feat(#549): WYSIWYG decal preview — show the artwork on the quad - #960
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The decal overlay drew its body as a flat translucent yellow tint, so you placed and transformed a rectangle without seeing what you were actually about to stamp. Texture that same quad with the decal image instead. The geometry was already right: refreshDecalOverlay() draws two triangles at the exact rect corners and re-runs on every edit. The change is a material + UVs, not new plumbing. - ensureDecalPreviewMaterial() uploads the decal image to a manual GPU texture and builds an unlit alpha-blended material that samples it, mirroring the existing m_maskOverlayTex pattern. - The upload is keyed on QImage::cacheKey(), so drag/rotate/scale re-emit geometry only — the texture is uploaded once per image, not once per mouse-move. - Depth CHECK stays ON for the artwork (the decal is pinned to a surface, so geometry in front of it should occlude the preview) while the outline and handles keep depthCheck=false so they remain grabbable. Texturing the whole overlay would have made handles unclickable behind geometry. - Falls back to the old flat tint whenever the texture/material can't be created, so the tool degrades instead of breaking. - Torn down in closeSession() via destroyDecalPreview() alongside the rest of the decal state. UV orientation was the subtle part. buildCommit() maps world->NDC and relies on projectToViewportUV's flip (v = 1 - (ndcY*0.5+0.5)), so +tangentV is image-UP: the naive UV table renders the preview vertically MIRRORED against the baked result. Rather than trust a reading of that convention, the new test CommitUvOrientationMatchesPreviewMapping projects all four corners through the real commit matrix and asserts they land on exactly the UVs the preview uses — verified to fail when V is flipped, so it pins both conventions together and fails loudly if either side changes. Tests: 15/15 DecalSession + ProjectionPainter green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe decal editor now reseats body-dragged decals on mesh surfaces, shares feathered image preparation between preview and commit, and renders cached textured previews. Tests cover UV consistency, feathering, reseating, flipped normals, invalid normals, and idle sessions. ChangesDecal editing and preview consistency
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds textured decal previews, but a null image can become transparent when soft edges are enabled, some source formats may trigger repeated texture uploads during transforms, and upload failures may show stale artwork instead of the fallback tint. The issues are localized, so the change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TexturePaintController
participant MeshSurface
participant DecalSession
participant OgreTextureManager
participant OgreMaterialManager
TexturePaintController->>MeshSurface: Query hit position and surface normal
MeshSurface-->>TexturePaintController: Return transformed hit data
TexturePaintController->>DecalSession: Reseat decal
DecalSession-->>TexturePaintController: Return updated decal geometry
TexturePaintController->>DecalSession: Feather source image
DecalSession-->>TexturePaintController: Return RGBA preview pixels
TexturePaintController->>OgreTextureManager: Upload preview pixels
TexturePaintController->>OgreMaterialManager: Configure preview material
TexturePaintController->>TexturePaintController: Render textured decal overlay
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| // re-draws geometry only — the texture is uploaded once per image. | ||
| std::string TexturePaintController::ensureDecalPreviewMaterial() | ||
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| const QImage& img = m_decal.image(); |
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For decals with opaque pixels near the image boundary, this uploads the original image while commitDecal() calls buildCommit(0.15f), which fades the outer 15% and makes the border pixels fully transparent at the edge. The preview therefore shows a hard, opaque boundary that disappears or fades after commit, defeating the WYSIWYG behavior; generate the preview from the same feathered source used by the commit.
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In `@src/TexturePaintController.cpp`:
- Around line 5939-5950: Update the needUpload preview-upload path so a null
buffer or blitFromMemory failure leaves m_decalPreviewImageKey unchanged and
returns an empty material name ({}) to select the flat-tint fallback and allow
the next refresh to retry; only update the key after a successful upload.
- Around line 5912-5929: The decal preview cache currently uses rgba.cacheKey(),
which may change after conversion and cause unnecessary GPU uploads. In the
decal preview update logic, compare and store the source img.cacheKey() instead,
and only perform conversion/upload when that source key or the image dimensions
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…ging Addresses the three PR #960 review findings, plus a user-reported bug: the decal kept the angle of its first placement while being dragged across the model. ## Review findings 1. **Cache key was defeated (CodeRabbit, Major).** The upload cache keyed on `rgba.cacheKey()` — taken AFTER `convertToFormat()`, which returns a NEW QImage (and therefore a new cacheKey) whenever the source is not already RGBA8888. So the cache missed on every refresh and re-uploaded the whole texture on every drag frame: exactly the per-mouse-move upload the previous commit message claimed it avoided. Now keys on the SOURCE `img.cacheKey()` before conversion, and the convert+feather work is gated behind that check too (it was running unconditionally). 2. **Preview did not match the bake (Codex, P2).** `commitDecal()` feathers the outer 15% of alpha via `buildCommit`, but the preview uploaded the raw image, so a decal with opaque edge pixels showed a hard border that only softened after commit — defeating the WYSIWYG point. The feather loop is now extracted into `DecalSession::featherSource()`, shared by both paths, and the hardcoded 0.15f is replaced by `DecalSession::kDefaultSoftEdge` so the two cannot drift. 3. **Failed upload cached as success (CodeRabbit, Minor).** The `catch (...)` swallowed the error and still stamped `m_decalPreviewImageKey`, so a blank quad was cached and never retried. Now returns {} (flat-tint fallback) and leaves the key untouched so the next refresh retries. ## Decal now follows the surface while dragging Body drag ray-cast against `decalPlaneHit` — the plane the decal was FIRST placed on — and then translated along it, so the decal slid across a frozen plane and kept its original angle regardless of the surface it moved over. - New `DecalSession::reseat(hit, normal)` moves the rect onto a new surface point + normal while PRESERVING the current half-extents and in-plane rotation. This is the part a naive fix gets wrong: re-calling `place()` would snap rotation back to camera-up and reset the user's size. It instead rotates the existing tangent basis by the minimal arc from the old normal to the new one (`getRotationTo`, which handles the near-180 degree flip), with a finite check so a degenerate rotation moves the centre rather than emitting NaNs. - `dragDecal` re-hits the real surface via `hitTestLocalPoint` (the call `placeDecalAt` uses) and transforms the normal with the inverse transpose, so non-uniform scale cannot tilt the plane off the surface. Off-mesh cursor falls back to the old plane-slide instead of snapping or freezing. - Fixed a bug this would otherwise have introduced: `dragDecal` opened with `if (!decalPlaneHit(...)) return;`, and after re-seating onto a steep face the rect plane can go nearly edge-on to the camera, so the plane ray misses and the gesture would DIE mid-drag. The plane hit is now non-fatal for Body drags (which no longer need it) and still required for rotate/scale (which do). ## Tests 18/18 DecalSession + ProjectionPainter green. New: - `FeatherSourceMatchesCommitSource` — preview pixels == committed pixels, AND the feather actually does something (border transparent / centre opaque), so both sides cannot "match" by both being unfeathered. - `ReseatFollowsSurfaceKeepingSizeAndRotation` — plane adopted, size + rotation preserved, basis stays orthogonal to the new normal. - `ReseatHandlesFlippedNormalAndIsIdleSafe` — ~180 degree flip yields a finite orthogonal basis, a zero normal is ignored rather than corrupting the plane, and reseat on an Idle session is a no-op. Mutation-checked the reseat tests (drop the preserved size inside reseat → both fail; restore → pass), so they guard the behaviour rather than just executing it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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All 3 findings addressed in 405d771, plus a user-reported drag bug. 1. Cache key was defeated (CodeRabbit, Major) — correct, and it contradicted my own commit message. I keyed on 2. Preview did not match the bake (Codex, P2) — confirmed. 3. Failed upload cached as success (CodeRabbit, Minor) — confirmed. The Also: the decal now follows the surface while draggingReported while testing — the decal kept the angle of its first placement. Body drag ray-cast against
Tests18/18 green. Three new cases: preview-vs-commit pixel parity (plus an assertion that the feather actually does something, so both sides cannot "match" by both being unfeathered); reseat preserving size/rotation with an orthogonal basis; and reseat edge cases (~180° flip → finite basis, zero normal ignored, Idle no-op). Mutation-checked the reseat tests — dropping the preserved size inside |
The PR quality gate failed on new_maintainability_rating = 3 (C) where it
requires 1 (A). Every other condition passed (reliability A, security A,
coverage 5.9% > 0, no unreviewed hotspots, duplication OK).
Of the 26 issues Sonar reported in TexturePaintController.cpp, 17 were on lines
this PR actually added; the other 9 are pre-existing (e.g. lines from the May
2026 image-editing-tools commit) that Sonar surfaces because they sit in the
changed region. This addresses the 17 and leaves the pre-existing ones alone —
they are unrelated to this change and would only inflate the diff.
The gate driver was cpp:S3776 (cognitive complexity 27 > 25) on
ensureDecalPreviewMaterial, which had grown three concerns into one function.
Splitting it fixes that and most of the rest as a side effect:
- ensureDecalPreviewTexture(W,H) — create/resize the manual texture.
- uploadDecalPreviewPixels(img,W,H) — feather + blit.
- ensureDecalPreviewPass() — build once / re-point the sampling material.
- ensureDecalPreviewMaterial() — now just cache-key logic + orchestration.
Also fixed on the new lines:
- cpp:S859 (const_cast removing const, CRITICAL): the PixelBox took
`const_cast<uchar*>(feathered.constBits())`. The feathered image is a local
copy, so it is simply held non-const and `bits()` is used — no cast. This
matches the pre-existing mask-overlay path, which blits from a mutable
std::vector for the same reason.
- cpp:S2738 / S2486 / S108 (7 + 5 + 4): the bare `catch (...) {}` blocks. Ogre
resource teardown genuinely is best-effort (a manager can already be gone
during shutdown), but `catch (...)` also swallows std::bad_alloc and logic
errors. Replaced with a small `tryOgre(fn)` helper that catches only
Ogre::Exception, documents why it is ignored, and returns a bool the callers
already branch on — so the empty-block and unhandled-exception smells go with
it rather than being suppressed.
- cpp:S6004: hoisted declarations folded into their if-statements / removed.
Behaviour is unchanged: 18/18 DecalSession + ProjectionPainter tests still pass,
and the app was launched to confirm the live preview path still renders (this
touches rendering code, so a compile-only check would not be enough).
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In `@src/DecalSession.cpp`:
- Around line 159-164: Update DecalSession::featherSource to return the opaque
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| QImage DecalSession::featherSource(const QImage& image, float softEdge) | ||
| { | ||
| CommitInputs out; | ||
| if (m_state == State::Idle) return out; | ||
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| // Soft-edge alpha: feather the image's alpha toward the border so the decal | ||
| // blends onto the surface instead of a hard rectangle cut. | ||
| QImage src = m_image.isNull() | ||
| QImage src = image.isNull() | ||
| ? QImage(1, 1, QImage::Format_RGBA8888) | ||
| : m_image.convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGBA8888); | ||
| if (m_image.isNull()) src.fill(QColor(255, 255, 255, 255)); | ||
| : image.convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGBA8888); | ||
| if (image.isNull()) src.fill(QColor(255, 255, 255, 255)); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Keep the null-image fallback opaque.
Lines 161-164 create the documented opaque 1x1 fallback, but the feather loop then sets its only pixel alpha to zero. buildCommit() and the preview receive a transparent fallback when softEdge is positive.
Return the fallback before feathering it.
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QImage src = image.isNull()
? QImage(1, 1, QImage::Format_RGBA8888)
: image.convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGBA8888);
- if (image.isNull()) src.fill(QColor(255, 255, 255, 255));
+ if (image.isNull()) {
+ src.fill(QColor(255, 255, 255, 255));
+ return src;
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| QImage DecalSession::featherSource(const QImage& image, float softEdge) | |
| { | |
| CommitInputs out; | |
| if (m_state == State::Idle) return out; | |
| // Soft-edge alpha: feather the image's alpha toward the border so the decal | |
| // blends onto the surface instead of a hard rectangle cut. | |
| QImage src = m_image.isNull() | |
| QImage src = image.isNull() | |
| ? QImage(1, 1, QImage::Format_RGBA8888) | |
| : m_image.convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGBA8888); | |
| if (m_image.isNull()) src.fill(QColor(255, 255, 255, 255)); | |
| : image.convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGBA8888); | |
| if (image.isNull()) src.fill(QColor(255, 255, 255, 255)); | |
| QImage DecalSession::featherSource(const QImage& image, float softEdge) | |
| { | |
| QImage src = image.isNull() | |
| ? QImage(1, 1, QImage::Format_RGBA8888) | |
| : image.convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGBA8888); | |
| if (image.isNull()) { | |
| src.fill(QColor(255, 255, 255, 255)); | |
| return src; | |
| } |
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In `@src/DecalSession.cpp` around lines 159 - 164, Update
DecalSession::featherSource to return the opaque 1x1 fallback immediately when
image.isNull() before entering the feathering logic; preserve normal feather
processing for non-null images.
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Minor bump — 3.33.0 shipped, and master has since gained a user-facing feature. Since 3.33.0: - feat(#549): WYSIWYG decal preview (#960) — the decal overlay now shows the actual artwork on its quad instead of a flat tint, follows the surface (and so re-orients) while dragged, and previews the same feathered pixels the commit bakes. - docs(cli): advertise `rig` on the CLI/Docker/Action surfaces (#959). Only CMakeLists.txt line 16 is edited by hand; README.md and website/src/hooks/useQtmeshActionRef.js are regenerated via ./scripts/sync-doc-versions-from-cmake.sh (its --check mode, which CI runs as verify-doc-versions, passes). Confirmed the version propagates: the generated cfg/version.txt reads 3.34.0 after a reconfigure. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Follow-up to Slice F (#956, merged). Requested in review of the decal tool: "for the decal, or even the projection or the stencil, could we display a preview?"
Problem
The decal overlay drew its body as a flat translucent yellow tint, so you placed, rotated and scaled a rectangle without seeing what you were about to stamp. You only found out whether the placement was right after committing.
Approach
The geometry was already correct —
refreshDecalOverlay()draws two triangles at the exact rect corners and re-runs on every edit. It was just filling them with a solid colour. So this is a material + UVs, not new plumbing.ensureDecalPreviewMaterial()uploads the decal image to a manual GPU texture and builds an unlit, alpha-blended material that samples it — mirroring the existingm_maskOverlayTexpattern in this same file.QImage::cacheKey(), so drag/rotate/scale re-emit geometry only. Re-uploading per mouse-move would make transforms stutter.closeSession()viadestroyDecalPreview(), alongside the rest of the decal state.Depth-check asymmetry (deliberate)
The artwork gets
depthCheck = true: the decal is pinned to a surface, so geometry in front of it should occlude the preview. The outline and handles keepdepthCheck = falseso they stay grabbable. Texturing the whole overlay uniformly would have made handles unclickable behind geometry.UV orientation was the trap
buildCommit()maps world→NDC and relies onprojectToViewportUV's flip (v = 1 - (ndcY*0.5+0.5)), so+tangentVis image-UP. The naive UV table renders the preview vertically mirrored against what actually gets baked — a bug that would look plausible until you compared before/after.Rather than trust a reading of that convention,
CommitUvOrientationMatchesPreviewMappingprojects all four corners through the real commit matrix and asserts they land on exactly the UVs the preview uses. I verified it fails when V is flipped, so it genuinely pins the two conventions together instead of just documenting one — if either side changes, the test breaks loudly.Verification
DecalSession+ProjectionPaintertests green.Scope
Decal only. The same question covered projection and stencil; both are feasible on this groundwork but are separate slices:
m_stencilImageis already loaded and there is an existing hover-ring overlay to hang it on. A cheaper first slice is a 2D panel thumbnail via the existingdata:image/png;base64idiom.ProjectionPainter::project(with occlusion + depth-limit) into a scratch buffer and displaying it uncommitted, plus deciding when to re-run it — a proper slice, not an add-on.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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