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Vivacious Box dcdfd7bad7 If player is localplayer, set structure border to territory color (#4366)
Resolves #4365

## Description:

Currently the border of icons are using borderColor which is grey for
local player

<img width="227" height="281" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9e334e19-c5b2-49ca-a85d-4576a5bbc1a9"
/>

This set it to territory color 
<img width="187" height="102" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9b9f27f9-69e2-4ae7-9f35-a789b56b45de"
/>

## 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
- [ ] 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:

Mr. Box
2026-06-21 15:15:01 -07:00
Evan 6159f1f186 Fix anonymous-names setting not hiding names on the map (#4345)
## Problem

Enabling the **hidden names** (anonymous names) setting hid names in the
leaderboard/HUD but **not on the map**.

The GL name renderer (`NamePass`) drew `slot.static.displayName` —
always the real name — and never consulted
`userSettings.anonymousNames()`. The HUD works because it calls
`PlayerView.displayName()` (which honors the setting) on each render,
but the names baked into the GPU texture bypassed that path entirely.

## Fix

Push the *resolved* name into the renderer instead of the raw static
name:

- **`WebGLFrameBuilder.syncPlayers`** registers each player with
`displayName: p.displayName()` (honors the setting) instead of
`static.displayName`. Covers enabling the setting before a game and
players who join after a toggle.
- **`WebGLFrameBuilder.refreshNames` → `MapRenderer` → `Renderer` →
`NamePass.refreshNames`** is a new path that re-resolves cached names
and forces a re-upload (resets `slot.nameLen = 0`, which also recomputes
the name half-width so it stays centered).
- **`ClientGameRunner`** listens for the `settings.anonymousNames`
change event and calls `refreshNames`, mirroring the existing
territory-patterns live toggle.

## Behavior

- Enabled before a game → players register with anonymous names.
- Toggled mid-game → map names flip to/from anonymous on the next sim
tick (~100ms), matching the leaderboard.
- Your own name is unaffected (unchanged — `PlayerView` maps the local
player's anonymous name to their real name).

## Testing

`tsc --noEmit` passes for all edited files. This is a WebGL rendering
change with no straightforward unit test; verified by tracing the data
flow (resolved name → cached `slot.static.displayName` → re-upload on
dirty).

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2026-06-18 14:22:31 -07:00
Evan c7fdc4ec2d Cap renderer device-pixel-ratio at 2 (#4339)
## What

Routes every renderer call site that read `window.devicePixelRatio`
through a single `renderDpr()` helper that caps the value at **2**.

```ts
export function renderDpr(): number {
  return Math.min(window.devicePixelRatio || 2, 2);
}
```

## Why

On very high-DPI displays (DPR 3, common on phones) the WebGL backing
store was sized at 3× CSS pixels — ~9× the fragment work of 1× — for a
marginal visual gain over 2×. Capping at 2 keeps retina (DPR 2)
pixel-perfect while clamping the 3× case.

## How it stays correct

DPR isn't just the canvas size — it's one coordinate system shared by:

- the canvas backing-store size (`Renderer.resize`)
- the camera's screen↔world math (`Camera.resize` / `screenToWorld` /
`worldToScreen`)
- the camera zoom scale (`ClientGameRunner.syncCamera`)
- the constant-CSS-pixel-size world text (`WorldTextPass`)

These must all use the same DPR value or pointer hit-testing and text
sizing drift. Routing them through one helper guarantees that. The
diagnostics reporter (`Diagnostic.ts`) is intentionally left reading the
real hardware DPR, since its job is to report the actual device.

## Test

- `tsc --noEmit` clean for all touched files (one pre-existing unrelated
`marked` types error remains on `main`).

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2026-06-18 12:35:34 -07:00
Evan 305534cc65 Dispose WebGL renderer when a game stops 🧹 (#4295)
## Problem

`ClientGameRunner.stop()` tore down the worker, network, and sound, but
left the `MapRenderer` (and its WebGL context), the WebGL canvas, the
input overlay, and the self-driving RAF loop in place.

When you exit a game via the **Exit button** or browser **back**, the
page navigates to `/`, so the browser reclaims everything — that path is
fine. But you can start a new game **without** a reload: matchmaking and
joining another lobby go through `handleJoinLobby`, which calls
`lobbyHandle.stop(true)` then `joinLobby()` on the same document. The
old WebGL context stayed alive (the never-cancelled RAF kept it
referenced, so it wasn't even GC'd), and each new game stacked another
context. After a few games, mobile browsers hit their WebGL context
limit — matching the repro in #4267.

## Fix

`stop()` now disposes the renderer:

- cancels the self-driving RAF loop and disconnects the frame-loop
resize observer
- disposes the `MapRenderer` (frees all GPU resources)
- removes the WebGL canvas and the input overlay from the DOM

`GPURenderer.dispose()` additionally calls
`WEBGL_lose_context.loseContext()` so the context is released promptly
instead of waiting on unreliable GC. The territory-patterns settings
listener is wired to the existing graphics `AbortController` so it no
longer outlives the disposed view.

The cleanup runs unconditionally in `stop()` (a superseded join can stop
before the game becomes active) and is idempotent against repeated
`stop()` calls.

Fixes #4267

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2026-06-17 09:05:12 -07:00
Evan 6c84919801 Smooth nuke point-light position per frame in ambient mode (#4311)
## Summary

Follow-up to #4255. That PR made nuke **sprites** glide per render frame
— `UnitPass.drawMissiles` lerps each nuke's `lastPos→pos` by wall-clock
progress through the current tick. But in ambient/night mode the glow
*behind* a nuke comes from a separate pass, `PointLightPass`, whose
instance buffer is packed once per tick in `updateLights()` from the raw
`unit.pos`. Its per-frame `draw()` (run every frame via `LightmapPass`)
only set uniforms and issued the instanced draw — it never repositioned
the lights. So the sprite moved at 60fps while its light jumped once per
100ms tick.

## Fix

Mirror `UnitPass`'s smoothing in `PointLightPass`:

- `updateLights()` records a `smoothSegs` tuple `(lightIdx, lastX,
lastY, x, y)` for each `SMOOTHED_NUKE_TYPES` unit whose `lastPos !==
pos`, and stamps `lastUnitsUpdateMs`.
- A new `applySmoothing()`, called at the top of `draw()`, lerps those
lights by wall-clock tick progress (`(now - lastUnitsUpdateMs) /
tickIntervalMs`, clamped to 1) and re-uploads **only** the affected
instances. Unlike `UnitPass` (which re-uploads its tiny missile buffer
wholesale), the light buffer can hold thousands of static structure
lights, so a full per-frame re-upload would be wasteful.
- `tickIntervalMs` comes from a new `config` constructor param, wired
through in `Renderer.ts` (the same `config` already passed to
`UnitPass`).

The light now uses the exact same `lastPos→pos` endpoints and alpha as
the sprite, so the two track together.

## Test plan

- `npx tsc --noEmit`, eslint, and prettier all clean.
- `npx vitest tests/client/render --run` — 40 passed.

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2026-06-16 16:54:11 -07:00
Evan 1ad71b9cfa Fix hover-highlight inner border lagging during tile changes (#4303)
## Problem

When you hover over a territory, it highlights with a band that is
`highlightThicken` (default **2**) tiles deep — the edge plus 2 interior
rings, computed via a Chebyshev expansion in `border-compute.frag.glsl`.

Starting a hover triggers a full border recompute, which paints the band
correctly. But while you keep hovering and tiles change owner (territory
growing/shrinking, combat at the front), only the cheap **incremental**
scatter path runs. `BorderScatterPass.pushWithNeighbors` repainted only
the changed tile **+ its 4 cardinal neighbors** (radius 1) — fine for
normal borders, but not for the highlight band. A changed tile affects
the thickening of *every* highlight-owner tile within `highlightThicken`
of it, and those interior tiles were never repainted, so the **inner
edge of the highlight band stayed stale** ("the inside border is not
getting updated"). This was a documented trade-off in the class comment.

## Fix

When a highlight is active, `pushWithNeighbors` now repaints a Chebyshev
**box of radius `highlightThicken`** around each changed tile (the box
subsumes the cardinal cross, so normal borders still update). With no
highlight active it stays on the cheap 5-point cross, preserving the
pass's O(dirty-tiles) scaling. The extra cost (~25 vs 5 points/tile at
default) only applies while actually hovering.

## Testing

Hover over a territory while it grows/shrinks (early-game expansion or a
war front) and confirm the inner edge of the highlight band now tracks
the moving border instead of lagging.

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2026-06-16 08:58:29 -07:00
Evan 0639cdb29b Fix nuclear fallout covering UI overlays (#4302)
## Problem

Nuclear fallout was rendering on top of UI overlays (most visibly the
SAM launcher range circles), hiding them.

## Cause

In `renderOverlays()` (`src/client/render/gl/Renderer.ts`), the fallout
bloom pass was drawn near the end of the overlay sequence — after the
SAM radius, range circles, structures, bars, etc. — so it painted over
all of them.

## Fix

Moved `bloomPass.draw(...)` (fallout bloom) to draw right after the
ground units and before all UI overlays. Fallout is a
ground-contamination effect, so it now sits above the terrain/units but
below every UI overlay, which all render on top.

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2026-06-15 21:35:53 -07:00
Evan 10ca2d1230 Restore gray in-game background to match v31 (#4301)
## Summary

The in-game map background changed from gray (v31) to near-black after
the WebGL renderer rewrite. This restores the gray.

The renderer rewrite hardcoded the base-layer clear color to `(0.04,
0.04, 0.06)` in `drawBaseLayer` (`src/client/render/gl/Renderer.ts`).
v31 set the background via `PastelTheme.backgroundColor()`, which
returned `rgb(60,60,60)`. This change sets the clear color back to that
gray.

## Notes

- The old theme-based `backgroundColor()` system was removed in the
rewrite, so this hardcoded clear color is now the single source for the
map background.

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2026-06-15 20:47:06 -07:00
Evan 8b9bda1c8b Add ocean color override to graphics settings (#4269)
## What

Adds a **Terrain** section to the graphics settings modal with a color
picker and a hex-code text field (paste a `#rrggbb` code) for the
**ocean** (deep water) color.

## Details

- The picked color sets the *shallow-water base*; the existing per-depth
brightness gradient is preserved (deeper water still darkens).
- Only deep water is affected — shoreline water and land are untouched.
- Follows the same override pattern as every other graphics setting: the
default lives in `render-settings.json` (`terrain.oceanColor`), the
override is a field in `GraphicsOverrides`, and `applyGraphicsOverrides`
copies it into the live `RenderSettings`.
- Rebased on #4271 (settings resolved before renderer construction): the
terrain texture **bakes the resolved ocean color at construction**, so a
saved override shows on load with no special-casing. Terrain is baked
into a GPU texture rather than read per-frame, so a *live* change still
triggers an explicit `view.rebuildTerrain()`.
- Resetting graphics overrides clears it back to the default ocean
color.

## Testing
Verified live in a headless singleplayer game:
- A **saved** ocean override renders green deep-water on load, baked at
construction with no settings-change event fired.
- A mid-game color change recolors the deep ocean instantly, gradient
preserved, shoreline/land untouched.

`tsc` and ESLint clean.

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2026-06-13 21:13:46 -07:00
Evan 54a7042303 Resolve render settings before renderer construction (#4271)
## What

The client now resolves render settings (defaults + user overrides) **up
front** and passes the result into the renderer, instead of the renderer
constructing defaults itself and the client re-applying overrides
afterward.

```
before:  new GPURenderer(...)         // this.settings = createRenderSettings()  (defaults)
         view.getSettings() → deepAssign(defaults) → applyGraphicsOverrides(...)  // patch after the fact

after:   const settings = createRenderSettings(); applyGraphicsOverrides(settings, ...); applyDarkModeOverride(settings, ...)
         new GPURenderer(..., settings)   // built with the final values
```

## Why

- **Removes the construct-with-defaults / re-apply-overrides dance.**
Every pass — including texture-baking ones like terrain that read their
settings *once* at build time rather than every frame — is now built
with the final values on the first try. (This is the cleanup that
motivated the change, surfaced while adding a terrain color override in
a separate PR.)
- **Fixes a latent context-restore bug.** On WebGL context loss/restore
the renderer was rebuilt via `createRenderSettings()` → fresh
**defaults**, silently dropping any user overrides until the next
settings change. `MapRenderer` now holds the resolved settings object
and hands the same one to the recreated `GPURenderer`, so overrides
survive a restore.

Live setting changes still work exactly as before:
`regenerateRenderSettings()` re-resolves and `deepAssign`s onto the
renderer's live settings object in place (passes hold a reference, so
they pick it up next frame).

## Changes
- `Renderer.ts` (`GPURenderer`) — constructor takes a `settings:
RenderSettings`; drops the internal `createRenderSettings()` call.
- `MapRenderer.ts` — holds the resolved settings and passes it through
on construction and on context-restore re-init.
- `ClientGameRunner.ts` — new `resolveRenderSettings()` helper used both
at construction and by `regenerateRenderSettings()`; `createWebGLView`
takes the resolved settings; the now-redundant initial
`regenerateRenderSettings()` call is removed.

## Testing
Verified live in a headless singleplayer game:
- A saved `nameScaleFactor` override is present in `getSettings()`
immediately after game start, with no settings-change event fired
(construction path).
- A mid-game override change is reflected in the live settings
(regenerate/in-place path).
- The map renders correctly through spawn phase.

`tsc` and ESLint clean.

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2026-06-13 20:22:08 -07:00
Evan f4db4a33c8 Send nukes as motion plans and render them smoothly per frame (#4255)
## Summary

Follow-up to #4244's payload work: nukes were the last per-tick movers
flooding the worker → main update stream.

- **Core**: nuke trajectories are fully determined at launch
(precomputed parabola), so `NukeExecution` now records a `GridPathPlan`
when the nuke is built — same mechanism trade ships use — and the client
derives the position each tick. Per-tick `UnitUpdate`s for nukes in
flight are suppressed; only targetable flips and deletion
(interception/detonation) still emit. This covers atom bombs, hydrogen
bombs, and MIRV warheads (dozens of per-tick movers per MIRV
separation).
- The plan path replays a separate pathfinder rather than reusing the
stored trajectory array: the curve's cached points don't advance exactly
one index per tick, and the plan must match the movement pathfinder's
exact per-tick tile sequence.
  - `startTick` accounts for MIRV warheads' staggered `waitTicks`.
- **Render**: `UnitPass.drawMissiles` now lerps each nuke's instance
position `lastPos→pos` by wall-clock progress through the current tick,
so nukes glide along their arc at render framerate instead of jumping
once per 100ms tick. Both endpoints are real simulated positions — the
rendered nuke trails the sim by at most one tick and settles exactly on
it when ticks stop. Plan-driven units sync `lastPos` on path-stall ticks
so the lerp never replays a segment. Shells keep their existing
two-instance trail; SAM missiles are unchanged.

## Test plan

- New `tests/nukes/NukeMotionPlan.test.ts`: tick-exact alignment between
the recorded plan and core nuke position over the whole flight
(mirroring `GameView.advanceMotionPlannedUnits` math), `waitTicks`
offset, and that no per-tick unit updates are emitted in flight except
targetable flips and deletion.
- Full suite passes (1452 + 65), tsc/eslint/prettier clean.
- Verified in-game (headless Chromium, real WebGL): atom bomb arcs from
silo to target with the client position driven by the plan, missile
sprite renders intact while the smoothing rewrites the instance buffer
every frame, detonation FX land at the target.

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2026-06-13 13:59:03 -07:00
Evan 7ec26df4b4 Fix three high-impact renderer performance issues (#4251)
## Summary

A performance review of `src/client/render/` found three issues where
per-tick work silently defeated existing optimizations. All three are
surgical fixes with no behavior change.

### 1. Relation matrix forced a full-map border recompute every tick

`buildRelationMatrix` ran unconditionally every tick and
`updateRelations` was pushed unconditionally, so every tick paid:
- a 1 MB `fill(0)` + rebuild on the CPU,
- a 1 MB `texSubImage2D` upload (~10 MB/s steady-state),
- a **full map-resolution border fragment pass** via `globalDirty` —
which also called `scatter.clear()`, making the incremental
`BorderScatterPass`/`patchTile` path dead code during live play.

Now the matrix is rebuilt and uploaded only when alliances/embargoes
actually change. `PlayerUpdate`s are delta-encoded (`diffPlayerUpdate`
content-compares `allies`/`embargoes`), so field presence is a reliable
change signal. The WebGL context-restore path force-pushes relations,
matching the existing structures/railroads pattern.

### 2. Heat decay pass + full-map blit ran every frame, forever

`HeatManager.decayHeat()` set `heatActive = true` on every tick
regardless of whether any fallout existed. With `heatDecayPerTick: 1`
the drain window (255 ticks) was always re-armed before expiring, so the
map-sized decay/transition fragment pass **plus a full-map R16UI
`blitFramebuffer`** ran at 60 Hz for the entire game — even if no nuke
was ever fired. On large maps this was likely the biggest fixed GPU cost
in the renderer.

Now `TerritoryPass` flags FALLOUT-bit flips at GPU-write time (delta,
drip-drain, and conservatively on full uploads), and the renderer
activates the heat pipeline only then. While inactive, `updateHeat()`
does no GL work at all. Skipping the prev-tile blit while inactive is
safe because the transition shader only reads the fallout bit, and every
fallout flip activates the pipeline before its tile flush reaches the
GPU.

### 3. `computePlayerStatus` was O(players × units) per tick

The per-player loop scanned **all units** looking for that player's
nukes (~1M+ iterations/tick at scale). Inverted to a single pass over
units building per-owner `nukeActive`/`nukeTargetsMe` sets, then O(1)
lookups in the player loop.

## Testing

- Full suite passes (1386 + 65 tests), including the 19 existing
`computePlayerStatus` behavior tests; `tsc --noEmit` and ESLint clean.
- Verified in a live singleplayer game (headless Chromium): territory
fill, borders, names/troop counts, and leaderboard all render correctly.
- Fallout path verified end-to-end: built a missile silo, launched an
atom bomb (1235 fallout tiles in tile state), and the fallout glow
rendered at the impact site — under the new gating that glow can only
appear if the `falloutTouched → activate()` chain works.

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2026-06-12 17:06:53 -07:00
Evan aa4b490e68 Simplify WebGL renderer integration: remove dead extension code, untangle GameView naming (#4240)
## Summary

The WebGL renderer was adapted from an external extension and carried a
lot of machinery this integration never uses (replay playback, its own
input/event system, a GL radial menu). This PR is two mechanical cleanup
passes with **no behavior change**: delete the dead code, then untangle
the `GameView` naming collision.

**78 files, +142 / −2,197.**

### Pass 1 — remove dead extension baggage

- **Replay/copy mode**: `FrameData.tileMode` was hard-coded `"live"`;
the copy branches in `frame/Upload.ts`, `UploadOptions` (never passed),
`applyFullFrame`/`applyFullTiles`/`applyDelta` on the facade and
`GPURenderer`, `HeatManager.resetForSeek`, and the seek-upload methods
on `TerritoryPass`/`TrailPass` were all unreachable. Also deletes
`types/Replay.ts`, `types/FrameSource.ts`, `types/GameUpdates.ts`,
`types/Game.ts` (imported only by the types barrel).
- **FrameEvents**: trimmed from 14 fields to the 3 actually populated
and read (`deadUnits`, `conquestEvents`, `bonusEvents`). The other 11
fed the extension's stats system and were never written or read here.
- **GL radial menu**: `RadialMenuPass`, its 4 shaders, and ~10 API
methods on facade + renderer had zero callers — the game uses the DOM/d3
radial menu in `hud/layers/RadialMenu.ts`. The pass was constructed and
drawn every frame for nothing.
- **Facade event system**: `GameViewEventMap` defined 10 event types
(`click`, `hover`, `scroll`, …) but only `contextrestored` was ever
emitted — input actually flows through `InputHandler` → EventBus →
controllers. Replaced the listener map with a single `onContextRestored`
callback and deleted `Events.ts`. Also fixed the stale header comment
claiming the facade handles user interaction.
- **Unused API surface**: removed ~20 facade/renderer methods with zero
callers (camera passthroughs like
`panTo`/`zoomTo`/`fitMap`/`screenToWorld`, hit-testing queries, SAM
replay setters, `setSelectedUnit`, `clearFx`/`setFxTimeFn`,
`onFrame`/`afterRender`/fps tracking).

Deliberately left alone: `Camera`'s pan/zoom primitives (building blocks
for a possible future camera unification) and the `timeFn` plumbing
inside the FX passes (deeply embedded as defaults; only the dead
renderer-level wrappers were removed).

### Pass 2 — untangle the three GameViews

- `render/gl/GameView.ts` → **`MapRenderer.ts`** (class `MapRenderer`).
Every importer was already aliasing it as `WebGLGameView` to dodge the
collision with the simulation-mirror `GameView` in `client/view/`, so
this removes aliasing rather than adding churn. `render/CLAUDE.md`
updated.
- Deleted the `src/core/game/GameView.ts` back-compat shim (its own TODO
asked for this). All 51 importers now import from `src/client/view/`
directly via a new 3-line barrel `view/index.ts`.

## Test plan

- `tsc --noEmit` clean, `eslint` clean
- Full test suite passes (1,385 + 65 server tests)
- Manual verification via headless Chromium: started a singleplayer game
and confirmed the renderer works end-to-end — terrain draws, spawn-phase
overlay shows, territories fill with borders after spawning, player
names/flags render, no renderer console errors

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2026-06-12 14:21:24 -07:00
FrederikJA b1e9955af3 Coordinate grid (#4224)
**Add approved & assigned issue number here:**

Resolves #3839

## Description:
A bunch of small updates to make the coordinate grid a lot nicer.
 - Removes black backgrounds on text.
 - Allows user to modify the opacity of the coordinate grid
 - Persist the enable state of the coordinate grid

### Before
<img width="2344" height="1168" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/22c2fb77-9db6-41bf-a50a-987f651cc19a"
/>

### After
<img width="2331" height="1174" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0e5a9575-8a79-407b-8d78-8564df02b259"
/>

<img width="407" height="947" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b9e5f9f1-3cc1-4832-b7d4-38e1f5e93d57"
/>

## 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

## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:

FrederikJA
2026-06-11 20:11:34 -07:00
evanpelle 2d747d0f8b Flash alliance icon when renewal prompt is active
When an alliance is within the renewal-prompt window, the alliance
icon above the player's name now pulses, ramping from 2 Hz to 5 Hz
as expiry approaches (same effect as the traitor flash).

The flash window is driven by allianceExtensionPromptOffset() — the
same Config value that triggers the "renew alliance" prompt in the
actionable events display — so the two always stay in sync.

The shader only knew the alliance fraction, not absolute time, so
computePlayerStatus now also emits allianceRemainingTicks, packed
into the free pd7.w slot of the player-data texture.
2026-06-11 14:41:46 -07:00
Evan 1db02acdc2 Move theme data into the render-settings JSON pipeline (#4223)
**Add approved & assigned issue number here:**

N/A — maintainer refactor.

## Description:

Replaces the theme class hierarchy
(`BaseTheme`/`PastelTheme`/`ColorblindTheme`) with theme JSON files —
`default-theme.json` and `colorblind-theme.json` — combined with
`render-settings.json` at runtime into a single graphics-configuration
pipeline (`settings.theme`). One `SettingsTheme` class keeps the
algorithms (color allocation, team-variation generation, LAB-contrast
structure colors) and reads all data from `ThemeSettings`; adding a
theme is now just adding a JSON file.

Colorblind mode (#4150) is fully preserved:

- Same palettes — the 32-color CVD-safe pool and Okabe-Ito team colors
are baked into `colorblind-theme.json`
- The relative border rule (`l × 0.6`) is expressed as a
`borderLightnessScale` knob alongside the default theme's absolute
`borderDarken`
- The mid-game re-theme wiring (`refreshPlayerColors`/`refreshPalette`)
and the affiliation/friend-foe tint overrides are unchanged;
`applyGraphicsOverrides` now also swaps the `settings.theme` slice
- `deepAssign` replaces arrays wholesale so differing palette lengths
survive theme switches

Verified against the previous implementation with an equivalence test
(since removed): default-theme colors are byte-identical including
allocation order; colorblind team/derived colors are byte-identical, and
FFA assignment may permute within the same palette (hex baking rounds
upstream's fractional-RGB colord objects, which can flip the allocator's
greedy delta-E ordering — rendered colors round identically either way).

Also removes dead theme surface (`terrainColor`, `backgroundColor`,
`falloutColor`, `font`, `textColor`, spawn-highlight variants,
`PastelThemeDark`) — GL terrain colors and dark mode were already
handled in the renderer. Note this means the colorblind terrain bands
from #4150 were dead code (nothing calls `terrainColor`; GL terrain
comes from `ColorUtils.encodeTerrainTile`); wiring CVD-safe terrain into
the terrain texture would be a follow-up.

## Please complete the following:

- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates — N/A, no UI changes
(verified color-identical)
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file — N/A, no user-visible text
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory —
`tests/Colors.test.ts` updated for the new pipeline (team colors from
theme JSON, colorblind palette/border tests)

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regression is found:

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2026-06-11 12:50:50 -07:00
Evan 7137347b7d Fade player names under the cursor, with a graphics setting to tune it (#4221)
## 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
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2026-06-11 09:25:13 -07:00
evanpelle 9189aac687 Improve railroad visibility: own-rail contrast color and thickness setting
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
2026-06-10 18:57:02 -07:00
Evan 26d8a314ae Scale defense-post border + fill rendering to thousands of posts (#4181)
## Description

Scales the defense-post border effect so it works with **thousands** of
Defense Posts instead of silently capping at 64.

### Problem
The border "checkerboard" (drawn on a player's border tiles when a
same-owner Defense Post is within range) was computed per-pixel: for
every border fragment, the shader looped over a `uniform vec4
uDefensePosts[64]` array doing a distance test. Two issues:
- **Hard cap of 64** — posts beyond the first 64 were dropped, so their
checkerboard never appeared.
- **Wrong cost shape** — work was `border_tiles × posts`; every added
post made every border pixel slower.

### Solution: invert the loop into a coverage texture
New `DefenseCoveragePass` stamps one instanced circle per post into a
map-resolution `R8` coverage texture (`1.0` = tile is within range of a
**same-owner** post; the owner check samples `tileTex` at stamp time, so
enemy posts never light up your border). It's a single
`drawArraysInstanced` regardless of post count — the same instancing
pattern `UnitPass`/`StructurePass` already use. The border-stamp shader
now reads one texel of that texture instead of looping; the old uniform
array, the 64-cap, and the per-fragment scan are removed from
`border-compute`/`BorderStampPass`/`BorderScatterPass`.

### Incremental re-stamping (dirty-block grid)
Coverage depends on tile ownership, which drips every frame during
combat, so a full re-stamp every frame would be wasteful at high post
counts. Because a tile changing owner only changes *its own* coverage,
the pass tracks a grid of dirty **blocks** and re-stamps only the blocks
containing changed tiles, scissored to each block (`gl.scissor` confines
the clear + draw to the changed region). Post add/remove and full tile
uploads fall back to a whole-map stamp; so does a frame where most
blocks are dirty. Per-frame cost tracks *how much changed*, not *how
many posts exist*, and scattered fronts (e.g. opposite corners) become
independent small block draws.

### Territory-fill darkening
The coverage texture marks every same-owner in-range tile (interior
included, not just borders), so `TerritoryPass` now also samples it to
darken the territory **fill** around posts. New tunable
`mapOverlay.territoryDefenseDarken` (live-editable in the graphics debug
GUI alongside `defenseCheckerDarken`).

### Performance
Tested with ~1,000 posts blanketing a map — smooth, including on a
low-end (~10-year-old) Chromebook.

## Files
- **New:** `passes/DefenseCoveragePass.ts`,
`shaders/defense-coverage/defense-coverage.{vert,frag}.glsl`
- **Edited:** `Renderer.ts`, `BorderStampPass.ts`,
`BorderComputePass.ts`, `BorderScatterPass.ts`, `TerritoryPass.ts`,
`border-stamp.frag.glsl`, `border-compute.frag.glsl`,
`territory.frag.glsl`, `RenderSettings.ts`, `render-settings.json`,
`debug/Layout.ts`

## Notes
- No user-facing text (no `translateText`/`en.json` changes needed).
- No `src/core` changes — purely client rendering, so no simulation
tests; verified via `tsc`, ESLint, `build-prod`, and in-game.
2026-06-08 10:18:02 -07:00
Evan 075547b7b6 Incremental GPU scatter recompute for tile borders (#4166)
## Description:

Incremental GPU border recompute — sequel to #4159.

On 10 yo low-end chrome book this increased performance by ~5fps. I'm
now able to get 40fps on GWM.

`BorderComputePass` previously re-ran its fragment shader over every
tile on
the map every time any input changed (tile flip, highlight, relation,
defense post). Cost was O(mapW × mapH) per invalidation, and tile flips
invalidate it ~every render frame in live play.

This PR adds `BorderScatterPass`, which runs the same fragment shader
but
rasterizes only one POINT per dirty tile (plus its 4 cardinal neighbors,
to
cover the cardinal-neighbor read in the border shader). Cost is O(dirty
tiles) regardless of map size or spatial distribution.

### What changed

- New `BorderScatterPass` — owns its own FBO, VAO, and instance buffer;
  shares the border fragment shader with `BorderComputePass` so the two
  paths can't diverge in output.
- `BorderComputePass.draw()` now picks per frame:
- **Full recompute** — when `globalDirty` is set by highlight / relation
/
    defense-post changes (those affect tiles across the whole map).
  - **Scatter** — when only per-tile patches have been queued via
    `patchTile()`.
- `TerritoryPass.flushTileTexture()` now returns `"none" | "full" |
  "scatter"` instead of `boolean`, so the renderer can pick the right
  downstream invalidation:
- `"full"` → `borderPass.markGlobalDirty()` (full tile upload supersedes
    per-tile patches).
  - `"scatter"` → no-op; per-tile patches were already pushed via the
    wired `borderPatchConsumer` callback during drip drain.
- Renderer wires `territoryPass.setBorderPatchConsumer((x, y) =>
borderPass.patchTile(x, y))` so every per-tile scatter write to
`tileTex`
  also schedules an incremental border recompute for that tile + its
  neighbors.

### Known limitation

Highlight-thicken rings (within `uHighlightThicken` of a changed tile)
are
NOT incrementally repainted — they'll lag visually until the next full
recompute. In practice this is short-lived (the next highlight change or
seek triggers a full recompute) and not visible during normal play; the
trade is documented in the `BorderScatterPass` header.


## 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:

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2026-06-05 13:29:50 -07:00
Evan d1ce199a52 Upload tile delta to GPU (#4159)
## Description

Reduces the amount of tile data sent to the gpu each tick, roughly
~10fps rate increase on 10 year old chromebook.

Two changes to the territory rendering path:

### 1. Split `passEnabled.mapOverlay` into four flags

The single `mapOverlay` toggle controlled four unrelated passes
(territory fill, border compute, border stamp, trail). Splits it into
`territory`, `borderCompute`, `borderStamp`, `trail` so each can be
toggled independently in the debug GUI. Pure rename — default behavior
is unchanged (all four default to `true`).

### 2. GPU scatter for per-frame tile texture updates

Replaces the dirty-row bbox `texSubImage2D` upload in `TerritoryPass`
with a new `TileScatterPass` that uploads a small attribute buffer of
`(x, y, state)` patches and runs a single `POINTS` draw into an FBO
bound to `tileTex`. Each patch rasterizes as a 1×1 point into exactly
its target texel.

**Why:** the old path's cost scaled with the bounding box of the dirty
rows, not the number of changed tiles. In typical play, tile changes are
spread across the whole map (multiple players fighting in different
regions, scattered trails/fallout), so the bbox covered most of the
map's rows and we re-uploaded mostly-unchanged data every frame. The new
path is constant cost in patch count regardless of spatial distribution,
and no longer scales with map size.

The full-upload path (initial load / seek / spawn-phase flush) is
unchanged. `fullUploadPending` correctly supersedes any queued scatter
patches.

## Please complete the following:

- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates *(N/A — no UI
changes)*
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file *(N/A — no user-facing text)*
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory *(renderer code,
not covered by unit tests; verified visually)*

## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:

evan
2026-06-05 07:07:03 -07:00
evanpelle 431f22ac94 Always render player name when under the cursor 2026-06-02 12:04:05 -07:00
Evan f1045a2022 Update & refactor dark mode (#4114)
## 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.

<img width="1250" height="846" alt="Screenshot 2026-06-02 at 11 47
28 AM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b41e8ffb-6011-4ba0-9e1f-c2a21ff90794"
/>

## 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
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2026-06-02 11:48:52 -07:00
noahschmal 2c8a66625c Feature/Move theme system from core to client-side ThemeProvider (#4108)
**Add approved & assigned issue number here:** 

Resolves #2549

## Description:

Themes are purely for the client's rendering, and the server doesn't
need context on them. This PR moves `Theme.ts` from
`src/core/configuration` to `src/client/theme` and moves affiliation
colors to `render-settings.json`.

This is to support the ability to add additional themes more quickly,
such as colorblind-friendly themes. No visible changes occur from this
refactor.

## 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:

jetaviz

---------

Co-authored-by: Josh Harris <josh@wickedsick.com>
2026-06-02 09:32:08 +00:00
evanpelle 475a7ab8af bugfix: port construction bar completes early; renderer now reads durations from Config
The renderer kept a parallel CONSTRUCTION_DURATIONS table in
src/client/render/GameConstants.ts that had drifted from Config: port
showed as 20 ticks but the simulation builds it in 50, so the bar hit
100% and idled for 30 ticks. SAM/silo cooldown constants were also
stale (120/75 vs Config's 90/90), making the missile-readiness bar
slightly wrong too.

Delete GameConstants.ts entirely. Thread the Config instance through
WebGLGameView → GPURenderer → BarPass / FxPass / FxSpritePass /
WorldTextPass; passes call config.unitInfo(...).constructionDuration,
config.SAMCooldown(), config.deletionMarkDuration(), config.msPerTick()
directly. Add Config.msPerTick() since no method existed for it.

Move the visual-only NUKE_EXPLOSION_RADII (not a game-logic value)
into FxSpritePass where it's used.
2026-05-29 12:15:49 -07:00
Evan aa3959bffe feat: territory png based skins (#4006)
## 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
2026-05-27 13:00:07 -07:00
Evan b4a14f9b9d Move attack troop overlay to WebGL (#3996)
## Description:

Replaces the DOM-based `AttackingTroopsOverlay` with
`AttackingTroopsController`, rendering attack troop counts through
`WorldTextPass` instead of a separate fixed-position DOM container.

## Summary

- New `AttackingTroopsController` polls `attackClusteredPositions()`
every 200ms and pushes labels to the WebGL view each frame, lerping
cluster positions over 250ms for smooth front-line movement (replaces
the old CSS `transform 0.25s` transition).
- `WorldTextPass` gains `setAttackTroopLabels()` and renders them at a
fixed on-screen size (zoom-independent) using `screenScale / zoom`.
- World text now draws on top of `NamePass` so attack callouts aren't
hidden behind centered player names.
- Fragment shader adds a soft quadratic dark halo around every
world-text label; extent uses the remaining SDF range after the hard
outline so it fades smoothly to zero (no rectangular clipping).
- Deletes `AttackingTroopsOverlay.ts`; existing unit tests repointed to
the controller's exported `alignClusterOrder`.

<img width="369" height="395" alt="Screenshot 2026-05-24 at 4 43 51 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4dbffe20-77f9-4c0f-b956-ecf543538f8d"
/>

## 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
2026-05-24 16:47:34 +01:00
evanpelle b486caa6f4 Wire view-mode toggles (alt-view + coordinate grid) via new ViewModeController
Moves the AlternateViewEvent / ToggleCoordinateGridEvent subscriptions out of
ClientGameRunner into a dedicated controller in src/client/controllers/. Also
wires ToggleCoordinateGridEvent (M keybind) — previously emitted with no
listener — so the persistent coordinate-grid toggle works. Grid + alt-view
hide names only under alt-view; M keeps names visible.
2026-05-22 18:30:18 +01:00
Evan ee04a19d3c unit price (#3989)
## Description:

# Ghost structure cost label

Renders the gold cost of the currently-selected build under the ghost
structure cursor, with color-coded affordability/placement state. Honors
the
existing `cursorCostLabel` user setting (legacy name `ghostPricePill`,
already
shipping ON by default).

## Behavior

| State | Color |
|---|---|
| Can afford + valid placement | white |
| Can afford + can't place here (port on land, overlap, …) | gray |
| Can't afford | red |

The number is formatted via `renderNumber` (project-wide convention —
`1.5K`,
`1.23M`, etc.) and rendered as MSDF text at a fixed world-space scale,
centered
under the ghost icon.

## Implementation

The cost was already plumbed end-to-end on
[`GhostPreviewData.cost`](src/client/render/types/Renderer.ts) but never
visualized. This PR:

- Extends [`GhostPreviewData`](src/client/render/types/Renderer.ts) with
`showCost` (from setting) and `canAfford` (gold
vs. cost check, computed in
[BuildPreviewController](src/client/controllers/BuildPreviewController.ts)).
- Adds a `setGhostCostLabel(...)` channel to the MSDF text pass — one
persistent,
non-animated text instance alongside the existing ephemeral popups. No
new
  pass, no new shader.
- Wires
[`Renderer.updateGhostPreview`](src/client/render/gl/Renderer.ts) to
push the label whenever a ghost is active.
- Renames `ConquestPopupPass` →
[`WorldTextPass`](src/client/render/gl/passes/WorldTextPass.ts) (and its
shader dir
`conquest-popup/` → `world-text/`) since it now handles conquest popups,
bonus popups, and the ghost cost label. Done with `git mv` so history is
  preserved.




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## Please complete the following:

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responsibility for any bugs introduced

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2026-05-22 17:30:15 +01:00
Evan fe6581e3fe update webgl nuke effects (#3984)
## Description:

Reworks the visual look of nuked tiles to read uniformly green (no more
brown/black bleed-through), and moves the ember "particle" effect out of
the border passes — where it lived as a storage-sharing hack — into the
fallout system where it belongs.

## What changed visually

- **Fresh fallout**: bright uniform bloom with a hint of flickering
green particles dampened on fresh tiles, ramping up as heat decays
(`particleFreshScale` controls the fresh-tile dampening).
- **Stale fallout**: dark-green ground (was near-black charcoal), with
full-strength flickering particles in dark-green ↔ light-green.
- **Particles**: per-tile flicker is now de-synced (each tile pulses at
its own rate, 0.4×–1.6× base speed) so the eye can't lock onto a global
rhythm.
- **No more brown/black pixels** in fallout zones. Two root causes were
fixed:
- The territory pass now renders stale-nuke ground for **all** fallout
tiles, not just unowned ones — so an owned player's color can't show
through where the bloom is dim/transparent.
- The ember stamp (which fully replaced tile color with orange) is gone;
particle render is now additive and color-tuned green.

## Architecture cleanup

The ember effect was conceptually fallout-domain, but lived in
`BorderComputePass` (writing intensity into `borderTex.g`) and
`BorderStampPass` (stamping orange dots), just because the border pass
already had an RGBA8 texture with a free G channel. Two consumers read
from it (`BorderStampPass`, `FalloutLightPass`), and the per-tile
flicker math used no border data at all.

This PR relocates the math inline into the two passes that actually need
it (`FalloutBloomPass.extract.frag.glsl` and
`FalloutLightPass.fallout-light.frag.glsl`), drops the ember code from
both border passes, and renames `mapOverlay.ember*` →
`falloutBloom.particle*` so the settings live with their pass.

Side benefits:
- **Animation correctness**: the old setup only updated ember intensity
when `BorderComputePass`'s dirty flag flipped (highlight change,
relations update, etc.), so the supposed flicker was actually a frozen
snapshot between border events. The new inline path runs every frame as
intended.
- **Slightly cheaper per-frame compute**: removed a per-dirty-event
full-map writeback to `borderTex.g`; added a few cheap ALU ops (1 sin +
2 hashes) per fallout tile in shaders that were already running. Same
texture memory.

## Other small changes

- Renamed `mapOverlay.charcoal*` → `mapOverlay.staleNuke*` (charcoal was
a misnomer now that the ground is green).
- Added `staleNukeR/G/B` for the ground color (was hardcoded grey).
- `intensityHot` bumped 0.6 → 1.8 for a brighter fresh-nuke glow.
- Raised `railroad.railMinZoom` 2 → 4 and `railDetailZoom` 4 → 6 so
rails pop in later (separate small commit).

<img width="354" height="371" alt="Screenshot 2026-05-22 at 10 37 34 AM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/03b46c45-c617-41b3-b3e4-9934f064bfe1"
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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
- [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
2026-05-22 11:08:26 +01:00
Evan c82b078dab Stagger territory tile rendering across frames (#3973)
relates to #893 

## Description:

Territory updates were uploaded in one shot per game tick, producing a
10 Hz tile update which looked choppy. This change drips each tick's
tile changes across the ~6 render frames between ticks so the fill flows
continuously instead of stepping.

Inside TerritoryPass, each changed tile is hashed by ref into one of N
buckets (configurable via tileDrip.bucketCount, set to 9 — gives ~50 ms
of jitter headroom over the tick period without making attacks feel
laggy). One bucket drains per render frame. The stable per-ref hash
keeps repeated updates to the same tile in arrival order, so the latest
owner always wins.

While in there, moved trail state ownership out of TerritoryPass and
into TrailPass where it belongs — the territory shader doesn't sample
trailTex, so the colocation was just code-reuse drift.

## 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
2026-05-19 17:35:25 -07:00
VariableVince ed928db081 Display territory skins again (#3966)
## 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
2026-05-18 15:48:05 -07:00
evanpelle 1dd00f6264 push terrain deltas to the WebGL view so water nukes show
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.
2026-05-18 11:08:09 -07:00
evanpelle 4cd22a9b5c rename render/ files to UpperCamelCase to match client convention
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.
2026-05-17 21:21:05 -07:00