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You can boot redhill_godverse, walk down Musgrave Road into Monster Robot Party, riffle its
own real crate and buy a real record. Proven falsifiably, not by eyeball:
  base      assets/stock_godverse/3962749/ (its own, not the town-wide)
  TITLES    120/120 the shop's atlas · 0/120 the generic pack
  TEXTURES  2 from stock_godverse/3962749/*.webp · 0 generic — the pixels' own file
  BUY       rec_0000 "Abstract Latin Lounge II (Part II)" @ $15 → cash 191→176, exact
  REBOOT    191/0 restored — gone-this-session, back next boot
Ladder: ?noassets → ZERO network requests · keyed-but-atlas-less shop → 404 → parody, live ·
newtown_real → base null, 350 items: the wire is a NO-OP off the godverse path.
flags_check GREEN (0 fails, 0 warns).

#6a THE WIRE: godverseBaseFor(shop), exported and used by BOTH the shell's boot preload and
the room's lookup — C's cache identity is the LITERAL (type, base) pair, so two sides building
that string differently would drop a real shop to parody, a bug indistinguishable from "no
stock" by eye. One function, one string, one key. Gated on stockReal, never the id alone.

#6b THE GATE: smoke_real_crate + DBG.stockInfo() — permanent, and it cannot pass without
touching its subject (SKIPs with a printed reason when the town/atlas is absent).

FINDING — THE BRIEF'S OWN HONEST-GATE SPEC WAS VACUOUS. It specified id equality. Both packs
number items POSITIONALLY (rec_0000…), so all 120 atlas ids are generic-pack ids too: an
id-equality gate goes GREEN on the generic pack — the exact failure the vacuous-gate law was
written to stop, reproduced inside its first application. Ids there are slot numbers, not
identity. Titles (0 overlap) and the texture URL discriminate; F asserts on those.

FINDING — THE ID SPACES COLLIDE, and it bit F's own selector inside the anti-vacuous gate.
Plan ids (1..N) and godverse ids (31, 767, 3962749) share a numeric space: Silky Oak's godverse
id is 31 and another shop's PLAN id is 31, so enterShop(31) silently entered "Wholefood Cafe"
and the soft-fall assertion PASSED ON AN UNKEYED CAFE. Fixed both ends: 'g:<n>' selects a
godverse id explicitly, a bare number stays the plan id and now REPORTS the collision, and the
smoke asserts it landed in the shop it asked for before asserting anything about it.

FINDING — F'S OWN GATE CRIED THE LOUDEST WOLF WE OWN. classic_regression reported "plan
fingerprint != golden 0x3fa36874 — determinism/prime-law broken" while the covenant was
provably intact. F wrote it in R16 as `hash_ok and returncode == 0` — two assertions, ONE
verdict, reported with the fingerprint's message — so any unrelated selfcheck red screamed that
the byte-identical-forever covenant had broken. Two assertions, two verdicts now. It isn't
enough to fail for a reason; you have to fail for YOUR reason.

FINDING — fail-soft-by-404 vs the 0-console-errors law. The boot preload must resolve a keyed
shop's pack before the door opens (getStockPack is sync), so it probes blind: 9 of Red Hill's
10 keyed shops have no atlas → 404 → parody. That IS fail-soft working, and it is also 8
console errors no .catch() can suppress. Fix is not to loosen the law but to stop probing for
what isn't there: an atlas index in G's namespace (or hasStock on the cache entry, A+G). Filed
as a contract ask, not invented. Until then the smoke counts and NAMES the probes and fails on
any other error — tolerance stated out loud.

Verified the lift is clean: cache 10 keyed → plan 9 keyed, every one a real secondhand shop.
No cafe keyed, zero duplicate ids — there is no mis-stocking.

F did NOT touch A's identity sweep or E's validator. F was the party that would benefit, and
changing a red gate to green in another lane's file to unblock F's own tag would retroactively
devalue every green F has ever reported. Filed instead — and R25 has since landed A's
reconciliation and the six pins, which is the right hands doing it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 08:43:29 +10:00
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README.md Lane F R22 (v4.0 — THE EPOCH CLOSE): the re-measure, the selector, the release tour, the tag 2026-07-16 22:32:32 +10:00

PROCITY

A standalone, procedurally generated, fully walkable 90s-Australian shopping town — every building enterable (the Vuntra City trick), every interior seeded and themed: record stores, op shops, toy shops, book barns, video rental, pawnbrokers, milk bars, market stalls. Built on the proven house stack (three.js r175 vendored, plain JS, no build step) and the asset DNA of 90sDJsim + thriftgod. v1 is the system; the GODVERSE/BaseGod real-item content plugs in later.

Run

cd web && python3 -m http.server 8130
# http://localhost:8130            (game shell — Lane B)
# http://localhost:8130/map.html   (2D plan debugger — Lane A)

Read first

  • docs/CITY_SPEC.md — the treaty: schema, units, seeds, budgets, file ownership.
  • docs/RESEARCH.md — what the parent repos already solved, with exact paths to port from.

The lanes (parallel Opus 4.8 sessions)

Each lane is a self-contained prompt. To run one, start an Opus session in this repo and say: "Read docs/LANES/LANE_X_….md and execute it." AE are parallel-safe (disjoint files, standalone test pages); F integrates after they land.

lane mission owns
A — CITYGEN seed → CityPlan data (streets, blocks, lots, shops) + 2D map js/citygen, js/core/registry.js, map.html
B — STREETSCAPE chunk-streamed instanced 3D town + game shell index.html, js/world
C — INTERIORS every door opens: seeded themed shop interiors js/interiors, interior_test.html
D — CITIZENS rigged-near / impostor-far NPCs + shopkeepers js/citizens, citizens_test.html, models/
E — ASSETS audit ultra's library, normalize GLBs, skins, manifest pipeline/, assets/
F — INTEGRATION wire AE into one seed-to-town game + QA gates (after AE)

Already in the repo

  • web/vendor/ — three.js r175 + addons (vendored from 90sDJsim; no CDN at runtime).
  • web/assets/gen/ — 69 generated texture skins (25 shopfront facades, 10 skies, 10 grounds, 8 wallpapers, 16 interior surfaces) inherited from thriftgod + 90sDJsim, style-locked.
  • web/js/core/ — frozen shared modules: prng.js (seeded-everything law), loaders.js (fail-soft promise-cached GLB/texture + 3GOD depot), canvas.js (text planes).

House laws (short form — CITY_SPEC has the fine print)

Seeded everything, Math.random banned in gen code · the game must run with zero assets · instancing from day one · canvas text, no font files · characters = shared base rigs + one clip bank, canonical sources live outside this repo · 🟢 web-ok licensing only.

v3.1 — THE FLIP: the town shows its best by default

The Friday-night layer soaked through alpha, beta, and the v3.0 release — so v3.1 flips it on by default, and the mature v2 flags flip with it. Boot the plain URL and each town seeds 24 venues (pub, band room, RSL) with a full seeded week of gigs, town-wide posters, and a Friday night that reads: a 4-piece band (trio + a seated drummer) with real instruments, a mixed crowd, an outdoor queue, a per-venue cover charge, muffled gig spill + walla and applause, town-wide streetlamp pools, and identity continuity — the ped you followed in is in the crowd. Plus weather, the tram, and the parallax interior-window shader, all live by default.

The covenant moved, it didn't disappear. ?classic=1 boots the exact v2 town — byte-identical forever (synthetic golden 0x3fa36874, zero gig layer, zero fetch delta). That is the new frozen regression target; the default boot is deterministic to the gig golden 0xb1d48ea1. Asset-free (?noassets=1) composes with the default boot and stays silent-and-fine.

Flags — the four headliners are ON by default, each with a =0 opt-out; ?classic=1 is the master off:

flag default what
?classic=1 off the exact v2 boot — all four below off, byte-identical to the frozen baseline
?gigs=0 on the gig district — venues, week schedule, band/crowd/queue, cover, posters, night pass
?weather=0 · ?tram=0 · ?winmap=0 on seeded weather · the tram loop · the parallax interior-window shader
?roster=v1 · ?pop=N stream chunk-streamed citizen density is the baseline; ?roster=v1 restores the fixed roster
?dig=0 · ?stock=real dig on crate-riffle on record bins · real GODVERSE sleeves in the stock
?noassets=1 · ?plansrc=osm · ?mute=1 · ?dbg=1 off asset-free (zero network) · OSM plan source · silence · the window.DBG capture/soak harness
?plansrc=osm&town=<key> boot a real Australian town: fixtures melbourne/katoomba/silverton, or a real OSM cache bendigo_real/castlemaine_real/fremantle_real/katoomba_real/newtown_real (ODbL, web/assets/towns/SOURCES.md). REAL ROADS: a cache with roads[] (schema v2) builds the CityPlan street graph from the town's actual OSM streets; without roads[] a cache marches onto synthetic avenues. Or just pick a town from the HUD selector — no URL needed

v4.0 — THE REAL MAP: the towns are the product

23 real Australian towns — 1,210 real shops, every state and territory — on their actual streets. Not "inspired by": Fitzroy's shops sit on Fitzroy's roads, at their real positions, because the pipeline eats OpenStreetMap and marches it through the same CityPlan contract the procedural town uses. Pick one from the in-HUD selector and walk it. Everything built across v1v3 comes along unchanged — the venues and their seeded week of gigs, the 4-piece band with the seated drummer, the crowd that follows you into the pub, the interiors behind every door, weather, the tram — because they all hang off the plan contract and never had to know the geography got real.

The towns run from meccas (Fitzroy, 160 shops) to the thin tail (12), at real retail density: the secondhand heroes keep their footfall while the street around them gets ~4× busier — texture, never a takeover. Venues bias to the retail heart. The tram only runs where it fronts a real high street (elsewhere it was honestly "a highway bus", so it's fenced). Everything stays deterministic from the seed, silent under ?noassets=1, and ?classic=1 still boots the exact v2 town, byte-identical forever (0x3fa36874).

The tour: docs/shots/release_v4/contact.html — the Fremantle hero, the Fitzroy mecca, the thin tail (labelled honestly: the floor is shops-per-street-metre, and Toowoomba is below it), the synthetic control, and the ?classic=1 covenant made visible. Charter: docs/V4_REAL_MAP.md · data + licences (ODbL): web/assets/towns/SOURCES.md. | ?seed=N | 20261990 | town seed |

Release tour: docs/shots/release_v3_1/contact.html — the money shots on the default boot, plus a ?classic=1 before/after. QA: tools/qa.sh --strict (classic regression + default-boot gate + smokes + no-giants) --soak (the full-week soak); the seated drummer passes the no-giants gate at the seated stature band [0.9,1.5] m.