RASD FASTWALKER LEAGUE

Controller: click the game, then press a controller button.Generating terrain…

Preparing worlds…FPS — · waitingPreparing terrain…

512 × 512 · 4× span

Drag to rotate · Arrow keys to rotate

Shift behavior Hold Toggle on each press

Drag or arrows to pitch/yaw · Q/E roll ↶/↷ · Z/V also roll · WASD thrust · Space/C ascend/descend along the nearest body’s outward normal · Shift boost · X brake. Ascend clear of a world to accelerate into fastwalk. Release thrust to coast; air gently slows you inside atmospheres. M opens the map. T switches first / third person. Look freely during flight; Air braking with X slows you down. Tab switches player / Scout Missile. Backtick (`) toggles performance stats while flying. Bracket keys [ and ] cycle objects and points of interest. The / key selects the nearest object. ⊙ Velocity · ⨂ Departure (opposite velocity). Markers appear only when their direction is on screen, and disappear at rest.

Scout Missile

0.90c · 1 AU link

Launch a Scout Missile with 1 or Tab.

Camera zoom

Follow distance, ADSR & slack

Attack eases in pursuit; decay settles to sustain; release softens corrections. Slack lets the Scout drift inside a small dead zone. Auto-follow has a clean feed. Above 0.90c, the Scout rides with you and resumes following when you slow down.

Distance 0.1 km Slack 0.02 km Attack 0.4 s Decay 0.8 s Sustain 0.75 Release 1.2 s

Flight recorder & ghost camera

5 records three lanes: player flight, Scout motion, and camera angles / zoom. 6 replays the player as a ghost while you fly the Scout; press 5 to record a fresh camera pass. 7 rides the recorded Scout camera on rails, with free look and zoom. Recordings stay on this device; export to keep a copy. Review uses the same scene and terrain settings. Solo flights only.

Recording

Import flight

Second player: live view & control

Connect through Multiplayer first. Both players can view the Scout live. Its owner grants one player control below and can recall or reclaim it at any time. Keep the owner’s game running. A lost controller returns the Scout to follow mode.

Who pilots my Scout?Watch another player’s Scout

Manual control leaves your body coasting: gravity, drag and impacts still apply. Static begins at 0.90 AU; at 1 AU the feed cuts out and automatic recall begins. The link restores in range.

Xbox controller controls

Left stick	Up/down: forward/backward; left/right: Q/E roll
Right stick	Look: yaw and pitch
RT / LT	Ascend / descend relative to the nearest surface
LB / RB	Roll counterclockwise / clockwise
A / B	Hold boost / hold brake
X / Y	Lock target / toggle auto-flight
D-pad ← / →	Previous / next target
D-pad ↑ / ↓	Nearest target / system map
Menu / View	Pause / toggle stats

Menus: left stick or D-pad to move, A to select, B to go back. Click the game and press a controller button to connect; center the sticks and release the buttons after connecting or changing menus. Small stick movements give gentle control. Moving or braking cancels auto-flight; looking does not.

Elite paddles follow your Xbox Accessories profile. This game uses the standard Xbox controls exposed by the browser.

Auto-flight

DestinationFlight speed

Lock target keeps the selected body centered: A/D and left/right arrows strafe around it. W/S move toward/away from it. Drag, pitch or Unlock target returns to free look. Enter confirms the destination and releases the view lock. Look around freely while auto-flight climbs and routes around blocking bodies. Movement or Brake cancels auto-flight. Thrust eases in over several seconds, with gentler acceleration in atmospheres and planetary Hill spheres. Fastwalk takes about 100 seconds to reach 10c in open space. Auto-flight slows on approach; you can still look around freely. Distances use km and AU.

01 / GENERATION

Terrain algorithmTerrain seed

Larger spans sample more terrain at the same feature scale. Haze and altitude affect Flight and Landscape. The blue world and moon have complete spherical surfaces.

Terrain span 4×Detail resolution

02 / DISPLAY

Flood lowlands on Blue world

High-speed impacts carve craters. Atmospheric land impacts burn and smoke; water impacts throw steam. The moon is airless. Drifting dithered clouds remain visible from space. Descend just above their upper layer to reveal cloud banks you can fly through: clear regions have small scattered clouds, while overcast regions build storm towers and broad anvil tops. Upper atmosphere haze thickens toward the horizon. Habitable forests use crisp, palette-limited pixel crowns and shrubs inspired by classic city-building games. Rocks, plants and habitat buildings stream in near land. The GSV’s upper decks carry pixel gardens and trees. Land on a garden deck to walk; ascend lifts off again. Each of the four garden decks is independently targetable; Fly to target routes around the slabs to the selected level. Scars cool; craters last until regeneration or reload. Changes appear in Flight.

Atmosphere haze 0.95View altitude 45Vertical scale 1.00Light direction 315°

RECONSTRUCTED DEPENDENCIES

Your terrain composition runs with reconstructed noise and blending helpers. Exact visual matching needs the original helper definitions and seeds.

Algorithm notes

The Cratered system uses two spherical terrain bodies with adaptive cube-face meshes. Three blended projections wrap each generated field without longitude seams. Rendered terrain and surface collision share the same height function. The blue world and star use Earth–Sun size ratios. The main moon is enlarged to 8,687 km diameter for visibility. The moon is 384,400 km away; the star is 1 AU away (149.6 million km). Bodies rotate with moving illumination and shadows. The Orbital has a 3,000,000 km open diameter and a 6,000 km wide band, with an 8 km atmosphere measured inward from the living surface. Earthlike, Blue world and the Orbital have four-minute days; the moon takes ten minutes. Snake Eyes and Kerr animate their binary orbits. Nearby flight follows the rotating surface, with free space becoming inertial above the atmosphere. Flight has unrestricted pitch, yaw and roll, with forward/sideways thrust relative to the view and ascent/descent along the nearest body’s radial normal. In space, momentum persists until you brake or collide. Atmospheric drag grows smoothly with air density. Below Mach 1, surface contact switches to walking with feet aligned to the ground. WASD walks, Shift runs, and tapping Space lifts off immediately. Daylight scattering hides background stars inside the atmosphere, and elevated clouds catch sunrise earlier and retain sunset longer.

Start → Planetary climate workbench opens the terrain and climate generator. Choose Fly this world to explore the generated rocky surface, with its palette and current cloud coverage. A terrain preview is flyable before a climate run completes. Gas giants have four swirling cloud decks. Start → Stages includes the RFL systems, surface habitats, showcase, and five nebula presets. Single objects includes the full celestial catalog and the GSV and Scoundrel ships. Nebulae are volumes you can fly through; surface objects keep their orientation as you move around them. Native RFL palettes, multi-view XPM impostors, irregular rock meshes, ship shapes and nebula recipes are adapted to Cratered’s renderer.

The finite green star retains the Noctis dither and asymmetric diffraction glare from Nebula Workbench at a distance. Close up, its surface boils with evolving convection cells, dark granule boundaries, subtle displaced lumps and arcing prominences. Its protective surface boundary keeps you above the plasma. The drive eases in over several seconds and takes about 100 seconds to reach 10c in open space. Acceleration increases smoothly from the atmosphere through each planetary Hill sphere; overlapping regions use the gentlest limit. Hill spheres are approximate influence regions for the drive, not an orbital gravity simulation. Fastwalk retains RFL-inspired velocity-aligned lensing, a blue forward glow and red aft light. This is a stylized superluminal drive. Auto-flight crosses space continuously and brakes near the destination. At 10c, 1 AU is about 50 seconds before acceleration and approach.

Maria and folded terrae meet large, textured craters. Fine craters are added afterward, so they also appear within the larger basins. Rim noise adds infill, and attenuated cosine ripples finish the surface.

The supplied function fixes density to 2 × xsize / 1024. Sampling uses a fixed 256-unit reference domain; span expands the sampled region. Its composition is preserved, including the parabolic mask, fixed zero bias and six seed slots.

Value noise is approximated as signed fractal noise. Biased smooth minimum uses a powered blend weight. These choices are provisional, not the original helper definitions.

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FASTWALKER LEAGUE

Multiplayer · shared exploration

Scout Missile

Auto-flight