.claude/skills/character-pipeline/references/failure-modes.md

@@ -225,10 +225,33 @@ Blender-export `IndexFinger1_L`. Segments are ordered by DEPTH BELOW THE HAND,
 not by the number in the name — the numbering is not consistent between families,
 but the hierarchy always runs knuckle to fingertip.
 
+**The support hand came out upside down**, because its orientation was built as
+a shortest arc plus a constant twist: align the hand's forearm line to the barrel
+(`Quaternion(fa_rest_dir, aim_dir)`), then add 0.5 rad of roll. A shortest arc
+says NOTHING about roll — it is the minimal rotation between two directions — so
+the entire roll came from that constant, and a constant is right only for the rig
+it was tuned on.
+
+Orienting a hand onto something it grips is a FRAME-TO-FRAME problem, and framing
+it that way leaves nothing free to guess:
+
+```
+curl axis  must lie along the object's axis, or the fingers close ACROSS the
+           handguard instead of around it
+palm       must face the object — up, for a hand supporting from underneath
+along      falls out of the other two (palm x curl)
+```
+
+Map the hand's rest anatomical frame onto that target and the roll is determined,
+not chosen. Verified on both the Rigify-named mannequin and the VRoid-named
+Kiyoko: fingers wrap the handguard from below, over the top.
+
 **Rule:** anything expressed as a constant in a rig's local frame — a mount
-rotation, a grip offset, a curl axis, a weapon size — is a guess about one
+rotation, a grip offset, a curl axis, a weapon size, a wrist twist — is a guess
-skeleton. Derive it from the skeleton, or hand it to a solver that already knows
+about one skeleton. Derive it from the skeleton, or hand it to a solver that
-the answer.
+already knows the answer. And when a rotation needs a specific ROLL, never build
+it from a shortest arc: that operator has no opinion about roll, so whatever you
+add afterwards is doing all the work.
 
 ## 6. Some sources are not salvageable, and the gate should say so
 

characters/skinned_player_model.gd

@@ -1174,6 +1174,8 @@ class ShooterPoseModifier extends SkeletonModifier3D:
 	var fingers: Dictionary = {}
 	var _fing: Dictionary = {}        # same, resolved to bone indices
 	var _curl: Dictionary = {}        # "L"/"R" -> curl axis in the rest frame
+	## "L"/"R" -> Basis(along, palm, curl), the hand's anatomy in the rest pose.
+	var _hand_frame: Dictionary = {}
 
 	func _resolve() -> void:
 		var skel := get_skeleton()
@@ -1255,7 +1257,19 @@ class ShooterPoseModifier extends SkeletonModifier3D:
 			palm -= along * palm.dot(along)
 			if palm.length() < 0.0001:
 				continue
-			_curl[side] = along.cross(palm.normalized()).normalized()
+			palm = palm.normalized()
+			var curl := along.cross(palm).normalized()
+			_curl[side] = curl
+			# The whole hand as an ANATOMICAL FRAME, not just the curl axis.
+			#
+			# Orienting a hand onto something it is gripping is a frame-to-frame
+			# problem: the fingers have to wrap AROUND the object, so the curl
+			# axis must lie along the object's axis, and the palm has to face it.
+			# Both are answered at once by mapping this frame onto the target's.
+			# Building the rotation from a shortest arc plus a constant twist —
+			# which is what was here — leaves the roll about the barrel
+			# unspecified, so the support hand landed upside down.
+			_hand_frame[side] = Basis(along, palm, curl)
 		if OS.has_environment("HAND_DEBUG"):
 			print("HANDS fingers=%d resolved=%d curl=%s" % [
 				fingers.size(), _fing.size(), _curl])
@@ -1467,7 +1481,6 @@ class ShooterPoseModifier extends SkeletonModifier3D:
 	const POLE_L_HIP := Vector3(0.45, -0.90, -0.10)
 	const POLE_L_ADS := Vector3(0.30, -0.95, -0.05)
 	const R_HAND_TWIST := 0.0
-	const L_HAND_TWIST := 0.5
 
 	func _apply_rifle_hold(skel: Skeleton3D) -> void:
 		var ua_r: int = _idx.get("DEF-upper_arm.R", -1)
@@ -1570,19 +1583,34 @@ class ShooterPoseModifier extends SkeletonModifier3D:
 					arc = Quaternion(aim_dir, roll + R_HAND_TWIST) * arc
 				_set_global_rot(skel, hand, g_fa_r, arc, _hold_r)
 
-		# 6. Support hand: palm wraps the handguard, following its forearm.
+		# 6. Support hand: WRAP the handguard.
-		if _hold_l > 0.001 and g_fa_l != Quaternion.IDENTITY and ua_l >= 0:
+		#
+		# Built as a frame, not as an arc plus a twist. A hand gripping a
+		# cylinder has its fingers curling AROUND that cylinder, which fixes two
+		# things at once and leaves nothing free:
+		#
+		#   curl axis  must lie along the BARREL, or the fingers close across
+		#              the handguard instead of around it
+		#   palm       must face the barrel — up, for a hand supporting from
+		#              underneath
+		#
+		# The old version aligned the hand's forearm line to the barrel with a
+		# shortest arc and then added a constant 0.5 rad twist. A shortest arc
+		# says nothing about roll, so the roll came entirely from that constant,
+		# and a constant is only ever right for the one rig it was tuned on — the
+		# support hand came out upside down.
+		if _hold_l > 0.001 and g_fa_l != Quaternion.IDENTITY and ua_l >= 0 \
+				and _hand_frame.has("L"):
 			var hand_l: int = _idx.get("DEF-hand.L", -1)
-			var fa_l_idx: int = _idx.get("DEF-forearm.L", -1)
+			if hand_l >= 0:
-			if hand_l >= 0 and fa_l_idx >= 0:
+				# -aim_dir so the hand comes at the handguard from the body side
-				var fa_o := skel.get_bone_global_rest(fa_l_idx).origin
+				# rather than reaching over it backwards.
-				var hand_o := skel.get_bone_global_rest(hand_l).origin
+				var want := Basis(gun_up.cross(-aim_dir).normalized(), gun_up,
-				var fa_rest_dir := (hand_o - fa_o).normalized()
+					-aim_dir)
-				var hand_rest_q := skel.get_bone_global_rest(hand_l).basis.get_rotation_quaternion()
+				var rest: Basis = _hand_frame["L"]
-				# Point the palm along the barrel so the fingers close over it.
+				var g_hand := (want * rest.inverse()).get_rotation_quaternion() \
-				var g_hand := Quaternion(aim_dir, L_HAND_TWIST) \
+					* skel.get_bone_global_rest(hand_l).basis.get_rotation_quaternion()
-					* Quaternion(fa_rest_dir, aim_dir) * hand_rest_q
+				_set_global_rot(skel, hand_l, g_fa_l, g_hand.normalized(), _hold_l)
-				_set_global_rot(skel, hand_l, g_fa_l, g_hand, _hold_l)
 
 	# How far each segment of a finger closes, knuckle -> tip, in radians.
 	#