From 400 km, a tilt to -5° that a zoom out x2.5 caught 70 frames in eased down from the camera's old pitch at the new range. That put the camera below the place's horizon: the first frame's crosshair hit the ground 186 km from London, and London stayed hidden for about 11 frames. The re-solve also left the pivot pitch at 0°, so a zoom in before the next frame computed an infinite clearance floor, was refused, and stayed at 1,000 km.
The re-solved pivot pitch now stops at the place's horizon limit, or where the pivot already was. A camera that the zoom leaves past that limit steps down to it with the zoom and holds it, and the zoom still reports that angle. A zoom in straight after brings the range back to 400 km.
From 400 km, a tilt to -5° that a zoom out x2.5 caught at -8.0005° reported -8°, and the next frame jumped to -9.407° and ended there. The zoom kept the camera's pitch as the goal when it was already past the new range's horizon limit, but at the same pivot pitch the longer range looks down more steeply, so the next lookAt dropped the camera 1.4° at once.
The zoom now re-solves the pivot pitch so the new range keeps the camera's pitch, and aims the tilt at the asked angle or the new limit, even when that limit is below where the camera stands: the tilt eases down to it. The zoom's reply names that end, and the camera reaches it with no frame moving more than 0.1°.
A pivot range rebuilt from the camera's position came back a hair over the 1,000 km cutoff when the view sat exactly on it, so a tilt from 1,000 km ran in place and lifted the crosshair onto the sky. The cutoff now allows 1 m of slack.
A zoom during a tilt to an angle changes the range the pivot holds, and with it the place's horizon limit, but the tilt kept its old goal and its reply its old angle: from 400 km, a tilt to -5° zoomed out x2.5 reported -5° with no note and ended at -9.4°. The zoom now re-judges the goal at the new range, eases the tilt from where it is to it, and its result names the angle the tilt now ends at, with a note.
From 550 to 1,000 km of range the camera's -5° limit lies past the place's own horizon. The swing ran into its 150 m clearance, let go of the pivot and tilted the rest in place, which lifted the crosshair onto the sky (28 to 63 km up from 600 to 900 km), and a return to top-down then landed hundreds of km from the place.
The swing now hands over to an in-place tilt only where the clearance is what stops it (within about 17 km). Farther out it stops with the camera 0.5° above the place's horizon, still pivoting: a tilt to an angle reports the angle it reached with a note, a continuous tilt stops there, and a further tilt up is refused as at the limit. Tests check that the crosshair stays on the place, frame by frame for a continuous tilt, and that top-down returns over it.
- A tilt's angle, limits and "unchanged" check use the camera's own
pitch. At regional range the pivot pitch is up to about 8 degrees
shallower, so "tilt to 5 degrees" from 900 km ended at -12.9 degrees.
The swing now solves for the pivot pitch that gives the camera angle.
- A zoom out during a pivoting tilt stops at the 1,000 km pivot limit
instead of the orbit's 5,000 km, and a zoom in that reaches the
clearance is applied before the pivot ends.
- An angle the camera already holds still takes navigation, so it stops
a running motion and releases the follow camera.
- A motion queued behind a fly-to moves to a newer fly-to as soon as it
begins, so a stalled lookup no longer holds it past a flight that
landed. Wait listeners are removed when a wait ends, and a lookup that
found nothing points straight at the flight that moved.
- A fly-to that stops a running motion names it (stoppedMotion).
- A tilt left or right is refused, and the pitchDeg description says
steps use direction.
A motion queued behind a voice fly-to acts on the last flight that moved the camera. A later lookup that was not found, threw, or was cancelled once a newer voice fly-to had begun moved nothing, so the motion looks past it rather than refusing or running early and cancelling the flight still in the air. It never acts at a flight older than the one it started waiting on. A lookup cancelled while still the latest voice flight (a search, a share link, Cockpit) still refuses.
The top-down no-op now reports the camera's real pitch.
A motion queued behind a voice fly-to now follows a later fly-to in the same reply whether the earlier one arrived, was cancelled or failed. A geocode that loses navigation reports failed, so the motion used to be dropped; and a flight left flying while the next place is looked up could land and run the motion there, taking navigation and cancelling the newer flight. The deadline, abort and stale-reply checks still end the wait.
pitchDeg -90 or -89 from a top-down view is now unchanged rather than a 1° tilt up, and the tilt tests' pitch loops are bounded.
Re-pin the Realtime tool payload hash for the merged tree (voice geometry plus pitchDeg). To fit main's 55,500 prompt ceiling with Overpass on, the pitchDeg schema drops its -90..90 range (the runner already clamps to -89..-5, now pinned by a test) and its description is shorter. The Overpass prompt measures 55,492.
A zoom in during a pivoting tilt stops at the range that keeps the camera 150 m above the pivot at its current pitch. A zoom that moves the range by less than half a metre (at the clearance, the 80 m floor or the 5,000 km cap) now answers not zoomed instead of ok, and a tilt reports tiltRangeAdjusted rather than orbitRadiusAdjusted.
- A motion waiting on a voice fly-to follows a later fly-to in the
same reply that cancels it, within one deadline, instead of
reporting that its flight did not arrive. A stale reply stops
following.
- The wait is 15 s, down from 30 s: it holds the tool output, and on
Gemini the later tools in the turn.
- Beyond 1,000 km of range a tilt happens in place instead of
swinging thousands of km about the crosshair point.
- The tilt-nudge limits read the pivot pitch the motion starts from,
including for a voice tilt from a tracked view, whose follow camera
is released before it moves.
- move_camera's argument checks run before the flight wait, so a
malformed call is refused at once.
- Tests: t.after cleanup in the fly-then-motion loop, the pitchDeg
pin asserts the field before removing it, and the handoff-order
pin follows the extracted argument checks.
- A zoom during a pivoting tilt now scales the range the tilt holds,
as it already did for orbit, instead of being undone on the next
frame while reporting success. The zoom limits no longer move a view
the wrong way: a zoom in leaves a view closer than 80 m in place, and
a zoom out leaves an orbit beyond 5,000 km where it is.
- A grab, touch or wheel on the map while a voice fly-to is in flight
drops the motion queued behind it. Cesium lands the flight anyway,
so the orbit or tilt would otherwise take the camera back. Chained
fly-tos in one reply keep the earliest snapshot.
- A pivot tilt toward the horizon stops lowering the camera at 150 m
above the pivot and tilts the rest in place, so a close view no
longer ends inside tiles or a hillside.
- pitchDeg is an absolute angle. A direction that contradicts it is
refused, judged from the pitch the swing starts at, and the tool
description says so.
A voice fly-to frames a city top-down, at pitch -90. The tilt clamp
rejected any step that left the pitch below -89, so the first frame of
"tilt up" stopped the motion and "tilt down" was refused: from the view
voice lands on, no tilt ever moved the camera. A bare "tilt the camera"
also failed because tilt required a direction.
- Clamp tilt only in the direction of travel, so -90 can tilt up.
- Swing the camera about the ground under the crosshair, so the place
stays centred and the heading is kept. A tracked view still tilts in
place, and a pivot tilt yields when tracking takes the camera.
- Add an optional move_camera pitchDeg for "tilt 45 degrees"; a tilt
with neither angle nor direction settles at -45 (oblique view).
- Re-derive the voice tool schema pins for the new argument and wording,
and keep the Realtime prompt under its 52,000-character budget.
Sameh Khamis