Rasterize the Arial atlas 2x finer than the em metrics so large names have straighter, cleaner edges (the 48px atlas wobbled under the screen-space edge sharpening). The name shader now derives glyph UVs from glyph-size / atlas-pixels-per-em, so metrics stay in 48-em space and flag/icon sizing is unchanged; for the MSDF atlas this is identical to the old precomputed UV. Also lighten the coverage erosion so strokes are a bit thicker.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
NamePass can now render player names and troop counts in an Arial bitmap font as an alternative to the overpass-bold MSDF font, toggled live via settings.name.classicFont (mirrors the structure-level font toggle).
The Arial atlas is built once at runtime with canvas 2D (there is no Arial asset to ship): each glyph is rasterized, its tight bbox found by a pixel scan, and the glyphs shelf-packed into a coverage atlas. It emits a ParsedAtlas with the same em size (48) and baseline (36) as the MSDF atlas, so it flows through the existing glyph-table/metrics/layout code and leaves name sizing, hit-testing, flag offsets and the icon/status passes unchanged. The name shader gains a uClassic branch that tints the coverage mask with the fill color (no outline, matching the old DOM-rendered names). On toggle, all name/troop lines are re-laid-out since glyph advances differ between the fonts.
Exposed as name.classicFont in GraphicsOverrides (default false = MSDF) with a Classic Names toggle in the graphics settings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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").
## 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
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 Pelle