jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.8
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D-244 ratifies what the character architecture (D-159..D-164, runtime CharacterVisualDescriptor compositing) and the Trellis env pipeline already implied but no decision had recorded: the in-world view renders 3D objects directly; the only flattened 2D content is textures + flat 2D artwork (paintings/flags/billboards/signage). There is no per-object sprite layer. Roots out the drift: the early-spike 3D->2D sprite pipeline (#541) and the sprite-centric docs/assets/visual catalog were never cleaned out when the project went 3D, so the 2026-06-12 fable-ous audit read them as live and re-injected the dead sprite model into T-1049/T-1050. Fix: - docs/assets/visual/README.md + docs/assets/README.md re-scoped to 3D models + textures + flat artwork (dropped the sprites/tilesets-as-entities framing). - /sprite-gen + renderer/README repurposed as the 2D-artwork generator (paintings/flags/ billboards/signage), not the in-world object format; legacy 4-direction object-sprite mode flagged as retired. - T-961/T-1049/T-1050 already held in backlog pending this. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Settled Reach — 2D Artwork Render Pipeline
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> **Repurposed (D-244).** This offline Godot renderer is **not** the in-world object
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> format. Per [D-244] the in-world view renders 3D objects directly (props via Trellis
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> `.glb` / `/glb-gen`; characters via the Quaternius pipeline + `CharacterVisualDescriptor`);
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> the only flattened 2D content is **textures** and **flat 2D artwork** (paintings, flags,
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> billboards, signage). This pipeline began as the #541 3D-to-2D *sprite* spike and now
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> serves that flat artwork. The "render every entity/object/wall to sprites" framing below
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> is **legacy** (the retired object-sprite use); the camera / lighting / resolution mechanics
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> remain usable for flat-artwork rendering.
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Offline Godot 4 renderer. Produces flat 2D artwork (and, in its legacy mode, 3D-to-2D sprites) at three resolutions from a fixed camera angle, with outlines applied at working resolution.
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## Camera Specification (D-019)
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- **Angle**: -72.5° from horizontal (= 17.5° from vertical, the midpoint of the 15-20° from vertical range)
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- **Projection**: Orthographic (`size = 1.4`)
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- **Position**: `(0, 3, 1)` — above and slightly in front of the model origin
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- **Godot Transform3D**: `Transform3D(1, 0, 0, 0, 0.30071, 0.95372, 0, -0.95372, 0.30071, 0, 3, 1)`
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This is "the angle" per D-019 amendment (2026-02-12). All entity, object, and wall sprites for v0.1 are rendered at this angle. The Godot gameplay camera is purely orthographic — this tilt is an art convention expressed through the 3D render.
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## Lighting Rig
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Three-point studio rig. All lights have `shadow_enabled = false` — sprites are shape templates, no baked shadows or directional lighting. The Godot runtime PointLight2D pipeline provides all scene lighting at runtime (D-043).
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| Light | Energy | Direction | Purpose |
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|-------|--------|-----------|---------|
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| KeyLight | 1.0 | Matches camera angle (-72.5° from horizontal) | Main illumination; ensures front face is lit as the camera sees it |
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| FillLight | 0.4 | 45° from right side (-45° pitch, +90° yaw) | Fills shadow opposite the key; no deep-black patches on right face |
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| RimLight | 0.3 | 45° from behind (-45° pitch, +180° yaw) | Back-edge accent; defines silhouette boundary for outline processing |
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**Rationale**: Even 3-light coverage ensures no black patches on a convex mesh, keeping surface colors flat and readable for the outline processing step.
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## Resolution Chain (D-043, D-044)
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```
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1024×1024 — source PNG, full fidelity for outline processing
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↓ bilinear resize
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256×256 — working PNG, outline applied at 4-8px, color #333340
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↓ bilinear resize
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64×64 — runtime PNG, deployed to client/assets/sprites/
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```
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Outline implementation: alpha-mask dilation + flat color fill. Outline width in `render_export.gd`: `outline_width_px = 4` (at 256px = 1px effective at 64px).
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## Entity Footprint Spec (D-044, D-066)
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- Entity sprites occupy a **24×32px footprint** within the 64×64 visual tile
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- Entities render across a **2×2 sim tile sprite footprint** (D-066)
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- Visual tile = 64×64px at runtime; sim tile = 32×32px (0.5m)
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- **NPC model scale**: `CapsuleMesh(radius=0.25, height=0.62)` at camera size 1.4 produces ~24×32px apparent size in the 64px output tile
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## Usage
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### Command Line
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```bash
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# From the repository root
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godot --path renderer/ --headless --quit-after 1200 res://render_scene.tscn -- <model_name>
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```
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The `/sprite-gen` skill wraps this command and handles output placement.
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### Adding a New Model
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1. Create `renderer/models/<model_name>.tscn` — root node is a `MeshInstance3D` (or `Node3D` with children)
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2. Center the mesh at the origin
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3. Use a flat `StandardMaterial3D` (no baked shadows — just albedo color + roughness)
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4. Run: `godot --path renderer/ --headless --quit-after 1200 res://render_scene.tscn -- <model_name>`
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5. Output: 12 PNGs in `renderer/output/` (4 directions × 3 resolutions)
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6. Runtime sprites: copy 64px variants to `client/assets/sprites/`
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### Material Guidelines
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- **Entity sprites**: neutral flat material (albedo Color(0.5, 0.5, 0.5)). D-033 relationship color tinting applied at runtime by the client's entity renderer. Outline color (#333340 per D-043) is compatible with all D-033 tint colors — the dark blue-grey outline remains visible against teal, green, amber, and red entity tints.
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- **Structural sprites**: use zone-appropriate texture (`textures/wall_institutional_era1.png`, etc.)
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- No specularity: `metallic = 0.0`, `roughness = 0.9`
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- No emission, no normal maps — shape is the signal
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## Models
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| Model | File | Type | Notes |
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|-------|------|------|-------|
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| `wall_structural` | `models/wall_structural.tscn` | Structure | 1.0×0.8×0.2 box, institutional era-1 texture |
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| `wall_bar_green` | `models/wall_bar_green.tscn` | Structure | 1.0×0.8×0.2 box, green panel texture (model only — no sprites rendered yet) |
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| `npc_generic` | `models/npc_generic.tscn` | Entity | Capsule silhouette, neutral grey, 24×32px footprint. Rotationally symmetric — north/south and east/west pairs are near-identical by design (asymmetric silhouettes come from named NPC models with identifying features per D-044). |
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## Output Naming Convention
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```
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<model_name>_<direction>_<resolution>.png
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wall_structural_north_64.png
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npc_generic_south_256.png
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```
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Directions: `north`, `east`, `south`, `west` (model rotated 0°, 90°, 180°, 270° around Y axis).
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## Runtime Sprite Path
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64px sprites are deployed to: `client/assets/sprites/`
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Naming convention at the client side matches the pipeline output: `<model_name>_<direction>_64.png`. The 1024 and 256 variants stay in `renderer/output/` as pipeline intermediates (gitignored).
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## Design Constraints
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- **No baked lighting**: sprites are shape templates. Lighting is applied at runtime by Godot's PointLight2D per D-046.
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- **No baked shadows**: shadow direction would conflict with runtime point lights at arbitrary positions.
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- **No baked mood**: flat materials, three-point neutral rig. Zone atmosphere comes from runtime CanvasModulate.
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- **Outline applied at 256px, not 64px**: ensures outline is crisp after bilinear downscale.
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- **Transparent background**: `SubViewport.transparent_bg = true` — sprites are PNG with alpha, composited at runtime.
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## Cross-References
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- D-019: Camera angle spec and amendment
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- D-043: Art direction — "functional warmth," resolution chain, outline color
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- D-044: Visual hierarchy, entity footprint spec
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- D-049: Z-level rendering stack (sprites land on layers 2-3)
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- D-066: Dual-scale grid, 2×2 sim tile entity footprint
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