add diorama vr modes

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-- The DIORAMA modes: Kanto as a model you can pick up.
--
-- STANDARD VR presents whatever rung the player is on -- the orbit rungs
-- become a tabletop, 1ST stands you inside the world (see lib/VR.lua).
-- DIORAMA is a different promise, and it is one promise rather than a
-- ladder: the world is ALWAYS the model on the table, seen from outside,
-- and what the headset adds is that the model is a THING IN THE ROOM --
-- grab it, turn it, set it down somewhere else, decide how much of it you
-- want to be holding.
--
-- Two pieces make that read, and this file owns both.
--
-- THE VIEWPORT. Everything outside an invisible BOX centred on the view
-- is simply not drawn -- the Final Fantasy Tactics read, a square slab
-- of the world sitting in the air rather than a map running off to a
-- horizon. A square cut with a HARD edge, because a flat world is a
-- thing with sides and the sides are what say so.
--
-- V-CURVE is what changes its shape. With the bend on, the world is not
-- flat any more -- it is a little globe curling away over its own
-- horizon -- and a square cut through a globe is a lie about what is
-- being looked at. So the box becomes a BALL, and its rim becomes a
-- GRADIENT that dissolves into the sky rather than an edge that
-- guillotines it. One click of the left stick (which throws V-CURVE --
-- see lib/VR) swaps between the two readings of the same model.
--
-- A staged fight ignores both and cuts a vertical PILLAR about the
-- arena, which lifts the fight out of the map as a floating disc.
--
-- (A BASE was built under all this once -- the ground extruded a tile
-- deep, cut to the viewport's shape, wearing Mt Moon's cave floor down
-- its sides -- and it was REMOVED at the user's request. The cut ends at
-- the ground plane now; don't put a plinth back under it.)
--
-- THE GRIP. Squeeze one and the model follows that hand through the
-- room; squeeze both and it turns with them and the viewport resizes
-- to whatever you open your hands to. All of it is arithmetic on the
-- XR-to-world mapping lib/VRRig already had (an anchor, a yaw and a
-- scale), so nothing about the world's own geometry knows this is
-- happening.
--
-- DIORAMA-MR is the same mode with the background keyed pure green, for
-- a mixed-reality capture that composites the model into the room the
-- player is actually standing in.
--
-- Nothing here reaches the flat screen: every field is set by lib/VR for
-- the length of one headset frame and cleared with the session.
-- the mod namespace (see main.lua): V.require loads a sibling module
local V = ...
local Diorama = {}
-- ------- the viewport
--
-- The half-size at rest, as a fraction of the view height the flat screen
-- frames. Sized off the VIEW rather than fixed in world pixels so the zoom
-- rows keep meaning what they mean -- a zoomed-in rung frames less world
-- and gets a smaller model, exactly as it frames a smaller picture.
--
-- The BOX takes half of it, so the square is exactly the view the standard
-- rung would have shown, edge to edge. The BALL takes rather more: a ball
-- inscribed in that square holds noticeably less world (its corners are
-- the four biggest pieces of it), and the point of the V-CURVE throw is to
-- see the same model curl, not to lose a quarter of it.
Diorama.BOX_FRAC = 0.5
Diorama.BALL_FRAC = 0.62
-- How far the grips may open and close it, as a multiplier on that.
Diorama.SCALE_MIN = 0.3
Diorama.SCALE_MAX = 4
-- The rim under V-CURVE, as a fraction of the radius: where the world
-- starts fading and where it has finished. Wide enough to read as a
-- dissolve rather than an edge, narrow enough that the middle of the model
-- is solid. The BOX has no fade at all -- see fadeFor.
Diorama.FADE_FRAC = 0.16
-- The staged fight's disc: the arena's own half-length plus an apron, in
-- world pixels (a map cell is 16). The two mons stand three cells apart,
-- so this is a disc about seven cells across -- the fight, the ground it
-- is fought on, and nothing else.
Diorama.ARENA_APRON = 32
-- ------- what the live frame is
--
-- All three set by lib/VR for the length of one headset frame, and by
-- nothing else. `on` is the whole mode's gate; VoxelScene reads it once
-- per frame and every diorama-shaped thing hangs off that read.
Diorama.on = false
Diorama.keyed = false
Diorama.cull = nil -- { x, y, z, r, invFade, kind }
-- Chroma green, and PURE green deliberately: a keyer wants the one colour
-- nothing in the picture can accidentally be, and no palette this mod can
-- paint the world in reaches 0,255,0.
Diorama.KEY_COLOR = { 0, 1, 0 }
-- ------- what the grips have done to it
--
-- Kept across frames (this is where the model IS, as far as the player is
-- concerned) and cleared only when the session ends. `offset` is in LOCAL
-- metres and rides the mapping's anchor, `yaw` turns the mapping, `zoom`
-- multiplies the viewport's radius.
Diorama.offset = { 0, 0, 0 }
Diorama.yaw = 0
Diorama.zoom = 1
function Diorama.reset()
Diorama.on, Diorama.keyed, Diorama.cull = false, false, nil
Diorama.offset = { 0, 0, 0 }
Diorama.yaw, Diorama.zoom = 0, 1
Diorama.release()
end
-- Open a diorama frame. `mode` is VR.mode()'s answer; anything that is
-- not a diorama mode closes it.
function Diorama.begin(mode)
Diorama.on = (mode == "diorama" or mode == "diorama-mr")
Diorama.keyed = Diorama.on and mode == "diorama-mr"
if not Diorama.on then Diorama.cull = nil end
return Diorama.on
end
function Diorama.stop()
Diorama.on, Diorama.keyed, Diorama.cull = false, false, nil
end
-- What the world's background must be cleared to, or nil to leave the sky
-- alone. Only ever a colour in DIORAMA-MR, and only while a frame is open.
function Diorama.keyColor()
if not (Diorama.on and Diorama.keyed) then return nil end
return Diorama.KEY_COLOR
end
-- ------- the viewport, as the shaders take it
--
-- `kind` is the shader's own switch: 0 no cut, 1 the box, 2 the ball, 3
-- the fight's pillar. `invFade` is one over the fade band in world pixels,
-- so the rim is a single multiply out there -- and a hard edge is simply a
-- band under a pixel wide, which costs the shader no branch of its own.
Diorama.BOX = 1
Diorama.BALL = 2
Diorama.PILLAR = 3
-- The half-size the viewport stands at right now, for a view `vh` world
-- pixels tall -- the flat framing this rung would have shown -- and for
-- the shape it is currently in.
function Diorama.radius(vh, curved)
local frac = curved and Diorama.BALL_FRAC or Diorama.BOX_FRAC
return math.max(24, (vh or 288) * frac * Diorama.zoom)
end
-- Whether the world is BENT right now, which is the whole of what decides
-- the viewport's shape: a square cut suits a flat slab of map, and a
-- curved world rolling away over its own horizon wants a ball with a
-- dissolve. Asked of the row rather than remembered, so the V-CURVE the
-- stick click throws (and the "7" key, and the OPTIONS row) all reach it.
function Diorama.curved()
local ok, on = pcall(function()
return V.require("WorldCurve").active()
end)
return ok and on or false
end
-- The fade band for a cut of half-size `r`: the curve's dissolve, or a
-- hard edge (band 0) for the box.
function Diorama.fadeFor(r, curved)
if not curved then return 0 end
return math.max(1, r * Diorama.FADE_FRAC)
end
local function volume(kind, x, y, z, r, fade)
return { x = x, y = y, z = z, r = r,
-- a zero band is a hard edge: half a pixel of ramp, which is
-- one pixel of antialiasing rather than a stair
invFade = 1 / math.max(fade or 0, 0.5), kind = kind }
end
-- The viewport this frame, centred on the world point the model is pinned
-- by: the BOX ordinarily, and the BALL while the world is curved.
function Diorama.viewport(cx, cy, vh)
local curved = Diorama.curved()
local r = Diorama.radius(vh, curved)
Diorama.cull = volume(curved and Diorama.BALL or Diorama.BOX,
cx, 0, cy, r, Diorama.fadeFor(r, curved))
return Diorama.cull
end
-- The staged fight's disc: a vertical pillar about the arena's midpoint,
-- wide enough for both mons and their apron. Vertical means UNBOUNDED --
-- a tree standing on the disc keeps all of its height, which is what
-- makes the cut read as the ground having been lifted out rather than as
-- the world having been sliced through at eye level.
function Diorama.pillar(arena)
if not (arena and arena.mid) then return nil end
local mx, mz = arena.mid[1], arena.mid[2]
local r = Diorama.ARENA_APRON
if arena.player and arena.enemy then
local dx = arena.player[1] - mx
local dz = arena.player[2] - mz
r = r + math.sqrt(dx * dx + dz * dz)
end
-- Round whatever the curve is doing -- a fight is a disc, and a square
-- arena tile floating in the air is not the picture -- and ALWAYS
-- dissolved at the rim, curve or no curve. The box's hard edge is there
-- to say "this is a flat slab of map with sides"; a fight is a thing
-- lifted out of the world and hanging in the air, and a hard edge on it
-- reads as a cookie cutter rather than as a piece of ground.
Diorama.cull = volume(Diorama.PILLAR, mx, 0, mz, r,
Diorama.fadeFor(r, true))
return Diorama.cull
end
-- ------- the grips
--
-- One hand carries the model; two turn it and open the viewport. The
-- gesture is measured as a DELTA per frame rather than from where the
-- squeeze started, so letting go and taking hold again never snaps
-- anything -- the model simply stops following and starts again.
Diorama.GRIP = 0.6 -- squeezed past this counts as holding on
Diorama.SPREAD_MIN = 0.08 -- hands closer than this give no scale
local lastOne = nil -- the carrying hand's position, last frame
local lastMid = nil -- both hands' midpoint
local lastAngle = nil -- and the bearing of the line between them
local lastSpread = nil -- and its length
local function clearGrab()
lastOne, lastMid, lastAngle, lastSpread = nil, nil, nil, nil
end
Diorama.releaseGrab = clearGrab
-- Advance the grab from this frame's controller state (lib/VRXR's table:
-- gripL/gripR in 0..1, handl/handr as { pos, quat } when tracked).
-- Returns true while the model is being held.
function Diorama.gesture(ctl)
if not ctl then
clearGrab()
return false
end
local gl, gr = ctl.gripL or 0, ctl.gripR or 0
local hl = (gl > Diorama.GRIP) and ctl.handl or nil
local hr = (gr > Diorama.GRIP) and ctl.handr or nil
if hl and hr then
lastOne = nil
local lp, rp = hl.pos, hr.pos
local mid = { (lp[1] + rp[1]) / 2, (lp[2] + rp[2]) / 2,
(lp[3] + rp[3]) / 2 }
local dx, dy, dz = rp[1] - lp[1], rp[2] - lp[2], rp[3] - lp[3]
local spread = math.sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy + dz * dz)
-- the bearing of the line between the hands, in the same convention
-- the mapping's yaw turns through (see VRRig.eyeCamera): atan2 of the
-- x component over the z one, so a hand-over-hand turn and the model's
-- turn are the same number
local angle = math.atan2(dx, dz)
if lastMid then
for i = 1, 3 do
Diorama.offset[i] = Diorama.offset[i] + (mid[i] - lastMid[i])
end
end
if lastAngle then
local d = (angle - lastAngle + math.pi) % (2 * math.pi) - math.pi
Diorama.yaw = (Diorama.yaw + d + math.pi) % (2 * math.pi) - math.pi
end
if lastSpread and lastSpread > Diorama.SPREAD_MIN
and spread > Diorama.SPREAD_MIN then
Diorama.zoom = math.max(Diorama.SCALE_MIN,
math.min(Diorama.SCALE_MAX,
Diorama.zoom * (spread / lastSpread)))
end
lastMid, lastAngle, lastSpread = mid, angle, spread
return true
end
lastMid, lastAngle, lastSpread = nil, nil, nil
local one = hl or hr
if one then
if lastOne then
for i = 1, 3 do
Diorama.offset[i] = Diorama.offset[i] + (one.pos[i] - lastOne[i])
end
end
lastOne = { one.pos[1], one.pos[2], one.pos[3] }
return true
end
lastOne = nil
return false
end
-- Nothing here owns a GPU object any more (the base did, and it is gone --
-- see the header), so this is only the grab's own hand-to-hand state: a
-- window resize or a hot reload should not leave the model following a
-- delta measured against a frame that no longer exists.
function Diorama.release()
clearGrab()
end
Diorama.invalidate = Diorama.release
return Diorama