Raw Patch Notes

- Added a moddable compact-element styling layer with black/white AssetDB palettes for boxes, checkmarks, X marks, slider lines/grabbers, narrow/wide dropdown rows, and directional arrows. Checkboxes and sliders layer textures on the GPU; context choices use one dropdown image per row and discard the classic outer context background.
- Ink windows apply the white-on-dark element palette to ordinary settings/forms, with explicit helpers for dynamic controls. Dense Jobs Work Hours cells and priority buttons intentionally remain on their precise programmatic grid styling.
- Fixed Godot 4.6 CheckBox compatibility: compact checkboxes no longer rely on the unsupported `icon_max_width` property. A transparent native icon preserves CheckBox layout/input while separate 28px box and checkmark TextureRects provide the authored visuals.
- UI element follow-up: ink-window scrollbars now use the white wide-dropdown stroke instead of Godot's grey line, right-click rows use black dropdown artwork with white text, slider artwork draws above any native remnants so its track remains white, and launch-screen buttons have a taller centered vertical spread. Jobs schedule/priority cells remain excluded.
- Increased styled scrollbar interaction geometry to a moddable 32px thickness with a 48px minimum grabber length, so `wide_dropdown_white` is not compressed into an impractically thin native scrollbar target.
- Removed redundant built-in TabContainer/ItemList/Tree panel backgrounds inside ink windows. This clears the secondary translucent rectangle visible in Jobs while preserving tabs, selection highlights, and the intentionally geometric Work Hours/priority grids.
- Changed Jobs Work Hours cell borders from near-black to white for readability on the ink frame; enabled hours remain blue and grid geometry is unchanged.
- Added variant-matched ink opening sequences: substantial interactive windows lazily load and play 15 frames over 0.5 real seconds on every open/reopen, then hand off to the full-resolution static frame. Rotation/stretching and shader presentation match the selected box, contents remain hidden/non-interactive during playback, and cancellation safely restores them if the window closes mid-animation.
- Placeholder start menu, loading hint/prompt, and transient notices explicitly skip animation. Pause and immediately created light-colour windows animate; reverse closing remains data-reserved but disabled.
- Corrected the world-selected Servant sheet after its ink-frame enlargement: its follow offset once again places it around head/upper-body height, and its complete bounds are clamped inside the viewport. Portrait-opened centered placement and opening animation behavior are unchanged.
- Replaced generic rectangular backgrounds on ordinary ink-window action buttons with the moddable `UIButtonBackground.png` style. Buttons now center around their text, use the authored 36/26/36/50px safe margins, and wrap rather than exceeding their ink content area; placement's plain Build/Inventory choices use the same reusable action presentation while genuine inventory rows, dropdowns, Jobs grids, and bottom HUD buttons remain specialized.
- Action-button tuning: increased shared text from the inherited 18px to 28px, established a 238×72 minimum rendered footprint so safe margins remain visually substantial, and corrected premature wrapping by allowing single-line labels to use that full safe width. Hover now matches the bottom HUD feel with a 120% text-only cubic scale over 0.5s plus a white shine/outline; the ink artwork remains stationary.
- Fixed action-button container layout: buttons no longer accept surplus vertical expansion, and the text overlay now derives its safe rectangle from the final rendered size, preventing tall/square pause buttons and clipped single-line labels. The placeholder launch menu now uses the bottom HUD's Brush Strokes font and redistributes its previous wide gaps into 24px inter-button spacing plus asymmetric 36px top/18px bottom insets.
- Corrective follow-up: restored action text to full-button anchoring with safe-area offsets and explicit foreground ordering after manual child positioning placed labels behind/below their buttons. Hover tween lookup now checks metadata existence before reading it, eliminating repeated Godot 4.6 `get_meta` errors on first hover.
- Hover simplification: removed the action label's separate margin-offset layout entirely. Like the proven lower HUD `MainUIButton`, the label now fills the button and scales around `button.size * 0.5`; margins remain solely responsible for sizing the background. This prevents hover text from expanding upward or drifting between adjacent buttons.
- Final action-button/animation settings pass: start-screen action text is now 35px; hover only performs the centered scale tween, while button-down applies the white shine and button-up clears it, matching lower HUD controls. Added a persisted, default-on `Ink Window Animations` checkbox under Pause → Settings; disabled windows skip frame loading/playback and show their static ink frame immediately.

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