The arrival ground guard replaced camera.flyTo, flyToBoundingSphere,
setView, lookAt and cancelFlight with wrappers so a direct caller would stop
it. It now remembers the pose it started on and, before each retry, yields
if a flight is under way or the camera has moved across the ground, down or
around. A straight rise is not a move: Cesium's terrain collision lifts a
buried eye that way as tiles load, which is the case the guard exists for.
This also catches owners the wrappers missed (a pose written directly,
lookAtTransform), and no camera method is replaced.
Recent imagery and weather overwrote provider.requestImage (weather also
provider.credit) to ration tiles. They now state that policy as a hook with
withTileRequestHook(provider, { requestImage, credit }) from
src/render/cesium/tileRequests.js, which hands Cesium a provider delegating
to the original and leaves the original untouched.
Every private Cesium field Core reaches goes through a named helper in
src/render/cesium/internals.js: the main and offscreen pick views and their
command extents, a billboard's collection, a cluster's point collection,
the widget's render-loop latch, the WebGL context and the current camera
flight. internals.test.mjs fails when the installed Cesium stops declaring
one of them, and a source scan fails on private access anywhere else. The
cyber sonar's primitives.update wrap stays until the effects work.
Live (Austin, keyless globe): a buried eye is lifted to 253 m over a 133 m
surface; a setView or flyTo by another caller makes the guard yield; radar
loads its tiles through the hook. Documented in docs/APPLICATION.md and
docs/CURRENT-STATE.md.
About 20 sites called scene.sampleHeight, globe.getHeight,
scene.clampToHeight or the MostDetailed variants directly, each with its own
idea of a miss (undefined, NaN, a throw). They now ask heightsFor(scene) in
src/queries/heights.js:
- now(point, { against, exclude }) answers from what is loaded, or null;
against is 'surface' (what is drawn) or 'terrain' (loaded terrain only).
- clampNow(position) moves a position onto the drawn surface, or null.
- batch() and clampBatch() wait for the most detailed tiles: null per
missed point, a rejection when the whole query fails.
- supported() reports { surface, clamp } without allocating.
Cesium still answers now() synchronously, so nothing changes on screen and
nothing is slower: in the live app 1,000 calls cost the same through the
service as direct (terrain 0.5-0.7 ms, surface 2-6 ms a call, run-to-run
noise larger than the difference). Every site already treated a miss as
"hold the last value or fall back"; a renderer that can only answer from a
cache or asynchronously can now plug in at one place.
- A Bhote Koshi evidence point whose terrain sample misses stays at its
fallback elevation instead of reading the miss as sea level.
- The mesh floor sampler skips a scene without depth-texture support
instead of spending its budget on probes that throw.
- The world annotation probe's trace reads hit/missed.
- A source scan forbids direct height calls outside the service.
The service is exported as ./queries/heights and documented in
docs/APPLICATION.md.
Every layer and tool bound its own ScreenSpaceEventHandler and picked the
same click again: with the usual layers on, one click ran about 26
scene.pick and 2 drillPick passes (120-215 ms in NYC with 18 layers). Pointer
input now comes in through src/input/dispatcher.js, one handler per scene.
A click is picked lazily and at most once per kind of query, and every
subscriber reads the same ClickEvent (pick, hit, id, ownerId, gesture,
drill, ground). The same click now costs 3 picks and 2 drills, 17-70 ms.
- Ambient onClick subscribers run only while no tool holds the pointer,
checked once per event; tools subscribe with their lease. Moves and
releases always reach ambient subscribers, so hover and drags end cleanly.
- Camera input and the viewer's stock select/track clicks are ref-counted
holds (suspendCamera, suppressStockClicks). The dispatcher owns the
controller's enableInputs, so a Cesium flight that ends no longer turns
input back on under a drag or the cockpit.
- The draw tool, imagery box, CCTV gizmo, cockpit, directions and every
selecting layer use it; bindTrackingClickGesture is gone (the gesture is
on the event). A source scan forbids new handlers, enableInputs writes and
stock-click removal outside the dispatcher.
- The sensor-style pick correction transit had now applies to every layer.
- Radio's 8-pick near-miss ring is one 17x17 windowed drill.
- A missed pick passed to pickContact is no longer picked again, and a
touch tap's contact search shares the click's drill.
- A gizmo drag whose release Cesium never reported ends on the next press
instead of leaving the camera held.
The dispatcher is exported as ./input with the pointer-lease functions, and
documented in docs/APPLICATION.md.
IntelHUD no longer builds #intel-hud with innerHTML or writes its readouts
by id: it publishes its readouts, typing summary, REC blink, visibility,
layout variant and style colors through its publish option to the gev-hud
store, and the intel-hud application view renders them. The corners render
from mount so the panel layout controllers register them as obstacles.
The vessel layer presents the selected vessel's readout through
src/hudReadouts.js, which IntelHUD follows, instead of writing into the
HUD. The Cyber sonar state answers a HUD toggle from IntelHUD's visibility
rather than the class the view renders on its next update.
The awareness layer presents the compass ring, heading, cardinal labels and
contact bearing markers through subscribeDirectionOverlay(); the application
shell publishes them to the gev-awareness-direction store and the scene
chrome renders them in the viewer's container.
The world overlay presents its focusable mirror of painted cards through
subscribeWorldOverlayActions() and answers activateWorldOverlayAction();
the application shell publishes the list to a store and the scene chrome
renders the buttons and the status, announcing a repeated focus again.
The module stays free of Vue for the portable transit entry, and its
canvases remain painting surfaces.
The screen annotation renderer keeps each mark's SVG parts as attribute
records and presents the board to a store after every rendered frame; a
view teleports it to the page and hands back the callout text and mark
groups the renderer measures. The tracked-entity fade is measured once
the frame is in the document, removed marks fade out before they leave,
and the styles it injected move to annotations.css.
The celestial ring presents its overlay to a store and the scene chrome
renders it in the globe container, handing back the two canvases the
ring paints. The application shell passes the store in so the keyhole
helpers other packages import stay free of Vue. Without its canvases the
ring still tracks whether the globe is framed and turns itself off.
The Bhote Koshi layer keeps its panel controls as plain records and
presents them to a store; the context rail renders the panel as its last
child and marks itself while it is on. Controls are bound to the enable
that published them, and an unchanged frame is not sent again.
The launches layer keeps the replay state, projection and wording and
presents the replay vehicle overlay through subscribeReplayOverlay(),
sending nothing for an unchanged frame, so the portable launches entry
stays free of Vue. The application shell publishes each presentation to
the gev-mission-replay store and the scene chrome teleports the vehicle,
orbit dot and callout into the globe container with the same markup,
classes, mode, transform, rotation and sonar opacities. Hiding keeps the
mode, place and text, as before.
createWindInspectionMarker() moves to src/layers/wind/inspectionMarker.js,
so the portable ./tools entry that reads wind/inspection.js stays free of
Vue. It keeps the frame listener and projection and presents where the
inspected point falls to the gev-wind-inspection store after each
rendered frame, publishing nothing for an unchanged frame; the scene
chrome teleports the marker into the wind layer's container with the
same class, inline style, hidden state and position. The application
guide lists everything leaving out the scene chrome now leaves out.
PointerReticle keeps the turn's timers and tool tracking and presents
where the user pointed to the gev-pointer-reticle store, one entry per
reticle; the command dock teleports each to the body with the same
class, aria-hidden, hidden state, target and position. The voice QA
reads the card and reticle after Vue's flush, and the application guide
says leaving out the command dock leaves out the voice control and its
reticle.
LocationControls offers the indicator with showOrbit(active) in its
presented tray instead of building it on the body, and the scene chrome
teleports it there. Orbit toggles, including the voice switch, light it
through the controls.
createImagerySplit keeps the divider's value, drag, keyboard, CSS position
and scene split, and publishes its line to the imagery split store.
ImagerySplitView, in the scene chrome, teleports each line to the body, so
recent imagery and the Bhote Koshi event no longer build divider DOM.
createSceneDialog keeps its builder but publishes the dialog's lines,
fields, buttons and status to a scene sharing store; SceneDialog.vue,
teleported to the body from the scene panels view, draws the same modal
with the same styles and opens it with Cancel focused. The EDIT DETAILS /
SHARE SCENE bar is drawn by that view while sharing offers it. The status
directive is shared with Provider Settings, and the two QA scripts that
drove the old DOM read the new dialog.
index.html now lists each view's host and the loading screen itself, so
the gev:template expansion plugin, its view list, the loading-screen
template and the ./build/html export are gone. createApplication takes
omitViews for views an application leaves out; their hosts are removed,
and a view an earlier call rendered is unmounted.
The scene chrome, cockpit, Display controls, command dock, layer panels,
Context rail, welcome card and Provider Settings move verbatim into
src/ui/views and mount into their hosts before the page is translated and
wired. Each view renders the same elements, attributes and text as its
template; Vue keeps whitespace between elements as one space, and no view
markup sits under a white-space: pre rule.
Template asset URLs stay literal, view files are left out of Prettier so
the markup is not reflowed, and the Node component loader moves to build/
and is exported as build/register-vue for host test runners. Hosts that do
not initialize Core's locale pass localePicker: false instead of editing
the markup.
It reads the token, model, transcription model and tier for diagnostics and
cost accounting, so the credential is not opaque to it. Also lists requestToken's
authMode option in APPLICATION.md.
Reflect the weather stack, analyst records and feed provenance, satellite pass predictions and live camera video that landed since the last full pass.
Co-authored-by: Matt Van Horn <[email protected]>
Sameh Khamis