fix(highway): a SUPERSEDED renderer init is not a FAILED one (#970)

Starting a gig dropped the player onto the fallback 2D highway with no venue.

startGig() calls setViz('venue'), which installs the 3D renderer — whose init is
async — and then immediately starts its play queue. playSong() re-initialises
that same renderer a tick later. A renderer mints a fresh readyPromise per
init() and rejects the previous one with "superseded"; highway.js only checked
that the RENDERER OBJECT was unchanged, which it is. So it treated a healthy,
re-initialising renderer as a failed one, tore it down, and reverted to 2D:

    renderer async init failure: Error: superseded
    viz picker: reverted to default renderer (async-init-failure)

The guard now also checks the PROMISE identity: a rejection from an init cycle
the renderer has already moved on from is ignored. The renderer-identity guard
stays (a rejection for a renderer since REPLACED is also not ours), and a
genuine failure of the CURRENT cycle still reverts — both init() call sites go
through _setRenderer, which re-wires the handler every time, so the new cycle is
always watched.

Reproduced and fixed against the real build:

    before:  vizSelection=default  viz-picker=default  venue=inactive  viz:reverted
    after:   vizSelection=venue    viz-picker=venue    venue=ACTIVE    (no revert)

Also widens the paused-frame throttle's opt-out. The throttle fires whenever the
CHART CLOCK is stalled — not only on a pause, but through a count-in and the
credits/author overlay too. Its opt-out only asked "is a crowd video rolling",
but the venue scene animates on a clock of its own with no pack at all (backdrop
breathe, parallax, haze drift, warmth pulse — Math.sin(t) in the draw loop), so
that motion was still being throttled. It now claims frames for both sources; a
plain 3D highway with no venue reads motion mode 'off' and keeps the #654 GPU
saving.

HONEST CAVEAT on that second part: I could not get the throttle to fire in a
reproduction. A control run on the shipped code showed 100 draws/sec while
paused, not the ~10/sec a firing throttle would give — so the change is
defensible on its own terms (a stalled clock is genuinely not a static picture)
but it does NOT have a demonstrated symptom behind it. The viz fix above does.

Tests: the superseded guard, and that the throttle opt-out covers both motion
sources. All fail against the pre-fix source. eslint 0 errors; JS 1207/1207.
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Byron Gamatos
2026-07-15 00:36:16 +02:00
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@@ -114,13 +114,52 @@ test('the capability probe fails closed (absent / non-function / throwing)', ()
'only an explicit true opts out — a truthy accident must not disable the throttle');
});
test('3D highway claims continuous frames only while a crowd video is rolling', () => {
test('3D highway claims continuous frames for BOTH sources of venue motion', () => {
const h3d = fs.readFileSync(
path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', 'plugins', 'highway_3d', 'screen.js'), 'utf8');
const fn = extractBlock(h3d, 'needsContinuousFrames()');
// (1) a crowd video rolling on its own clock (career venue pack)
assert.match(fn, /_venueCrowdVideos/, 'must key off the actual crowd video elements');
assert.match(fn, /\.paused/, 'a paused video is a still frame — throttle should still apply');
// With no venue pack (the common case) the paused scene really is static and
// the GPU saving must survive: the method has to be able to return false.
assert.match(fn, /return false;/, 'must fall through to false with no live video');
assert.match(fn, /\.paused/, 'a paused video is a still frame');
// (2) the venue scene's OWN fake-depth motion — backdrop breathe, haze drift,
// warmth pulse, shimmer. Math.sin(t) in the draw loop, so it only moves while
// we get frames, and it runs with NO pack at all. Missing this meant the venue
// still stuttered on pause / count-in / credits whenever no video was rolling.
assert.match(fn, /_venueEffectiveMotionMode\s*\(\s*\)\s*!==\s*'off'/,
'the venue scene animates without any video — it must claim frames too');
// ...and with no venue at all the paused scene IS static: the #654 GPU saving
// must survive, so the method has to be able to return false.
assert.match(fn, /return false;/, 'must fall through to false on a plain 3D highway');
});
// ── a SUPERSEDED init is not a FAILED init ──────────────────────────────────
//
// Starting a gig dropped the player onto the fallback 2D highway with no venue.
//
// setViz('venue') installs the 3D renderer, whose init is async; the gig then
// immediately starts its play queue, and playSong() re-initialises that same
// renderer a tick later. A renderer mints a fresh readyPromise per init() and
// rejects the previous one with "superseded" — but highway.js only checked that
// the RENDERER object was unchanged, which it is. So it treated a healthy
// re-initialising renderer as a failed one, tore it down, and reverted to 2D:
//
// renderer async init failure: Error: superseded
// viz picker: reverted to default renderer (async-init-failure)
//
// Reproduced and fixed against the real build (venue stays selected, scene
// active, no viz:reverted).
test('a superseded readyPromise must not revert the viz to 2D', () => {
const src = highwaySources();
const fn = extractBlock(src, 'function _handleAsyncInitFailure(e)');
assert.match(fn, /readyPromise\s*!==\s*rp[\s\S]{0,40}return/,
'a rejection from a STALE readyPromise (the renderer has since re-init\'d) must be ' +
'ignored — otherwise a re-initialising renderer is torn down as if it had failed');
// The renderer-identity check must survive too: a rejection belonging to a
// renderer that has since been REPLACED is also not our problem.
assert.match(fn, /hwState\._renderer\s*!==\s*_installedRenderer[\s\S]{0,20}return/,
'the renderer-identity guard must remain');
// ...and a genuine failure of the CURRENT init cycle must still revert.
assert.match(fn, /_emitVizReverted\s*\(\s*'async-init-failure'\s*\)/,
'a real async-init failure must still fall back to the default renderer');
});