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AldoandClaude Opus 5.5 57d98307a7 Skater: FPV drone mode
An FPV drone flown from the free camera: real quad physics (thrust,
gravity, drag, Betaflight "Actual" rates), collisions with the world, and
a goggle-style display. Open it with `dronemenu` (or the drone window's
Start flying).

Flying
- Keyboard and mouse, gamepads, or USB RC radios (EdgeTX etc. in Joystick
  mode). "Set up controller" learns each stick and switch by asking for
  one at a time, reversed axes and springing gamepad throttles included.
  While a controller flies the drone, the game is kept off it, as
  freecam's controller mode does.
- Presets (Tinywhoop, Toothpick, 5 inch), arm/disarm, back to takeoff,
  and every setting live through `dronetune`, saved in the profile.
- Optional range: the picture breaks up and is lost with distance from
  the takeoff point; past it, failsafe cuts the motors.
- OSD, on-screen sticks, an analogue video look, synthesised motor sound.
- Goggles: the pilot's skater wears eyewear from the game's catalog while
  flying, and gets their own back on landing (Road Rash aware).
- Start flying hides the game UI, Stop flying brings it back.

Multiplayer
- New packet `drone` (36): where a player's drone is and which way it
  faces, 15 times a second, unreliable, relayed like effects. Markers
  glide between updates. Protocol version 52.
- FLYING DRONE above the name of a player who is flying.
- Players choose whether to share their drone and whether to see others'.
- Dedicated servers: `sync_drones` (players section) and `drones on|off`.
  Off: no drone packets are relayed, and players are told in the roster.

Changes to existing code
- `flyspeed` takes any speed from 0.6 to 1500, not only the seven listed
  (the drone's presets and top speed slider use speeds of their own).
- Overlay: begin/end_input_access, so the drone's controller read sees
  the device while the game is kept off it.
- Profile: local_surface_hit, the park editor's ray from one point to
  another, for the drone's collisions.

Tests: Skater/Test/drone_radio_tests (controller setup), and the drone
packet and roster rule in Multiplayer/Test/protocol_tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MArBL6UbYZPsp9rMnq2Ks5
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