v0.094 — Mani Wheel Prayer Barrier Overhaul

✨ Visual Overhaul

New Bespoke Shaders — The Mani Wheel no longer shares the generic scan-line shader with other towers. Three new shaders give it a unique Tibetan Buddhist identity:

• Cinnabar Hood & Base — Vibrant red cinnabar with patina noise and warm blood-orange fresnel rim. Glows brighter when enemies are in range.

• Golden Tibetan Script — Pixelated block-glyph characters scroll around the prayer wheel body, emitting a warm golden glow. Characters feature stems, crossbars, descender hooks, and vowel marks — procedurally generated to evoke OM MANI PADME HUM.

• Inner Divot — Deep charcoal gap between the hood and text band creates visual depth.

🔮 Prayer Barrier AoE

Orbiting Text Cylinder — The old flat orange range circle has been replaced with a standing cylinder of orbiting Tibetan prayer text at the tower's range boundary.

• Text scrolls around the circumference like a protective mantra barrier

• Dual-layer parallax creates depth illusion — front text bright, back text dim

• Fresnel shading makes front-facing text glow, side-turning text recede

• Soft edge fade at top and bottom for a floating, ethereal look

• Scales automatically with range buffs

👁️ Per-Enemy Slow VFX

Mini Prayer Barrier on Slowed Enemies — When an enemy enters the Mani Wheel's range and receives the slow debuff, a small golden prayer text cylinder wraps around them.

• Fades in smoothly when slow first applies

• Persists while the enemy remains slowed

• Fades out gracefully when the slow decays

• Debuff animation now plays once on first application, not every tick (no more animation spam)

• Old slow ticker icon removed — the prayer barrier IS the indicator