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Summary

Problem

A Shaded Relief with a ramp colours each cell by its height alone. A cliff or a quartzite scarp takes the colour of the height band it sits in, the same green or tan as the gentle slopes around it. Rock tells the eye where the walls are before the light does, and it keeps them readable on the slopes turned from the sun. Today this takes a Slope tool output, a classified layer and a blend, and the result is a second layer that doesn't follow the relief's own light or resampling.

What changes

• raster.symbology "rock": {"from": 25, "to": 40, "color": "#B2ACA4"} on a Shaded Relief. Below from degrees of slope the ramp's colour is kept, above to the rock colour is used, and between them the two are blended on a smooth step. Missing keys keep the current rock's (or those defaults), the rock is kept when "rock" is left out, like shadow and sky, and false or null removes it. A from not below to, or a colour that isn't #RRGGBB, is refused.
• The tint comes before the light (Colorizer::paint): the hillshade, the cast shadows and the sky shade the rock colour as they shade the ramp.
• The ground's own slope (raster::slope): the same Horn 3 × 3 window and cell sizes as the hillshade (metres at the cell's latitude for a geographic raster), without the Z factor. The gradient is now one helper (horn) shared by hillshade and slope.
• Bilinear: each cell's share of rock is worked out in Pass1::light with its lights and blended by blend between the four cells, as the light is after [Bug]: Shaded Relief ignores Bilinear resampling: its light is one value per DEM cell, blocky at large scales, high DPI and in tilted views #1880. Nearest keeps one share per cell.
• Symbology pane: a Rock on steep slopes check box under the light settings (above Tint by elevation) and, when it is on, From, To (degrees) and Color. Dragging one end past the other moves the other along.
• Saved only when set (skip_serializing_if): existing projects draw today's pixels and save the same file.
• User guide: docs/user-guide/data.md, next to Cast shadows and Sky visibility.

Choices

• True slope, not the exaggerated one. The Z factor is for the light, so 35° means 35° whatever the exaggeration, as a geologist reads it. A test draws the same relief with Z factor 1 and 3: the light changes, the tint doesn't.
• A smoothstep between two angles, not a threshold. A single threshold draws a hard outline along a contour of slope, which looks like a classified map rather than a relief.
• 25° to 40° and #B2ACA4 by default when turned on. A 30 m DEM averages a cliff with its foot, so its walls come out gentler than they are. On the Ouro Preto DEM only 3.9% of cells pass 30° (99th percentile 38.4°), so 25° starts the tint on the real scarps. Finer DEMs can raise from.
• The share of rock travels with the lights (Lit::rock) rather than as its own pass, so it is read from the window the light already reads, blended by the same weights, and costs one atan a cell.

Limits

• The legend and the colorbar show the ramp only; the rock colour has no legend row yet.
• QGIS export (.qml/.qgs) leaves the rock out: QGIS's hillshade renderer has no such setting.
• The rock colour's alpha is ignored (the tint is opaque); the blend is in sRGB, as the ramp's own colours are.
• With the pane's colour picker, each change while the picker is open is one command, as in the other colour buttons of the pane.

Testing

• rustgis-map: rock_tints_steep_slopes_by_the_grounds_own_slope: the smooth step's ends and middle; a 45° plane is 45° by slope; with no share, or no rock set, color_lit gives today's pixels; all rock is the rock colour lit as the ramp; half way is half way; saved only when set and read back.
• rustgis-render: rock_tints_steep_slopes_before_the_light: cells below from keep today's pixels, past to the rock tint, between them a share that grows with the slope; the Z factor changes the light, not the tint; Bilinear blends the tint between cell centres, Nearest steps.
• rustgis-engine: shaded_relief_keeps_its_rock_on_steep_slopes: on, partial keys, kept when left out, refused values leave it as it was, saved only when set, drawn in an export, removed with false.
• Suites run locally with RUSTGIS_LANGUAGE=en: rustgis-map 336 passed; rustgis-render 466 passed; rustgis-engine 1426 passed, 1 failed (gdal_formats_open_when_gdal_is_installed, local GDAL 3.7.1 only); rustgis-ui-egui 928 passed, 1 failed in the whole run (explore_click_asking_only_wms_clears_without_a_notice, passes on its own). Clippy (-D warnings) and fmt clean.

Size: about 200 changed lines of code, about 260 of tests (the new tests, plus rock: None on the existing test literals, which now go through small grey_relief helpers), 13 of docs.

UI evidence

Exported with rustgis-cli from a local Copernicus GLO-30 DEM of Ouro Preto and the Itacolomi (UTM 23S, Terrain ramp, sun 315° / 30°, Z factor 1.5, cast shadows 0.6, Bilinear, 1:45,000). Left: today's Shaded Relief. Right: "rock": {} (25° to 40°, #B2ACA4). The quartzite walls of the Itacolomi and the steep sides of the valleys turn grey; the gentle slopes keep their ramp colour, and the light still shades both.

The Symbology pane (ui_shot), with Rock on steep slopes turned on:

DEM: Copernicus DEM GLO-30, © DLR e.V. and Airbus, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

Related issue

Closes #1913.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Shaded Relief can now tint steep slopes toward a configurable rock color. Set the slope range and color in the layer controls; the option is off by default and settings are saved with the project.
• Bug Fixes
  • Rock tinting now blends smoothly between cells when using bilinear resampling.
• Documentation
  • Updated the raster guide with details on configuring and saving rock tint settings.

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Shaded Relief now supports optional rock tinting based on terrain slope. The setting includes configurable slope thresholds and color, can be edited through raster symbology controls, and is blended with hillshade and ambient lighting. Rock tint is included in bilinear resampling and is off by default.

Changes: Shaded Relief rock tint

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Rock settings and color blending crates/map/src/raster.rs, crates/map/src/qgis/raster.rs, crates/map/src/qgis/tests.rs	Adds the optional Rock setting, default values, slope-share calculation, and color blending before lighting. The setting is omitted from serialization when unset.
Slope-share raster rendering crates/render/src/raster.rs, crates/render/src/layout.rs, crates/render/src/lib.rs, crates/render/src/raster_export.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/mapview.rs	Raster rendering computes and bilinearly blends rock shares, then passes them to colorization. Tests cover tint thresholds, interpolation, and rendering fixtures for the expanded renderer shape.
Symbology controls and persistence crates/engine/src/cmd/raster.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/panes.rs, docs/user-guide/data.md	The symbology command accepts partial rock-setting updates and removal. The UI adds a checkbox, slope thresholds, and color picker. Tests and documentation describe configuration and export behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ShadedReliefControls
  participant raster.symbology
  participant RasterRenderer
  participant Pass1
  participant Colorizer
  ShadedReliefControls->>raster.symbology: Submit rock thresholds and color
  raster.symbology->>RasterRenderer: Parse and store optional Rock setting
  RasterRenderer->>Pass1: Provide Rock settings for raster sampling
  Pass1->>Colorizer: Provide slope-based rock share with lighting values
  Colorizer->>Colorizer: Blend rock color, then apply lighting

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Suggested reviewers: pick2510, deniial00

Merge Risk: Low · up to b8518

Rock tint on steep slopes is optional and off by default, so existing maps keep their current pixels. At zoomed-out scales, the tint may use nearest-cell sampling even when Bilinear is selected. This is a small visual inconsistency and is safe to merge once the owner is aware of it.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: an optional rock colour on steep slopes for Shaded Relief. The raw summary, the PR objectives and the linked issue #1913 all describe that change. The title follows th…
Description check		The description follows the template. It has Summary, Testing, UI evidence and Related issue sections. Summary explains the problem, the changes and the design choices, and lists limits. Testing lists…
Linked Issues check		Directly linked issue #1913 has only coding requirements. The PR meets each one, based on the change summary and the PR description. (1) Optional rock setting in raster.symbology, absent by defaul…
Out of Scope Changes check		Every changed area maps to the #1913 objective or supports it. Changes in crates/map/src/raster.rs, crates/render/src/raster.rs, and crates/engine/src/cmd/raster.rs implement the setting, the sl…

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The title names the main change: an optional rock colour on steep slopes for Shaded Relief. The raw summary, the PR objectives and the linked issue #1913 all describe that change. The title follows the conventional type(scope) prefix style and carries the issue reference.

Full details: Description check

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The description follows the template. It has Summary, Testing, UI evidence and Related issue sections. Summary explains the problem, the changes and the design choices, and lists limits. Testing lists the new tests and the suite results, with two failures attributed to the local environment. UI evidence has before and after images for the render and one for the Symbology pane. Related issue reads 'Closes #1913.' The template's UI evidence section is required and is filled in. The description is long, but the required content is present.

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Directly linked issue #1913 has only coding requirements. The PR meets each one, based on the change summary and the PR description. (1) Optional rock setting in raster.symbology, absent by default: crates/engine/src/cmd/raster.rs parses it, and false or null removes it. (2) Height ramp kept below from, rock colour used above to, smooth blend between: Rock::share in crates/map/src/raster.rs uses a smoothstep, and Colorizer::color_lit blends toward the rock colour. (3) Light shades the tint: the blend runs before hillshade and ambient lighting are applied. (4) True slope without Z factor: the new slope function uses the same Horn 3x3 gradient as hillshade, shared through one horn helper, with no Z factor. (5) Defaults 25 to 40 degrees and #B2ACA4: set in Rock::DEFAULT. (6) Bilinear blending of rock share between cells: crates/render/src/raster.rs carries and blends the share with the lights. (7) Saved only when set: the skip_serializing_if behaviour is described and covered by engine and map tests. Automated tests are listed for map, render and engine. The UI controls in crates/ui-egui/src/panes.rs are supporting work for the setting. The reviewed evidence was the summary and the PR description. I did not read the code hunks directly, so the verdict rests on the summary's description of the code.

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Every changed area maps to the #1913 objective or supports it. Changes in crates/map/src/raster.rs, crates/render/src/raster.rs, and crates/engine/src/cmd/raster.rs implement the setting, the slope, the tint, and the serialization. The rock: None additions in test fixtures (crates/render/src/layout.rs, crates/render/src/lib.rs, crates/render/src/raster_export.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/mapview.rs, crates/map/src/qgis/tests.rs) follow from the new struct field. The crates/map/src/qgis/raster.rs change sets rock to None because QGIS export does not support the setting, as the PR states. crates/ui-egui/src/panes.rs adds the controls for the setting. docs/user-guide/data.md documents the feature. No change appears unrelated to the issue. I did not read the hunks directly, so this rests on the change summary.

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And paints the steep gray cliffs with care
The hills keep all their shaded light
Smooth colors flow from cell to cell
Then hops away through fields of green}

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Saved files (AGENTS.md › Never silent; docs/maintaining.md#saved-files-and-settings), medium confidence.

rock is a new field an older RustGIS doesn't know. RasterRenderer has no deny_unknown_fields, so an older reader ignores it, and the next save writes the layer without the rock setting. The docs ask that such a change name a capability in requires (see CAPABILITIES in crates/engine/src/project.rs, "each later addition an older reader would lose comes with its name"). Nothing in the crates writes requires yet, so this needs a decision on the format. The existing shadow and sky fields are the same case and got no capability either, so this may be a known gap rather than something this PR should solve alone. Worth asking the maintainer before merge.

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Code review

Bugs: No confirmed bugs. I checked the per-cell lighting path (Pass1::light, blend, the Pass 2 cache key, the empty rocky buffer when rock is off), the Horn refactor (identical arithmetic to before), the relief_rock validation and clamping order, and the drag handling in rock_on_slopes.

Security: None found. Colours go through Rgba::from_hex, numbers must be finite, and rock values are clamped.

Performance: Negligible. The rock path only runs when rock is set: one extra horn, hypot and atan per light. The gradient is computed twice per light in hillshade and slope (crates/map/src/raster.rs); sharing it would be a nicety, not a need.

Quality:

• hillshade keeps a local let slope (crates/map/src/raster.rs:2043) that shadows the new pub fn slope in the same module. It compiles, but it reads confusingly. Nit, confidence high.
• docs/user-guide/data.md:1340 is much longer than the wrapping used in the surrounding paragraph. Nit, confidence high.
• The PR body's limit "QGIS export (.qml/.qgs) leaves the rock out" describes something that doesn't exist. crates/map/src/qgis/ only reads QGIS files (its module doc says so), so there is no export to leave anything out of. Please correct the PR body. Confidence high.

AGENTS.md:

• The saved-files rule: an older RustGIS silently drops rock and saves the layer without it. I posted this inline on crates/map/src/raster.rs:1398. Confidence medium. The fix is a format decision, since nothing writes requires yet. shadow and sky were added the same way, so this may be an accepted gap.

Checked and fine: The i18n labels From, To and Color already exist in the catalogues. Screenshots are GitHub attachments, which the contributing guide allows. The new controls follow the neighbouring relief sliders, which also skip one_step_per_press.

Prior reviews: There were no earlier review threads on this PR, so nothing was left out as already raised.

Change size

Compared with main (merge base d00276e to PR head b8518f4): the whole PR.

Measure	Value
Files changed	12 (0 added, 12 modified, 0 removed, 0 renamed)
Size before	4.89 MB
Size after	4.91 MB
Total size change	+16.8 KB

Path	Before	After	Change
crates/map/src/raster.rs	139.5 KB	145.2 KB	+5.7 KB
crates/render/src/raster.rs	85.7 KB	89.7 KB	+4.1 KB
crates/ui-egui/src/panes.rs	424.9 KB	427.2 KB	+2.3 KB
crates/engine/src/tests.rs	2.70 MB	2.70 MB	+2.1 KB
crates/engine/src/cmd/raster.rs	57.1 KB	58.5 KB	+1.6 KB
docs/user-guide/data.md	116.0 KB	117.0 KB	+1.0 KB
crates/map/src/qgis/tests.rs	175.1 KB	175.2 KB	+116 B
crates/ui-egui/src/mapview.rs	313.2 KB	313.3 KB	+105 B
crates/render/src/lib.rs	616.4 KB	616.5 KB	+80 B
crates/render/src/layout.rs	288.5 KB	288.6 KB	+52 B
crates/render/src/raster_export.rs	14.6 KB	14.6 KB	+48 B
crates/map/src/qgis/raster.rs	16.1 KB	16.1 KB	+28 B

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Minor · Keep Bilinear interpolation enabled for rock shares. · raster.rs:793

crates/render/src/raster.rs:793
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Keep Bilinear interpolation enabled for rock shares.

When a screen pixel spans at least one source cell, this condition disables interpolation for the new rock share as well as the light. For example, at c=2.75, row=1.5, and a span of 1.0, the fallback uses cell 2's rock share instead of blending cells 2 and 3. The tint therefore uses Nearest sampling even when the user selects Bilinear.

Keep rock-share interpolation active at this scale. Add a regression case with a sample between cell centres and a span of 1.0. The existing light-only optimization can remain separate.

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Review comment at @crates/render/src/raster.rs at line 793:
Separate the light-only span optimization from rock-share sampling so `Resampling::Bilinear` continues blending rock shares when `span()` is 1.0 or greater. Add a regression case sampling between cell centres at span 1.0 and verify the rock share is blended, while preserving the existing light optimization.

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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/tests.rs:
- Line 4354: Update the map_png export test to use controlled terrain with
slopes above the configured rock threshold, decode the PNGs exported with rock
enabled and disabled, and assert that their pixels differ as expected. Keep
lighting and export dimensions identical between both exports so the comparison
isolates the rock setting.

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Review comments at @crates/render/src/raster.rs:
- Line 793: Separate the light-only span optimization from rock-share sampling
so `Resampling::Bilinear` continues blending rock shares when `span()` is 1.0 or
greater. Add a regression case sampling between cell centres at span 1.0 and
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Assert that rock changes the exported pixels.

The PNG length check passes even if export ignores rock. The other assertions inspect settings and serialization, so they do not detect this missing integration.

Use controlled terrain with slopes above the configured threshold. Decode exports with rock enabled and disabled, then assert the expected pixel difference. Keep lighting and export dimensions identical.

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Update the map_png export test to use controlled terrain with slopes above the configured rock threshold, decode the PNGs exported with rock enabled and disabled, and assert that their pixels differ as expected. Keep lighting and export dimensions identical between both exports so the comparison isolates the rock setting.

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