# originals/ — READ-ONLY source models

Unrigged Tripo sculpt deliveries. These are the root of every character lineage.
Full provenance, checksums, and the naming law live in `../REGISTRY.md`.

| file | character | role |
|---|---|---|
| `male/male_base_bald_tripo_v1.fbx` / `.glb` | mako | bald base male, unrigged A-pose, ~1.9M tris |
| `female/female_lena_tripo.fbx` / `.glb` | lena | base female, unrigged |
| `female/female_lena_leafbikini_tripo.glb` + `female_lena_leafbikini_tripo_fbx/` | lena_leafbikini | lena wearing a leaf bikini, unrigged. FBX lives in the `_fbx/` folder with its `.fbm/` textures |
| `male/mako_sculpt_fbx_v01.fbx` / `mako_sculpt_glb_v01.glb` | mako | canonical-name alias — byte-identical copy of `male_base_bald_tripo_v1` |
| `female/lena_sculpt_fbx_v01.fbx` / `lena_sculpt_glb_v01.glb` | lena | canonical-name alias — byte-identical copy of `female_lena_tripo` |

These files are name-synced mirrors of
`ariki-game/assets/models/characters/race-sources/` — same names, same bytes.

## Do not

- **Do not edit these files in place** — no resaving from Blender, CC, AccuRig, or
  any DCC. Even a "harmless" re-export changes bytes and breaks the checksums.
- **Do not rename them** — not even to fix the missing `_v1` on the female. Names
  are baked into tools and mirrored in the game repo; renames fork identity.
- **Do not delete them** — ever.
- **Do not work here.** To alter a model: copy it out to the character's lane
  (`../work/mako/`, `../work/lena/`) and work there. Lanes are exempt from the
  filename grammar. A model only earns a name and a registry row when it *ships* —
  at which point it graduates into a new `../female/<character>_base_v<NN>/`
  folder per `../REGISTRY.md`.

Files are marked with the Windows read-only attribute as a guard; the registry
checksums are the real integrity check.