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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.
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Screenshots — demo-map visual review
Rendered captures of the demo map only — what a player sees when the demo runs. Generated by Tools/render_screenshots.sh; the PNGs are committed so a reviewer sees exactly what the build rendered.
The review staging map (/Game/Test/ReviewMap) is not part of this set: it exists to hold the camera list and the hero detail rig, and it is not what ships.
How to regenerate
Tools/render_screenshots.sh --verify
Stages the demo shot cameras, runs the game on /Game/Hollywood/DemoMap, copies the PNGs into Screenshots/demo/ and then runs Tools/visual_loop.py --verify to check that each shot still shows the content its expectation describes. About a minute.
The shot list
Each shot has an expectation in Tools/visual_targets.json — the content the capture must show — and a verification state produced by --verify: it fails if the frame is blank, the wrong size, or has no tonal range.
| # | File | View | Expected content | Verified | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demo/review-demo-spawn-view.png |
north sidewalk | The whole south block: the neoclassical hero façade between its neighbours, both sidewalks and the road in the foreground | ☑ 2026-11-09 | ☑ 2026-11-09 |
| 2 | demo/review-demo-street-level.png |
eye height, north side | Street level: the hero colonnade with the adjacent frontage buildings either side, shopfronts at pavement level | ☑ 2026-11-09 | ☑ 2026-11-09 |
| 3 | demo/review-demo-crossing.png |
along the crosswalk | The designated mid-block crossing (s=130 m, UE X −14956): zebra bars on the asphalt, south frontage and colonnade behind | ☑ 2026-11-09 | ☑ 2026-11-09 |
| 4 | demo/review-demo-north-buildings.png |
across the Boulevard | The two north-side buildings (TCL Chinese Theatre, Madame Tussaud's) from the south side, full height in frame | ☑ 2026-11-09 | ☑ 2026-11-09 |
| 5 | demo/review-demo-retail-frontage.png |
north sidewalk, level horizon | The retail run beside the hero: 6800 Lee Drug's bronze cornice, mural row and parapet next to 6806–6820's burgundy fascia, pilasters and window storey | ☑ 2026-11-09 | ☐ pending |
Approval is per shot, in the table above (owner review of the 0.1.4 set, recorded in Docs/reviews/0.1.4-review.md). Add a row when a shot is added; remove the file in the same change when a shot is retired.
The iteration loop (uncommitted)
Tools/visual_loop.py measures each capture against its reference photograph and turns the deltas into modelling actions for the Blender skill packs:
python3 Tools/visual_loop.py --compare --iteration 3 # writes Art/reference/iterations/3/
That directory is gitignored: iterations stay uncommitted until a shot is confirmed, and only confirmed shots are promoted into Screenshots/demo/. The feedback file names the affected skill (blender-modeler, archviz, materials, lookdev, camera-cinematography) so the next modelling pass has a starting point rather than an opinion.
Note the comparison is only meaningful when the shot and the reference frame the same subject — a wide block view measured against a tight façade crop will always report low edge similarity.
Scene conventions
- Demo map (
/Game/Hollywood/DemoMap): fixed daytime — sun pitch −62 / yaw 120 (intensity 4, warm), sky light 2.6, sky atmosphere, height fog, fixed exposure. - Cameras: elevation shots sit at their target height (pitch 0, so verticals stay parallel) and use a 42–55° lens to fill the frame from across the street.
- Materials: every surface carries a look-developed material from
Tools/ue_build_demo_map.py— noise-blended base colour, masonry coursing, and a generated texture set (Tools/generate_facade_textures.py) sampled world-aligned. Explicit roughness and specular per surface type.
Known cosmetic issues
- Hero façade renders pale: the stone material is a graph and a texture set, not a scanned surface (the
0.1.4façade pass is in progress). - Banners sit on the column line rather than flush to the wall (they hang on the columns in the photographs, so this is acceptable).
- Between kerb and building line the walkable surface is the terrain mesh, not a modelled pavement.
- The El Capitan Theatre has no marquee or blade sign yet — the feature that makes it read as itself.
0.1.6 retail frontage — what to look at
Shot 5 is the review shot for this pass. Read it against
Art/reference/retail-neighbours/01-lee-drug-and-neighbor.jpg (Gb321, CC BY-SA 4.0).
Known gaps in this first pass, recorded rather than hidden:
- The parapet reads as a blank white band. It is modelled as one 2.18 m wall with four 0.10 m reveal strips, and at review distance the strips disappear into the wash.
- The mural row and lettering band barely read. They are shallow plates (0.06–0.08 m) on the same plane as the wall; they need either depth or a decal before they read as the photographs' black-framed panels.
- The corner tower is a plain cylinder with two cap rings — the stepped Deco profile in the photograph is richer than that.
- The camera crops the east end of Lee Drug at 68° from the north sidewalk.
- 6822 Budget is untouched and still a bare blockout volume: no photograph of it exists.