- TCL Chinese Theatre (6925) and Madame Tussaud's (6933) exported from the
verified OSM blockout with ue_metric_v1 (export_north_buildings.py), with a
Y-mirror so they land north of the road, across from the hero facade.
- ue_import_north_buildings.py imports + stages them in the DemoMap as
North_TCL_Chinese / North_Madame_Tussauds (TCL Y 1802..9431, Tussaud's
1888..7586; hero at Y -1450, road centreline ~0).
- render_screenshots.sh now also runs the DemoMap capture pass; added a
demo-north-buildings camera, so the new buildings get a review shot.
- README/roadmap updated; flat facade materials pending the 0.1.4 patch.
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.
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.
Roadmap gains two sections: 'Review scene and player placement' (this pass) and
'Character development' (follow-on). The camera list is now one table of
(name, location, target) with look-at rotations computed from the pairs, so a
camera cannot drift out of aim when one number changes.
New shots: player-placement (the real pawn, staged in the build script),
ground-contact (knee height, feet on the plane), shadow-compare (floating vs
grounded cube from a low angle), and hero-portals (whole elevation).
The review floor grows to 160 m so the facade stands on ground rather than the
horizon band. Retired: the first-person shot.
Honest gap recorded in the roadmap: the hero portals sit behind the colonnade and
do not resolve from the review floor; that needs a camera on the plinth or a
portal rebuild, not another angle.
The review floor was a 5 cm slab centred 50 cm down, so the character floated
1.8 m above it. The floor is now 90 m x 90 m x 10 cm with its top face at Z 0 and
the character measures Z 0..83 cm - feet on the plane.
Two cubes only: A on the ground as the contact/scale reference, B held at 2 m so
its cast shadow separates from the body for comparison. The scale-cubes camera
was still aimed at the old three-cube row and now looks at both from the south.
Screenshots are committed per the owner's instruction, and .gitignore no longer
excludes them.
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.
AGigLineCharacter: 1.75 m capsule, 1.60 m eye camera, 4 m/s walk, mouse look
scaled in degrees per second (no double DeltaTime), jump. Loaded ahead of a
Blueprint so the demo is playable with no assets wired by hand.
Tools/ue_create_input_assets.py builds /Game/Input headlessly: five 1D actions
and an 11-mapping context. One action per direction instead of per-key modifiers,
because modifier objects do not survive the save path here: a mapping's modifier
array serialises None, and dimensioning a 2D move with per-key axis masks would
need exactly those modifiers. The cost is four action assets rather than two.
Also adds a fourth review camera at eye height and documents it; its approval is
pending.
- AGigLineShotActor (dev-only): walks a fixed camera list in -game mode,
captures via FScreenshotRequest, quits. Test content only.
- ue_build_review_map.py builds /Game/Test/ReviewMap from current content
(gray floor, key light, sky, MPFB character, 1 m scale cubes).
- render_screenshots.sh: build map -> run game -> collect PNGs into
gitignored Screenshots/.
- Screenshots/README.md (committed) describes each capture with approval
state; AGENTS.md gains the visual-review instructions.
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