## Description:
Player name plates can block the view of what's underneath them
(structures, units, terrain). This PR fades the entire name plate —
name, troop count, flag, and emoji/status row — to 25% opacity while the
cursor is over it, so you can see and click what's behind it.
**How it works:**
- `HoverHighlightController` pushes the cursor's world position into the
renderer on mouse move.
- `NamePass` hit-tests the cursor against each player's name plate
bounds on the CPU (mirroring the lerp/sizing math in `name.vert.glsl`)
and passes the matched player's ID to the text, icon, and status-icon
programs, which apply the alpha multiplier in their shaders.
**Graphics setting:**
- New "Name opacity under cursor" slider in the Graphics Settings modal
(Name Labels section), range 0–1, default 0.25. Setting it to 1 disables
the fade entirely.
- Wired through the existing `GraphicsOverrides` pipeline: changes apply
live and are cleared by "Reset to defaults".
- Tuning knob exposed as `name.hoverFadeAlpha` in `render-settings.json`
and the debug GUI.
## Please complete the following:
- [ ] 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
- [ ] 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
# Dynamic flag atlas (runtime TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY)
Replaces the build-time `flag-atlas.png` with a runtime
`TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY`
populated on demand from each player's server-resolved flag URL. Layers
are
deduped by URL (every "Mercia" bot shares one slot), so the per-game
working
set is bounded by unique flags, not player count.
## Why
The store will eventually ship hundreds of custom flags fetched from the
CDN,
which can't be baked into a static atlas. Moving to a runtime array also
lets
the catalog grow without bloating the client bundle.
## Side effect (bonus)
Human players' country flags (`country:US`, etc.) now display next to
their
names in-game. The old atlas only contained nation names, so non-nation
flags
were silently dropped.
## Notes
- Cell size is fixed at 128×85; loaded images are aspect-fit and
centered.
- Layer cap is 512 (clamped to `MAX_ARRAY_TEXTURE_LAYERS`). Past the
cap,
further flag requests render no icon.
- Mipmaps are regenerated after each layer upload.
- Recommend store pipeline caps custom flag uploads at SVG or PNG ≤
256×170,
≤ 50 KB (decode-time RAM and bandwidth, not VRAM).
## 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
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
evan
The render/ tree was the only place in the client still using kebab-case
filenames. Brings ~80 files in line with the rest of src/client/
(BuildPreviewController, TransformHandler, etc.). Directories kept as
they were (name-pass/, fx-pass/, passes/, utils/, debug/) since the
codebase already mixes those.
Two collisions surfaced and got resolved: render/types/ is a directory,
not a file, so its imports kept the lowercase form; and the sed pass
incidentally normalized core/pathfinding imports, which had to be
reverted since that file is actually lowercase on disk despite some
imports having referenced it as ./Types under macOS case-insensitive
resolution.
Evan