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feat(engine): Extrusion Base sets what an extrusion stands on, a field or a constant (#1269) - #2039
Pull request 2b of the extrusion base height (plan), after #2006 drew the base in every view: a command to set it, and the user guide.
layer.extrusionBase ({"layer"?, "field"?, "base"?}) sets what an extruded layer's walls stand on: a numeric field (field), else a constant in metres (base), times the extrusion's factor, as #2006 reads them.
It changes nothing else, as Faces and Light and Shadow don't: the height, its field and the factor stay, and so does whichever of field and base is left out.
null or an empty name clears the field.
A field that isn't numeric, or isn't there, is refused, as layer.extrusion refuses one. A base that is no number, or is outside 0 to 10,000,000 m (the height's limit), is refused rather than ignored or changed.
Without an extrusion it says "turn extrusion on first", as the other extrusion commands do, before looking at the field.
Why a command of its own rather than parameters on layer.extrusion: that command needs type on every call and, without height, takes max(height, 1000). Setting only the base through it would turn a 30 m extrusion into 1000 m, or drop its height field. layer.extrusion is unchanged here; its numeric-field check moved to a shared numeric_field.
User guide: Style › Layer effects says what a base is, how it is set, that turning extrusion off drops it, and the known limit: without a tilt, and tilted without the graphics card, extrusions are painted in the order they stand on the ground, so a part raised over a building behind it may be painted under it. The CityJSON row in Data formats no longer says extrusions have no base.
The Style › Extrusion › Base menu comes next, calling this command.
Size: +131 / −14 in 4 files, of which 65 lines are the test.
Followed no other project's code.
Testing
extrusion_base_sets_the_base_and_nothing_else (engine): refused without an extrusion, whatever the field; field and constant set; height, height field and factor unchanged; what is left out stays; a text field, a missing or blank field name, a field that isn't a name, and a base of "ten", null, -5 or 1e12 refused without a change; 0 and 1e7 taken; null and an empty name clear the field; changing the height keeps the base; each step undoes on its own.
hostile_params_never_panic covers the new command.
cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo nextest run --workspace (6393 tests), doctests and cargo xtask layers on macOS: all pass.
Manual, with the CLI: the sample tilted 50°, Countries extruded 300 km, exported, then layer.extrusionBase with base 600 km and exported again: the countries float above the basemap's land, which shows beneath them, and their labels rise with the roofs. "base": "ten" is refused with "base is a number of metres".
UI evidence
No visible UI change: there is no control for the base yet (it comes with the Base menu). A base set with the command draws as #2006 drew it.
Polygon extrusions can now start from a numeric data field or a fixed elevation. You can update either setting independently or clear the field selection.
Documentation
Updated the cartography and data format guides with details on extrusion bases, including their effects and supported values.
The PR adds layer.extrusionBase to set or clear an extrusion base using a numeric dataset field or a constant. It adds validation and tests for partial updates, accepted bounds, state preservation, and undo behavior. The user guide and CityJSON entry describe extrusion-base behavior.
Changes: Extrusion Base Configuration
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Summary
Configure and document extrusion bases crates/engine/src/cmd/effects.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs, docs/user-guide/cartography.md, docs/user-guide/data-formats.md
The command sets a base field or a constant from 0 to 10,000,000 metres when extrusion is enabled. Tests cover validation, clearing the field, partial updates, state preservation, and undo behavior. The guides describe how extrusion bases affect rendering and CityJSON parts.
The new extrusion base command is documented with one inaccurate CityJSON sentence that omits constant and other-field bases. This may mislead readers but does not affect runtime behavior. Fix the wording before or soon after merging.
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A rabbit marks the base below, Where walls can rise and shadows go. A field or number sets the ground, With careful bounds and tests around. The guide now tells how heights are found.
None confirmed. I checked the new layer.extrusionBase against layer.extrusion and the renderer's base_metres. The field and constant handling, the ..keep carry-over, and the undo sequence in the test all hold up.
Security
None found. The new command takes only layer names, numeric values, and field names that are checked against the dataset.
Performance
None found.
Quality
Low confidence (about 40%): the constant base is clamped to [0, 1e7] with no notice (effects.rs:224). Values like 1e12 or -5 are changed silently. This follows the same pattern as layer.extrusion's height clamp, so it may be intentional. Posted inline.
Minor nits, grouped and not posted inline:
extrusion_base trims field names, but layer.extrusion does not. A field whose name has surrounding spaces can be set by one command and not the other.
With no extrusion on the layer, an invalid field returns "no numeric field" rather than "turn extrusion on first". The PR body says the latter for this command.
AGENTS.md
Nothing violated. The command is registered in the command table, the CLI and ribbon pick it up by id, and the docs cover it. It has no background path because it does not scale with input. hostile_params_never_panic covers it automatically.
I checked the new docs against the code. The claim that a non-numeric base takes the constant matches base_metres. The negative-base-is-ground claim matches it too. The Web Scene claim matches sharing.rs.
Earlier concerns: there were no prior review threads, so none were left alone.
Change size
Compared with the base branch: the whole PR against main (merge base 5a01cac to PR head ef1d803).
Bugs: None found. I checked the new layer.extrusionBase path in crates/engine/src/cmd/effects.rs against crates/map/src/effects.rs. Refusals come before any change, so a rejected call leaves the layer untouched. "base": null is refused. "field": null and "" clear the field. layer.extrusion keeps the base through ..keep, and type: none drops it, as the docs say. The render side (base_metres_at) treats a negative or non-finite base as the ground, which matches the new doc text. Confidence: high. I could not run cargo test in this session, so this rests on reading the code and the test.
Security: None found. The command only sets a numeric field name and a bounded float, and it has Effects::NONE.
Performance: None found. The change is a constant-time setter and does no per-feature work.
Quality:
The test at crates/engine/src/tests.rs (around lines 19942–19945) calls x(&s).unwrap() several times in a row. A single let got = x(&s).unwrap(); per check would read better. This is a minor nit, so I have not posted it inline. Per AGENTS.md, it can wait for the release quality pass.
Prior concern not re-raised: an earlier review thread on effects.rs (line 224, outdated) said .clamp(0.0, 1e7) changes the user's value silently. The code no longer clamps. It refuses out-of-range values with a message, and the test checks that. The concern is answered by the change, so I left it alone.
AGENTS.md: Compliant on the points I checked.
Never silent: out-of-range and non-numeric inputs are refused with a message, not clamped.
Never crash: no unwrap, expect, or indexing in the new code.
Commands never open dialogs.
The new command is covered by the same hostile-parameter style test that the PR extends.
The new user-guide text matches the code.
I posted no inline comments because I found nothing above the bar.
Prior concerns left alone: 1.
Change size
Compared with the base branch: the whole PR against main (merge base 5a01cac to PR head ef46d72).
No bugs, security or performance problems found in the changed lines. I did not post inline comments, because the only items below are a low-confidence observation and a wording nit. I could not build or run the tests (no shell here), so the checks are by reading the code.
Bugs
None found. I checked the borrow of l before change_extrusion, the undo sequence in the test, that refused calls record no undo step, that the 0 to 1e7 bound matches the height's limit, and that the numeric_field extraction keeps layer.extrusion's behaviour. Confidence: high.
Security
None found. The new command takes a field name and a number, both checked. It does no file or network access and has no unwrap or indexing. Confidence: high.
Performance
None found. The command is constant-time, so it needs no background path. Confidence: high.
Quality
Nit, for the release quality pass: the params schema reads "field"?: numeric field (metres; null or "" clears it). The "metres" parenthetical reads as if the field's values are in metres. layer.extrusion uses the same wording, so this is consistent rather than wrong. Confidence: high.
Never silent (low confidence, about 30%)
At render time, a base-field value that is blank or not a number falls back to the constant (crates/map/src/effects.rs:150), and a negative value falls to the ground (:151). The user guide documents this, but no notice is given. This command now lets a user choose the field, so a column with blanks silently floats its walls. The height has the same fallback and it predates this PR, so this is not a regression. It could be a follow-up that gives a count notice when the field is chosen.
AGENTS.md
Checked and compliant: no unwrap, expect, panic or unsafe. The command is registered in effects.rs and covered by the new test. The hostile_params_never_panic harness picks it up from the registry. The user-guide anchor cartography.md#layer-effects exists. No ribbon change, so no ribbon guideline applies.
Prior review: one thread (clamp versus refusal, from the github-actions account) was raised, the author fixed it in ef46d724, and it is resolved. I left it alone, so 1 earlier concern was not re-raised.
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Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base 5a01cac to PR head ef46d72).
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- Line 34: Update the CityJSON description of Style › Extrusion to state that
its base can be a constant value or a numeric field, including `base_height`, as
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| ArcGIS feature-service answers (protocol buffer) | `.pbf` holding an answer to an ArcGIS query with `f=pbf`, or the query's address | Add Data, drop the file, upload, or From URL… with the query's address (`…/FeatureServer/0/query?…&f=pbf`) | One page of the layer: the fields and values the same query gives as GeoJSON, with the fields' aliases as their display names (dates as milliseconds since 1970, date-only and time values as text), points, lines or polygons converted to longitude/latitude from the answer's coordinate system. Z and M values, geometry, blob and raster fields are left out, with a notice. A page that stopped at the service's record limit keeps its features, with a notice that the rest aren't in it. A query the service refuses (an empty answer), a count, ids or an extent, curves, multipatches and envelopes give an error. Told from OpenStreetMap data by its content. |
| TopoJSON | `.topojson`, or `.json` | Add Data, drop the file, or upload | Shared arcs (quantized or not) are rebuilt into geometries. A `.topojson` adds a layer per object, up to 64; a topology named `.json` adds its first object and names the others in a notice. Use `.topojson` to add them all. |
| CityJSON | `.city.json`, or `.json` | Add Data, drop the file, upload, or From URL… | CityJSON 1.1 and 2.0, read in 2D: a layer per City Object type and geometry family (a name two layers would share, such as two long types cut to their first 64 characters, or two that differ only in ASCII case, gets ` (2)`, ` (3)`… on the later ones: the first number no other layer's name uses). Surfaces and solids become footprints (LoD 0, else the `GroundSurface` surfaces, else the union of the faces of the highest LoD, each tried when the one before gives no area, else the outline of the points; lines and points come from their highest level of detail that draws; a level passed over because its X or Y isn't a finite number, or is too large, is named in a notice; a geometry of more than 200,000 faces is the outline of its points (of its ground's, for a footprint from the ground), with a notice, unless its footprint is its ground and all of its ground faces are within the cap), with `z_min`, `z_max` and `height` fields, from every level of detail and the children's heights included, so Style › Extrusion stands them up, and `base_height`, how far an object's lowest point is above the lowest point of the topmost object it is part of (0 for a building; for a balcony part, its lowest point's height above the building's; a building's lowest point is its basement's when it has one, and a group's members aren't parts of the group). Also `id`, `type`, `parent`, `lod` and the object's attributes; one named as one of these fields, or as another attribute of its layer but for case, takes a number (`height_1`), the same in every row, and a notice lists them. A `.city.json`, or a model from an address, adds every layer, up to 64; a file named `.json` adds its first layer with something to draw and names the others in a notice. A file that names no coordinate system and isn't longitude/latitude is refused: for now the way to add it is the `"crs"` parameter of `layer.addData`, from the command line, Python or the AI Assistant. Geometry instances are their template placed by their matrix at their reference point, with its heights, and rings the matrix flattens are left out and said for each instance; one whose template is missing, can't be read or draws nothing, or whose matrix is missing or isn't 16 numbers ending in `0 0 0 1`, is drawn as a point at its reference point, with no height, as are those past what placing may cost (as many points, all instances together, as the file could write out), and a notice says how many. `TINRelief` objects aren't drawn; a notice says so, as it does for addresses. Appearance (materials and textures) isn't read, and a notice says how much is left out. Heights are kept in the file's unit: in a coordinate system that doesn't measure in metres, a notice says so, as Style › Extrusion reads metres. A compound URN (`urn:ogc:def:crs,crs:EPSG::25832,crs:EPSG::5783`) is read by its horizontal part, and its vertical part gives the heights' unit, said as in CityGML when it isn't a height in metres. In a zip, a `"crs"` applies only to a model that names no coordinate system RustGIS knows. In the browser a footprint that needs a union is the outline of the object's points; a notice says so. Extrusions have no base height yet, so a part above the ground stands on the ground; `base_height` holds where it starts. |
| CityJSON | `.city.json`, or `.json` | Add Data, drop the file, upload, or From URL… | CityJSON 1.1 and 2.0, read in 2D: a layer per City Object type and geometry family (a name two layers would share, such as two long types cut to their first 64 characters, or two that differ only in ASCII case, gets ` (2)`, ` (3)`… on the later ones: the first number no other layer's name uses). Surfaces and solids become footprints (LoD 0, else the `GroundSurface` surfaces, else the union of the faces of the highest LoD, each tried when the one before gives no area, else the outline of the points; lines and points come from their highest level of detail that draws; a level passed over because its X or Y isn't a finite number, or is too large, is named in a notice; a geometry of more than 200,000 faces is the outline of its points (of its ground's, for a footprint from the ground), with a notice, unless its footprint is its ground and all of its ground faces are within the cap), with `z_min`, `z_max` and `height` fields, from every level of detail and the children's heights included, so Style › Extrusion stands them up, and `base_height`, how far an object's lowest point is above the lowest point of the topmost object it is part of (0 for a building; for a balcony part, its lowest point's height above the building's; a building's lowest point is its basement's when it has one, and a group's members aren't parts of the group). Also `id`, `type`, `parent`, `lod` and the object's attributes; one named as one of these fields, or as another attribute of its layer but for case, takes a number (`height_1`), the same in every row, and a notice lists them. A `.city.json`, or a model from an address, adds every layer, up to 64; a file named `.json` adds its first layer with something to draw and names the others in a notice. A file that names no coordinate system and isn't longitude/latitude is refused: for now the way to add it is the `"crs"` parameter of `layer.addData`, from the command line, Python or the AI Assistant. Geometry instances are their template placed by their matrix at their reference point, with its heights, and rings the matrix flattens are left out and said for each instance; one whose template is missing, can't be read or draws nothing, or whose matrix is missing or isn't 16 numbers ending in `0 0 0 1`, is drawn as a point at its reference point, with no height, as are those past what placing may cost (as many points, all instances together, as the file could write out), and a notice says how many. `TINRelief` objects aren't drawn; a notice says so, as it does for addresses. Appearance (materials and textures) isn't read, and a notice says how much is left out. Heights are kept in the file's unit: in a coordinate system that doesn't measure in metres, a notice says so, as Style › Extrusion reads metres. A compound URN (`urn:ogc:def:crs,crs:EPSG::25832,crs:EPSG::5783`) is read by its horizontal part, and its vertical part gives the heights' unit, said as in CityGML when it isn't a height in metres. In a zip, a `"crs"` applies only to a model that names no coordinate system RustGIS knows. In the browser a footprint that needs a union is the outline of the object's points; a notice says so. An extrusion stands a part on `base_height` when it is set as the base field (see [Layer effects](cartography.md#layer-effects)); otherwise the part stands on the ground. |
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Include constant bases in the CityJSON description.
A part can stand above the ground even when base_height is not the base field: the command also accepts a nonzero constant. Describe the constant and other numeric fields as alternatives.
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Summary
Pull request 2b of the extrusion base height (plan), after #2006 drew the base in every view: a command to set it, and the user guide.
layer.extrusionBase({"layer"?, "field"?, "base"?}) sets what an extruded layer's walls stand on: a numeric field (field), else a constant in metres (base), times the extrusion's factor, as #2006 reads them.fieldandbaseis left out.nullor an empty name clears the field.layer.extrusionrefuses one. Abasethat is no number, or is outside 0 to 10,000,000 m (the height's limit), is refused rather than ignored or changed.Why a command of its own rather than parameters on
layer.extrusion: that command needstypeon every call and, withoutheight, takesmax(height, 1000). Setting only the base through it would turn a 30 m extrusion into 1000 m, or drop its height field.layer.extrusionis unchanged here; its numeric-field check moved to a sharednumeric_field.User guide: Style › Layer effects says what a base is, how it is set, that turning extrusion off drops it, and the known limit: without a tilt, and tilted without the graphics card, extrusions are painted in the order they stand on the ground, so a part raised over a building behind it may be painted under it. The CityJSON row in Data formats no longer says extrusions have no base.
The Style › Extrusion › Base menu comes next, calling this command.
Size: +131 / −14 in 4 files, of which 65 lines are the test.
Followed no other project's code.
Testing
extrusion_base_sets_the_base_and_nothing_else(engine): refused without an extrusion, whatever the field; field and constant set; height, height field and factor unchanged; what is left out stays; a text field, a missing or blank field name, a field that isn't a name, and a base of"ten",null,-5or1e12refused without a change; 0 and 1e7 taken;nulland an empty name clear the field; changing the height keeps the base; each step undoes on its own.hostile_params_never_paniccovers the new command.cargo fmt --check,cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings,cargo nextest run --workspace(6393 tests), doctests andcargo xtask layerson macOS: all pass.layer.extrusionBasewithbase600 km and exported again: the countries float above the basemap's land, which shows beneath them, and their labels rise with the roofs."base": "ten"is refused with "base is a number of metres".UI evidence
No visible UI change: there is no control for the base yet (it comes with the Base menu). A base set with the command draws as #2006 drew it.
Related issue
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