Rebuild the character from lofted geometry - #8
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The character was stacked axis-aligned cubes and read as a Minecraft figure. No amount of texturing fixes a silhouette made of blocks. It is now lofted: `_lib.loft`/`limb`/`ring` bridge cross-sections whose radius changes along their length, so the torso has a waist and limbs taper, with hard-surface gear layered on top and subdivision applied only to the body — a smoothed plate carrier looks inflated rather than rigid. The art direction is doing real work. A helmeted, visored operative in heavy gear is almost entirely hard surface, which is what a script is good at; faces, skin and bare hands are what procedural generation cannot do well, and this design shows none of them. That is a deliberate choice rather than a dodge. Gear: helmet with brow, visor, side rails, NVG mount and ear cups; plate carrier with shoulder yoke and cummerbund; magazine pouches, radio, admin pouch; pauldrons; belt, holster, dump pouch; knee pads, gloves, boots; backpack. 6.3k triangles. Two iterations went into proportion. Pauldrons lofted with straight sides and capped ends rendered as blobs floating beside the body, so they now taper at both ends and blend into the arm; the first tapered version was 19x25 cm and swallowed the arms entirely, so they are 13x18 cm. preview.py gains --front. Props are authored facing +Y and the camera was placed to suit them, so a character — which faces -Y — was being reviewed from behind. Also stops tracking __pycache__, which an earlier `git add -A` swept in. Still outstanding and the bigger gap: there is no animation system, so the character does not move. A rig and animation cycles are the next step. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The character was stacked axis-aligned cubes and read as a Minecraft figure. No amount of texturing fixes a silhouette made of blocks.
It is now lofted —
_lib.loft/limb/ringbridge cross-sections whose radius changes along their length, so the torso has a waist and limbs taper. Hard-surface gear is layered on top, with subdivision applied only to the body (a smoothed plate carrier looks inflated rather than rigid).The art direction does real work here: a helmeted, visored operative in heavy gear is almost entirely hard surface, which is what a script is good at. Faces, skin and bare hands are what procedural generation genuinely can't do well — and this design shows none of them. Deliberate, not a dodge.
Gear: helmet with brow, visor, side rails, NVG mount, ear cups; plate carrier with shoulder yoke and cummerbund; magazine pouches, radio, admin pouch; pauldrons; belt, holster, dump pouch; knee pads, gloves, boots; backpack. 6.3k triangles.
Two iterations on proportion, both caught by rendering it:
preview.pygains--front. Props are authored facing +Y and the camera suited them, so a character (facing −Y) was being reviewed from behind.Also stops tracking
__pycache__, which an earliergit add -Aswept in.Still outstanding, and the bigger gap: there is no animation system, so the character doesn't move. A rig and animation cycles are the next step — that matters more for "feels alive" than any further mesh work.
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