mapspinner 0.1.73 → 0.1.75

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "mapspinner",
-  "version": "0.1.73",
+  "version": "0.1.75",
   "description": "WebGL2 Earth-scale terrain rendering SDK for interactive globe applications",
   "main": "src/index.js",
   "exports": {

package/src/shaders/terrain.glsl

@@ -1921,7 +1921,7 @@ void main() {
         // 3 normal octaves (user 2026-06-14 'add an even lower freq octave, displacement/normals only,
         // 4x less frequent'): wt4 high (detail) + wt low (2.4km) + wt*0.25 VERY-low (9.6km) -- the very-
         // low one breaks the far repetition even more. Normals/displacement only (no albedo).
-        vec3 nA = surfTriNrm(uSurfNrm, wt4, tw, lA, n) * 1.4 + surfTriNrm(uSurfNrm, wt, tw, lA, n) * 0.8 + surfTriNrm(uSurfNrm, wt * 0.25, tw, lA, n) * 2.4;   // very-low octave UP 0.55->2.4 (user 2026-06-14 'dont really see the lower freq octave yet'): at a 9.6km period its slope is gentle, so it needs more weight to read as broad undulation
+        vec3 nA = surfTriNrm(uSurfNrm, wt4, tw, lA, n) * 2.0 + surfTriNrm(uSurfNrm, wt, tw, lA, n) * 0.9 + surfTriNrm(uSurfNrm, wt * 0.25, tw, lA, n) * 1.1;   // REBALANCED (user 2026-06-14 'higher octaves appear gone'): very-low 2.4 swamped the detail -> high (wt4) UP to 2.0 (dominant detail), very-low DOWN to 1.1 (still visible broad) (user 2026-06-14 'dont really see the lower freq octave yet'): at a 9.6km period its slope is gentle, so it needs more weight to read as broad undulation
         float dispA = albA.a;
         // NO BIOME COLOR INHERITANCE (user 2026-06-14 'take away all biome color inheritance, it will
         // speed it up' -- and fixes 'sand near grass tinted green'): each layer wears its OWN material
@@ -1933,7 +1933,7 @@ void main() {
         if (wB > 0.02) {   // second layer only where a real transition exists
             vec4 albB = surfTriTap(uSurfAlb, wt4, tw, lB);
             vec3 cB = vec3(dot(albB.rgb, LUMA));
-            vec3 nB = surfTriNrm(uSurfNrm, wt4, tw, lB, n) * 1.4 + surfTriNrm(uSurfNrm, wt, tw, lB, n) * 0.8 + surfTriNrm(uSurfNrm, wt * 0.25, tw, lB, n) * 2.4;   // very-low octave UP 0.55->2.4 (match nA)
+            vec3 nB = surfTriNrm(uSurfNrm, wt4, tw, lB, n) * 2.0 + surfTriNrm(uSurfNrm, wt, tw, lB, n) * 0.9 + surfTriNrm(uSurfNrm, wt * 0.25, tw, lB, n) * 1.1;   // REBALANCED (match nA)
             float dispB = albB.a;
             // HEIGHT-BLEND POKE-THROUGH (user 'each texture's higher areas should poke through the other,
             // offset by the ramp'): height = displacement + a weight-ramp offset (gate positions the
@@ -2022,23 +2022,9 @@ void main() {
         // longer the base, so NO biome color bleeds into the ground (user 'take away all biome inheritance').
         albedo = clamp(mix(texMatColor, detail, k), 0.0, 1.0);
         albedo = mix(albedo, biomeC, 0.68);   // climate/biome tint back on top of the material color (deserts tanner, forests greener) -- UP 0.16->0.68 (user 2026-06-14 x2 'tinting-according-to-landscape can be intensified, not really visible yet')
-        // FAKE MIDDAY AO from the displacement (user 2026-06-14 'darken the deepest parts of the
-        // displacement textures a little'): the texture's LOWEST displacement = crevices/pits; darken
-        // them ~18% so the surface reads as sunlit-from-above with soft self-occlusion in the lows.
-        // Faded by k so the far field (where the texture mips out) is untouched.
-        // STRONGER fake-midday AO (user 2026-06-14 'should be more intense, we dont really see it'):
-        // darken the recesses harder (0.82->0.5 = up to 50%) over a wider low-displacement range so the
-        // crevices/pits read clearly. Still faded by k so the mipped far field is untouched.
-        float texAO = mix(1.0, mix(0.5, 1.0, smoothstep(0.05, 0.6, texAlb.a)), k);
-        albedo *= texAO;
-        // ELEVATION AO (user 2026-06-14 'similar AO on elevation'): the macro analog of the displacement
-        // AO -- darken CONCAVE relief (valley floors, gorges, recesses) using the screen-space CURVATURE
-        // of the lit normal. curv = d(normal).d(position) / |d(position)|^2 -> +ve where the surface
-        // curves into a pit (concave), -ve on ridges. Cheap (fwidth of the already-computed vNrm/vWorld).
-        highp vec3 ddxP = dFdx(vWorld), ddyP = dFdy(vWorld);
-        float curv = (dot(dFdx(vNrm), ddxP) + dot(dFdy(vNrm), ddyP)) / max(dot(ddxP, ddxP) + dot(ddyP, ddyP), 0.01);
-        float elevAO = 1.0 - clamp(curv * 420.0, 0.0, 0.65);   // concave -> darken up to 65% (user 2026-06-14 x2 'elevation based ao not visible yet': macro relief curvature is small-magnitude, needs big gain 45->420)
-        albedo *= elevAO;
+        // (AO REMOVED 2026-06-14 user 'fps dropped a lot, no visual improvement, get rid of all the ao
+        // for texture and landscape': the displacement texAO + the broadShapeLowM-Laplacian elevation AO
+        // are both gone; the latter's 5 wide VS taps were the FPS cost. vConcavity varying also removed.)
         // displacement-normal relief: WORLD-SPACE UDN perturbation from surfTriNrm (each projection
         // plane's tangent axes, not the radial frame). Amplitude capped low (scramble lesson d262b5e);
         // applied AFTER the uReliefShade exaggeration below so the exaggeration never amplifies it.