The local player's spawn ring was plain white, which was hard to see
against white mountain terrain. Recolor it to a bright gold so it stays
visible regardless of the terrain underneath, and make it stand out more
overall during the spawn phase:
- Recolor the self ring from white to a bright gold tint
- Keep the ring center transparent so your territory shows through,
ramping up to solid at the inner edge
- Raise the breathing opacity floor (35% -> 65%) so the ring stays more
solid through the dim part of the pulse
- Speed up the breathing animation and enlarge the self ring radii
## Description:
Add image-based territory skins as a new cosmetic type, rendered
alongside the existing 1-bit patterns. Skins render a single PNG
centered on each player's spawn tile — opaque pixels show the skin
(multiplied by team color in team games, raw colors in FFA), transparent
pixels and tiles outside the image bounds fall through to the regular
player palette color.
**Cosmetic plumbing**
- `SkinSchema` in `CosmeticSchemas.ts`, optional `skins` map on
`CosmeticsSchema`
- `PlayerSkin`, `PlayerCosmetics.skin`, `PlayerCosmeticRefs.skinName` in
`Schemas.ts`
- Server-side resolution: `PrivilegeCheckerImpl.isSkinAllowed` (gated by
`skin:*` / `skin:<name>` flares)
- Client persistence: stored under `PATTERN_KEY` (`pattern:` and `skin:`
share one slot — they're mutually exclusive)
- `getPlayerCosmeticsRefs` only emits a `skinName` when cosmetics are
loaded, the skin exists in the catalog, and the user has the right flare
— otherwise drops the ref and clears storage
**Renderer**
- `SkinAtlasArray` — fixed `TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY`, 1024×1024 per layer,
exact layer count allocated once at game start from the locked-in player
set. No resize, no callbacks, no retained `HTMLImageElement`. Zero GPU
cost when no players have skins (1×1 placeholder).
- `skinLayerTex` (R8UI 4096×1) — per-player `layer + 1` (`0` = no skin)
- `skinAnchorTex` (RG16UI 4096×1) — per-player spawn tile, so the PNG
center anchors at each player's spawn (re-uploads when the player
re-picks during spawn phase)
- `WebGLFrameBuilder.syncPlayers` collects unique skin URLs on first
sync and calls `view.initSkinAtlas(urls)` once; `clearCaches()` resets
so seek/replay re-initializes
- `territory.frag.glsl`: skin branch is mutually exclusive with
patterns; bounds-checks UVs against `[0, 1]` so the image is a single
stamp, not tiled; alpha-blends against the player palette color so
transparent pixels and out-of-bounds tiles render as the regular player
color
**Hover highlight (global UX change, not skin-scoped)**
- Existing hover highlight changed from "brighten toward white" to
"saturation boost." Applies to all players regardless of
skin/pattern/flat-color — looks better across the board.
**UI**
- `CosmeticButton` renders skins as a single `<img>` (object-contain)
- `TerritoryPatternsModal` merges patterns + skins into one grid; single
"default" tile clears both
- Selecting a pattern clears the skin and vice versa (mutually
exclusive)
- `Store` pattern tab includes skin entries (purchasable, not-yet-owned)
- `PatternInput` lobby button previews the active skin when one is set
**Memory**
- 0 skin players → ~4 bytes (placeholder) + ~40 KB fixed per-player
tables
- 1 skin player → ~5.6 MB GPU
- 5 skin players → ~28 MB GPU
- 10 skin players → ~56 MB GPU
**Tests**
- `tests/Privilege.test.ts`: 13 new cases covering `isSkinAllowed`
(wildcard, exact-match, missing flare, missing skin, forged refs) and
`isAllowed` integration (allowed/forbidden paths, short-circuit when
invalid skin is paired with valid other cosmetics)
## Please complete the following:
- [ ] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [ ] 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
- [ ] 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
# 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
## Description:
When WebGL context is lost, restore context and all elements.
In GameView, handle potentially transient undefined states during
context loss gracefully.
Test with chrome://gpucrash from another tab, then return to the game
tab to see it being restored
(This fake gpucrash only works once sometimes. Because the second time
the browser might reject the tab it thinks caused the gpu crash, access
to hardware acceleration. And after even more tries even disables it
browser-wide. A browser restart resets it in that case.)
## 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:
tryout33
## Description:
Display flags again.
## 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:
tryout33
Plumb spawnTile through PlayerUpdate / PlayerState / applyStateUpdate
so the WebGL spawn overlay can read it directly. The glow was reading
nameData.x/y (territory centroid for label placement) which only
recomputes every 2 ticks and only when largestClusterBoundingBox has
been updated by PlayerExecution — both lag the player's actual spawn
click. Using spawnTile updates the same tick setSpawnTile() fires.
Also adds spawnTile to diffPlayerUpdate / applyStateUpdate so changes
after the initial full snapshot actually propagate (the recent
diff-only PlayerUpdate path silently dropped any field not enumerated
in those helpers).
## Description:
Display territory skins (patterns) again.
## 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:
tryout33
Terrain was uploaded once at game start and treated as static — water
nukes (land → water conversion) mutated the sim's terrain bytes but
the rendered terrain stayed dry.
Plumbed a delta path: TerrainPass and RailroadPass each get
applyTerrainDelta(refs, bytes), Renderer + GameView forward, and
WebGLFrameBuilder pushes each tick from gameView.recentlyUpdatedTerrainTiles().
Per-tile encoding is shared via the new encodeTerrainTile helper in
ColorUtils so the startup full-map build and the per-tile delta updates
can't drift.
SpawnOverlayPass had everything wired except a caller. WebGLFrameBuilder
now collects spawned human players each tick during spawn phase and
pushes their territory centroid + color through view.updateSpawnOverlay.
myPlayer reads as white so the local-player ring stands out.
Reshaped the shader animation: dropped the growing-disc effect, gave
the ring a true breath — radius scales 0.5×→1.15× while opacity pulses
35%→100% in phase. Replaced the sharp inner-edge ramp with a smooth
center-to-boundary fill so there's no hard cutoff or empty hole in
the middle. animSpeed bumped to 0.0035 (~1 breath/sec).
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.
The hover wiring already pushed setHighlightOwner into the border pass,
but the WebGL canvas has pointer-events: none (post-migration to the
inputOverlay div) so MapInteraction's pointermove listener never fired.
Forward pointermove from the input overlay to view.handlePointerMove
so hover actually triggers.
While there, brighten every tile owned by the hovered player — the
territory frag shader now reads uHighlightOwner / uHighlightBrighten
and mixes toward white when the tile owner matches. Wired through
territory-pass.ts; renderer.setHighlightOwner forwards to both border
and territory passes. New highlightFillBrighten setting (0.15) keeps
the fill tint tunable independently of the existing highlightBrighten
border setting, which is dropped from 0.6 → 0.25 so neither effect
blows out.
PlayerView/UnitView now wrap renderer-shaped state objects (PlayerState,
PlayerStatic, UnitState) directly instead of holding engine wire types.
GameView owns a long-lived FrameData object kept in sync each tick:
players/units/tiles/trail/railroad are mutated in place; derived buffers
(playerStatus, relationMatrix, allianceClusters, nukeTelegraphs,
attackRings) and events are recomputed in a final populateFrame() pass.
The renderer reads gameView.frameData() and the same byte-identical
state objects PlayerView/UnitView wrap. WebGLFrameBuilder shrinks from
~270 to ~70 LOC: palette management + a single uploadFrameData() call,
no per-frame UnitState allocation on the hot path.
Wiring: maxPlayers=1024 on RendererConfig (pre-sizes NamePass/palette/
relation matrix textures); NamePass disabled so HTML NameLayer remains
the only on-screen player names.
Also: 39 new tests covering PlayerView/GameView/FrameData behavior;
replace .data field access in three layer call sites with accessor
methods (betrayals(), type(), getTraitorRemainingTicks()).
evanpelle