Now that cloudbison can render (Radeon GPU via Xvfb, or llvmpipe software),
added scripts/tools/screenshot_rig.gd + scenes/dev/ so a scene can be booted,
run a few frames, and its rendered frame saved to PNG -- caught three things
the headless smoke never could:
- limbs floated detached from the torso: widened the torso and overlapped the
arm/leg boxes into it, and pulled limb depth in behind the torso front so
they stop z-fighting.
- proportions were scrawny: reworked to Roblox R6 ratios (2-stud torso, 2-stud
arms/legs, 1-stud head) with the head clearly pegged on top.
- the walk swing was a 40-deg lunge: STRIDE 0.7->0.42 rad, separate 0.32 arm
swing, KNEE 1.0->0.5. Reads as a walk now, not a crouch.
test_level lighting was near-black on the shaded side (ambient was disabled) --
colour ambient at 0.8 + a stronger key light, so the avatar reads in-world.
avatar_preview.tscn (AGP_PREVIEW_WALK=1) renders the assembled avatar walking
in place for quick visual checks.
Verified: avatar smoke 14/14 source + exported pack; fresh-clone boot PASS;
eyeballed in rendered screenshots (game scene + walk sequence).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015jtxAiu5dAW4WxCNdGkrkJ
Avatar: rebuild the placeholder base body as a Roblox-classic (R6) figure --
six chunky solid box parts (head, torso, two arms, two legs) skinned one
part per bone onto the same 24-bone canonical rig, arms hanging at the
sides instead of a T-pose, plus a painted-on smile face. Classic
yellow/blue/green "noob" palette, flat single-colour surfaces (the old
capsule-segment chain read as a banded scarecrow). Attachments resized to
match the new proportions; head/hair/glove primitives are now boxes too
(dropped ~130KB spheres to ~3KB each).
Build stamp: it never rendered because `set_anchors_and_offsets_preset()`
plus `.position` on a zero-size Label collapses the rect to negative width.
Switched to a bottom-anchored full-width strip with explicit offsets and
text alignment, brighter colour + black outline. Shows on the main menu
(bottom-right) and in-world HUD (bottom-left) as `build PC3 <commit>`.
Verified: avatar smoke 14/14 from source and against the exported pack;
game.tscn + main_menu.tscn boot headless with no script errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015jtxAiu5dAW4WxCNdGkrkJ
assets/avatars/catalog.json referenced 14 GLB files that were never in the
repo, so the avatar system could not load a single avatar. And the loader's
assembly path had never run against a real skeleton -- it called
Skeleton3D.has_bone() (no such method in Godot 4) and hand-copied bones in a
way that dropped the skin binding.
- scripts/tools/gen_placeholder_avatars.gd: generates the pack headlessly via
GLTFDocument -- one rigged/skinned base body (the full 24-bone canonical
rig from a T-pose) + 13 primitive attachments. Crude on purpose; real art
swaps in as a pure content change (catalog paths unchanged).
- assets/avatars/*.glb: the generated pack (checked in).
- avatar_loader.gd: rewrote _parse_glb_as_avatar to lift the skin-bound
Skeleton3D that generate_scene() already produces, instead of rebuilding it.
Attachments now mount via BoneAttachment3D to the catalog's mount_bone and
are actually added to the avatar tree (they were parsed then dropped).
Fixed the has_bone() crash, the null ARRAY_BONES cast in _retarget_skin,
and the Array[String] type mismatch on the accessory list.
- smoke_test_avatar_system.gd: replaced the "asserts it fails gracefully
because the files don't exist" section with a real assembly check --
Skeleton3D present, full 24-bone rig, canonical bones resolve by name,
visible body mesh, equipped items mounted to bones. 14/14 from a cold cache.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015jtxAiu5dAW4WxCNdGkrkJ
daddy