VisualEffects sends its sharpen state to engine.render.setSharpen when a
viewer exists too; the Cesium engine keeps it as state, and the Cesium
stage itself is unchanged.
The contract gains render.setSharpen({ enabled, amount }) and
render.sharpen(). Navara draws it as a custom EffectDesc: Cesium's unsharp
mask (3x3 box blur, gamma 2.2 round trip so one amount matches Cesium)
right after tone mapping and before SMAA/FXAA, skipping sky and cloud
pixels by scene depth. The Cesium engine keeps the state only; Cesium mode
still sharpens with its own post stage, unchanged. The fake engine records
it and the contract suite checks it.
Without a viewer the Sharpen slider and toggle drive the engine with the
same slider-to-amount mapping. On Navara the defaults, presets and share
links read Cesium's 49 % as 80 %.
The page's engine is ?engine=cesium|navara, else localStorage gev.engine,
else Cesium (src/app/engineChoice.js). Cesium mode is unchanged.
In Navara mode (src/app/navaraMode.js, loaded with import() only then,
and loading the Navara globe the same way) the scene builds the Navara
globe on the app container with no viewer; map stacks go through
engine.maps (Google 3D from the browser key, else Esri imagery); only the
shell's own data credits are registered. The layer catalog is empty and
the controls get empty layer stand-ins. The shell does not create its
viewer-bound parts (cockpit view, celestial ring, detection, tracked
readout, post-process stages); the tools install the render governor on
the engine, skip the director, annotations, drawing, imagery box, scope
mask, voice and embedded views, skip the first-run welcome, and show
"Experimental Navara engine: layers, cockpit, director and voice are
unavailable". window.__godsEyeView.viewer is null.
Navara's attribution card is kept clear of the location tray. A few
shell paths became null-safe for the missing viewer, layers or stages
without changing Cesium behaviour.
scripts/qa-engine-shell.mjs checks both modes headless: boot, viewer,
console errors, map drawn, search and fly, north/tilt/zoom/reset, orbit,
HUD, share link restore and map stacks.
German Khokhlov