common_fetch was out of material, so an OpenRouter web-search call (gpt-5.2,
openrouter:web_search) returned candidate photo pages and page_image_fetch.py
resolved each og:image and downloaded it, recording page URL and hash locally.
Four frames kept, including the clearest entrance view yet.
The frames overturn the inherited 'eight stone steps, 12 m wide': the entrance
is three portals with individual short flights. Recorded as a resolved conflict
with the photographs as evidence.
A text search had stopped surfacing new material, so commons_fetch.py gained
--category. Category:Hollywood Masonic Temple and Category:El Capitan Theater
yielded 32 more frames locally, including 4-5k px frontal façades, a 2019
street-level shot of both buildings together, the 1922 postcard, and the first
oblique evidence for the 6806-6822 retail run. 68 local images total, none
committed. A clean sidewalk-level frame of the hero entry is still absent.
Five usable sets added locally (hero daytime façades, the El Capitan Theatre
block, night premiere staging, Ovation Hollywood, and the Lee Drug neighbour) —
41 images total, none committed. Records what remains missing: a sidewalk-level
frame of the hero entry, the 6806-6822 retail run, and a night frame of 6840
itself rather than its neighbour.
commons_fetch.py now survives a throttled download instead of discarding the
rest of the batch, and takes --delay.
site-2026-11-06.blend gathers terrain, street and blockout into categorised
collections: 281 objects, ~58k triangles. A downward raycast on a 1 m grid along
both sidewalks and the designated crossing finds no holes, so nothing drops the
player on either side. Two steps are flagged: 15.8 cm at the sidewalk's outer
terrain seam and 10-13 cm ramps at the crossing flush transitions, steeper than
a real 8% ramp.
Sampling is projected through PROJ: placing points with the OSM spherical
approximation put them metres off the UTM meshes and reported 91 phantom holes.
Tools/street_mesh.py builds the corridor in the project frame from the measured
profile: carriageway -10.5..+10.5 m, kerbs 0.15 m (0.13 m as built), sidewalks
4.0 m south and 5.3 m north, all elevations sampled from the DEM. Kerbs flush at
the three signalised crossings. Crown at mid-block reproduces the cross-sections
to the centimetre.
Tools/terrain_from_dem.py builds a 191x106 grid at 2 m over the block, Z being
NAVD88 minus the origin ground. Building footprints from the OSM extract are cut
out so rooftops never become terrain (72 footprints, 6310 cells). Spot checks
reproduce the measured profile: origin 0.00, Orange Dr +3.39, south gutter
+0.93, crown +1.38, north sidewalk +1.43.
Blosm projects with a sphere, not an ellipsoid, so its frame was ~0.4% oversized
and rotated by meridian convergence: about 2 m at the theatre. The blockout now
fits a six-parameter affine into EPSG:26911 on five control points (0.0 cm
residual) and transforms root objects only, since children inherit and double
transforming them read as a 2 m placement error.
Tools/blosm_blockout.py imports the committed extract in 3Dsimple mode and
reports per-building dimensions so a units failure is visible in the log. The
result (87 meshes) is committed as the blockout baseline: hero 25.68 x 54.88 x
14.50 m against 25.75 x 54.88 m of OSM geometry, so the import is 1:1 metres.
Two headless defects needed working around: the asset-directory check that
fires before mode is honoured, and an empty default-level table sending the
add-on down a broken relative import. Member fetching stays off so the import
does not depend on Overpass.
Reference images are development-only material: licensing is not a gate for
local private use, so they are simply never committed. Art/reference/ is now
gitignored; the licensed status of anything shipped is still recorded in
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.
Adds Tools/commons_fetch.py, which fetches Wikimedia Commons imagery by search
or exact title and writes a provenance sidecar, plus Docs/reference-notes-hollywood.md
recording what each local set is evidence for.
The lfs filter is inactive until 'git lfs install' writes filter.lfs.*, and a
matched file is then stored as a plain blob without any warning. Document that
instead of the wrong claim that git add fails, and add a guard script.
Create Game/, Art/, Geo/, Tools/, Docs/ with LFS and ignore rules, record the
workstation audit, toolchain pins, setup checklist, release checks, and
licensing policy. ROADMAP 0.1.0 environment tasks marked to match verified state.
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