mapspinner 0.1.43 → 0.1.44

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "mapspinner",
-  "version": "0.1.43",
+  "version": "0.1.44",
   "description": "WebGL2 Earth-scale terrain rendering SDK for interactive globe applications",
   "main": "src/index.js",
   "exports": {

package/src/gl-render.js

@@ -1109,7 +1109,12 @@ export async function initMapspinnerRender(gl, opts = {}) {
         // seabed, so the depth test culled the water across entire shorelines. Level-9 cells
         // (~1.6km) sag ~5cm, far under any visible bathymetry, still ~16-64x fewer water verts
         // than the deep terrain leaves.
-        const WCAP = 9;
+        // WCAP 9 -> 11 (user 2026-06-14 'water lines still jagged and square, doesnt meet land properly'):
+        // the water-pass `if(vH>1.0) discard` keys off the water mesh's COARSE interpolated seabed height,
+        // so the discarded waterline stepped at ~1.6km (level-9) cells = square/jagged edges that didn't
+        // follow the fine seabed coastline. Level-11 cells (~400m) -> ~4x finer waterline. Water-vertex
+        // cost rises (watch FPS); still far fewer verts than the full-LOD terrain leaves.
+        const WCAP = 11;
         // OWN persistent buffer (instBufWater) + static-frame skip: on an unchanged quad set, reuse the
         // cached water instances (skip the dedup Set-loop + Float32Array + bufferData). Separate buffer
         // means the terrain pass never clobbers it (the prior water-as-terrain regression root).

package/src/shaders/terrain.glsl

@@ -1579,8 +1579,13 @@ void main() {
         mappedW = clamp((mappedW - 0.5) * uLookContrast + 0.5, 0.0, 1.0);
         // coverage: optically thick water -> opaque; first metres see-through; grazing fresnel and
         // foam are opaque regardless of depth; feather the exact waterline contact.
+        // THIN WATER STAYS CLEAR (user 2026-06-14 'water isnt transparent where its thin'): the grazing
+        // fresnel forced shallow water OPAQUE even looking across a shoreline. Gate fresnel opacity by a
+        // depth ramp so thin water shows the bed regardless of view angle; foam + Beer-Lambert depth
+        // opacity stay so deep/foamy water still reads solid.
+        float shallowClear = smoothstep(0.0, 6.0, depthM);   // 0 in thin water -> clear; 1 by ~6m -> full fresnel
         float alphaW = clamp(1.0 - Tavg, 0.0, 1.0);
-        alphaW = max(alphaW, fres * 0.9);
+        alphaW = max(alphaW, fres * 0.9 * shallowClear);
         alphaW = max(alphaW, foamAmt * 0.8);
         // SHALLOW-SURFACE FLOOR (2026-06-11, found by the coast witness after the shelf landed):
         // the continental shelf keeps water metres-deep for kilometres, where Beer-Lambert alpha