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Three things that were built and never connected, connected.
**The weather was already there.** `observe()` has always taken a
`WeatherObservation` and `main.ts` has always passed null, so the cloud,
precipitation, visibility and marine-layer paths in atmosphere.ts had never run
outside a test. The server already shipped NWS, met.no and Open-Meteo, all
configured off. What was actually missing was that a single TERA_ORIGIN_LAT/LNG
served one metro and lied to the other — so weather and traffic are per-region
now, derived from the city's own bounds, and the Bay Area gets its fog while
Long Beach gets its own sky. The route takes ?city= or a validated ?lat=&lng=
and refuses to become an open geocoding proxy for the planet.
**The heightfield moved to a Worker.** 2.3 s of blocked main thread at boot, and
another ~950 ms of point-in-polygon on top of it: the park mask is filled in the
worker now, and block placement samples four corners and only runs the exact
test on a cell that straddles an edge — 8 buildings differ out of 185,036.
createScene is async and takes a Stage as a consequence, and there is a
main-thread fallback because "clone it and it works" has no exception clause.
**Spaces is a chunk you fetch when you reach for the door**, not one everybody
downloads. Same for the godmode tools. The entry chunk is 722 kB rather than
772; three.js is most of what is left and splitting it is a different job.
**Godmode is an instrument panel now** rather than one slider: the date and the
season, not just the hour, so the Meeus moon and the sun's seasonal arc become
visible instead of merely correct; a weather override that says on screen when
it is lying; a frame-time and draw-call readout; and a pose editor that emits a
paste-ready Chapter block, which is the thing that makes adding New York cheap.
Two blockers the review caught:
- Every city switch leaked 8 GPU textures — one of them a 2048x2048 shadow map
— and ~10.5 shader programs, and deleteTexture had never been called once in
the app's lifetime. The renderer was being built per scene; it belongs to the
canvas, for the life of the page.
- An upstream fetch that threw rather than returning null skipped the cache
stamp, so the TTL — the only rate limit on outbound calls — collapsed to one
upstream request per inbound request, and the caller got a 500.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tera
The map view of Lumbridge Simulate — cities from above, in three.js. Its other half, Spaces, is the offices you walk into: one engine and one asset library, seen from outside and from inside.
Apache 2.0. Runs at tera.lumbridgecorp.com.
What it is
An engine plus data packs. The engine renders terrain, coastline, a built city on real street grids, bridges, roads, markers and air traffic. A city pack is pure data — coastlines, hills, districts, landmarks, camera chapters — so adding a city is a data contribution anyone can review, not a fork.
San Francisco ships today. Los Angeles / Orange County / Riverside is next; New York after that.
A plan view sits top right: the board drawn flat, with the footprint of the camera's own frustum on it, so you can see where you are looking from outside the shot. Click or drag it to move the camera; scroll it to dolly. It is a 2D canvas rather than a second WebGL context, drawn from the same city pack, and it follows the sun into the night along with everything else.
Who sees what
Three tiers, resolved once at boot by src/access.ts:
| anonymous | signed in | admin | |
|---|---|---|---|
| the map, the plan view, the named chapters | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| the office | public depth — shell, furniture, viewpoints, nobody home | full depth, with presence | full depth |
| live markers and live traffic | — | ✅ | ✅ |
the godmode panel (G) — clock, weather override, counters |
— | — | ✅ |
These are drawing decisions, not a security boundary, and src/access.ts
says so at length. Live data and office presence are withheld by the API, from
a caller it does not recognise; the client tier stops the app asking for
something it will not get. Admin is granted only by TERA_ADMIN_SUBJECTS on the
server — never inferred in the browser, and never from an API that failed to
answer. A deployment with no API at all is open, because "clone it and it works"
is the promise; it is not "clone it and you are an administrator".
Quick start
npm install
npm run dev
Using the engine
import { createScene } from "@lumbridge/tera/engine/scene.ts";
import { createStage } from "@lumbridge/tera/engine/stage.ts";
import SAN_FRANCISCO from "@lumbridge/tera/cities/sf.ts";
// One stage per canvas, for the life of the page. Cities are put on it and
// taken off again; a renderer per city leaks its shadow map on every switch.
const stage = createStage(canvas);
const scene = await createScene(stage, {
city: SAN_FRANCISCO,
markerPalette: { hiring: 0x4ade80, closed: 0xef4444 },
});
scene?.setMarkers([
{ id: "1", lat: 37.7765, lng: -122.4241, label: "Somewhere", colorKey: "hiring" },
]);
createScene is async because the heightfield is built in a Worker — half a
million samples, about 730 ms on the Bay Area, and not on the main thread. It
resolves to null if the build was abandoned through options.signal, which is
what makes switching city mid-build cheap.
The engine renders Marker[] and looks colours up by colorKey in a palette
you supply. It does not know what your markers mean — that mapping lives in
your adapter. This is what lets one renderer serve a private map coloured by
one scheme and a public map coloured by another, without either being a fork.
Adding a city
Write src/cities/<id>.ts exporting a City. Trace the coastline and parks by
hand, place hills as radial peaks, and give each district its street bearing.
Two rules, and they are not stylistic:
- Do not import geometry from OpenStreetMap. OSM and Nominatim output is ODbL — share-alike, and incompatible with this repo's licence.
- Do not commit logos or brand assets. They are trademarks, not code.
See ARCHITECTURE.md §3 for the full reasoning, and NOTICE for the attribution and data-provenance statement.
Aircraft
The engine takes a FlightSource. Two ship here: SimulatedFlights (original,
flies real approach and departure corridors) and AdsbFlights (open community
ADS-B feeds such as adsb.lol).
FlightRadar24 is deliberately absent — their terms forbid scraping and forbid redistributing their data, so a client for it cannot live in an Apache-2.0 repository. Commercial sources belong in private deployments. The best long-term answer is an RTL-SDR receiver: first-party data with nothing to comply with.
Layout
src/engine/ renderer — terrain, blocks, structures, markers, flights, scene, minimap
src/cities/ data packs — pure geography, no code
src/adapters/ where outside data plugs in
src/tools/ instruments — god-only, dynamically imported, never statically
engine never imports cities; neither imports adapters.
Nothing under src/tools/ may be reached by a static import from the app. It is
loaded by one await import() behind access.can.debug, so a visitor who is
not an admin does not download the code at all — which is the strongest
available reading of "nothing here runs for a non-god visitor": not a hidden
panel, not a disabled panel, no panel. src/tools/index.ts states the rule and
what silently undoes it.