1. Ankle cuffs. The previous pass re-weighted the offending vertices to the
nearer leg, which was the wrong call: the strip between the ankles is REAL
geometry spanning the gap (~10 cm of ClothCAndW crossing x = -0.05 .. +0.05
at ankle height), so re-weighting only tore it in half — a visible seam that
still stretched. A triangle with one corner weighted to each leg has no
correct pose; it must stretch the moment the legs separate. SkinMeshRepair
now deletes those triangles instead (48 on Taila: the cloth band plus its
outline shell). The cut is limited to BELOW THE KNEE, taken from the
skeleton's own rest pose rather than a hardcoded height, because above the
knee cross-leg geometry is legitimate — the skirt and shorts genuinely span
left-thigh to right-thigh weights at the crotch.
2. The M4 floated because _measure_weapon derived the grip from mesh AABBs, and
the FBX guns report bind-pose bounds tens of metres across — it measured the
M4 as 24 m long and pushed the gun 7.5 m in front of the character. Bounding
boxes are simply not trustworthy for these meshes. The grip was already
authored elsewhere: WeaponManager places the first-person viewmodel's hands
at fixed points in weapon space, and every weapon marks its barrel tip with
muzzle_flash.position. Those move to WeaponGrips (dependency-free, so both
the weapon system and the character models can use it without dragging each
other's load order along) and third person now reaches for exactly the
points the viewmodel uses. Every weapon's grip now lands 0.073 m from the
hand — the M4 included, down from 2.32 m — with barrel lengths that match
the models (0.30 m for the MP7, 0.68 m for the DMR).
3. Muzzle flash and tracers were spawned off the viewmodel's muzzle. The
viewmodel is parented to the camera, so its muzzle sits inside the player's
head — in third person the flash appeared by the character's shoulder.
world_muzzle() returns the muzzle of the gun actually in the character's
hands whenever the character is what the viewer sees, and the networked
fire-effect RPC now sends that position too, so remote players stop seeing
tracers leave the shooter's head. Measured: the third-person origin sits at
the held gun, 0.54 m below the head, instead of on the camera.
FSM tests 11/11, spawn smoke test 0 failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Outline: the inverted-hull width was tuned when the look was heavier and
now reads as a thick marker stroke. Cut every call site to roughly a third
(characters 0.012 -> 0.004, level geometry 0.015 -> 0.005, Neon Alley's
size-scaled clamp 0.02..0.05 -> 0.007..0.018) plus the shader default, so
the ink line stays readable without fattening every silhouette.
Third-person weapon on HumanoidModel: the gun was parented to root_pivot at
a fixed (-0.15, 1.0, 0.4) — floating 40 cm off the chest while both arms
posed at it from a distance. Give the rig a real right-hand node at the end
of the forearm and hang the weapon there, so it travels with the arm. Its
aim is re-derived from the body each frame (hand_r_pivot's global basis is
copied from root_pivot), otherwise the barrel would swing around with the
arm animation. The hold pose is retuned to match: right elbow tucked at the
ribs with a level forearm, left arm crossing to the handguard.
_seat_weapon_in_hand() slides each weapon along its own barrel axis so a
plausible grip lands in the fist regardless of where the artist left the
model origin. It measures with MeshInstance3D.get_aabb(), not
mesh.get_aabb() — the FBX gun parts are skinned, so the Mesh resource still
carries bind-pose bounds tens of metres across.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Weapons no longer reload by spinning the gun 360 (that was the upside-down
flip; nothing detached). New ViewmodelAnim module drives per-style manual-of-
arms sequences on the existing model_root + named arm pivots, with a temporary
magazine/shell/rocket/cell prop that visibly leaves and returns to the gun:
- mag (M4/AK/MP7/DMR): roll gun to present the well, hand rips the mag
down and away, fresh mag up, seat, charge. Gun stays UPRIGHT.
- boltmag (AWP): mag swap + a distinct bolt-cycle rock.
- break (double barrel): hinge open, flick both shells out, drop fresh
shells in, snap shut.
- tube (rocket launcher): tip the tube in, shove a rocket home, shoulder.
- cell (plasma/nail gun): glowing energy cell swapped on the side.
Per-shot viewmodel recoil kick (ViewmodelAnim.apply_kick) scaled by each
weapon's recoil_amplitude, so an AWP slams and an MP7 chatters — replaces the
old flat model behaviour. Weapons expose reload_style; base classes call
play_reload / stop (on unequip) / apply_kick.
Knife: the old barely-visible flick is now a real diagonal slash that
alternates backhand/forehand, whips the blade through screen centre, and
fires the third-person melee arm-swing action (synced to other players).
Hair/materials: specular fully to 0 (even a 2% stepped glint swept as shine
across Taila's hair when the camera moved); rim trimmed to a whisper. Fully
matte cloth/hair now.
Verify: debug/fp_weapon_capture.gd screenshots each weapon's reload phases,
the knife slash, and the fire kick.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The clips were playing all along, but every locomotion state used unarmed
jog arms while the gun floated at the hip, so nothing looked animated.
- ShooterPoseModifier now REPLACES the arm chain with a direction-based FK
rifle hold (low-ready at hip, shouldered on ADS) instead of nudging the
unarmed clip additively; the wrist is solved so the muzzle points exactly
along the aim line, gun kept upright (no-roll constraint).
- Per-arm release logic: reload/throw/hit one-shots, dance, death, the
slide ground-brace, wall-run reach and grapple free the authored clips.
- Third-person weapon: fixed re-hide on weapon swap while in third person,
scaled to character proportions, gripped along the hand.
- Armed idle uses Idle (arms owned by the hold) instead of arms-crossed
PistolIdle base.
- FP viewmodel arms: character-styled sleeve + teal cuff + skin hand
instead of the blue slabs.
- debug/anim_capture.gd: front+side screenshots of every movement state,
one-shot action and ADS for visual regression of the model pipeline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The weapon dips down-and-inward with a roll when a reload starts, holds
through the reload, and rises as it completes — driven by the weapon's
actual reload_timer so the motion always matches the reload duration.
Complements the reload ring UI and the third-person reload clip.
Smoke 0 failures, movement 11/11.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
New Acoustics system (globals/acoustics.gd):
- Occlusion: rays from listener to source collect up to 3 occluding bodies;
each surface's material adds transmission loss and lowers the lowpass
cutoff. A gunshot through wood stays warm (-8dB, 1.4kHz), brick muffles
hard (-15dB, 600Hz), concrete harder (-18dB, 450Hz), metal keeps more
highs (-11dB, 1kHz), glass barely muffles (-5dB, 2.6kHz). Applied via
each AudioStreamPlayer3D's attenuation filter.
- Early reflections: loud sounds (gunfire, explosions) probe 8 directions
for nearby walls; each close surface plays a quiet, delayed (path/343ms),
material-filtered copy from the mirror point — shots audibly slap back
off structures so players can triangulate. Sub-30ms echoes are skipped
(they perceptually merge with the direct sound).
- Surface classification: builder-set acoustic_material meta -> node-name
keywords -> metallic-material inference -> concrete default; cached.
Integration:
- AudioManager.play_3d applies occlusion at fire time and re-filters all
playing positional sounds every 0.12s (walking behind a wall mid-sound
audibly muffles it); flight loops opt in via "acoustic_occluded" group
- Remote players' gunshots were entirely SILENT — rpc_play_fire_effects now
plays the right weapon's shot at the shooter's position, occluded and
reflected like everything else
- Remote players' footsteps were also silent — now positional + occluded,
cadence scaled to their speed
- Test level tagged: brick arena walls, wooden platforms/obstacles, metal
wall-run corridor/rails/dash platforms; dust2 sandstone reads as brick
Tests: debug/acoustics_test.gd (12 checks: per-material loss ordering,
multi-wall stacking, reflection delay/filter, name classification) — all
pass; movement 11/11; smoke 0 failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
- Gunshots: strip lead-in silence from every firearm recording (the audible
delay between trigger and bang) and hard-trim to a single 0.7s crack with
a fast fade — the outdoor-range echo read as 2-3 extra shots. Big single
shots (AWP/shotgun/rocket/mortar) keep a 1s tail but still one boom.
- Hit confirm: short fleshy punch thock instead of the bell ("taco bell")
- Dash: clean synthesized air whoosh (bandpassed pink noise swell) instead
of thruster fire crackle; grapple shoot inherits it
- Jump: push-off foot scuff + faint whoosh instead of the balloon boing
- Wind speed-loop: deep lowpass so it reads as rushing air, not fire
- Grenade: silent in flight — the rocket-engine loop made it sound like it
was burning; bounces still audible
Verified: reimport + smoke test 0 failures, 11/11 movement tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Audio:
- All ballistic weapons now fire real firearm recordings (The Free Firearm
Sound Library, CC0): AK-47 uses actual AK-47 shots, M4=AR-15, MP7=PPSh,
AWP=Mosin Nagant, DMR=Savage 10, shotgun=Mossberg/Nova, nailgun=Ruger .22,
rocket/mortar layered with real booms. Plasma keeps its energy sound.
- Reload is real lever-action foley instead of interface clicks
- Projectile flight loops localized: unit_size 50->6, max_db 6->0,
max_distance 45 — no more mortar/rocket drone in every player's ear;
loops also got proper loop_end (was a zero-length loop)
- Flight loops lowpassed into soft whooshes instead of sci-fi engine drones
- Menu music converted to OGG with native full-track looping (47s seamless,
replaces the broken manual WAV loop points)
Animations (movement-shooter pass):
- Rebaked miku.glb with 4 new clips from the CC0 library: Grapple (swim
reach — reads as a swing), PistolIdle (armed idle with weapon up),
PistolShoot, PistolReload
- Armed idle: standing with a weapon now uses PistolIdle instead of
arms-at-sides
- Slide pose overhaul: legs kick out front (lead/trail thighs, knees
straighten) — feet-first slide instead of "sitting in a crouch"
- Wall run: forward drive pitch + inner arm reaches out to the wall
- Per-transition blend times: dash/hit/jump cut fast (0.05-0.08s),
locomotion cross-fades smoothly (0.2-0.25s); CrouchWalk speed-scales
Fixes:
- Third-person camera no longer renders the first-person viewmodel layer
(the gun/arms floated in front of the third-person view)
Verified: 11/11 movement tests, smoke test 0 failures (17 clips resolved),
third-person run screenshot shows grounded animated model, no floating gun.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Audio (all CC0 — Kenney packs + OpenGameArt, see assets/sounds/SOURCES.md):
- Replace every procedural synth WAV with forged sounds (ffmpeg pitch/layer
mixes): distinct fire sounds per weapon with 2-3 variations, explosions,
footsteps x5, land/jump/dash/vault, knife swing, hit/kill confirms,
bullet impacts, reload, flight loops, UI hover/click/confirm/error,
match jingles, menu music
- AudioManager.stream_for(): AudioStreamRandomizer per sound id — every
weapon now gets variation + pitch randomization on each shot
- Explosions and bullet impacts play positional audio; landing has its own
sound instead of a pitched footstep; ambient wind bed on every map
Visuals:
- ExplosionVFX: shared cel-shaded burst (white-hot stepped core, ink
shockwave ring, star spikes, flat smoke puffs) replaces the orange
sphere in both local and remote-replay paths
- Comic star muzzle flashes on all weapons; unified cel tracer bolts with
ink outlines across hitscan/shotgun/remote paths
- Impact decals: hard-stepped ink-splat gradients instead of soft airbrush
- Toon shading on first-person view models + arms, third-person weapons,
and the procedural humanoid fallback (no hull outlines on FBX weapons —
their hard normals tear the inverted hull)
- Fix: giant soft "blob" highlight on floors — toon rim/specular disabled
on level-geometry materials (pre-existing artifact since the cel commit)
- Fix: own third-person weapon rendered into the first-person camera
(shadows-only now covers first_person_mode)
UI:
- UITheme: comic theme on the root window — Bangers display font (OFL),
paper panels with thick ink borders + hard drop shadows, papaya accent,
themed buttons/inputs/popups; hover/click sounds on all menu buttons
- Main menu: tilted comic wordmark, sunset toon diorama, looping menu music
- Match HUD: themed scoreboard/killfeed/kill counter
Viewports:
- 4x MSAA project-wide + viewmodel/diorama viewports (crisp ink lines)
- Viewmodel camera near plane 0.01; third-person camera FOV syncs settings
- debug/visual_capture.gd: dev tool to screenshot menu + level for review
Verified: 11/11 movement tests, spawn smoke test 0 failures, before/after
screenshot comparison of menu and level.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Character pipeline (tools/):
- sketchfab_import.py: search/download via Sketchfab Download API with
license/attribution tracking (SKETCHFAB_API_TOKEN)
- autorig.py: headless Blender auto-rig — fits a Mixamo-named skeleton
to unrigged humanoids, binds automatic weights
- merge_animations.py: merges the shared Mixamo-skeleton animation
library onto any rigged character, strips root motion, canonical names
- pipeline.py: one command chains download -> rig -> animate -> register
In-game skin system:
- SkinManager autoload reads skins.json (auto-written by the pipeline)
- SkinnedPlayerModel rewritten: canonical clips with fallback chains,
blend times, speed-scaled locomotion, weapon bone attachment
- First-person: full animated body for the owner, head hidden via
SkeletonModifier3D; third-person: full model for other players
- Skin selector in main menu; skin id synced in multiplayer
- Fixed GLBLoader crash (GLTFDocument.get_animation_count doesn't exist)
Multiplayer sync overhaul:
- Movement is now client-authoritative: the owning peer simulates
locally (no input round-trip), server keeps health/kills/death
- Remote players interpolate synced_position/velocity with
extrapolation and snap-on-teleport
- Knockback/impulses routed to the simulating peer
Audio:
- AudioManager autoload: SFX/Weapons/Footsteps/UI/Music buses, pooled
3D players, variation + pitch randomization, auto-registration from
assets/sounds
Docs: 3D_ASSET_PIPELINE.md rewritten end-to-end, new ASSET_SOURCES.md
(non-procedural animation/map/sound sources) and SOUND_DESIGN.md.
Verified with debug/spawn_smoke_test.gd (headless: 24/24 checks pass).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
- Add miku_rigged_animated.glb (3.27MB) with 18-bone skeleton and 6 animations
(Idle, Walk, Run, Jump, Crouch, Death) via Blender auto-rig script
- Add tools/rig_and_animate.py: reusable Blender script for rigging any humanoid
mesh with Mixamo-compatible bone naming
- Update SkinnedPlayerModel: scale_factor, first-person mode, animation state
matching (Idle/Walk/Run/Jump/Crouch/Death)
- Update level_runtime.gd: use skinned model for local player, procedural
humanoid for remote players
- Update skin_manager.gd and test_level_builder.gd to use animated model
- Fix Godot 4.2.1 'is not Type' syntax in 5 weapon files
- Add editor/import_miku_to_tscn.gd for editor-based GLB import
Hermes