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jeremy 23fc4b378e docs(characters): brows went back to painted on 2026-08-12
Merging origin/main in ariki-game surfaced a product decision newer than this doc:
Ozan removed the mesh brows, lash cards and browless-face swap from the product path.
Brows are painted on the body texture again and keep their baked colour, so "brows
follow the hair swatch" and the generated-surface lane are both parked.

The tooling and the brow wiki page still describe the 3D lane, so the note now says to
read the code before the docs there.

Two consequences outlive the revert and are kept: painted brows are still atlas-bound,
so the v02 re-atlas has to carry the pigment (an albedo-fidelity job now, not three
artifacts to regenerate); and character_brow.gdshader is still the only mechanism that
could recolour a brow on a scanned face, since raised scan geometry cannot be erased
with a texture.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 17:47:00 -07:00
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