Both full sets through the same pipeline: stances and ball-bounce, serve toss,
smash and both swing frames, the four-frame run, and the five-frame death. The
opponent's ten frames with them. Inner-edge density roughly doubles across the
board — the serve frames go 0.22-0.32 to 0.41-0.54.
_regen.py retries a rejected batch itself now (default three attempts). A
rejection is usually just a bad roll — two figures drawn close enough that the
slicer sees one frame, or a limb off the canvas — and re-rolling fixes it without
me sitting in the loop.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two of the same mistake, both called out.
The wounded feet still did not move because a mirror cannot move them: flipping
the legs swaps WHICH leg leads but keeps the two feet in the same two places, so
the spacing never changes and the body still slides. Measured it — mirrored feet
sat at -35/59 against the original's -34.5/60.5. What a walk actually needs is
the PASSING pose, feet together under the body, so the gap opens and closes.
Drawn now for all three wounded skins: 75->65, 95->68, 79->69 px between the
feet. (The mirror also clipped the steward's hanging arm into a floating
fragment, which is what Oliver spotted. Gone with it.)
The death was one sprite scaled down, which miniaturises a man rather than
killing him. It is five drawn frames now — arched back, knees, hands, face down
in the pool, a flat heap — each genuinely shorter than the last (100/84/60/47/20%
of standing height, common-scaled off one sheet) and each drawn at its own
height. No scaling anywhere in the sequence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The old death was a red tint and a shake for half a second, then a puff of gore.
That reads as the sprite having a moment, not as being eaten.
Now it takes four and a half seconds and it is a crowd doing it. You are dragged
to your knees fighting it (new frames, p_die1/p_die2, alternating), blood coming
out of you the whole time — a constant spray and a stain that keeps widening,
with the wet work on a loop underneath. Every body on court drops what it was
doing and converges: each claims a spot in a ring around you, kept from wherever
it was standing, so they crowd in from all sides instead of stacking on one
pixel. Then you are pressed flat into the ground while the ring closes over you —
you are drawn INSIDE the crowd's z order, so the ones between you and the camera
hide you exactly as they arrive — and what is left is the mound, with them still
feeding over it when the summary finally fades in.
Also: the wounded shamblers were stepping their two frames at half the cadence of
the healthy four, which reads as frozen next to the crowd they walk in. Same
clock now. (They were animating — verified frame by frame — just too slowly.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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