0.7.1

Fixed

• Modal dialogs are WORLD-PLACED and follow you if you look away. The respawn and pause panels sit at a spot with clear line of sight, face you, and ease to a fresh spot after ~2s outside a generous cone. placement="world" on <tosi-b3d-svg-plane>; the rules are pure and tested in dialog-placement.

  This replaces three compensations that were each fixing a symptom: head-locking (jittered with a jostling death-cam), riding the body frame (put it at knee height), and rendering on top (painted in front but became untouchable, because picking is geometric). It also fixes the case none of them could — dying in cockpit view with the camera inside a hillside, where nothing "just in front of you" helps.

• turnRateDeg returns exactly what you set. Converting through radians is lossy — 30 derived back as 29.999999999999996, which is what a slider readout or a saved scene would show. It now remembers the value you supplied together with the radians it produced, so a later write to turnRate is detected exactly and the view derives fresh. Still one stored value.

Added

• flightStage() — a setting an aircraft can actually operate in: ground, sky and fog at flight scale, a library, a sun configured for the ground it lights, and a death panel that respawns you. Takes a plane FACTORY, not an instance, because respawn has to build a new one — passing an instance is what made a crash unrecoverable. Returns { elements, aircraft } rather than an array, since the current aircraft changes on respawn and a captured reference goes stale. The clouds demo lost 22 lines converting to it.

• tosijs-3d/demo-utils — the scene-setup helpers every live example uses are now published, so code copied off a doc page resolves in your project. Previously 38 examples across 33 files imported a bare demo-utils that no consumer could resolve, and since the demo goes first on every page it was the first thing anyone copied.

  They ship with an explicit stability disclaimer: dev helpers, not API. They can change or vanish in a patch, they are tuned to flatter a doc page rather than your game, and production code should compose b3dSun/b3dSkybox/ b3dGround directly.

  Vetted rather than published wholesale — the module was not shippable as-is:

  • orbitCam takes alphaDeg/betaDeg; the radian alpha/beta still work and are converted, so existing snippets keep running.
  • Options are typed — the two Record<string, unknown> signatures are gone.
  • Ground helpers take a texture URL instead of exporting root-absolute asset paths that resolve only on this site.
  • demoSun uses the auto shadow-size sentinel rather than hard-wiring 2048 over the device-tier budget.
  • volumetricDemo, impactMarker and the asset constants stay private — they are page-specific, not API.