The town is inhabited: 23 towns finally differ, 181 back yards have a Hills Hoist with washing on it,
a magpie owns one street for six weeks of the year, and six point sources put a life off-screen.
MEASURED, walked, not bookmarked — two port-isolated no-store servers (:8472 = `git archive HEAD`,
:8471 = treatment, assets symlinked so E's mid-round wave is identical on both sides), 102 8-metre
spine steps at yaw 0, each frame fully streamed, through the shell's own composer:
worst draws 224 -> 225 (+1)
worst tris 89,502 -> 93,298 (+3,796 of ~75k spare)
sum draws over 102 frames 16,676 -> 16,663 (-13)
The citizen sim and the tram are hidden identically on both sides, and that IS the measurement: with
them live the same step read control 346 vs treatment 232, because peds spawn on wall-clock time.
`?yards=0` reproduces HEAD exactly (224 / 89,502 / 16,676). Isolated at a fixed pose: washing +1 draw
/ +512 tris, magpie +1 draw / +182 tris, every yard box prop +0 draws.
§1.2 THE CHARACTER VECTOR — +0 draws, +0 tris, classic byte-identical BY CONSTRUCTION.
`townCharacter(null)` returns the frozen v1 literals and a null tint keeps the SAME material cache key,
so classic gets the same object, not a copy of it: default-boot ground hashes identical to HEAD
mesh-for-mesh, `?classic=1` hashes unmoved from R37. There is no `if (classic)` in the ground path.
The sky feeds the BASE skyName, never `setSky` (a one-way latch that would have killed R32's dawn dome
on all 23 towns). The vacuous arm is per-town: `newtown_godverse` / `redhill_godverse` carry `state: ''`,
so a per-corpus arm would have dropped exactly those two silently. 21 distinct palettes across 23 towns.
`gravel` and `reddust` were not unwired but UNWIREABLE — their `use` values named no slot ground.js had;
making the slot addressable fixed it at the root, and both are selected now. E's three new grounds
landed mid-round and the upgrade was a name change in one table, which is what procedural-first is for.
§1.4 BACKYARD AUSTRALIA — inside boxMats, +0 draws. Houses inset off their boundaries so there is a
yard; 36 `yard` lots that had rendered as blank shopfront sheds since v1 are now fenced blocks with a
hoist, a shed and often a tank. Collision byte-identical (the lot rect is where the fence stands).
THE WASHING SHIPS, and I wrote the inverted weight rather than dropping it. The shipped top-weighted
mode moves a hem 0.10 cm calm / 0.67 cm gusty; `pegged` gives 4.5 cm / 31 cm — ~52x, and at the hem
instead of the pegs. The `canopy` string is byte-for-byte unchanged, so the gum-tree covenant argument
is untouched. It is ONE TOWN-WIDE InstancedMesh (1 draw at any N, cap 256, proximity-first off the R37
chunk seam) rather than per-chunk, which would have been +1 x 31 live chunks = 4x the whole margin.
Zero on every real town (no hoists ⇒ no mesh) and zero at night.
§1.3 THE MAGPIE — +1 draw on screen, exactly 0 otherwise; 182 tris of 900. Territory scales with the
road graph: 6 on the 6.78 km synthetic town, 157 on bendigo's 188.6 km / 2,593 edges, nearest 120 m
from spawn. The latch sets, the day roll clears it, localStorage gains no key and the save never
mentions it. `swoopPos()` is exported and pure. The hat stays cut.
MY OWN SEASON MECHANISM WAS VACUOUS AND THE SWEEP CAUGHT IT: keyed on citySeed alone it produced a
CONSTANT, because the town key is deliberately off the plan — 24 of 24 towns were 214 days from
swooping season, and it would have gated green because `?magpie=1` forces it. Re-keyed on
(citySeed, townKey): `newtown_real` is in season on arrival on the default seed, marrickville is 8 days
out, and 12.9% of 1,000 seeds put the synthetic default in season against a design ratio of 11.5%.
§1.1 THE AUDIO LAYER — six new mixer layers, zero draws, zero tris, seeded anchors, distance falloff,
AND A StereoPannerNode PER LAYER, so direction is real (measured spread -0.71..+0.85) instead of a
limitation written into the notes. Day-of-week derived locally. All six anchored on the default boot;
3 of 6 report `no-anchor` on real towns rather than being faked onto shopfronts. The falsifiability
control — one manifest key renamed away, served from a third port — makes that source report
`no-entry`, 0 plays, never `audible`, with the other five unchanged and zero console errors.
TWO DEFECTS MY OWN GREEN NUMBERS COULD NOT SEE, both caught by a screenshot: the washing shipped at 256
instances / +1 draw / cap respected and was INVISIBLE behind its own back fence (per-instance peg height,
and a fence taller than the hoist), and the magpie perched on THIN AIR over the road. R37's lesson
relearned at full price. Fence 1.60 / hoist 2.15 measured against the object; territories now snap to
furniture.js's own streetlight rule.
LANE E'S PROPS, ADJUDICATED: hoist + aerial permanently primitive (E's spike killed them, and primitive
is also the +0-draw mechanism). `paling_fence` at 1,121 tris x 905 runs = 1.01M triangles — no. The
`magpie` GLB is HELD FOR THE TINT: it reads as a crow, and a magpie seen for 1.2 s in peripheral vision
IS its white bar. My 182-tri bird already carries it, at a fifth of the triangles and no fetch.
furniture.js's "novelty_record is 26.5k tris" was stale by six epochs — corrected to 8,000.
Zero fetch delta: `?noassets=1` fetches the same 23 assets, same list, on HEAD and on R38.
0 console errors on 10 boots (default, classic, yards=0, washing=0&magpie=0&ambient=0, noassets,
magpie=1, darwin, hobart, bendigo, the patched-manifest control) beyond the known PointerLock ones.
Shots: docs/shots/laneB_r38/. Detail + every number: LANE_B_NOTES §38.
The measurement tables (+0 draws at every walked step on two towns, tris DOWN not up, the
raycast surface table, the ?verge=0 and classic hash pairs, the §0.4 hook proofs), plus
three things worth keeping:
- the defect my own numbers could not see (every intersection painted shut; all metrics
green, only the picture wrong) and why ?verge=0 + a screenshot caught it;
- a full-frame pixel A/B is not an A/B while a live sim is in the frame — hiding
everything but `ground` is what made the classic covenant measurable;
- the market plaza reads worse under the wider footpath, and that is the STANDING item
awaiting John's amendment, not new damage from §0.1.
- web/js/world/venue.js (new): createVenuePresentation — renders E's poster skins at plan.posters with band-name overprint (nameZone, seeded template, flat fallback if JPEG missing); lit pub marquee + bulb row over the door, update(gigState) ramps the glow. Constructed by the shell/F under ?gigs (like weather/tram).
- web/js/world/audio.js: muffled-gig spill — near the venue (<=26m) while a gig is at doors/on, pubrock-live plays through a 470Hz lowpass at low distance-gain. Reads window.PROCITY.gigs (F) with a plan.gigs+clock fallback.
- Prime flag law: inert/absent without the gig layer; goldens frozen (no citygen edits, selfcheck 3074/3074); byte-identical flags-off boot.
- Verified live on a gig plan: THE WOMBATTS posters over band-photo art, The Thornbury Hotel lit at night, spill gain ~0.14. F wiring documented in LANE_B_NOTES; streetlamp-pool stretch deferred.
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- web/js/world/audio.js: one AudioContext unlocked on first gesture; day/night ambience crossfade, rain (weather.intensity), footsteps, shop-door music spill (nearest open music-shop, distance-gain), tram rumble+bell, enterShop SFX. Consumes Lane E manifest.audio (3x retry). Self-ticks off window.PROCITY.
- House audio law verified live: silent pre-gesture (0 fetches), ?mute=1 silent surface (0 fetches), ?noassets=1 zero audio/manifest fetches, lazy-load (8.7MB<=25MB), no per-frame alloc.
- window.PROCITY.audio for Lane F: playInterior({musicKey,toneKey})/stopInterior (street beds duck while inside), playSfx, setMasterGain, mute, state diag. Confirms Lane C room.audio={musicKey,toneKey} contract.
- Small guarded [Lane B R11 audio] loader in index.html.
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- tram.js: 1 small bus, seeded out-and-back loop on the main-street spine,
door-dwell at each busShelterStops stop, ping-pong at ends. Deterministic,
exactly 2 draws, night headlights via lighting.isNight(). Flag-off identical.
Shell wiring (2 lines) documented for F in LANE_B_NOTES.
- dbg.js: 8 v2 tour bookmarks (16 total) incl. rain_verandah hero shot;
tram_stop now frames the nearest-origin (open) shelter stop.
- weather.js: cap rain gl_PointSize (clamp 2-22px) - near drops are thin
streaks now, not blobs. Rain smoke still GREEN.
- qa.sh --strict GREEN, golden hash frozen, flags-off byte-identical.
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New js/world/weather.js + a one-line lighting.setSky(). Seeded per citySeed (weatherFor):
~57/24/19% clear/overcast/rain over 400 seeds, deterministic. Rain = ONE draw (camera-following
Points + procedural streak/fall/wind shader) + wet ground (roughness/darken on shared ground mats,
restored on dispose) + matching rainy sky dome via lighting.setSky. Fully procedural (0 depot fetch).
- Exposes window.PROCITY.weather = { state:'clear'|'overcast'|'rain', intensity:0..1 } for Lane D's
weather-reactive crowds (decision #1). Documented the contract + the exact 3-line shell wiring for F
in LANE_B_NOTES (I don't touch index.html). ?weather=1 seeded (default town rolls clear);
?weather=rain|overcast|clear forces a state for demos/smokes.
- Worst view 141 draws day / 126 night (<=300); composes with ?winmap + night (rain outside a lit
interior-mapped window = the money shot, screenshotted); deterministic; 0 console errors; flag-off
byte-identical (shell never constructs it). Deferred cut line: vertex-shader wind sway on
trees/awnings (touches other lanes' materials) — noted, not done. Tram stretch not attempted.
qa.sh --strict GREEN (5/5).
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Consumes the two orphaned street GLBs via the use-if-ready furniture path (fail-soft; ?noassets →
primitives, 0 network).
- Bins: genuinely sparse (~1/block, s+=78m, seeded side), decoupled from benches — country town not
a mall. GLB on its 0.57x0.68 footprint.
- Bus shelters ON THE STREET GRAPH (future tram/bus stops): deterministic rule = midpoint of every
MAIN edge with hashEdge(id)%3===0, road-side footpath by the kerb, long axis along the edge, open
front to road -> 1-3/town (2 in seed 20261990). Solid oriented-rect collider (furniture now returns
colliders; chunks.js merges them into getColliders) -> walk-into-it is blocked. Exported
busShelterStops(plan) -> [{edgeId,x,z,yaw}] as the stop-list contract for the vehicle loop.
- Perf: worst view WITH rig-fleet citizens 94k tris / 148 draws (<=200k / <=300, big margin);
deterministic; all-flags-on (winmap+dig+roster) composes clean, 0 errors. street_bin GLB is 3k tris
-> flagged to Lane E as a decimation candidate (bounded by the sparse cadence for now).
qa.sh --strict GREEN.
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The Vuntra window trick — a passing pedestrian sees a plausible room through the shop glass with real
parallax, no geometry. One shared ShaderMaterial does single-cube interior mapping on the existing
window mesh (back wall + seeded shelves + side walls + floor/ceiling); per-shop variation via
aTangent/aTint/aSeed attributes, still 1 window draw/chunk. §3.5 held via the shared uHour/uNight +
aHours: night → open room glows warm, closed room dark.
v2 prime law: WINMAP is read from the URL in buildings.js (self-contained — no index.html seam; F
just needs a flags-table row). Flag-OFF byte-identical to v1 (windowQuad → v1 hoursQuad, v1
windowMaterial). Proven: flag-off windows MeshStandardMaterial w/ no winmap attrs; flag-on interior
ShaderMaterial; worst view 122-168 draws (<=300); 100% procedural (0 fetch delta vs ?noassets
baseline); 0 console errors; GOLDEN.hash untouched. Screenshots in docs/shots/laneB/winmap_*.
qa.sh --strict GREEN (4/4).
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- B1: per-shop closed-facade visuals — dark windows + red CLOSED plate + door tooltip, batched via a
per-vertex aHours attr + two shared shaders + one uHour/uNight uniform pair on a procity:segment
event (facade atlas untouched, no per-shop materials, no per-frame poll). 22:00 → only the openLate
video shop lit, all others CLOSED; ~200 draws worst-view with citizens.
- B2: the shots 'letterbox' was camera-jammed-into-a-wall poses, not a composer bug (composer proven
correctly sized headless). Reframed street_noon/arcade/warehouse to look down a street
(streetViewPose), added the 3 missing bookmarks, night_neon now frames the lit video shop amid
CLOSED neighbours, + a defensive composer resize. shots.py: 10 un-letterboxed shots, 0 errors.
- B3: furniture GLB use-if-ready upgrade (bench + food_cart, sit on their footprints) + novelty_record
placed at record stores. novelty_record GLB is 26.5k tris (5x glb_law) → stays low-poly primitive
until Lane E decimates it; ?noassets verified 0 network.
qa.sh --strict GREEN (4/4).
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- lighting.js sets scene.environment (neutral PMREM sky->ground gradient, no asset) in attachRenderer, before CitizenSim constructs; Lane D rig-fleet peds bake their impostor atlas from it and render dark if null. Verified set in street/night/interior + after interior-return.
- Re-measured worst continuous-walk view WITH citizens (pop 140, 125 active peds) via window.DBG: 263 scene / 275 total midday, 275 night -- <=300 everywhere. Radius-2 auto already the spawn default.
- Round-3 task 3 (furniture GLB footprints) standby: Fable s3.4 manifest upgrade not yet landed.
- Docs: LANE_B_NOTES.md + B-progress.md round-3 updates.
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