---
title: "Rail route: API"
package: "@phaser-ae/rail-route"
tier: Pro
version: 3.0.0-3
released: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-20
description: "The shared machinery of on-rails and first-person shooters, an authored camera route with holds and branches, targets at depth, a crosshair aim ray, a gun, shootable enemy shots and shields."
url: https://phaser.io/packs/rail-route/api
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

# Rail route: API

`@phaser-ae/rail-route` — Authored camera routes with legs, holds and branches, timed spawns at depth, crosshair aim rays, shootable enemy shots and shields for on-rails shooters.

## The pack

### `railRoute`

```ts
function railRoute(): Pack<{ railRoute: typeof api }>
```

Install the rail route API.

## Helpers

### `buildPath`

```ts
function buildPath(leg: LegGeometry, from: Frame): BuiltPath
```

Build a leg's path from its geometry and the frame it starts from.

### `createRail`

```ts
function createRail(def: RailDef): Rail
```

Validate a definition and build a running rail.

### `frameFrom`

```ts
function frameFrom(pos: Vec3, forward: Vec3, up: Vec3): Frame
```

Build an orthonormal frame from a forward and an approximate up.

### `frameToWorld`

```ts
function frameToWorld(f: Frame, p: Vec3): Vec3
```

A point given in a frame's local axes (`x` right, `y` up, `z` forward) as a world point.

### `keyedFrame`

```ts
function keyedFrame(route: Frame, keys: readonly LegKey[] | undefined, s: number, pos: Vec3 = route.pos): Frame
```

The keyed body frame at `s`: the route frame turned by the keys' yaw, pitch, look-at and roll.

### `pathFrame`

```ts
function pathFrame(path: BuiltPath, s: number): Frame
```

The route frame (no keys) at distance `s` along a built path; past either end it extends the end tangent.

### `rayBox`

```ts
function rayBox(o: Vec3, d: Vec3, h: Vec3): number | null
```

Slab test of the ray `o + d t` against an axis-aligned box `[-h, h]` about the origin: entry t or null.

### `raySphere`

```ts
function raySphere(o: Vec3, d: Vec3, c: Vec3, r: number): number | null
```

Distance from the ray `o + d t` (unit d, t >= 0) to a sphere: the entry t, or null on a miss.

### `splinePoints`

```ts
function splinePoints(points: Vec3[], per = 16): Vec3[]
```

Sample a list of points into a polyline through them (centripetal Catmull-Rom, mirrored ends).

### `turnFrame`

```ts
function turnFrame(f: Frame, yaw: number, pitch: number, roll: number): Frame
```

Turn a frame by yaw (right is positive), then pitch (nose up is positive), then roll (bank right is
positive: the up axis leans toward the right), each about the frame's own current axes.

### `worldToFrame`

```ts
function worldToFrame(f: Frame, p: Vec3): Vec3
```

A world point in a frame's local axes.

## Functions

### `anglesOf`

```ts
function anglesOf(local: Vec3): { yaw: number; pitch: number }
```

Yaw and pitch (radians) of a direction expressed in a frame's local axes, for `turnFrame`.

### `dirFromFrame`

```ts
function dirFromFrame(f: Frame, d: Vec3): Vec3
```

A local direction in world axes (no translation).

### `dirToFrame`

```ts
function dirToFrame(f: Frame, d: Vec3): Vec3
```

A world direction in a frame's local axes (no translation).

### `keyLookAt`

```ts
function keyLookAt(keys: readonly LegKey[] | undefined, s: number): Vec3 | null
```

The latest `lookAt` point at or before `s` (or the first one ahead), if any key sets one.

### `keyValue`

```ts
function keyValue(keys: readonly LegKey[] | undefined, field: KeyField, s: number, fallback: number): number
```

A keyed field at distance `s`: smoothstep between the surrounding keys that set it, `fallback` if none do.

### `normalize`

```ts
function normalize(a: Vec3, fallback: Vec3 = { x: 0, y: 0, z: -1 }): Vec3
```

Unit vector (or `fallback` for a zero vector).

### `segmentHitsBox`

```ts
function segmentHitsBox(a: Vec3, b: Vec3, h: Vec3, r: number): boolean
```

Does the segment `a`-`b` pass within `r` of an axis-aligned box `[-h, h]` about the origin?

### `segmentPointDistance`

```ts
function segmentPointDistance(a: Vec3, b: Vec3, p: Vec3): number
```

Closest distance from point `p` to the segment `a`-`b`.

## Constants

### `add`

```ts
const add = (a: Vec3, b: Vec3): Vec3=> …
```

`a + b`.

### `clamp`

```ts
const clamp = (n: number, lo: number, hi: number): number=> …
```

Clamp a number.

### `cross`

```ts
const cross = (a: Vec3, b: Vec3): Vec3=> …
```

Cross product `a x b`.

### `distance`

```ts
const distance = (a: Vec3, b: Vec3): number=> …
```

Distance between two points.

### `dot`

```ts
const dot = (a: Vec3, b: Vec3): number=> …
```

Dot product.

### `length`

```ts
const length = (a: Vec3): number=> …
```

Length.

### `lerp3`

```ts
const lerp3 = (a: Vec3, b: Vec3, t: number): Vec3=> …
```

Linear interpolation.

### `madd`

```ts
const madd = (a: Vec3, b: Vec3, k: number): Vec3=> …
```

`a + b * k`.

### `scale`

```ts
const scale = (a: Vec3, k: number): Vec3=> …
```

`a * k`.

### `smooth`

```ts
const smooth = (t: number): number=> …
```

Smoothstep on 0..1.

### `sub`

```ts
const sub = (a: Vec3, b: Vec3): Vec3=> …
```

`a - b`.

### `vec3`

```ts
const vec3 = (x = 0, y = 0, z = 0): Vec3=> …
```

Make a vector.

## Types

### `Behaviour`

```ts
type Behaviour = (t: RailTarget, ctx: BehaviourContext, dt: number) => void
```

A behaviour: edits a target each step.

### `BehaviourContext`

```ts
interface BehaviourContext extends RailContext
```

Context for behaviours.

- `body: Frame` — The rider's body frame (route frame, keys and pilot offset, no bank or look).
- `params: Record<string, number | string | boolean>` — Behaviour parameters from the motion definition.
- `fire(t: RailTarget, projectile?: string): RailProjectile | null` — Fire one of this target's projectiles now (kind default from its fire schedule).
- `remove(t: RailTarget, reason?: string): void` — Remove a target with a reason (reported as `expired` with that reason).

### `BranchDef`

```ts
interface BranchDef
```

A branch at the end of a leg.

- `options: Array<{ leg: string; when?: (ctx: RailContext) => boolean; label?: string }>` — Candidate legs.
- `choose?: "first" | "random" | ((ctx: RailContext) => string)` — Selection policy (default `'first'` passing `when`); a preselection from `choose()` or input wins.

### `BuiltPath`

```ts
interface BuiltPath
```

A leg's geometry, built once from its definition.

- `length: number` — Total length in world units (0 for a stationary leg).
- `samples: PathSample[]` — The arc-length table.
- `start: Frame` — The frame at the start.
- `end: Frame` — The frame at the end.

### `CameraDef`

```ts
interface CameraDef
```

The camera the rider looks through: aim and projection share it.

- `fov?: number` — Vertical field of view in radians (default 1.0).
- `aspect?: number` — Width over height of the screen the aim limits assume (default 4/3).
- `near?: number` — Nothing nearer than this projects (default 1).
- `aim?: { u: number; v: number; down?: number }` — How far the crosshair may move, as view-plane extents `|u|`, `|v|`, and `down` for `-v` (default `v`); default the screen edges.

### `CameraPose`

```ts
interface CameraPose extends Frame
```

The camera pose for presenters.

- `eye: Vec3` — The eye (same as `pos`).
- `roll: number` — Roll of the view about forward relative to the route frame (bank plus keys), radians.
- `velocity: Vec3` — Rider velocity in world space.

### `CueDef`

```ts
interface CueDef
```

A timed spawn on a leg, keyed to leg distance (`at`) or leg time (`time`).

- `at?: number` — Fire when the rider's leg distance reaches this.
- `time?: number` — Fire when the leg time reaches this (seconds).
- `spawn: SpawnSpec | SpawnSpec[] | ((ctx: RailContext) => SpawnSpec[])` — What to spawn: specs, or a function of the context returning specs.
- `every?: number` — Repeat interval in the same unit (distance or seconds).
- `count?: number` — How many times in all (default 1, or unlimited with `every`).
- `when?: (ctx: RailContext) => boolean` — Skip a due firing unless this is true (it is retried next step).

### `FireDef`

```ts
interface FireDef
```

A target's firing schedule.

- `projectile: string` — Projectile kind id.
- `every: number` — Seconds between shots.
- `first?: number` — Seconds before the first shot (default a seeded fraction of `every`).
- `jitter?: number` — Interval jitter, 0..1 of `every` (default 0).
- `window?: { near?: number; far?: number }` — Only fire while the target's depth is in this window.
- `chance?: number` — Chance each due shot is actually fired (default 1).
- `max?: number` — At most this many of its projectiles alive at once (default unlimited).
- `from?: Vec3` — Fire from this local offset (default the centre).

### `Frame`

```ts
interface Frame
```

An orthonormal frame: a position and the right, up and forward axes at it.

- `pos: Vec3` — The frame's origin in world space.
- `forward: Vec3` — Unit forward (the direction of travel or view).
- `up: Vec3` — Unit up.
- `right: Vec3` — Unit right, `forward x up` in the right-handed world.

### `GunDef`

```ts
interface GunDef
```

The player's gun.

- `mode?: "ray" | "bolt"` — `'ray'` resolves along the aim ray (after `delay`); `'bolt'` travels and is swept (default `'ray'`).
- `delay?: number` — Ray mode: seconds from trigger to the first hit test (converging lasers). Default 0.
- `duration?: number` — Ray mode: seconds the beam keeps testing after `delay` until it hits (Star Wars: 8 frames). Default 0, one test.
- `follow?: boolean` — Ray mode: a lasting beam follows the current crosshair rather than the aim it was fired at. Default false.
- `speed?: number` — Bolt speed, units per second (default 6000).
- `range?: number` — Maximum range (default 1e6).
- `cooldown?: number` — Seconds between shots (default 0.15).
- `damage?: number` — Damage per hit (default 1).
- `max?: number` — Shots in flight at once (default 8).
- `auto?: boolean` — Holding the trigger repeats (default true); false needs a fresh press each shot.
- `replace?: boolean` — A new shot ends any shot still testing (Star Wars: a press restarts the 8-frame beam). Default false.

### `HoldDef`

```ts
interface HoldDef
```

Stop the rider until a condition.

- `at?: number` — Leg distance to stop at (default the leg's end).
- `until?: (ctx: RailContext) => boolean` — Resume when this is true.
- `cleared?: string | true` — Resume when this group (or, with `true`, every target spawned on this leg) is gone and the cues are done.
- `time?: number` — Resume after this many seconds of holding at the latest.

### `LegDef`

```ts
interface LegDef
```

One leg of the route.

- `id: string` — Unique id.
- `phase?: string` — Free-text phase name for rules and presenters.
- `length?: number` — Straight run continuing the start frame (ignored when `path` is set).
- `path?: PathDef` — Spline path.
- `from?: string` — Leg whose end frame this leg starts from (default the previous leg in the list).
- `speed?: number` — Route speed, units per second (default the rail's `speed`).
- `keys?: LegKey[]` — Keys along the leg.
- `pilot?: PilotDef` — Pilot movement.
- `look?: LookDef` — View turn.
- `cues?: CueDef[]` — Timed spawns.
- `hold?: HoldDef` — A stop.
- `next?: string | BranchDef` — The next leg or a branch (default the following leg in the list; the last leg ends the route).
- `end?: boolean` — The route ends at this leg even if another follows in the list.
- `keepTargets?: boolean` — Keep this leg's targets when leaving it (default false: they are removed).

### `LegGeometry`

```ts
interface LegGeometry
```

Minimal leg shape the path builder reads (the full LegDef lives in rail.ts).

- `length?: number` — A straight run continuing the previous leg's heading, in world units.
- `path?: PathDef` — A spline path.
- `keys?: LegKey[]` — Keys along the leg.

### `LegKey`

```ts
interface LegKey
```

A keyed value along a leg, interpolated with smoothstep between keys that set the same field.

- `at: number` — Distance along the leg, in world units.
- `speed?: number` — Route speed (units per second) from here.
- `roll?: number` — Bank about the direction of travel, radians (positive leans the up axis right).
- `yaw?: number` — View turned off the tangent, radians (positive right).
- `pitch?: number` — View tilted off the tangent, radians (positive up).
- `lookAt?: Vec3` — A world point the view turns toward, weighted by `lookWeight`.
- `lookWeight?: number` — 0..1, how far the view turns toward `lookAt` (default 1 where `lookAt` is set).

### `LookDef`

```ts
interface LookDef
```

View turn from steering: the view yaws and pitches toward the steer direction.

- `yaw?: number` — Yaw at full steer, radians (default 0).
- `pitch?: number` — Pitch at full steer, radians (default 0).
- `rate?: number` — Turn rate, radians per second (default 1.5).
- `follow?: "steer" | "aim"` — `'steer'` or `'aim'` (default `'aim'`).
- `track?: (ctx: RailContext) => Vec3 | null` — Auto-tracking: a world point the view turns toward at `rate` (unlimited angle), or null to hold. Star Wars' space phase, where R2-D2 swings the X-wing toward the current attacker. Overrides `yaw`/`pitch` while it returns a point.

### `MotionDef`

```ts
type MotionDef = | { type: "static" } | { type: "velocity"; v: Vec3 } | { type: "path"; keys: Array<{ t: number; x: number; y: number; z: number }>; loop?: boolean } | { type: "behaviour"; id: string; params?: Record<string, number | string | boolean> }
```

How a target moves.

### `PathDef`

```ts
interface PathDef
```

A spline path for a leg: control points the route passes through.

- `points: Vec3[]` — Control points (at least one). The route passes through every point.
- `relative?: boolean` — When true the points are in the previous leg's end frame (`x` right, `y` up, `z` forward from its end), and the leg's start point is prepended, so a relative path always continues the route. Default false (world space, used as given).
- `samples?: number` — Samples per span for the arc-length table (default 16, at most 256).

### `PathSample`

```ts
interface PathSample
```

One sample of a built path.

- `s: number` — Distance from the leg start.
- `pos: Vec3` — Position.
- `forward: Vec3` — Unit tangent.
- `up: Vec3` — Unit up (rotation-minimising).

### `PickResult`

```ts
interface PickResult
```

A hit query result.

- `what: "target" | "projectile"` — `'target'` or `'projectile'`.
- `id: string` — Its id.
- `kind: string` — Kind id.
- `region: string` — Region id for targets (`'body'` without regions).
- `distance: number` — Distance along the ray.
- `at: Vec3` — World hit point.

### `PilotDef`

```ts
interface PilotDef
```

Pilot movement inside a leg: the offset range is the corridor's walls.

- `x?: [number, number]` — Lateral offset range `[min, max]` in route-frame units (default `[0, 0]`).
- `y?: [number, number]` — Vertical offset range `[min, max]` (default `[0, 0]`).
- `mode?: "position" | "velocity"` — `'position'`: the control picks a point in the range and the offset moves there at `rate` (default). `'velocity'`: the control sets the offset speed, `rate` at full deflection (the Star Wars yoke on the Death Star surface and in the trench).
- `rate?: number | [number, number]` — Offset speed limit (position) or full-deflection speed (velocity), units per second; one number or `[x, y]` (default 400).
- `relative?: boolean` — `rate` is a fraction of the current route speed instead of units per second (default false).
- `bank?: number` — Bank in radians at full lateral speed (default 0).
- `bankLag?: number` — Seconds the bank takes to follow (default 0.15).
- `follow?: "steer" | "aim"` — `'steer'` follows `input.steer`; `'aim'` follows the crosshair (default `'steer'`).

### `ProjectileKind`

```ts
interface ProjectileKind
```

A kind of enemy projectile.

- `id: string` — Unique id.
- `radius?: number` — Radius for hits on the rider and by shots (default 20).
- `speed: number` — Speed (relative to the rider when homing), units per second.
- `damage?: number` — Shield damage on reaching the rider (default 1).
- `homing?: boolean | number` — `true` closes on the rider every step; a number is a turn rate in rad/s; `false` flies straight, led.
- `shootable?: boolean` — Shots can destroy it (default true).
- `hp?: number` — Hit points (default 1).
- `points?: number` — Points reported when shot down.
- `life?: number` — Seconds to live (default 12).
- `halfLife?: number` — Close on the rider exponentially: the offset from the eye halves every `halfLife` seconds, so the projectile holds its place on screen and grows (Star Wars fireballs close 1/8 of the way per frame). Overrides `speed` and `homing`.
- `needsAim?: boolean` — Damage only when it arrives inside the crosshair's reachable area (Star Wars fireballs). Default false.
- `reach?: number` — Distance from the eye at which it strikes (default its radius plus the rider's radius).
- `gain?: { x?: number; y?: number; z?: number }` — World-anchored drift with per-axis pulls toward the rider: each second the offset from the eye, measured in the rider's body frame (`x` right, `y` up, `z` ahead), shrinks by `exp(-gain)` on that axis, on top of the projectile's own velocity (Star Wars ground and trench guns creep in and home sideways and up). Overrides `speed`/`homing` when set.

### `Rail`

```ts
interface Rail
```

A running rail.

- `readonly def: RailDef` — The definition.
- `readonly state: RailState` — Live state (plain data).
- `readonly leg: LegDef` — The current leg definition.
- `readonly targets: readonly RailTarget[]` — Alive targets.
- `readonly projectiles: readonly RailProjectile[]` — Alive projectiles.
- `readonly shots: readonly RailShot[]` — Shots in flight.
- `tick(seconds: number, input?: RailInput): void` — Advance by `seconds` in fixed steps.
- `step(input?: RailInput): void` — Advance one fixed step.
- `drain(): RailEvent[]` — Take the events since the last drain.
- `pose(): CameraPose` — The view pose (body plus bank and look).
- `body(): Frame` — The body frame (no bank or look): what rider-space targets ride in.
- `toCamera(p: Vec3): Vec3` — A world point in camera space (`x` right, `y` up, `z` depth).
- `project(p: Vec3, view: ViewRect): { x: number; y: number; z: number } | null` — A world point on a screen rect, or null behind the near plane.
- `focal(view: ViewRect): number` — Focal length in screen units for a rect (vector-wire's `focalLength`).
- `screenToAim(sx: number, sy: number, view: ViewRect): { u: number; v: number }` — Screen point to view-plane aim.
- `aimToScreen(aim: { u: number; v: number }, view: ViewRect): { x: number; y: number }` — View-plane aim to a screen point.
- `aimRay(aim?: { u: number; v: number }): { origin: Vec3; dir: Vec3 }` — The world ray through an aim.
- `aimLimits(): { u: number; v: number; down: number }` — The aim limits `|u|`, `v` up and `down`.
- `legFrame(leg: string, s: number): Frame` — The route frame (no keys) on a leg at distance `s`.
- `routePoint(leg: string, s: number, x?: number, y?: number): Vec3` — A route-space point (`x` right, `y` up at distance `s` on `leg`) in world space.
- `path(leg: string): BuiltPath` — Built geometry of a leg.
- `targetFrame(t: RailTarget): Frame` — A target's world frame (position and oriented axes).
- `localToWorld(t: RailTarget, p: Vec3): Vec3` — A target-local point in world space.
- `spawn(spec: SpawnSpec): RailTarget | null` — Spawn a target now.
- `launch(kind: string, from: Vec3, source?: string, opts?: { vel?: Vec3 }): RailProjectile | null` — Fire a projectile of a kind from a world point now; `vel` (world units per second) overrides its aiming.
- `remove(id: string, reason?: string): void` — Remove a target (no event unless `reason` is given).
- `hit(id: string, damage?: number, region?: string): void` — Damage a target as if shot (rules-driven hits).
- `hurt(amount: number, cause?: string): void` — Damage the rider.
- `kick(amount: number, seconds: number, settle?: boolean): void` — Kick the view's roll: `settle` jumps by `amount` and fades back over `seconds` (a surface collision); otherwise it spins by `amount` over `seconds` and stays (a hit in space).
- `setShields(n: number): void` — Set the shield count.
- `addShields(n: number): void` — Add shields (clamped to the maximum).
- `fire(aim?: { u: number; v: number }): RailShot | null` — Fire the gun now (ignores the trigger, respects cooldown).
- `pick(aim?: { u: number; v: number }): PickResult | null` — What the aim ray meets first.
- `goto(leg: string, s?: number): void` — Jump to a leg.
- `choose(leg: string): void` — Preselect a branch leg.
- `flag(name: string, value: number | string | boolean): void` — Set a rules flag.
- `setScale(scale: Partial<RailState["scale"]>): void` — Scale route speed, firing rate and projectile speed.
- `kind(id: string): TargetKind` — Look up a target kind.
- `projectileKind(id: string): ProjectileKind` — Look up a projectile kind.
- `target(id: string): RailTarget | undefined` — A target by id.
- `snapshot(): RailState` — Deep copy of the state.
- `restore(s: RailState): void` — Restore a snapshot from a rail built from the same definition.
- `reset(): void` — Back to the start.

### `RailContext`

```ts
interface RailContext
```

Context for predicates and cue functions.

- `rail: Rail` — The rail.
- `state: RailState` — Its state.
- `leg: LegDef` — The current leg definition.
- `flags: Record<string, number | string | boolean>` — Rules flags.
- `random(): number` — Seeded random in [0, 1).

### `RailDef`

```ts
interface RailDef
```

The full rail definition.

- `legs: LegDef[]` — Legs; the first is the start unless `startLeg` says otherwise.
- `startLeg?: string` — Starting leg id.
- `start?: StartDef` — Route start frame.
- `speed?: number` — Default leg speed (default 0).
- `camera?: CameraDef` — Camera.
- `rider?: RiderDef` — Rider.
- `kinds?: TargetKind[]` — Target kinds.
- `projectiles?: ProjectileKind[]` — Projectile kinds.
- `gun?: GunDef` — The gun (default a ray gun).
- `shields?: { start?: number; max?: number }` — Shield counter (default 1, max = start).
- `behaviours?: Record<string, Behaviour>` — Named behaviours for `motion: { type: 'behaviour' }`.
- `seed?: number` — Seed (default 1).
- `step?: number` — Fixed step in seconds (default 1/60).
- `limits?: { targets?: number; projectiles?: number }` — Resource bounds (defaults 512 targets, 512 projectiles).

### `RailEvent`

```ts
type RailEvent = | { type: "leg-enter"; leg: string; phase: string } | { type: "leg-exit"; leg: string; phase: string } | { type: "hold"; leg: string } | { type: "resume"; leg: string; held: number } | { type: "branch"; from: string; to: string } | { type: "route-end"; leg: string } | { type: "spawn"; target: string; kind: string } | { type: "refused"; what: "target" | "projectile"; kind: string } | { type: "shot"; shot: string; aim: { u: number; v: number } } | { type: "hit"; target: string; kind: string; region: string; damage: number; invulnerable: boolean; friendly: boolean; at: Vec3 } | { type: "part-destroyed"; target: string; kind: string; region: string; points: number; at: Vec3 } | { type: "destroyed"; target: string; kind: string; points: number; by: "shot" | "collision" | "rules"; at: Vec3; data: TargetData } | { type: "miss"; shot: string; at: Vec3 } | { type: "passed"; target: string; kind: string; data: TargetData } | { type: "crossed"; target: string; kind: string; local: Vec3; data: TargetData } | { type: "expired"; target: string; kind: string; reason: string; data: TargetData } | { type: "fired"; projectile: string; kind: string; from: string; at: Vec3 } | { type: "projectile-destroyed"; projectile: string; kind: string; points: number; at: Vec3 } | { type: "projectile-hit"; projectile: string; kind: string; damage: number; at: Vec3 } | { type: "projectile-expired"; projectile: string; kind: string } | { type: "collision"; target: string; kind: string; damage: number; at: Vec3 } | { type: "damage"; amount: number; cause: string; shields: number; before: number } | { type: "shields-empty" }
```

Events, drained by the rules pack or presenter.

### `RailInput`

```ts
interface RailInput
```

Input for one step.

- `aim?: { u: number; v: number }` — Crosshair as a view-plane direction `(u, v, 1)` in camera space.
- `steer?: { x: number; y: number }` — Steering in [-1, 1] on each axis.
- `fire?: boolean` — Trigger held.
- `branch?: string` — Preselect a branch leg.

### `RailProjectile`

```ts
interface RailProjectile
```

A live enemy projectile (world space).

- `id: string` — Unique id.
- `kind: string` — Kind id.
- `pos: Vec3` — World position.
- `vel: Vec3` — World velocity.
- `age: number` — Seconds alive.
- `hp: number` — Hit points.
- `from: string` — Target that fired it, if any.
- `depth: number` — Depth in front of the rider.
- `fixed: boolean` — Launched with a fixed velocity: no homing, no pulls.
- `dead: boolean` — Marked for removal.

### `RailShot`

```ts
interface RailShot
```

A player shot in flight or awaiting its delayed hit test.

- `id: string` — Unique id.
- `aim: { u: number; v: number }` — Aim when fired.
- `age: number` — Seconds since firing.
- `pos: Vec3` — Bolt position (world).
- `vel: Vec3` — Bolt velocity (world).
- `end: Vec3 | null` — Where the shot ended, once resolved.
- `done: boolean` — Resolved (hit or missed).

### `RailState`

```ts
interface RailState
```

Everything that changes; plain data.

- `time: number` — Seconds since reset.
- `leg: string` — Current leg id.
- `s: number` — Distance along the current leg.
- `legTime: number` — Seconds on the current leg.
- `holding: boolean` — Stopped at a hold.
- `holdTime: number` — Seconds held.
- `held: boolean` — The hold on this leg has been released.
- `ended: boolean` — The route has ended.
- `speed: number` — Current route speed (after scale).
- `rider: RiderState` — Rider.
- `shields: number` — Shield count.
- `targets: RailTarget[]` — Targets alive.
- `projectiles: RailProjectile[]` — Projectiles alive.
- `shots: RailShot[]` — Shots alive.
- `cooldown: number` — Gun cooldown left.
- `trigger: boolean` — Trigger state last step.
- `cues: Array<{ fired: number; next: number }>` — Per-cue progress on this leg: firings so far and the next trigger value.
- `branch: string | null` — Preselected branch.
- `flags: Record<string, number | string | boolean>` — Rules flags for predicates.
- `scale: { speed: number; fire: number; projectile: number }` — Scale factors.
- `stats: { shots: number; hits: number; kills: number; projectilesShot: number; damage: number }` — Counters.
- `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.
- `nextId: number` — Next id number.

### `RailTarget`

```ts
interface RailTarget
```

A live target.

- `id: string` — Unique id (`kind-n`).
- `kind: string` — Kind id.
- `space: Space` — Space of `pos`.
- `leg: string` — Route space: the leg `pos.z` is measured along.
- `pos: Vec3` — Position in its space (route: x right, y up, z = s along `leg`; rider: x right, y up, z ahead).
- `vel: Vec3` — Velocity in its space, units per second.
- `yaw: number` — Yaw in its space's frame.
- `pitch: number` — Pitch.
- `roll: number` — Roll.
- `age: number` — Seconds alive.
- `hp: number` — Hit points left.
- `parts: Record<string, number>` — Hit points left per destructible region.
- `exposed: boolean` — Hittable this step (window and exposure).
- `depth: number` — Depth in front of the rider's body frame (negative behind).
- `w: Vec3` — World position this step.
- `mode: string` — Behaviour mode.
- `modeTime: number` — Seconds in the current mode (reset when a behaviour changes `mode`).
- `data: TargetData` — Rules/behaviour data.
- `group: string` — Group.
- `spawnLeg: string` — The leg it was spawned on.
- `fireAt: number` — Next firing age.
- `collided: boolean` — Already collided with the rider.
- `crossed: boolean` — Already reported `crossed`.
- `ghost: boolean` — Ignored by shots and collisions while true (a spinning, thrown Vader); rules set it.
- `hits: number` — Times hit.
- `motion: MotionDef | null` — Motion override.
- `dead: boolean` — Marked for removal this step.

### `RegionDef`

```ts
interface RegionDef
```

A sphere or box in a target's local frame (`x` right, `y` up, `z` forward).

- `id: string` — Region id, unique within the kind.
- `shape?: "sphere" | "box"` — Shape (default sphere).
- `at?: Vec3` — Centre offset in the target's local frame.
- `radius?: number` — Sphere radius.
- `size?: Vec3` — Box full size.
- `hp?: number` — Own hit points: the region is a destructible part.
- `points?: number` — Points reported when this part is destroyed.
- `damage?: number` — Damage multiplier for hits here (default 1).
- `kills?: boolean` — Destroying this part destroys the target.
- `friendly?: boolean` — Hits here are on a protected target (a hostage).
- `hittable?: boolean` — Shots can hit this region (default true).
- `solid?: boolean` — The rider can collide with this region when the kind is solid (default true).

### `RiderDef`

```ts
interface RiderDef
```

The player's craft.

- `radius?: number` — Collision radius, world units (default 30).
- `invulnerable?: number | ((shieldsBefore: number) => number)` — Seconds of immunity after taking damage, or a function of the shield count before the hit (default 0).

### `RiderState`

```ts
interface RiderState
```

The rider's pilot and view state.

- `x: number` — Lateral offset in the route frame.
- `y: number` — Vertical offset.
- `vx: number` — Lateral offset speed.
- `vy: number` — Vertical offset speed.
- `bank: number` — Current bank (radians).
- `lookYaw: number` — Current look yaw.
- `lookPitch: number` — Current look pitch.
- `aim: { u: number; v: number }` — Current aim.
- `invulnerable: number` — Immunity seconds left.
- `prev: Vec3` — Eye position last step (for swept collisions).
- `roll: number` — Extra view roll from kicks (radians).
- `kick: { amount: number; seconds: number; t: number; settle: boolean } | null` — An active roll kick: total, seconds, elapsed, settle (decay back to zero) or spin (keep it).

### `Space`

```ts
type Space = "world" | "route" | "rider"
```

Where a target's position lives.

### `SpawnSpec`

```ts
interface SpawnSpec
```

A spawn order: one target of a kind, placed in a space.

- `kind: string` — Kind id.
- `space?: Space` — Space (default the kind's `space`, else `'route'`).
- `x?: number` — Right of the frame (route/rider) or world X.
- `y?: number` — Up of the frame (route/rider) or world Y.
- `z?: number` — Rider space: ahead of the rider. World space: world Z.
- `s?: number` — Route space: absolute distance along `leg`.
- `ahead?: number` — Route space: distance ahead of the rider (default 0 when `s` is not set).
- `leg?: string` — Route space: which leg (default the current one).
- `vel?: Vec3` — Initial velocity in the target's space.
- `yaw?: number` — Initial yaw (radians, in the space's frame; pi faces back down the route).
- `pitch?: number` — Initial pitch.
- `roll?: number` — Initial roll.
- `group?: string` — A group for `hold.cleared` and rules queries (default the kind's group).
- `data?: TargetData` — Data copied onto the target.
- `mode?: string` — Initial mode string for behaviours (default `'start'`).
- `motion?: MotionDef` — Motion override for this target.

### `StartDef`

```ts
interface StartDef
```

The starting frame of a route.

- `position?: Vec3` — Where the route starts (default the origin).
- `forward?: Vec3` — Initial direction of travel (default -z, into a default 3D camera's screen).
- `up?: Vec3` — Initial up (default +y).

### `TargetData`

```ts
type TargetData = Record<string, number | string | boolean>
```

Plain data a rules pack may hang on a target.

### `TargetKind`

```ts
interface TargetKind
```

A kind of target: enemies, scenery that can be hit or collided with, pickups.

- `id: string` — Unique id.
- `space?: Space` — Default space for spawns of this kind (default `'route'`).
- `radius?: number` — Hit and collision sphere radius when there are no regions (default 40).
- `hp?: number` — Hit points (default 1).
- `invulnerable?: boolean` — Hits register but never damage (Vader's TIE).
- `points?: number` — Points reported when destroyed.
- `hittable?: boolean` — Shots can hit it (default true).
- `regions?: RegionDef[]` — Hit regions and parts (default one sphere of `radius`).
- `solid?: boolean` — The rider collides with it (towers, catwalks, asteroids).
- `collide?: { damage?: number; destroy?: boolean }` — Collision outcome.
- `window?: { near?: number; far?: number }` — Hittable only while its depth in front of the rider is inside this window.
- `expose?: Array<[number, number]> | { up: number; down: number; offset?: number }` — Hittable only during these windows of its age: a list of `[from, to]`, or a cycle.
- `face?: "fixed" | "velocity" | "rider"` — Automatic facing for presenters (default `'fixed'`).
- `motion?: MotionDef` — Motion (default static).
- `fire?: FireDef` — Firing schedule.
- `life?: number` — Seconds to live (default unlimited).
- `behind?: "remove" | "keep"` — What happens when it falls behind the rider by `margin` (default remove with `passed`).
- `margin?: number` — Distance behind the eye before `behind` applies (default the radius plus 50).
- `group?: string` — Default group.
- `data?: TargetData` — Data copied onto every target of the kind.
- `friendly?: boolean` — The whole target is protected: hitting it is a penalty for the rules pack.
- `cross?: boolean` — Report `crossed` with the eye in the target's local frame when the rider passes its depth (fly-between bonuses).

### `Vec3`

```ts
interface Vec3
```

A point or direction in 3D, in world units.

- `x: number` — X component.
- `y: number` — Y component (up).
- `z: number` — Z component.

### `ViewRect`

```ts
interface ViewRect
```

A screen rectangle for projection helpers.

- `w: number` — Width.
- `h: number` — Height.

---

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