zwitschi
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Completes "Fixed daytime lighting and basic ambience" for 0.1.0. All 14 screenshots approved by the owner. Lighting rig (Tools/ue_build_demo_map.py): - Sun pitch -50 / yaw 120, intensity 4, warm (255/245/230), atmosphere sun light - Sky light 2.6 with real-time capture, sky atmosphere, height fog (density 0.008) - Unbound post-process volume with fixed exposure (min == max brightness) so a shot cannot wash out or crush to black depending on how much sky it frames - Dynamic-only: r.AllowStaticLighting=False plus MOVABLE lights and mesh components, so the editor's "LIGHTING NEEDS TO BE REBUILT" warning no longer fires and nothing needs baking Bugs found and fixed on the way: - Blender diffuse colours do not survive the FBX -> Unreal import: every site material arrived white and the terrain arrived with WorldGridMaterial, which is what actually made the scene look blown out. The demo builder now creates and assigns M_Asphalt, M_Concrete, M_Ground and M_RoadPaint. - Only one of the three crossings reached the game: each zebra band was its own object, so Blender renamed the duplicates .001/.002 and exact-name site assembly skipped them. All bands are now one Crossing_Markings mesh. - Demo cameras: street-level sat inside the facade body (rendering its unlit back face) and the crossing camera aimed at the s=36.6 crossing instead of the designated s=130.1 (UE X -14956). - The terrain had no material and imported as a bright default grid. - Cleared a committed Android File Server SecurityToken (plugin disabled and shipping-excluded; the value must stay empty). Docs: - Screenshots/README.md: one consolidated table for all 14 shots with map, camera view and description; all approved. - MEMORY.md: records the material-import, exposure, light_color struct, band-naming, camera-bounds and lighting-build traps. - TODO.md: lighting item marked done. Squash of branch gameplay-lighting-0.1.0 (PR #3).
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. OSM-derived output carries "© OpenStreetMap contributors".