Tiles holding a slope over 35 degrees are meshed at two vertices per cell
on a clamped Catmull-Rom surface that passes through every grid node, so
cliffs and ledges lose the facets of the heightfield grid while the
collision stays on the grid. The domain field exposes the smooth
elevation and a separable, per-phase-weighted block sampler with linear
edge extrapolation and a one-cell margin for continuous normals; the actor
samples tiles on the worker thread pool and builds meshes afterwards.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Building the 64 tiles of the Banc du Vigilant cost about 1.9 s through
per-vertex cell_world_position/normal_at_cell calls, leaving the 3 s
load budget with too little headroom (2.1-2.9 s measured, one 4.8 s
outlier). TerrainHeightField now returns positions and normals of a
cell block in one call, with normal_at_cell sharing the same formula;
the tile build drops to about 0.5 s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DiveSite.configure() builds the height field once (TerrainHeightField
validates the data) instead of running the definition validation and
then the field construction again; the composition root relies on the
error returned by configure(). The collision shape takes the field's
row-major elevations directly instead of copying 263k cells one by one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
