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Mythic Masters ground: reach 7/10 (walking camera, stains to litter), rounds 5+ (from #3957) #3968
Description
Hill climb: the Mythic Masters open-world ground, target 7/10 (owner's scale, halved 2026-11-05). Carries on from #3957 (and #3262 before it).
Where it stands: 4.35/10. Score the ground at the walking camera (the default) and from a metre up, in the Pine Barrens (1), a forest (3), the Southwest desert (6) and the bayou (7).
Tools: cd apps/mythic-masters && bun scripts/ground-shots.ts <dir> <label> [--perf] (shots at the four places, --perf adds phone-size frame timing with the CPU 4x slower), bun run ground (rebakes the layer textures). The shader is GLSL_FRAG_MAIN in src/world/ground.ts. To see where a patch kind lies, paint it a flat colour for one shot (gDetail = mix(gDetail, vec3(3, 0.2, 0.2), gGravel) after the tone lines); that's how round 4 found its white-mat bug.
| Round | PR | Change | Judge before -> now | Reported |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | #3261 | the layered ground | 3.4 -> 6.8 | (6.8, before the halving) |
| 1 | #3408 | each layer's 2 m tile swapped in patches for a turned, shifted copy | 6.8 -> 7.1 | 7.1, halved to 3.55 |
| 2 | #3432 | cracks and ripples per biome, wet and dry patches, litter under groves | none | 3.55 |
| 3 | #3958 | a mixed floor gathers into clumps a few metres across; detail maps' tint damped | 4.6 -> 5.4 | 3.95 |
| 4 | PR for #3957 round 4 | patches 10 to 30 m across: dirt pans with gravel at the heart, needle or leaf mats the grass gives way to, damp dark hollows; ripples in fields; needle and gravel bakes toned down | 4.5 -> 5.3 | 3.95 + 0.4 = 4.35 |
Next: the judge's top gap after round 4: in the Pine Barrens walk view the new needle mats look like flat brown-black stains or scorch marks, one even darkness with no needle grain inside, a tint rather than litter lying on the ground (give the mat its needle grain and some light needles on top, and a softer edge). Smaller: the dry crack pattern shows through on the shaded forest and bayou floors, where cracked mud doesn't fit (cut gCrack harder under canopy and in hollows). The close-up "ground" shots barely moved in round 4.
Frame cost: round 4 measured within noise of main at phone size (back to back, medians 36 to 40 ms against main's 36 to 44 on a loaded office Mac). Keep --perf in each round; the frame-budget climb (#3796) shares this shader.
Your own score for round 1 is MANUAL RUN #3413, still open.
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QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 9, 2026
Score: 4.5/10 (target 7)
Round 5: a fresh judge scored BEFORE (main) 4.9/10 and NOW 5.2/10. Reported as the last score plus half the gain: 4.35 + 0.15 = 4.5.
Shots:
apps/mythic-masters/docs/shots-2026-11-08-ground-r5/(before-* from main, now-*).Next: no 3D litter or relief at walking distance. Every biome reads as one blurred albedo with painted blotches, with no leaves, needles or twigs that have height. The forest and bayou floors suffer most. Smaller gaps: the desert cracks have no depth, and the bayou mud has no wetness.
QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 9, 2026
Moved up to #4031 (the PR for round 5 closes this one when it merges).