Add deterministic captures 14-21 for the remaining screen-design states, fix the panel/button layout issues they exposed, and record 21/21 compare and judge results. Bump the source to 0.9.3 and move the completed milestone to DONE.md.
- Measure and cap the HUD target chip after each font-scale change; clip HUD top labels.
- Ellipsize long action-button labels so panels cannot grow past the viewport.
- Add accessibility/button layout assertions and refresh the gallery captures.
- Record the font/layout pass in TODO, docs, changelog and memory.
- Add a review harness that stages all eight library characters at portrait, conversation and crowd distance on both maps in day and night.
- Fix the final-context lanyard badge and firefighter helmet fit with runtime attach offsets; the asset-space gear contract is unchanged.
- Record the gate sign-off, refresh the gallery, and move the completed review to DONE.
- Replace the alley with the 27 m Comedy Store-inspired hall, signature canopy, circular blade sign, red curtain bays, west entrance, low-rise neighbours, dry hillside and opposite frontage.
- Add day/night/across-street concept frames and real-site mapping notes.
- Expose the Joke Shop day stage in the realism captures and refresh the gallery shots.
- Render multiline HUD/wand strings correctly and list carried items in the wand panel.
- Add the Joke Shop layout/budget tests and update docs, roadmap and changelog.
Replace the generic boulevard facade with a stylized 6840 Hollywood Blvd block: six Ionic columns, eight stone steps, Masonic frieze/medallions, event banners, side doors, El Capitan Theatre and retail neighbours, Ovation Hollywood arcade, Walk of Fame and four-lane street markings.
Add the Day and Night Hollywood venue-menu rows. Night uses a phase-time offset so a full-length shift stays in LATE while the clock starts at zero; late routine traffic keeps the street populated and the offset round-trips through checkpoint restore.
Retune local-light falloff to linear attenuation, add a cool north sky fill, and use the smooth limestone facade texture. Refresh the staged gallery and map references; add geometry-budget, menu, night-offset and late-traffic tests.
Regenerate the committed screenshot gallery on the current build, run compare
(13 good/0 bad) and the automatic-model judge (13/13 match, 0 diff), and record
the result. Update the 0.9.2 visual checklist items.
Create an index README in docs/ and every tracked docs subfolder, with relative
image galleries for Blender previews, screen designs, screenshots and concepts.
Generated realism-run READMEs were also created on disk but remain gitignored.
Validate all Markdown/image links.
Add the alley walls, warm lantern, shutters, dumpster, AC clutter and door
step for the Joke Shop. Build the studio stone facade, bulb canopy, glossy
black car, stanchions and barriers. Rebuild only the world container when the
venue changes, so the guard and UI survive; add per-venue navigation checks.
Capture gallery shots 12/13, update the concept mapping and docs. Headless
231/231, Python 87/87, screenshot gate 13 good/0 bad. The vision-judge retry is
tracked separately because the API key is invalid.
Fix the portrait staging: face the rig toward the camera (the old yaw was 180
degrees out) and hide the focus disc, which was covering the face in close-ups.
Add the before/after Influencer portrait, fit measurements and judge scores in
docs/screens/realism/2026-11-01-gear. Re-run check_screenshots (11 good/0 bad);
headless 229/229.
Blender library
- Rebuild the face: sclera, iris and upper lid per eye, brow ridge, cheekbones,
nose bridge and tip, ears with lobes, split upper/lower lips.
- Give each hand four fingers plus a thumb and end every sleeve in a cuff ring.
- Raise CHAR_MAX_VERTS 4000 -> 5000 (16 avatars still cost ~6.9 ms of a 50 ms
frame), decimate the body to 26 %; characters are now 3,974-5,026 tris and
3,744-4,807 verts. Rebuild all 8 variants and re-bake their AO maps.
Capture tooling
- Add a `portrait` stage to capture_realism.gd: freeze one NPC, park the crowd
out of frame, stand the subject on open sidewalk, turn it into the camera and
put the guard on the sunlit side. New --portrait-type=N picks the role.
- Add the npc_portrait_day concept and map the shot to it, so avatar detail is
scored against a portrait instead of a wide street frame.
Flashlight
- Drop the fake additive beam (Materials.light_beam + the cone mesh): on GL
Compatibility a first-person camera inside the cone renders it as a filled
disc with a bright far ring. Keep the tight spot (14 deg, 20 m, energy 4.2)
and its headless test; the visible shaft is now planned behind a Forward+
preset.
Docs and task tracking
- Move the finished realism follow-ups (ground exposure, flashlight, NPC detail,
judge re-check) to DONE.md and expand TODO.md with step-by-step plans for NPC
gear fit, venue geometry plus the committed gallery, and the Forward+ preset.
- Record the decisions, gotchas and portrait recipe in MEMORY.md; update the
Blender contract, the concept README and the capture section of README.md.
- Refresh the gallery captures affected by the avatar rebuild.
Checks: headless 228/228, Python 86/86, blender_assets audit exit 0,
scene_concepts audit all GOOD, screen_designs compare 11 good / 0 bad,
smoke_npc_budget OK, boot clean (only the known headless mesh warning).
Narrow the spot to 11° with a 20 m range so it lights the person/door rather
than the whole facade, and regenerate the staged screenshots. Headless 227/227,
compare 11 good / 0 bad.
A GradientTexture1D varies along U, so the cone showed a bright ring; build a
1×64 vertical ramp for UV.y instead (faint at the lens, brightest near the
start, gone before the tip). Regenerate the affected captures; headless 227/227,
compare 11 good / 0 bad.
Jump the staged shift to 760 s before the night shots, so 05/06 are true night
scenes with a visible flashlight beam instead of dusk. Regenerate the affected
captures; compare stays 11 good / 0 bad.
Widen and lengthen the additive beam cone and raise its near-end opacity so the
night flashlight reads on screen. Regenerate the staged captures; compare stays
11 good / 0 bad, headless 227/227.
- add the v2 runtime picks: per-phase skyline panoramas, brick, sidewalk
pavers, dry/wet asphalt, awning canvas, and their normal maps
- add the realism tooling and evidence: tools/scene_concepts.py, capture_realism.gd,
concept frames, reports/sheets, and tests
- retune phase lighting/fog/exposure, add sun yaw, brighten the night glow,
add the flashlight beam mesh, and rebuild the planter/tree assets
- regenerate all eleven staged screenshots from the current build; compare is
11 good / 0 bad
- finish the visual-alignment closeout in DONE/TODO, update architecture,
blender-assets, PLAN, and ignore rules (editable Blender sources untracked)
- keep the judge retry and document the verified default judge model
Verification: headless 227/227; Python tooling 86/86; check_screenshots 11/11.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- 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.
- makensis resolves relative -DICON/-DARTIFACT against the script directory,
so CI now passes $PWD-based absolute paths (reproduced locally in the same
ubuntu:24.04 container; installer builds, 7z shows step-line.exe +
uninstall.exe)
- Install as step-line.exe (no spaces: NSIS /oname splits on whitespace)
- OutFile overridable via -DOUT
- tools/generate_textures.py icon.ico now produced via ImageMagick with
classic BMP entries (NSIS-compatible); PIL PNG-compressed ICOs rejected by
NSIS
- Regenerate icon.ico with classic BMP entries (16/32/48) — PNG-compressed
ICO entries can fail NSIS' icon loader on some builds
- CI copies assets/textures/icon.ico onto the packaging path right before
makensis, removing any stale/missing-copy failures
- Recreate v0.2.1 tag after this fix
- Phase-based lighting: sun direction/energy/color, ProceduralSkyMaterial
gradient, and ambient per shift phase (GameManager.PHASE_LIGHTING),
applied on phase transitions and shift start
- WorldBuilder: street lamp poles with emissive bulbs + OmniLights,
set_night_mode(), glowing STEP LINE marquee (Label3D + emissive bars),
crosswalk stripes, planters, low-poly street trees
- NPC avatars: per-seed height/brightness variation (deterministic LCG)
- Denser routine traffic probabilities
- capture_screenshots.gd: fast-forward to LATE phase and capture night set;
README gallery is now 2x3 day+night; docs/screenshots regenerated
- Version bumped to 0.2.0; build/ artifacts rebuilt; Linux binary smoke-tested
- New headless tests for phased lighting config and street dressing (56 total)
- Delete Rules.Tone/TONE_NAMES, NpcProfile.tone_modifiers, tone params on
NPCController.roll_reaction/apply_player_action; dialogue_lines flattened
to Array[String]; HUD tone label, T binding, and hud.tone_prefix removed
- Docs updated everywhere (PLAN, README, DONE, MEMORY); PLAN section heading
'Tone and Design Direction' -> 'Design Direction'
- Add .gitea/workflows/build.yml: checks job (import+tests) on push/PR; full
build job (export templates, Linux/Windows/macOS exports, artifact upload,
and tag-based Gitea release publish via GITEA_TOKEN) on tags/dispatch
- Remove old .github/workflows/ci.yml to avoid double runs
- Add venue cycling (V) across all three scenarios with hud.venue_switched
- Refresh README screenshots to match the new HUD
- 53/53 tests pass, boot smoke clean
- New capture tool src/test/capture_screenshots.gd (windowed, staged:
venue overview, targeting an NPC, access inspection, radio report)
- Generated shots saved to docs/screenshots/ and embedded as a 2x2 gallery
in README above the Downloads section
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