The harness conversion replaced pauses that stood in for real conditions
with camera readiness: the cables and infrastructure idle checks started
measuring while the overlay was still fading in after moveEnd, directions
sampled before its maneuver dots had ground cells, three scripts clicked
before the loading cover was gone, the credits check hit-tested during UI
transitions, and the oblique traffic flight lost its height cap. Each now
waits for its condition; idle checks observe without requesting frames
and record the reasons of the frames they count; readiness waits for the
startup cover and no longer requests frames while polling.
Navara's ground pass took a pixel for a tile whenever its depth lay in
front of the saved globe depth, without checking which buffer the visible
depth came from; the scene buffer can be cleared apart from the globe
depth, so a set draped on 'tiles' also drew on bare terrain, which Cesium
never does. The pass now matches the visible depth to the globe or the
tiles before it drapes. A contract check compares a 'tiles' set hidden,
shown and hidden again over terrain, with a mutant.
A Space Missions replay flies the camera until it ends, so waiting for a
still camera after a switch let the replay finish before the scenario
looked at it. While a replay runs, readiness no longer asks for enabled
inputs or a still pose, as for the cockpit and a followed target.
The session test now switches engines in both directions with the replay
running, paused and resumed, and checks it stays active, unpaused and
advancing.
While the cockpit holds camera inputs or the camera follows a target,
whenSettled no longer waits for enabled inputs or a still pose; it still
waits for the engine, the restored view, drawn frames and no flight, and
its timeout now prints what it saw (inputs, following, cockpit, last pose
change). Scenarios that waited for the camera where they needed the
picture wait for it instead: weather and Nepal imagery for their tiles
and frames, imagery capture while a box drag holds inputs, and pixel and
pick polling for drawn frames. The vessel click retries at the vessel's
rendered position.
Retaining a disabled layer that was never initialised replayed its
parameters, and the change notice it sent restored the Context snapshot,
which ended the Space Missions mode on every switch. Such layers are
retained as they are again.
The tracked aircraft's handle is rebuilt only once the view is restored,
so the share restore's earlier trackById found nothing to follow and the
cockpit did not come back after a failed switch rolled back. The scene
switcher now takes the aircraft up again after the camera owners resume
and then restores the cockpit and its vision mode. Both are covered by
tests on the real session modules.
Navara's 3D Tiles source defaults to model.height 1, which moves a
transformed tileset by a metre along Earth-fixed X: on the synthetic set
flat roofs read 0.12 m high and a sloping roof 0.68 m off, and the drawn
meshes move with them. The adapter sets the height to 0 and records the
package behaviour in WORKAROUNDS.md, with a test that loads the real
package. The downward surface ray now takes its direction from the
place's own normal, so it no longer drifts sideways.
qa-tiles-fixture gains --report (heights and drape pixels per engine,
without asserting), starts on Cesium, and checks each drape hidden, shown
and hidden again; qa-surface-heights uses the plan's 0.5 m tolerance under
tiles and names the point that misses.
qa-switch-equals-cold-start switches engines in both directions with each
layer on deterministic fixtures, then opens the share link of the same
state in a new page on the target engine, and compares the draw ledgers
and the probe's view of the layer. It runs as 19 acceptance groups
covering all 38 layers.
State a layer keeps through a switch but the share link does not carry is
declared as sessionState (the directions route, Radio's selected station
and audio state, the wind reading, local ADS-B's and OSM Places' local
toggles and results); a test checks each declaration against what the
layer really retains, so a declaration cannot hide a regression.
Tests that made their own engine object now use createFakeEngine() with
its scripting hooks or an override of the one member under test, so they
follow the contract when it changes. 125 such literals in 74 test files
go down to two that are not globe engines on purpose; report-qa-harness
counts them, and the baseline keeps the number from growing.
Environment overrides, manual timers, a cancellable streaming response,
GhostMaps KML/KMZ fixtures and the satellite service doubles move into
five shared helpers; 21 tests drop 418 lines of copies.
As in the previous batches. Scripts launching Chrome themselves go from
99 to 8 (all outside this conversion), fixed pauses from 86 to 69 and
Cesium-only reads from 75 to 46; the QA harness baseline records them.
Each script launches and closes Chrome through scripts/qa/browser.mjs,
waits on the application through scripts/qa/ready.mjs instead of the
loading screen and fixed pauses, and reads the contract instead of
Cesium where the check is not about Cesium itself.
Each script launches and closes Chrome through scripts/qa/browser.mjs,
waits on the application through scripts/qa/ready.mjs instead of the
loading screen and fixed pauses, and reads the contract instead of
Cesium where the check is not about Cesium itself.
Each script launches and closes Chrome through scripts/qa/browser.mjs,
waits on the application through scripts/qa/ready.mjs instead of the
loading screen and fixed pauses, and reads the contract instead of
Cesium where the check is not about Cesium itself.
scripts/qa/browser.mjs launches headless Chrome with QA_ANGLE and the
shared Chrome lookup; scripts/qa/ready.mjs adds frame, tile and transition
readiness and bounded polling; scripts/qa/geometry.mjs hands page
evaluations the engine-neutral geometry without dev-only source URLs.
CODE-BOUNDARIES gains the rule for new QA scripts.
qa-surface-heights loads deterministic fixtures for import pins,
infrastructure bases, ALPR markers, directions A/B, bikeshare stations
and Bhote Koshi story points, waits for the app to settle on each engine
and records every placed point through the mover contract. --compare
fails when a point moved by more than 0.1 m on terrain; --tiles checks
the points land on the synthetic tileset's 50 m block.
attachRenderer takes one context { engine, signal, viewRestored, ... } and
bindCatalog no longer takes a viewer; no layer module receives Cesium's
viewer any more, and a rehearsal check fails if one reads it.
The handoff between engines is one typed object (layers, camera owners,
selection, director) created when the old scene leaves, replacing the
session's handoffLayers, restoringView and selectionContext. viewRestored
resolves where the camera is restored, and the nine layers that kept
their own restoring-view flag wait on it instead. After attach the
binding applies a disabled layer's visibility, registers the picks each
module declares, and resumes the camera owners, so engineSwitch.js no
longer names directions or satellites.
The orbital view, sensor zoom, ground focus and satellite switching run on
the contract: camera.setFovy sets the vertical lens on both engines and the
fake, including sub-degree angles on Navara through the guarded core
bridge, with a contract check and mutants. Cesium's imagery look-ahead
stays inside its adapter. KNOWN-ISSUES keeps the two parts Navara still
lacks: imagery prefetch for the orbital view and finest-detail meshes for
the ship bridge waterline.
The Bhote Koshi event flies with engine.camera instead of the viewer's
camera, tools listens to camera.followChanged instead of the viewer's
tracked entity, and the celestial ring uses the engine's host, frames,
pose and render requests. The embedded story media no longer imports
Cesium, which removes one of the three import exceptions.
The inspection marker and the centre probe use the engine's host,
projection, frame events, ellipsoid pick and render requests instead of
Cesium's scene, so they behave the same on Navara.
The particle canvas, its GPU path and the relief shading move unchanged
from src/layers/wind/ to src/globe/cesium/; the adapter reads the Cesium
viewer itself, so the layer no longer hands one in.
Import pins, infrastructure, ALPR, directions markers, bikeshare and the
Bhote Koshi story use createSurfacePoints instead of their own sampling,
budgets and partial triggers; ground snap, the mesh floor sampler,
traffic, transit, Street Level, the camera ground guard, wildlife and the
cockpit host read heights through readSurface or surfaceTriggers.
Per-layer offsets and floor policies stay as options. The import no
longer re-places pins on every camera move from the UI.
Calls to engine.surface outside src/globe go from 41 sampling calls to
10, each a raycast, a one-shot fly-to height or an asynchronous detailed
sample.
src/globe/surfacePlacement.js takes over the shared surface placer and
adds readSurface (tiles through sampleHeight, otherwise terrain, with a
plausibility range), surfaceTriggers (one subscription to camera moves,
tile loads, the photoreal switch and terrain revisions) and a forced full
pass. Points now re-place when the terrain provider changes, which they
did not before. GhostMaps, cables, OSM Places and Street Level move to the
new module unchanged.
A mover set whose glTF or atlas fails to load retries by itself after
retryAfterMs (1,500 ms by default), at most three attempts, on Cesium,
Navara and the fake engine alike: failed() is true while the latest
attempt failed and stays true after the last, ready() turns true when a
retry loads, and an instance given another pickId loads again. Healthy
models of the same class no longer load again when one fails.
The layers drop what they did instead: moverBank's rebuilds, the loops
that dropped failed handles in flights, military and local ADS-B, and the
tracked-model backoff in the aircraft display. The contract suite checks
the one behaviour on both engines, with a mutant that never retries.
src/i18n/, src/geo/ and the engine-neutral part of src/globe/ are owned by
directory entries, and aggregate groups use a directory wherever their
list covered it, so a new shared module no longer needs a manifest edit.
Small groups keep explicit lists, now checked as a snapshot: the check
fails on a reached module that is not declared and on a declared one no
longer reached, and prints both per group. --write keeps directory
entries as they are.
The manifest goes from 4,737 entries to 3,494; src/i18n accounts for 87
of them instead of 666.
A generated tileset (a plate at ellipsoid level, 50 m and 200 m blocks and
a pitched roof, 27 KB) replaces Google's tiles when a QA page passes
?qaTileset=/path; only a root-relative path on the page origin is
accepted, and the Google credit is not shown for it. The strict harness
serves the set from disk, so nothing reaches Google.
qa-tiles-fixture checks on both engines that sampleHeight reads the block
at 50 m, clampToHeight lands on the roof, tiles and terrain drapes draw
where they should, tilesLoaded turns true, surface points land on the
roof within their budget, and pick renders per pass stay within it.
The probe exposes settled() and the first-frame outcome; scripts/qa/ready.mjs
waits for drawn frames with the camera at rest and for a pick at the click
position, with a deadline and its reason in the error. The strict scenarios
use these instead of fixed pauses and loading-screen polling, and the
hidden-switch scenario checks how the loading screen was lifted instead of
how long it took.
Each switch scenario now records a draw ledger per engine and runs a
contract monitor; both write to the scenario's evidence file only, with an
empty allowlist until browser runs show what differs on purpose.
Meshes now go through the same overlay as sprites and lines, so their
colours are the ones asked for without undoing the view's exposure. The
contract suite no longer carries the mesh colour check as a known
failure on Navara.
German Khokhlov