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A top-left readout for performance work: smoothed FPS and frame time, the worst frame in a rolling two-second window, the active view, player speed, a frame counter and the player's position in metres from the project origin. - F3 toggles it, through the console variable gigline.Debug so a packaged build can be checked without a rebuild (IA_ToggleDebug). - On automatically for -perf and -qaselftest, so a performance capture never depends on pressing a key first; off in the built demo, because a player should not see an FPS counter over Hollywood Boulevard. - The first two seconds are a warm-up window excluded from the worst-frame figure. Without it the readout showed "worst 400 ms" for a healthy run: the startup shader and streaming hitches dominated the rolling maximum. Measured cost on the self-test route at 1440p: 2.64 to 2.77 ms average, about 5 %, still 6x the floor. The release-check number stays the overlay-off run; the overlay-on series is committed beside it as Docs/perf/0.2.0-walk-frametimes-overlay.csv. Docs: controls (F3 row, overlay section, switch table), release checks (cost row), architecture building block view (HUD and input list).
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.