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The blockout cleaning pass found the map was rendering with 604 of 620 mesh actors unmaterialed - every kit piece and all theatre trim. Cause: ensure_material() deleted and recreated each /Game/Hollywood/Site/M_* asset on every run, so actors staged by other tools kept references to deleted assets and fell back to the default material. Nothing errored; the map looked merely slightly flat. - Materials are now updated IN PLACE (load, delete_all_material_expressions, rebuild the graph, recompile, save). Material.expressions is protected from Python, so the editing library's deleter is used. - 53 duplicated kit actor labels fixed (both shop piers of a bay shared one name). - New Tools/ue_audit_scene.py gates the scene: every mesh actor has a material, every verified frontage span is within +/-1 m (via ue_placement), no duplicate labels. - render_screenshots.sh now runs the chain in the required order (demo map -> kit -> theatre -> audit -> cameras -> capture) and exits non-zero on an audit failure, because the demo builder rebuilds materials and later staging must follow it. Scene audit: 0 failures. Packaged QA PASS. Spawn-view reference score 0.72.
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.