[ItsMeBrianD]

Requested by Brian · project thread

Zooming and panning the 2D previews (and the 3D view) felt extremely slow. Measured in headless Chromium on DensityFunction heavy = overworld/sloped_cheese + 0: during a 1 s drag nothing moved, and the first image arrived ~6 s after releasing. Now the image follows the pointer every frame, and the first new image lands ~0.2 s after release (the full-resolution pass still takes the sampling time it takes, ~3.5 s there, but a half-resolution pass shows up at about 1 s).

What was slow

1. Stale renders weren't cheap. A drag sends a render a frame. The worker started each one, rebuilt its sampler (mapAll, RandomState) and re-registered every vanilla bundle (registerAll on every withVanilla, including per terrain strip) before the 40 ms pacer noticed it was stale. 60 queued requests made for seconds of wasted work.
2. The picture stood still until a render landed.
3. Every render was full resolution.

Changes (packages/preview, so web and VS Code)

• Worker
  • Waits one task before it starts a render, so requests already queued arrive first and only the newest starts.
  • registerAll skips the work when the files and bundles haven't changed.
  • buildOnce keeps the last built noise, density function, random state or dimension for the 2D views.
  • progressive(): noise, density and biome-map renders do a ¼-resolution pass first. It is posted only when the full pass is estimated at over 200 ms, and a ½ pass is added when the estimate is over 1.5 s. These passes go out as partial frames with a new step field.
• Viewer
  • The canvas and the grid SVG sit in a wrapper with a CSS matrix() transform (imageMap/imageTransform). It maps the shown render's view to the current camera, for 2D views and for the 3D view.
  • Grid strokes use non-scaling-stroke.
  • Hover readout, the value marker, the climate table, the pinned point, the sea-level line and clicks now go through toImage/toWorld/toPixel, using the image's own view and scale, so they line up mid-pan and on coarse frames.
  • Pointer handlers moved to an untransformed layer over the box, so you can grab the gap that a moved image leaves.

Judgement calls

• Terrain side views, top-down and 3D are left out of the coarse passes, because they already cache strips or chunks and stream partial frames.
• The ¼ pass's own time estimates the full pass, so the first render after an edit (which includes building) may add a ½ pass it didn't strictly need.

Tests

• New smoke test: a wheel event transforms the image in the same frame, keeping the point under the cursor fixed, and the transform clears once the render lands.
• The 3D pinch test now reads the box's rect, not the canvas's, which moves.
• Full web smoke suite passes (52). svelte-check passes for packages/preview and web, and the VS Code build works.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • The preview now updates visually during zooming and panning while a new render is in progress.
  • Large 2D previews can display a coarser image first, then refine it as rendering continues.
  • Pointer sampling, click-to-lock, readouts, and biome climate lookup stay aligned with the displayed image during navigation and resizing.

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Walkthrough

The preview now transforms the displayed image during pending camera changes and maps input to that image. The worker caches selected view builds and uses progressive rendering for eligible sampled views. The response protocol adds optional render-step metadata, and smoke tests cover zoom alignment and preview bounds.

Changes

Preview rendering and alignment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cached builds and progressive render responses packages/preview/src/preview/protocol.ts, packages/preview/src/preview/preview.worker.ts	The worker skips unchanged registry fills and reuses matching build results. Eligible sampled views can return coarse partial passes before the full render; responses can include render-step metadata.
Displayed render snapshot and image transform packages/preview/src/preview/Preview.svelte	The preview stores render mode, scale, view, and box dimensions. Grid and coordinate calculations use the displayed render, and the image mapping transforms it into the current frame while a render is pending.
Pointer mapping and preview input packages/preview/src/preview/Preview.svelte, web/tests/smoke.spec.ts	Pointer input is handled by a preview-box overlay and mapped to the displayed image for sampling and readouts. Smoke tests check pointer-centered zoom alignment and use preview-box bounds for mobile coordinate projection.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant Preview as Preview.svelte
  participant Worker as preview.worker.ts
  User->>Preview: Pan or zoom
  Preview->>Preview: Transform displayed image and grid
  Preview->>Worker: Request updated render
  Worker-->>Preview: Send partial or final render
  Preview->>Preview: Update displayed image and clear transform

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Possibly related PRs

• MinecraftMetascript/mms#272: Both changes use the displayed render’s view and scale in Preview.svelte and touch the same preview worker view paths.

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_{A rabbit watches pixels glide,
As maps and camera shifts align.
A coarse view arrives in haste,
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- Line 985: Update the click-to-lock handler around `toImage(pointer(e))` to
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Do not pin a point when no image is displayed.

A mode or top-down change clears last, but the new input overlay still accepts clicks. Before the next render arrives, toImage uses a 1×1 fallback and toWorld uses a 0×0 image size. A click can therefore pin a point near the old camera instead of the clicked location. Guard click-to-lock with last.

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Review comment at @packages/preview/src/preview/Preview.svelte at line 985:
Update the click-to-lock handler around `toImage(pointer(e))` to ignore clicks when `last` is absent, so no point is pinned until an image is displayed. Preserve the existing click behavior when `last` is available.

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[ItsMeBrianD]

Confirmed. toImage falls back to a 1×1 image and toWorld uses a 0×0 one when last is null, so a click there would pin a point near the camera, not where you clicked. The fix guards click-to-lock on last. It's committed locally (afa83a7). CI on the current head is green, so I'll include it in the next push rather than push for a minor finding.

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