# _famroll.py — roll ONE opponent family: 31 sprites, one call, one character. # # uv run --with pillow --with requests python assets/_famroll.py br # one family # uv run --with pillow --with requests python assets/_famroll.py sh bb # several, in sequence # # Then cut it back down, review first and install second: # uv run --with pillow --with numpy python assets/_zsheet.py assets/_refcheck/fam_br.png br --out assets/_refcheck/sprites_br # uv run --with pillow --with numpy python assets/_zsheet.py assets/_refcheck/fam_br.png br --install # # WHY THIS IS IN THE REPO. Every family in ZFAMS except the club pro was rolled by a script that lived # in a session scratchpad and is gone, off a reference in a gitignored directory. The pipeline PROJECT.md # calls the one reliable way to make this game's art was, in practice, unreproducible. This is that # script, tracked, reading the tracked reference that `_famref.py` composes. # # IMAGE 1 IS THE POSES, IMAGE 2 IS THE CHARACTER, and naming each image's job in the prompt is # load-bearing: without it the majority wins and the roll comes back as whatever most of the pixels # look like. See PROJECT.md, "What the model will and will not do". import base64, os, sys import requests from PIL import Image HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) REF = os.path.join(HERE, '_pose_ref_family.png') SCRATCH = os.path.join(HERE, '_refcheck') MODEL = os.environ.get('SPLAT_MODEL', 'google/gemini-3-pro-image') # key -> (the frame the character is read off, the words that describe it). The frame is the source of # truth for build and colour; the words only have to stop the model averaging it into a generic zombie. FAMS = { 'br': ('z_g1', 'an ENORMOUS FAT ZOMBIE BRUTE: a huge sagging belly over the belt, a filthy pale ' 'grey-green work shirt straining over it, heavy olive-brown work trousers, thick ' 'tree-trunk legs, scuffed brown boots, and a small bald head sunk low into massive ' 'rounded shoulders. Far bulkier, heavier and wider than the figure in image 1'), 'sh': ('z_a1', 'a lean SHAMBLING ZOMBIE in a filthy dark red tennis shirt and grey shorts, gaunt and stooped'), 'bb': ('z_e1', 'a small young ZOMBIE BALL BOY in a pale tournament polo and shorts, slight and short'), 'st': ('z_d1', 'a ZOMBIE STEWARD in a dark uniform jacket with a high collar, stiff and official'), 'ru': ('z_f1', 'a wiry FAST ZOMBIE RUNNER in a sleeveless tennis top, lean and forward-leaning'), # THE GROUNDSKEEPER ANCHORS ON THE HAND-FINISHED FRAME, not on z_boss1 (2026-08-16). His boss art # is the last of the coarse legacy sheets, and the old description here ("work overalls and a # shapeless hat") described a character the art never showed — so the roll had to average a picture # and a paragraph that disagreed. `_ref_gk_hi` is his throw frame redrawn at the grain the other # bosses ship at (density 0.34 against z_bosst1's 0.21) and it is now the source of truth for his # build and colours. His ball hopper is a prop AT HEAD HEIGHT — the exact thing a 31-figure sheet # cannot hold — so it is named and removed here, the same way the 2026-08-15 six had to be. 'gk': ('_ref_gk_hi', 'a heavy ZOMBIE GROUNDSKEEPER in a DARK GREEN CLUB BLAZER worn open over a ' 'grubby pale shirt, with a small gold club crest on the breast pocket, brown ' 'leather braces over the shoulders, loose olive-brown work trousers and heavy ' 'brown work boots. A gaunt grey-green head with sunken yellow eyes and bared ' 'teeth, no hat, no hair. The wire basket of tennis balls image 2 shows on his ' 'shoulder is NOT part of him: there is no basket and there are no loose balls ' 'in any pose'), 'lj': ('z_judge1', 'a ZOMBIE LINE JUDGE in a dark blazer and pale trousers, upright and severe'), # the 2026-08-13 four (Oliver picked them): each anchors on its own settled BOSS frame, so the # match opponent and the chapter boss are the same person — which is the roster's whole narrative 'dr': ('z_dir1', 'a ZOMBIE TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR in a navy club blazer with a gold crest, a striped ' 'tie, glasses, a laminated ID badge on a lanyard, and tan trousers — stiff and officious'), 'ch': ('z_champ1', 'an ENORMOUS HULKING ZOMBIE CHAMPION, a mountain of muscle: shoulders TWICE as ' 'wide as the figures in image 1, arms thicker than their legs, a massive barrel ' 'chest straining a stained vintage white tennis kit with a gold-trimmed collar, ' 'a bandage wrapped around his head, sweatbands. Image 2 shows him STANDING NEXT ' 'TO one of image 1\'s men at true scale: THAT is the size difference every ' 'figure keeps, in every pose. If he is as slim as his neighbour, it is WRONG', 'z_r1'), 'ph': ('z_physio1', 'a ZOMBIE PHYSIO in a white polo shirt with a red cross on the chest, glasses, ' 'bright blue medical gloves, and dark green trousers'), 'ma': ('z_mascot1', 'a ZOMBIE MASCOT wearing a GIANT FUZZY YELLOW TENNIS BALL costume: his gaunt ' 'grey-green head pokes out of a hole in the ball, thin ragged green arms and ' 'legs stick out of it, one white glove, worn sneakers. The huge yellow ball IS ' 'his torso in every pose'), # the 2026-08-15 six (Oliver: expand the ladder). Four anchor on their own settled BOSS frame and # two on their gore-mode body, same rule as above — the rung and the thing that hunts you are one # person. EVERY ONE OF THEM CARRIES A PROP IN ITS ANCHOR FRAME (a ball basket, a coil of string, a # tray, an umpire's chair, a spectator's chair, a court roller) and a prop is exactly what a # 31-figure sheet cannot hold: it merges frames in the cut and it has no business in a tennis pose. # So each description names the prop and says it is GONE — the model needs telling, because the # reference picture is holding one and a picture beats a paragraph. 'hc': ('z_coach1', 'a ZOMBIE HEAD COACH in a NAVY BLUE TRACKSUIT: a zip-up navy jacket with a pale ' 'blue-and-white panel across the chest and white stripes down the sleeves, a ' 'club crest, a whistle on a cord round his neck, matching navy tracksuit ' 'trousers with white side stripes, dark trainers, and a bald grey-green head. ' 'He carries NO basket and NO balls: both hands are empty of props in every pose'), 'sg': ('z_string1', 'a ZOMBIE RACKET STRINGER: a grubby off-white shirt with the sleeves rolled to ' 'the elbow under a heavy TAN LEATHER APRON, a row of awls and pliers across ' 'the apron chest, a tool belt, faded blue-grey jeans and scuffed brown boots. ' 'He carries NO loose coils of string and nothing floats above his head — the ' 'apron and the tools on it are the whole costume'), 'sb': ('z_berry1', 'a ZOMBIE STRAWBERRY SELLER: a folded WHITE PAPER SERVING CAP, a cream shirt, a ' 'WHITE APRON blotched and dripping with crushed red strawberry stain, dark ' 'brown trousers and heavy boots. The tray of strawberries and the ladle image 2 ' 'shows are NOT part of him: leave the tray and the ladle out of the picture ' 'entirely, and never draw them in place of a racket'), 'cu': ('z_chair1', 'a ZOMBIE CHAIR UMPIRE: a pale CREAM LINEN BLAZER over a white shirt with a ' 'dark navy tie, a pale straw sun hat with a band, olive-brown trousers and dark ' 'shoes. The umpire\'s high chair, the ladder and the microphone image 2 shows ' 'are NOT part of him: leave all three out of the picture entirely'), 'sp': ('z_s1', 'a gaunt scrawny ZOMBIE SPECTATOR in a drab pale OLIVE-KHAKI summer jacket over a ' 'grubby shirt, dark olive trousers and worn shoes, thin and round-shouldered. The ' 'wooden folding chair image 2 shows over his shoulder is NOT part of him: leave the ' 'chair out of the picture entirely, and never draw it in place of a racket'), 'rm': ('z_k1', 'a big heavy ZOMBIE ROLLER MAN: a sleeveless OLIVE-GREEN WORK VEST over bare ' 'grey-green arms, a brown leather tool belt with a pouch on it, olive work trousers ' 'and heavy dark boots, bald. The court roller image 2 shows him hauling is NOT part ' 'of him: leave the roller and its handle out of the picture entirely, and never ' 'draw them in place of a racket'), } def key(): if os.environ.get('OPENROUTER_API_KEY'): return os.environ['OPENROUTER_API_KEY'] for line in open(os.path.join(HERE, '..', '.env')): if line.startswith('OPENROUTER_API_KEY='): return line.split('=', 1)[1].strip().strip('"').strip("'") sys.exit('no OPENROUTER_API_KEY') def char_ref(k, spr, pair=None): """IMAGE 2: the character, at 4x NEAREST on magenta. Raw sprite pixels, no round trip — the same rule the pose sheet now follows, and for the same reason. `pair` puts a SECOND sprite beside it at true relative scale. A picture beats a paragraph (the project's own lesson, both ways): three rolls of prompt language could not make the champion keep his bulk against the pose sheet's slim figures — showing him STANDING NEXT TO the club pro is the claim the words kept failing to make.""" im = Image.open(os.path.join(HERE, spr + '.png')).convert('RGBA') big = im.resize((im.width * 4, im.height * 4), Image.NEAREST) pad = round(big.height * 0.08) tiles = [big] if pair: pim = Image.open(os.path.join(HERE, pair + '.png')).convert('RGBA') tiles.append(pim.resize((pim.width * 4, pim.height * 4), Image.NEAREST)) w = sum(t.width for t in tiles) + pad * (len(tiles) + 1) h = max(t.height for t in tiles) + 2 * pad out = Image.new('RGB', (w, h), (255, 0, 255)) x = pad for t in tiles: out.paste(t, (x, h - pad - t.height), t) # shared ground line: the size difference IS the message x += t.width + pad p = os.path.join(SCRATCH, f'char_{k}.png') os.makedirs(SCRATCH, exist_ok=True) out.save(p) return p def prompt(who): return ( 'Take IMAGE 1 and redraw it with ONE change: the character.\n\n' 'IMAGE 1 is a sprite sheet of a zombie tennis player: 31 figures in 9 rows on a flat magenta ' 'background, first undamaged, then with one arm torn off, then with the head gone.\n\n' f'IMAGE 2 is THE CHARACTER to draw instead: {who}. It is a walking corpse with dead ' 'grey-green skin. Copy its build, its garments and every one of its colours exactly.\n\n' 'Keep IMAGE 1 EXACTLY as it is in every other respect: the same 9 rows, the same number of ' 'figures per row, the same order, the same poses, the same facing, the same sizes, the same ' 'damage states in the same places. A figure with no head keeps no head; a figure missing an arm ' 'keeps that arm missing with the same stump and blood. Only the body wearing the poses changes. ' 'Do not carry over the previous character\'s shirt, shorts, shoes, hair or headband.\n\n' # "the same sizes" above is about LAYOUT, and the model reads it as licence to keep image 1's # slim build — the champion came back club-pro-thin twice. The build belongs to the CHARACTER. 'THE CHARACTER\'S OWN BUILD OVERRIDES IMAGE 1\'S: if image 2 shows a wider, heavier or fatter ' 'body than the figures of image 1, every redrawn figure keeps that wider, heavier body in ' 'every pose. Only the POSE comes from image 1 — never the physique.\n\n' # THE RACKET IS THE POSE, NOT A PROP, and it has to be said out loud (2026-08-15). Four of the # six rolls that day were of characters who carry something in their anchor frame — a tray, a # court roller, a folding chair — so their descriptions had to say the thing is gone, and the # model read "he carries nothing" as covering the racket too: two families came back playing # tennis bare-handed and one returned every shot with a strawberry tray. 'EVERY FIGURE STILL HOLDS THE TENNIS RACKET image 1 gives it, in the same hand, in the same ' 'frames. The racket belongs to the POSE and is never removed, never replaced by anything the ' 'character is carrying in image 2, and no figure that has one in image 1 has an empty hand.\n\n' # EVERY UNDAMAGED FIGURE HAS A HEAD, said out loud. The clause above ("a figure with no head # keeps no head") is there for the wound rows and the old normalisation pass took it as licence # to remove one from the play row — which is how six families came back with a decapitated # shuffle frame. The reference no longer shows that; the prompt no longer implies it either. 'EVERY FIGURE IN THE FIRST THREE ROWS HAS A HEAD ON ITS SHOULDERS, and so does every figure in ' 'rows 4, 5 and 6. Only the last three rows are headless. Never remove a head that image 1 shows.\n\n' 'MATCH THE DRAWING STYLE OF IMAGE 1 EXACTLY. Image 1 is hard-edged pixel art and your output ' 'must be indistinguishable from it in technique: the same square pixel grid at the same pixel ' 'size, the same hard black outline around every figure, the same flat blocks of colour, the ' 'same stepped aliased edges, the same hand-placed dithering. No soft brushwork, no airbrushing, ' 'no blur, no gradients, no anti-aliasing.\n\n' 'The background is a solid, flat, uniform chroma key. Use EXACTLY hex color #FF00FF, one single ' 'flat tone across the whole canvas behind every figure, with no panels or boxes of any other ' 'colour. The inside of every racket head is that same EXACT #FF00FF. No text, no shadows, ' 'no ground lines.') def u(p): return 'data:image/png;base64,' + base64.b64encode(open(p, 'rb').read()).decode() def roll(k): spr, who = FAMS[k][:2] pair = FAMS[k][2] if len(FAMS[k]) > 2 else None ch = char_ref(k, spr, pair) r = requests.post('https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/images', headers={'Authorization': f'Bearer {key()}', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}, # 4K and 9:16: the endpoint DEFAULTS to 1K and snaps the aspect to an enum, so both are # spelled out. The reference is composed at 9:16 for exactly this reason. json={'model': MODEL, 'prompt': prompt(who), 'resolution': '4K', 'aspect_ratio': '9:16', 'input_references': [{'type': 'image_url', 'image_url': {'url': u(REF)}}, {'type': 'image_url', 'image_url': {'url': u(ch)}}]}, timeout=1800) if r.status_code != 200: print(f'{k}: HTTP {r.status_code} {r.text[:200]}'); return d = r.json().get('data') or [] if not d: print(f'{k}: no image returned'); return b = d[0].get('b64_json') or d[0].get('image_url', {}).get('url', '').split(',')[-1] out = os.path.join(SCRATCH, f'fam_{k}.png') open(out, 'wb').write(base64.b64decode(b)) print(f'{k}: {out} {Image.open(out).size} (character from {spr})', flush=True) if __name__ == '__main__': keys = [a for a in sys.argv[1:] if not a.startswith('-')] if not keys: sys.exit(f'usage: _famroll.py ... keys: {" ".join(FAMS)}') for k in keys: if k not in FAMS: sys.exit(f'unknown family {k}') roll(k)