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Mythic Masters ground: reach 7/10 (walking camera, litter with height), rounds 6+ (from #3968) #4031
Description
Hill climb: the Mythic Masters open-world ground, target 7/10 (owner's scale, halved 2026-11-05). Carries on from #3968 (and #3957, #3262 before it).
Where it stands: 4.5/10. 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), w[3] / total) before the gGrey line paints dirt red); round 5 found its crack bug that way. Template-string trap: a backtick in a shader comment breaks the module (HTTP 500, mythicMasters is not defined).
| 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 | for #3957 | patches 10 to 30 m: dirt pans with gravel, needle or leaf mats, damp hollows; ripple fields | 4.5 -> 5.3 | 4.35 |
| 5 | PR for #3968 | needle mats keep their grain, a second layer of light needles on top, ragged edge, lighter tone; the turned tile copy now fades its own cracks (they leaked through on every shaded floor), cracks fade under canopy and in hollows | 4.9 -> 5.2 | 4.35 + 0.15 = 4.5 |
Next: the judge's top gap after round 5: no 3D litter or relief at walking distance. Every biome reads as one blurred albedo with painted blotches, no leaves, needles or twigs with height; the forest and bayou floors suffer most (the forest floor is a uniform green with no leaf litter). Ideas: a leaf-litter mat in the forest like the needle mats, stronger normal relief on litter layers near the camera, or a sparse instanced litter scatter (twigs, leaves) near the player if the frame budget allows. Smaller: desert cracks are uniform black lines with no depth or edge light; bayou mud has no wetness (sheen, darker damp edges, puddles), and its patch borders read as soft stains. The close-up "ground" shots barely moved in rounds 4 and 5.
Frame cost: round 5 measured no slower than main at phone size (back to back, medians 36 to 40 ms against main's 42 to 54 on a loaded office Mac, so noise). 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
Score: 4.95/10 (target 7)
Round 6 (#4150): a fresh judge scored BEFORE (main) 3.4/10 and NOW 4.3/10. Reported as the last score plus half the gain: 4.5 + 0.45 = 4.95.
Shots:
apps/mythic-masters/docs/shots-2026-11-09-ground-r6/(before-* from main, now-*).Next: the floor itself has no relief. From a metre up there are no bumps, ruts, roots or small mounds, so the litter sits on a flat, blurry plane. Smaller gaps: the bayou has no wetness (no standing water, no sheen, no dark damp edges); the litter is too even in density, size and colour (it should drift against trunks and leave bare patches), and the forest's big leaves need curl.
QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 9, 2026
Moved up to #4151
Mythic Masters ground round 6: leaves, twigs, needle drifts, cones an…