The blocky body rendered fully black from every angle: _append_box wound
its faces clockwise-from-outside, so every computed normal pointed inward
-- an inside-out shell, lit from behind on all sides, and the level had
ambient light disabled so nothing lifted it. Fixed the winding (normals
now verify outward 234:36) and switched test_level's environment to a
soft colour ambient so shaded sides read grey, not pure black.
Limbs were static because the rig had no animation at all. Added
scripts/avatar/limb_animator.gd: a clip-free walk cycle that swings the
upper arm/leg bones with ground speed, folds the knees on the rear
stride, and eases back to rest when idle. Wired into the local player
(speed from velocity) and remote players in game.gd (speed from the
per-snapshot authoritative position delta).
Verified: avatar smoke 14/14 from source and exported pack; fresh-clone
boot PASS; game + menu boot headless clean.
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
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