Four separate third-person defects, one shared root: the arms were posed at
art-directed ANGLES that merely approximated the gun, and a stuck one-shot
flag kept handing them back to the animation clip.
- The rifle hold was silently DEAD after the first reload or throw. The gate
trusted AnimationNodeOneShot's `active` parameter, which never clears, so
clip_owns_arms stayed true forever and the clip drove the arms while the
gun hung off the hand. `_upper_lock` (a timer we own) is now the
authority, and the one-shot is explicitly faded out when it expires.
This alone is why the gun was never held correctly.
- Arms are now solved with real two-bone IK (`_ik_arm`) onto points derived
from the WEAPON: the stock is anchored in the shoulder pocket, the grip
and foregrip fall out along the barrel, and the support hand is placed on
the actual handguard (sliding inboard if the model is too long to reach).
Verified numerically: the hand lands within 2mm of its target.
- `_measure_weapon` measures the model's AABB along its barrel and re-seats
it so the hand sits at a realistic pistol-grip point. Weapon models put
their origin anywhere — the M4's was 10cm from the muzzle end, so parking
its stock in the shoulder drove the hand INTO the shoulder and folded the
arm up behind the head.
- Recoil now shows for the OWNER in third person: server_play_fire_effects
only ever fired for remote shooters, so the local player saw nothing. The
ammo counter dropping now kicks the model. The kick rides in the gun's aim
direction so the IK carries BOTH hands up with it, instead of rotating the
arms and shoving the support hand off the gun.
- Reload no longer flips the gun. The library's pistol-reload rotates the
wrist the gun is parented to, which turned the rifle upside-down (mag to
the sky) while the hand reached down for it. The hold now keeps the right
arm through a reload and the support hand does the magazine work at the
real mag well, under the receiver.
anim_capture gains recoil shots and lets ADS settle before framing;
debug/dump_bones.gd prints a skin's bone hierarchy.
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]>
Two fidelity gaps closed:
- Reload/throw/shoot/hit used to REPLACE the whole-body clip, so reloading
mid-slide snapped the character upright on standing legs. The model now
runs a runtime AnimationTree (clips -> Transition -> TimeScale -> OneShot)
whose one-shot layer is FILTERED to upper-body bones: the arms play the
action while the legs keep sliding/running/falling. Land stays full-body.
The rifle hold releases exactly while the one-shot node reports active.
- Grapple no longer plays the library's horizontal-swim clip. The zip pose
is procedural: Fall as the airborne base, the spine pivots to fly along
the line to the actual anchor point (capped so overhead shots don't fold
the body), the head sights the anchor, legs trail behind, the FREE left
hand reaches up the rope — and the right hand keeps holding the rifle.
The anchor point feeds in from the controller for local and remote
players (synced_grapple_point).
- anim_capture: deterministic open-ground teleport + two new regression
shots (reload-while-sliding, grapple zip toward a real anchor).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
- Third-person camera chain is now HeadPivot > OrbitPivot > ShoulderOffset
(0.55m right, 0.12m up) > SpringArm(2.6m, 14 deg) — the character sits
slightly left of screen centre over-the-shoulder instead of dead centre
behind. Aim is unchanged (still the first-person camera).
- Hold Alt in third person to orbit the camera freely around the character
with the mouse (yaw wraps, pitch clamped -69..+29 deg); the character
keeps facing and aiming where it was. Release Alt and the camera springs
back behind the shoulder.
- debug/orbit_capture.gd: screenshots the OTS framing, a driven orbit, and
the spring-back for visual regression.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
New selectable skin: Taila (original anime character by Partaevil,
CC-BY, license kept alongside the model), cel-shaded with ink outlines,
running the full 18-clip animation set + the new rifle-hold pose layer.
Pipeline hardening learned the hard way (each of these produced a broken
character before the fix):
- tools/strip_rig.py: strips a foreign rig (VRoid/Mixamo names bake FLAT
clips in the name-based retarget), keeps only meshes skinned to that rig
(scene props were joining into the player model), recentres feet-on-origin,
and reroutes image textures into Principled base color for re-export.
- tools/unlit_to_pbr.py: KHR_materials_unlit anime models carry their albedo
in emissiveTexture over a black base — Blender 5.1 drops the texture on
import, rendering the character pitch black. Rewrites the GLB JSON to
standard textured PBR before Blender ever sees it.
Also dropped the Elle import attempt: her rest pose is seated (posed scene),
which the T-pose autorig cannot use.
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]>
Third-person player characters now animate every action with readable
intent (all networked, cel style preserved):
- Look-around: upper body follows the owner's camera pitch — distributed
over spine/neck/head so aiming up/down reads on the whole silhouette
(driven by the already-synced HeadPivot rotation on remotes)
- Reload: the baked PistolReload clip plays as a one-shot whenever the
equipped weapon starts reloading (local edge-detect poll -> new synced
action counter replays it on every peer)
- Grenade throw: new Throw clip baked from the library's overhead swing
(Sword_Attack retarget); triggers on throw, synced the same way
- Shot recoil: visible kick on the shooter's model (shoulders snap back,
forearms rise, fast decay) driven by the existing fire-effects RPC —
remote players' shots now look like shots
- Slide: trailing arm braces against the ground for balance on top of the
feet-first pose
- Armed idle confirmed in capture: weapon held at ready, not arms-down
Plumbing: synced_action/synced_action_seq added to all three player
spawners' replication configs; ACTIONS table on the model maps names to
clips + lock times.
Verified: 18 clips resolve (incl Throw), smoke 0 failures, movement
11/11, acoustics PASSED; third-person run + armed idle captures clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Closes more of the gap to hand-authored city art at eye level:
- Kenney City Kit Roads (CC0) installed: every street in the 10x10 grid is
now real road meshes — lane-marked straights (single stretched mesh per
segment) and line-marked crossroad tiles at all 81 intersections, tinted
to sit under the toon lighting without clipping
- Kit streetlights (curved arms over the road) along both central avenues,
with slim pole colliders kept for grapples
- Kenney Nature Kit trees replace the cone/box stand-ins in shrine
courtyards and plaza planters (original kit materials kept — the toon
swap mangled their vertex colors into cyan)
- Overhead cable bundles sag across the east-west streets (the classic
urban-Japan sky clutter), drawn as ink lines; central avenue kept clear
- Construction sites get cones + barriers from the roads kit
- Per-building tint jitter so repeated kit models read as distinct shops
Verified via street/aerial captures (dark marked asphalt, green trees,
detailed facades); movement 11/11, smoke 0 failures, acoustics ALL PASSED.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Scaled the single block to a full 10x10 city grid (48m cells, 16m streets,
640m across) with a hand-authored layout so the fabric stays varied:
Block types:
- S standard retail (70%): paired parametric buildings facing the N-S
streets, seeded heights/colors per block; ~half get a mid-block alley
with fire-escape climbs so no two blocks play identically
- T landmark towers: 8-10 floors on a walkable retail podium, mega corner
sign, double-sided rooftop crown billboard (skyline wayfinding)
- J shrine courtyards: walled court, torii, slide-roof hall, lanterns,
trees — the green quiet break in the fabric
- M market streets: dense stall rows + lantern strings between low
buildings (close-quarters cover mazes)
- P plaza cluster at the city centre with planter cover and a giant
4-face screen tower at the exact middle (the Crossing)
- C construction sites: open slab frame to wallrun, access ramp, container
stacks, and a 28m crane whose jib is the city's tallest grapple anchor
City systems:
- Brick rail viaduct runs the full east-west width on per-block piers with
vending arcades under alternating arches + slide ramps at the centre
- Central avenues x=0/z=0 get matched streetlights and zebra crossings at
every block line; brick wall rings the district; city-haze fog for depth
- Detail pass per building: window bands every floor, water tanks/antenna
masts seeded on roofs, denser sign stacking
Perf/physics: decoration (signs, windows, leaves, lamp heads) is
render-only MeshInstances; only gameplay surfaces are static bodies, all
acoustics-tagged. Spawns distributed across block types facing centre.
Verified: full-city aerial (all 100 blocks, aligned grid), avenue-level
capture (clean canyon, viaduct vista); movement 11/11, smoke 0 failures,
acoustics ALL PASSED.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
- LevelMaterials.flat(): toon-banded FLAT color material (no greybox grid
texture) for dressed maps; cached per tint, rim/spec off
- Neon Alley overrides _box_static: every structure renders flat cel color;
prop-scale pieces (<10m) get an inverted-hull ink outline scaled to their
size. Building-scale boxes skip the hull — the inflated plates smear into
black voids at close range (found via fixed street-camera capture)
- Pylon wires render as flat ink lines; warmer wood + hotter vermilion for
flat shading (the grid multiply used to brighten tints)
- visual_capture: deterministic street-level shot after the aerial for
style comparisons
Street capture now reads properly BoomerangX: flat lavender asphalt, hard
light bands, torii framed down the underpass, neon strips + sign glow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
New map (scenes/maps/neon_alley/, auto-appears in the level selectors):
Layout for movement flow:
- Main N-S street = the long sightline, crossed by a pedestrian bridge
(slide ramps up both ends, underpass cover below, railed high ground)
- West machiya row: wooden two-story houses with a jump route
(awning -> balcony -> roof deck) and 25-degree slide roofs facing the street
- East concrete towers with glass storefronts; brick wallrun alley between
them (AC units to vault); metal fire-escape platform route to the roofs;
angled rooftop billboard as cover + grapple anchor
- Three power pylons with crossarms over the street chain a grapple route;
the torii gate crossbeam at the north shrine plaza is a fourth anchor
- South market: wooden stalls with neon canopies + metal vending machines
= scattered mid cover; shipping container corner piece
- Spawns ring the block and face the map center
Acoustics as level design: every surface is tagged (machiya/stalls/torii
wood, towers concrete, storefronts glass, alley+perimeter brick, escapes/
AC/rails/container metal) so occlusion tells you which structure a shot
came through and reflections differ per street.
Style: sunset sky + fixed dusk-lavender ambient (calibrated for the toon
shader's 1/PI light response), warm low sun, neon sign columns, shop signs,
lantern strings, billboard glow, underpass strip lights.
Verified: aerial + street-level + third-person captures; movement 11/11,
smoke 0 failures, acoustics ALL PASSED.
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]>
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]>
- SkinnedPlayerModel: generic play_oneshot() (generalizes the Land lock),
Hit and Dance in the clip table (Dance loops), restartable clips
- Hit flinch: victims visibly react on every peer's screen via the existing
damage broadcast — no new RPC
- Dance emote on B: toggles while grounded and idle, breaks on any movement;
synced to remotes via synced_is_dancing (all three spawner configs)
- Anime radial speed-lines overlay (canvas shader): fades in past ~1.2x walk
speed, spikes on dash, widescreen-corrected clear center
- New input action 'emote' (B) in project.godot
11/11 FSM tests, spawn smoke 0 failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
- toon.gdshader: banded diffuse with cool-tinted shadows (3 tones), stepped
specular, rim light, and an optional world-triplanar albedo path so level
geometry keeps the 0.5 m grid with no UVs
- toon_outline.gdshader: inverted-hull ink outline, applied via
material_overlay so it works on skinned (deforming) meshes
- LevelMaterials: tinted() now returns toon grid materials; toonify()/
apply_toon_recursive() convert imported character/prop materials in place
- SkinnedPlayerModel: characters get toon shading + outline on load
- LevelEnvironment: shared stylized environment for all maps — saturated
anime sky, linear tonemap (filmic/ACES crush cel bands), bloom for
emissives, saturation+contrast grade, light depth haze; test level and
dust2 now use it and the procedural arena (which had NO environment)
gets it plus runtime toonification of its baked geometry
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
- Generated CC0-style prototype grid textures (0.5 m cells) and a shared
LevelMaterials factory: world-space triplanar mapping over every code-built
level (test level, dust2, procedural arena) with the existing color coding
kept as tints. Readable surfaces at speed instead of flat color boxes;
materials are cached per tint so identical surfaces batch.
- .gdignore + .gitignore the raw downloaded asset packs in addons/ whose
overlong paths broke Godot import scans and spammed git warnings.
- Replaced the rotted FSM test file (invalid call(t) on Callables, stateless
stub nodes, hung forever without quitting) with a real suite: 10 tests
covering state registration, jump bookkeeping, wall-run momentum
preservation and upward-carry cap, per-player dash cooldown (regression for
the old shared static), dash speed stacking, chain soft cap, landing
events, and slide entry momentum. New headless entrypoint:
godot --headless --path . -s res://movement/tests/run_fsm_tests.gd
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
- Quake-style air-strafe accelerate (real speed gain from strafing; external
speed from dash/rockets never clamped)
- Wall run: keeps entry momentum (incl. upward carry), accelerates along the
wall instead of hard-setting velocity, gravity fades in over the run
- Slide: slope physics (gravity projected along floor accelerates downhill),
flat-ground decel instead of multiplicative friction, entry boost, direct
slide->wallrun and slide->dash transitions
- Dash: cooldown 10s -> 2s, per-player (was a static shared across instances),
momentum fully kept on exit, FOV punch event
- Grapple: taut pendulum with active rope control (W reels in, S pays out),
release keeps swing energy
- Wall climb: carries upward momentum in, jump-off kick, shared vault helper
- Crouch capsule: single owner in the machine, smoothly lerped, ceiling check;
camera eye height follows via crouch factor (no more head snapping)
- Landing: machine emits 'land' events scaled by impact; camera dip + pitched
down thud; footsteps get pitch variation
- Camera rig: event-driven (land dip, dash FOV kick, vault pitch impulse),
slide roll tilt
- Model: Jump vs Fall split by vertical velocity, Land one-shot on heavy
landings, wall-run body lean (synced to remotes via synced_wall_side)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Godot import artifacts that pair with already-committed assets:
- miku_test_Image_0..3.png: textures extracted from miku_test.glb on import
- .uid files for spawn_smoke_test.gd and audio_manager.gd
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Layer a procedural SkeletonModifier3D (ShooterPoseModifier) on top of the base
clip so the character reads like a movement-shooter avatar:
- Directional lean: banks into the movement direction (right/left/back) and
blends smoothly for diagonals, driven by velocity relative to facing.
- Slide: leans the torso back and pitches the head up to look forward, instead
of the base clip's forward-torso/legs-out "spine break".
- Airborne: plays a composed Jump pose (weapon ready) rather than a flailing
fall.
- Weapon hold: the base clip already keeps the arms down (weapon at the hip);
on ADS both arms lift and swing in toward centre-front to aim. ADS is read
from the active weapon and synced (synced_is_ads) so remote players raise
their weapons too.
The controller feeds movement direction + ADS to SkinnedPlayerModel.set_locomotion()
each frame (works for local and remote via synced velocity/rotation). All
rotations are authored in skeleton space (fwd=+Z, up=+Y, right=-X) and converted
per-bone; tuning constants are at the top of ShooterPoseModifier.
Verified by rendering the poses (idle/strafe/back/slide/ads) in a real Godot
viewport. Smoke test 30/30.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The model animated its skeleton but rendered a permanent T-pose: the mesh
wasn't skin-bound. Root cause was in autorig's binding, introduced while
chasing an earlier "skins:0" export:
- The earlier "skins:0" was actually caused by bone-heat weighting failing
(0 weighted verts → empty skin gets dropped), NOT by the Armature modifier.
- The "fix" then stripped the Armature modifier and used parent_type=ARMATURE.
That makes the glTF exporter emit a skin OBJECT but with no node.skin
reference and no per-vertex JOINTS/WEIGHTS — an orphan skin. The mesh then
renders its bind pose (T-pose) forever while the skeleton animates unseen.
Fix: keep the standard ARMATURE_AUTO result (Armature modifier + vertex
groups). With the nearest-bone fallback ensuring real weights, the exporter
now writes a COMPLETE skin (verified: meshnode.skin=0, JOINTS/WEIGHTS present).
Also:
- skinned_player_model: _ensure_meshes_bound() re-binds any skinned mesh whose
skeleton NodePath doesn't resolve at load — graceful degradation instead of
a silent T-pose for imperfect GLBs.
- smoke test now asserts the spawned player's mesh is bound to its skeleton,
so this class of bug fails the test instead of shipping. 30/30 pass.
- regenerated miku_test.glb with the corrected pipeline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The first-person head-shrink (SkeletonModifier3D) left the camera looking at
the inside of the neck/torso/hair. Replaced it: the owner's model now renders
shadows-only in first person (clean FPS view, still fully animated and visible
to others and in shadows).
Added a third-person toggle (V / toggle_camera_view) so you can actually see
your own animated model — the easiest way to verify a new skin's animations:
- over-the-shoulder SpringArm3D camera (wall-collision aware) on the local
player; press V to swap, press again to return
- firing still uses the first-person camera, so aim is unchanged
- reveals the owner's model via set_owner_visible() on both SkinnedPlayerModel
and HumanoidModel; hides the first-person weapon viewmodel while in TP
- death forces first person so the toggle can't fight the death cam
Smoke test extended to cover the toggle (camera boom created, becomes current,
round-trips) — 28/28 checks pass for both color and GLB skins.
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]>
The Miku model T-posed because the previous _update_skin() used
set_bone_pose(i, get_bone_pose(i)) which is a no-op when the pose
is unchanged. Replace with skeleton.notification(NOTIFICATION_UPDATE_SKELETON)
to force the Skeleton3D to recompute bone transforms and notify the
MeshInstance to update vertex buffers.
Also fix scale: the GLB is ~1.2m tall (not 1.6m as documented), so
set scale_factor=1.25 to fit the 1.8m player capsule, and add
position_y_offset=-0.2 to align the model's feet with the player origin.
Co-Authored-By: Hermes Agent <[email protected]>
The skinned player model was loading miku_rigged_final.glb which only
contained a single "Idle" animation (1 track, near-rest pose). This caused
"animation 'Jump/Walk/Run' not found" spam and a T-pose appearance.
Switch to miku_rigged_animated.glb which has all 7 animations
(Crouch, Death, Idle, Idle2, Jump, Run, Walk).
Additional fixes:
- Fix scaling: the GLB is already in meters (~1.6m tall), not cm.
Removed the unconditional 0.01 cm->m conversion that was shrinking
the character to 1/100th size.
- Fix bone track paths: use "MikuRig/Skeleton3D:" prefix matching the
actual scene tree structure (AnimationPlayer is sibling of MikuRig).
- Add _ensure_locomotion_animations() to create Walk/Run/Jump/Idle
procedurally if the GLB is missing them.
- Eliminate per-frame "not found" log spam with rate-limited warnings.
- Update level_runtime.gd and test_level_builder.gd to use animated GLB.
Closes #3d-player-model animation pipeline
The Blender GLTF exporter was stripping animation tracks (only 1 of 51
channels survived export). Now SkinnedPlayerModel detects this at
runtime and creates a proper Idle animation programmatically using Godot's
Animation API with 5 bone tracks (Spine, Arms, Neck, Hips).
Also switched model_path back to miku_rigged_final.glb since the
re-export wasn't adding usable animations.
Godot headless/CLI can't import GLB files — the GLTF loader only works
in the editor GUI. Switched SkinnedPlayerModel to use GLTFDocument.append_from_buffer()
which parses GLB data from raw bytes at runtime.
Verified: GLB parses successfully, generates scene with MikuRig skeleton,
AnimationPlayer, and 7 animations (Crouch, Death, Idle, Idle_001, Jump, Run, Walk).
Also added characters/glb_loader.gd as a reusable utility for loading
any GLB file at runtime.
- 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
Third-person camera:
- Camera offset now follows player's forward direction using basis.z
- Smoothly orbits behind player when they turn
- Looks at player's head area (y+1.5)
SkinnedPlayerModel:
- Creates AnimationPlayer programmatically if GLB doesn't have one
- Copies animations from armature's animation_data to the player
- Handles both direct actions and NLA tracks
- More detailed debug output for scene tree and animation state
SkinnedPlayerModel:
- Added _print_tree debug to see GLB scene structure at runtime
- Auto-play Idle animation on load
- Added periodic debug output for animation state
- Only change animation when target differs from current
Third-person camera:
- F1 toggles between FPS and third-person view
- Third-person camera positioned behind/above player
- Smooth follow with lerp
- Camera tracks player position each frame
- Fixed Blender export: remove FBX armature modifier before scaling,
then transform_apply(scale=True) before creating new armature
- Model now exports at correct 1.8 unit height (verified in Blender)
- SkinnedPlayerModel now polls MovementStateMachine in _process
to drive animations based on movement state
- Player 1 gets Miku at origin, others get procedural humanoid at y=-0.9
Pipeline:
1. Downloaded TDA-style Miku model from Sketchfab (19MB FBX, 38K verts)
2. Imported to Blender, scaled to Godot humanoid proportions (1.8u tall)
3. Created clean 17-bone humanoid armature (Hips/Spine/Chest/Head/Arms/Legs)
4. Auto-weight-painted mesh to armature
5. Added Idle (breath bounce) and Run (cycle) animations
6. Exported as GLB with embedded animations (3MB)
New:
- SkinnedPlayerModel class: loads GLB with own armature+animations
- Player 1 spawns with Miku model, others get procedural humanoid
- Completely separate from procedural model system
Files:
- assets/characters/skins/miku_rigged_final.glb (3MB, 48K verts, 17 bones, 2 anims)
- characters/skinned_player_model.gd
- Removed old procedural GLB attempts
Skin System:
- PlayerSkin resource class (model_path, color_tint, etc.)
- SkinManager with default skins: Default, Red Team, Forest, Miku
- HumanoidModel.apply_skin() supports both GLB model replacement
and procedural color tinting
- Procedural meshes auto-hide when GLB model is loaded
Miku Skin:
- 43-part procedural model generated in Blender (headless)
- Twin tails, headphones, thigh-high socks, idol outfit
- Teal/cyan color scheme with red accents
- Exported to assets/characters/skins/miku.glb
- Applied to player 1 in test level builder
Pipeline:
- Blender 5.0.1 + MCP addon installed
- Bridge script for socket-based Blender control
- docs/3D_ASSET_PIPELINE.md documents full workflow
Problems fixed:
- Player spawn moved from inside central platform to open area (z=20)
- Removed broken internal stairs inside tower (disconnected ramps)
- Removed corner towers, walkways, stepping stones, wall-run corridor,
wall-climb surfaces, grapple anchors — all were overlapping or unreachable
- Reduced arena from 96x96 to 80x80 for tighter gameplay
- Crates properly spaced (1.5u apart), no overlaps or intersections
- Reduced from 6 spawns to 4 (corners only), each with 2 L-shaped cover
walls and clear exit routes — no more 3-wall traps
- Spawn alcoves use 2 walls max with open diagonal exits
- Dummies placed in open areas away from geometry:
TargetDummy at (0,-25), KillableDummy at (25,0),
WalkingDummy patrols z=-30 from x=-20 to 20
- Central platform simplified: 16x16 base (2u) + 8x8 upper (4u)
- 4 cardinal ramps properly connect ground to platform edge
- Cover walls placed in open lanes, not blocking movement
- Barrels placed along outer walls, not in pathways
- Fix tab character in _build_elevated_walkways() call (line 63)
- Fix untyped 'pos' variable in grapple pillar loop (line 376)
- Remove fog_sky_affinity (Godot 4.3+ only property)
- Replace preload() with load() for runtime script loading
- Replace 'is DoubleBarrelShotgun' type check with duck-typing
- Fix 'is not OfflineMultiplayerPeer' syntax in grenade spawn
- Replace absf() with abs() in state_machine, state_air, state_ground
- Update test_level.tscn to remove stale UID reference
All fixes verified: PARSE OK and scene runs without script errors
on Godot 4.2.1 headless.
96x96 arena with multi-level layout, grapple points, wall-run/climb
surfaces, 6 team spawns with anti-camping cover, and varied movement
challenges.
Map Features:
- Central multi-level structure: 20x20 platform (3u), 10x10 tower (6u),
14x14 top platform (9u) with crown cover walls and internal stairs
- 4 corner towers (5u high) with railings and top platforms
- 4 elevated mid-side walkways (3u) with railings connecting center to edges
- 8 ramps: cardinal to central, diagonal to corners, to walkways
- Quarter-pipe curve (8 segments) near NE corner
- 4 parkour stepping stone chains (NW, NE, SW, SE quadrants)
- Wall-run corridor (N side) with parallel walls, obstacles, and floor gap
- Wall-run surfaces on all 4 outer wall sections
- Wall-climb surfaces around central tower and mid-map (warm color)
- 4 grapple anchor pillars (15u tall) with visible tops at cardinal points
- Cover system: low walls, crate clusters, corridor walls, structural pillars
- Speed corridor with side rails, speed bumps, and floor markings
- 6 spawn alcoves (3 red: NW/SW/West, 3 blue: NE/SE/East) with cover walls
- Anti-spawn-camping: each alcove has 2+ exits and blocking walls
- Floor accent tiles in central area
- Atmospheric sky with procedural sky material and fog
- Directional sun + fill light + center omni + 6 spawn accent lights
- Decorative: barrels, hazard stripes, accent beams, spawn area lights
- Full multiplayer spawning, weapon system, HUD, entities preserved
- All movement states: ground, air, wall_run, wall_climb, wall_cling,
slide, dash, grapple
Parse verified clean with Godot 4.2.1 headless.
Nicholas Butzke
Hermes