. - `y?: number | undefined` — Crosshair y. - `onScreen?: boolean | undefined` — Is the gun pointed at the screen (default: the point is inside the view). False with the trigger reloads an off-screen-reload gun. - `snap?: boolean | undefined` — No smoothing this step (a touch tap). - `trigger?: boolean | undefined` — Trigger held. - `pedal?: boolean | undefined` — Cover pedal held: out of cover, shooting (Time Crisis). Released: in cover, reloading. - `reload?: boolean | undefined` — Reload button held (guns with button reloads and no cover). ### `CoverPhase` ```ts type CoverPhase = "attract" | "intro" | "play" | "continue" | "clear" | "ending" | "over" ``` Session phases. ### `CoverProjectile` ```ts interface CoverProjectile ``` An enemy projectile: rail-route's projectile kinds, launched by `throw` steps. - `id: string` — Unique id. - `speed: number` — Speed, units per second. - `radius?: number | undefined` — Radius for hits on the player and by shots (default 20). - `damage?: number | undefined` — Lives taken on a hit (default 1). - `shootable?: boolean | undefined` — Can be shot down (default true). - `hp?: number | undefined` — Hit points (default 1). - `points?: number | undefined` — Points when shot down. - `look?: Look | undefined` — Presentation hints. ### `CoverRegion` ```ts interface CoverRegion extends RegionDef ``` A hit region: a rail-route region plus the rules' body part. - `part?: string | undefined` — Body part for light-gun statistics and headshot scoring (default the region id). - `wound?: number | undefined` — With `hp`: damage dealt to the actor when this part is shot off (House of the Dead limbs). Default 0. ### `CoverRules` ```ts interface CoverRules ``` The cover pedal (Time Crisis). - `duck?: number | undefined` — Seconds to duck fully into cover (default 0.18). - `rise?: number | undefined` — Seconds to rise fully out (default 0.18). - `safe?: number | undefined` — Cover fraction above which the player is safe (default 0.5). - `fire?: number | undefined` — Cover fraction at or below which the gun can fire (default 0.15). - `reload?: boolean | undefined` — Reload when the pedal is released (default true). - `startIn?: boolean | undefined` — Start each stop in cover (default true: Time Crisis begins each fight ducked until the pedal is pressed). ### `CoverShooter` ```ts interface CoverShooter ``` A running game. - `readonly def: CoverDef` — The definition. - `readonly state: CoverState` — State (plain data). - `readonly rail: Rail` — The current stage's rail (route, targets, projectiles). - `readonly gun: Gun` — The player's gun. - `readonly stage: StageDef` — The current stage. - `readonly area: AreaDef` — The current area. - `readonly section: SectionDef` — The current section. - `readonly difficulty: CoverDifficulty` — The difficulty in use. - `sectionDef(id: string): SectionDef` — A section of the current stage. - `areaOf(section: string): AreaDef` — The area a section of the current stage belongs to. - `kind(id: string): ActorKind` — A kind. - `projectile(id: string): CoverProjectile` — A projectile kind. - `actor(id: string): ActorState | undefined` — A live actor. - `stopFrame(section: string): Frame` — A section's stop frame (origin on the floor at the stop, forward toward its look point, y up). - `toWorld(section: string, p: StopPoint): Vec3` — A stop-frame point in world space. - `pose(): CameraPose` — The camera pose including the cover drop. - `visible(id: string): boolean` — Is an actor out of cover, on the screen and in plain sight of the player (no scenery in between). - `ground(section: string, x: number, z: number): number` — The ground height under a world point in a section's area (walkable scenery, else the stop's floor). - `safe(): boolean` — Is the player safe from shots now (in cover or immune). - `canFire(): boolean` — Can the gun fire now. - `attract(): void` — Attract mode (the first stage's scene, no play). - `begin(stage?: number): void` — Start a game at `startStage` or the given stage. - `continueGame(): boolean` — Use a continue in the continue phase. - `tick(seconds: number, input?: CoverInput): void` — Advance by seconds (whole fixed steps). - `step(input?: CoverInput): void` — One fixed step. - `drain(): CoverEvent[]` — Take events. - `setDifficulty(d: CoverDifficulty): void` — Change the difficulty (enemy tables apply at once; extra lives at the next game). - `snapshot(): CoverSnapshot` — Deep copy of the session, rail and gun. - `restore(s: CoverSnapshot): void` — Restore a snapshot into a session built from the same definition. ### `CoverSnapshot` ```ts interface CoverSnapshot ``` A snapshot: the session's state with its rail's and gun's. - `state: CoverState` — Session state. - `rail: RailState` — Rail state. - `gun: GunState` — Gun state. ### `CoverState` ```ts interface CoverState ``` Plain-data session state. - `phase: CoverPhase` — Phase. - `phaseTime: number` — Seconds in the phase. - `stage: number` — Stage index. - `area: string` — Current area id. - `section: string` — Current section id. - `moving: boolean` — Travelling between stops (WAIT). - `atStop: number` — Seconds at the current stop (0 while moving). - `sectionTime: number` — Seconds since the camera set off toward the current stop. - `score: number` — Score. - `hiScore: number` — High score. - `lives: number` — Lives. - `livesMax: number` — Most lives. - `immunity: number` — Seconds of immunity left after a hit. - `continues: number` — Continues left. - `countdown: number` — Continue countdown. - `timer: number | null` — Area timer (null without timer rules). - `time: { stage: number; total: number }` — Seconds played this stage, and in all (Time Crisis ranks by these). - `cover: { amount: number; down: boolean }` — Cover: 0 out, 1 fully ducked; `down` is where the pedal is taking it. - `actors: ActorState[]` — Live actors. - `bullets: EnemyBullet[]` — Enemy shots in flight. - `waves: Array<{ fired: boolean; skipped: boolean; ids: string[]; due: number }>` — This section's waves: fired, the actors each spawned, and seconds since the trigger. - `flags: Record` — Session flags: `rescued:`, `lost:`, `shot:`, `killed:`, kinds' `sets` and `rescued-all` (no civilian lost so far). - `rescues: { stage: { rescued: number; lost: number; total: number }; all: { rescued: number; lost: number; total: number } }` — Civilians this stage and in all. - `stats: { kills: number; headshots: number; damage: number; continues: number; escaped: number }` — Statistics. - `results: Array<{ text: string; value: string }>` — Lines of the stage results screen. - `ending: string` — The ending reached ('' until then). - `records: Record` — Best stage times. - `banner: { text: string; t: number } | null` — Current banner and seconds shown. - `steps: number` — Fixed steps run. - `rng: number[]` — The seeded random stream's state: four words, from the kernel's `rng.snapshot()`. It advances in place and is saved with the state. ### `DifficultyName` ```ts type DifficultyName = "easy" | "normal" | "arcade" ``` Built-in difficulty presets. ### `EnemyBullet` ```ts interface EnemyBullet ``` A hitscan enemy shot in flight: it lands after the red flash unless the player is in cover. - `from: string` — Actor that fired it. - `t: number` — Seconds until impact. - `total: number` — Total flight time. ### `HouseOfTheDeadOptions` ```ts interface HouseOfTheDeadOptions ``` Options for The House of the Dead preset. - `difficulty?: CoverDifficulty | undefined` — Difficulty (default Normal). - `lives?: number | undefined` — Life torches at the start before the difficulty's extras (default 3). - `maxLives?: number | undefined` — Most torches (default 5). - `continues?: number | undefined` — Continues (default 3; Infinity for free play). - `trueEnding?: number | undefined` — Score at or above which the true ending plays (default 62000, the arcade's; see the docs on chapter length). - `startStage?: number | undefined` — First chapter (0-based). - `reloadMargin?: number | undefined` — The edge band, as a fraction of the screen, where a shot reloads like one fired off the screen (default 0.07). - `seed?: number | undefined` — Seed. - `hiScore?: number | undefined` — High score. - `stages?: StageDef[] | undefined` — Chapters instead of the arcade's. ### `Look` ```ts interface Look ``` Presentation hints a kind carries for a renderer (no rules read them). - `model: string` — Model name the presenter builds ('soldier', 'ninja', 'zombie', 'scientist', 'crate', 'helicopter' ...). - `color?: string | undefined` — Main colour (CSS). - `accent?: string | undefined` — Second colour (trousers, armour). - `detail?: string | undefined` — Third colour (skin, visor). - `scale?: number | undefined` — Scale on the model's authored size (default 1). The kind's hit regions scale with it, so it is hit where it is drawn. - `weapon?: string | undefined` — What the actor holds ('pistol', 'machine-gun', 'grenade', 'pole', 'bazooka', 'knife', 'axe', 'chainsaw', 'barrel', 'shield' ...). ### `NextDef` ```ts interface NextDef ``` A branch after a section: the first option whose condition holds, else `default`. - `options: Array<{ section: string; when?: Condition | undefined; label?: string | undefined }>` — Options in order. - `default?: string | undefined` — Fallback section (default the last option's). ### `Role` ```ts type Role = "enemy" | "boss" | "civilian" | "breakable" | "item" | "switch" ``` What part a kind plays in the rules. ### `SceneryBox` ```ts interface SceneryBox ``` Scenery: drawn by presenters, and read by the rules as the ground actors stand on and the walls and crates that stop shots and block sight. - `model?: string | undefined` — Model: 'box' (default), 'crate', 'pillar', 'barrel', 'door', 'water', 'stairs', 'window', 'lamp', 'tree', 'statue' ... - `at: Vec3` — Centre of the base (world). - `size: Vec3` — Full size x (width), y (height), z (depth). - `yaw?: number | undefined` — Turn about y (radians). - `color: string` — Colour. - `glow?: number | undefined` — Glow (emissive). - `walk?: boolean | undefined` — Actors stand on it (default for floor, platform, stairs, catwalk, helipad and ledge models). - `solid?: boolean | undefined` — It stops shots and blocks sight (default: every box that is not walkable, except lamps, water and trim). ### `ScoringRules` ```ts interface ScoringRules ``` Scoring, results and endings. - `rank?: "time" | "score" | undefined` — Rank players by `'time'` (Time Crisis: total time, lower is better) or `'score'` (default 'score'). - `allRescued?: number | undefined` — Lives added when every civilian of a stage was rescued (The House of the Dead). Default 0. - `perContinue?: number | undefined` — Points added for each continue used (The House of the Dead adds 1, which decides its third ending). Default 0. - `endings?: Array<{ id: string; min?: number | undefined; allRescued?: boolean | undefined; digit?: "zero" | "nonzero" | undefined }> | undefined` — Endings by final score: the first whose rule holds. ### `SectionDef` ```ts interface SectionDef ``` A stop on the route: the camera travels here, the actors act, and it moves on when the stop is cleared. - `id: string` — Unique id in the stage. - `stop: Vec3` — The camera's spot (world, on the floor; the eye is `eye` above it). - `look: Vec3` — The point the camera looks at once it arrives (world). - `from?: Vec3 | undefined` — Where the camera comes from when the area starts here (world floor point; default 200 behind the stop). - `via?: Vec3[] | undefined` — Points the camera passes through on the way (world floor points). - `speed?: number | undefined` — Travel speed (default the definition's). - `waves?: WaveDef[] | undefined` — What appears here. - `extend?: number | undefined` — Seconds added to the timer when it is cleared. - `next?: string | NextDef | undefined` — The next section (default the following one in the stage), or a branch. - `end?: boolean | undefined` — The stage ends here. - `hold?: { min?: number | undefined; max?: number | undefined } | undefined` — At least `min` seconds at the stop (a window to shoot a switch); at most `max` (then it moves on regardless). - `cover?: { drop?: number | undefined; side?: number | undefined } | false | undefined` — Cover at this stop (with cover rules): the camera drop and sideways shift when ducked. `false`: no cover here. - `fireWhileMoving?: boolean | undefined` — Shooting allowed while walking here (default the definition's `fireWhileMoving`). - `banner?: string | undefined` — A banner for presenters on arrival. ### `Side` ```ts type Side = "below" | "above" | "left" | "right" | "behind" | "none" ``` Where an actor appears from or leaves to. ### `StageDef` ```ts interface StageDef ``` A stage (Time Crisis) or chapter (The House of the Dead). - `id: string` — Id. - `name: string` — Name ('STAGE 1', 'CHAPTER 1'). - `title?: string[] | undefined` — Title lines on the intro screen. - `areas: AreaDef[]` — Areas in order. ### `StopBuilder` ```ts interface StopBuilder ``` A stop being authored: its section and helpers working in its frame. - `readonly def: SectionDef` — The section definition (mutable until the area is built). - `world(p: Partial): Vec3` — A stop-frame point in world space. - `wave(w: WaveDef): StopBuilder` — Add a wave. - `prop(model: string, at: Partial, size: Vec3, color: string, extra?: { yaw?: number; glow?: number; walk?: boolean; solid?: boolean }): StopBuilder` — Add scenery at a stop-frame point (`at` is the centre of its base). - `cover(color?: string, size?: Vec3): StopBuilder` — The crate the camera ducks behind (just ahead of the stop). ### `StopPoint` ```ts type StopPoint = Vec3 ``` Positions are in a stop's frame: `x` right, `y` up from the ground under the point, `z` ahead of the camera's stop. ### `TimeCrisisOptions` ```ts interface TimeCrisisOptions ``` Options for the Time Crisis preset. - `difficulty?: CoverDifficulty | undefined` — Difficulty (default Normal). - `lives?: number | undefined` — Lives at the start before the difficulty's extras (default 3, the arcade's). - `continues?: number | undefined` — Continues (default 3). - `areaTime?: number | undefined` — Timer at the start of each area (default 60). - `magazine?: number | undefined` — Bullets per magazine (default 6; Time Crisis 2 used 9). - `startStage?: number | undefined` — First stage (0-based). - `seed?: number | undefined` — Seed. - `records?: Record | undefined` — Best stage times kept across sessions. - `stages?: StageDef[] | undefined` — Stages instead of the arcade's (customised layouts). ### `TimerRules` ```ts interface TimerRules ``` The area timer (Time Crisis). - `start?: number | undefined` — Seconds at the start of an area (default 60). - `max?: number | undefined` — Most seconds the timer can hold (default 60). - `whileMoving?: boolean | undefined` — Runs while the camera travels between stops (default true: Time Crisis counts the WAIT walks). - `continueTime?: number | undefined` — Seconds after a continue (default `start`). ### `WaveDef` ```ts interface WaveDef ``` A group of actors that appears at a stop. - `id?: string | undefined` — Id (for `after`). - `at?: number | undefined` — Seconds after the trigger (default 0). - `after?: string | undefined` — Wait until this wave (or `'prev'`, the one before) has spawned and every blocking actor of it is gone. - `alive?: number | undefined` — Only while at most this many blocking actors are alive. - `on?: "arrive" | "enter" | undefined` — `'arrive'` (default): when the camera reaches the stop; 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