From 4c3265a051a2c307074a183bb34bb69a6119f0e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Keith Avery <slabgorb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:23:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(dice): straight-down camera so the rolled face is
 unambiguous
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The oblique camera (position [0,1.4,0.8], default look-at) made the
top face of a settled icosahedron indistinguishable from its
neighbours, which forced the floating-callout overlay to disagree
with what the player saw on the die. Moving the camera straight
down (90° / position [0,2.4,0]) puts the up-face flat to the viewer
so the read is unambiguous.

Playtest 2026-04-24.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/dice/InlineDiceTray.tsx | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/dice/InlineDiceTray.tsx b/src/dice/InlineDiceTray.tsx
index 6105633..6c35a1d 100644
--- a/src/dice/InlineDiceTray.tsx
+++ b/src/dice/InlineDiceTray.tsx
@@ -283,7 +283,14 @@ export function InlineDiceTray({ diceRequest, diceResult, playerId, onThrow, gen
         <Canvas
           shadows
           camera={{
-            position: [0, 1.4, 0.8],
+            // Straight-down, 90° — the top face of the settled icosahedron
+            // is flat to the viewer, so reading the roll is unambiguous.
+            // (Playtest 2026-04-24: oblique cameras made the "up" face
+            // indistinguishable from its neighbors, prompting floating
+            // callouts that could disagree with what the player sees.)
+            position: [0, 2.4, 0],
+            rotation: [-Math.PI / 2, 0, 0],
+            up: [0, 0, -1],
             fov: 50,
             near: 0.01,
             far: 50,