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Terrain, shaders, level of detail and spell VFX — how the game gets drawn, and what broke on the way.
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The map used to be a flat plane with rock painted where you could not walk. Now the ground rises, cliffs block, ramps are the doors, and high ground sees.
Water used to be a wall. Adding one terrain value gave the map fords that infantry wade, ships crawl through and docks stand in, and broke three things.
Grass now bleeds into dirt along a warped contour instead of a grid of transition tiles, and the 2D and 3D views of a map finally draw the same world.
In April the camera stopped looking straight down. What a player got when a canvas RTS was rebuilt on three.js, and what the simulation never noticed.
