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Changed Actomyosin to only affect base movement speed instead of also improving speed from flagella.
Made Axon available in Multicellular, and gave it the ability to boost all movement speed bonuses from organelles (right now that's just flagella and Actomyosin).

The Axon consumes ATP to do the above.

Changed actomyosin to only affect base rotation speed instead of also improving speed from cilia.
Gave Axon the ability to boost all rotation bonuses from organelles (right now that's just Cilia and Actomyosin).

The Axon is unlocked by having 5 Actomyosin, Flagella or Cilia.

This ended up also including some bugfixes and fidelity upgrades:

  • Membrane properties no longer affect organelle propulsion.
  • Membrane properties are no longer applied to base speed twice.
  • CellBodyPlanInternalCalculations' Calculate Speed now uses shapemasses/estimates for both the base speed and organelle propulsion of all cells including the leader. (instead of only using the mass from the leader for base speeds)
  • The above when called from auto-evo now uses a massestimate instead of (the leader's) shapemass.

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https://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/axon-nerve-cells-for-the-multicellular-stage/1273

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  • New Features
    • Axons now occupy a larger footprint and appear in the Multicellular organelle group.
    • Axons can boost movement for individual microbes and colonies, with effects influenced by cell specialization and axons across colony members.
    • Axon movement boosts consume ATP and activate when sufficient energy is available.
    • Axons can affect both organelle-powered propulsion and base movement, including actomyosin bonuses.
    • Axons can influence colony rotation speed, while colony size continues to affect rotation.
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Axon definitions and energy accounting are added. Microbe movement uses ATP-gated axon activation and separate organelle propulsion. Multicellular speed and rotation calculations apply specialization-weighted axon multipliers.

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Axon movement coordination

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define axon properties and eligibility
simulation_parameters/Constants.cs, simulation_parameters/microbe_stage/organelles.json, src/microbe_stage/OrganelleDefinition.cs, src/auto-evo/selection_pressure/PredationEffectivenessPressure.cs
The axon footprint expands to seven hexes. Its unlock conditions, uniqueness, editor group, and button order change. The myofibril button order also changes. Constants define axon energy, movement, and rotation values. Organelle definitions expose whether an organelle has the axon feature, and predation mutations can add an axon-feature organelle.
Track axon presence
src/microbe_stage/components/OrganelleContainer.cs
The container stores and archives axon presence. Layout statistics set the flag when an organelle has the axon feature.
Account for axon energy costs
src/microbe_stage/EnergyBalanceInfoSimple.cs, src/microbe_stage/systems/ProcessSystem.cs, src/multicellular_stage/editor/MulticellularEditor.cs, src/gui_common/tooltip/ToolTipManager.tscn
Energy-balance calculations include axon costs, and the multicellular editor aggregates them. An axon tooltip instance is added.
Apply axon bonuses to movement
src/microbe_stage/systems/MicrobeMovementSystem.cs, src/multicellular_stage/CellBodyPlanInternalCalculations.cs, src/microbe_stage/MicrobeInternalCalculations.cs, src/auto-evo/simulation/SimulationCache.cs
Microbe movement gates axon activation on ATP and separates organelle propulsion from base force. Multicellular speed calculations weight axons by specialization and use estimated or shape-based mass. Auto-evo passes estimate mode for multicellular speed calculations.
Apply colony rotation multipliers
src/microbe_stage/MicrobeInternalCalculations.cs, src/microbe_stage/components/MicrobeColony.cs, src/multicellular_stage/CellBodyPlanInternalCalculations.cs, test/code_tests/MulticellularStage.Tests/CellBodyPlanInternalCalculationsTests.cs
Rotation calculations apply organelle bonuses to cilia and base rotation. Colony calculations use specialization-weighted axon and actomyosin multipliers, and the test checks the cell-count penalty.
Show colony movement modifiers
src/gui_common/tooltip/ToolTipManager.cs
Tooltip modifier entries distinguish actomyosin base movement effects from axon organelle effects.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MicrobeMovementSystem
  participant OrganelleContainer
  participant ProcessSystem
  MicrobeMovementSystem->>OrganelleContainer: Read axon presence
  MicrobeMovementSystem->>ProcessSystem: Obtain ATP for axon activation
  ProcessSystem-->>MicrobeMovementSystem: Return obtained ATP
  MicrobeMovementSystem->>MicrobeMovementSystem: Calculate propulsion with axon multiplier
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The main previously identified failures are corrected. A missing colony-member component can still leave rotation stale; this localized issue warrants a small recovery fix or explicit acceptance before merging.

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In `@src/microbe_stage/components/OrganelleContainer.cs`:
- Around line 684-685: Reset container.HasAxonFeature alongside the other
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🟠 Major · Apply the axon bonus to leader organelle propulsion. · CellBodyPlanInternalCalculations.cs:113

src/multicellular_stage/CellBodyPlanInternalCalculations.cs:113
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Apply the axon bonus to leader organelle propulsion.

If the leader has flagella and the colony has an axon, Line 113 leaves the leader’s flagella contribution unscaled unless actomyosin is also present. speed already combines the leader’s base and organelle force. Separate those contributions before applying the actomyosin bonus to base movement and the axon bonus to organelle movement. Otherwise the speed estimate misses an axon benefit that addedSpeed receives.

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public const float ACTOMYOSIN_ENERGY_COST = 12.0f;

/// <summary>
/// ATP cost per actomyosin organelle while a colony is moving.

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This comment doesn't seem to match the name of the variable.

// Higher values are slower, so this means that colony rotation is slower than single cell rotation
Assert.True(colonyRotationSpeed > singleCellRotationSpeed);

// But actomyosin is faster than single cell rotation and the colony rotation

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Why is actomyosin no longer guaranteed as speeding up rotation? Doesn't that mean that this PR breaks actomyosin?

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Actomyosin is still guaranteed to increase rotationspeed, but this test specifically only tests CalculateFinalColonyRotation, and actomyosin is obviously no longer a part of that method.

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May I ask why?

Also I tried to read this entire PR but all of the stuff mixed in is a bit much to be combined into a single PR...

Redoing what I did with actomyosin should be a separate PR, and only once that is approved then I would like to see the axon stuff being put in...

/// Total bonus that organelles should get to their functioning. This includes the cell specialization bonus,
/// but potentially also cell adjacency and axon bonuses.
/// </param>
/// <param name="useEstimate">If true, uses </param>

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There's an incomplete sentence here.

"FeatureTags": [
"Axon"
],
"ToleranceEffects": {

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Why remove this?

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I assumed it was just a random placeholder/test because:

  • It previously was not available in Macroscopic, so this only became relevant once I moved it to Multicellular.
  • For gameplay design, this is not functional, as there is no practical way to compensate for the decreased UV tolerance, and practically all surface patches require 100% of the slider.
  • ‎I don't see any particular biological justification for it.

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The second point is very fair. So as there's no way to counteract it, I guess it might as well be removed.

‎I don't see any particular biological justification for it.

I guess this is mostly because there's no need for it, but brain tissue is not suitable at all to resisting UV radiation so neuron cell types being destroyed easily by UV would be a pretty LAWK thing to have in the game.

Comment thread simulation_parameters/microbe_stage/organelles.json
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Localization.Translate("COLONY_BASE_SPEED_INCREASE");
Localization.Translate("COLONY_BASE_ROTATION_INCREASE");

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Why where these renamed to "base" values? The actomyosin buffs (at least before) acted as an overall multiplier, not just a multiplier on the base speeds. So that's why I made these different than the other "base" state increases.

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The PR description already points out that the actomyosin mechanics have been overhauled. In the current master, actomyosin indeed also multiplies the speed and rotation force gained from flagella and cilia, which is in my opinion bad and is not what was designed. It also eats up the design space that could be used by the Axon.

Perhaps it is better if you give other reviewers a chance to review this and later only make comments once you have been able to take a proper look at the PR?

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bad and is not what was designed

Well that's exactly what I did in my PR. So as you are basically undoing my work, could I please request a separate PR just for the undoing of my work? So that that can be discussed separately, please.

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I will try later today if I can find the time, the code in these movement systems was frankly a bit of a mess, and there were quite a few things I had to resolve along the way so I could actually implement the things I wanted to.

So, I will probably have to make a branch of this one and just revert the axon-specific things. Though it might be better to then also make another from that one for the fixes only.

The reason it was currently in this same PR is that the changes to actomyosin are required for the Axon to have a place in the game design.

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