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/**

 * Who came into sight, and where the last one went.

 *

 * The server only sends bodies you can actually see, and that rule is not

 * negotiable — but it means a body stepping into a sightline arrives with no

 * history at all, and the interpolation makes it worse: a body that was out

 * of sight starts fresh at its exact position, a render delay further along

 * than where it entered view. So enemies do not walk into the room, they

 * materialise mid-stride, and it reads as a broken game rather than a fast

 * one.

 *

 * This is the fix, and it is entirely in the drawing:

 *

 * - A body that has just appeared is drawn faded and slightly small for a

 *   tenth of a second, so the eye reads an arrival rather than a pop.

 * - If it was seen before and not far from where it is now, the fade starts

 *   a stride back along the line it came in on, so it slides into view from

 *   the edge instead of appearing at its destination.

 * - Where somebody was last seen alive leaves a mark that dims away over a

 *   second. It answers "where did they go", and it is information you had

 *   already: nothing here is ever sent anywhere, and nothing is drawn that

 *   the server did not already show you.

 *

 * Plain data in and out. Time is seconds, positions are world units.

 */

/** Seconds from first sight to a solid body. */

export const FADE = 0.12;

/** How small a body starts, as a fraction of itself. */

export const SMALL = 0.82;

/** Seconds a last-seen mark lingers. */

export const GHOST = 1;

/** How far back along its path a body slides in from, in world units. */

export const ENTRY = 42;

/** Last seen further away than this and it is a new sighting, not a return. */

export const REACH = 320;

const clamp01 = (n) => (n < 0 ? 0 : n > 1 ? 1 : n);

export const makePresence = () => ({ live: new Map(), last: new Map(), seq: 0 });

/**

 * A snapshot landed at `at`, carrying exactly these bodies. Anybody in it is

 * in sight; anybody who was and is not has just gone out of it.

 */

export function sighted(presence, bodies, at) {

  const seq = ++presence.seq;

  for (const body of bodies) {

    const have = presence.live.get(body.id);

    if (have) {

      remember(have, body, seq);

      continue;

    }

    const before = presence.last.get(body.id);

    const fresh = { since: at, seq, from: before ? entryPoint(before, body) : null };

    remember(fresh, body, seq);

    presence.live.set(body.id, fresh);

    presence.last.delete(body.id);

  }

  for (const [id, it] of presence.live) {

    if (it.seq === seq) continue;

    presence.live.delete(id);

    // A body last seen dead is a corpse where you left it, not a question

    // about where somebody went: no mark.

    if (it.alive) presence.last.set(id, { ...it, gone: at });

    else presence.last.delete(id);

  }

}

function remember(it, body, seq) {

  it.seq = seq;

  it.x = body.x;

  it.y = body.y;

  it.angle = body.angle;

  it.alive = body.alive;

  it.mate = body.mate;

}

/**

 * Where a body's arrival begins: a stride back down the line from where it

 * was last seen. Somebody who turns up across the map is not the same walk,

 * and somebody who has not moved has no direction to come from, so neither

 * slides.

 */

function entryPoint(before, body) {

  const dx = body.x - before.x;

  const dy = body.y - before.y;

  const span = Math.hypot(dx, dy);

  if (span < 2 || span > REACH) return null;

  const back = Math.min(ENTRY, span) / span;

  return { x: body.x - dx * back, y: body.y - dy * back };

}

/** How far in a body is: 0 the moment it appears, 1 once it is solid. */

export function shown(presence, id, now) {

  const it = presence.live.get(id);

  return it ? clamp01((now - it.since) / FADE) : 1;

}

/** The size a body is drawn at while it arrives: small, then itself. */

export const swell = (t) => SMALL + (1 - SMALL) * clamp01(t);

/**

 * The position to draw a body at: the interpolated one, or a point on the

 * way there from where it came in, while it is still arriving.

 */

export function slide(presence, id, at, now, out) {

  const it = presence.live.get(id);

  if (!it || !it.from) return at;

  const t = clamp01((now - it.since) / FADE);

  if (t >= 1) return at;

  out.x = it.from.x + (at.x - it.from.x) * t;

  out.y = it.from.y + (at.y - it.from.y) * t;

  out.angle = at.angle;

  return out;

}

/** The last-seen marks, freshest first in nothing in particular: ≤ a team. */

export function ghosts(presence, now) {

  const out = [];

  for (const [id, it] of presence.last) {

    const left = 1 - (now - it.gone) / GHOST;

    if (left <= 0) {

      presence.last.delete(id);

      continue;

    }

    out.push({ id, x: it.x, y: it.y, angle: it.angle, mate: it.mate, fade: left });

  }

  return out;

}

/** A new round: nobody has been seen, and nobody is anywhere in particular. */

export function forget(presence) {

  presence.live.clear();

  presence.last.clear();

}