The two that kept failing land as two-figure sheets — a dragged pole or a
held-up chair is wide enough that four to a sheet either merge into one frame or
run off the canvas whatever margin the prompt asks for. The chair spectator came
out the best of the lot (0.15-0.24 to 0.42-0.52).
Also caught x_boyrun3 and x_boyrun4 sitting at the old fidelity next to the two
frames of the same run I had already redrawn — my batch list only covered half
the cycle.
The roster now averages 0.341 inner-edge density across 111 character sprites,
against 0.237 for z_mach2. What is deliberately left alone: the chapter bosses,
the judge, the ball machine and the weapon icons — Oliver named those as the ones
that were already right.
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The umpire is situational again. Each line is tied to the thing that justifies
it — a new variant appearing, the court filling, one crossing your baseline, a
game lost, a horde, a changeover — behind one shared cooldown, so several
triggers at once still yield one remark. The random timer pool is gone, the
interval went 26s to 55s, and ump_out_of_order, ump_let and ump_no_appeal are
deleted.
"Visually the ball is not yet at the player but somehow the player already is
hit" was real and measurable. The hostile-ball hit test reused the parry's
hypot(dx, dz*0.8), and weighting depth shrinks it: contact fired while the ball
was still 0.68 m up-court and drawn up around his head. It has its own
unweighted test now, and contact lands at 0.25 m with the ball on his chest.
The parry keeps its weighting — a racket sweep really is wider than it is deep.
On "everything is a tad too small": measured first, because higher-resolution
sprites are only half the answer. At RES 3 the player rasterises into 170
device pixels from a 112px source — upscaled 1.5x — while a far shambler is
downscaled to 78. So near bodies needed resolution and far bodies needed the
camera.
Camera: pushed back and lengthened (camZ 42->48, camF 580->760) to flatten the
perspective so distant bodies grow relative to near ones rather than everything
zooming, camY raised for a steeper look-down, horizon re-centred. Far shambler
26->30px, boss 39->45px, player unchanged, court in the same band.
Sprites: the original sheets were still in the repo at full resolution, so
nothing needed regenerating — IDLE_TARGET_H went to 224 and every sheet was
re-sliced. The sheet-to-output mapping was never recorded, so it was recovered
by matching sliced frames to existing assets by image signature: 58 came back
from sheets, the 29 without a confident match were 2x-upscaled to stay on the
shared scale, since a sprite off that scale renders at half height.
Tennis untouched: 50 hits / 0 whiffs. 45-game soak clean, all four chapters.
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Sheets generated with the existing zombie sheet as the style anchor (edit mode);
sliced to z_f1/2 (runner sprint), z_g1/2 (brute + net-post club), z_s1/2/3
(shield zombie, chair up / chair dropped stagger), x_tin (black new-balls tin).
assets/_slice.py is now committed (chroma-key + de-fringe + segmentation) so the
pipeline survives scratchpad wipes; HANDOFF updated.
Sprites are NOT wired into render.js yet — Phase 11 does that after Oliver
approves the sheets (plan's design checkpoint).
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