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Adds the five remaining verified south-side buildings to the demo block (6922, 6902, 6838 El Capitan Theatre, 6822 Budget, 6806-6820, 6800 Lee Drug), exported in place from the OSM blockout by Tools/export_block_frontage.py, imported to /Game/Hollywood/Frontage/ and staged by the demo builder with the look material set (stone for the theatres, stucco for the retail run). Adding neighbours exposed a pre-existing placement bug that was invisible while the hero facade stood alone in an empty field: - UE south is +Y here (south sidewalk Y +718..+1447), but the hero sat at Y -1450 on the NORTH side of the street. - It was also at X -12024..-9420, 26 m east of the 6840 footprint; the frontage gap between 6902 and 6838 is X -14591..-12082. - The two north-side buildings were on the SOUTH side, because their exporter mirrored Y. Fixes: hero moved to X -13336 / Y +1307, inside its frontage gap; the frontage and north-building exporters no longer apply a Y mirror (the FBX preset already lands Blender -Y south on UE +Y south); player start and demo cameras moved to the north sidewalk looking south; sun raised to pitch -62 so both frontages read instead of the north side silhouetting. Result: the demo is a street - continuous south frontage with the hero in it, both sidewalks, the road with the designated crossing, and the north-side buildings across the road. Screenshots re-rendered and approved by the owner. Squash of branch frontage-block-0.1.0 (PR #6).
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".