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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Each of the 19 ped rigs carried 1-9 primitives / 1-3 materials (fleet 92 draws,
~116 at the 24-rig near cap). merge_ped.py (Blender) merges each to 1 primitive +
1 atlased material: join meshes -> pack material UVs into a non-overlapping atlas UV
-> EMIT-bake base-colours into one 1024 atlas -> single material. Skinning + skeleton
preserved (65 joints, walk/idle untouched, clips retarget unchanged). Fleet 92->19
draws (1/ped); near-cap 116->24 (79% cut). Verified in vendored GLTFLoader: all 19
load as SkinnedMesh + bind walk; man_suit poses byte-identical to original. Hands to
Lane D (D1) for full validation + full-density numbers, then F flips the roster.
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weld + meshopt simplify (--ratio 0.05 --error 0.12); skinning + skeleton preserved
(65 joints intact), walk/idle clips untouched, silhouettes clean at street distance.
Originals backed up to gitignored pipeline/.peds_orig/. Hands to Lane D (D2) for rig
validation; Lane F re-measures gate 3 (~24-rig cap × ≤3k ≈ ≤67k fleet).
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Populate the town at city scale, on budget, deterministic per-citizen identity:
- rigs.js — ported 90sDJsim rig stack: mixamorig canonicalisation so one shared
walk clip drives all 19 peds, head-bone height-normalise, feet-plant, pooled
near-tier actors with walk<->idle crossfade
- impostor.js — 4-yaw sprite-atlas baker + instanced billboards: whole mid crowd
in 1 draw call, tone-matched to the ACES near rigs
- sim.js — deterministic roster, footpath lanes off the street graph, near/mid/far
LOD with hysteresis + hard 24-cap, staggered mixer budget, time-of-day density
- placeholder.js — seeded low-poly box humanoids (frame-one population + ?noassets)
- keepers.js — one keeper per shop at the counter, idle + greet-turn
- 21 ped GLBs (byte-identical from 90sDJsim), citizens_test.html harness,
LANE_D_NOTES.md, 5 beauty shots
Verified in-browser: 200 citizens at max mixer 0.2ms (budget 2ms), near capped 24,
determinism holds (200 identities match seed), no T-pose, ?noassets crash-free.
Consumes Lane A plan.streets with zero adapter. Six adversarial-review bugs fixed
(non-deterministic fleet order, shared-resource disposal on pool eviction,
impostor colour-management).
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