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Two tools that turn character work into something measurable. - Tools/comfyui_character_blueprint.py generates a four-view sheet (front, side, back, head) plus a contact sheet from one description, with fixed seeds and a JSON record of prompts and prompt ids. First sheet: 'GigLine walker', lean pedestrian in a navy tee, jeans and sneakers. - Tools/character_match.py compares a rendered character against a sheet: figure aspect, fill and coverage deltas, mean CIE76 colour distance, dominant-palette distance, and a side-by-side montage. The deltas stay separate on purpose - a single similarity score between a photoreal sheet and a low-detail body would be a number with no meaning. - comfyui_generate.py grew wait_for_image() so both tools share the polling path instead of duplicating it. - 13 unit tests for the colour maths, masks and palette; 95 tool tests pass. First real result, recorded rather than smoothed over: aspect delta 1.24, fill delta 0.12, mean deltaE 31.9, palette deltaE 25.4. The montage shows the reason - the model is a nude body and the blueprint wears a tee and jeans, so clothing dominates every metric. Figure segmentation is explicit (--render-box): auto-detection picked backdrop blobs on every attempt, and a background plate is the proper fix.
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.