Improving the "debug view" by basing it on rain time, so it's unaffected by the base brightness and contrast

js/config.js

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ const defaults = {
 	bloomStrength: 0.7, // The intensity of the bloom
 	bloomSize: 0.4, // The amount the bloom calculation is scaled
 	highPassThreshold: 0.1, // The minimum brightness that is still blurred
-	cycleSpeed: 0.2, // The speed glyphs change
+	cycleSpeed: 0.4, // The speed glyphs change
 	cycleFrameSkip: 1, // The global minimum number of frames between glyphs cycling
 	cycleStyleName: "cycleFasterWhenDimmed", // The way glyphs cycle, either proportional to their brightness or randomly
 	baseBrightness: -0.5, // The brightness of the glyphs, before any effects are applied

shaders/glsl/rainPass.frag.glsl

@@ -93,13 +93,12 @@ void main() {
 	float alpha = clamp(sigDist/fwidth(sigDist) + 0.5, 0., 1.);
 
 	if (showDebugView) {
-		brightness *= 2.;
 		gl_FragColor = vec4(
 			vec3(
 				shine.b,
 				vec2(
-					brightness,
-					clamp(0., 1., pow(brightness * 0.9, 6.0))
+					1.0 - (shine.g * 3.0),
+					1.0 - (shine.g * 10.0)
 				) * (1.0 - shine.b)
 			) * alpha,
 			1.

shaders/glsl/rainPass.shine.frag.glsl

@@ -63,11 +63,7 @@ float getRainTime(float simTime, vec2 glyphPos) {
 }
 
 float getBrightness(float rainTime) {
-	float value = 1. - fract(rainTime);
-	if (loops) {
-		value = 1. - fract(rainTime);
-	}
-	return value * baseContrast + baseBrightness;
+	return (1. - fract(rainTime)) * baseContrast + baseBrightness;
 }
 
 // Additional effects
@@ -151,7 +147,7 @@ vec4 computeResult(float simTime, bool isFirstFrame, vec2 glyphPos, vec2 screenP
 		brightness = mix(previousBrightness, brightness, brightnessDecay);
 	}
 
-	vec4 result = vec4(brightness, 0., cursor, effect);
+	vec4 result = vec4(brightness, fract(rainTime), cursor, effect);
 	return result;
 }
 

shaders/wgsl/rainPass.wgsl

@@ -146,8 +146,7 @@ fn getRainTime(simTime : f32, glyphPos : vec2<f32>) -> f32 {
 }
 
 fn getBrightness(rainTime : f32) -> f32 {
-	var value = 1.0 - fract(rainTime);
-	return value * config.baseContrast + config.baseBrightness;
+	return (1.0 - fract(rainTime)) * config.baseContrast + config.baseBrightness;
 }
 
 fn getCycleSpeed(brightness : f32) -> f32 {
@@ -244,7 +243,7 @@ fn computeShine (simTime : f32, isFirstFrame : bool, glyphPos : vec2<f32>, scree
 		brightness = mix(previousBrightness, brightness, config.brightnessDecay);
 	}
 
-	var result = vec4<f32>(brightness, 0.0, cursor, effect);
+	var result = vec4<f32>(brightness, fract(rainTime), cursor, effect);
 	return result;
 }
 
@@ -443,16 +442,15 @@ fn getSymbolUV(symbol : i32) -> vec2<f32> {
 	var output : FragOutput;
 
 	if (bool(config.showDebugView)) {
-		brightness *= 2.0;
 		output.color = vec4<f32>(
 			vec3<f32>(
 				cell.shine.b,
 				vec2<f32>(
-					brightness,
-					clamp(0.0, 1.0, pow(brightness * 0.9, 6.0))
+					1.0 - (cell.shine.g * 3.0),
+					1.0 - (cell.shine.g * 10.0)
 				) * (1.0 - cell.shine.b)
 			) * alpha,
-			1.0
+			1.
 		);
 	} else {
 		output.color = vec4<f32>(input.channel * brightness * alpha, 1.0);