Phase 4 of the v0.6.0 graphics plan:
- tools/bake_ao.py bakes 256² AO maps for every Blender character/gear/prop
(Cycles, existing UVs) next to each GLB; Materials.apply_ao() wires the red
channel into character slots, gear, and props. Compatibility has no SSAO.
- Regenerated brick/concrete/asphalt at 1024² with OpenRouter, derived tangent
normal maps via tools/make_normal_maps.py, and wired them through
SurfaceMaterials.textured() without changing UV scales.
- Evaluated Forward+: boots on desktop Vulkan, but the renderer is project-wide
and Web must stay GL Compatibility; v0.6.0 keeps Compatibility (decision in
MEMORY/plan). A desktop-only override is deferred.
- Recaptured screenshots; compare 11 good / 0 bad. Fixed marquee text alignment.
- Tests: baked AO maps exist for all 46 assets; prop/character AO material
checks; headless 222/222, Python 69/69, all smokes pass.
- Version 0.6.0; ADR-0013 accepted; README/architecture/blender-assets/plan and
TODO/DONE updated.
NpcAvatar
- select one of 8 library character variants by role/seed (with npc_base and the
procedural rig as fallbacks), keep Rig/Head and the existing bone animation
- tint only skin/cloth/pants/accessory/hair; fixed detail materials keep their
colour, npc_vest keeps its hi-vis vest, firefighter/guard use dark uniform tints
- attach caps, hoods, helmets, backpacks, SCBA tanks, lanyards and hand items at
the documented head/back/chest/hand points (primitive fallbacks retained)
WorldBuilder
- prefer assets/models/blender/props/ for the six replacements and the new
street dressing (street lamp/tree, palms, planters, A-frame, cone, barrier,
stanchion, podium, handrail, wall lantern, double door, marquee, sedan)
- fit the same colliders/navigation obstacles and keep the placement validator;
collect library emissives (bulbs, marquee face, wall lanterns, door LED, sedan
lights) for set_night_mode()
- add a library triangle counter + 60k budget check (current ~27,986); toggle
prop gallery to the library models; fix the marquee label placement
Tests/smoke
- character selection/gear attach/fixed-material tint tests; library prop load,
emissive and triangle-budget tests; smoke_props routes a guest around a
stanchion in open sidewalk (the old bench route is now crowded by trees)
- headless 222/222, Python 68/68, all smokes pass, compare 11 good / 0 bad
Docs: TODO Phase 3.5 moved to DONE, README/architecture/blender-assets/plan
describe the integrated runtime, MEMORY records the integration rules.
Document the larger asset set produced by the running Blender generator
(tools/blender_assets.py): 8 NPC character variants, 18 gear pieces, and 22
street/venue props with a manifest, editable sources, and preview sheets.
- TODO gains Phase 3.5 with the audit/budget reconciliation (npc_casual is
currently 7,756 tris / 5,616 verts, above the 6,000/4,000 contract), character
selection by role, gear attach points, prop replacement/placement, emissive
wiring, budgets, and screenshot gates
- PLAN's Visual Quality Direction describes the library, runtime selection, and
offline fallbacks
- docs/plan-graphics-v0.6.md adds the library contract/output table and
integration steps, and points Phase 4 at the Blender props
- MEMORY records the manifest-as-source-of-truth rule and the generator caveat
Generated library files stay untracked until the running build finishes and
passes the audit; the generator itself is committed so the plan is reproducible.
Wire the skinned model from ADR-0013 into NpcAvatar:
- _build_skinned_body() instantiates the imported npc_base.glb, binds the 14
armature bones, and keeps the procedural _build_body() as the offline
fallback (use_skinned_model can force it in tests)
- outfit_for()/layer_for() tint the five material slots through the new
SurfaceMaterials.npc_slot(); accessories and hand items attach under Rig/Head
- the existing limb pivots (Hip/Knee/Shoulder/Elbow/Hand + Head marker) keep the
old animation math; _sync_skeleton() copies their rotations to bones. Bone
pose rotation is absolute local orientation, so it is composed with the rest
basis (otherwise the whole body snaps into a broken pose)
- skinned rigs scale uniformly (non-uniform parent scale shears the skin) and
keep Rig/Head for the focus cone, nametag, and reaction tag
- commit the editable npc_base.blend plus a .gdignore: Godot's editor otherwise
tries to import the blend and hangs during --import
- npc_pipeline audit tests (contract, textures, clean GLB, committed source)
Verification: headless 212/212, Python tooling 60/60, NPC budget 16 avatars =
144 meshes at ~6.9 ms, movement/focus/props smokes pass, compare 11 good / 0 bad.
TODO Phases 0-3 checked; environment lift and release remain.
Update the game name in project.godot, export presets, UI/marquee/title strings, packaging (AppImage/NSIS/desktop/appdata), tools, docs, and the generated prop GLBs. Packaging assets and README screenshots are regenerated. Headless suite 209/209 and Python tooling tests pass.
Avatars called Godot's look_at(), which points the node's -Z axis at the target,
but the rig's face (eyes/brows/mouth/focus disc, and the Blender successor) is on
+Z. Every walking NPC therefore faced away from its movement direction.
- add the pure yaw_towards(direction) helper (+Z forward) and use it in both
movement paths and the reaction face-turn
- fix the head-turn offset to the same +Z convention (basis.z)
- test +Z/+X/-Z/arbitrary directions; recapture targeting screenshot
- TODO bug item moved to DONE, MEMORY records the convention
Headless 209/209.
Ten of the eleven README captures are refreshed (the prop gallery is unchanged). README gains an NPC character-model subsection and a 'Confirmed game assets' section with linked, audited textures/models; architecture Level 2 lists npc_pipeline.py and asset_pipeline.py.
asset_pipeline generate gains --variants N (saved as <stem>-1..N.png). .gitignore now excludes assets/models/concepts, assets/models/npc, assets/textures/npc/ai, and raw assets/textures/ai outputs; only game_ready and the game-facing NPC maps/models stay tracked.
NPC characters
- Articulated rig (hips/knees, shoulders/elbows/hands) replaces rigid capsules;
the walk cycle bends knees and elbows and flees with a longer stride.
- Layered outfits (jacket/vest/coat/dress), extended accessories and hand items
(bag, umbrella, phone, camera, clipboard, cup), face details and five hair
silhouettes, all deterministic per profile seed.
- Idle behaviour layers (phone, clipboard, crossed arms, look-around), breathing
and weight shift; escalation raises hands or points, and noticed NPCs turn
toward the guard.
- Reaction symbols above the head (!!, ?!, !, ?), door-queue offsets assigned by
GameManager, three LOD tiers with hysteresis and a billboard impostor.
- smoke_npc_budget.gd: 16 avatars = 534 meshes, ~6.9 ms average (50 ms budget).
Player movement
- Separate accel/decel, step-up assist for kerbs and the entrance steps, and a
forward-axis fix: W was inverted (get_axis(forward, back) is negative).
- Head bob, landing dip and precision-walk FOV, gated by persisted head-bob and
invert-Y settings; precision chip and tick; surface-aware footsteps and a
landing cue forwarded to AudioFeedback.
- Gamepad support (sticks, deadzone, face buttons, bumpers), a control legend
that follows the active device, and named actions for the remaining keys.
- Key/button remapping in Settings, persisted as input_bindings and applied by
InputBindings (mouse and gamepad axes are never removed).
- smoke_movement.gd (windowed): climbs the steps, checks precision speed, chip,
footsteps and landing; new 11-precision-walk capture and catalogue entry.
Verification: headless 208/208, Python tooling 56/56, all 11 smokes pass,
compare 11 good / 0 bad, movement judge match. Version 0.5.0. Only optional
Future ideas remain in TODO.
- audit_glb decodes geometry: 400 tris / 600 verts budget, degenerate
triangles, UV range, ground contact, one material; newspaper box parts moved
to sit on y=0
- capture_prop_gallery.gd renders the six props on a studio backdrop; new
prop_gallery catalogue entry + AI mockup (compare 10 good, judge match 0.90)
- headless test that instances share the imported atlas material
- README documents the gallery capture and budget; TODO props pipeline section
moved to DONE
Props were decoration: the guard and guests walked straight through benches,
bins, bollards and planters. They now block movement and steer guests around.
Collision
- _add_prop_model() fits a StaticBody3D from the model's mesh bounds in
holder-local space: a cylinder for bollard/bin/hydrant, a box otherwise, so
placement rotation and variant scale carry over.
- Fallback primitives go through the same fit, so a missing .glb cannot silently
remove collision.
- Each prop also publishes a NavigationObstacle3D; NpcAvatar enables agent
avoidance and moves with the safe velocity from velocity_computed. The navmesh
stays a flat walkable plane and avoidance does the steering.
Placement
- PROP_PLACEMENTS groups furniture by entrance, mid-block and curb zones, with a
static placement_problems() validator for bounds, overlap/min-spacing,
duplicates, and the door/steps/guest-lane exclusions.
- variant_for(index) gives deterministic yaw jitter, subtle scale, and optional
clutter (bag by the bin, crate by the newspaper boxes, cone by the hydrant).
Verification
- New windowed smoke_props.gd: guard walks into a bench and stops; a guest
headed beyond the bench routes around it and never enters the collider.
- Headless 182 -> 187: placement validation and its failure modes, variant
determinism/range, collider + obstacle on every placed prop, fallback collider.
- Other smokes (PLAN verbs, crowd, emergency, timeline) still pass; Python
tooling 53/53; screenshots recaptured; compare 9 good / 0 bad.
- Version 0.4.0. TODO: collision/placement section moved to DONE; prop pipeline
checks remain.
Replace the flat "future ideas" list with three scheduled sections and concrete,
reviewable checkboxes (41 tasks):
- Better Props: colliders for the generated models (they have none today), a
placement table with variants, sign/bus-stop/shelter/street-lamp props, a
close-range detail layer, pipeline audits, and a prop-gallery capture.
- Better NPC Characters: articulated rig, layered outfits and accessories, face
and hair variety, idle/conversation animation, door-queue staging, reaction
readability, LOD tiers, and a re-measured NPC budget.
- Better Player Movement: accel/decel split, step-up assist, head bob/FOV and a
motion-sickness toggle, precision-walk feedback, surface footsteps, gamepad
support, input remapping, and movement tests.
Kept live 3D replay, extra venues, voice audio, and the image-to-mesh swap in
Future ideas. Memory notes the grounding facts (props have no colliders, rigid
NPC rig, single accel value). Docs-only: no version bump or release.
The three newest catalogue screens had AI mockups but no staged capture, so
compare and judge skipped them. capture_screenshots.gd now continues past the
night set:
- switches to The Joke Shop at 620 s (EVENING still has routine spawns), frames a
guest, and retries the wand until it alerts; if nobody carries an alerting item
it stages the documented keys false-alarm case.
- applies a formal warning (arms the body camera) then blocking, jumps to 760 s
for night lighting, and captures the HUD at L3.
- closes the open incident and opens the body-camera timeline, which now shows
the warning / body-camera / blocking rows.
Wired the refs for wand_screening, escalation_hud and body_camera_timeline, and
regenerated the escalation mockup as a third-person over-the-shoulder night shot
so the reference matches the game camera. Added Hud.clear_log() to drop
target-cycling noise from staged shots. README gallery lists the three captures.
Verification: headless 182/182, Python tooling 53/53, compare 9 good / 0 bad,
judge: wand match 0.90, timeline match 1.00, escalation review, 0 diff.
Version 0.3.3.
The design catalogue grew to 19 screens, but only the original twelve had an AI
reference; the rest still showed "design -" in `list`. Generated the missing set
so every screen can be reviewed against an intended look:
- wand screening (metal-detected panel with carried items and allow/deny)
- Joke Shop queue, TV Studio arrival, crowd panic, responder arrival
- body-camera timeline, escalation HUD
`generate` now loads `.env` the same way `judge` does, so `--ai` no longer needs
the API key exported by hand. Each reference is 1280x720; the twelve existing
mockups were kept (no `--force`).
Verification: `list` reports 19 designs, Python tooling 53/53, headless suite
182/182, `compare` still 6 good / 0 bad on the captured screens. Version 0.3.2.
Each generated prop used one material per part (body, accent, metal...). The
model pipeline now packs a prop's palette into one power-of-two colour atlas plus a
matching metallic/roughness atlas and emits a single material:
- atlas_for(): 8x8 cells per palette role, colours in sRGB, roughness in the G and
metallic in the B channel of the second atlas; NEAREST sampling keeps cells flat.
- build_glb(): every part merges into one primitive with constant per-vertex atlas
UVs; the material uses baseColorTexture + metallicRoughnessTexture with factors 1.0.
- audit_glb(): fails unless a prop has exactly one material, both atlas textures,
two images, and TEXCOORD_0 on every primitive.
- Removed the now-unused sRGB->linear factor helpers; colour travels in the texture.
Verification: headless 181 -> 182 (new "one material per prop scene" test), Python
tooling 53/53 (atlas determinism/size/UV/palette-override tests replace the old
factor tests), model audit OK for all six props, screenshots regenerated and
screen_designs.py compare still 6 good / 0 bad. Version 0.3.1.
Rendering and presentation
- Shared surface-material module (src/game/materials.gd) with per-surface
roughness/metallic/uv profiles; ACES tonemapping, glow, fog and phase-driven sky
energy. WorldBuilder rebuilt on those profiles with facade windows that light up,
door trim/handles, curb, lane dashes, bollards, bench, bin and planter foliage.
- NPC silhouettes: per-role clothing palettes, caps/hoods/backpacks/sunglasses,
hands and shoes, arm/leg walk swing.
- Six generated low-poly GLB props (bollards, bench, bin, planter, newspaper box,
hydrant) built by tools/model_pipeline.py, loaded by WorldBuilder with a
procedural fallback; ADR-0012.
Selection and movement
- Focus ranking by view angle then distance (NpcFocus.rank_indices); Tab and the
mouse wheel cycle nearby people initially, right click clears focus with a
re-acquire grace, HUD shows the candidate count, Shift walks at half speed.
ADR-0011. Windowed smoke extended to cover wheel cycling and clearing.
QA tooling
- screen_designs.py catalogue grown to 19 screens (8 scene, 11 UI) plus a `list`
subcommand; draft generation keeps existing AI references unless --force.
Web export
- New Web preset using the non-threaded Godot template (static hosting, no
COOP/COEP). tools/build_releases.sh exports build/web and packages
build/step-line-web-<ver>.zip; publish_release.sh uploads it with the desktop
artifacts. test_web_export.gd covers the preset and release wiring.
Verification
- Headless suite 177 -> 181, Python tooling 53 tests, all eight smokes pass
(including the windowed focus/wheel smoke). Web bundle serves index.html,
index.wasm (35 MB) and index.pck (30 MB) with HTTP 200 from a static server.
- Version 0.3.0; README, PLAN, RELEASING, TODO/DONE and MEMORY updated.
- tools/export_venues.gd (SceneTree script) saves the three factory scenarios to
content/venues/<id>.tres via ResourceSaver. The factory stays the source of truth;
the exported files are what an editor workflow would edit and ship.
- New tests load the files back and check that id, name, event pool, profiles,
policy (ID/wand), equipment, door-staff lines, shift phases, and locations all
survive. They also fail when the exported files are missing or stale, so the
export is re-run after content changes.
- GUT is consciously not adopted: the custom headless runner already covers 157
assertions without an editor plugin and keeps CI dependency-free. Recorded in
DONE.md.
- TODO: the planned backlog is complete; only optional future ideas remain.
- README/MEMORY updated. Version 0.2.16.
`tools/screen_designs.py judge` sends each capture together with its concept
mockup to a vision model and asks whether the capture realises the same screen and
layout intent. This covers what pixel/perceptual metrics cannot judge.
- Prompt explicitly ignores art style, fidelity, fonts, and placeholder text, since
the references are stylised mockups.
- Verdicts are classed match / review (mismatch below --fail-confidence, default
0.6) / diff (confident mismatch, exits non-zero) / unknown; --json, --only,
--dry-run, --model supported.
- Reads the repo .env for OPENROUTER_API_KEY without overriding real env vars.
- Default judge model google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite; openai/gpt-4o-mini verified too.
Tests/docs
- 7 new offline tests in tools/test_screen_designs.py (request payload embeds both
images, JSON/fenced/parts/non-JSON parsing, threshold classification, .env
loading); 30 Python tests pass.
- Live run: 3 captures match, 3 review, 0 confident diffs.
- README, TODO section moved to DONE, MEMORY. Version 0.2.15.
Host (applied with root@192.168.88.30)
- [service] REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW = false in /etc/gitea/app.ini (backup written
alongside), Gitea restarted. Verified anonymously: repo page 200, API 200, and a
release asset downloads at full size (50.8 MB AppImage).
Localization safety (Open Polish)
- Strings.placeholder_count() counts conversions and ignores %% escapes.
- Strings.fmt() validates the count and fails safe (warns, returns the template)
instead of raising an engine error when a key's placeholders drift.
- Strings.validate() lints the table for a trailing %, unsupported conversions, and
mixed positional/sequential placeholders.
- Tests cover the counter, the fail-safe path, a clean table, and a formatting pass
over every placeholder key with type-correct arguments.
Docs
- TODO: distribution, release-pipeline, and open-polish sections are complete and
moved to DONE; the v0.2.4-v0.2.8 backfill is closed as superseded.
- README/MEMORY updated. Version 0.2.14.
Joke Shop
- Reservation list without ID (guest list valid, ID missing) — denied.
- Borrowed/mismatched ID (ID valid but mismatched) — denied.
- Guest who refuses the wand screen: new `refuses_screening` event flag, copied
onto NPCController, handled in _toggle_wand_screening (logs wand.refused, records
a wand_refused event, small prop hit, panel stays closed).
- Late arrival during the performance (ID + ticket, "arrive" intent).
Studio
- Filming-boundary event and a later repeat, both using the new `film_boundary`
intent which maps to `steps_end` so the influencer stands past the posted line.
- Celebrity arrival now pulls in a small crowd via a new `extra_spawns` event field
(two tourists + an influencer), spawned through the normal path.
Building
- Filming-boundary event whose hint points at the body camera and request-reason
verbs, plus an unclear-intent event that hints at asking for a reason.
Engine support
- Events may carry `hint` (string key logged on spawn), `extra_spawns`, and
`refuses_screening`; 9 new localized hint strings.
Tests/docs
- Headless suite 139 -> 149 (test_scenario_content.gd) and a new
smoke_scenario_content.gd that spawns the refusal and celebrity events through the
real signal path.
- README, TODO section moved to DONE, MEMORY. Version 0.2.13.
- v0.2.12 was tagged and CI produced the release with all five artifacts by itself,
confirming the checkout-credential fallback end to end.
- Host maintenance through root@192.168.88.30: apt cache cleaned and journald capped
at 300M (journal ~133M now), ~7.6G free of 16G.
- TODO release-pipeline section is fully closed; MEMORY records the host state.
- Host root filesystem was expanded from 7.8G to 16G (~7.8G free), so the disk
blocker is gone.
- Re-published v0.2.0 (4 artifacts) and v0.2.9 (5 artifacts) from the local build/
outputs; both releases verify.
- Root SSH from the workstation is not available (publickey denied, password auth
closes the banner); the host is administered via the zwitschi login.
- Version 0.2.12 exists to verify the tag pipeline end to end: the workflow should
create the release via the checkout-credential fallback and upload all five
artifacts.
- Pruned the superseded v0.2.0 and v0.2.9 releases through the API (~565 MB of
assets) after the host root filesystem hit 100%, which blocked release uploads
(HTTP 500 "no space left on device") and even git push ("unpacker error").
- Published v0.2.11 locally with the fixed script: all five artifacts verified on
the release (Linux/Windows/macOS ports, NSIS installer, AppImage).
- TODO records the remaining ~150 MB headroom and the exact host cleanup commands;
MEMORY and RELEASING describe the disk failure mode and the pruning.
Follow-up to the publishing fix: CI created the v0.2.11 release and logged each
upload, but the assets never arrived, so the job looked successful while the
release was empty. The host root filesystem is full (7.8G, 100%), and Gitea
answered HTTP 500 "Attachments.Save: no space left on device".
- publish_release.sh now checks the HTTP status of every asset upload and prints the
response body on failure, then verifies the release reports as many assets as were
sent. Empty releases can no longer pass silently.
- Deleted the empty v0.2.11 release so the "latest" release (v0.2.10) still has all
five artifacts; the tag itself remains.
- TODO/MEMORY record the host disk blocker with concrete cleanup commands and note
that v0.2.11 artifacts are built locally in build/ for upload once space exists.
The v0.2.10 tag build still failed to publish: its env dump showed no token at all,
because this Gitea/act runner does not provide `github.token`, and the repo has no
GITEA_TOKEN secret.
publish_release.sh now resolves credentials in order: GITEA_TOKEN,
GITEA_AUTH_HEADER, ~/.git-credentials, then the local git extraheader that
actions/checkout writes for the job. That header carries the runner's basic-auth
credentials for the same server, so tag builds publish with no repo secret.
Verified by adding the extraheader locally and publishing v0.2.10 (all five
artifacts: Linux/Windows/macOS ports, NSIS installer, AppImage), then removing it.
Docs: RELEASING describes the four credential sources and warns that github.token is
not available here; MEMORY records both failed attempts and the final fix; TODO keeps
the "verify on the next tag" follow-up. Version 0.2.11.
Tag builds since v0.2.2 built all artifacts but never published a release:
- tools/publish_release.sh only assembled AUTH in the GITEA_TOKEN branch; the
~/.git-credentials branch set CRED and then used an unbound ${AUTH[@]} under
`set -u`, so every API call failed and the job ended "could not create or find
release". It now sets AUTH=(-u "$CRED").
- The repo has no GITEA_TOKEN secret and the runner has no git credentials, so the
workflow now falls back to the built-in workflow token:
GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITEA_TOKEN || github.token }}.
v0.2.9 was then built and published locally with all five artifacts (portable
Linux/Windows/macOS, NSIS installer, AppImage) and the release page verified via
the API. v0.2.4-v0.2.8 remain unpublished; they are superseded by the latest.
Docs
- docs/RELEASING.md records the incident and the local-publish fallback.
- TODO gains a release-pipeline follow-up (verify CI on the next tag).
- MEMORY notes the root cause, the missing secret, and which releases exist.
- Version 0.2.10.
- Escalation cue now includes a shape meter and numeric level
("Escalation: Blocking [###--] L3/5") in addition to the colour and name, so it
reads in grayscale. Hud.escalation_meter(level) is pure and tested.
- HUD font scale from settings actually works: set_font_scale() resizes fonts via
theme overrides instead of Control.scale, which pushed the right-anchored clock
label off-screen. It now covers the top, log, target, hint, time, mode,
escalation, cooldown, and debug labels.
- Settings load before the HUD exists, so _ready() re-applies player settings after
_build_ui(); previously a saved font scale was ignored until the next apply.
Tests/docs
- Headless suite 134 -> 139 (test_accessibility.gd).
- Verified visually at 1.4x scale: no overflow, meter readable.
- README, TODO section moved to DONE, MEMORY. Version 0.2.9.
- AudioFeedback.start_crowd_bed() builds a 4 s looping AudioStreamWAV at runtime
(one-pole filtered noise plus a 68/103 Hz drone, seeded) and set_crowd_level()
maps crowd mood 0..1 to -34..-12 dB, so the street gets louder as it gets
agitated or panics. The bed starts with the shift and stops at shift end.
- play_radio_open()/play_radio_close() push short filtered-noise bursts; wired to
opening the radio panel, submitting a report, cancelling, and closing the panel.
- Still asset-free and headless-safe: with a dummy audio server the calls no-op.
_free_player() returns null before _ready and callers handle it.
Tests/docs
- Headless suite 127 -> 134 (test_audio_feedback.gd).
- New smoke_audio.gd: bed playing, level follows mood events, radio crackles once
per open/close, bed stops at shift end. Verified windowed (real audio server).
- README, TODO section moved to DONE, MEMORY. Version 0.2.8.
Once an NPC reaches its intent waypoint it now does something instead of standing
in an idle T-pose:
- sit: the rig settles 0.34 m into a seat and the legs swing forward on the steps
- photo/film: influencers and tourists raise their camera prop briefly (a sine
pulse, so it reads as taking a shot rather than a permanently raised arm)
- perform: performers sway the sign board they carry
Pose selection lives in NpcAvatar.theater_pose() (intent + arrived); the math is in
pure helpers (crouch_for_pose, prop_lift_for_pose, sway_for_pose) so it is
headless-testable. Prop/leg nodes are captured at build time and animated from
their rest offsets. Performers also get a hand-held board and post.
Tests/docs
- Headless suite 120 -> 127 (test_npc_theater.gd).
- Verified visually with a staged sit/photo/perform lineup in front of the entrance.
- README, TODO section moved to DONE, MEMORY. Version 0.2.7.
- New src/game/ui/event_timeline.gd flattens every recorded incident event
(ADR-0005) into one time-ordered list and shows time, person, and a one-line
summary. Step with Left/Right or the buttons; Esc returns to the review. No live
3D replay in this first version.
- Shift review gains a "Body camera timeline" button that hands the review to the
timeline; the review dim is hidden while it is open (stacked overlays made the
screen nearly black) and restored on close.
- ShiftCoordinator records started_at_ms so the review can stamp events as mm:ss.
- 8 new string keys for the timeline UI and the review button.
Tests/docs
- Headless suite 113 -> 120 (test_event_timeline.gd), new smoke_timeline.gd that
opens the timeline from the review, steps through every event, and closes back.
- README, TODO section moved to DONE, MEMORY notes. Version 0.2.6.
- Responder outcomes now reach the shift review
(ShiftCoordinator.responder_outcomes), and the review screen names them.
- "evacuation" (emergency call, low danger, no weapon) actually clears the entrance:
the door is locked, every NPC flees and is marked as leaving, and a
security_failure reputation hit applies.
- An emergency call the situation did not justify (no weapon, danger <= 1) appends
an investigation note, records investigation_opened, and applies the existing
false_report hit. The review lists the investigations.
- Fix dispatch dying after the first shift: coordinator.setup() builds a new
RadioSystem, so the responder_arrived connection made in _ready was lost on every
venue switch/restart. _connect_radio() re-wires it beside _connect_crowd().
Tests/docs
- Headless suite 105 -> 113 (test_emergency_aftermath.gd), new smoke_emergency.gd
covering the investigation, evacuation aftermath, and review copy.
- README controls/status/smoke checklist, TODO section moved to DONE, MEMORY notes.
- Version 0.2.5.
NPC navigation (previously dead in the live game)
- Only assign NavigationAgent3D.target_position when it changes: re-assigning every
frame invalidated the path, so get_next_path_position() kept returning the current
point and avatars never moved.
- Follow the first path point that is closer to the destination than the avatars are.
Nav points sit on the navmesh plane (y=0) while bodies stand at y~0.5, so the old
3D distance test always looked "already there"; path[0] is also the old start point,
so a naive "far enough away" pick steered backwards and oscillated.
- Fix fsm.state -> fsm.current_state in the idle-lifetime check.
Crowd presentation
- Aggressive behavior, visible weapons, and responder arrivals make idle bystanders
stop and face the incident for 12 s; someone waiting at the entrance keeps focus.
- Panic (mood >= 0.75) walks people away from the door at 2.4 m/s, then they despawn.
- Wire reactions to EventBus.crowd_changed: CrowdSystem.apply_event() emits on the bus,
not on its own `changed` signal (the first wiring received nothing).
- Measured a 16-NPC entrance at ~1.2 ms/frame (824 fps, vsync off), so no LOD/culling.
World and HUD
- Skyline is now a ring of four alpha-scissored planes at 200 m instead of a single
plane; PlaneMesh defaults to horizontal, which is why the backdrop rendered as a band
overhead. Larger ground plane, mipmapped texture, scissor threshold 0.5 (0.3 left
mip dashes in the sky), lifted albedo so the city is not pure black.
- Flashlight aims straight ahead and lights the person/door instead of the ground.
- Shorter HUD controls line so it stops overlapping itself.
Tests, tooling, docs
- Headless suite 98 -> 105 (new test_crowd_presentation.gd, 7 tests).
- New smoke_crowd.gd: rubbernecking, panic, and flee-target sanity.
- capture_screenshots.gd starts a shift from the venue menu and stages the night set
properly; all six README screenshots regenerated.
- README, TODO/DONE (crowd section moved), MEMORY updated. Version 0.2.4.
Verbs (PLAN levels 1-3)
- Eye contact: own Level 1 radial slice, logged as "eye contact".
- Recognition is a player decision: "Recognize" sets NPCController.player_recognized,
writes access evidence, and GameManager only then appends a RECOGNITION artifact.
It is no longer implied by NPC type.
- Body camera: real flag (off by default) driving the REC overlay; B toggles it and
a formal warning arms it automatically, writing a body_camera incident event.
- Blocking stations the guard 0.9 m from the person toward the entrance and turns
to face them, instead of only emitting the escalation level.
- Request reason: Level 3 ask answered from the NPC's seeded dialogue_lines.
- Radial grows to 12 slices (174 px outer radius, centered labels).
Incident recording fix
- IncidentRecorder.start_incident() was never called, so add_event /
add_access_evidence / add_escalation silently no-opped and the shift review
always reported zero incidents. Incidents now open on focus (guarded by
has_open_incident), verbs call _ensure_incident, and ShiftCoordinator closes
leftovers as "unresolved" before building the review.
Copy and docs
- 9 new string keys (eye contact, body camera, recognition, reason, station).
- README controls, 26-step smoke checklist, test count, status lists.
- TODO section moved to DONE; MEMORY records the verb design and the recorder bug.
Verification: headless 98/98, smoke_plan_verbs.gd + smoke_session_shell.gd +
windowed smoke_focus_radial.gd all pass. Version bumped to 0.2.3.
Session shell
- Startup venue menu (src/game/ui/start_menu.gd): keyboard + mouse, replaces
the live-shift boot and V as the player-facing venue path (V stays a debug bind).
- Pause overlay on Esc (src/game/ui/pause_overlay.gd): resume, restart shift,
settings, quit to menu.
- Settings panel (src/game/ui/settings_panel.gd): mouse look sensitivity and
HUD font scale, persisted via Save into user://settings.json and loaded on boot.
- Shift review "Run another shift" now returns to the venue menu.
- New smoke: src/test/smoke_session_shell.gd (menu -> shift -> pause -> settings
-> menu), passes headless and windowed.
World and presentation
- Skyline backdrop restored with a transparent asset and an alpha-scissor
unshaded material; fixes the opaque black slab from the earlier attempt and
the unimported texture path.
- Steps and landing are a StaticBody3D with per-tread colliders, so the guard
and NPCs walk up instead of clipping through.
- Marquee Label3D scaled up (72 -> 160) so STEP LINE reads from the sidewalk.
- Focus torus and name tag enlarged for 2-3 m readability.
- Routine traffic despawns after an idle lifetime (NpcAvatar.ephemeral), so the
16-NPC cap no longer fills with standers; authored events stay for the shift.
Docs and tests
- PLAN.md test/CI section corrected to the custom headless runner and Gitea Actions.
- README controls table, smoke checklist, test count, and status lists refreshed.
- TODO/DONE/MEMORY updated; completed sections moved to DONE.md.
- Headless suite 77 -> 88 passing (settings round-trip, step colliders, skyline
alpha, session-shell UI behavior, traffic lifetime).
- Venue-correct access artifacts (AccessLoadout) and screened-aware verify
- Cone focus on NPC heads with billboarded ring + display name (ADR-0008)
- Action wheel with de-escalation-first slices (ADR-0009); Esc/RMB cancel
- Procedural NPC face/hair/neck/shoes (ADR-0010); named input actions
- Fix GameManager parse error (radial typed as ActionRadial)
- Fix first-person camera height and guard spawning inside the building
- Move building volume back so the door/awning/marquee are visible
- Pull the event scheduler once per simulated second; cap live NPCs
- Regenerate README screenshots; update TODO/DONE/MEMORY/README; 77 tests
Adds src/test/smoke_focus_radial.gd for the windowed focus/radial smoke.
Control pass (ADRs 0007-0010) stays first. Added the holes the audit found:
venue-correct access artifacts (override_access unread), session shell,
leftover PLAN verbs, crowd rubberneck, emergency aftermath, replay, NPC
poses, real ambience, a few Joke Shop/Studio events, and doc drift.
Host sign-in remains deferred. Generated-asset integration stays out
(already in DONE).
- 0007: input layers so WASD/look never fire person-verbs; freeze while modal
- 0008: cone focus + billboarded head ring; no type names in the world
- 0009: doughnut action menu (LMB/Space open, click or A/D then Space, Esc/RMB
cancel); emergency stays on R
- 0010: keep procedural rigs, add face/hair/neck; no Mixamo this pass
Linked from architecture.md, PLAN.md, TODO.md, MEMORY.md.
Document the next playable pass: WASD/look stop fighting action keys, cone
focus with a billboarded head ring, doughnut HUD opened by LMB or Space
(click or A/D then Space to confirm, Esc/RMB cancel). Emergency stays on R.
Wand leaves W. NPC rigs stay procedural but get a face/hair/neck. Host
REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW follow-up deferred.
- Script uploaded only the three portable binaries; v0.2.1 release was
missing step-line-setup-0.2.1.exe and the AppImage. Now uploads the full
set (extras when present), reuses existing releases (adds missing assets),
and falls back to ~/.git-credentials basic auth when GITEA_TOKEN is unset
- Back-filled both missing assets onto the live v0.2.1 release via API
(release now carries all 5 artifacts)
- TODO/RELEASING/MEMORY document the findings and the host admin steps for
anonymous downloads ([service] REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW)
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