security-game/docs/development-status.md

Development Status

Implemented so far:

• Godot 4.3 project scaffold, input map, procedural world builder

• Venue-driven simulation core: ShiftCoordinator, VenueScenario, EventScheduler, NPCController + FSM, AccessVerifier, EscalationManager, RadioSystem, IncidentRecorder, ReputationEvaluator, CrowdSystem

• Three authored scenarios (Hollywood Boulevard building, The Joke Shop, Late Night TV Studio) with access policies, NPC archetypes, and event pools

• Headless unit tests: 231 passing (access rules and venue-correct access loadout, escalation, radio cooldown/battery, NPC reaction determinism, door lock, flashlight perception, persistence round-trip, settings round-trip, input remaps, navmesh, step colliders, skyline alpha, scenario data, full-shift simulation, wand screening, responder dispatch, localization strings, focus cone, action wheel, session shell, PLAN verbs and incident recording, crowd presentation, emergency aftermath, body-camera timeline, NPC theater poses, audio, accessibility, authored scenario content, string formatting, .tres venue round-trip, surface materials and environment, focus ranking and outfit/gait helpers, generated prop models, web export preset, prop atlas material, player movement, NPC character layers/LOD/queue, input bindings)

• Simulation extras: protester archetype, CALL_SOMEONE reaction, door lock/secure mechanic (visual indicator), flashlight with night perception bonus, LATE shift phase reaching the violent-threat event

• First-person prototype with interaction HUD, access inspection, wand screening, radio report form (incl. emergency hold-to-confirm), dispatched responder avatars, aim-free targeting, venue cycling between all three scenarios, color-coded escalation feedback, procedural audio cues, navigation-mesh NPC paths, JSON-backed localized strings, persisted shift history, debug overlay, and shift review

• Control pass: focus cone on NPC heads with a billboarded blue circle in front of the face and name, action wheel (LMB/Space) with de-escalation-first slices, mouse-look freeze while a panel is open, acceleration-based walking, and named input actions (action_menu, confirm, cancel, inspect, wand)

• Session shell: venue start menu (keyboard + mouse), Esc pause overlay (resume / restart / settings / quit to menu), settings panel with mouse-look sensitivity and HUD font scale persisted to user://settings.json, and "Run another shift" returning to the venue menu

• World presentation: skyline backdrop rendered with an alpha material, walkable step and landing colliders, larger marquee text, and larger focus circle / name tag

• Routine traffic despawns after a while at its waypoint so the crowd cap no longer fills with idle standers

• PLAN verbs: eye contact (distinct Level 1 cue), recognizing a person as a player decision recorded as access evidence, a body-camera flag that a formal warning arms (and B toggles), blocking that physically stations the guard between the person and the door, and a Level 3 request-reason ask answered from the NPC's dialogue_lines

• Incidents are now actually opened on focus and closed at shift end, so player actions, access evidence, escalation levels, and unresolved interactions reach the review (previously every recorded event was dropped)

• Crowd presentation: aggressive behavior and responder arrivals make idle bystanders stop and face the incident; panic sends people away from the door (and they leave the scene). A busy 16-NPC entrance measured ~1.2 ms/frame, so no LOD/culling was needed at the current cap

• Distant skyline ring: four alpha-scissored planes at 200 m read as a hazy city on the horizon (the baked backdrop used to show as a black slab), with a larger ground plane so the buildings meet the street

• Flashlight aims straight ahead and lights the person/door being checked instead of the ground in front of the guard

• Emergency aftermath: the evacuation outcome locks the door and clears the entrance, an emergency call that the situation did not justify opens an investigation and applies the false-report hit, and the shift review names the responder outcome and any investigations

• Body-camera timeline: the shift review opens a text timeline of every recorded incident event (time, person, action/outcome) that you step through with the arrow keys or buttons. No live 3D replay yet

• NPC theater: seated guests sit on the steps with bent legs, influencers and tourists raise a camera prop while photographing, performers sway their sign, and filming visitors pan slowly — all once they reach their intent's waypoint

• Audio: a looping procedural crowd bed (filtered murmur) whose volume follows CrowdSystem.mood, plus radio open/close crackle. All generated at runtime, no audio assets, and safe with a dummy audio server

• Accessibility: the escalation cue shows a shape meter plus the numeric level (Escalation: Blocking [###--] L3/5) so it reads in grayscale, and the HUD font scale from settings is applied at boot by resizing fonts (not Control.scale, which broke the right-aligned layout)

• Editor-ready venues: tools/export_venues.gd writes content/venues/<id>.tres from ScenarioFactory, and the .tres files load back with events, profiles, policy, phases, door lines, and locations intact (the factory stays the source of truth)

• Localization safety: Strings.fmt validates the placeholder count before formatting and fails safe (warns, returns the template) instead of raising an engine error, Strings.placeholder_count ignores %%, and Strings.validate() lints the table for trailing %, unsupported conversions, and mixed positional/sequential placeholders

• Authored scenario content: Joke Shop reservation-without-ID, borrowed/mismatched ID, a guest who refuses the wand screen, and a late arrival during a performance; Studio filming-boundary repeats and a celebrity arrival that draws a small crowd; Building events that point the player at the body camera and request-reason verbs

• Visual polish pass (v0.2.0): phase-based lighting (sun/sky/ambient per shift phase), street lamps with night-mode bulbs and omni lights, glowing marquee signage, crosswalk, planters and low-poly street trees, NPC height/brightness variety, denser routine traffic — day and late-night screenshot sets

• Assets pass: authored textures in assets/textures/ (brick facade, concrete, asphalt, awning, skyline, vignette, HUD icons, access-card art) generated by tools/generate_textures.py, soft sun shadows, humanoid NPC rigs with archetype props + procedural walk bob and attention head-turn, inspection artifact cards, escalation vignette, mode icons, and a body-camera overlay (REC + shift clock)

• Rendering pass (v0.3.0 work, ADR-0012): one material module with roughness/metallic profiles per surface, ACES tonemapping, glow, aerial fog and colour grading driven by the shift phase, correctly scaled brick, framed facade windows that light up at night, door trim and handles, a curb and lane dashes, and the glowing marquee/lamp bulbs. NPCs gained per-role clothing palettes, caps/hoods/backpacks/sunglasses/lanyards, hands and shoes, and an arm/leg walk swing

• NPC characters (v0.5.0): articulated limb rigs, layered outfits, hand items, face/hair variety, idle behaviour (phone, clipboard, crossed arms, look-around), escalation gestures, readable reaction symbols, door-queue offsets, and three LOD tiers with a billboard impostor

• Player movement (v0.5.0): separate acceleration/braking, step-up assist, head bob and landing dip (toggleable), precision-walk FOV/chip/tick, surface-aware footsteps, gamepad support, and persistent key/button remapping in settings

• Prop collision and placement (v0.4.0): every prop fits a static collider from its mesh bounds and publishes a navigation obstacle, so the guard and guests cannot walk through benches, bins, or bollards; placements are grouped into zones with a validator, and deterministic variants add rotation, scale, and small clutter

• Prop atlas (v0.3.1): tools/model_pipeline.py packs each prop's palette into one power-of-two colour atlas plus a metallic/roughness atlas and emits a single material with per-vertex UVs, so a prop is one draw material rather than one per part; audit enforces the contract

• Generated prop models (v0.3.0 work): tools/model_pipeline.py builds bollards, benches, bins, planters, newspaper boxes and a hydrant as .glb props with per-part materials, loaded by WorldBuilder with a procedural fallback; the optional AI concept step (model_pipeline.py concept) supplies per-prop colour palettes

• Environment pass (v0.6.0): 1024² brick/concrete/asphalt with derived tangent normal maps, 256² baked AO maps for every Blender character/gear/prop, and library props whose bulbs/LEDs/sign faces follow the day/night phase

• NPC characters + library (v0.6.0): NpcAvatar loads one of 8 Blender-authored skinned variants (role/seed selected) with five tintable material slots, Rig/Head focus anchor, and attach-point gear; npc_base.glb and the procedural rig remain fallbacks. tools/blender_assets.py builds/audits the character, gear, and 20-prop library; WorldBuilder loads the replacements and new street dressing (lamp, trees, palms, planters, barriers, podium, doors, marquee, sedan, handrail) with colliders, navigation obstacles, and phase-driven emissives

• Web build: build/gig-line-web-<version>.zip (Godot's non-threaded web template, no COOP/COEP headers needed) built by tools/build_releases.sh and published with the desktop artifacts; serve the unzipped folder from any static host

• Aim-free selection pass (v0.3.0 work, ADR-0011): the focus cone ranks candidates by angle then distance, Tab and the mouse wheel cycle nearby people nearest-first and pin the selection, right click clears focus with a short re-acquire grace, the HUD reports how many people are in the ring, and holding Shift walks at half speed for close work

• Visual alignment: start/venue menu, pause, settings, shift review, radio, wand, inspection, timeline, HUD target chip/escalation bar, and radial menu now use or match their AI references in assets/images/ui/. The runtime art loader (src/game/ui/art.gd) falls back cleanly when a file is missing.

• Realism adoption (post-v0.6.0): v2 per-phase skylines and surface tiles with normal maps, retuned sun/exposure/fog, wet asphalt, denser foliage, a visible additive flashlight beam, and refreshed staging captures. tools/check_screenshots.sh is the repeatable capture/compare gate; judge is clean of diff verdicts.

• Input/reliability fixes: selecting a venue now releases the start-menu input lock and recaptures the mouse; the body-camera overlay no longer covers the shift status.

• Desktop HQ (v0.7.1): optional Forward+ Windows/Linux zip with volumetric fog, SDFGI and a volumetric flashlight; the default Compatibility/Web builds and headless tests gate the effect off. A/B captures live in docs/screens/realism/2026-11-01-forward-plus/.

• Venue geometry (v0.7.0): the Joke Shop now builds as a narrow brick alley with a warm wall lantern, shutters, dumpster/AC clutter and no skyline; the TV Studio builds a stone facade, bulb canopy, glossy black car and barrier line. WorldBuilder.VENUE_SPECS drives facade/street/nav dimensions, and GameManager rebuilds only the world container when the venue changes.

• Gear fit (post-v0.6.0): Blender gear is measured against the avatar head/skirt silhouette and the checks run in both the Python tooling and the headless suite. Sunglasses, the shoulder bag and the firefighter helmet were fitted to the new faces; the Influencer portrait and gallery were recaptured with a before/after report.

Not yet implemented: a desktop-only Forward+ preset (the renderer stays GL Compatibility for Web parity), live 3D body-camera replay, editor-based GUT integration, and crowd performance profiling/LOD (see TODO.md).