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m3ultra b2d29ba112 Lane F R27 (v5.0): the covenant re-pinned, the frame that took five tries, QA GREEN
qa.sh --strict --matrix: 7 passed / 0 failed / 0 warn. selfcheck ALL GREEN 156,352/156,352 ·
MATRIX GREEN 10 towns x 7 gates · scaffold_check GREEN (F's re-pins took) · flags harness green,
carrying the kill-the-server gate and the beta crate gate.

F RE-PINNED ITS OWN FILES per A's handoff (A doesn't edit other lanes' files, correctly):
GOLDEN_HASH 0x3fa36874 -> 0x5f76e76 · GIG_GOLDEN 0xb1d48ea1 -> 0xec7a2d39 · melbourne · katoomba
· the captions. AND A CAUGHT A LIVE HAZARD IN F'S GATE: hash_ok carried `or ('3fa36874' in
r.stdout)` — a bare-string OR-clause, dead the moment the covenant moved and worse than dead,
because it would go green off a SENTENCE ABOUT the old covenant appearing in stdout. Deleted.
The check derives from GOLDEN_HASH or it doesn't exist.

JOHN'S RULING IS THE EPOCH'S BEST LINE: the covenant is anti-drift machinery, not a defect
preservative. 0x3fa36874 did its job for five epochs — it never drifted. It just was never right,
and no hash can catch what was wrong in the first commit. A golden proves NOTHING CHANGED; it
cannot prove anything is CORRECT. Every gate we own was green over a world of back walls, and the
only thing that ever saw it was a human standing in the street looking at a wall.

THE FRONTAGE FRAME TOOK FIVE ATTEMPTS, FOUR OF THEM F'S FAULT:
  1-3. cluster pose (the town's heart isn't this shop) / lot-anchored facing along the edge /
       lot-normal facing — three photographs of empty road. Also never winnable: the shops faced
       backwards the whole time. F was posing a camera at a wall and tuning the geometry.
  4.   B's helper — and F THREW THE RESULT AWAY. poseForShopFront RETURNS a pose; it does not
       apply one. F called it, error-checked it, and never touched the camera, so the frame was
       the spawn paddock — and F's error-check PASSED, because the call succeeded perfectly. The
       vacuous check one last time, in the last frame of the epoch.
  5.   Applied it -> MONSTER ROBOT PARTY. Sign, door, awning, a ped walking in off Musgrave Road.

The measurement that would have found the facade bug in five minutes — compare the two
conventions against each other — is the one nobody ran for nine rounds, F included, right up to
the vacuous 72/72 F nearly filed as "B is wrong".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 16:48:22 +10:00
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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
?live=1 · ?live=<url> off tier 2 — live stock from the GODVERSE server (sold-in-the-real-shop means gone in the game). Opt-in by design: absent ⇒ byte-identical to tier 1, and the game never asks a question it has no reason to expect an answer to
?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.

v5.0-alpha — THE FIRST REAL CRATE: the shops get real too

v4 made the towns real. v5 makes the shops real — and the first one is standing.

Boot ?plansrc=osm&town=redhill_godverse&stock=real, walk down Musgrave Road into Monster Robot Party (147 Musgrave Rd, Red Hill, Brisbane — a real record shop), and riffle its crate. The records in it are that shop's real stock: 120 real records off its real point-of-sale, real covers, real titles, real prices. Buy one and the wallet debits what the sticker says. It's gone for the session and back next boot — because until the live tier lands, the crate is a file, not a shop's ledger.

Stock is a data tier now, exactly like assets — each rung fully playable, each degrading softly to the one below, so the game never depends on a server to be a game:

tier what deterministic?
0 · parody seeded canvas sleeves (v1) — any boot, always works yes — the QA baseline
1 · static real per-shop atlases baked from the shop's own POS yes — atlases are files
2 · live GODVERSE ?live=1 — live stock off the real till: sell a record in the shop and it's gone from the game crate no — by design

The offline law: the server enriches, never gates. ?noassets=1 still fetches zero bytes and plays silent-and-fine; a shop whose atlas is missing falls soft to parody rather than borrowing someone else's crate; and ?classic=1 still boots the exact v2 town, byte-identical forever (0x3fa36874). The world stays seeded and golden-gated — only the stock inside it is data.

Provenance: item photos are each shop's own product shots, 🟢 in-house — flagged before any public or commercial release, and every atlas carries that flag where the QA gate must print it. Real titles and artists are an in-house amendment to the no-real-trademarks law, on the same footing. Nothing an in-game purchase does touches real inventory — v5.0 ships sell-sandboxed by ruling; a real reservation tier is chartered for v5.x, not assumed. Charter: docs/V5_REAL_SHOP.md · economy design: docs/G3_ECONOMY_DESIGN.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.