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v0.7.1 — zoom no longer loses the city

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@samo-agent samo-agent released this 27 Jul 09:25

Two things a stranger hit within minutes of arriving.

Fixed

  • The screen no longer goes blank when you zoom in. Reported from Hacker
    News: "the site is going blank sometimes if I zoom in a bit too much."
    Reproduced by sweeping the camera through its dolly range and reading every
    frame — from 16 units inward the readable city disappears, and at 12 and 8
    units the canvas is a near-flat ground or roof surface. The camera was being
    allowed to dolly inside the buildings it was looking at, so every surface in
    frame was back-faced and there was nothing to see, with no indication of what
    had happened or how to get back out.
  • The rotate gesture is discoverable. Someone asked "How to rotate camera?"
    — the controls follow the Google Maps convention, where left-drag pans and
    shift with left-drag rotates, which is a good scheme that nobody could find.
    That was the sixth time in this project that something has been built, wired
    and left invisible, so the hint now appears where the gesture is being
    attempted rather than in the help overlay where the previous five already
    were.