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The three hero captures showed a plain block with six columns because every applied detail sat BEHIND the wall's front face, inside the solid mass: Hero_Banner_1 y -1.08..-1.02 (55 cm inside) Hero_Portal_1 y -2.35..-1.15 (2 m inside) Hero_Window_1_1 y -0.60..-0.52 (2 cm inside) The colonnade, cornice and dentils happened to protrude, which is exactly what the shots showed. The depth is now stated once, in hero_facade_build.py: FRONT_Y is the wall's front face and seat_on_front() moves every applied part until its street-facing face sits at FRONT_Y + offset - 8 cm for banners and jambs, 5 cm for entablature and cornice, 3 cm for window panes, 4 cm for mullions, 10 cm for portal signs. It reports what it moved, 99 parts. After re-export, re-import and re-render the front elevation now shows the three red banners, the two window bands, the dentil course and the portals. What is still missing against the reference: rusticated banding on the stone, lettering on the motto band, grilles in the windows, a balustrade on the parapet, and the blank lintel band across the portals that the reference does not have. Rows 4, 5 and 6 are back to pending for review because the images changed.
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.