The hovered player (tile owner under the cursor, already tracked via
uHighlightOwnerID for cull bypass) now gets a soft white glow behind
their name. The glow is derived from the MSDF distance field: a white
band past the outline with quadratic falloff, composited behind the
glyph and clamped to the SDF margin so it never clips at quad edges.
Glow size and strength are tunable via hoverGlowWidth/hoverGlowAlpha
in render-settings.json, exposed as sliders in the graphics settings
modal (persisted as graphics overrides) and in the debug GUI.
Includes schema and apply tests for the new override fields,
covering the 0 edge case (0 disables the glow, not "unset").
Local-player rails previously rendered in the white focused-border color
from the palette, making them hard to see on light territory. Rails now
use a dedicated local rail color: white normally, flipped to black when
the territory backdrop is too light for white to read against (patterns
average their primary/secondary brightness).
Also add a railThickness render setting (0.5-3, default 1), exposed in
the Graphics Settings modal and the debug GUI, and persisted via
GraphicsOverrides. In the medium-zoom LOD, rails are now drawn as
screen-space anti-aliased lines around each tile's rail centerline,
accumulated from the 3x3 neighborhood so thick lines spill cleanly into
neighboring tiles; detailed mode scales its sub-grid band widths.
- PlayerView: compute railColor() (white/black by backdrop brightness)
- RailroadPass/shader: uLocalPlayerID, uLocalRailColor, uRailThickness
- render-settings.json, RenderSettings, GraphicsOverrides,
RenderOverrides: new railroad.railThickness knob
- GraphicsSettingsModal: "Train track thickness" slider (+ en.json keys)
- tests: schema + apply coverage for railroad overrides
Expose two new user-configurable map-overlay controls in the graphics
settings modal: territory saturation (mutes fill colors toward grayscale)
and territory opacity (lets terrain show through the fill).
The territory fragment shader blends the fill toward its luminance based
on uSaturation and applies uTerritoryAlpha as the absolute fill opacity.
Both are wired through RenderSettings, the GraphicsOverrides schema,
applyGraphicsOverrides, the debug Layout sliders, and TerritoryPass
uniforms, with defaults (saturation 1, alpha 0.588) in render-settings.json.
Adds the corresponding en.json label/description strings.
## Description:
- The renderer no longer knows what "dark mode" is.
`RenderSettings.dayNight.mode` (`"light" | "dark"`) is gone — passes
read neutral values (`lighting.ambient: number`, `lighting.enabled:
boolean`).
- `render-settings.json` holds the light-mode baseline. Dark mode is
just another override layer, applied the same way as graphics settings
(`darkNames`, `classicIcons`, etc.).
- New `src/client/render/gl/RenderOverrides.ts` exposes two in-place
mutators with matching shapes:
- `applyGraphicsOverrides(settings, overrides)` — replaces the old
`generateRenderSettings`
- `applyDarkModeOverride(settings, isDark)`
- `ClientGameRunner` regenerates the live settings each time the user
setting changes via `deepAssign(live, createRenderSettings())` + the
override chain. No per-slice copy list, no intermediate object — adding
a new override that touches a new section just works.
- Renamed `dayNight` → `lighting`; collapsed `nightAmbient`/`dayAmbient`
into single `ambient`; renamed `enableLightCompositing` → `enabled`.
- Bumped dark-mode ambient from 0.15 → 0.35 so terrain stays readable.
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## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
evan
Adds a "Classic icons" toggle in the structure-icons section of the
Graphics Settings modal. Off (default) keeps today's renderer look;
on switches to a classic style — lighter player-colored shape behind
a dark icon glyph, with 0.75 alpha for a subtle translucent feel.
Exposes the underlying tuning as new render-settings knobs
(`structure.fillDarken`, `borderDarken`, `iconAlpha`, `iconR/G/B`) and
threads them through the structure shader as uniforms, replacing the
previously hardcoded `darken(_, 0.65)` / `darken(_, 0.35)` calls and
the hardcoded white `vec3(1.0)` icon color. The `classicIcons` boolean
in the override schema is the single user-facing knob; the generator
derives the five underlying field values from it. Extends the
ClientGameRunner live-apply path to copy the `structure` slice too,
and adds tests covering the schema and preset derivation.
Adds a single "Name color" toggle (Colored / Black) to the Graphics
Settings modal, backed by a `darkNames` boolean in the override schema
that derives the five underlying name-rendering fields
(fill/outline player-color flags + static outline RGB). Forcing the
outline RGB to 0 in dark mode is what makes the shader's defaultFill
ramp actually render black — flipping the boolean uniforms alone
wasn't enough because the fill is derived from uOutlineColor when
fillUsePlayerColor is false.
Flips the render-settings.json defaults so black names are the
renderer baseline; the modal's no-override state follows the JSON
source of truth. Adds tests covering schema parse behavior and the
generateRenderSettings derivation for each override field.
evanpelle