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# NPC roster visual review — 0.9.9 signoff
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**Status: awaiting owner visual signoff.** This page is the single review point for the
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Quaternius roster swap that shipped in 0.9.9
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([ADR-0017](adr/0017-quaternius-npc-base.md), [ADR-0018](adr/0018-quaternius-stage2-runtime-rig.md)).
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Every character name the game ships is captured here at gameplay distance, in three studio views,
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and in the three animation poses the runtime drives.
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Until this page is signed off, the roster swap is reversible: the procedural library and the
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MakeHuman head are still in the tree and still pass `audit`, `inspect`, `npc_proportions` and the
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tests (`build --source procedural`).
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## 1. Full-body roster (12 roles)
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One tile per shipped character, neutral studio, camera at 4.2 m.
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## 2. Front and profile per role
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Front row set, then profile. Use this to judge the silhouette, the head size and the gear placement
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without perspective hiding anything.
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## 3. Animation poses (idle / sit / walk contact)
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Six representative roles × three poses, driven by the real `_animate()` path with the FSM frozen.
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Check: arms hang instead of holding an A-pose, the seated pose puts the forearms on the thighs and
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keeps the shins down, the walk contact keeps limbs in contralateral opposition, and no limb
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pinches or detaches at the shoulder, elbow, hip or knee.
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## 4. Crowd distance (8 m)
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The distance the player actually sees a passer-by from the sidewalk.
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## Signoff checklist
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Tick each row. Anything you reject is a concrete task rather than an opinion, so it can go
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straight into `TODO.md`.
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| # | Question | Verdict |
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| --- | --- | --- |
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| 1 | Do the twelve characters read as distinct people at 8 m? | [x] yes [ ] no |
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| 2 | Is the head size right for the body (no bobblehead, no pinhead)? | [x] yes [ ] no |
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| 3 | Do the faces hold up at portrait distance? | [ ] yes [x] no |
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| 4 | Do the hands and the hand-held gear (camera, cup, clipboard, sign) read correctly? | [ ] yes [x] no |
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| 5 | Does the head gear (cap, hood, sunglasses, firefighter helmet) sit on the skull? | [ ] yes [x] no |
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| 6 | Are the role outfits believable for a Hollywood-boulevard shift (tourist, delivery, guard, responder)? | [x] yes [ ] no |
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| 7 | Are the seeded tint palettes acceptable, or too pastel/saturated? | [x] yes [ ] no |
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| 8 | Do the seated and walking poses hold up? | [x] yes [ ] no |
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**Signoff:** [ ] approved as shipped [x] approved with the follow-ups below [ ] rejected
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## Issues visible in the captures
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The first review pass found three body defects. All three came from the build pipeline,
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not the art, and all three are addressed in the second pass (2026-11-06):
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| Finding | Cause | Status |
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| `npc_guard` has holes in the upper body | the build **deleted** the `Worker_Vest` material, and on the modular Worker the vest *is* the torso | **fixed** — the vest is now the `cloth` slot, tinted per role; nothing is deleted |
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| `npc_firefighter`, `npc_crowd_d` have a broken shoulder/upper-body area | same cause, plus the deleted `Worker_Yellow` hat was the crown of the skull, leaving the head open | **fixed** — the hat/crown stays in the mesh and only the part above z 1.65 takes the `hair` tint |
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| `npc_guard`, `npc_vest`, `npc_crowd_d` have one big unibrow | the Worker's `Eyebrows` material is one continuous bar, and no other upstream head has brows that fit this mesh | **replaced** — the bar is cut out and the hoodie's two brows are transplanted onto the Worker head, lifted above the eye quads |
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| `npc_dress`, `npc_jacket`, `npc_crowd_a`, `npc_crowd_d` arms intersect the body | the baked rest aimed the upper arm straight down, which works on the wide bases but not the narrow ones | **reduced** — the arm now rests 7° out from vertical (mesh width 0.180 → 0.220 on `casual`, 0.228 → 0.262 on `hoodie`); a light clip remains on the `worker` bases |
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Follow-up pass (same day) went further on the Worker head, which still read as a hard hat under
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the bare tint:
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| Finding | Fix |
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| --- | --- |
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| crown still shaped like a hard hat | the hoodie's **hair** is transplanted onto the Worker head and the hat faces above the collar are cut away, so guard/responder/crowd_d have hair |
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| the dark bar was the Worker's *eye* quads, not only the brow bar | the eye quads are removed too; the face now reads brows + moustache |
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| performer cone swallowed the head, and the performer/protester props floated beside the body | `_add_props()` now parents carried props to the hand proxies and the cone shrank from a 0.44 m to a 0.25 m base |
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Re-verified after the fix with the sheets below and the vision judge: no holes or missing geometry
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on any of the three Worker-based roles.
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**Still open** — checklist rows 3, 4 and 5 plus the list below: the Worker crown still reads as a
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hard hat because that is upstream geometry, the eye/brow mass still reads heavy at portrait
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distance, and the arms still graze the torso on the `worker` base.
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Found by user:
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1. npc_firefighter, npc_guard and npc_crowd_d have errors in the body:
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- npc_guard has "holes" in upper body
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- npc_firefighter and npc_crowd_d have buggy shoulder and upper body area
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2. npc_guard, npc_vest and npc_crowd_d have one large unibrow: use other character's eyebrow geometry instead.
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3. npc_dress, npc_jacket, npc_crowd_a and npc_crowd_d arms are too close and intersecting the body
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Found while building this page; none blocks the swap, all are queued in `TODO.md`:
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1. **`npc_dress` wears the performer cone hat plus the protest sign** because the performer props
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are procedural and scaled for the old body. The dress itself has no geometry anymore — the role
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is the `casual` base with a dress tint.
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2. **`npc_coat` and `npc_hoodie`** are the hoodie base with a coat/hood tint; the raised hood and
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the long coat silhouette are gone.
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3. **The `npc_vest` clipboard** reads oversized at 0.23 × 0.31 m on the shorter Quaternius arm.
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4. **The firefighter helmet brim** is 1.55× the head width — realistic for the helmet, but it reads
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as a wide-brim hat next to the small head.
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5. **Skin and cloth read pale** on the `hoodie` and `worker` bases; the seeded palette was tuned
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against the procedural library's darker cloth.
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6. **Roster variety is three meshes for twelve roles.** Tint and gear carry the difference; the
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modular part library is the fix.
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## Measured facts for this build
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| Metric | Value |
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| Characters | 12, all on the Quaternius 62-joint rig |
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| Triangles per character | 4,458 (`worker` minus vest) … 6,424 (`casual`) |
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| glTF vertices per character | 9,370 … 13,440 |
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| Budget | 24,000 tris / 24,000 verts per character |
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| Tint slots | `skin`, `cloth`, `pants`, `hair`, `accessory`, plus fixed detail |
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| Texel density | 73–74 px/m on the 256² maps |
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| Height | 1.817–1.881 m |
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| 24-NPC frame budget | 160,608 tris, 0.84 ms average frame (budget 50 ms) |
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| Gates | `inspect` clean, `audit` 12/12, `fit` OK, Godot 278/278, Python 167/167 |
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## Reproducing the captures
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```sh
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godot --path . --script res://src/test/capture_npc_baseline.gd -- --out=res://tmp/npc-signoff
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godot --path . --script res://src/test/capture_npc_pose.gd -- --out=res://tmp/npc-signoff-pose \
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--pose=idle # repeat for sit and walk_contact
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```
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## Superseded
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This page previously carried the **0.9.4 procedural library** baseline (eight hand-built
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characters, the face/hand/neck fixes, the 13-core proportion audit). That mesh no longer ships, so
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the text is retired; the comparison sheets stay in `blender_previews/` as history:
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`sheet_npc_baseline_compare-p1.jpg`, `-body.jpg`, `-torso.jpg`, `-face-detail.jpg`,
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`sheet_npc_hands_compare.jpg`, `sheet_npc_hands_grip_compare.jpg`.
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The current source evaluation and per-character build table live in
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[`npc-model-sourcing.md#shipped-roster-099-owner-chose-the-full-swap`](npc-model-sourcing.md#shipped-roster-099-owner-chose-the-full-swap);
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the face options that led to the full swap are in
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[`screens/npc-face-gate/`](screens/npc-face-gate/README.md).
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