not-tonight/docs/ASSETS.md

NOT TONIGHT — Fleet Asset Notes

What already exists on John's network that this game can reuse, borrow from, or generate with. Sourced from the fleet-wide ASSET_INVENTORY_2026-07-18.md and GAME_ASSET_AUDIT_2026-07-18.md (both on ultra ~/Documents/). Compiled 2026-07-19.

Context for lanes: v0.1–0.3 use PROCEDURAL placeholder art (coloured-pixel paper-doll, synthesized audio) — nothing below is needed before the v0.4 art pass. This doc exists so the art pass starts from the library, not from scratch. Nothing here changes the renderDoll / layer contracts.

Directly relevant (v0.4 art pass)

1. 90sDJsim paper-doll wardrobe — the big one

ultra:~/Documents/90sDJsim/web/world/media/doll/ — 441 authored clothing sprites across tops/bottoms/shoes/hats/bags, brand-flavoured (coogi, dr_martens, nike_air_max, moschino, quiksilver, kmart, disruptor_ii…), dynamically loaded by os.listdir slot convention.

• Reuse the taxonomy: their slot/brand/type naming should inform data/outfits.ts vocabulary (we already have shoes/legs/top/outer/hair/accessory — cross-check their catalog for types we missed, e.g. bucket hats, bumbags).
• Reuse the art via pixelation: 90s wardrobe reads perfectly as 2026 Valley fashion-in-quotes. A downscale/quantize pass (sprite → 32×48 palette-locked pixel layer) could convert the catalog into real doll layers. Prototype on 10 sprites before committing — pixelated photo-sprites can look mushy; may need a cleanup pass or MODELBEAST-assisted redraw per sprite.

2. Drunk/idle/dance animation references

ultra:~/Documents/90sDJsim/web/world/models/ — 22 ped GLBs + 9 anim clip GLBs incl. walk_drunk, idle, sit (from the shared character_kit rig). Plus ultra:~/Documents/MOTIONLIB/ — 2,703 motion/anim FBX.

• Option A (cheap): use walk_drunk etc. as visual reference for hand-animating the pixel sway/stumble frames.
• Option B (pipeline): pre-render character_kit characters + MOTIONLIB clips to top-down sprite-sheet rotations for the Floor scene (Blender orthographic cam → pixelate). Heavier, but gives unlimited consistent NPC animation. Decide at v0.4; the doll contract's floorTopDown pose doesn't care which path wins.

3. Venue / street reference art

• ultra:~/Documents/90sDJsim/web/world/media/ named scene/venue art — 100 wired widescreen club/venue images. Mood reference for our neon-dark interiors.
• gdrive:ASSETS FROM AI (2.47 GB, 3,239 files) + gdrive:IMAGE-DATABASE (794 MB, 26,910 files) — prior AI-gen pools; sweep for club/street/neon/night material before generating fresh.
• m4pro SPACEY MRP PHOTOSHOP FILES (4.4 GB PSDs) — design-language source (posters/flyers could become in-game wall dressing). m4pro is HANDS-OFF; access via the SMB mount on m3ultra if needed.

4. Generation pipeline (MODELBEAST)

m3ultra central queue :8777 (see fleet skill). For NOT TONIGHT this is an image generator, not a mesh generator — we need no GLBs. Useful for: patron face/outfit reference sheets to hand-pixel from, venue backdrop concepts, Dazza's contact photo, joke ID photos. The thriftgod gen_assets.py + 640px sips convention (m3ultra ~/Documents/thriftgod/) is a proven prompt→asset-dir pattern worth cloning for an art_src/ pipeline here.

Explicitly NOT for this game

• All 3D mesh libraries (3D=models, 3D-STORE, FBX, femalemeshed, NPCFACTORY, MODELBEAST GLB output) — no 3D in this game; only via the Option-B prerender path above, never at runtime.
• Audio archives (bandcamp ~1 TB, YT-AUDIO, MONSTER MIXES). The design is locked to a fully synthesized WebAudio techno engine (design §5 / LANE_JUICE) — the low-pass location trick needs a synth we control, and shipping archive audio is a licensing minefield. John's own MONSTER MIXES are legally his — park the idea of a licensed-mix easter egg (jukebox in the kebab shop?) as a someday-note.
• dealgod image pool (2.4M product photos) + recordgod_disc_images — product photography, wrong domain. (One cursed exception: pat-down contraband items could be pixelated from real dealgod product shots. Someday-note.)
• thriftgod 2D dressing — authored 640px painterly JPGs, wrong style; its pipeline is the reusable part (see §4).

Ground rules for the eventual art pass

Licensing: none needed. This is a private tailnet sandbox game, never public — John's call (2026-07-19). Anything on the fleet or gdrive is fair game, including the audio archives and MONSTER MIXES. (If that ever changes and the game goes public, this section is the checklist to revisit first.)

1. Everything funnels through the existing contracts (renderDoll poses, outfit slots) — art swaps in behind interfaces, callers never change.
2. One palette, one pixel density (32×48 queue dolls at 640×360) decided ONCE before any batch conversion; retrofitting mixed densities is the classic trap.
3. Log each imported batch (source → transform → dest) in this file — not for licensing, just so we can regenerate/retrace later.
4. Check the MeshGod gallery + MODELBEAST data/ (m3ultra) before generating anything — the inventory's rule "catalog before regenerating" applies here too.
5. The synthesized techno engine stays the core soundtrack (the location-filter trick needs a synth we control), but real archive audio is now allowed as layers/easter eggs — e.g. MONSTER MIXES on a kebab-shop jukebox, real crowd ambience beds under the synth.