test(review): ground-level cameras, and a null result that locates the float

Two cameras were added at pavement height - one on the feet, one on the wheels - because the
wide shots cannot settle whether anything touches the surface.

The feet shot settled it, and not the way I expected. Lowering the player start from 455 to 395
changed NOTHING in the capture: same framing, same float. The capsule falls onto the collider and
always rests at Z 456 with its feet at 369, while the rendered pavement is about a metre lower.

So the float is not a spawn-height problem, and no amount of tuning player_z will fix it: the
sidewalk's collision extends above its visible top, and the player stands on an invisible ledge.
The earlier 'top surface under player: Z 366' measurement was not wrong - it was measuring the
collider, which is the thing that is in the wrong place.

Next: measure the sidewalk mesh's rendered top against its collider and fix the asset, not the
spawn.

Also pulled the wheel camera back; it had been inside the bodywork.
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# view from the road so both the body and the wheels are visible: a side-on
# or rear view hides the wheel stances that the build is judged on.
("demo-vehicle", unreal.Vector(-12560, -1560, 560), unreal.Vector(-12950, -900, 420), 45.0),
# Ground-level angles on the contact points. The wide shots cannot settle whether
# the feet and wheels touch the surface - that question needs the camera near the
# ground, looking along it, where a gap is a visible sliver of surface.
("demo-feet", unreal.Vector(-13140, -980, 400), unreal.Vector(-13336, -1150, 372), 40.0),
("demo-wheel", unreal.Vector(-12380, -580, 430), unreal.Vector(-12950, -900, 360), 55.0),
("demo-spawn-view", unreal.Vector(-13336, -3100, 620), unreal.Vector(-13336, 1300, 620), 48.0),
# Street level, from the north sidewalk: the old camera sat at Y -400,
# inside the facade body (which spans Y -1457..-200), so it looked at
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"Art/blender/vehicle/hatch-reference.png"
],
"expect": "A red compact hatchback car parked on a pavement beside a person, with dark windows, four dark wheels and a dark bumper, daytime"
},
{
"name": "demo-feet",
"shot": "Screenshots/demo/review-demo-feet.png",
"size": [
1920,
1080
],
"references": [],
"expect": "Low view of a person's feet standing on a pavement, seen along the ground, daylight. The object must touch the surface: feet or wheels in contact, with the shadow starting at that contact point, not on the ground far below."
},
{
"name": "demo-wheel",
"shot": "Screenshots/demo/review-demo-wheel.png",
"size": [
1920,
1080
],
"references": [],
"expect": "Low view of a car's wheels standing on a pavement, seen along the ground, daylight. The object must touch the surface: feet or wheels in contact, with the shadow starting at that contact point, not on the ground far below."
}
]
}