feat(vehicle): the car renders, built from the owner's hot hatch template

The invisible-vehicle defect is closed. Shot 9 now shows the car instead of an empty road.

Tools/vehicle_from_template.py converts Art/blender/vehicle/hot hatch.blend into UE-ready
assets, following two skills:

  vehicle-artist - systems split (body 113k tris, trim 10.5k, glass 20.5k, lights 18.6k,
  wheels 47.8k), one UCX_ hull 1.45 x 3.94 x 0.76 m, two decimated LODs at 39.7k and 13.6k.
  unreal-export - scale normalised to a documented 4.05 m hot hatch before export (the
  template measures 7.26 m, factor 0.5579), then verified after import: body bounds
  1.51 x 4.02 x 1.22 m against the 4.05 m target.

Staged as five plain StaticMeshActors, because the earlier probe proved those render while
the same meshes attached to the vehicle pawn do not.

Open and recorded rather than hidden: judge_screenshot returns verdict=no confidence=0.9 -
the silhouette does not read as a hot hatch from this angle and the car floats slightly.
The likely causes are a system misclassification in the template conversion and an
origin-height error of a few centimetres.
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| `generate_character_textures.py` | Procedural skin-pore and hair-strand textures with sidecars; no model involved. | `--out` | `python3 Tools/generate_character_textures.py --out Art/textures/generated` |
| `vehicle_build.py` | Models the drivable sedan: three-tier body, four wheels, lamps and bumpers, plus four `UCX_` convex collision hulls; saves the .blend, exports an FBX with the `ue_metric_v1` preset, and writes a report with every dimension the vehicle config needs. | `--out`, `--fbx`, `--report` | `blender -b --factory-startup --python Tools/vehicle_build.py -- --out Art/blender/vehicle/gigline-sedan.blend --fbx /tmp/gigline/vehicle/sedan.fbx` |
| `ue_vehicle_import.py` | Imports the sedan's six systems into `/Game/Hollywood/Vehicle` as separate static meshes, plus the two LOD meshes; the body carries the `UCX_` hulls as simple collision. | (no arguments; reads `/tmp/gigline/vehicle`) | `UnrealEditor-Cmd <uproject> -run=pythonscript -script=Tools/ue_vehicle_import.py -nullrhi -unattended -nopause` |
| `vehicle_from_template.py` | Converts the owner's `hot hatch.blend` into UE-ready assets: normalises the scale to a documented 4.05 m, splits systems (body/trim/glass/lights/wheels), adds a `UCX_` hull, decimates two LODs, exports FBX per system and writes a report. | `--out`, `--report` | `blender -b "Art/blender/vehicle/hot hatch.blend" --python Tools/vehicle_from_template.py -- --out /tmp/gigline/hatch` |
## Tests