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# NPC roster visual review — 0.9.9
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**Status: revised after owner feedback; awaiting a second signoff.** This page is the single
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review point for the Quaternius roster in
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[ADR-0017](adr/0017-quaternius-npc-base.md) and
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[ADR-0018](adr/0018-quaternius-stage2-runtime-rig.md). Every character name the game ships is
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captured here at gameplay distance, in two studio views, and in the three animation poses the
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runtime drives.
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## What changed since the first review
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The first pass was signed off **with follow-ups** and rejected three checklist rows: faces at
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portrait distance, hands and hand-held gear, and head gear on the skull. The body findings were
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all build defects, not art. This revision covers what was fixed and what is still open.
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| Owner finding | Cause | Status |
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| --- | --- | --- |
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| `npc_guard` 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 the `cloth` slot, nothing is deleted |
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| `npc_firefighter`, `npc_crowd_d` broken shoulders | same, plus the deleted `Worker_Yellow` hat was the skull crown | fixed — the crown stays and takes the `hair` tint |
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| one unibrow on `npc_guard`, `npc_vest`, `npc_crowd_d` | the Worker's `Eyebrows` is one bar across the face and its eye quads are oversized | fixed — the bar is cut, the hoodie's brows are transplanted 20 mm above the eye line |
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| Worker roles had **no visible eyes** | the Worker's own eye quads sit inside the head | fixed — the hoodie's eye pair is transplanted with a 4 mm forward offset |
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| arms intersecting the body on `npc_dress`, `npc_jacket`, `npc_crowd_a`, `npc_crowd_d` | the baked rest aimed the upper arm straight down, which fails on the narrow bases | reduced — the arm rests 7° out from vertical (mesh width 0.180 → 0.220 on `casual`, 0.228 → 0.262 on `hoodie`) |
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| head gear did not sit on the skull | gear is authored around the procedural head centre (1.62); the Quaternius head centre is 1.69 | **resolved by removal** — see below |
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| performer cone swallowed the head | a 0.44 m cone authored for the old body | removed — the performer carries a baton and board in the hands |
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| faces had **no mouth at all** | none of the three upstream heads carries a mouth material | fixed — a small lip block is placed on the measured skin surface for every base (dark maroon, not tinted) |
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## Hats and head items
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**The firefighter helmet is the only head gear in the roster.** Caps, hoods and the performer cone
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were removed from the role table, the per-character gear list and the performer props, so no
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character can hide its face behind a hat. That also retired the head-gear lift/scale compensation
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the caps needed on the Quaternius head.
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| Role | Head gear | Body / hand items |
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| --- | --- | --- |
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| `npc_firefighter` | firefighter helmet | SCBA tank, flashlight |
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| `npc_influencer` | none | sunglasses, shoulder bag, phone |
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| `npc_tourist` | none | backpack, camera |
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| `npc_authorized_guest` | none | lanyard |
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| `npc_performer` | none | baton and board **in the hands** |
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| `npc_protester` | none | pole and sign **in the hands** |
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| every other role | none | role tint only |
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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 set, then profile. Use this for silhouette, head size and gear placement without perspective
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hiding anything.
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## 3. Crowd distance (8 m)
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The distance the player actually sees a passer-by from the sidewalk.
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## 4. Animation poses (idle / sit / walk contact)
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Six roles × three poses, driven by the real `_animate()` path with the FSM frozen. Check that arms
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hang instead of holding an A-pose, the seated pose puts the forearms on the thighs with the shins
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down, walk contact keeps contralateral opposition, and nothing pinches or detaches at the shoulder,
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elbow, hip or knee.
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## Signoff checklist
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Tick a verdict per row. A rejected row becomes a concrete `TODO.md` task, not an opinion.
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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 — brows, eyes, mouth, hair? | x yes ☐ no |
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| 4 | Do the hands and the hand-held items (camera, clipboard, board, baton, parcel) read correctly? | ☐ yes x no |
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| 5 | Is the firefighter helmet the only head gear, and does it sit correctly? | x yes ☐ no |
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| 6 | Are the role outfits believable for a Hollywood-boulevard shift? | 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 ☐ approved with the follow-ups below ☐ rejected
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## Still open
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Recorded as tasks in `TODO.md` under **Owner review findings**:
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1. **Eyes have no whites.** Every base uses single-colour quads, so eyes read as dark rectangles at
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portrait distance. A light sclera plus pupil on the `Eye` slot would finish the face.
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2. **Hands and hand-held gear — measured and re-fitted.** `fit` now measures hand gear against the
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Quaternius wrist (y 1.017) and reports `size_vs_head`, which turned "reads oversized" into a
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number. Only the `clipboard` was genuinely mis-authored (grip in the middle of the board); it now
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grips the top edge. The delivery parcel and the confused-visitor tray became carried props in
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the hands, and the `cap`/`hood` gear were retired with the hats, leaving a 15-piece set. The
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per-item table is in [`blender-assets.md`](blender-assets.md#hand-item-fit-on-the-quaternius-rig).
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After the owner's grip-height feedback every hand item drops into the palm (`HAND_ITEM_DROP`),
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the carried role props drop 0.06 m and the lanyard attach rose from y 1.30 to 1.38. Each piece
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is now also captured **worn by a real avatar**
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([`sheet_npc_gear_on_character.jpg`](blender_previews/sheet_npc_gear_on_character.jpg)) — check
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row 4 against that sheet. **Row 4 is the one still needing an owner verdict.**
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3. **Arms still graze the torso on the `worker` base** — the 7° rest tilt cleared the `casual` base
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but not this one.
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4. **The `npc_vest` clipboard is oversized** on the shorter Quaternius arm.
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5. **Roster variety is three meshes for twelve roles.** Tint and gear carry the difference; the
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modular part library (hair, outfits) is the fix.
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6. `npc_dress` and `npc_hoodie` have no coat or dress geometry — they are the `casual`/`hoodie`
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bases with a matching tint.
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## Measured facts
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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, before the head transplant) … 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 | 1.82–1.88 m |
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| 24-NPC frame budget | 174,976 tris, 0.85 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 \
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--out=res://tmp/npc-signoff-pose --pose=idle # repeat for sit and walk_contact
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```
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## History
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The page previously carried the 0.9.4 **procedural library** baseline (eight hand-built characters,
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the face/hand/neck fixes, the 13-core proportion audit). That mesh no longer ships; its comparison
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sheets stay in `blender_previews/` as records:
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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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Per-character sources and build steps are in
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[`npc-model-sourcing.md`](npc-model-sourcing.md); 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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