docs: track the film re-shoot, which the stills pass did not cover
The stills and both share cards were re-shot at 2b2dd5c. The films were not, and
films.ts records the commit each reel was shot at — so they are visually stale
against a sea that now reflects, a sky that is a dome, terrain that casts shadows
and a California board that has the Mojave on it.
Written down rather than remembered because the KartiOS command board was
unreachable (fetch failed) when this was found.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Open work on Tera
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Short, and only things that are decided but not done. Anything speculative belongs
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## Re-shoot the time-lapse films
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The 18 product stills and both share cards were re-shot on 2026-08-22 at `2b2dd5c`
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and are live. **The films were not.** `films.ts` in lumbridge-v4 records the tera
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commit each reel was shot at, so a stale reel is visually stale and no caption edit
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fixes it — check that commit against tera HEAD before assuming a reel is current.
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What the reels predate: ACES tone mapping and the runtime PMREM environment rig; a
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sea that reflects, with a swell normal map, Fresnel and sun glitter, in place of a
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flat `MeshLambertMaterial` that had no specular term at all; a world-space sky dome
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replacing the screen-space gradient, which at dusk painted the sunset band along the
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*bottom* of the picture, under the board; terrain that casts shadows; a California
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board with the Basin and Range, Death Valley, the Salton Sea and San Diego on it;
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aircraft you can actually see; a rebuilt LA studio; the studio device hardware; and
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a new UI chrome with a first-run flow.
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```sh
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npm run build
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node scripts/brand-assets/films.mjs --frames 24 # rough cut first: ~20 s, and it is
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# the cheapest way to find out a
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# camera is pointed at the wrong thing
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node scripts/brand-assets/films.mjs # ~90 s per 180-frame film on the Radeon
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```
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Worth knowing before starting (the rest is in `~/.claude/skills/tera-capture`):
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- Check the run prints the Radeon and not SwiftShader. The software path is ~15x
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slower — 22 minutes a film rather than 90 seconds — and it reports success.
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- `hero-soma` is a different animal: `chrome: "bare"`, midnight to midnight, and a
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two-stage encode (a CRF 18 master, then 1440w CRF 28 and 960w CRF 30 delivered).
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- **The hero camera is worth reconsidering.** Whole-board was tried and rejected
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because the edge of the terrain plate showed against the sky. That seam no longer
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exists: the sea now runs eighteen board spans and ends past the fog's far plane.
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- After tuning the hero, run `npm run check:hero` in lumbridge-v4.
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- `#onboarding-host` is in `FURNITURE.CLUTTER` now. Every *new* overlay has to be
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added there too, because a frame with a stray card in it still renders and still
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looks deliberate.
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- Commit tera first, then re-run, so the manifest records a clean sha.
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