# QA review — `0.1.4` façade work

Checklist gate for the façade module kit, the replacement materials and the corrected blockout frame. Written per the `qa-review` skill: budgets, the screenshots that carry the claim, defects by severity, and an explicit verdict.

Date: 2026-11-09 · Branch: `facades-0.1.4` · Build under test: packaged `GigLineQA`, Development, UE 5.8.4, Vulkan SM5.

## Result: SHIP WITH NOTES

The geometry, placement and budgets are verified by measurement. The **visual** half of this review is **not** complete: nobody has looked at the rendered set since the kit went on, so the reference-match verdict is pending a human. The notes at the end are what that review has to confirm.

## Budgets

| Asset group | Count | Triangles | Texture | Notes |
| --- | --: | --: | --- | --- |
| Hero façade | 148 parts, 1 mesh | 3 044 | none (graph materials) | was 1 892 before the Ionic detail |
| Façade kit | 16 meshes | 12 tris each = 192 | none | boxes; complex-as-simple collision |
| Kit instances in `DemoMap` | 625 actors | ~7 500 | shared materials | 8 buildings |
| Frontage buildings | 6 meshes | blockout volumes | 8 × 512² maps | `M_FacadeStone`, `M_Stucco`, … |
| North buildings | 2 meshes | blockout volumes | shared | TCL, Tussaud's |
| Site meshes | 7 | 55 k tris (terrain-dominated) | shared | terrain/road/sidewalks/kerbs/crossing |

Texture set: `T_StoneAshlar`, `T_Stucco`, `T_Asphalt`, `T_Concrete`, each `_BC` + `_R` at 512², deterministic and regenerable.

## Evidence

Behaviour, packaged build (`-qaselftest`):

```
walk moved 761 cm in 2 s -> PASS (Z 456 -> 456)
transect 1456 samples, 0 holes -> PASS
wall probe 0/35 blocking hits inside 21 m -> PASS
facade probe 0/9 directions without a blocking wall -> PASS
RESULT walk=1 reset=1 pause=1 unpause=1 -> PASS
```

Geometry and placement, probed from the live map:

- Frontage spans match the verified block: 6922 −24276..−17700, 6902 −17749..−14591, **hero −14644..−12028 between them**, theatre −12082..−8210, 6822 −7854..−7252, 6806 −6608..−3307, 6800 −3320..−1437. North: TCL −22889..−18442, Tussaud's −27071..−22799.
- Kit placed from world bounds (`get_actor_bounds`), e.g. theatre pieces at −12082..−8694, inside the theatre's own span.
- Kit module **4.96 m**, storey **3.10 m**, door **2.45 m**, window **1.60 × 1.85 m**.
- Kit topology: 16 pieces, **all manifold**, no loose vertices, 12 tris each.
- Asset hygiene: `/Game/Hollywood/Kit` holds exactly 16 `SM_` meshes and no leftover auto-imported materials.

Screenshots: the committed set in [`Screenshots/`](../Screenshots/README.md), all 14 re-rendered for this state — hero shots 8–10 and demo views 11–14 carry the change.

## Defects

### Blockers

None outstanding. Two were found and fixed during this cycle:

- **Wrong frame (fixed).** The `0.1.2` blockout was regenerated without `--origin`, shifting the whole frontage ≈119 m in X and 2.4 m in Y and dropping the hero out of the 6902/6838 gap. Regenerated with `--origin 34.101545,-118.338718` (affine residual 0.0 cm); spans re-verified against [`Geo/verification/2026-11-06-el-capitan-block.md`](../Geo/verification/2026-11-06-el-capitan-block.md).
- **Kit placed 12 km away (fixed).** `ue_apply_facade_kit` used the static-mesh bounding box, which is building-line-local. Now uses `get_actor_bounds()` (world space).

### Majors

- **Window bays were inside the solid wall (fixed).** The first piece modelled the whole bay at +Y, so every window sat inside the blockout volume and was invisible. The surround now projects 3 cm with glazing 6 cm behind its face.
- **Kit had no materials (fixed).** Pieces kept the grey `M_Kit_*` material the FBX import creates, so the glazing was not glass and the shopfronts were not stone. Assembly now assigns `M_FacadeGlass` to glazing, `M_FacadeStone` to surrounds, `M_FacadeStoneShadow` to doors and `M_FacadeBanner` to fascias.

### Minors

- Kit pieces are boxes: no reveals, sills or mouldings beyond the kit's own bands. Acceptable at this patch's fidelity; the kit is the vocabulary, not the detail.
- `M_Kit_*` materials are deleted at import rather than reused, so the kit's Blender materials carry no shading intent — the Unreal set is authoritative. Documented, not silent.
- Actor labels for kit pieces are unique per building but long (`Kit_elcapitantheatre_window_3_2`).

### Notes (polish, not required for `v0.1.4`)

- Hero fluting, and the motto band/medallions as geometry, are still pending.
- The El Capitan Theatre has no marquee or blade sign yet — the features that make it read as itself.
- Cornice dentil spacing, abacus and plinth dimensions remain recorded assumptions.

## Not verified here

- **Reference match.** Needs a human comparing `Screenshots/demo/*` against `Art/reference/hollywood/`. The vision pre-check is demonstrably unreliable on this content (it rejected shots the owner has since approved), so it was not used as evidence.
- **Silhouette and shading at street level** — the same review covers it.

## Next actions

1. Owner review of the 14 demo/review shots; record approval in `Screenshots/README.md`.
2. Then the remaining `0.1.4` modelling: theatre marquee + blade sign, hero fluting/motto band, blockout cleaning pass.
3. `CHANGELOG.md` entry and `v0.1.4` tag once (1) is signed off.