Fixed daytime lighting and basic ambience for the DemoMap:
- Sun pitch -50 / yaw 120 (intensity 4, warm), sky light 2.6 with real-time
capture, sky atmosphere, height fog, and an unbound post-process volume with
fixed exposure (min = max brightness) so no shot washes out or crushes to
black depending on how much sky it frames.
- Root cause of the washed-out look was NOT the sun: Blender's flat diffuse
colours do not survive the FBX->Unreal import. Every site material arrived
white and the terrain arrived with WorldGridMaterial. The demo builder now
creates and assigns M_Asphalt / M_Concrete / M_Ground / M_RoadPaint.
- Crossing fix: each zebra band was its own object, so Blender renamed the
duplicates .001/.002 and site assembly (exact-name append) kept only one.
All bands are now a single Crossing_Markings mesh (36 verts, 3 bands).
- Terrain gets a Ground_Earth material in the builder so it stops importing
as a white grid.
- Demo cameras: street-level no longer sits inside the facade body (was
rendering its back face), and the crossing camera aims at the designated
s=130.1 crossing (UE X -14956) looking along the crosswalk.
Screenshots re-rendered; the four demo views are marked needs-review for the
owner's approval. MEMORY.md records the material-import, exposure,
light_color, band-naming and camera-bounds traps.
Root cause of the empty review frames: EditorLevelLibrary.load_level/new_level
are deprecated no-ops in -nullrhi commandlets, so staged actors landed in the
current world and got saved over the wrong map. Switched both map builders to
the LevelEditorSubsystem and reordered the review builder to save ReviewMap
before the DemoMap section (the switch-back to a map that only exists in
memory silently failed, writing demo content over ReviewMap).
Rebuilt both maps, re-rendered every screenshot; user visual check passed.
Screenshots/README.md cube naming corrected (A grounded, B floating), approval
states updated; TODO.md visual-review notes closed. MEMORY.md records the
deprecated-call and save-order traps.
- New C++ AGigLineNPCPerson: reusable NPC/pedestrian prefab built on the MPFB
human. ACharacter capsule half-height 83 cm (total 1.66 m, head top ~1.66 m
so a 1.60 m camera doesn't clip), the character skeletal mesh on the built-in
mesh as the visible body (feet on Z 0), AutoPossessAI for 0.5.0 pedestrians.
Staged at Z 0 in the review scene; captured as review-npc-prefab.png.
- AGigLineShotActor now names screenshots by stable camera name (no list-index
prefix): inserting or reordering cameras no longer renumbers files or orphans
the old ones. Re-rendered all review/demo shots with stable names.
- ue_build_review_map.py: chmod the target .umap before save_map (git marks maps
444 on checkout, silently making save_map return False and dropping stages).
- Screenshots/README.md, ROADMAP, TODO updated for the prefab + stable names.
- DemoMap.umap rebuilt by the render pipeline (north buildings + demo cameras).
- Drop the /Screenshots/* gitignore exclusion so review PNGs are committed
(LFS-tracked) alongside the review README.
- AGENTS.md Visual review: PNGs are now committed, not kept only on disk.
- 13 review/demo screenshots tracked (25 MB LFS).
- mpfb_character_export.py: new --pose idle folds the A/T-bind arms down to
a relaxed standing rest pose (baked via pose.armature_apply before export);
new make_diffuse synthesizes a warm skin-tone diffuse with a darker
shorts-suggestive band, replacing the Cycles v2-skin bake that came out
black and was slow at 1024^2.
- write_png now encodes from img.pixels via numpy (fast) because img.save()
writes black for an in-memory image.
- Re-exported idle character, re-imported to /Game/Test/Character (138 bones,
warm M_Character_Export/T_Character_Diffuse); removed stale T_Skin_Diffuse.
- Untracked the review PNGs again: the Screenshots/ gitignore rule had been
dropped and the parallel session had committed the PNGs, against the
AGENTS.md 'never commit the PNGs' rule. Restored the ignore rule; only
Screenshots/README.md stays tracked.
- README/roadmap/memory updated; review-01-character re-pended for approval.
Tools/ue_build_demo_map.py builds /Game/Hollywood/DemoMap: sun, sky, the hero
facade on the building line, six site meshes imported with collision, and a
player start on the north sidewalk. Tools/ue_import_site.py imports the site
FBXs; terrain, road and sidewalks use complex-as-simple so a simple hull cannot
ramp over the kerbs. Art/blender/site/export_site_fbx.py exports one FBX per
object so each can carry its own collision.
Reset (R) and pause (Escape) join the character and the input context: reset
restores the spawn transform and clears momentum, pause is a real game pause that
releases the cursor. DefaultInput.ini captures the mouse on launch.
Three placement defects found by measuring the imported actors rather than
trusting the plan: the spawn was on the wrong sidewalk because the FBX flip
inverts north, a mirror I added to the exporter double-corrected an already
correct sidewalk, and the street meshes only carry part of the north walk - the
rest is terrain.
zwitschi