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Follows the character-artist skill on two points it is explicit about: hair for a game character is a card system, and swappable parts stay separate meshes. - Tools/character_hair_build.py builds SM_Char_Hair: a scalp cap plus 18 cards in three rings, quads only, every vertex weighted 1.0 to the head bone, UV-mapped for the strand sheet from Tools/generate_character_textures.py. 321 verts / 404 tris. - Tools/ue_character_hair_import.py imports it as its own skeletal mesh, which is the point: joined into the body, Unreal collapses the second material slot and the hair renders with the skin material. - The pawn carries it as a second USkeletalMeshComponent on SetLeaderPoseComponent, so it follows the head bone with no second rig and hides with the body in first person. Still wrong and recorded: the cards point outward, so the silhouette reads as a spiked crown rather than a short cut. The next pass orients them tangentially along the skull with a second overlapping row. Tools/ue_character_materials.py also segfaults in the headless commandlet when editing a material graph, so the generated textures are not wired yet and the hair keeps its Blender base colour.
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.