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Mythic Masters: animation and graphics hill climb to 9/10, rounds 6+ (from #2941) #2943
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Continues the animation and graphics hill climb toward 9/10 from #2941 (rounds 1-5, merged). Part of #2802.
Where it stands
A fresh judge agent scored each round from before/after screenshots, out of 10:
| Round | What changed | Overall |
|---|---|---|
| main before | 2.5-3 | |
| 1 | smoothed normals, filmic tone mapping, room light | 3.5 |
| 2 | stadium stands, sky, hills, lake shore, contact shadows, pupils | 4 |
| 3 | 64 beasts rebuilt at 2x triangles, camera rim light, crowd of people, bloom | 4 |
| 4 | wings fold, glide and stroke; run lean, idle sway, air tuck; side camera fits both | 4.5 (animation 4.5, camera 5.5) |
| 5 | hit-stop, hit recoil, spine snakes, tapered sparks, softer flash, tighter camera | not judged |
Goal: 9/10, a polished indie 3D game a player would call good-looking and alive.
Next rounds, in order (the judge's top gaps)
- Score round 5 from main before changing anything.
- Wings. The Jersey Devil's wings are flat cutouts. They need a membrane that sags and billows on the downstroke, and fingers or flex.
- Contact. The bodies pass through each other on a hit, with no squash or stop. They need squash and stretch on contact and an anticipation wind-up that reads.
- Effects. These are thin: lilac streaks, a white blob on a hit, a white dust oval. Black Shuck's head flame is a small tuft. They need shaped sparks, real dust, and a strong flame.
- Anatomy. Rougarou and Black Shuck have no neck, shoulder mass or chest-to-hip taper. This means sheet passes, worst beasts first.
- Surfaces. The hides are flat single-colour vinyl, and paint borders step along triangle edges. They need fur or scale detail and smooth paint borders, within the phone frame budget.
- Set dressing. Cone trees, plain floors, a peg crowd.
How to run a round
bun run devinapps/mythic-masters, and use?gallery=0..3for the art. A fight is?a=..&b=..&skin=..&watch=1pluswindow.mythicMasters.camera("side"). Take bursts of 4 screenshots about 0.3 s apart to judge motion.- Spawn a fresh judge agent each round with the BEFORE and NOW shots. Don't anchor it on your reasoning. Write its scores in the PR.
- Every foot must still come out as a rig tip (
bun run beasts). Imugi stays at budget 3200. - One growing PR from
main, with before and after shots indocs/shots-<date>/. Check in with the owner every 3 rounds. - If a push is held by the office hook, keep working, commit locally, and retry at the end of each round. Don't stop the loop to wait on a question.
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QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 3, 2026
Score: 4.5/10 (target 9)
From the round table above: round 4 judged 4.5 overall. Round 5 (hit-stop, recoil) and graphics round 5 (#3224) merged without a score, so the next worker scores main first. Seeded so
bun run climbs(#3401) reads it.QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 3, 2026
Score: 4.5/10 (target 9)
Main as of 640b289 (rounds 5 of both lanes, #3224 included), judged by a fresh agent on side-camera bursts (4 frames 0.3 s apart) against the round 4 shots: animation 4.5, graphics 5, camera 4, overall 4.5. Better than round 4 (textured grass, sky, effects, gaits read); poses and models barely changed.
Judge's top gaps, in order:
Round 6 takes gap 1. Bursts are made with
bun scripts/burst-shots.ts <dir> <prefix>(new, in the round's PR).QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 3, 2026
Score: 4.5/10 (target 9)
Round 6 (PR #3409): a real meet. Melee strikers slide the last 0.5-1 m the sim leaves between bodies, so blows land on the hide. Fresh judge, main vs round 6: overall 4.0 -> 4.5 (animation 4 -> 4.5, camera 4 -> 4.5, graphics 4 = 4). Kept.
Judge's top gaps now: 1. hides read as glossy grey-violet blobs, the purple rim washes silhouettes; 2. hits lack weight (neutral poses at contact, faint puff); 3. camera too far and high (fighters ~15% of frame); 4. flat bare stands; 5. stiff flyers. Round 7 takes the purple rim and hide (gap 1).
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QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 3, 2026
Score: 4.5/10 (target 9)
Round 7 (PR #3409): shadow hides read as dark smoke instead of a glowing violet outline, and soft hides lose the vinyl gloss (roughness 0.78-0.9). Fresh judge, round 6 vs 7: overall 4.5 -> 4.5 ("a strong 4.5, close to 5"), animation 4.5 -> 5, graphics and camera the same. Kept: the judge saw it as a little better.
Judge's gaps: the flyer never engages (hovers a body-height over the cat); the hit flash bleaches the whole body beige; ground puffs are flat white discs; plastic-tube surfaces; a wide flat camera.
Next: hits that read. Melee sparks spawned at the struck body's feet; round 8 puts them at the blow's point on its chest and swaps the body-wide white flash for a short warm pulse.
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QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 3, 2026
Score: 5/10 (target 9)
Round 8 (PR #3409): melee hits land on the struck body's chest (they reported its feet, so sparks burst from the floor), the struck body pulses hot orange instead of washing cream-white, a guarded blow glows instead of drawing a white disc, and ground marks fade at the rim. Fresh judge, round 7 vs 8: overall 4.5 -> 5 (animation 5, graphics 4.5 -> 5, camera 4).
Judge's gaps: the whole-body tint still swallows the silhouette; Black Shuck's crest reads as a hit spark that never goes; air hits don't connect; plastic hides; a loose camera.
Next: the whole-body hit tint, capped and quicker, so the silhouette holds and the spark at the contact point carries the hit.
QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 4, 2026
Score: 5/10 (target 9)
Round 9 (dropped, not in PR #3409): a lower, faster-falling hit tint and half the invulnerability flicker. Fresh judge, round 8 vs 9: 4.5 -> 4.5, and the hit read weaker without the warm flush, so it was reverted. The score stays at round 8's 5.
Judge's gaps: a struck body changes colour but doesn't recoil enough; flyers deal damage from two body lengths up; white special-effect blobs; vinyl hides; a wide camera and a big grey dome in the sky.
Next: the grey dome behind the stands (the horizon hills ring, tinted slate grey by the stadium's prop colour) becomes hazed green hills.
QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 4, 2026
Score: 5/10 (target 9)
Round 10 (dropped, not in PR #3409): the horizon hills hazed toward the fog, then pushed out to 80 m so the fog fades them. Two fresh judges against round 8: the first gave 4 -> 4.5 but credited a change that wasn't in the build (judge noise); the second gave 5 -> 5 and still saw a pale dome. Reverted. Two rounds now without a gain (9, 10).
Judge's gaps: the hit tint covers the whole body; clay hides with no fur or scale; a flat cheap crowd and bowl; stiff anticipation and follow-through; flat noon light.
Next: hides with visible fur and scale breakup at fight distance (every judge since main has named it).
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QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 4, 2026
Score: 5/10 (target 9)
Round 11 (dropped, not in PR #3409): deeper hide grooves, 2-3x finer fur/scale/hide grain, and a low-frequency light-dark mottle that survives at fight distance. Fresh judge, round 8 vs 11: overall 5 -> 5, graphics 4.5 -> 5. Rougarou and Black Shuck read as furred and rough, but the Jersey Devil turned into a high-contrast marble speckle, so it was reverted. Worth retrying with the mottle and fur alone, the skin/hide contrast lower.
Next: the same hide pass, tuned per surface (fur and mottle yes, no speckle on skin).
QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 4, 2026
Stalled: three rounds (9, 10, 11) without an overall gain; the climb sits at 5/10 with rounds 6-8 in PR #3409.
The blockers:
scripts/burst-shots.tsshould cue one burst on the hit event itself.Retry list in order: per-surface hide pass (round 11 without the speckle), hit-cued bursts, flyer dive-to-strike in
bot.ts, stands with depth.QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 4, 2026
Score: 3/10 (target 9)
The owner's own score after rounds 6-8 (#3409): about 3 across the board. The agent judges said 5, so they run about 2 points generous. Read a judge's score as a before-vs-after direction, not the climb's level, and check in with the owner for the real number.
Next: the retry list in the Stalled comment above, starting with the per-surface hide pass.
QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 4, 2026
Moved up to #3441 (rounds 12+), which carries this issue's state, round table and retry list. Continue the climb there; this one can close.
QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 4, 2026
Closing: already moved up to #3441, and that one moved up to #3455 (rounds 13+).