Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1
8744072dda
Fifteen figures in static/figures, one per kind, made to docs/figures-brief.md: a round base, a livery material the view recolours per side, and a base material left alone. The view loads three.js and the figures only when it is opened. It plays a move as a walk and a capture as a sink into the glass, dims a piece a Basilisk holds, marks the last move, the targets and a King in check, and lets a tap reach a figure or a marked square through the glass above it. Three cameras: from the corner, from the player's seat, from above. The table and the told game offer it behind the gate in src/lib/glass.svelte.ts, which opens for a browser that visits with ?glass=<word> whose hash it keeps. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CCLa2PaEeCj8njQZSWGqHx
4.7 KiB
4.7 KiB
Figures for Wyrm: a brief for a 3D model generator
Wyrm is a browser rebuild of Gary Gygax's 1985 Dragonchess: three boards of twelve by eight stacked one above the other, the air, the land and the underworld, with 42 pieces a side in fifteen kinds. The pieces are to be figures standing on round bases, in the manner of painted tabletop miniatures, so that a game can be drawn as a three-level glass board seen from a three-quarter view above.
What to make
Fifteen figures, one per kind, each delivered as a single glTF binary
(.glb) with these properties:
- Y up, metres, the base centred on the origin and resting on y = 0.
- A round base 1.0 unit across and 0.1 high under every figure. The figure may overhang the base (wings, tails) but never below it.
- Height by station: Warriors, Sylphs and Dwarves about 1.6 units tall from the base; the middle kinds about 2.0; the Dragon, Griffon, Oliphant, Elemental and Basilisk may reach 2.6, wingspan up to 2.4.
- At most 8,000 triangles a figure, 4,000 for the Warrior, Sylph and Dwarf, since there are twelve or six of each on the board at once.
- Two materials only:
liveryfor everything that takes the side's colour (cloth, wings, scales, paint) andbasefor the base and anything neutral (steel, wood, stone, skin). The game recoloursliveryfor Gold and Scarlet; do not bake the side colour in. One 1024 texture set per material, PBR (base colour, metallic-roughness, normal). - One still pose, readable in silhouette from a three-quarter view above and from directly above. No pose that lies flat or leans off the base.
- Style: painted miniature, not photoreal. Clean forms, exaggerated silhouettes, little fine detail that would vanish at 40 pixels tall. Mixed fantasy, medieval and classical, as the pieces below describe. No text, logos or heraldry.
The fifteen pieces
The air (Gygax colours the board light blue and white):
- Sylph. A slight winged spirit of the wind, androgynous, barefoot, feathered wings raised, carrying nothing or a short spear. Light and quick; the foot soldier of the air.
- Griffon. Half eagle and half lion, wings spread, forelegs raised as it lands. Big, the heaviest flier after the Dragon.
- Dragon. The great wyrm of the sky, the piece the game is named for. Wings half spread, long neck, head turned down as if to strike at the board beneath. The tallest piece on the board.
The land (light green and amber):
- Warrior. A spearman of the levy, shield on the arm, spear upright. Plain, sturdy, the common soldier; twelve of these stand in a wall.
- Oliphant. A war elephant with a small howdah, tusks forward. Broad and heavy, a rook with tusks.
- Unicorn. A unicorn rearing, no rider. The knight of the land.
- Hero. A champion in mail with a long sword raised two-handed. Bold stance, a figure that leaps.
- Thief. A hooded figure in dark cloth, crouched, a dagger in each hand, looking sideways.
- Cleric. A robed priest with a staff topped by a sun or sigil, calm, upright. The one piece at home on every board.
- Mage. A wizard in long robes, staff in one hand, the other raised with a flame or light. The queen of the land.
- King. A crowned king in a long cloak with a sceptre, standing. Not the tallest piece, but the most dressed.
- Paladin. A knight in full plate on foot, visor down, lance or sword and a tall shield. The holy knight.
The underworld (red and brown):
- Dwarf. A squat miner with a pick over the shoulder and a lamp on the helmet, bearded, broad. Six to a side.
- Basilisk. A great serpent reared up on its coils, crested, mouth open, looking up as if its gaze reaches the board above. Menacing and low.
- Elemental. A bruiser of living stone, a hulking earth elemental, arms raised, no face to speak of. The one heavy thing in the underworld.
Try two first
Make the Warrior and the Dragon before the rest. The Warrior shows whether the model can keep a figure simple and readable at a small size; the Dragon shows whether it can carry a big silhouette with wings inside the triangle budget. If both pass, make the remaining thirteen to the same style.
How they will be judged
- Does each figure read as its kind from a three-quarter view above, at about 40 pixels tall, against the others on the same board?
- Do the twelve Warriors, six Sylphs and six Dwarves differ from each other's kinds at a glance?
- Do the two materials split cleanly, so that recolouring
liveryto gold and to scarlet gives two armies and nothing else changes? - Does the file open in a standard glTF viewer with no missing textures, within the triangle budget, standing on its base at the origin?