- Set default pitch to 0.7 rad to keep the camera away from the π/2 gimbal pole, preventing horizontal drag from degenerating into an in-plane roll.
- Adjust scroll zoom logic to divide instead of multiply by the zoom factor, so that scrolling up zooms in (reduces distance) rather than out.
The app showed only the camera clear color (grey srgb 43,44,47) — the
fullscreen quad's fragment shader produced no output. Two issues; the
second was the real blocker.
1. render/material.rs: skybox.wgsl declared binding 1 as texture_cube<f32>
but the material's #[texture(1)] defaulted to D2. The mismatched
bind-group layout vs. shader caused the pipeline to fail to specialize.
Fix: dimension = "cube" on the texture attribute so the layout matches.
2. SHADER COMPOSITION (the actual blocker): the shader was split across
naga_oil modules (ray_gen, geodesic, stars, disk, planets, grid, skybox)
pulled in via #import singularity::... This compiled and validated with
zero errors, but at runtime calling ANY cross-module-imported function
made the fragment output nothing (only the clear color showed). Local
functions were fine. Confirmed by bisecting a minimal repro with the
user watching the screen: local fn -> renders; imported fn (even pure
math) -> grey.
Rather than chase the naga_oil 0.22 / Bevy 0.19 composition bug, inline
every function into black_hole.wgsl and drop the #import singularity::*
lines. The 7 standalone module files are removed. Rendering now works.
Also fixes scene/planets.rs: upload_planets was allocating a fresh
ShaderBuffer (new handle) every frame, which re-triggered the
AsBindGroup RetryNextUpdate that the previous commit's startup pre-fill
was meant to eliminate. Now mutates the existing buffer asset in place
via set_data, keeping the handle stable.
The committed Phase 1 code rendered a black screen due to three
independent bugs, fixed here:
- black_hole.wgsl: dt was sized as |eye|/steps, so the full integration
only traveled |eye| units total — rays never reached capture or escape
and every pixel fell through to accum=black. Now dt covers
eye_dist + escape_r across the configured step count, and the escape
test uses the dynamic escape_r instead of a hardcoded 1000.0.
- render/plugin.rs: the planets binding was Handle::default(), causing
AsBindGroup to return RetryNextUpdate every frame and silently skip
the fullscreen quad's draw. Pre-fill a MAX_PLANETS-sized zeroed
ShaderBuffer at startup so the binding resolves immediately.
- render/plugin.rs: scale the fullscreen quad by half the window size
to match Camera2d's default WindowSize projection (1 unit = 1 px);
the old aspect-based scaling letterboxed the image.
- render/plugin.rs: add nudge_camera to work around Bevy 0.19 #24448,
where a static camera stops rendering after the first frame.
- planets.wgsl: rotate world-space planet centers into disk-local space
before the ray-sphere test (ray and centers were in different spaces).
README documents the renderer, run instructions (desktop + web), controls,
how the geodesic pipeline works, performance notes, and Phase 2 (Kerr) as
future work. Allow dead_code on BlackHoleParams since render_scale + spin
are intentionally reserved for Phase 2.
The quad mesh was built once at startup with the initial aspect ratio, so
widening the window afterward left empty edges. Add a FullscreenQuad marker
component and a fit_quad_to_window system that rescales the quad's Transform
to the live aspect each frame (only mutating on change).
Also remove the misleading 'Render scale' slider — it isn't wired to a real
sub-resolution render target in Phase 1 (the full-screen quad always renders
at window resolution). Lowering Steps is the real perf lever. Documented in
a code comment for future work.
Add planets as ray-traced spheres inside the RK4 geodesic loop. A new
planets.wgsl shader tests each integrator segment against a storage
buffer of SphereData (center/radius/color/emissive) and composites hits
front-to-back alongside the accretion disk. Lambert shading with a fixed
light direction; emissive flag bypasses shading.
- assets/shaders/planets.wgsl: segment-sphere intersection + shading
- src/scene/: Planet component, upload_planets system, default planet
- black_hole.wgsl: wire planet_hit into the compositing loop
- geodesic_schwarzschild.wgsl: replace tuple return with Deriv struct
