Feature request
Problem
The Focus feature currently trims the timeline to a time range (in/out frames), but the map still shows the entire world — including both teams' preparation and setup phases staged far from the actual engagement. During review this is noisy: you watch units maneuvering off-area while the fight you care about is happening elsewhere.
The idea: give a Focus an optional area (conflict zone) so that only the conflict area is visible while that focus is active.
Desired behavior
When a Focus with an area is active:
- The timeline is already trimmed to the focus range (existing behavior — this "cuts off preparation" in time and jumps you toward the action start).
- Units/events whose position at the current frame is outside the area are hidden — only the units involved in the conflict render. Both teams' off-area preparation disappears from the map.
Proposed UX
- A "Set area to current view" action, parallel to the existing "set in-point / out-point to playhead" controls — captures the current map viewport as the conflict area. This keeps it symmetrical with how Focus already works (no new drawing surface required).
- A way to clear the area back to showing everything.
Alternatives considered
- Full polygon-drawing editor + server-side action statistics — much more powerful, but a large scope and more than this playback-visibility need requires.
- Camera clamp only (auto-pan/lock the view, keep all units) — doesn't satisfy "preparation of both teams cut off", since off-area units would still be visible.
Implementation sketch
- Small
pointInPolygon utility.
- Optional
focusArea on a recording's focus metadata (parallel to focusStart/focusEnd).
- In the Leaflet renderer, hide any entity whose position at the current frame is outside the active area, reusing the existing per-frame visibility path already used by the name-display modes.
Feature request
Problem
The Focus feature currently trims the timeline to a time range (in/out frames), but the map still shows the entire world — including both teams' preparation and setup phases staged far from the actual engagement. During review this is noisy: you watch units maneuvering off-area while the fight you care about is happening elsewhere.
The idea: give a Focus an optional area (conflict zone) so that only the conflict area is visible while that focus is active.
Desired behavior
When a Focus with an area is active:
Proposed UX
Alternatives considered
Implementation sketch
pointInPolygonutility.focusAreaon a recording's focus metadata (parallel tofocusStart/focusEnd).