Orbit-lock: traveling to a planet re-anchors drag/scroll to orbit THAT body
(lookAtTransform), not the whole system. Cleared on the next flight / exit.
Animated orrery: planets sweep their orbits at correct relative speeds in the
overview (simDay advances in real time). Since a moving textured ellipsoid loses
its image material, each planet is split into an animated dot + a frozen textured
sphere (revealed + snapshotted forward on travel). New 'System overview' button.
Camera flights: enter/travel/overview run a manual eased setView tween (Cesium's
flyTo is dead in this mode).
Infographic cards: ssdata.js FACTS — a stat card + fun fact per body (not Earth),
auto-shown on travel and mission-select.
Space missions: ssdata.js MISSIONS — 11 real probes with date-accurate launch/
flyby/arrival waypoints, drawn as schematic heliocentric transfer arcs (multi-leg
grand tours included). Toggle + list; select highlights the path + shows a card.
Chrome: hides the OSINT clock/timeline/live-chip in SS mode; Travel-to panel is
now collapsible.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New '◉ Solar System' mode: leaves the Earth OSINT globe and renders a
heliocentric orrery — Sun + 8 planets as spheres textured with real (CC BY 4.0,
self-hosted) imagery, at their TRUE current positions (Schlyter series, incl.
Uranus/Neptune), with orbits. A 'Travel to…' panel flies the camera to any body;
'Return to Earth' restores the full OSINT view (globe, all layers, clock, camera,
frustum, lighting — all saved/restored). Planets exaggerated + distances
compressed for a readable orrery; Saturn ring; camera headlight for even lighting;
far plane widened to 8e9 (default 5e8 would clip the whole system).
Textures harvested from Solar System Scope (CC BY 4.0), self-hosted in textures/
(WebGL taints cross-origin), credited in-app + README + textures/TEXTURES_CREDIT.md.
Components verified in-browser (ellipsoids render, positions correct, mode
enter/exit, UI, textures). Full-orrery screenshot pending a real GPU frame — the
headless preview can't complete async worker geometry (backgrounded tab clamps).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reciprocal to SOLARGOD's Earth-card link into GODSIGH. A subtle HUD pill
(above the footer, styled to the mode-button family) opens the orrery in a
new tab. The href is rebuilt fresh at click time from viewer.clock.currentTime
via the shared `#t=@<unixMs>` convention, so scrubbing GODSIGH's clock carries
straight through to SOLARGOD's sim time.
- index.html: <a#solargod-link.portal-link> between #layers and footer
- css: .portal-link (matches .modes button; accent on hover)
- ui.js: wireSolargodLink(getMs) — rebuilds href on pointerdown+click
(covers ⌘/middle-click new-tab); Cesium stays out of the DOM module
- main.js: wire it with a getMs closure over viewer.clock
Verified in-browser: button renders, zero console errors, all layers boot;
live click → href tracks the clock; scrub -3h → href exactly 3h behind now +
chip flips SCRUBBED + live layers pause; opening the link launches SOLARGOD
in SCRUBBED state at the passed epoch (its hash echoes the exact ms).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
12+ layers in a flat list was unusable. ui.js now groups rows into ordered,
collapsible category sections (scheme owned in ui.js so order is stable
regardless of registration order); Regional — Australia collapsed by default;
empty categories auto-hidden via :has(:empty). URL-state get/set layer APIs
unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- CesiumJS viewer (token-free, baseLayer:false), Carto dark + EOX Sentinel-2
- clock spans now +/-6h CLAMPED; built-in timeline/animation = the space-time slider
- HUD: brand, LIVE/SCRUBBED chip, Data/Photo mode toggle, layer rows, credits
- lighting is mode-aware: OFF in Data (high-contrast asset map), ON in Photo
(realistic day/night terminator) — refines SPEC 6.1's global-lighting note
- main.js defines the layer-factory contract + dynamic loader; layers land next
- serve.py now forwards OpenSky X-Rate-Limit-* headers for the aircraft status line
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
