pixel-perfect rendering, all sprites have same 1:1 scale

scripts/play.ts

@@ -25,15 +25,15 @@ import { ResourceNode } from '../src/game/entities/ResourceNode';
 import { GameStore } from '../src/game/GameStore';
 import { costForNextLevel, UPGRADE_LIST, type UpgradeId } from '../src/game/upgrades';
 
-const MAP_WIDTH = 1200;
+const MAP_WIDTH = 400;
-const MAP_HEIGHT = 800;
+const MAP_HEIGHT = 260;
 /** How many simulated seconds pass per tick — fixed, independent of how fast ticks actually run. */
 const TICK_SECONDS = Number(process.argv[2] ?? 0.1);
 /** Ticks per event-loop turn between yields — batching amortizes the yield's overhead while
  * still keeping Ctrl+C/output responsive within about one batch's worth of latency. */
 const TICKS_PER_BATCH = 1000;
 /** How far past the nearest rabbit to aim while fleeing it. */
-const FLEE_DISTANCE = 400;
+const FLEE_DISTANCE = 133;
 
 // Logs every analytics call to the console (see ConsoleAnalyticsTransport) instead of sending it
 // anywhere — this is what actually lets `npm run play` be used to verify analytics behavior.

src/App.css

@@ -85,6 +85,12 @@
   width: 260px;
 }
 
+/* Temporary — see MainMenu.ts/DebugCharacterPreview.ts. */
+.main-menu__debug-preview {
+  width: 128px;
+  height: 128px;
+}
+
 .menu-btn {
   padding: 16px;
   background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);

src/app/MainMenu.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import type { Analytics } from '../analytics';
 import { hasSave } from '../game/persistence';
+import { mountDebugCharacterPreview } from '../pixi/DebugCharacterPreview';
 
 /** Builds the main menu screen — the DOM-side replacement for MainMenu.tsx. Fires analytics.menu()
  * immediately (once per call), matching the original "once per mount" behavior since a fresh
@@ -38,10 +39,23 @@ export function createMainMenu(analytics: Analytics, onNewGame: () => void, onCo
 
   buttons.append(newGameBtn, continueBtn);
 
+  // Temporary: a pixel-grid sanity check, rendered through the exact same pipeline as the game
+  // world — see DebugCharacterPreview.ts's doc comment. Remove this block (and the container div)
+  // once no longer needed.
+  const debugPreview = document.createElement('div');
+  debugPreview.className = 'main-menu__debug-preview';
+  // The preview's canvas sizes itself from this div's clientWidth/Height once actually laid out —
+  // 0 on a still-detached element — so mounting has to wait until after `root` is attached to the
+  // document (see App.ts, which inserts the element returned here synchronously right after this
+  // function returns; requestAnimationFrame's callback always runs after that).
+  requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+    void mountDebugCharacterPreview(debugPreview);
+  });
+
   const version = document.createElement('div');
   version.className = 'main-menu__version';
   version.textContent = `v${__APP_VERSION__}`;
 
-  root.append(title, buttons, version);
+  root.append(title, buttons, debugPreview, version);
   return root;
 }

src/game/constants.ts

@@ -13,31 +13,31 @@ export const TWIGS_PER_TREE = 2;
 export const TWIGS_PER_BUSH = 5;
 
 /** How close the character must get to a node's center to start chopping it. */
-export const INTERACTION_RADIUS = 56;
+export const INTERACTION_RADIUS = 19;
 
 /** Radius of the circle around a node that ejected resources can land in. */
-export const DROP_EJECT_RADIUS = 70;
+export const DROP_EJECT_RADIUS = 23;
 
 /** Seconds for a resource's ballistic flight from the node to its landing spot. */
 export const DROP_FALL_DURATION = 0.5;
 
 /** Peak height (px) of a resource's arc while falling from the node. */
-export const DROP_FALL_ARC_HEIGHT = 40;
+export const DROP_FALL_ARC_HEIGHT = 13;
 
 /** Seconds for a landed resource's flight into the character's inventory. */
 export const DROP_COLLECT_DURATION = 0.25;
 
 /** Peak height (px) of a resource's little hop while flying into the inventory. */
-export const DROP_COLLECT_ARC_HEIGHT = 16;
+export const DROP_COLLECT_ARC_HEIGHT = 5;
 
 /** Nodes (trees/bushes) won't spawn closer than this to the character's starting position. */
-export const ENTITY_MIN_DISTANCE_FROM_CENTER = 140;
+export const ENTITY_MIN_DISTANCE_FROM_CENTER = 47;
 
 /** Nodes won't spawn closer than this to each other, regardless of kind. */
-export const ENTITY_MIN_DISTANCE_BETWEEN = 100;
+export const ENTITY_MIN_DISTANCE_BETWEEN = 33;
 
 /** Nodes won't spawn within this many px of the map edge. */
-export const ENTITY_EDGE_MARGIN = 70;
+export const ENTITY_EDGE_MARGIN = 23;
 
 /** How long the hit-shake animation plays once a hit actually lands (character or rabbit) —
  * a brief flash at the moment of impact, not for however long the attack itself takes. */

src/game/rabbits.ts

@@ -10,20 +10,20 @@ export const RABBIT_ACTION_DURATION = 0.5;
 export const RABBIT_PAUSE_DURATION = 0.5;
 
 /** Max distance covered by a single jump. */
-export const RABBIT_JUMP_DISTANCE = 80;
+export const RABBIT_JUMP_DISTANCE = 27;
 
 /** Peak height (px) of a jump's parabolic arc — same idea as a resource drop's arc when it flies
  * off a chopped tree. */
-export const RABBIT_JUMP_ARC_HEIGHT = 30;
+export const RABBIT_JUMP_ARC_HEIGHT = 10;
 
 /** By day, a rabbit won't choose a jump target closer than this to the character. */
-export const RABBIT_MIN_DISTANCE_FROM_CHARACTER = 130;
+export const RABBIT_MIN_DISTANCE_FROM_CHARACTER = 43;
 
 /** How close the character must be, by night, for a rabbit to strike instead of jumping toward them. */
-export const RABBIT_STRIKE_RANGE = 28;
+export const RABBIT_STRIKE_RANGE = 9;
 
 /** How close the character must get to hit a rabbit. */
-export const RABBIT_HIT_RADIUS = 40;
+export const RABBIT_HIT_RADIUS = 13;
 
 /** A rabbit's max HP (fixed — unlike the character's, there's no upgrade for it). */
 export const RABBIT_MAX_HP = 3;

src/game/upgrades.ts

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ export const UPGRADE_LIST: UpgradeDef[] = [
     name: 'Скорость движения',
     baseCost: 5,
     costGrowth: 1.35,
-    effectAtLevel: (level) => 160 + (level - 1) * 20,
+    effectAtLevel: (level) => 50 + (level - 1) * 6,
     formatEffect: (v) => `${Math.round(v)} px/с`,
   },
   {
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ export const UPGRADE_LIST: UpgradeDef[] = [
     name: 'Радиус подбора',
     baseCost: 5,
     costGrowth: 1.3,
-    effectAtLevel: (level) => 46 + (level - 1) * 6,
+    effectAtLevel: (level) => 15 + (level - 1) * 2,
     formatEffect: (v) => `${Math.round(v)} px`,
   },
   {

src/pixi/DebugCharacterPreview.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import { Sprite, type ApplicationOptions } from 'pixi.js';
+import { CHARACTER_SPRITE } from '../game/sprites';
+import { PixelPerfectWorld } from './PixelPerfectWorld';
+import { getSpriteTexture } from './textures';
+
+// Must comfortably fit the character's own native rendered box (16x22 — its grid's own size,
+// see textures.ts) or the RenderTexture bake clips it at the world's own edge, before any of the
+// world-to-screen k-scaling even happens.
+const WORLD_SIZE = 32;
+
+/** Draws the character sprite once, at a fixed size, through the exact same pipeline the real
+ * game world uses (see PixelPerfectWorld/GameCanvas) — a standalone visual sanity check for
+ * "are pixels actually square and uniform on this screen," reachable from the main menu without
+ * starting a game. Wired into MainMenu.ts as a temporary debugging aid; safe to remove (along with
+ * its call site there) once no longer needed. `appOptions` is a debugging escape hatch (e.g.
+ * `{ preserveDrawingBuffer: true }` to read the canvas back with getImageData) — MainMenu.ts's
+ * call site doesn't pass any. */
+export async function mountDebugCharacterPreview(
+  container: HTMLElement,
+  appOptions?: Partial<ApplicationOptions>,
+): Promise<{ destroy: () => void; world: PixelPerfectWorld }> {
+  const world = new PixelPerfectWorld();
+  await world.mount(container, WORLD_SIZE, WORLD_SIZE, appOptions);
+
+  const info = getSpriteTexture(CHARACTER_SPRITE);
+  const sprite = new Sprite(info.texture);
+  sprite.anchor.set(0.5);
+  sprite.position.set(WORLD_SIZE / 2, WORLD_SIZE / 2);
+  world.content.addChild(sprite);
+  world.render();
+
+  return { destroy: () => world.destroy(), world };
+}

src/pixi/GameCanvas.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-import { Application } from 'pixi.js';
 import type { GameStore } from '../game/GameStore';
 import { GameWorld } from './GameWorld';
+import { PixelPerfectWorld } from './PixelPerfectWorld';
 import { NODE_CLICK_RADIUS } from './entities/NodesView';
 import { rabbitClickRadius } from './entities/RabbitsView';
 
@@ -14,46 +14,41 @@ const ROTATE_QUERY = '(orientation: portrait) and (pointer: coarse)';
 
 type Target = { kind: 'node'; id: string } | { kind: 'rabbit'; id: string };
 
-/** Owns the PixiJS Application for the game world (see GameWorld) and all pointer input for it —
+/** Owns the pixel-perfect canvas for the game world (see GameWorld/PixelPerfectWorld) and all
- * the canvas-rendering replacement for GameMap.tsx's map div. The HUD around it stays plain DOM
+ * pointer input for it — the canvas-rendering replacement for GameMap.tsx's map div. The HUD
- * (see src/app). */
+ * around it stays plain DOM (see src/app). */
 export class GameCanvas {
-  private readonly app = new Application();
+  private readonly world = new PixelPerfectWorld();
-  private world: GameWorld | null = null;
+  private gameWorld: GameWorld | null = null;
   private store: GameStore | null = null;
   private container: HTMLElement | null = null;
   private isRotated = false;
   private readonly mql = window.matchMedia(ROTATE_QUERY);
 
-  /** Mounts the canvas into `container`, sizes it to the container's current (already-logical,
+  /** Mounts the canvas into `container`, sizes the world to the container's current (already-
-   * rotation-unaffected) box, and starts the game. Mirrors GameMap.tsx's mount effect. */
+   * logical, rotation-unaffected) box, and starts the game. Mirrors GameMap.tsx's mount effect. */
   async mount(container: HTMLElement, store: GameStore): Promise<void> {
     this.container = container;
     this.store = store;
     this.isRotated = this.mql.matches;
     this.mql.addEventListener('change', this.handleOrientationChange);
 
-    const width = container.clientWidth;
+    // The game simulates and draws a virtual screen smaller than the container's real pixels —
-    const height = container.clientHeight;
+    // sprites render at native 1:1 (see textures.ts), and gameplay distances (constants.ts/
+    // rabbits.ts/upgrades.ts) are tuned for this smaller scale. A graphics-layer-only concern:
+    // PixelPerfectWorld's own k upscales the virtual screen back to fill the real container,
+    // however large it actually is — the game/ layer never reads clientWidth itself.
+    const width = Math.round(container.clientWidth / 3);
+    const height = Math.round(container.clientHeight / 3);
     if (width <= 0 || height <= 0)
       return;
 
-    await this.app.init({
+    await this.world.mount(container, width, height);
-      width,
+    this.world.app.canvas.style.touchAction = 'none';
-      height,
-      resizeTo: container,
-      backgroundAlpha: 0,
-      antialias: false,
-      autoDensity: true,
-      resolution: window.devicePixelRatio || 1,
-    });
-    this.app.canvas.style.display = 'block';
-    this.app.canvas.style.touchAction = 'none';
-    container.appendChild(this.app.canvas);
 
-    this.world = new GameWorld(this.app);
+    this.gameWorld = new GameWorld();
-    this.world.resize(width, height);
+    this.gameWorld.setWorldSize(width, height);
-    this.app.renderer.on('resize', (w: number, h: number) => this.world?.resize(w, h));
+    this.world.content.addChild(this.gameWorld.container);
 
     store.initialize(width, height);
     store.start();
@@ -65,13 +60,13 @@ export class GameCanvas {
     window.addEventListener('blur', store.release);
     window.addEventListener('beforeunload', store.save);
 
-    this.app.ticker.add(this.tick);
+    this.world.app.ticker.add(this.tick);
   }
 
   /** Tears down the canvas and every listener — mirrors GameMap.tsx's unmount cleanup. */
   destroy(): void {
     this.mql.removeEventListener('change', this.handleOrientationChange);
-    this.app.ticker.remove(this.tick);
+    this.world.app.ticker.remove(this.tick);
 
     if (this.container) {
       this.container.removeEventListener('pointerdown', this.handlePointerDown);
@@ -85,8 +80,8 @@ export class GameCanvas {
       window.removeEventListener('beforeunload', this.store.save);
     }
 
-    this.app.destroy(true, { children: true, texture: false });
+    this.world.destroy();
-    this.world = null;
+    this.gameWorld = null;
     this.store = null;
     this.container = null;
   }
@@ -96,19 +91,24 @@ export class GameCanvas {
   };
 
   private readonly tick = () => {
-    if (!this.world || !this.store)
+    if (!this.gameWorld || !this.store)
       return;
-    this.world.update(this.store, this.app.ticker.deltaMS / 1000);
+    this.gameWorld.update(this.store, this.world.app.ticker.deltaMS / 1000);
+    // Bake this frame's world at its fixed logical resolution — see PixelPerfectWorld's doc
+    // comment for why this, rather than drawing world content directly to the screen, is what
+    // keeps it shimmer-free and free of the uneven-pixel-size artifacts a fractional device pixel
+    // ratio would otherwise cause.
+    this.world.render();
   };
 
-  /** Converts a pointer event's physical screen position into the map's own logical (x, y) — see
+  /** Converts a pointer event's physical screen position into the map's own logical (world) (x,
-   * ROTATE_QUERY above. */
+   * y) — first undoing the portrait-rotation transform (see ROTATE_QUERY), then the world-sprite's
+   * own scale/letterbox offset (see PixelPerfectWorld.screenToWorld). */
   private toLocalPoint(clientX: number, clientY: number, rect: DOMRect): { x: number; y: number } {
     const physicalX = clientX - rect.left;
     const physicalY = clientY - rect.top;
-    if (this.isRotated)
+    const [screenX, screenY] = this.isRotated ? [physicalY, rect.width - physicalX] : [physicalX, physicalY];
-      return { x: physicalY, y: rect.width - physicalX };
+    return this.world.screenToWorld(screenX, screenY);
-    return { x: physicalX, y: physicalY };
   }
 
   /** Finds the node or rabbit (if any) under the given logical point, by distance to its center —

src/pixi/GameWorld.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Container, Sprite, Texture, type Application } from 'pixi.js';
+import { Container, Sprite, Texture } from 'pixi.js';
 import { overlayColorComponentsForHour } from '../game/daynight';
 import type { GameStore } from '../game/GameStore';
 import { CharacterView } from './entities/CharacterView';
@@ -7,9 +7,16 @@ import { NodesView } from './entities/NodesView';
 import { RabbitsView } from './entities/RabbitsView';
 
 /** Owns every visual layer of the game world (shadows/sprites, hp bars, day-night tint) and
- * advances them each Pixi tick from the current GameStore state. The HUD (topbar/sidebar/menu/
+ * advances them each Pixi tick from the current GameStore state. Deliberately NOT attached to
- * death screen) is plain DOM, not part of this — see src/app. */
+ * `app.stage` itself — GameCanvas renders `container` into a fixed-resolution RenderTexture (one
+ * texel per world/logical pixel) and displays that as a single integer-scaled sprite, so no world
+ * content is ever composited at a fractional/subpixel screen position. The HUD (topbar/sidebar/
+ * menu/death screen) is plain DOM, not part of this — see src/app. */
 export class GameWorld {
+  /** Everything drawn for one frame of the world — render this into a RenderTexture, don't add it
+   * to app.stage directly (see GameCanvas). */
+  readonly container = new Container();
+
   private readonly entities = new Container();
   private readonly healthBars = new Container();
   private readonly overlay = new Sprite(Texture.WHITE);
@@ -19,21 +26,22 @@ export class GameWorld {
   private readonly characterView: CharacterView;
   private elapsedSeconds = 0;
 
-  constructor(app: Application) {
+  constructor() {
     this.entities.sortableChildren = true;
     // Overlay sits above health bars (9999 vs 500 in the original CSS z-indexes), tinting
     // everything underneath, including them.
-    app.stage.addChild(this.entities, this.healthBars, this.overlay);
+    this.container.addChild(this.entities, this.healthBars, this.overlay);
     this.overlay.eventMode = 'none';
 
-    this.nodesView = new NodesView(app, this.entities);
+    this.nodesView = new NodesView(this.entities);
-    this.dropsView = new DropsView(app, this.entities);
+    this.dropsView = new DropsView(this.entities);
-    this.rabbitsView = new RabbitsView(app, this.entities, this.healthBars);
+    this.rabbitsView = new RabbitsView(this.entities, this.healthBars);
-    this.characterView = new CharacterView(app, this.entities, this.healthBars);
+    this.characterView = new CharacterView(this.entities, this.healthBars);
   }
 
-  /** Resizes the full-screen day/night tint to cover the current map size. */
+  /** Sizes the full-screen day/night tint to cover the map — called once, with the fixed
-  resize(width: number, height: number): void {
+   * world/logical size (see GameCanvas), not on every canvas resize. */
+  setWorldSize(width: number, height: number): void {
     this.overlay.width = width;
     this.overlay.height = height;
   }

src/pixi/PixelPerfectWorld.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+import { Application, Container, RenderTexture, Sprite, type ApplicationOptions } from 'pixi.js';
+
+/** Renders `content` (any Pixi Container) into a canvas with zero fractional-pixel scaling
+ * anywhere Pixi/WebGL is involved — the shared mechanics behind GameCanvas (the full game world)
+ * and DebugCharacterPreview (the menu's pixel-grid sanity check), so both use exactly the same
+ * math.
+ *
+ * `content` is rendered once into a RenderTexture sized exactly `worldWidth x worldHeight` — one
+ * texel per world/logical pixel — then displayed as a single sprite scaled up by a whole number
+ * `k`. Both the texture and the outer Application deliberately use `resolution: 1` (i.e.
+ * independent of devicePixelRatio) so `sprite.scale` is always a clean integer: an earlier version
+ * set `resolution: devicePixelRatio` and solved for a `sprite.scale` of `k / resolution` so the
+ * *physical* (backing-store) scale would come out to the integer `k` — this looked correct
+ * (`(k / resolution) * resolution === k` on paper) but empirically was not: WebGL's nearest-
+ * neighbor sampling of a sprite whose own *logical* scale is fractional does not reliably resolve
+ * to uniform per-texel pixel runs, resolution or no — verified by reading the rendered canvas back
+ * pixel-by-pixel (`preserveDrawingBuffer`) and finding uneven run-lengths even when the fractional
+ * scale's product with resolution was exactly an integer. Keeping `sprite.scale` a literal integer
+ * avoids asking WebGL to do that fractional-then-compensated sampling at all.
+ *
+ * The one fractional-scale step this *doesn't* eliminate is the browser's own final compositing of
+ * the canvas's backing store onto the physical screen at a non-integer devicePixelRatio (e.g.
+ * Windows' 125%/150% display scaling) — `image-rendering: pixelated` keeps that nearest-neighbor
+ * rather than smoothed, but nearest-neighbor upscaling by a non-integer ratio is *inherently*
+ * uneven (some source pixels become 1 output pixel, others 2, in whatever pattern the browser's
+ * compositor picks) — no web technology can avoid that for a genuinely fractional display scale.
+ * The goal here is only to make sure *that* unavoidable, display-driven unevenness is the sole
+ * source of any pixel irregularity, rather than compounding it with WebGL sampling of its own. */
+export class PixelPerfectWorld {
+  readonly app = new Application();
+  /** Draw whatever should appear in the world into this container — it is never added to
+   * `app.stage` itself, only rendered into the fixed-resolution texture (see render()). */
+  readonly content = new Container();
+
+  private texture: RenderTexture | null = null;
+  private sprite: Sprite | null = null;
+  private worldWidth = 0;
+  private worldHeight = 0;
+
+  /** Creates the Application, sized/resized to fill `container`, and the fixed `worldWidth x
+   * worldHeight` texture `content` renders into. */
+  async mount(container: HTMLElement, worldWidth: number, worldHeight: number, appOptions?: Partial<ApplicationOptions>): Promise<void> {
+    this.worldWidth = worldWidth;
+    this.worldHeight = worldHeight;
+
+    await this.app.init({
+      resizeTo: container,
+      backgroundAlpha: 0,
+      antialias: false,
+      roundPixels: true,
+      // Deliberately 1, not devicePixelRatio — see the class doc comment.
+      resolution: 1,
+      autoDensity: true,
+      ...appOptions,
+    });
+    this.app.canvas.style.display = 'block';
+    this.app.canvas.style.imageRendering = 'pixelated';
+    container.appendChild(this.app.canvas);
+
+    this.texture = RenderTexture.create({ width: worldWidth, height: worldHeight, scaleMode: 'nearest', antialias: false, resolution: 1 });
+    this.sprite = new Sprite(this.texture);
+    this.app.stage.addChild(this.sprite);
+    this.layout();
+    this.app.renderer.on('resize', () => this.layout());
+  }
+
+  /** Bakes the current `content` into the world texture. Call after mutating `content` (every
+   * frame for an animated world, once for a static debug preview). */
+  render(): void {
+    if (!this.texture)
+      return;
+    this.app.renderer.render({ container: this.content, target: this.texture, clearColor: 'transparent' });
+  }
+
+  /** Converts a point in the canvas's own logical (CSS-pixel) space — e.g. a pointer event's
+   * position relative to the canvas's bounding rect — into world/logical (x, y). */
+  screenToWorld(screenX: number, screenY: number): { x: number; y: number } {
+    if (!this.sprite)
+      return { x: screenX, y: screenY };
+    return { x: (screenX - this.sprite.x) / this.sprite.scale.x, y: (screenY - this.sprite.y) / this.sprite.scale.y };
+  }
+
+  destroy(): void {
+    this.texture?.destroy(true);
+    this.app.destroy(true, { children: true, texture: false });
+    this.texture = null;
+    this.sprite = null;
+  }
+
+  /** Recomputes the world-sprite's integer scale `k` and its (rounded, letterboxing) position
+   * whenever the canvas's own on-screen size changes — the fixed-size world texture itself is
+   * never touched. `k` is floored and never smaller than 1, so a canvas larger than the world
+   * upscales it in clean whole-pixel steps, and a canvas smaller than the world just lets it
+   * overflow (expected to be clipped by an `overflow: hidden` ancestor). */
+  private layout(): void {
+    if (!this.sprite || this.worldWidth <= 0 || this.worldHeight <= 0)
+      return;
+    const screen = this.app.screen;
+    const k = Math.max(1, Math.floor(Math.min(screen.width / this.worldWidth, screen.height / this.worldHeight)));
+
+    this.sprite.scale.set(k);
+    this.sprite.position.set(
+      Math.round((screen.width - this.worldWidth * k) / 2),
+      Math.round((screen.height - this.worldHeight * k) / 2),
+    );
+  }
+}

src/pixi/entities/CharacterView.ts

@@ -1,18 +1,16 @@
-import { Container, Sprite, type Application } from 'pixi.js';
+import { Container, Sprite } from 'pixi.js';
 import type { GameStore } from '../../game/GameStore';
 import { CHARACTER_SPRITE } from '../../game/sprites';
 import { chopShakeOffset, walkBobOffsetY } from '../animations';
 import { createHealthBar, setHealthBarPosition, updateHealthBar } from '../healthBar';
 import { createShadow } from '../shadow';
-import { applySpriteSize, getSpriteTexture } from '../textures';
+import { getSpriteTexture } from '../textures';
 
-const CHARACTER_SIZE = 48;
+const SHADOW_OFFSET_Y = 11;
-// .entity.character-shadow: width 48 height 24, margin-top 32 (offset from character.x/y).
+const SHADOW_RADIUS_X = 8;
-const SHADOW_OFFSET_Y = 32;
+const SHADOW_RADIUS_Y = 4;
-const SHADOW_RADIUS_X = 24;
+/** How far above the character's own position the hp bar floats. */
-const SHADOW_RADIUS_Y = 12;
+const HEALTH_BAR_OFFSET_Y = 10;
-// .health-bar sits `CHARACTER_SIZE * 0.5 + 6` px above the character's own position.
-const HEALTH_BAR_OFFSET_Y = CHARACTER_SIZE * 0.5 + 6;
 
 /** Renders the player character: shadow, sprite (with walk-bob/hit-shake), and an hp bar shown
  * only while damaged — mirrors CharacterEntity.tsx. */
@@ -21,11 +19,10 @@ export class CharacterView {
   private readonly sprite: Sprite;
   private readonly healthBar = createHealthBar();
 
-  constructor(app: Application, entities: Container, healthBars: Container) {
+  constructor(entities: Container, healthBars: Container) {
-    const info = getSpriteTexture(app, CHARACTER_SPRITE);
+    const info = getSpriteTexture(CHARACTER_SPRITE);
     this.sprite = new Sprite(info.texture);
     this.sprite.anchor.set(0.5);
-    applySpriteSize(this.sprite, info, CHARACTER_SIZE);
 
     entities.addChild(this.shadow, this.sprite);
     healthBars.addChild(this.healthBar);

src/pixi/entities/DropsView.ts

@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-import { Container, Sprite, type Application } from 'pixi.js';
+import { Container, Sprite } from 'pixi.js';
 import type { GameStore } from '../../game/GameStore';
 import type { ResourceType } from '../../game/types';
 import { LOG_SPRITE, MEAT_SPRITE, TWIG_SPRITE, type PixelGrid } from '../../game/sprites';
 import { createShadow } from '../shadow';
-import { applySpriteSize, getSpriteTexture } from '../textures';
+import { getSpriteTexture } from '../textures';
 
 const DROP_SPRITES: Record<ResourceType, PixelGrid> = { log: LOG_SPRITE, twig: TWIG_SPRITE, meat: MEAT_SPRITE };
-const DROP_SIZES: Record<ResourceType, number> = { log: 20, twig: 18, meat: 18 };
 // .entity.log-shadow: margin-top 8. .entity.twig-shadow / .entity.meat-shadow: margin-top 7.
 const SHADOW_OFFSET_Y: Record<ResourceType, number> = { log: 8, twig: 7, meat: 7 };
 const SHADOW_RADII: Record<ResourceType, { x: number; y: number }> = {
@@ -24,11 +23,9 @@ interface DropVisual {
  * (mirrors ResourceDropEntity.tsx). Not interactive — drops have no click handling. */
 export class DropsView {
   private readonly visuals = new Map<string, DropVisual>();
-  private readonly app: Application;
   private readonly entities: Container;
 
-  constructor(app: Application, entities: Container) {
+  constructor(entities: Container) {
-    this.app = app;
     this.entities = entities;
   }
 
@@ -65,10 +62,9 @@ export class DropsView {
     const radii = SHADOW_RADII[resource];
     const shadow = createShadow(radii.x, radii.y);
 
-    const info = getSpriteTexture(this.app, DROP_SPRITES[resource]);
+    const info = getSpriteTexture(DROP_SPRITES[resource]);
     const sprite = new Sprite(info.texture);
     sprite.anchor.set(0.5);
-    applySpriteSize(sprite, info, DROP_SIZES[resource]);
 
     this.entities.addChild(shadow, sprite);
     return { shadow, sprite };

src/pixi/entities/NodesView.ts

@@ -1,24 +1,21 @@
-import { Container, Sprite, type Application } from 'pixi.js';
+import { Container, Sprite } from 'pixi.js';
 import type { GameStore } from '../../game/GameStore';
 import type { NodeKind } from '../../game/types';
 import { BUSH_SPRITE, TREE_SPRITE, type PixelGrid } from '../../game/sprites';
 import { chopShakeOffset } from '../animations';
 import { createShadow } from '../shadow';
-import { applySpriteSize, getSpriteTexture } from '../textures';
+import { getSpriteTexture } from '../textures';
 
 const NODE_SPRITES: Record<NodeKind, PixelGrid> = { tree: TREE_SPRITE, bush: BUSH_SPRITE };
-const NODE_SIZES: Record<NodeKind, number> = { tree: 64, bush: 40 };
-// .entity.tree-shadow: width 64 height 32, margin (26, 0, 0, -11) -> center offset (-11, +26).
-// .entity.bush-shadow: width 40 height 20, margin (16, 0, 0, -6) -> center offset (-6, +16).
 const SHADOW_OFFSET: Record<NodeKind, { x: number; y: number; radiusX: number; radiusY: number }> = {
-  tree: { x: -11, y: 26, radiusX: 32, radiusY: 16 },
+  tree: { x: -3, y: 7, radiusX: 8, radiusY: 4 },
-  bush: { x: -6, y: 16, radiusX: 20, radiusY: 10 },
+  bush: { x: -2, y: 5, radiusX: 7, radiusY: 3 },
 };
-// .entity.tree/.bush click padding (padding: Npx; margin: -Npx) expands the clickable area beyond
+// Expands the clickable area beyond the sprite's own box — approximated here as a circle for
-// the sprite's own box — approximated here as a circle for hit-testing (see GameCanvas).
+// hit-testing (see GameCanvas).
 export const NODE_CLICK_RADIUS: Record<NodeKind, number> = {
-  tree: NODE_SIZES.tree / 2 + 12,
+  tree: 11,
-  bush: NODE_SIZES.bush / 2 + 8,
+  bush: 9,
 };
 
 interface NodeVisual {
@@ -30,11 +27,9 @@ interface NodeVisual {
  * live node) — entities are added/removed as nodes are chopped down or grown in. */
 export class NodesView {
   private readonly visuals = new Map<string, NodeVisual>();
-  private readonly app: Application;
   private readonly entities: Container;
 
-  constructor(app: Application, entities: Container) {
+  constructor(entities: Container) {
-    this.app = app;
     this.entities = entities;
   }
 
@@ -79,10 +74,9 @@ export class NodesView {
     const offset = SHADOW_OFFSET[kind];
     const shadow = createShadow(offset.radiusX, offset.radiusY);
 
-    const info = getSpriteTexture(this.app, NODE_SPRITES[kind]);
+    const info = getSpriteTexture(NODE_SPRITES[kind]);
     const sprite = new Sprite(info.texture);
     sprite.anchor.set(0.5);
-    applySpriteSize(sprite, info, NODE_SIZES[kind]);
 
     this.entities.addChild(shadow, sprite);
     const visual: NodeVisual = { shadow, sprite };

src/pixi/entities/RabbitsView.ts

@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
-import { Container, Graphics, Sprite, type Application } from 'pixi.js';
+import { Container, Graphics, Sprite } from 'pixi.js';
 import type { GameStore } from '../../game/GameStore';
 import { RABBIT_NIGHT_SPRITE, RABBIT_SPRITE } from '../../game/sprites';
 import { chopShakeOffset } from '../animations';
 import { createHealthBar, setHealthBarPosition, updateHealthBar } from '../healthBar';
 import { drawShadow } from '../shadow';
-import { applySpriteSize, getSpriteTexture } from '../textures';
+import { getSpriteTexture } from '../textures';
 
-const RABBIT_SIZE = 30;
+/** The rabbit sprite's own native width (its grid's col count) — the "nominal" size shadow/hp-bar/
+ * click geometry below is expressed relative to; blood moon doubles it via a real sprite.scale
+ * (see sync()), a deliberate visual size cue rather than a rendering-resolution artifact. */
+const RABBIT_SIZE = 14;
+const RABBIT_GAP = 3;
 
 /** Click radius (px) for hit-testing a rabbit at its current size — used by GameCanvas. */
 export function rabbitClickRadius(store: GameStore): number {
   const size = store.isBloodMoon ? RABBIT_SIZE * 2 : RABBIT_SIZE;
-  return size / 2 + 6;
+  return size / 2 + RABBIT_GAP;
 }
 
 interface RabbitVisual {
@@ -30,12 +34,10 @@ interface RabbitVisual {
  * night/blood-moon. */
 export class RabbitsView {
   private readonly visuals = new Map<string, RabbitVisual>();
-  private readonly app: Application;
   private readonly entities: Container;
   private readonly healthBars: Container;
 
-  constructor(app: Application, entities: Container, healthBars: Container) {
+  constructor(entities: Container, healthBars: Container) {
-    this.app = app;
     this.entities = entities;
     this.healthBars = healthBars;
   }
@@ -60,12 +62,13 @@ export class RabbitsView {
       visual.shadow.position.set(rabbit.x, rabbit.y + size * 0.6);
       visual.shadow.zIndex = rabbit.y - 1;
 
+      const info = getSpriteTexture(store.isNight ? RABBIT_NIGHT_SPRITE : RABBIT_SPRITE);
       if (visual.isNightSprite !== store.isNight) {
-        const info = getSpriteTexture(this.app, store.isNight ? RABBIT_NIGHT_SPRITE : RABBIT_SPRITE);
         visual.sprite.texture = info.texture;
         visual.isNightSprite = store.isNight;
       }
-      applySpriteSize(visual.sprite, getSpriteTexture(this.app, store.isNight ? RABBIT_NIGHT_SPRITE : RABBIT_SPRITE), size);
+      // Only the blood-moon ×2 ever scales this sprite — everything else renders at native 1:1.
+      visual.sprite.scale.set(store.isBloodMoon ? 2 : 1);
 
       const drawY = rabbit.y - rabbit.z;
       visual.sprite.zIndex = drawY;
@@ -82,7 +85,7 @@ export class RabbitsView {
       visual.healthBar.visible = damaged;
       if (damaged) {
         updateHealthBar(visual.healthBar, rabbit.hp / store.rabbitMaxHp);
-        setHealthBarPosition(visual.healthBar, rabbit.x, drawY - size * 0.5 - 6);
+        setHealthBarPosition(visual.healthBar, rabbit.x, drawY - size * 0.5 - RABBIT_GAP);
       }
     }
 
@@ -102,10 +105,9 @@ export class RabbitsView {
     const shadow = new Graphics();
     drawShadow(shadow, RABBIT_SIZE / 2, RABBIT_SIZE / 4);
 
-    const info = getSpriteTexture(this.app, RABBIT_SPRITE);
+    const info = getSpriteTexture(RABBIT_SPRITE);
     const sprite = new Sprite(info.texture);
     sprite.anchor.set(0.5);
-    applySpriteSize(sprite, info, RABBIT_SIZE);
 
     const healthBar = createHealthBar();
 

src/pixi/healthBar.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ import { Graphics } from 'pixi.js';
 /** Matches `.health-bar`/`.health-bar__fill` in App.css. */
 const WIDTH = 28;
 const HEIGHT = 5;
+const BORDER_WIDTH = 1;
+// The fill sits inside the border's own inner edge, not flush with the bar's outer bounds — Pixi
+// centers a stroke on its path by default (half the stroke width paints inward), so a fill drawn
+// flush to (0,0)-(WIDTH,HEIGHT) would paint over that inward half on the top/bottom/left edges,
+// visibly overlapping the border. The original CSS version didn't have this problem: `.health-
+// bar__fill` was a child div sized to the *parent's content box*, which excludes its border by
+// definition.
+const INNER_WIDTH = WIDTH - BORDER_WIDTH * 2;
+const INNER_HEIGHT = HEIGHT - BORDER_WIDTH * 2;
 
 export function createHealthBar(): Graphics {
   return new Graphics();
@@ -16,13 +25,18 @@ export function updateHealthBar(g: Graphics, ratio: number): void {
   g.clear();
   g.rect(0, 0, WIDTH, HEIGHT)
     .fill({ color: 0x000000, alpha: 0.5 })
-    .stroke({ width: 1, color: 0x1b1611 });
+    .stroke({ width: BORDER_WIDTH, color: 0x1b1611 });
   if (clamped > 0)
-    g.rect(0, 0, WIDTH * clamped, HEIGHT).fill(0x4caf50);
+    g.rect(BORDER_WIDTH, BORDER_WIDTH, INNER_WIDTH * clamped, INNER_HEIGHT).fill(0x4caf50);
 }
 
 /** Positions a health bar so (x, yAboveSprite) is its bottom-center, same anchor as the original
- * CSS transform. */
+ * CSS transform. Rounded to the nearest whole world-pixel: a vector shape rasterized (without
+ * antialiasing — see PixelPerfectWorld) at a fractional position can flip a full pixel row in or
+ * out depending on exactly where the fraction falls, and `yAboveSprite` tracks a jumping rabbit's
+ * continuously-changing height — left unrounded, the bar's fill visibly "jumps" a pixel in height
+ * frame to frame for as long as the jump lasts (most noticeable there specifically, since the
+ * position — and so the sub-pixel fraction — is otherwise constant while idle). */
 export function setHealthBarPosition(g: Graphics, x: number, yAboveSprite: number): void {
-  g.position.set(x - WIDTH / 2, yAboveSprite - HEIGHT);
+  g.position.set(Math.round(x - WIDTH / 2), Math.round(yAboveSprite - HEIGHT));
 }

src/pixi/textures.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Graphics, type Application, type Sprite, type Texture } from 'pixi.js';
+import { BufferImageSource, Texture } from 'pixi.js';
 import type { PixelGrid } from '../game/sprites';
 
 export interface SpriteTextureInfo {
@@ -8,42 +8,74 @@ export interface SpriteTextureInfo {
 }
 
 // PixelGrid constants are module-level singletons in game/sprites.ts, so a WeakMap keyed on the
-// grid reference caches one baked texture per sprite for the app's whole lifetime.
+// grid reference caches one baked texture per sprite for the page's whole lifetime. Safe to share
+// across every Application/renderer the page ever creates (see the doc comment below) — unlike an
+// RenderTexture baked via `renderer.generateTexture()` (a GPU-side render target tied to whichever
+// renderer produced it, invalidated when that renderer is destroyed — see GameCanvas.destroy()),
+// a texture built from a plain CPU-side buffer has no such binding: each renderer independently
+// uploads its own GPU copy from the same buffer on first use.
 const cache = new WeakMap<PixelGrid, SpriteTextureInfo>();
 
-/** Bakes a PixelGrid (a per-cell CSS-color grid, see game/sprites.ts) into a GPU texture once,
+function parseHexColor(hex: string): [r: number, g: number, b: number] {
- * reusing it for every sprite instance of that kind. `scaleMode: 'nearest'` keeps upscaled edges
+  const n = Number.parseInt(hex.slice(1), 16);
- * crisp/blocky, matching the original SVG rects' `shapeRendering="crispEdges"`. */
+  return [(n >> 16) & 0xff, (n >> 8) & 0xff, n & 0xff];
-export function getSpriteTexture(app: Application, grid: PixelGrid): SpriteTextureInfo {
+}
+
+/** Bakes a PixelGrid (a per-cell CSS-color grid, see game/sprites.ts) into a texture built
+ * directly from a raw RGBA buffer — one call, one texel per cell, deterministic `cols x rows`
+ * dimensions. Every sprite is drawn at this native size (no per-sprite scale.set(...) — a plain
+ * `new Sprite(info.texture)` renders at literal 1:1, one texel per world-pixel), so a rabbit's
+ * pixel and a tree's pixel are physically the same size; entity views scale up only for the rare
+ * deliberate exception (e.g. a blood-moon rabbit's ×2 — see RabbitsView.sync()).
+ *
+ * Deliberately NOT `Graphics.rect(x,y,1,1).fill(color)` per cell followed by
+ * `renderer.generateTexture()`, which has two sharp edges: (1) without an explicit `frame`,
+ * `generateTexture` crops to the *drawn content's bounding box*, not the full grid — a sprite
+ * with a fully-transparent edge row/column (common; several of ours have one) bakes a texture
+ * smaller than `cols x rows`, silently mismatching code that assumes the texture *is* `cols x
+ * rows` (as sizing code necessarily must, native or not); and (2) `generateTexture`'s
+ * `resolution` defaults to the *renderer's* resolution, so the same grid bakes to a different
+ * texel size on a HiDPI display, which — combined with (1) — is exactly the kind of "some pixel
+ * rows are a different height than others" artifact this class exists to rule out. A raw buffer
+ * has neither problem: its dimensions are exactly `cols x rows` by construction, and it carries
+ * no renderer/resolution dependency of its own (`resolution: 1` here just labels the buffer's own
+ * texel grid — nothing display-related reads it). It also can't pick up the antialiased edge
+ * bleed `Graphics` fills can have between adjacent same-or-different-colored rects — each texel
+ * is one flat byte4, no rasterization involved. */
+export function getSpriteTexture(grid: PixelGrid): SpriteTextureInfo {
   const cached = cache.get(grid);
   if (cached)
     return cached;
 
   const rows = grid.length;
   const cols = grid[0]?.length ?? 0;
-  const g = new Graphics();
+  const data = new Uint8Array(cols * rows * 4);
   for (let y = 0; y < rows; y++) {
     for (let x = 0; x < cols; x++) {
       const color = grid[y][x];
-      if (color)
+      if (!color)
-        g.rect(x, y, 1, 1).fill(color);
+        continue;
+      const [r, g, b] = parseHexColor(color);
+      const i = (y * cols + x) * 4;
+      data[i] = r;
+      data[i + 1] = g;
+      data[i + 2] = b;
+      data[i + 3] = 255;
     }
   }
 
-  const texture = app.renderer.generateTexture({
+  const texture = new Texture({
-    target: g,
+    source: new BufferImageSource({
-    textureSourceOptions: { scaleMode: 'nearest' },
+      resource: data,
+      width: cols,
+      height: rows,
+      format: 'rgba8unorm',
+      scaleMode: 'nearest',
+      resolution: 1,
+    }),
   });
-  g.destroy();
 
   const info: SpriteTextureInfo = { texture, cols, rows };
   cache.set(grid, info);
   return info;
 }
-
-/** Sizes a sprite the same way PixelSprite.tsx did: `size` is the display width, height follows
- * the grid's own row/col aspect ratio. */
-export function applySpriteSize(sprite: Sprite, info: SpriteTextureInfo, size: number): void {
-  sprite.width = size;
-  sprite.height = info.cols > 0 ? size * (info.rows / info.cols) : size;
-}