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What the first pass got wrong, and what changed: - The mural plates were placed 0.20 m INSIDE the solid blockout volume, so they never rendered. Nothing can be recessed into a solid we do not cut: the inset is now faked by a proud frame with a near-flush plate, and the row reads. - Detail sat 0.05 m off the wall, under a pixel of depth at 40 m. Trim planes now stand 0.10-0.20 m proud, and the parapet became two tiers with deeper reveals. - 6806's parapet started at 0.62 H and left a 4.6 m blank band; the window storey and parapet moved up to follow the photograph. - Security bars on the upper windows, twelve fluted fins on the corner tower. - The trim's stucco/white/glass slots are mapped onto the demo's look materials, so the walls sit in the same noise/texture family as the rest of the block; the colour slots sampled from the photograph stay as authored. - Review camera pulled back and widened to 66 deg so the east end is in frame. - The scene audit caught duplicate RetailTrim_ actors: the demo builder's clear list did not include the new label, so every rebuild stacked another copy. Still open and not fixable by geometry: wall lettering. A plate at 0.10 m does not read at 40 m, so it moves to the 0.9.0 decal route (TODO.md, Screenshots/README.md).
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.