The wardrobe had grown past the point where a list of filenames is usable: 20 bodies and a
garments list you had to read rather than look at. Three things close that.
THUMBNAILS. New `thumb` blender op — fixed front ortho camera, EEVEE, transparent film, bind
pose (a thumb caught mid-clip is unreadable), framed on the real mesh with helper widgets
excluded or a bone widget decides the crop. /thumb?p= renders lazily and caches on a hash of
the source path. 2D layers skip Blender entirely and downscale through PIL — 12ms vs a process
launch. First paint of a fresh grid is slow because every 3D card spawns a render; after that
they're cached. Worth knowing before it looks broken.
MANIFEST (library/index.json, written atomically so a half-write can't blank the wardrobe).
Canonical slots and a layer int that drives BOTH the 2D doll stack and 3D ordering, so a
garment sorts the same in either product. Slots are GUESSED from the filename as a convenience
and the guess is marked as such — the UI shows `head?` with a "confirm it" note, and setting a
slot explicitly clears the inferred flag. A guess presented as fact is how a library quietly
fills with wrong data. Props (boombox, camera, thermos) correctly come back unset rather than
being forced into a garment slot.
THE BENCH, in the order you actually work: fix units -> rig (MIRPAMO) -> LOD -> dress. LOD is
four preset buttons at the tiers the games budget for (hero 60k / npc 18k / crowd 6k / tiny 2k)
instead of typing tri counts. /api/rig shells out to MIRPAMO, and the UI states its real
limitation up front: 22 bones, no fingers — fine for locomotion, but a 65-bone donor garment
will leave cuffs under-driven, which is exactly the mismatch that bit us in Phase 4.
Grid, slot tabs with counts, search over name+tags, metadata editor, LOD presets and the bench
buttons all verified in-browser with no JS errors. nsfw tagging from the previous commit carries
through: tagged assets stay hidden behind the toggle and out of the grid.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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