The main menu warms every ready game's mods up into the assembly cache in the
background (last played first), so picking a game only loads cached assemblies.
Game picker and save browser are scenes on the shared MenuWindowShell (also used by
the settings): caps title, close on the right, footer hint; the picker footer shows
the warm-up state, cards get framed covers with a letter placeholder and Continue as
the main action; the save browser shows 3x2 large cards with the game selector in
the header. new_game waits for the warm-up; menu_flow takes --shots.
Display tab: window mode (windowed/maximized/borderless/exclusive), monitor, window
size per monitor (centred, disabled in fullscreen), V-Sync, frame rate cap, reset;
applied and saved at once through the core DisplaySettingsService. Language is read
through LanguageCode (en-en/en_US = English). The window follows the style guide
shell: title and tabs in the header, close on the right, footer hint and per-tab reset.
The main menu hides every session panel of UiHost (pause menu stayed above it).
New suite display_settings (+ --shots); collection_edit leaves the game through the
pause menu and checks it is closed.
A data-only probe mod depending on characters_base has its character edited;
after the reload the template must carry the new name. It failed while the
character factory cached the previous mod set's data.
New game / Load of the running game re-enter it in place only while it still
matches its collection; after the player edited the collection the mod set is
switched, so added mechanics (the editors) appear. Test suite collection_edit.
The novel template becomes the intended layering: collection novel_template
lists my_novel_game (its own scenes, scenarios, text), town_pack (reusable
backgrounds and the bar ambience) and the engine. The town entrance and the
home vestibule move from cthangover_game into town_pack instead of being
copied; cthangover_game depends on it. Docs explain how to start a game from
these three layers.
The mod holding the main game's own scenes and story follows the <game>_game
naming rule; further parts stay <game>_<part>, reusable content is <theme>_pack.
A collection is no longer a file inside a mod: it is a package (folder or zip)
named after its id with collection.json, cover and optional locale/, shipped in
collections/ next to the mods or kept by the player in user://collections/.
Covers and texts come from the package; mods do not ship collections.
Mods are renamed by role (shell2d_base, menu_base, ui_base, live2d_base,
editor_tools, cthangover_story, cthangover_murakami, cthangover_party) and
every reference follows. Engine UI prefabs (dialog, answers, message, game
menu, inventory, map, skills) and their panel entries moved out of the story
mod into the subsystem mods; the card_novel and vn_starter_novel collections
are removed.
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