The shield icon's dark/mushy rendering was caused by disabled mipmaps
on all 6 slot-machine icon textures (inherited from the flat lucide
icon convention, wrong for these gradient-heavy assets) - at small
display sizes this caused aliasing that hit the shield's fine detail
(RZ lettering, metallic bevels) hardest since the other icons are
bolder/simpler shapes. Enabling mipmaps/generate on all 6 fixes it;
confirmed by rendering the actual in-game presentation size before
and after, not just eyeballing the source file.
Also converts the slot machine from a full standalone screen (sidebar
nav entry, main.gd-managed) into a movable/draggable floating panel
opened from the question-player toolbar, mirroring the existing
calculator panel exactly: same top_level+custom title-bar-drag+
viewport-clamp mechanics, same open/close/toggle API, instantiated
once alongside the calculator and closed on session hide. Shrunk the
cabinet and restacked the rewards list below it (was beside it) to
fit a toolbox-sized floating panel instead of a full page, wrapped in
a ScrollContainer for any overflow.
Removed the sidebar entry and screens[] registration from main.gd and
the now-dead routing case from navigation_routes.gd.
The user generated actual 3D-rendered assets (cabinet frame, lever,
reel-symbol sprite sheet) via an image model - swaps out the
StyleBoxFlat-approximated cabinet, Tween-animated marquee lights/glow,
and gradient-SVG icons from the last pass for the real thing.
The generated PNGs had no real alpha channel (a baked checkerboard
pattern standing in for transparency, a known limitation of some
image-gen output) - added a flood-fill background remover (BFS from
the image border, matching near-white/grey checkerboard tones) to
produce genuinely transparent PNGs, then sliced the sprite sheet into
6 individual icons and measured the cabinet's empty reel-window
rect as a fraction of the frame image so the real 3x3 reel grid and
lever can be positioned precisely over the static art via anchors.
Verified with actual rendered screenshots at each step (window
alignment, then lever sizing/position) rather than just structural
checks, since this is exactly the kind of thing that looks fine in
code and wrong on screen.
hz