brac.dev devlog — vantageDevlog posts for vantage, newest first.https://brac.dev/en-usVantage phase 2g: volumetric clouds, and the f32 landmine three green gates missedhttps://brac.dev/log/vantage-phase-2g-volumetric-clouds/https://brac.dev/log/vantage-phase-2g-volumetric-clouds/The 2.5D cloud shell became a true volumetric raymarch. The story is the review catching an f32 cancellation that made clouds render only at the limb.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTVantage phase 2h: cloud-shaped sun shafts and the shading round the audit rewrotehttps://brac.dev/log/vantage-phase-2h-terminator-and-shading/https://brac.dev/log/vantage-phase-2h-terminator-and-shading/Sun-lit limb clouds now emit into the god-ray source, and an audit-before-fix rule disproved the reviewer's diagnosis and found a 200x units bug instead.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTVantage phase 2: riding the orbit, and the sign flip the textbook hideshttps://brac.dev/log/vantage-orbit-picking-minimap/https://brac.dev/log/vantage-orbit-picking-minimap/The ship rides its inclined track with follow-cam, time warp, click-picking and a minimap. Ground track verifies to 1e-13 degrees, after a sign flip.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTVantage phase 1b: a planet from a seedhttps://brac.dev/log/vantage-phase-1b-texture-pipeline/https://brac.dev/log/vantage-phase-1b-texture-pipeline/The Earth placeholder is gone. One seed becomes the whole texture set, deterministically, in 11 seconds: continents, biomes, night lights, clouds, regions.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTVantage phase 2b: quality tiers, and the phone that was never going to load ithttps://brac.dev/log/vantage-phase-2b-quality-tiers/https://brac.dev/log/vantage-phase-2b-quality-tiers/'Heavy on my phone' turned out to be 'cannot load at all'. Three quality tiers, a 2K bake variant, auto-detection, and the desktop path proven byte-identical.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTVantage 2.x: the look-and-feel arc, flat horizons and driving the shiphttps://brac.dev/log/vantage-phase-2x-look-and-feel/https://brac.dev/log/vantage-phase-2x-look-and-feel/A polish arc between phases: the low-orbit flat horizon (which meant lowering the ship's orbit), displaced mountains, and a dev panel for live taste work.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTVantage phase 1: the hero planet, and the god rays that weren'thttps://brac.dev/log/vantage-hero-planet/https://brac.dev/log/vantage-hero-planet/The risk phase: a TSL-shaded planet with terminator, city lights, ocean glint and atmosphere, and a god-rays node that turned out to be the wrong effect.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTVantage phase 0: scaffolding on WebGPURenderer while dodging TypeScript 7https://brac.dev/log/vantage-scaffold/https://brac.dev/log/vantage-scaffold/The Vite + TS + three r185 scaffold: 240Hz fixed-timestep loop, seeded PRNG, tone-mapped empty scene, and a TypeScript version pin that isn't optional.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT