feat(vf): add TileRgb, TileSpec and TilePixel

core/include/vf/TilePalette.h

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+#pragma once
+
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "Block.h"
+
+namespace vf {
+
+// Eight bit colour, the unit every tile is built from. Alpha is deliberately
+// absent: only the sampler decides where a tile is cut away, and it decides it
+// per pixel from the pattern, not from a colour the palette carries around.
+struct TileRgb {
+    uint8_t r = 0;
+    uint8_t g = 0;
+    uint8_t b = 0;
+};
+
+inline bool operator==(const TileRgb& a, const TileRgb& b) {
+    return a.r == b.r && a.g == b.g && a.b == b.b;
+}
+
+inline bool operator!=(const TileRgb& a, const TileRgb& b) { return !(a == b); }
+
+// What the surface is made of. The material never picks a colour; it shapes the
+// grain that runs over whatever the pattern laid down, and its amplitude is the
+// spec's noise value. A tile with zero noise therefore has no grain at all,
+// whatever its material says.
+enum class TileMaterial : uint8_t {
+    Stone,
+    Soil,
+    Wood,
+    Foliage,
+    Metal,
+    Crystal,
+    Fabric,
+    Fluid,
+    Light,
+    Organic,
+    Count,
+};
+
+// The large scale shape drawn across the tile before the material grain.
+enum class TilePattern : uint8_t {
+    Solid,        // one colour with accent blotches drifting through it
+    OreSpeckle,   // veins of accent over the host rock, rimmed dark
+    Brick,        // courses with mortar, every other row offset by half a brick
+    Plank,        // boards with seams and grain running along the board
+    Lattice,      // rails and rungs, or a full grid, with gaps between them
+    EdgeBand,     // a band of accent along one edge with a ragged fringe
+    GrowthRings,  // concentric rings around the tile centre
+    Dots,         // scattered round dots on a jittered cell grid
+    Strata,       // layer bands across the tile, warped along their length
+    Splatter,     // irregular blobs of accent, rimmed dark
+    Liquid,       // travelling wave crests with ripple on top
+    Cross,        // a plant sprite: stalk plus leaves, the rest cut away
+    Web,          // radial spokes and rings, the rest cut away
+    Pane,         // a frame with glints, the middle cut away
+    Count,
+};
+
+// One row of the palette. scale and density are pattern relative, both in the
+// 0..1 range:
+//   scale    feature size (vein width, board width, ring spacing, dot radius)
+//   density  how much of the tile the feature covers
+//   vertical the pattern's main axis runs along Y instead of X
+//   flipped  pattern variant: EdgeBand bands the far edge, Lattice draws a full
+//            grid instead of two rails, Plank shifts its board tinting
+//   cutout   the pattern's gaps become alpha 0 instead of shaded backdrop
+struct TileSpec {
+    TileRgb base{160, 160, 160};
+    TileRgb accent{160, 160, 160};
+    float noise = 0.10f;
+    TilePattern pattern = TilePattern::Solid;
+    TileMaterial material = TileMaterial::Stone;
+    float scale = 0.5f;
+    float density = 0.5f;
+    bool vertical = false;
+    bool flipped = false;
+    bool cutout = false;
+    const char* name = "";
+};
+
+// The registry: one TileSpec for every tile id Block.h hands out, indexed by
+// that id. Built as data rather than as a switch so the whole table can be
+// walked in a test instead of sampled at a few well chosen points.
+class TilePalette {
+public:
+    TilePalette();
+
+    const TileSpec& specFor(int tile) const;
+    int size() const { return static_cast<int>(rows.size()); }
+    const std::vector<TileSpec>& specs() const { return rows; }
+
+private:
+    std::vector<TileSpec> rows;
+};
+
+} // namespace vf