Mythic Masters: the Book's bearer, hill climb rounds 3+ (4/10, aim for 8) (from #3934) #3954

The player figure in the open world (the Book's bearer) is a big part of the game. The owner wants a real human biped, a lanky, loose-limbed beanpole frame, kept black ("cursed") until they pick a look. This is a hill climb: one round per worker, score before and after. Moved up from #3934.

Score: 4/10 (round 2; 3.5 after round 1, from 2/10 for the old robe figure). Aim for 8.

Rounds

Where it stands

• Rig and clips (idle, look, walk, run, cast) lifted from the Druid's Curse character Qoa: bones and keys only, apps/mythic-masters/blender/bearer-rig.glb.
• bun run bearer stretches the rig by blender/bearer.json and builds the body in Blender (blender/bearer.py). Read blender/out/bearer.png (7 poses by a 1.8 m post) each round.
• In game: Gaits in src/world/bearer.ts cross-fades idle, look, walk and run by speed; the pace is PACE in src/net/party.ts (walk 1.5, run 5), so the walk and run clips now play at about 1x instead of the run clip at 2x.
• Measured in headless Chrome (round 2): holding forward moves 1.50 m/s with the walk gait; forward + dash 5.00 m/s with the run gait, 60 fps.
• Shots: apps/mythic-masters/docs/shots-2026-11-08-bearer/.

Next rounds, roughly in order

1. Silhouette: the hair still reads as spikes from some angles. A fuller mop (merged clumps, a shell), a longer face, a hunch through the shoulders.
2. Camera at human pace: the follow camera sits 16 m back and 8 m up, set for a beast at 8-14 m/s. A walking person may want it closer and lower (eye defaults in src/world/view.ts update).
3. Hands and feet: mitten hands with a thumb, and the Book gripped, not glued on.
4. The torso: a baggy shirt that moves (a skirt of verts weighted between Hips and Spine02), not a thicker tube.
5. Use the rest of Qoa's clips: Parkour_Vault, Swim_Forward and Swim_Idle for wading, Stand_Up1 after losing a fight. Add them to CLIPS in scripts/bearer.ts and re-run --rig from the Qoa file in druids-curse-votv/public/non_repo/models/characters/.
6. Travel at human pace: a 6.4 km region is now about 70 minutes' walk, 21 running. Lit fires and won arenas are the fast travel; if that feels too slow, that's a call for the owner, not a faster walk.

How a round runs: change blender/bearer.json / bearer.py, bun run bearer, read the PNG, check in game with bun run probe mythic-masters "/?world=1&a=jackalope" --js "(mythicMasters.world.eye({back:4.5,up:1.6,look:1}), ...)" --shot out.png, score before and after, PR saying "Part of" this issue, then a Score: comment. Pace check: mythicMasters.hold(['forward']) (action ids, not key codes) and read world.state().x/z over a few seconds, after a settle of about 8 s.