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The facade work started as a patch (0.1.4) and the 0.1.6 retail pass showed what that costs: a patch has no release gate of its own, so a first pass that does not yet read as the building can sit inside a done patch series. Realism is also the leading quality goal, which a patch cannot carry. New 0.9.0 - Realistic buildings, before the feature freeze: facade system with more than one order, a profile library, storefront types, signage as decals, per-building photo-matched models, a measured material library with a texel-density rule, and LODs plus collision proxies. Former 0.9.0 freeze/beta/audit becomes 0.10.0 with patches 0.10.1-0.10.3; 1.0.0 moves to weeks 39-44. Recorded as ADR-8 (append-only) with a measurable gate BR-1..BR-5 in the quality requirements, mirrored into the combined architecture.md. The 0.1.6 item now says which of its gaps move to 0.9.0 and why more geometry cannot close them.
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.