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Campaign: Cinematic Field Pass

Date: 2026-06-29 Shape: large (7 sequenced phases — P0 foundations + 6 workstreams) Auto-advance: yes (owner kicked off via /goal 2026-06-29) Posture: autonomous-loop (per /goal directive: defer owner playtests to docs/PLAYTEST_PENDING.md, do not pause; true hard-stops still halt — fence change, >2 CI red/round, combat120 p99 regression >5%, carry-over growth, worktree failure, twice-rejected reviewer) Concurrency cap: 5 Status: ✅ CLOSED 2026-06-29 (autonomous-loop). All phases merged to master — P0-P6 + P4b (radio-station wiring) + PX (terrain-spike). 9 PRs #457-#465, ZERO fence changes, combat120 baseline restored, full suite 7238 green. Visual post-stack + orbital topo ship DEFAULT-OFF/opt-in; the post default-on flip is deferred behind a MAIN-worktree combat120 p99 proof. Folded into the July 1 production-review release; owner feel-walks queued in PLAYTEST_PENDING.md.

Owner-gated open questions resolved to defaults at kickoff (autonomous run, revisit in owner walk): post default-on uses the full evidence-matrix gate then default-on-desktop-only behind kill-switch [recommended]; AirSupportRadioMenu kept one cycle behind the shared model (not retired this cycle); audio is Opus-only (no Ancient-Safari MP3 fallback); A Shau may pin the sun → soundscape degrades to load-time bed selection (acceptable).

Progress: ✅ P0 cinematic-foundations · ✅ P1 soundscape-loop-replacement · ✅ P2 task-card-hud-fit · ✅ P3 radio-dial-revival · ✅ P4 radio-stations-music (+ ✅ P4b station-wiring) · ✅ P5 orbital-topo-map · ✅ P6 visual-post-stack · ✅ PX terrain-spike-fix

Source: the 2026-06-29 owner playtest + consultation (voice transcript) and a multi-agent design pass (titj-big-cycle-design workflow: 5 parallel designs, each adversarially critiqued, then synthesized) plus 4 DEM/audio sourcing recon agents. Full plan: scratchpad cinematic-field-pass-PLAN.md. The owner asked for a whole visual overhaul, a 3D orbital topo map, two UI fixes (overlapping command card, messy radio), a revived radial dial, and a soundtrack/soundscape pass.

Owner decisions locked (2026-06-29)

  • One big cycle spanning all 7 phases (owner chose "all together").
  • Topo map renderer: WebGPU/TSL via the EXISTING renderer (separate Scene+camera+viewport, no second device) + Lambert/WebGL2 fallback.
  • Topo map surfaces: deploy screen + pause overlay (rich 3D) + hold-M (opt-in toggle, default stays 2D for fast tactical read).
  • Topo mesh build: CPU-displaced .f32 PlaneGeometry (not baked GLB, not GPU TSL displacement).
  • DEM source: NASADEM via OpenTopography (public-domain/CC0, zero attribution); Mapbox/MapTiler disqualified (token-bound).
  • Radio: revive the radial dial (desktop wheel + touch bottom-sheet, one model); radio is a dedicated non-weapon HUD slot (open-the-dial affordance), NOT a 7th weapon slot and NOT a carried loadout item; STATIONS category is always-available. RMB is OFF the table (it is ADS) — open via slot-click + KeyT/hold-T.
  • Audio: kill the permanent loop; layered day/night ambient + selectable radio stations (CC0/CC-BY only, Opus, lazy-loaded, music default-OFF on touch).
  • Color grade: ship 3 LUTs behind WorldBuilder A/B; owner picks in playtest.
  • Deploy is MANUAL. Do NOT deploy.

Phases

Dependency spine: P0 unblocks P5 + P6. P1/P2 are independent (land early). P3a (CommandInputManager re-trace) precedes P3b/c/d. P4 core can run parallel to P3a/b; its UI joins at P3d. P5/P6 (renderer + hot path) land last, perf-gated.

# Cycle (brief) One-line scope Verdict
P0 cycle-2026-06-29-cinematic-foundations Restore combat120 baseline + shared src/core/tsl/ lib + non-fenced getBakedHeightmap() —
P1 cycle-2026-06-29-soundscape-loop-replacement Kill permanent loop; day/night SoundscapeDirector (CC0/CC-BY beds) sound-with-fixes
P2 cycle-2026-06-29-task-card-hud-fit Stop task card overlapping objectives; real mobile home sound-with-fixes
P3 cycle-2026-06-29-radio-dial-revival Radial dial (desktop wheel + touch sheet) + Radio HUD slot needs-rework → re-trace first
P4 cycle-2026-06-29-radio-stations-music RadioStationSystem (lazy, capped cache, default-OFF) sound-with-fixes
P5 cycle-2026-06-29-orbital-topo-map 3D orbital topo map, 3 mounts, CPU .f32 mesh sound-with-fixes
P6 cycle-2026-06-29-visual-post-stack Fill no-op post shim: grade + bloom + atmospheric depth sound-with-fixes

P7 (validate + PC/phone playtest + finalize attributions + CURRENT/DIRECTIVES update) is the campaign close gate, not a separate brief.

Hard-stops & gates

  • Perf gate (P5/P6): combat120 p99 must stay neutral across MULTIPLE captures (±6ms noise) from the MAIN worktree before anything visual goes default-on. P0 restoring the baseline is the prerequisite.
  • Phase barrier: P5 and P6 must not dispatch until P0's exit gate is green.
  • Fence: zero fenced-interface changes intended. Any [interface-change] needs owner approval (none expected — see plan).
  • Budget ratchet: HUDSystem.ts (878/89), PlayerInput.ts (819), CommandModeOverlay.ts (867), FullMapSystem.ts (882), DeployScreen.ts (1142), TerrainMaterial.ts (1192), AtmosphereSystem.ts (~698) are at ceiling — touched edits must be net-neutral or pre-rebase the snapshot with a docs/CARRY_OVERS.md note BEFORE coding.
  • Renderer fragility: the prod main renderer is WebGPU and the r185 WebGPU-CDLOD path is broken — NO new TSL on the CDLOD vertex path; new TSL only on full-screen post + the standalone topo heightmesh.

Open questions still owner-gated (defaults in brackets)

  • Auto-advance + posture for the run (attended vs autonomous-loop).
  • Post default-on path: full sky/cloud/post evidence-matrix gate [recommended] vs ship-behind-kill-switch-earlier.
  • Retire AirSupportRadioMenu this cycle vs keep one cycle behind a flag.
  • Do live scenarios advance time-of-day? (A Shau may pin the sun → crossfade degrades to load-time bed selection, acceptable.)
  • Ancient-Safari MP3 fallback in scope vs Opus-only.