Hero detail:
- Fluting: 20 grooves per column as thin shadow-tone cylinders set into the shaft
(120 pieces) rather than boolean cuts - readable in silhouette and grazing light
at a fraction of the cost.
- Motto band: real recess with a moulded surround 6 cm proud and the panel 12 cm
behind, replacing the 8 cm dark stripe.
Hero 148 parts/3044 tris -> 271/5492, still 14.50 m.
Placement bug this exposed (a real one, invisible in a render):
- ue_hero_facade_import.py carried its own hero position (-12024.5, -1450) from
before the 0.1.0 frontage fix, so running the importer alone moved the hero 13 m
east and onto the north side of the boulevard. Only symptom: the reference score
fell 0.69 -> 0.56 and the 3x3 composition correlation flipped +0.54 -> -0.08.
- New Tools/ue_placement.py is the single source of truth (hero position, verified
frontage spans, span validators). Both the importer and the demo builder use it;
the import asserts the staged span and logs PLACEMENT ERROR otherwise.
- 11 new tests, including one that fails if the stale literal returns. 78 total.
Spawn-view score recovered to 0.72 (best yet); screenshots verified 4/4, packaged QA
all PASS.
The portal detail shot failed for a modelling reason, not a camera reason: the
doors were 0.1 m panels on a solid plinth, so they read as shading. The plinth is
now four piers plus a lintel band, with a 1.2 m reveal, stone jambs and lintels
standing 0.10 m proud and three mullions per opening. review-06 frames them from
8 m at eye height.
Two defects fixed while doing it: the jamb boxes hung 0.15 m below the pavement,
so the facade imported with min Z -15 cm; and a rebuild run against a read-only
.blend silently skipped the save, which is why screenshots kept showing the old
geometry.
Geo/tools/ is now every geographic script, with Geo/README.md documenting each
one; the Blender-side builders moved beside their outputs in Art/blender/*/ and
import their helpers from Geo/tools/osm_common.py.
That module gains to_unreal_local() and to_blender_local(): the only place in the
repository that multiplies metres by 100, so a second silent scale cannot be
introduced. block_height_report.py adds height provenance for the block — 3 of
15 buildings have no height data and render at a placeholder 6.4 m.
asset_metadata.py writes and audits <asset>.geo.json sidecars; four now exist
(hero-facade, terrain, street, blockout) and the audit recomputes each centre from
the origin, failing anything that disagrees.
Tools/hero_facade_build.py builds the north elevation parametrically and writes
a JSON report naming the evidence behind every part: the 25.75 m frontage and
14.5 m height are measured, the 4.96 m column bay comes from the sibling notes
and matches that frontage, the three portal flights follow the photographs (five
risers, overturning the inherited eight-step, 12 m wide claim), and the rest is
labelled assumption.
Tools/ue_hero_facade_import.py imports it with the ue_metric_v1 preset
(2604 x 1257 x 1450 cm, 1892 tris, 4 materials) and places it on the measured
building line of /Game/Hollywood/DemoMap.
Two new review shots at review-04 and review-05, both pending approval. Camera
placement cost four renders: the first two sat inside the facade body, and the
frontage faces Unreal -Y, so a camera has to stand at Y < -1450 cm, not north of
the building line in project terms.
zwitschi