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Models the two retail buildings beside the hero from their own photograph rather than the generic kit: bronze cornice, mural row, lettering band, stepped Deco parapet and rounded corner tower on 6800 Lee Drug; burgundy fascia, pilasters, white-framed windows and banded parapet on 6806-6820. Reference analysis written before any geometry (Art/blender/retail/ref-analysis.md), every unmeasured proportion carried into the part report as an assumption. 6822 Budget is deferred, not guessed: no photograph of it exists and the 6.0 x 5.5 m sliver cannot be read out of the neighbour shot. Pipeline fixes found on the way: - render_screenshots.sh called ./Engine/... for the capture step while every commandlet used the absolute path; set -e killed the script at 127 *after* the maps were rebuilt, so screenshots silently stayed a day old. - the facade kit applies to every Frontage_*/North_* actor, so it pasted its own language over the new modelled facades; it now skips them, and the trim stages as RetailTrim_*. - pure bay arithmetic moved to Tools/_common.py so it is unit-testable without Blender (4 new tests, 82 total pass). Known gaps recorded in Screenshots/README.md, not hidden: the parapet reads as a blank band, murals and lettering do not resolve at review distance, the tower is a plain cylinder, and the review camera crops the east end.
Gig Line
A Linux-first Unreal Engine game about walking and driving through a real city. The first release, 0.1.0, is a walkable exterior demo around 6840 Hollywood Blvd / El Capitan Entertainment Centre, covering the south-side frontage between Highland Avenue and Orange Drive plus the north-side frontage within 50 m of the boulevard.
Status
0.1.0 is in progress. The workstation, engine, geo pipeline and project bootstrap are done and verified; a walkable DemoMap exists with terrain, street, sidewalks, kerbs and the hero façade placed from measured coordinates. Façades are still blockouts, and materials are flat colours — both are planned patches.
Current tasks are in TODO.md and the development plan is in ROADMAP.md; what was learned the hard way is in MEMORY.md.
Layout
| Path | Contents |
|---|---|
Game/ |
Unreal project, configuration, source, game-ready content |
Art/ |
Editable Blender sources, blockouts, terrain, street, hero façade, and a local (uncommitted) reference library |
Geo/ |
Source manifests, permitted geographic data, and every geographic tool |
Tools/ |
Unreal-side importers, level builders, and reference gathering |
Docs/ |
Setup, toolchain pins, build and content pipeline, licensing, release checks |
Screenshots/ |
Rendered review captures and their approval state |
Getting started
git lfs install # required: content, images, audio, and geo files are LFS-tracked
git lfs pull
Tools/check-lfs.sh # verifies the lfs filter is active and files are stored as pointers
The engine is installed outside the repository and pinned in Docs/toolchain.md. Setup is in Docs/setup.md; building and the content pipeline are in Docs/build.md.
Documents
- TODO.md — living task list, source of truth for progress
- ROADMAP.md — development plan: milestone goals, scope, and release gates
- MEMORY.md — shared session memory: discoveries, traps, decisions
- AGENTS.md — contributor and agent rules
- PLAN.md — scope, stack, release policy, timeline
- Docs/toolchain.md · Docs/environment.md — pins and workstation audit
- Docs/build.md — fresh-checkout build and content pipeline
- Docs/release-checks.md — release gates
- Docs/licensing.md · THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md — licensing
- CHANGELOG.md — release history
Licensing
Code licence is an open decision (MIT proposed). Engine, art, and geographic data are licensed separately; see Docs/licensing.md.