Randomly assign asteroid spawning positions

I need to close the circle down to touch the corners of the play area,
but this demonstrates the principle.

Next, I need to generate a velocity and "fix" it so that the asteroid
crosses through the viewport. I left a TODO about this, which I think
will work well enough. Although it might allow for some asteroids to
slip past, or bias the density in a funny way.

Oh well, it's just an Asteroids game.

Cargo.toml

@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ edition = "2021"
 [dependencies]
 bevy = { version = "0.16", features = ["dynamic_linking"] }
 bevy-inspector-egui = "0.32.0"
+rand = "0.9.2"

src/asteroids.rs

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
+use rand::{Rng, SeedableRng};
 use std::time::Duration;
 
 /// This is the module containing all the rock-related things
 /// not... not the whole game.
 use bevy::prelude::*;
 
-use crate::{GameAssets, Position, Rotation, Velocity};
+use crate::{GameAssets, Position, Rotation, Velocity, WorldSize};
 
 #[derive(Component, Deref, DerefMut)]
 pub struct Asteroid(AsteroidSize);
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ pub enum AsteroidSize {
 
 #[derive(Resource)]
 pub struct AsteroidSpawner {
+    rng: std::sync::Mutex<rand::rngs::StdRng>,
     timer: Timer,
     // TODO: Configurables?
     // - interval
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ pub struct AsteroidSpawner {
 impl AsteroidSpawner {
     pub fn new() -> Self {
         Self {
+            rng: std::sync::Mutex::new(rand::rngs::StdRng::from_seed(crate::config::RNG_SEED)),
             timer: Timer::new(Duration::from_secs(3), TimerMode::Repeating),
         }
     }
@@ -45,14 +48,43 @@ pub fn tick_asteroid_manager(
     mut events: EventWriter<SpawnAsteroid>,
     mut spawner: ResMut<AsteroidSpawner>,
     time: Res<Time>,
+    play_area: Res<WorldSize>,
 ) {
     spawner.timer.tick(time.delta());
     if spawner.timer.just_finished() {
-        events.write(SpawnAsteroid {
+        let mut rng = spawner
-            pos: Vec2::ZERO,
+            .rng
-            vel: Vec2::new(0.0, 40.0),
+            .lock()
-            size: AsteroidSize::Small,
+            .expect("Expected to acquire lock on the AsteroidSpawner's RNG field.");
-        });
+
+        // Use polar coordinate to decide where the asteroid will spawn
+        // Theta will be random between 0 to 2pi
+        let spawn_angle = rng.random_range(0.0..(std::f32::consts::PI * 2.0));
+        // Rho will be the radius of a circle bordering the viewport, multiplied by 1.2
+        // TODO: Use view diagonal to get a minimally sized circle around the play area
+        let spawn_distance = play_area.width.max(play_area.height) / 2.0;
+
+        // Convert polar to Cartesian, use as position
+        let pos = Vec2::new(
+            spawn_distance * spawn_angle.cos(),
+            spawn_distance * spawn_angle.sin(),
+        );
+
+        // TODO: Assign velocity such that asteroids will (probably) cross the viewport
+        // Right now, I'm thinking I can use the opposite signs attached to the position Vec components.
+        // pos.x == -100, then vel.x = + <random>
+        // pos.x == 100, then vel.x = - <random>
+        // etc,
+        let vel = Vec2::new(rng.random_range(-10.0..10.0), rng.random_range(-10.0..10.0));
+
+        let size = match rng.random_range(0..=2) {
+            0 => AsteroidSize::Small,
+            1 => AsteroidSize::Medium,
+            2 => AsteroidSize::Large,
+            _ => unreachable!(),
+        };
+
+        events.write(SpawnAsteroid { pos, vel, size });
     }
 }
 

src/config.rs

@@ -16,3 +16,5 @@ pub(crate) const ASTEROID_SMALL_COLOR: Color = Color::srgb(1.0, 0., 0.);
 
 pub(crate) const SHIP_THRUST: f32 = 1.0;
 pub(crate) const SHIP_ROTATION: f32 = 0.1; // +/- rotation speed in... radians per frame
+
+pub const RNG_SEED: [u8; 32] = *b"12345678909876543210123456789098";