Lane C measured the bookshelf's transmission halving interior draws (opshop/hall 191->104, book/hall
101->51, dept/hall 116->116 control). The cause, with vendored line numbers: three.module.js:16209
enters renderTransmissionPass(opaqueObjects, ...) whenever currentRenderList.transmissive is
non-empty, and :16433 re-renders the WHOLE OPAQUE LIST into a render target — every opaque draw
issued twice. Trigger is material.transmission > 0 (:6890), set from the glTF at GLTFLoader:1202.
And at 1.0 it is not 'a bit glassy': :494 does totalDiffuse = mix(totalDiffuse, transmitted.rgb,
material.transmission) — the diffuse term is REPLACED by the backdrop.
I SCANNED ALL 103 GLBs. Three carried it:
procity_fit_bookshelf_01 mtl_10218_Bookshelves_v1 shipped and hurting (C's)
procity_street_longbench_01 lambert3SG NOT WIRED — the 5.86 m arcade bench
the v9 charter names, on my R38
recommend list for Lane B
procity_street_streetlight_01 Streetlight_HighResSG3 NOT WIRED — one per ~18 m of street
The two unwired ones are the worse finding: the street budget is 292/300 with EIGHT draws of margin,
and a pre-pass there costs another ~292, not eight. Armed, not fired.
FIXED SURGICALLY. pipeline/strip_transmission.py rewrites only the JSON chunk and copies BIN through,
printing sha1(BIN) before and after: BIN IDENTICAL on all three, tris/dims/mtl/img/tex unchanged.
KHR_materials_ior deliberately left (ior does not trigger the pre-pass).
PUBLISHED + VERIFIED under John's R22 standing authorization via the passwordless tailnet ingress:
6/6 HTTP 200 off the PUBLIC depot, byte counts exact, sha1 identical, depot copies re-scanned clean.
_published.json 56 -> 59.
GATED, which matters more than the fix: validate_manifest.py now HARD FAILS on transmissionFactor>0
with the three.js line numbers and the fix command in the message; glb_stat.py grew a transmission
column and a loud footer. Nobody looked for three epochs because a bookshelf is obviously not glass.
ALSO: the arcade's three meshes, published and catalogued the same round they were generated —
aframe_board 366 tris (<=16 inst), blade_sign 299 (17 inst), keycutter_sign 498 (1 inst). manifest
furniture 13->16, GLBs 36->39, validate 0 errors 0 warnings. blade_sign ships FLAGGED: its back face
carries TRELLIS-hallucinated art where the concept had no data, which is one more reason the
+0-draw perpendicular-quad answer is the recommendation and this GLB is the fallback.
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A. DEPOT — closed, under John's R22 standing Lane-E authorization (the authority that
shipped sit.glb in R28 and the nine R36 sweep assets). Pushed via the passwordless
tailnet ingress: _published.json 53 -> 56, drift check clean. Then verified the way
this lane verifies — FETCHED BACK OFF THE PUBLIC DEPOT and hashed, not "the upload
said 200": magpie/paling_fence/water_tank all HTTP 200, byte counts exact, sha1
identical to local, 3/3. _r38_results.PENDING_PUBLISH.json renamed, build_manifest
re-run (GLBs 33 -> 36), validate_manifest 0 errors / 0 warnings.
B. THE MAGPIE TINT — done, not offered. The bird shipped as an all-black crow (R38 4d
traced the loss to trellis2_mlx's PBR bake). "Hand-tint the atlas" is not a paint job:
the bake is a smart-UV unwrap of ~100 islands and none of them announces itself as a
nape. So pipeline/tint_atlas.py defines the tint in the MESH's frame and projects it
through the UVs — rasterize every UV triangle to texel->(position,normal), evaluate
soft anatomical windows on the positions (white nape behind a black crown, shoulder
bar on the flanks only so the dorsal midline stays black, rump + tail base stopping
short of the black terminal band), paint keeping the bake's own luminance as shading,
then dilate 5 texels into the UV padding so no black fringe survives bilinear/mip.
3-D masks give one consistent soft edge across every island at once; a 2-D blur could
not (it would bleed island-to-island through the black background).
GEOMETRY UNTOUCHED byte for byte: still 894 tris / 1 mtl / 1 img / 512^2 WebP / no
Draco / 0.155x0.358x0.404 m. Painted luma median 0.84 (p90 0.95) vs the bake's 0.13.
VERIFIED IN THE GAME'S OWN RENDERER: the PUBLISHED file loaded off digalot.fyi through
the vendored GLTFLoader + three.js — 1 mesh, 894 tris, 512x512 texture decoded (which
also proves the PIL-written WebP decodes in a browser).
VERDICT: it reads. Pied and unmistakable at 64 and 48 px, still black-and-white at 32.
Honest caveat: from directly below-and-in-front it stays dark — correct, a real
magpie's bib and belly ARE black. Render: docs/shots/laneE/r38_magpie_tint.png.
Standing after B's 4514cb9: an UPGRADE PATH, not a dependency — B's 182-tri procedural
bird is 4.9x lighter and the right call. Nothing probes for the GLB and nothing should.
C. CORRECTIONS FOLDED INTO THE RECORD so the next asset round does not re-learn them:
skins are 9.7 s not 5.7 s (1024^2, 1.78x the pixels, per-pixel identical) - the reuse
list's "one line each" holds for 5 of 9 (extractGLB keeps only the FIRST material) -
normalize.py's collapse decimator floors at the shell count on TRELLIS output while
bake_lowpoly.py clears it every time - the 489 s outlier at 3.8x median means
throughput plans on a tail, not a mean - furniture.js:30's stale comment is fixed by B.
NEW, and the one worth keeping: an asset's tri budget is tris x THE INSTANCE COUNT THE
PLACEMENT RULE IMPLIES. paling_fence is a good 1,121-tri panel and a rejected asset —
905 instances = 1.01M tris, ~47x over. Ask the consuming lane for the instance count
BEFORE generating anything that tiles, edges or repeats per-lot.
New tools, all on-device and $0: tint_atlas.py, render_views.py (view sheet + --eevee +
roster-consistent --thumb), view_sheet.py (the distance strip no 256px thumbnail can make).
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046668e + b339402 provenance'd: 4 dance clips are ROKOKO free mocap (263 pack,
Mixamo-skeleton export — the brief's Mixamo guess corrected by measurement; new
licence-table zone) and there are FIVE trellis DJ bodies, not three. All 9
sha1-identical to their 90sDJsim originals; chain recorded to source FBXs.
Structural: clips mesh-free 68n/198t/52-joint skin+IBM, 0 NaN, bind 65/66 (only
mixamorigReference unbound); bodies 3998-4000 tris, 1024 webp, no Draco, ped law
PASS. FLAG -> F w2: bodies' bind-pose ~0.99 units vs roster ~175 (cm) — the
figure-scale gate's expected number; rigs.js:163 absorbs it at spawn. No file
touched, nothing fixed in place.
Depot: published per R22 standing authorization via tailnet ingress,
_published.json 44->53, all 9 fetched back from the public depot byte-identical.
validate_manifest 0/0, publish --verify 53/53 live.
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look.glb — DONE, published, verified. Looking_Around.fbx (675 KB) from the CACHED tailnet stash (not
re-downloaded — the asset-pipeline skill's law) -> fbx_to_clip.py -> web/models/peds/look.glb: mesh-free,
65 mixamorig joints, 195 tracks, inverseBindMatrices present, 136 KB. Structurally identical to the
sit.glb precedent on every measurable field (meshes/nodes/skins/joints/bind), so D's _canon binds it
exactly like walk/idle/sit. Depot: published to digalot.fyi/3god under John's R22 standing authorization
for Lane E assets (_published.json 43 -> 44), verified by fetching the bytes BACK from the public depot:
https://digalot.fyi/3god/a/look.glb -> HTTP 200, 139,640 bytes, sha1 identical to local.
-> D: it's ready. Gate it behind an opt the way rigs.js gates sit (loadPedFleet(base, { sit })) — a raw
fetch would breach the ?classic=1 zero-fetch-delta covenant, same as sit.glb.
`lean` DOES NOT EXIST — the spike's premise is half wrong. The brief and kickoff both say "two of the 34
already-cached clips (lean, look-around)" and "Spike 1 needs nothing from anyone". look-around is cached;
lean is not, anywhere. Measured, not assumed: the stash's 34 clips contain no lean; `find ~/Documents
-iname "*lean*"` on ultra returns nothing (not mixamo-fetch, not character_kit, not 3D=models, no FBX by
that name at any depth); and the fetch tool cannot help unattended — `node fetch.cjs search "lean"` ->
"FATAL nothing on debug port 9222 — quit Brave and relaunch with --remote-debugging-port=9222". It needs
John's logged-in Brave session (his browser, his Mixamo account); I won't relaunch it.
I did NOT substitute a lookalike. `Bored` is the nearest stash clip and it is a standing weight-shift idle,
not a wall-lean — D's half explicitly needs shopfront adjacency ("lean against a wall wants the same care"),
so a standing idle would quietly change what Spike 1 proves. Half a spike, honestly, beats a whole one that
lies. -> John: one small unblocker — relaunch Brave with --remote-debugging-port=9222 and open a Mixamo
tab; the fetch+convert is minutes once the token exists.
Instrument LOD — D killed it and D's measurement is better than mine. I had built the five _lo variants in
scratch (14k -> 3500/3500/4000/6000/3000) when D's commit landed saying "E: STOP — do not build the _lo
variants". Nothing shipped; scratch discarded. D measured the rooms an LOD must fire in: max diagonal 15.2m
in the largest venue, so the player can never be far enough — practical win 0 tris. My own reading reached
the same verdict by another route, recorded as corroboration: C's §4 already says "the interior gate is
DRAWS; tris are the STREET budget (200k)", and an LOD swap does not change draws at all (same object, same
material, fewer tris) — the item's entire win landed on a metric no interior gate reads. Two independent
measurements, one verdict. Salvage if it ever returns: at ~3k the guitar_amp SHREDS (white gaps punched
through its silhouette — confirmed against the shipped 14k thumb as a decimation artifact, not a source
defect, per the R22 food_cart discipline); it needs 6k to read clean. The other four were clean at 3-4k.
-> A: your own file's comment now contradicts its code. Chasing why the fingerprint read 0x5f76e76 rather
than the 0x3fa36874 I'd seen every round, I confirmed it is LEGITIMATE — your R27 w5 facade fix re-pinned
51 goldens under the amended covenant. But selfcheck.js:267 pins hash: 0x5f76e76 while selfcheck.js:301
still says "the synthetic golden above stays 0x3fa36874". Code and comment disagree by 34 lines — the exact
species as R24's validator bug (my docstring said nested, my code read top-level); the next reader trusts
whichever they read first. Your file, your call; flagging per the round's "flag loudly if anything
disagrees".
Gates: selfcheck ALL GREEN 156,352/156,352 · qa.sh --strict 6 passed / 0 failed. look.glb moves NO golden —
proved by moving it aside and re-running: the fingerprint is identical either way, because an unreferenced
clip is never fetched.
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B's diagnosis nailed it: 149,161 of 163,015 tris (91.5%) at katoomba venue_night were four of my GLB
street props. Buildings 348, posters 222 (A's cap worked, never the lever), pools 0. B's sharpest point:
it is NOT the density widening -- road density drives the bench/bin/shelter cadence (~100 props on a
966-edge real graph).
Fix (collapse-decimate via the R13 instrument tool; originals kept as _hi):
bench 1942 -> 500 rendered 60,202 -> 15,500
bus_shelter 7998 -> 2500 rendered 55,986 -> 17,500
bin 3000 -> 800 rendered 18,000 -> 4,800
food_cart 4991 -> 1000 rendered 14,973 -> 3,000
furniture total 149,161 -> 40,800 (-108,361)
Projected view ~54.7k (B's 163,015 baseline) / ~113.6k (vs F's 221,935) -- PASSES the 200k gate either
way with 86-145k spare. F: these are projections off B's per-instance attribution; yours is the real
measure. -> F: RE-MEASURE.
Eyeballed every prop; two needed re-cutting: bus_shelter @1000 shredded (thin roof plate on a
voxel-remeshed shell) -> @2500 clean; bin @400 creased -> @800 clean. food_cart's black base slab is in
the SOURCE model (confirmed against the pre-diet thumb from git), not a decimation artifact.
Zero blast radius: dims/footprints/heights identical -> manifest.json byte-identical -> B's placement and
A's goldens untouched. Published 4 diet + 4 _hi archives to the depot (John re-authorized explicitly;
GLBs are git-ignored so the depot IS the archive).
-> Lane B (your 2nd note, cause found, NOT fixed by design): the MeshPhysicalMaterial on bench+food_cart
is KHR_materials_specular in the glTF, and it survives a Blender re-export. Fix = neutralise specular
pre-export. Deliberately deferred to v4.x: the gate is tris (cleared), and changing shipped shading in
a release round without a visual re-verify is risk for no gate benefit. Same list: food_cart is 3.1MB
on the depot -- 28 textures now dominate (tris are 1000); a texture-merge item, not a tri item.
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John OK'd direct publish. Pushed the 5 base instruments (14k) + 5 _hi hi-poly originals
via the passwordless tailnet ingress (this box is allowlisted). Public digalot.fyi now
serves the 14k bytes (amp 5.9MB->1.3MB) + the _hi originals; -70% decimation win is live
in production. _published.json 33->38; validate_manifest --depot GREEN. Gate-3 flag cleared.
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- publish.py: _published.json now MERGE (read existing → union → sorted write), never
replace — fixes the R5 --only clobber (27→1). Proven: a real no-op re-publish kept it
at 27. Added --verify + post-publish drift-check vs the live depot (/api/list procity_*).
- validate_manifest.py: new provenance-drift gate — every manifest procity_* GLB must be
in _published.json or QA fails. Proven: simulated clobber (→1) exits 1 w/ per-file errors.
- Record verified: 27-entry _published.json is byte-exact vs the live depot.
- qa.sh --strict GREEN (5 gates incl. F1 harness).
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Depot publish executed over the new passwordless tailnet path (allowlist auth,
GOD3_DEPOT=http://100.94.195.115:8788). Two contract bugs fixed en route:
- publish.py: /api/thumb wants JPEG keyed by the GLB name (was posting PNG keyed
by a .png name -> 404 that mislabelled successful GLB uploads as ERR); thumb
push now isolated per the MESHGOD house contract (cosmetic, never fails publish).
- validate_manifest.py: send a custom User-Agent (Cloudflare 403s Python-urllib
on the public path) + honor GOD3_DEPOT override like publish.py.
validate_manifest.py --depot -> 0 errors, 0 warnings. qa.sh --strict all green.
_published.json records the 16 published assets.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
