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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- LANE_E_NOTES §39: RECOMMENDATION TAKE THE GLB, on three findings in the order they decide it
(80.5% of drawn frames are PERCHED and the perch is the pose E's asset already is; E reads pied
at 64/48/32 px and under a 25% smear while B reads as a dark aeroplane; and B's white is
geometrically buried — the wing bar sits 3 mm ABOVE a horizontal wing plane, so from underneath,
which is where the player always is, the black wing occludes its own white flash).
- Three asks filed for Lane B, none of them edits: magpie.js's two stale 154-tri comments (:9, :123
against a measured 182); the wing bar's side (y 0.048 -> ~0.042 is +0 tris and fixes ?classic and
?noassets whatever Fable rules); and two GROUND_FALLBACK entries so the arcade is not grey
without assets.
- The arcade measured, with the awning-post finding: two post rows 1.00 m apart down a 5.00 m lane.
- AUDIT §Round 39 §0 makes the sizing law a STANDING INSTRUCTION with two new clauses: draws are
counted per CLASS (town-wide InstancedMesh +1 vs per-chunk +1 x 25 live chunks), and for a SKIN
the budget is the SLOT, not bytes (36 facade-atlas slots, 22 used, 14 free — past 36 skins.js
silently REUSES one).
- pipeline/skin_sheet.py: wrap-preview + measured seam error, the check R38's stretched grounds
needed before the harvest instead of after.
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- pipeline/dump_bird.mjs: imports web/js/world/magpie.js UNMODIFIED (bare 'three' resolved to the
repo's vendored build through a node resolve hook) and dumps birdGeometry() — so the A/B is
against Lane B's actual bird, not a port. MEASURED 182 tris / 216 verts. --sim walks a player
past a territory on magpie.js's own clock: drawn 54.1% of frames, and OF THOSE perched 80.5% /
swooping 7.7% / returning 11.8%.
- pipeline/bird_to_glb.py: wraps the dump as a GLB in E's frame (head +Z, +Y up) so the identical
render_views.py rig shoots both; --fold applies the perch pose (x x 0.42). glb_stat re-measures 182.
- pipeline/render_views.py --noemit: strips emission from BOTH candidates. normalize.py's
emissiveFactor 0.28 is albedo-MODULATED; a vertex-coloured mesh cannot express that in glTF and
Blender writes a flat 0.28 that lifts a black bird to grey. Off both sides or the picture lies.
- pipeline/view_sheet.py --ab: the strip as a GRID (one line per candidate, stacked) plus two
linear motion-blur blocks at 25% and 100% of the bird's width, and a wrapped notes footer.
- docs/shots/laneE/r39_magpie_ab.png — the sheet Fable rules on.
Recommendation in LANE_E_NOTES; picture first.
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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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A. PIPELINE FIX: gen_props.py trellis_mac -> trellis2_mlx, contract read from its
manifest.json. The two operators are NOT drop-in on output — trellis2_mlx writes
BOTH candidate.glb (raw) and candidate_pbr.glb (baked), so the old
sorted(rglob('*.glb'))[0] would have silently shipped untextured meshes. Added
_pick_glb() (result.json first) + the bg_remove_local cutout stage, fail-soft.
MEASURED: median 128.0s vs trellis_mac's 245.4s p50 = 1.92x. 5/5 first attempt,
0 retries against the 4-5% budget. One 489s tail outlier, no error — named.
B. AUDIO (1.1) — six PACK entries, +0.86MB, ZERO draws/tris, all originalby
construction: dog-bark-fence, mower-distant, radio-through-window, sprinkler,
roller-door, magpie-carol. Seeded via crc32(name); beds fold seamlessly
(wrap-jump <=0.18x internal step). Verified by spectrogram + band-energy, and
one defect found by LOOKING: the sprinkler's spray masked its own ticks and read
as a hose — rebalanced and re-rendered. Distance is spent in the SPECTRUM, not
the level, because encode()'s loudnorm undoes a quiet render.
C. GROUNDS (1.2) — gen_skins.py had NO ground template; added one with its own
outdoor style prefix (the house STYLE says "warm fluorescent", an interior cue).
4 new 512^2 square tiles. Review's 5.7s is 9.7s here — same per-pixel, mine are
1.78x the pixels. Found: gravel/reddust are selected by nothing partly because
their `use` values name no slot ground.js:177 has.
D. MESHES — 3 shipped (magpie 894 tris, paling_fence 1121, water_tank 500), all
GLB-law clean. 2 FAILED and were DELETED: hills_hoist + tv_aerial. Thin wire
returns as thousands of disconnected fragments, so collapse floors at 250k/89k
AND a remesh coarse enough for 600 tris erases the pole. Lane B's boxMats
primitives cost +0 draws and are strictly better. The magpie's geometry passes
but TRELLIS crushed its white nape/wing to black — traced to the operator's bake
(the cutout and our decimation are both exonerated); flagged, not hidden.
E. REUSE — all 9 idle assets re-measured; the review's "one line each" holds for
only 5. furniture.js's extractGLB keeps only the FIRST material, so park_bench/
coffee_table/box_crate render in material #1 and bench_wood (0 materials) falls
to grey. Nothing was regenerated that already existed.
The 3 GLBs are staged, NOT published: a depot push is outward-facing and had no
in-session authorization. Held at _r38_results.PENDING_PUBLISH.json; publish +
rename + rebuild lands them. Gate green: validate_manifest 0 errors / 0 warnings.
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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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Audit -> normalize (16 GLBs + thumbs) -> web/assets/manifest.json (the
contract Lanes B/C/D read) -> facade gap-fill.
Step 4 facades generated locally on the M3 Ultra via MODELBEAST
flux_local (FLUX.2-klein-4B / MLX on MPS): 23 skins, free, ~5.7s each,
blank signboard, eyeballed, harvested, mapped to shop types. Every
registry type now has >=3 facades (stall 2->4, closing the Lane A gap).
Corner-lot -side walls tagged face:"side" with empty types so no shop
front ever selects a windowless wall. manifest validates green.
Still gated on John (both optional -- the game runs asset-free):
publish the 16 GLBs to 3GOD (needs GOD3_PW), MeshGod hero props (~$2.70).
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