Some fixes for CocoSprite alphas.

app/assets/javascripts/workers/worker_world.js

@@ -51,7 +51,12 @@ var console = {
         self.postMessage({type: 'console-log', args: args, id: self.workerID});
       }
       catch(error) {
-        self.postMessage({type: 'console-log', args: ["Could not post log: " + args, error.toString(), error.stack, error.stackTrace], id: self.workerID});
+        try {
+          self.postMessage({type: 'console-log', args: ["Could not post log: " + args, error.toString(), error.stack, error.stackTrace], id: self.workerID});
+        }
+        catch(error2) {
+          self.postMessage({type: 'console-log', args: ["Wow, we had a serious problem trying to console.log something."]});
+        }
       }
     }
   }};  // so that we don't crash when debugging statements happen

app/lib/surface/CocoSprite.coffee

@@ -364,9 +364,12 @@ module.exports = CocoSprite = class CocoSprite extends CocoClass
   updateAlpha: ->
     @imageObject.alpha = if @hiding then 0 else 1
     return unless @thang?.alpha?
+    return if @imageObject.alpha is @thang.alpha
     @imageObject.alpha = @thang.alpha
     if @options.showInvisible
       @imageObject.alpha = Math.max 0.5, @imageObject.alpha
+    mark.updateAlpha @thang.alpha for name, mark of @marks
+    @healthBar?.alpha = @thang.alpha
 
   updateRotation: (imageObject) ->
     rotationType = @thangType.get('rotationType')

app/lib/surface/Mark.coffee

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ markThangTypes = {}
 
 module.exports = class Mark extends CocoClass
   subscriptions: {}
+  alpha: 1
 
   constructor: (options) ->
     super()
@@ -216,11 +217,10 @@ module.exports = class Mark extends CocoClass
     true
 
   updatePosition: (pos) ->
-    if @name in ['shadow', 'debug']
+    if @sprite?.thang and @name in ['shadow', 'debug', 'target', 'selection', 'repair']
       pos = @camera.worldToSurface x: @sprite.thang.pos.x, y: @sprite.thang.pos.y
       if @name is 'shadow'
-        worldZ = @sprite.thang.pos.z - @sprite.thang.depth / 2 + @sprite.getBobOffset()
-        @mark.alpha = 0.451 / Math.sqrt(worldZ / 2 + 1)
+        @updateAlpha @alpha
     else
       pos ?= @sprite?.imageObject
     @mark.x = pos.x
@@ -231,6 +231,14 @@ module.exports = class Mark extends CocoClass
       @mark.y += offset.y
       @mark.y -= 3 if @statusEffect
 
+  updateAlpha: (@alpha) ->
+    return if not @mark or @name is 'debug'
+    if @name is 'shadow'
+      worldZ = @sprite.thang.pos.z - @sprite.thang.depth / 2 + @sprite.getBobOffset()
+      @mark.alpha = @alpha * 0.451 / Math.sqrt(worldZ / 2 + 1)
+    else
+      @mark.alpha = @alpha
+
   updateRotation: ->
     if @name is 'debug' or (@name is 'shadow' and @sprite.thang?.shape in ["rectangle", "box"])
       @mark.rotation = @sprite.thang.rotation * 180 / Math.PI
@@ -242,12 +250,12 @@ module.exports = class Mark extends CocoClass
       oldMark.parent.addChild @mark
       oldMark.parent.swapChildren oldMark, @mark
       oldMark.parent.removeChild oldMark
-    
+
     if @markSprite?
       @markSprite.scaleFactor = 1.2
       @markSprite.updateScale()
     return unless @name in ["selection", "target", "repair", "highlight"]
-    
+
     # scale these marks to 10m (100px). Adjust based on sprite size.
     factor = 0.3 # default size: 3m width, most commonly for target when pointing to a location
 
@@ -260,7 +268,7 @@ module.exports = class Mark extends CocoClass
       factor = Math.max(factor, 0.3) # lower bound
     @mark.scaleX *= factor
     @mark.scaleY *= factor
-      
+
     if @name in ['selection', 'target', 'repair']
       @mark.scaleY *= @camera.y2x  # code applies perspective
 

app/views/editor/level/component/edit.coffee

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ module.exports = class LevelComponentEditView extends View
     super options
     @levelComponent = @supermodel.getModelByOriginalAndMajorVersion LevelComponent, options.original, options.majorVersion or 0
     console.log "Couldn't get levelComponent for", options, "from", @supermodel.models unless @levelComponent
-    @onEditorChange = _.debounce @onEditorChange, 1500
+    @onEditorChange = _.debounce @onEditorChange, 1000
 
   getRenderData: (context={}) ->
     context = super(context)

scripts/transpile.coffee

@@ -86,3 +86,5 @@ transpileLadderSessions = ->
 
 serverSetup.connectToDatabase()
 transpileLadderSessions()
+# 2014-06-21: took about an hour to do 5480 sessions, ~93/min
+# eta: db.level.sessions.find({submitted: true}).count() / 93