@driftengine/core 4.10.0 → 4.11.1

package/dist/render/instances.d.ts

@@ -46,9 +46,16 @@ export interface MeshInstances {
      * read by a draw whose material is a `lightmapModel` — instances of one mesh in one material sit
      * in different regions of one page, each applied before the material's own region. **They ride
      * the tint and the opacity**, which a lightmapped instance gives up (see `lightmap.ts`): where
-     * these are given, those are not read. **A lightmapped batch needs them**, since a bake is
+     * these are given, the tints are not read. **A lightmapped batch needs them**, since a bake is
      * different light at each instance; one drawn without them reads its tints as its regions, and
      * either mismatch is said once on the console.
+     *
+     * **The opacity survives, in sixty-fourths**, so a lightmapped instance fades by
+     * `setDitherOpacity` as any other does: its transparency travels as whole steps of 2 added to the
+     * region's U offset, which is a place in a page and so under 1, and the vertex stage takes them
+     * back off (`LIGHTMAP_OPACITY_STEPS`). Sixty-four is the screen door's own resolution, an 8x8
+     * pattern. **What it gives up**: a fading instance's offset keeps 16 bits of fraction rather than
+     * 23, a sixteenth of a texel on a 4,096 page; an opaque one is written to the bit as before.
      */
     readonly lightmapRegions?: Float32Array;
     /**
@@ -98,6 +105,11 @@ export declare function createMeshInstances(capacity: number): MeshInstances;
  * as one four-float attribute, so the opacity cost no attribute and no byte.
  */
 export declare const INSTANCE_FLOATS = 20;
+/**
+ * How finely a lightmapped instance's opacity travels in its region: transparency in steps of
+ * 1/64, each 2 on the U offset. See `MeshInstances.lightmapRegions`; the vertex stage reads it back.
+ */
+export declare const LIGHTMAP_OPACITY_STEPS = 64;
 /** Bytes one instance occupies. See `INSTANCE_FLOATS`. */
 export declare const INSTANCE_STRIDE: number;
 /**

package/dist/render/instances.js

@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ export function createMeshInstances(capacity) {
  * as one four-float attribute, so the opacity cost no attribute and no byte.
  */
 export const INSTANCE_FLOATS = 20;
+/**
+ * How finely a lightmapped instance's opacity travels in its region: transparency in steps of
+ * 1/64, each 2 on the U offset. See `MeshInstances.lightmapRegions`; the vertex stage reads it back.
+ */
+export const LIGHTMAP_OPACITY_STEPS = 64;
 /** Bytes one instance occupies. See `INSTANCE_FLOATS`. */
 export const INSTANCE_STRIDE = INSTANCE_FLOATS * 4;
 /**
@@ -56,6 +61,11 @@ export function packInstances(instances, out) {
             /* The region in the tint's and the opacity's place. See `lightmapRegions`. */
             for (let c = 0; c < 4; c += 1)
                 out[at + 16 + c] = lightmapRegions[i * 4 + c];
+            /* And the opacity's transparency in whole steps of 2 on the U offset, none where opaque. */
+            const alpha = Math.min(Math.max(alphas?.[i] ?? 1, 0), 1);
+            const steps = Math.round((1 - alpha) * LIGHTMAP_OPACITY_STEPS);
+            if (steps > 0)
+                out[at + 18] = out[at + 18] + 2 * steps;
             continue;
         }
         const t = i * 3;

package/dist/render/lightMatrix.d.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
 import { mat4 } from 'gl-matrix';
 import type { Vec3 } from '../math/color.ts';
 export declare function computeLightMatrix(lightDir: Vec3, focusX: number, focusY: number, focusZ: number, radius: number, shadowMapSize: number, out: mat4): number;
+/**
+ * The depth an orthographic light matrix spans, in metres: what `computeLightMatrix` returns, read
+ * back off any such matrix. Its depth row is the light's axis scaled by two over the span, so the
+ * span is two over that row's length — whatever focus, radius or bearing built it.
+ *
+ * **For a matrix the renderer is handed rather than one it built**: the sun's moving layer is read
+ * through the matrix its shadow pass was drawn with, and its depth tolerance and distance fade are
+ * in metres of that matrix. What would make this wrong is a perspective light, whose depth is not
+ * linear; the sun's never is.
+ */
+export declare function orthographicDepthSpan(m: ArrayLike<number>): number;

package/dist/render/lightMatrix.js

@@ -43,3 +43,17 @@ export function computeLightMatrix(lightDir, focusX, focusY, focusZ, radius, sha
     // to express its residual depth tolerance in stable world-space metres.
     return radius * 6;
 }
+/**
+ * The depth an orthographic light matrix spans, in metres: what `computeLightMatrix` returns, read
+ * back off any such matrix. Its depth row is the light's axis scaled by two over the span, so the
+ * span is two over that row's length — whatever focus, radius or bearing built it.
+ *
+ * **For a matrix the renderer is handed rather than one it built**: the sun's moving layer is read
+ * through the matrix its shadow pass was drawn with, and its depth tolerance and distance fade are
+ * in metres of that matrix. What would make this wrong is a perspective light, whose depth is not
+ * linear; the sun's never is.
+ */
+export function orthographicDepthSpan(m) {
+    const length = Math.hypot(m[2], m[6], m[10]);
+    return length > 0 ? 2 / length : 1;
+}

package/dist/render/mesh.d.ts

@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ export declare class Mesh {
      * same frame.
      */
     readonly indexCount: number;
+    /** `UNSIGNED_SHORT` or `UNSIGNED_INT`, as `compactIndices` stored them: every draw says which. */
+    private readonly indexType;
     /**
      * The constant values this mesh's *absent* attributes are shaded with, re-applied on
      * every draw.
@@ -142,7 +144,14 @@ export declare class Mesh {
      * still visible, which is the kind of bug that only shows up at the edge of the frame.
      */
     update(gl: WebGL2RenderingContext, positions: Float32Array, normals?: Float32Array): void;
+    /**
+     * One attribute's buffer, as floats or in its sixteen-bit fixed point (`vertexPacking.ts`), which
+     * WebGL2 reads back through a normalised `SHORT` or `UNSIGNED_SHORT`: three lanes wide where
+     * WebGPU needs four, so a normal costs six bytes here.
+     */
     private attachAttribute;
+    /** A buffer, or the one value every vertex shares as a constant, as the packing says. */
+    private attachShared;
     /**
      * Give a bound buffer its storage, and its contents now or later.
      *

package/dist/render/mesh.js

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 import { MorphTexture } from './backend/webgl2/morphTexture.js';
 import { ABSENT_ATTRIBUTE } from './vertexDefaults.js';
 import { UPLOAD_BYTES_PER_STEP } from './uploadStep.js';
+import { compactIndices } from './indexWidth.js';
+import { fixedArray, sharedValue, vertexPackingOf, } from './vertexPacking.js';
 /*
  * `MeshData` and its validator live in `@driftengine/drft`, because the container's whole
  * job is to carry one and the format package must be readable by something that never
@@ -99,6 +101,8 @@ export class Mesh {
      * same frame.
      */
     indexCount;
+    /** `UNSIGNED_SHORT` or `UNSIGNED_INT`, as `compactIndices` stored them: every draw says which. */
+    indexType;
     /**
      * The constant values this mesh's *absent* attributes are shaded with, re-applied on
      * every draw.
@@ -207,12 +211,14 @@ export class Mesh {
          * that has been told a lie every frame is the shape of a stall nobody can find.
          */
         const usage = dynamic ? gl.DYNAMIC_DRAW : gl.STATIC_DRAW;
+        /* How each attribute travels: sixteen-bit fixed point, or one value as a constant. */
+        const packing = vertexPackingOf(data, dynamic);
         const positions = this.attachAttribute(gl, ATTR_POSITION, data.positions, 3, usage);
-        const normals = this.attachAttribute(gl, ATTR_NORMAL, data.normals, 3, usage);
+        const normals = this.attachAttribute(gl, ATTR_NORMAL, data.normals, 3, usage, packing.normals);
         if (dynamic)
             this.deformable = { positions, normals };
-        this.attachAttribute(gl, ATTR_COLOR, data.colors, 3);
-        this.attachAttribute(gl, ATTR_EMISSIVE, data.emissive, 1);
+        this.attachShared(gl, ATTR_COLOR, data.colors, 3, packing.colors);
+        this.attachShared(gl, ATTR_EMISSIVE, data.emissive, 1, packing.emissive);
         /*
          * Absent means "not shiny", supplied as a constant rather than as a buffer of
          * zeroes. `vertexAttrib1f` sets the value a *disabled* attribute reads, so this
@@ -289,7 +295,7 @@ export class Mesh {
         }
         else {
             this.attachAttribute(gl, ATTR_JOINTS, data.joints, 4);
-            this.attachAttribute(gl, ATTR_WEIGHTS, data.weights, 4);
+            this.attachAttribute(gl, ATTR_WEIGHTS, data.weights, 4, gl.STATIC_DRAW, packing.weights);
         }
         /* The fifth to eighth influences, or zeros, which add nothing. See `isSkinnedEight`. */
         this.isSkinnedEight = this.isSkinned && data.joints2 !== undefined;
@@ -299,7 +305,7 @@ export class Mesh {
         }
         else {
             this.attachAttribute(gl, ATTR_JOINTS2, data.joints2, 4);
-            this.attachAttribute(gl, ATTR_WEIGHTS2, data.weights2, 4);
+            this.attachAttribute(gl, ATTR_WEIGHTS2, data.weights2, 4, gl.STATIC_DRAW, packing.weights2);
         }
         this.hasTangents = data.tangents !== undefined;
         if (data.tangents === undefined) {
@@ -307,7 +313,7 @@ export class Mesh {
             this.constants.push({ location: ATTR_TANGENT, value: ABSENT_ATTRIBUTE['tangents'] });
         }
         else {
-            this.attachAttribute(gl, ATTR_TANGENT, data.tangents, 4);
+            this.attachAttribute(gl, ATTR_TANGENT, data.tangents, 4, gl.STATIC_DRAW, packing.tangents);
         }
         this.hasGrain = data.grain !== undefined;
         if (data.grain === undefined) {
@@ -337,7 +343,9 @@ export class Mesh {
         this.buffers.push(indexBuffer);
         gl.bindBuffer(gl.ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, indexBuffer);
         this.indexBuffer = indexBuffer;
-        this.allocate(gl, gl.ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, indexBuffer, data.indices, gl.STATIC_DRAW);
+        const indices = compactIndices(data.indices, this.vertexCount);
+        this.indexType = indices instanceof Uint16Array ? gl.UNSIGNED_SHORT : gl.UNSIGNED_INT;
+        this.allocate(gl, gl.ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, indexBuffer, indices, gl.STATIC_DRAW);
         gl.bindVertexArray(null);
     }
     /** Caller is responsible for having the flat program + uniforms bound. */
@@ -354,7 +362,7 @@ export class Mesh {
             const value = constant.value;
             applyConstant(gl, constant.location, value);
         }
-        gl.drawElements(gl.TRIANGLES, this.indexCount, gl.UNSIGNED_INT, 0);
+        gl.drawElements(gl.TRIANGLES, this.indexCount, this.indexType, 0);
     }
     /**
      * A vertex array for one instanced batch: every attribute this mesh binds from a buffer, its index
@@ -374,7 +382,7 @@ export class Mesh {
         for (const attribute of this.layout) {
             gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, attribute.buffer);
             gl.enableVertexAttribArray(attribute.location);
-            gl.vertexAttribPointer(attribute.location, attribute.size, gl.FLOAT, false, 0, 0);
+            gl.vertexAttribPointer(attribute.location, attribute.size, attribute.type, attribute.normalized, 0, 0);
         }
         gl.bindBuffer(gl.ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, this.indexBuffer);
         gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, instances);
@@ -399,7 +407,7 @@ export class Mesh {
             const value = constant.value;
             applyConstant(gl, constant.location, value);
         }
-        gl.drawElementsInstanced(gl.TRIANGLES, this.indexCount, gl.UNSIGNED_INT, 0, count);
+        gl.drawElementsInstanced(gl.TRIANGLES, this.indexCount, this.indexType, 0, count);
     }
     dispose(gl) {
         this.morph?.dispose(gl);
@@ -437,18 +445,34 @@ export class Mesh {
             gl.bufferSubData(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, 0, normals);
         }
     }
-    attachAttribute(gl, location, data, size, usage = gl.STATIC_DRAW) {
+    /**
+     * One attribute's buffer, as floats or in its sixteen-bit fixed point (`vertexPacking.ts`), which
+     * WebGL2 reads back through a normalised `SHORT` or `UNSIGNED_SHORT`: three lanes wide where
+     * WebGPU needs four, so a normal costs six bytes here.
+     */
+    attachAttribute(gl, location, data, size, usage = gl.STATIC_DRAW, packing = 'float') {
         const buffer = gl.createBuffer();
         if (buffer === null)
             throw new Error('createBuffer failed');
         this.buffers.push(buffer);
         gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, buffer);
-        this.allocate(gl, gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, buffer, data, usage);
+        const fixed = packing === 'snorm16' || packing === 'unorm16';
+        this.allocate(gl, gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, buffer, fixed ? fixedArray(data, packing) : data, usage);
+        const type = packing === 'snorm16' ? gl.SHORT : packing === 'unorm16' ? gl.UNSIGNED_SHORT : gl.FLOAT;
         gl.enableVertexAttribArray(location);
-        gl.vertexAttribPointer(location, size, gl.FLOAT, false, 0, 0);
-        this.layout.push({ location, buffer, size });
+        gl.vertexAttribPointer(location, size, type, fixed, 0, 0);
+        this.layout.push({ location, buffer, size, type, normalized: fixed });
         return buffer;
     }
+    /** A buffer, or the one value every vertex shares as a constant, as the packing says. */
+    attachShared(gl, location, data, size, packing) {
+        if (packing !== 'constant') {
+            this.attachAttribute(gl, location, data, size, gl.STATIC_DRAW, packing);
+            return;
+        }
+        gl.disableVertexAttribArray(location);
+        this.constants.push({ location, value: sharedValue(data, size) });
+    }
     /**
      * Give a bound buffer its storage, and its contents now or later.
      *

package/dist/render/occlusionFade.d.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/**
+ * Where ambient occlusion fades out with distance: `setAmbientOcclusionFade`'s two numbers as the
+ * estimate reads them, `uFade` in `shaders/ambientOcclusion.ts`.
+ *
+ * **Occlusion is whole up to `distance` metres from the eye and gone `radius` metres past it.** A
+ * screen-space estimate reaches as far as the depth does, and far off the depth buffer's steps are
+ * metres apart: a sky dome or a mountain range kilometres away is shaded in rings that follow
+ * those steps, and nothing there is in contact with anything the estimate could be right about.
+ * A pixel past the fade skips the estimate's walk, as the sky does, so it costs less as well.
+ *
+ * **What it gives up**: distant contact shade that is real — a doorway a hundred metres off — fades
+ * with the rest, and the distance is the eye's and not the subject's, so a long lens fades what it
+ * frames close up. What would make it wrong is a scene whose far depth is precise enough to shade,
+ * which is a reason to fade further, not to leave the fade off.
+ */
+/**
+ * `distance` and `radius` into `out`, `[distance, radius]`. A distance that is not a finite number
+ * at or above zero is no fade, `[−1, 0]`, so `Infinity` reads as "never fades". A radius below zero
+ * or not a number is 0, which is a cut at `distance` rather than a ramp.
+ */
+export declare function resolveOcclusionFade(distance: number, radius: number, out: Float32Array): void;

package/dist/render/occlusionFade.js

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+/**
+ * Where ambient occlusion fades out with distance: `setAmbientOcclusionFade`'s two numbers as the
+ * estimate reads them, `uFade` in `shaders/ambientOcclusion.ts`.
+ *
+ * **Occlusion is whole up to `distance` metres from the eye and gone `radius` metres past it.** A
+ * screen-space estimate reaches as far as the depth does, and far off the depth buffer's steps are
+ * metres apart: a sky dome or a mountain range kilometres away is shaded in rings that follow
+ * those steps, and nothing there is in contact with anything the estimate could be right about.
+ * A pixel past the fade skips the estimate's walk, as the sky does, so it costs less as well.
+ *
+ * **What it gives up**: distant contact shade that is real — a doorway a hundred metres off — fades
+ * with the rest, and the distance is the eye's and not the subject's, so a long lens fades what it
+ * frames close up. What would make it wrong is a scene whose far depth is precise enough to shade,
+ * which is a reason to fade further, not to leave the fade off.
+ */
+/** `uFade` for no fade: a distance below zero, which the estimate reads as "never". */
+const NO_FADE = -1;
+/**
+ * `distance` and `radius` into `out`, `[distance, radius]`. A distance that is not a finite number
+ * at or above zero is no fade, `[−1, 0]`, so `Infinity` reads as "never fades". A radius below zero
+ * or not a number is 0, which is a cut at `distance` rather than a ramp.
+ */
+export function resolveOcclusionFade(distance, radius, out) {
+    const fades = Number.isFinite(distance) && distance >= 0;
+    out[0] = fades ? distance : NO_FADE;
+    out[1] = fades && Number.isFinite(radius) ? Math.max(radius, 0) : 0;
+}

package/dist/render/renderQuality.d.ts

@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ export type OutputTransform = 'none' | 'srgb' | 'aces' | 'shoulder' | 'filmic';
 export type ShadowFilterTaps = 4 | 8 | 12;
 export type DirectionalShadowDepthLayers = 1 | 2;
 export type WaterReflectionFilterTaps = 1 | 5 | 9;
+/** What a draw does when its pipeline has not compiled yet: see `RenderQuality.pipelineCompile`. */
+export type PipelineCompile = 'wait' | 'skip';
 /** How light through glass is coloured: see `RenderQuality.glassShadows`. */
 export type GlassShadows = 'full' | 'half' | 'off';
 /** How light scattered beneath skin is drawn: see `RenderQuality.skinScattering`. */
@@ -210,6 +212,34 @@ export interface RenderQuality {
      * lot of glass; that is what `'half'` is for. See `glassShadow.ts`.
      */
     readonly glassShadows: GlassShadows;
+    /**
+     * What a lit draw does when the pipeline it needs has not compiled: one first needed inside a
+     * frame, by a material's own state — two-sided, cut out, a surface model — or a draw state a
+     * mesh's creation did not warm.
+     *
+     * **`'wait'`, the default**: the pipeline is built where the draw asks for it, and on WebGPU the
+     * browser compiles it on its GPU process's main thread, holding the frame — 130 to 400 ms a
+     * pipeline was reported on a phone, for a material first drawn mid-scene. **`'skip'`** starts the
+     * compile off that thread and leaves the draw out until it lands, a few frames to a few dozen,
+     * and the draw then appears; nothing waits. Static draws always wait, since a recorded list keeps
+     * what it recorded, and a compile that fails is built where it is next asked for, so the device
+     * says why rather than the draw vanishing for good.
+     *
+     * **The way to have neither** is to draw what a scene will use once, behind a loading screen, and
+     * await `ready()`, which waits for every compile started — whichever this says. What would make
+     * `'skip'` wrong is a frame that must hold everything it was given, such as a capture of the first
+     * frame of a scene not awaited.
+     *
+     * **Measured on a desktop GPU** (`demo/dev/pipelineCompile.html`, eight new variants at once): on
+     * WebGPU the frame that met them took 700 to 3,700 ms waiting and 17 ms skipping, the draws
+     * landing 21 to 26 frames later. WebGL2 compiles its lit programs when it is made, all but a
+     * surface model's, which it compiles at the first draw that wants one: there `'skip'` asks the
+     * driver through `KHR_parallel_shader_compile` and waits where a context does not offer it — which
+     * ANGLE on Vulkan does not. Where it is offered, ANGLE on OpenGL, the longest frame went from 820 to
+     * 1,120 ms to 630 to 700 ms: the driver still finishes its own compile at the program's first
+     * draw, which nothing above it can move.
+     */
+    readonly pipelineCompile: PipelineCompile;
     /**
      * How light that scatters beneath skin is drawn, for a material whose model is `skinModel`.
      *

package/dist/render/renderQuality.js

@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ export const DEFAULT_RENDER_QUALITY = Object.freeze({
     lightVolumeSamples: 32,
     directionalShadowDepthLayers: 2,
     glassShadows: 'full',
+    pipelineCompile: 'wait',
     skinScattering: 'pre-integrated',
     directionalShadowMaxDistance: 6,
     directionalShadowMaxSlope: 3,
@@ -218,6 +219,7 @@ export function resolveRenderQuality(options = {}) {
         lightVolumeSamples: options.lightVolumeSamples ?? DEFAULT_RENDER_QUALITY.lightVolumeSamples,
         directionalShadowDepthLayers: options.directionalShadowDepthLayers ?? DEFAULT_RENDER_QUALITY.directionalShadowDepthLayers,
         glassShadows: options.glassShadows ?? DEFAULT_RENDER_QUALITY.glassShadows,
+        pipelineCompile: options.pipelineCompile ?? DEFAULT_RENDER_QUALITY.pipelineCompile,
         skinScattering: options.skinScattering ?? DEFAULT_RENDER_QUALITY.skinScattering,
         directionalShadowMaxDistance: options.directionalShadowMaxDistance ?? DEFAULT_RENDER_QUALITY.directionalShadowMaxDistance,
         directionalShadowMaxSlope: options.directionalShadowMaxSlope ?? DEFAULT_RENDER_QUALITY.directionalShadowMaxSlope,
@@ -318,6 +320,9 @@ export function resolveRenderQuality(options = {}) {
         quality.glassShadows !== 'off') {
         throw new Error(`RenderQuality.glassShadows must be 'full', 'half' or 'off', got ${String(quality.glassShadows)}`);
     }
+    if (quality.pipelineCompile !== 'wait' && quality.pipelineCompile !== 'skip') {
+        throw new Error(`RenderQuality.pipelineCompile must be 'wait' or 'skip', got ${String(quality.pipelineCompile)}`);
+    }
     if (quality.skinScattering !== 'pre-integrated' && quality.skinScattering !== 'screen-space') {
         throw new Error(`RenderQuality.skinScattering must be 'pre-integrated' or 'screen-space', got ${String(quality.skinScattering)}`);
     }

package/dist/render/rendererHarness.d.ts

@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ export declare function recordingGl(options?: {
      * recording.
      */
     readonly uniforms?: readonly string[];
+    /**
+     * Whether a program started under `KHR_parallel_shader_compile` has finished, which the test
+     * flips: `COMPLETION_STATUS_KHR` answers `done`. Finished by default, as every program here is.
+     */
+    readonly compiling?: {
+        done: boolean;
+    };
 }): {
     gl: WebGL2RenderingContext;
     canvas: HTMLCanvasElement;

package/dist/render/rendererHarness.js

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  */
 import { countUniformVectors } from './uniformVectorBudget.js';
 export function recordingGl(options = {}) {
+    const compiling = options.compiling ?? { done: true };
     const extensions = new Set(options.extensions ?? []);
     const uniforms = options.uniforms ?? [];
     /* What `clearDepth` last set, so a module that borrows the value can be seen to put it back. */
@@ -93,6 +94,13 @@ export function recordingGl(options = {}) {
         HALF_FLOAT: 0x140b,
         DEPTH_COMPONENT: 0x1902,
         UNSIGNED_INT: 0x1405,
+        /* Named so a mesh's index width and each attribute's type can be read back: the buffer its
+           indices fill, the type every draw of it names, and how each attribute is read. See
+           `mesh.test.ts`. */
+        UNSIGNED_SHORT: 0x1403,
+        SHORT: 0x1402,
+        FLOAT: 0x1406,
+        ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER: 0x8893,
         LINEAR: 0x2601,
         COLOR_BUFFER_BIT: 0x00004000,
         /* Named so a test can tell a mesh that declared itself deforming from one that did not. */
@@ -137,6 +145,8 @@ export function recordingGl(options = {}) {
             if (name === 'EXT_clip_control') {
                 return { LOWER_LEFT_EXT: 0x8ca1, ZERO_TO_ONE_EXT: 0x935f, clipControlEXT: () => undefined };
             }
+            if (name === 'KHR_parallel_shader_compile')
+                return { COMPLETION_STATUS_KHR: 0x91b1 };
             return {};
         },
         getShaderParameter: () => true,
@@ -166,6 +176,8 @@ export function recordingGl(options = {}) {
         /* Linked yes; zero active uniforms and attributes, which ends every reflection loop at once
            and is why this harness does not have to know a single uniform name. */
         getProgramParameter: (program, pname) => {
+            if (pname === 0x91b1)
+                return compiling.done;
             if (pname === constants.ACTIVE_UNIFORMS)
                 return uniforms.length;
             if (pname === constants.ACTIVE_ATTRIBUTES)

package/dist/render/sceneTarget.d.ts

@@ -313,6 +313,8 @@ export declare class SceneTarget {
         /** The projection's x and y scales, which turn a world radius into a screen one. */
         readonly projScale: Float32Array;
         readonly invProjection: Float32Array;
+        /** Where it fades out with distance, `uFade`: see `occlusionFade.ts`. */
+        readonly fade: Float32Array;
         /** Where the frame's jitter put the occlusion, in uv: see the shader's `uAoOffset`. */
         readonly offset?: Float32Array;
     }, bloom?: {

package/dist/render/sceneTarget.js

@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ export class SceneTarget {
         let aoTexture = null;
         if (ao !== undefined && !this.depthBlitRefused && this.depth !== null) {
             this.ao ??= new AmbientOcclusionPass(gl);
-            aoTexture = this.ao.run(this.depth, this.width, this.height, ao.radius, ao.projScale, ao.invProjection);
+            aoTexture = this.ao.run(this.depth, this.width, this.height, ao.radius, ao.projScale, ao.invProjection, ao.fade);
         }
         /*
          * Bloom beside occlusion rather than after the composite, because the composite is what

package/dist/render/shader.d.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 /** Shader compilation with fail-fast diagnostics (init-time only, never per-frame). */
 export declare function compileProgram(gl: WebGL2RenderingContext, vertexSource: string, fragmentSource: string, label: string): WebGLProgram;
+/**
+ * A program compiled and linked without asking whether that worked, since asking waits for the
+ * driver to finish: for a context offering `KHR_parallel_shader_compile`, whose
+ * `COMPLETION_STATUS_KHR` says when asking no longer waits. `finishProgram` asks then, and fails
+ * as loudly as `compileProgram` does; the stages are kept until it does, for their logs.
+ */
+export interface StartedProgram {
+    readonly program: WebGLProgram;
+    readonly vertex: WebGLShader;
+    readonly fragment: WebGLShader;
+    readonly label: string;
+}
+export declare function startProgram(gl: WebGL2RenderingContext, vertexSource: string, fragmentSource: string, label: string): StartedProgram;
+/** A started program, checked as `compileProgram` checks one: its stages, then its link. */
+export declare function finishProgram(gl: WebGL2RenderingContext, started: StartedProgram): WebGLProgram;
 export declare function setUniformStrictMode(on: boolean): void;
 /** Locations of every active uniform, keyed by name. */
 export declare function uniformLocations(gl: WebGL2RenderingContext, program: WebGLProgram, label?: string): Record<string, WebGLUniformLocation>;

package/dist/render/shader.js

@@ -17,6 +17,47 @@ export function compileProgram(gl, vertexSource, fragmentSource, label) {
     }
     return program;
 }
+export function startProgram(gl, vertexSource, fragmentSource, label) {
+    const stage = (type, source, name) => {
+        const shader = gl.createShader(type);
+        if (shader === null)
+            throw new Error(`[${label}.${name}] createShader failed`);
+        gl.shaderSource(shader, source);
+        gl.compileShader(shader);
+        return shader;
+    };
+    const vertex = stage(gl.VERTEX_SHADER, vertexSource, 'vert');
+    const fragment = stage(gl.FRAGMENT_SHADER, fragmentSource, 'frag');
+    const program = gl.createProgram();
+    if (program === null)
+        throw new Error(`[${label}] createProgram failed`);
+    gl.attachShader(program, vertex);
+    gl.attachShader(program, fragment);
+    gl.linkProgram(program);
+    return { program, vertex, fragment, label };
+}
+/** A started program, checked as `compileProgram` checks one: its stages, then its link. */
+export function finishProgram(gl, started) {
+    const { program, vertex, fragment, label } = started;
+    const fail = (what, log) => {
+        gl.deleteShader(vertex);
+        gl.deleteShader(fragment);
+        gl.deleteProgram(program);
+        throw new Error(`[${label}${what}] ${log ?? 'no log'}`);
+    };
+    if (!gl.getShaderParameter(vertex, gl.COMPILE_STATUS)) {
+        fail('.vert compile failed:', gl.getShaderInfoLog(vertex));
+    }
+    if (!gl.getShaderParameter(fragment, gl.COMPILE_STATUS)) {
+        fail('.frag compile failed:', gl.getShaderInfoLog(fragment));
+    }
+    if (!gl.getProgramParameter(program, gl.LINK_STATUS)) {
+        fail(' link failed:', gl.getProgramInfoLog(program));
+    }
+    gl.deleteShader(vertex);
+    gl.deleteShader(fragment);
+    return program;
+}
 /**
  * Whether a uniform lookup that cannot reach the GPU is reported.
  *

package/dist/render/shaders/ambientOcclusion.js

@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ uniform vec2 uProjScale;
 uniform mat4 uInvProjection;
 /** How far the sampling reaches, in metres of the world. */
 uniform float uRadius;
+/**
+ * Where occlusion fades out: whole up to x metres from the eye, gone y metres past it, and no fade
+ * where x is below zero. See occlusionFade.ts.
+ */
+uniform vec2 uFade;
 
 out float fragColor;
 
@@ -167,6 +172,12 @@ void main() {
     fragColor = 1.0;
     return;
   }
+  /* How far past the caller's fade this pixel is, and open with no walk where it is all the way. */
+  float faded = uFade.x < 0.0 ? 0.0 : clamp((length(p) - uFade.x) / max(uFade.y, 1e-4), 0.0, 1.0);
+  if (faded >= 1.0) {
+    fragColor = AO_STORE;
+    return;
+  }
 
   /*
    * At a silhouette, the quad derivative above is replaced by the one-sided difference that
@@ -307,7 +318,7 @@ void main() {
     visible += projectedLength * gtaoArc(h0, h1, normalAngle);
   }
 
-  fragColor = clamp(visible / float(AO_SLICES) * AO_STORE, 0.0, 1.0);
+  fragColor = clamp(mix(visible / float(AO_SLICES), 1.0, faded) * AO_STORE, 0.0, 1.0);
 }
 `;
 /**