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m3ultra b0e4ce103e Lane C R22 (v4.0): 23-town door-soak (#5) + the G2a atlas contract (#3)
Wave 3 — ran after A pinned the 36 goldens (3face97) and E's tri-diet fix (d81e499).

#5 — 23-TOWN DOOR-SOAK: five-town harness scaled (~10 doors/town; sample takes one of every
type present then stride-fills). 238 doors / 1,133 in-plan shops / 23 towns.
  23/23 PASS — 0 throws / 0 carves / 0 path-fails / 0 over-budget; worst 159 draws (fitzroy)
  <=350. All 12 archetypes covered town-set-wide (the whole registry). 23/23 towns landed 3
  venues — A's cluster bias + district placement hold from the 12-shop thin tail (darwin,
  toowoomba) to the 139-shop mecca (fitzroy, worst 159 = same band as everywhere: interiors
  don't care about town scale). Lane G's newtown_godverse passes (18 shops, worst 134).

#3 — G2a PER-SHOP ATLAS CONTRACT (C's half), published in LANE_C_PUB §7. All three Fable priors
hold; atlas-per-shop is strictly BETTER for draws than today's type-packs. The binding constraint
is VRAM, not draws — E's dispose ask GRANTED, it's my seam:
  - Draws: 1 atlas/shop = 1 draw (shared material + baked UV -> batch merges). Cap 2; 60+ item
    shops spill to the type-pack. Headroom huge (stock rooms 41-58 vs the <=350 law).
  - VRAM: E's 181MB audit is right, and the cause is my own design note (stockpack.js:11 caches
    atlases "NOT per-room, like depot GLBs") — correct for 3 bounded type-packs, wrong for
    unbounded per-shop. Ruling: <=2 resident atlases, <=8MB decoded, <=1024" typical; C lands the
    LRU cap + dispose in stockpack.js. Pre-existing + ?stock=real is opt-in (index.html:196) so
    it can't touch the default boot -> NOT a v4.0 blocker; C's first v4.x item, before G2a ships.
  - Schema: E's index confirmed verbatim, keyed per shop; UV top-left (C flips V); C reads uv not
    cell. Fail-soft/parody/?noassets unchanged. Ask to G: emit items[] in deterministic id order —
    C's seeded per-bin pick indexes into it.

C->F: 23-town interior verdict GREEN. Docs-only; both C items closed for v4.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 22:12:00 +10:00
docs Lane C R22 (v4.0): 23-town door-soak (#5) + the G2a atlas contract (#3) 2026-07-16 22:12:00 +10:00
pipeline Lane E R22 (v4.0): the venue_night tri diet — B's #1a driver was mine, fixed (BLOCKING #1b) 2026-07-16 22:04:56 +10:00
priorwork Fable (integrator): round-3 lane instructions + archive round-1 lane prompts 2026-07-14 14:30:36 +10:00
tools Lane F R21 (v4.0-beta close): the beta gate — tram dimension, the re-measure, the beta shot 2026-07-16 21:37:04 +10:00
web Lane E R22 (v4.0): the venue_night tri diet — B's #1a driver was mine, fixed (BLOCKING #1b) 2026-07-16 22:04:56 +10:00
.gitignore Fable: R14 kickoff rulings recorded (push done, flag stays opt-in, genres final) + gitignore local session files 2026-07-16 00:59:42 +10:00
B-progress.md Lane B (Streetscape): round-12 v3.0-alpha — venue frontage + posters + muffled-gig spill (?gigs=1) 2026-07-15 20:15:40 +10:00
C-progress.md Lane C R22 (v4.0): 23-town door-soak (#5) + the G2a atlas contract (#3) 2026-07-16 22:12:00 +10:00
D-progress.md Lane D round 12: gig band + crowd + patronage surge (?gigs=1) 2026-07-15 19:49:07 +10:00
E-progress.md Lane E R12 (v3.0-alpha gig layer): 5 instruments + 4 posters + 3 gig audio 2026-07-15 19:44:48 +10:00
F-progress.md Lane F R21 (v4.0-beta close): the beta gate — tram dimension, the re-measure, the beta shot 2026-07-16 21:37:04 +10:00
G-progress.md Lane G (GODVERSE, ultra) R1: real-shop census adapter — 18 real Newtown shops on the real road graph 2026-07-16 20:19:14 +10:00
README.md Lane F R21 (v4.0-beta close): the beta gate — tram dimension, the re-measure, the beta shot 2026-07-16 21:37:04 +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-beta — the five towns, at density

Five real Australian towns (Katoomba, Newtown, Fremantle, Bendigo, Castlemaine — 292 shops) boot on their actual OSM street graphs, at real retail density: secondhand heroes keep their footfall while the street around them gets ~4× busier (texture, never a takeover). Venues bias toward the retail cluster, the tram runs only where it fronts a real high street (Newtown/Castlemaine — elsewhere it was "a highway bus", so it's fenced), and the in-HUD town selector reads the towns index, so you can just pick one. Every town: deterministic, districted, silent under ?noassets, ?classic=1 still byte-identical to v2. See docs/shots/v4_beta/ and the charter, docs/V4_REAL_MAP.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.