createView threw on style 'snow', so an embed host or a
show_in_gods_eye_view call holding a view from before Snow was retired
was refused outright, camera and layers included. viewFromParams read
style=snow as the recipient's own style, while the app opened the same
link on Normal.
Both now read a retired style as Normal; truly unknown names still
throw. The retired list moves to a browser-free module shared by the
view API, the share codec and visual settings.
Snow is no longer offered anywhere a style can be chosen: the Visual
Presets tray, keyboard shortcut 7, the Cockpit vision carousel, and the
set_visual_style voice action. The shader and its labels go with it;
weather snowfall and the SNOW weather condition are unaffected.
Share links keep working. Snow's enum code (6) stays reserved, so a
compact or long-form link that names it opens on Normal and drops the
Snow shader parameters without reporting them as unknown. A Scene
Director shot saved with Snow plays on Normal too. Snow's frozen share
defaults matched Normal's apart from those parameters, so no other
setting in an old link changes meaning.
The legacy voice-schema pins restore Snow before hashing, so the
unchanged pins still prove nothing else moved; the complete Realtime
payload digest is re-derived.
A view's follow may ask for cockpit view, which the app enters after it
follows the aircraft; links cannot carry it and open the app following.
Applying a view no longer flies the camera when the followed entity is
already there, since the flight ended the follow; it flies only while
waiting for the entity. The panel applies its first view again only
when it asks for cockpit view.
A view can carry the marks the app's annotate_map action draws, and links
carry them in the an parameter, bounded in count and size. A tilted view of
an area now places the camera behind its center so the area stays in the
middle of the frame.
A view is a camera, data layers, visual style, map imagery and an aircraft,
military aircraft or satellite to follow, written in the share-link format
the app already restores. gods-eye-view/view builds, encodes and decodes one,
and share links take their style names from it. open_in_gods_eye_view now
builds its link from a full view: an area or camera, layers, style, map and
something to follow.
Said Turksever