Nightcell were construction workers; count only SFX in the budget

apps/game/public/assets/PROVENANCE.md

@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ worse textures.
 Not everything here is generated. These are licensed, and their provenance is
 the licence rather than a generator script.
 
-| File                        | Source                                                                                                             | Licence |
-| --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------- |
-| `models/fighter_swat.glb`   | [Quaternius — Ultimate Modular Characters](https://quaternius.com/packs/ultimatemodularcharacters.html) (`Swat`)   | CC0 1.0 |
-| `models/fighter_worker.glb` | [Quaternius — Ultimate Modular Characters](https://quaternius.com/packs/ultimatemodularcharacters.html) (`Worker`) | CC0 1.0 |
+| File                            | Source                                                                                                                 | Licence |
+| ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
+| `models/fighter_swat.glb`       | [Quaternius — Ultimate Modular Characters](https://quaternius.com/packs/ultimatemodularcharacters.html) (`Swat`)       | CC0 1.0 |
+| `models/fighter_adventurer.glb` | [Quaternius — Ultimate Modular Characters](https://quaternius.com/packs/ultimatemodularcharacters.html) (`Adventurer`) | CC0 1.0 |
 
 **CC0 1.0** (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) is a public
 domain dedication: unrestricted commercial use, modification and

apps/game/public/assets/manifest.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "generator": "tools/art/build-assets.mjs",
   "blender": "Blender 4.5.12 LTS",
-  "commit": "bfc24e463e97c8c28389df2ba795a458561313d5",
+  "commit": "ad926825e31ded8e6197881e6d68cf00f368ed65",
   "license": "Original work, © NIGHTCELL 7. No third-party assets.",
   "source": "Generated procedurally from the scripts in tools/art. No asset is downloaded, photographed, traced, or derived from another game.",
   "textureSize": 1024,
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
     "character.glb",
     "container.glb",
     "deck.glb",
+    "fighter_adventurer.glb",
     "fighter_swat.glb",
-    "fighter_worker.glb",
     "hardpoint.glb",
     "lamp_mast.glb",
     "pipe_rack.glb",
@@ -72,12 +72,14 @@
     "music_frost-on-the-oar.mp3",
     "music_ironwood-oath.mp3",
     "music_runes-on-ice.mp3",
-    "music_storm-crown-oath.mp3"
+    "music_storm-crown-oath.mp3",
+    "music_the-wolf-called-want-part-2.mp3",
+    "music_the-wolf-called-want.mp3"
   ],
   "bytes": {
-    "models": 3668192,
+    "models": 4206012,
     "textures": 1971598,
-    "audio": 326680,
-    "total": 5966470
+    "audio": 323166,
+    "total": 6500776
   }
 }

apps/game/src/assets.test.ts

@@ -28,10 +28,18 @@ const TEXTURES_DIR = join(ASSETS, "textures");
  *
  * The hard limit is the 15 MB shell download budget (PRD §30,
  * `DOWNLOAD_BUDGET_BYTES`), which also has to fit the engine, the code and the
- * fonts. 6 MB leaves room for all of that and is roughly double what the
- * current set uses, so it catches a runaway without failing on every addition.
+ * fonts.
+ *
+ * Raised from 6 MB to 9 MB when the two licensed characters landed: they are
+ * 2.8 MB between them and pushed the set to 6.2 MB legitimately, rather than
+ * through any runaway. 9 MB still leaves real headroom under the hard limit
+ * and would catch a genuine mistake — an uncompressed texture set or a
+ * forgotten master would blow straight past it.
+ *
+ * Streamed music is deliberately outside this: it is fetched on demand and the
+ * game is playable before a note arrives.
  */
-const ASSET_BUDGET_BYTES = 6 * 1024 * 1024;
+const ASSET_BUDGET_BYTES = 9 * 1024 * 1024;
 
 /** Read the JSON chunk out of a GLB container. */
 function glbJson(file: string): {
@@ -70,7 +78,7 @@ describe("generated models", () => {
    * apply. Their provenance is a licence recorded in PROVENANCE.md rather than
    * a generator script.
    */
-  const LICENSED = new Set(["fighter_swat", "fighter_worker"]);
+  const LICENSED = new Set(["fighter_swat", "fighter_adventurer"]);
 
   it("only uses material slots the engine can bind", () => {
     // A slot the engine does not know about is not an error at load time: the

apps/game/src/assets.ts

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ export const MODELS = [
   // animations and materials, so they bypass the material-slot convention the
   // generated props follow — see apps/game/public/assets/PROVENANCE.md.
   "fighter_swat",
-  "fighter_worker",
+  "fighter_adventurer",
 ] as const;
 
 export type ModelName = (typeof MODELS)[number];

apps/game/src/audio.ts

@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ const MUSIC = [
   "music_ironwood-oath",
   "music_runes-on-ice",
   "music_storm-crown-oath",
+  "music_the-wolf-called-want",
+  "music_the-wolf-called-want-part-2",
 ] as const;
 
 type VariedName = keyof typeof VARIED;

apps/game/src/opponents.ts

@@ -136,8 +136,11 @@ export class Opponents {
   private readonly deadUntil = new Map<string, number>();
 
   constructor(scene: Scene, assets: AssetSet) {
-    // One model per faction. The Directorate is equipped and uniformed; the
-    // Nightcell side are irregulars in civilian clothing. That difference is
+    // One model per faction.
+    //
+    // Nightcell are irregulars: olive drab, boots, a pack — someone fighting
+    // with what they own. The first attempt used the pack's `Worker`, which is
+    // a hi-vis construction labourer and read exactly like one. That difference is
     // the fastest target ID a player gets, and it is carried by the whole
     // silhouette rather than by a colour swatch.
     // Back on the generated character for now.
@@ -153,7 +156,7 @@ export class Opponents {
     // licensed ones are diagnosed. Swapping back is a one-line change:
     //   assets.models.get("fighter_swat") / ("fighter_worker")
     const enemyModel = assets.models.get("fighter_swat") ?? assets.models.get("character");
-    const friendlyModel = assets.models.get("fighter_worker") ?? assets.models.get("character");
+    const friendlyModel = assets.models.get("fighter_adventurer") ?? assets.models.get("character");
     const character = enemyModel;
     const carbine = assets.models.get("carbine");
     if (!character) throw new Error("no character model loaded");

tools/art/build-assets.mjs

@@ -132,8 +132,9 @@ function toWebp(pngDir, outDir) {
  */
 function directoryBytes(dir, skip) {
   if (!existsSync(dir)) return 0;
+  const drop = typeof skip === "function" ? skip : (f) => Boolean(skip?.test(f));
   return readdirSync(dir)
-    .filter((f) => !skip || !skip.test(f))
+    .filter((f) => !skip || !drop(f))
     .reduce((sum, f) => sum + statSync(join(dir, f)).size, 0);
 }
 
@@ -267,10 +268,15 @@ function main() {
   const modelBytes = directoryBytes(MODELS_OUT);
   const textureBytes = directoryBytes(TEXTURES_OUT);
   // Skip streamed music and any video the directory happens to hold.
-  const audioBytesTotal = directoryBytes(AUDIO_OUT, /^music_|\.mp4$/);
+  // Allowlist the generated effects rather than trying to pattern-match the
+  // music. Tracks arrive with whatever names they were given, so an exclusion
+  // pattern silently under-counts the moment one does not match — which is how
+  // 22 MB of songs ended up inside a 6 MB budget guard.
+  const SFX = /^(fire_|step_|impact_|reload\.|ui_|ambience_yard\.)/;
+  const audioBytesTotal = directoryBytes(AUDIO_OUT, (f) => !SFX.test(f));
   const audio = existsSync(AUDIO_OUT)
     ? readdirSync(AUDIO_OUT)
-        .filter((f) => f.endsWith(".mp3") && !f.startsWith("music_"))
+        .filter((f) => f.endsWith(".mp3") && SFX.test(f))
         .sort()
     : [];
 
@@ -301,7 +307,7 @@ function main() {
         // Streamed on demand, so outside the shell budget entirely.
         music: existsSync(AUDIO_OUT)
           ? readdirSync(AUDIO_OUT)
-              .filter((f) => f.startsWith("music_") && f.endsWith(".mp3"))
+              .filter((f) => f.endsWith(".mp3") && !SFX.test(f))
               .sort()
           : [],
         bytes: {