Solidify thickness went from 1 cm to 2 cm and the shell is fattened 8 mm along its own
normals afterwards. That closed the shoulders, hips and knees where the body was
showing through the cloth.
Evaluation against the blueprint, same shot and box before and after:
mean deltaE 31.9 -> 21.8
palette deltaE 25.4 -> 19.7
aspect delta 1.24 -> 1.22
Also fixes a crash I introduced: binding the materials in Tick used
ConstructorHelpers::FObjectFinder, which is fatal outside a constructor - the game died
with 'FObjectFinders can't be used outside of constructors' and the render run failed
with signal 11. The binding now lives in BeginPlay and uses LoadObject.
Not fixed, and recorded: the arms and face still render neutral grey, so
M_Character_Skin itself is suspect rather than the assignment.
Follows the character-artist clothing workflow literally: duplicate the body's own
faces for the garment base, solidify for cloth thickness, and keep each piece a
separate mesh. Attached as leader-pose components beside the hair, so no second rig.
- Tools/character_clothing_build.py builds three garments from the body mesh, trimmed
geometrically (height band plus a width limit) instead of by dominant bone: the bone
filter left holes wherever a face's strongest bone was outside the allowed list.
- Tools/ue_character_clothing_import.py imports them as CharacterTee / CharacterJeans /
CharacterShoes, each arriving with its own single material slot.
- The pawn attaches all three, hidden with the body in first person.
Three traps recorded in MEMORY.md, each of which cost a build: MPFB weights its helper
geometry to groups that dominate every vertex, Blender refuses to apply a modifier to a
mesh with shape keys, and object-mode polygon selection is discarded on entering edit
mode - the delete wiped the whole garment.
Known defects, in TODO.md: the garments have coverage holes at shoulders, hips and
knees, and the hair reads light and wispy since its material was repointed to the
masked strand sheet.
zwitschi