From 8da1402e25e1806a7c44e71ec051a24b47b84acd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luis Gonzalez Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:25:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Docs:=20session=20log=20Part=20O=20=E2=80=94=20?= =?UTF-8?q?baked=20splat=20ground=20iteration?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 --- .../2026-07-09_B4d_Tail_Collision_Grounding.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/Docs/Vault/07_Sessions/2026/2026-07-09_B4d_Tail_Collision_Grounding.md b/Docs/Vault/07_Sessions/2026/2026-07-09_B4d_Tail_Collision_Grounding.md index 2222049bf..a23b3a3db 100644 --- a/Docs/Vault/07_Sessions/2026/2026-07-09_B4d_Tail_Collision_Grounding.md +++ b/Docs/Vault/07_Sessions/2026/2026-07-09_B4d_Tail_Collision_Grounding.md @@ -304,6 +304,21 @@ carpets excluded from the flora cache entirely; flower drifts thinned determinis Wildflower+Sunflower 50%, center r<13 ×0.6 → 17/38 off) so the play/build area reads clear and flowers become ring accents. +## Part O — ground iteration 2 (`4e1ea3ecb`): baked splat base + HP detail split + +Operator: "better but could be further improved." The remaining plainness was single-TEXTURE ground — noise +only ever modulated brightness. Rebuilt as a **baked splat**: each biome gets a unique 1024 base map (CPU +composite, ~7 s bake) blending real materials by fbm masks — meadow grass+dirt+clover, arid sand+sand2+dirt — +with the worn paths, a congregation-wear disc at the storage crystal, an arena-wear disc at the room-quad +centers, hue drift and the rim vignette all baked in. Fine texture moved to the DETAIL slot as a generated +2048 high-pass (full − 128-blur, ×1.4, LINEAR) tiled 22×/26× — crisp up close, unique-splat identity at +distance, zero macro repetition. Plane UV mapping probed exactly (u=0.5−x/90, BOTH axes inverted) so baked +wear lands on the real landmarks. Superseded: the WornPath overlay quads + mat + tex DELETED (double-darkened +over baked wear, caught fog as a ghost rectangle) and the old macro-noise textures DELETED. Biome-tint MPB + +normals untouched. Ground luminance now 0.30/0.33 in edit ambient (tints stay the one-line brightness knob +for the play lap). Recipe note: bake pattern = readback-blit sources to linear Color[] → composite → +LinearToGammaSpace → PNG sRGB; HP detail imports LINEAR. + ## Next-session intent **Phase 1.5b bundle 1 (ground) is SHIPPED**; remaining locked bundles in order: **2) decals** (explosion