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The character now stands naturally: arms at its sides with a soft elbow bend, hands at the hips, feet flat. Both character shots confirm it, front and back. The root cause was not the pose. The FBX importer had been silently refusing to replace the existing assets: after changing the arm base from 1.55 rad to 0.55 rad and rebuilding, the imported clip returned the IDENTICAL bone quaternion (+0.006, +0.002, -0.179, -0.984). replace_existing=True was set and delete_asset returned False even after chmod u+w, because the pawn's constructor hard-references the clips. Importing under a new name (CharacterV2) created fresh assets and the same probe then returned (+0.439, +0.898) — the rotation had landed. Every earlier attempt had been invisible for this reason. The rotation itself is measured, not inherited: sweeping it in Blender gives 0.55 rad for arms down and clear of the body, 0.65 for straight down against the hip, 0.75 for past vertical and into the torso. It lives in the clamp keys, not in the bind: every bind experiment was impossible on this shape-keyed MPFB mesh or left Unreal showing the old bind. Remaining, for 0.2.2: the fingers splay from the bind, and the walk clip has still not been captured in motion.
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.