SCENEGOD/lanes/A-stage.md

Lane A — Stage: viewport, assets on stage, retarget port

You own: scenegod/web/index.html, style.css, room3d.js, stage.js, dock.js. Milestone: M1 (do not start M2 items until the orchestrator flips this line).

A1. index.html skeleton (first commit)

• Layout: full-viewport CSS grid — left dock #dock (280px), center #view, bottom #timeline (260px, empty div — Lane B mounts into it), right #inspector (260px). Dark UI, system font; steal the visual language of MESHGOD's rigroom (read /Users/johnking/Documents/MESHGOD/meshgod/web/rigroom.html).
• Importmap: copy rigroom's exactly (same three.js version + addons paths) so behavior matches the code you're porting.
• Script entry: <script type="module" src="/web/main-stage.js">? No — keep entry inline in index.html: import {Stage} from './stage.js' etc., create the Stage, Dock, and (when it exists) new Timeline(stage) guarded by a dynamic import that tolerates timeline.js not existing yet: try { const {Timeline} = await import('./timeline.js'); ... } catch {}. That keeps lanes decoupled — your page must never be broken by B's absence.
• Style: style.css; leave a /* === LANE B === */ marker at the bottom.

A2. room3d.js — port from rigroom.html (the crown jewels)

Source: /Users/johnking/Documents/MESHGOD/meshgod/web/rigroom.html lines ~125–290 (loaders, canon/boneMap, captureRest, bakeRetarget, stats, disposeRoot). Port rules:

• Make it a real ES module with the exports listed in PLAN §4.2. No DOM, no globals, no toast() — throw Errors, callers handle UI.
• Parameterize the target: rigroom's bakeRetarget closes over the global char. New signature bakeRetarget(clip, srcRoot, srcRest, tgtRoot, tgtRest) -> AnimationClip. Keep the algorithm byte-for-byte otherwise: 30fps sampling, world-space rotation delta from source rest applied to target rest, parent-first world quat propagation, hips world-position track scaled by target/source hips height ratio, quaternion sign continuity (dot < 0 → negate), and the duplicate-FBX-hierarchy dedupe (bind only first bone per canon key).
• Keep canon() exactly as-is (mixamorig\d*[:_]? strip) — it encodes real Mixamo quirks.
• Self-check: room3d.js gets a tiny exported _selftest() that builds two 3-bone synthetic skeletons with different rests, bakes a 1s clip across, and asserts end-pose world quats match within 1e-3. Wire it to ?selftest=1 on the page; log the result.

A3. stage.js — the Stage class (PLAN §4.2 API)

• Renderer setup: copy rigroom's (antialias, PMREM + RoomEnvironment IBL — metals gotcha), hemisphere + key directional light as default lights (replaced by scene light entities when present), circle floor + grid, OrbitControls director camera.
• addEntity(desc):
  • character/prop: fetch /assets/file?path=, parseAny, normalize scale like rigroom (fit ~1.7m for characters; props keep native size but expose scale), ground to y=0, attach to a THREE.Group wrapper — ALL transforms (gizmo + timeline) act on the wrapper, never the loaded root. For characters: captureRest once at load, store on the entity; create AnimationMixer on the wrapper.
  • backdrop: params.mode — plane: textured PlaneGeometry, height from image aspect × params.width (default 10m); corner: plane + floor plane sharing the image bottom third (cheap "L" street corner); dome: 40m sphere, side: BackSide, texture on inside. SRGBColorSpace on all image textures.
  • camera: PerspectiveCamera in a wrapper + a small frustum helper mesh so it's visible/selectable in the director view. params.fov.
  • light: key → DirectionalLight + helper; ambient → replaces the default hemisphere intensity. Adding the first key light dims defaults.
• Selection: raycast on click → select(id), outline or bbox highlight, TransformControls gizmo (W/E/R = move/rotate/scale) on the wrapper; gizmo drag end → onChange(entity).
• prepareClip(id, path, clipIndex): fetch+parse the clip source, cache {srcRoot, srcRest, anims} per path (Map), bake per (entity, path, index) and cache the baked clip. Baking is the expensive step — never re-bake on seek.
• renderActiveCamera(canvas): render the active camera to a small PiP canvas overlay (M2) and, for Lane C's final render, to the main canvas at exact size. Keep director-orbit rendering the default main view.
• captureState()/applyState(): round-trip with scene JSON entities. Assets with source.type:"upload" (drag-and-dropped local files) live only in memory — mark them in the dock and warn on save.

A4. dock.js

• Tabs: Characters / Animations / Props / Backdrops from GET /assets/tree (Lane C; until it exists use a hardcoded mock=1 tree + local file-drop — drag any glb/fbx/image onto the page adds it as source.type:"upload").
• Click or drag-onto-viewport → stage.addEntity. Animations are NOT added to the stage; dragging one onto a character in the viewport (raycast under drop point) or onto its inspector calls prepareClip + M1 temp "play once" button. In M2, B takes over clip placement (dock drag → timeline track).
• Inspector panel: selected entity's label, kind, transform numbers (editable), params (fov slider for cameras, color+intensity for lights, backdrop mode), delete button, "⏺ key" button that emits window.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('scenegod:capturekey',{detail:{id}})) — Lane B listens; you don't call timeline code directly.

M1 acceptance (log it with evidence)

• ?selftest=1 retarget check passes.
• Load lady.glb (put test files in assets/ yourself — grab from MESHGOD library banks), drop street.jpg as plane backdrop, gizmo-move the lady, drop walk.fbx on her → she walks in place. Screenshot in log dir welcome (logs/shots/, yours to create).
• Page loads clean with timeline.js absent AND with server absent (mock=1).

ORCHESTRATOR UPDATES

2026-07-18 — M1 ACCEPTED, SYNC 1 done. M2 is UNLOCKED.

M1 verified end-to-end in-browser by the orchestrator (character + backdrop + retargeted clip + timeline scrub, all through the real Stage). Answers + M2 order:

1. /assets/tree item shape confirmed (from Lane C's server): {name, path, formats: ["fbx", ...], thumb: relpath|null} — rigroom-style, no files array. Drop your bare-string fallback. /web/* absolute imports are confirmed correct as served.
2. Priority 1 — eventize clip drops. stage.setMixerAuto(false) is now active whenever the timeline mounts, so your drop-clip-to-preview path is dead in the integrated page. Replace it: on clip-drop onto a character, dispatch window CustomEvent 'scenegod:clipdrop' with {detail: {id, path, clipIndex}} (Lane B adds the block at the playhead). Keep bake-and-preview ONLY when no timeline is present.
3. Priority 2 — make sure onChange fires for every entity added via applyState (SYNC finding: tlui's names column stayed empty after a programmatic scene load — fix on both sides; B is doing theirs).
4. Then per plan: multiple cameras + PiP overlay (renderActiveCamera needs to work as the M3 final-render target — treat that contract as hard), backdrop rebuild-on-param-change, drag-from-dock onto viewport. Test assets now live in assets/{characters,animations,backdrops}/test/ (man.fbx, hiphop.fbx, carrying.fbx, street.jpg — gitignored, on ultra).

2026-07-18 — M2 ACCEPTED, SYNC 2 PASSED. M3-polish unlocked.

Your entity-mirror seam report was exactly right and well-diagnosed. Resolution: Lane B's Timeline now subscribes to stage.onChange and mirrors adds/removes into its model (orchestrator implemented, timeline.js _mirror) — your onChange-on-every-add fix is what made that possible; no dedicated entityadd/remove events needed. Verified live: 6 dock-added entities all keyframable, full sunset demo saved as scene sync2-sunset. M3-polish list (order):

1. PiP is enormous — it covered ~70% of the viewport in the SYNC 2 screenshot. Cap it (~24% width, bottom-right corner, click to swap director/active-cam views or a size toggle).
2. lady.glb (non-mixamo rig, assets/characters/test/lady.glb) renders flat white — her textures didn't come through the GLB load path. Check whether it's the asset or a loader/material issue (compare in rigroom).
3. Keep renderActiveCamera/pause/resume stable — the finalRender client drives them now (SYNC 3).