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Evan be77ab4fc9 feat: structures cosmetic effect (hover-shown gradient/transition recolor) (#4492)
## Description:

Adds a new `structures` cosmetic effect type: an equippable effect that
recolors the owner's structure icons (City, Port, Factory, Defense Post,
SAM Launcher, Missile Silo) with gradient or transition color styles.
The effect is **shown while the owner's territory is hovered** —
structures otherwise keep their normal player colors, so the map stays
readable.

**Cosmetics / selection**
- `StructuresEffectAttributesSchema` (`CosmeticSchemas.ts`): its own
discriminated union (`gradient` / `transition`) — structurally identical
to the trail attributes today, but structures aren't trails, so it's a
separate schema free to diverge.
- Slot = the effectType itself: `effectTypeForSlot` is generalized to
map any non-nukeExplosion effect type to itself, so server privilege
checks (`Privilege.ts`), client selection, and persistence all work with
no per-type code.
- Effects tab, Default tile, and the store preview (shared color swatch)
come from `EFFECT_TYPES`; the only UI addition is the
`effects.type.structures` label in `en.json`.

**Rendering**
- The shared per-player effect palette grows from 2 to 3 blocks
(`EFFECT_PALETTE_BLOCKS`; structures = block 2, pinned by a
build-breaking guard). `syncPlayerEffects` resolves the `structures`
selection through the same `writeEffectEntry` used by trails.
- `StructurePass` binds the effect texture plus `uTime` and
`uHoverOwner` (fed from the existing `HoverHighlightController` →
`setHighlightOwner` path, now forwarded to the pass).
- `structure.frag.glsl` recolors the **fill only** — the border keeps
the player color for ownership legibility; alt view and construction
gray bypass the effect entirely.
- Style semantics:
- `gradient` — the palette spans each icon's diagonal once (a visible
gradient across the shape), sliding one full cycle every `colorSize · 4
· count / movementSpeed` seconds (the trail-equivalent pace; world-space
banding like the trail's would put a whole icon inside one band and read
as a flat color)
- `transition` — the whole icon is one color at a time, cross-fading at
`frequency` colors/s
- Glyph contrast: the inner icon's black/white decision is now a smooth
luminance fade (`smoothstep(0.25, 0.45)`) instead of a hard flip at
0.25, so animated fills cross-fade the glyph instead of snapping it
between black and white.

## 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
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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