PROCITY/docs/LANES/ROUND42_INSTRUCTIONS.md

PROCITY — Round 42 instructions (from Fable, integrator)

Date: 2026-08-07 · R41 closed green (18 gates, d14cf7f pushed, goldens 0x5f76e76). Theme: THE LOOK. R41 furnished the rooms and filled the streets with postures; doing so made three cosmetic faults newly visible. John looked and said fix them. This round is a visual debt pass — no new systems, no new content, just making what shipped last round read right.

The three faults (Fable's own eyeball pass on R41's proof shots — go look before you start)

1. The pub props render as untextured white blobs. docs/shots/laneF_r41/pub_furnished.jpg — the couch and jukebox are lumpy white masses. E's own §41.2 note says 37 of 39 shipped with no texture at all; they are geometrically correct and visually unfinished. A 90s pub couch is brown vinyl or worn floral, not white.
2. The DJ booth reads as a plain black box. docs/shots/laneF_r41/record_dj_booth.jpg — the rigged Technics with working Platter_SPIN/Fader_PITCH nodes are in there, and at normal viewing distance you cannot tell it is a turntable setup. Right result, wrong read.
3. The ped roster does not fit 1990s Australia. There is a purple masked luchador in the pub crowd. The survey found ultra's 3D=models/characters/ is 83 FBX = 53 people-normal · 10 comical · 9 fantasy — some of the wrong 19 are in our shipped 24.

Standing debt this round also clears (all filed, all small)

• [B, from D] furniture.js puts the bench's front along the street, not facing the road — contradicting its own comment. D's citizens now sit on these benches, so it shows.
• [B, from D] one benchStops(plan) export retires D's derived-station mirror.
• [B, from F] one await document.fonts.ready in buildings.js — the sign-atlas font race that makes four bookmarks unreproducible across boots.
• [E, from B] the 19 base ped models have no per-asset licence record anywhere in this repo, and CITY_SPEC's declared zone includes CC-BY and paid-royalty-free. B built the credits surface; this round fills the rows. A ped we cannot licence is a ped we replace.
• [D, from F] r41_shots.py's browse arm is deterministically red (it re-enters the winner after a ~3 s/candidate scan, by which time the occupant has left) — currently warn-level.

INTEGRATOR RULINGS

1. Period law, now explicit: PROCITY is 1990s Australia. No fantasy, no superhero, no luchador, no anime, no medieval. If a model would look out of place on a suburban Sydney street in 1996, it does not ship. This applies to peds first and everything after.
2. Prefer CC0 or known-licence replacements — it fixes the look and the licence gap in one move. The survey found Quaternius (CC0) ships Casual, Casual2, Punk, Suit, Worker, Farmer, Beach: directly usable town archetypes with zero attribution debt. Ultra's 53 people-normal FBX are the other pool; each needs its licence recorded before it ships (ruling: unrecorded ⇒ not shipped).
3. Every ped that ships gets a credits.json row — name, source, licence, attribution-if-any. B built the surface in R41; this is what it was for.
4. Draw-neutral or better. Street is 291/300 at night — nine draws. A ped swap is one-for-one; a texture is not a draw. Interior margin is 227 (the true number after C's phantom-room fix) — the pub may spend some of it, measured, and must state the worst room.
5. No new capability. No conversation system, no DJ driver, no new mechanics. If a fix needs a system, file it to R43 with the measurement.

The ledger

42.1 — DRESS THE PUB (Lane E, look half)

The 39 art_incoming props ship untextured. Give them materials that read as a 1990s Australian pub/cafe/milkbar. Cheapest correct route first — these are flat-material meshes, so baked vertex colour or a small shared palette atlas beats per-asset texture maps (and keeps the draw win C fought for). Priorities by how much screen they own: old_couch, jukebox, banquette, plywood_bar, bistro_table, pokie, bain_marie, pie_warmer, keg, lounge_chair. Beer-stained carpet reds, brown vinyl, laminex, brass and chrome — not white. Ship a contact sheet and an A/B pair against R41's shot. Keep the house GLB law, re-run the four-surface transmission gate, republish + sha1-verify.

42.2 — MAKE THE DECKS READ (Lane E look half + Lane C, jointly)

The booth is right and unreadable. Diagnose before you change anything: is it the asset (a black plinth with a dark deck on a dark counter), the composition (nothing around it says DJ), or the lighting? Then fix the cheapest cause. Likely both: E gives the deck body some contrast (silver platter, coloured slipmat, visible tonearm, a lit pitch fader), and C composes the booth so it reads at a glance — mixer beside the deck, a record on the platter, sleeves in the rack behind, maybe the booth angled toward the door instead of flat to a wall. No control-node driver this round (ruling 5) — the nodes stay recorded for R43. Before/after pair required.

42.3 — RECAST THE TOWN (Lane E cast half — audit and source)

1. Audit the shipped 24 peds: for each, name it, judge it against ruling 1 (1990s Australian street: yes/no), and record its licence — or mark it unverified. The survey's split of ultra's library (53 normal / 10 comical / 9 fantasy) is your map; the shipped roster is the territory. Show the luchador and name it.
2. Source replacements for every reject, preferring CC0 (Quaternius: Casual, Casual2, Punk, Suit, Worker, Farmer, Beach) then ultra's people-normal pool. Normalize to the existing ped contract — same mixamorig skeleton, same 66-node shape, same 2,132–3,999 tri band, same texture budget — because D's 46 clips and the impostor bake both ride that contract and a deviation breaks them silently.
3. Fill credits.json for the whole roster (ruling 3), replacing B's amber unverified rows with real ones.

42.4 — RECAST, WIRED (Lane D — after 42.3)

Swap the roster in rigs.js/loadPedFleet and the fleet slot machinery. Non-negotiables: determinism holds (same seed → same crowd — the fleet-order bug you fixed in R2 is exactly the hazard here: fill fixed slots by index, never by load-completion order), draw count unchanged, the impostor bake still matches its rigs at the swap boundary, and the no-giants gate stays green (new models, new scale risk — this is precisely the R10 failure class). Re-shoot your street shot. Also yours: fix r41_shots.py's browse arm so it stops being warn-level.

42.5 — THE THREE SMALL ONES (Lane B)

The bench yaw (make the bench face the road; D's sitters will show it either way, so a before/after shot is the proof), the benchStops(plan) export, and await document.fonts.ready in buildings.js. That last one should make the four unreproducible bookmarks stable — verify it does by re-running F's 3-boot hash check, and tell F whether byte-hash goldens become possible again.

42.6 — PROVE THE LOOK (Lane F — last)

This round is judged by eye, so the shots are the deliverable. Re-shoot every R41 frame that showed a fault, paired against the R41 original (they are committed — use them as the before): pub, DJ booth, street crowd, pub crowd (the luchador's replacement). Gates: period-law compliance (no banned-genre model in the ped manifest — a name-list gate, control demonstrated), roster licence completeness (every shipped ped has a credits row — red if any unverified remains), plus everything standing. Budgets restated with the true numbers. qa.sh --strict green. No tag.

Laws

Everything standing: no git commands from lanes (integrator commits at close) · measure the thing, not the note about the thing · fresh browser contexts · human-sized line on humanoid shots · every gate ships its control demonstrated · the R41 deny-list is permanent repo law.

Order

1. Wave 1 (parallel): E-look (42.1, then 42.2's asset half) · E-cast (42.3) · B (42.5).
2. Wave 2 (parallel): C (42.2's composition half) · D (42.4).
3. Wave 3: F (42.6).

For John

Still parked for your playtest: the op-shop bin's contents · fog default-on vs mode · v9's third layer · the audio listen pass (nobody in this loop has ears). F8 and ?bugtour=1 are live. Filed to R43: the DJ control-node driver, the paired-conversation state machine (D's 8 social clips are shipped and unused), and repainting the nine non-venue shop signage palettes (an art call B deliberately left you).