TabContainer and its VBoxContainer parent vanish during scene
instantiation when loaded as a child of MainMenu in Godot 4.6.
Moving the entire tab panel construction to _ready() resolves
the issue — the .tscn now only defines the preview side and footer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Godot 4.6 TabContainer silently destroys children defined in .tscn
during scene instantiation ("Parent path has vanished"). Moving tab
shell creation to _ready() fixes the right-side settings panel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Remove character_select.tscn and character_select.gd entirely
(Smuggler/Detective archetypes removed per v0.2 pivot)
- New Game goes straight to character creation
- Rename Randomise→Randomize throughout (US English convention)
- Add *.import and *.uid to client gitignore (import artifacts)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full character creation UI with 5-tab customisation panel (Body, Head,
Hair, Clothing, Accessories), live 3D compositor preview via SubViewport,
D-165 color picker modal, keyboard navigation, and game flow integration.
- CharacterCreation scene + script (~1440 lines) implementing wireframe spec
- SubViewport with Camera3D (frontal/dramatic/overhead presets per D-158)
- Cardinal rotation (Q/E) per D-155, randomise (R), Tab/Enter/Esc navigation
- Body type grid (11 types, D-159), skin tone dock (9 tones, shared state)
- Head template, hair, facial hair, eyebrow grids with DirAccess asset scanning
- Clothing slot selector with per-item Primary/Secondary/Accent tints
- Accessory slot selector with Primary/Secondary tints (Array[Color] descriptor)
- 54-swatch color picker modal (D-165) with hex input and recent colors
- Auto-derive flags for highlight, eyebrow tint, facial hair tint from hair primary
- Game flow: main_menu → archetype select → character creation → game start
- GameState.character_visual_descriptor field for gameplay consumption
- Updated accessory_tints from single Color to Array[Color] in descriptor + compositor
- 40+ GdUnit tests covering scene structure, signals, keyboard nav, color derivation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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