guts/web/js/flight/emissive.js

// flight/emissive.js (Lane B) — the one material behind every glowing thing B draws.
//
// ART_BIBLE: gameplay-relevant things glow, and the scene has NO lights (walls fake theirs
// with fresnel). So our primitives are unlit: a core colour with a rim that hots up at
// grazing angles, which reads as a volume against the dark tint instead of a flat decal.
// One material per (colour, rim) pair + InstancedMesh = 1 draw call per enemy/projectile
// type, which is how the whole combat layer fits in its 80-draw budget.
//
// Lives in flight/ rather than combat/ to keep the dependency arrow one-way: combat imports
// flight (it needs the player), flight never imports combat.

import * as THREE from 'three';

// ART_BIBLE §Emissive code — the readability law. Never hand-pick a colour outside this.
export const EMISSIVE = {
  hostile:     { core: 0xff5a2a, rim: 0xffb488 },   // hot amber -> red core
  hostileShot: { core: 0xffe9d0, rim: 0xffffff },   // white-hot
  neutral:     { core: 0x39e6ff, rim: 0xdff2ff },   // cyan (player + flora + interactive)
  ally:        { core: 0x33ffbe, rim: 0xd6fff0 },   // teal — an active friendly unit (phage).
                                                    // distinct from cyan "don't shoot" flora:
                                                    // this one HELPS, and reads as its own thing.
  pickup:      { core: 0x7dffb0, rim: 0xdaffe9 },
  gate:        { core: 0xb06aff, rim: 0xe6d0ff },
  acid:        { core: 0xc8ff3a, rim: 0xeaffb0 },
};

/**
 * `matcap` (optional) — the wet-tissue sheen, and the reason it is safe to put on a system whose
 * whole job is colour-coding: it modulates BRIGHTNESS ONLY. The sampled matcap is reduced to a
 * luminance and multiplied into the core, so an amber foe stays exactly amber and a cyan
 * commensal stays exactly cyan — the ART_BIBLE readability law is untouched by construction,
 * while the silhouette stops being a flat glow and starts reading as a lit, wet, three-
 * dimensional object. That is the whole ask from playtest: detail, without changing what the
 * colours mean.
 */
export function emissiveMat({ core, rim }, { additive = false, opacity = 1, matcap = null } = {}) {
  return new THREE.ShaderMaterial({
    defines: matcap ? { USE_ENT_MATCAP: '' } : {},
    transparent: opacity < 1 || additive,
    depthWrite: !additive,
    blending: additive ? THREE.AdditiveBlending : THREE.NormalBlending,
    uniforms: {
      uCore: { value: new THREE.Color(core) },
      uRim: { value: new THREE.Color(rim) },
      uOpacity: { value: opacity },
      uFlash: { value: 0 },        // driven on hit: 0..1 blows the whole body to rim colour
      uMatcap: { value: matcap },
      uMatcapGain: { value: 0.85 },  // how much of the form the matcap is allowed to carve
    },
    vertexShader: /* glsl */`
      varying vec3 vN; varying vec3 vV;
      void main() {
        // three declares the instanceMatrix attribute for us whenever the drawn object is
        // an InstancedMesh (USE_INSTANCING); this same material still works on a plain Mesh.
        // (Careful: no backticks in here — this is a JS template literal.)
        #ifdef USE_INSTANCING
          mat4 m = modelViewMatrix * instanceMatrix;
        #else
          mat4 m = modelViewMatrix;
        #endif
        vec4 mv = m * vec4(position, 1.0);
        // mat3(m) is only a true normal matrix under uniform scale — every instance we
        // emit is uniformly scaled, and normalize() eats the leftover constant.
        vN = normalize(mat3(m) * normal);
        vV = -mv.xyz;
        gl_Position = projectionMatrix * mv;
      }`,
    fragmentShader: /* glsl */`
      varying vec3 vN; varying vec3 vV;
      uniform vec3 uCore; uniform vec3 uRim; uniform float uOpacity; uniform float uFlash;
      #ifdef USE_ENT_MATCAP
        uniform sampler2D uMatcap; uniform float uMatcapGain;
      #endif
      void main() {
        vec3 N = normalize(vN);
        float f = pow(1.0 - abs(dot(N, normalize(vV))), 2.0);
        vec3 core = uCore;
        #ifdef USE_ENT_MATCAP
          // View-space normal -> matcap uv, the same lookup the wall uses. Reduced to LUMINANCE
          // and applied multiplicatively: form, never hue. The pedestal keeps unlit faces
          // readable instead of letting them go black, because a dark half on a 1.4-unit enemy
          // in a fogged tube is a lost enemy.
          float m = dot(texture2D(uMatcap, N.xy * 0.5 + 0.5).rgb, vec3(0.299, 0.587, 0.114));
          core *= (1.0 - uMatcapGain) + uMatcapGain * (0.45 + 1.25 * m);
        #endif
        vec3 col = mix(core, uRim, f) + uRim * f * 0.6;
        col = mix(col, uRim * 1.6, uFlash);
        gl_FragColor = vec4(col, uOpacity);

        // MANDATORY for any custom ShaderMaterial in this project. ColorManagement is on,
        // so THREE.Color(0xff5a2a) is converted to LINEAR working space on the way in, but
        // a hand-written fragment shader gets no automatic conversion on the way out — it
        // would write linear straight into the sRGB target. Measured: hostile amber landed
        // as rgb(255,26,6) blood-red instead of rgb(255,90,42), quietly breaking the
        // ART_BIBLE emissive readability law. This chunk applies linear -> sRGB.
        #include <colorspace_fragment>
      }`,
  });
}