jeremy
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Two pieces of work.
1. Keep milestones, not steps. Staged NN_*.py lanes were saving a full
~80 MB .blend per attempt, so Lena's lane reached 3.0 GB of which 2.2 GB
was 30 .blend files -- five snapshots to land one crotch fix, five more
for the bra. The .py recipes are the real history; the blends are cache.
- .agents/rules/working-files.md: four-tier policy (KEEP / MASTER /
SCRATCH / UNKNOWN) + how to work a lane.
- tools/prune_lane.py: classifies a lane and prunes the scratch tier.
Dry-run by default. Reads a per-lane .lanekeep manifest, flags
binaries byte-identical to a registered original (canonical name
always survives a duplicate pair), and never auto-deletes a .blend
with no step script beside it -- those cannot be rebuilt.
- .gitignore: scratch patterns can never be committed.
Dry run on characters/female/lena_nude reports 2.3 GB reclaimable.
Not applied -- that lane had a live Blender session at the time.
2. .humans/marvelous-designer.html: how we author garments in Marvelous
Designer, written for people rather than agents -- the six-step process,
what has been made, the traps that cost hours, and what is still
unsolved. Matches the .humans/ HTML convention in ariki-game.
Also committing the docs the AGENTS.md knowledge map and the new page
reference, so they are not dangling: the clothing-lane architecture page,
the marvelous-designer skill, and the two screenshots the page embeds.
characters/ is deliberately untracked and stays that way -- it holds GBs of
blends and GLBs, and .gitattributes does not LFS-track .blend.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
animation
Jeremy's animation-pipeline hub AND the Mac↔PC bridge for converting files and implementing animations. iClone 8 + Video Mocap live on the PC; Blender 5, the retarget tools, and the ariki-game repo live on both. This repo carries the skills, tools, and the files in flight between machines.
Bridge workflow (Mac↔PC)
-
PC: export FBX from iClone (Blender preset, Range=All, Preserve Bone Names ON) → drop into
exchange/incoming-fbx/→ commit +tinqs push. -
Either machine:
tinqs pull, run the retargeter →blender --background --python tools/cc_retarget.py -- \ --src exchange/incoming-fbx/<take>.fbx \ --out exchange/converted-glb/<pack>.glb --name <ClipName> \ --target <path-to-ariki Superhero_Male_FullBody.gltf>→ commit the GLB +
tinqs push. -
Implementing machine: copy the GLB into ariki-game
assets/quaternius/dancegen/(auto-discovered by ClipCatalog as<pack>/<ClipName>), add a dance JSON, verify in the dance test bed. -
Optional: reference footage for QA goes in
exchange/reference-video/.
Large binaries (.fbx, .glb, .mp4, .task) ride Git LFS — see
.gitattributes. Clean out exchange/ folders once a take has shipped
into the game repo.
Layout
.claude/skills/— Claude Code skills (auto-discovered when running Claude here)animation-creation/— creating clips on the shared Quaternius skeleton: existing packs, Mixamo/Kevin retargeting, composite baking, dance JSON (paths reference the ariki-game repo)iclone-video-mocap/— iClone 8 + Video Mocap plugin advisory: filming rules, workflow, cleanup, FBX export, game integrationpose-estimation/— MediaPipe video→pose-landmark extraction (scripts/extract_pose.py,compare_poses.py; models inmodels/, venv rebuilt viascripts/setup.sh)retarget-animations/— deprecated early retarget notes (kept for history)
tools/— Blender-headless retargeters (all bake onto the Quaternius rig and export mesh-stripped GLB, one NLA track per clip)cc_retarget.py— Reallusion CC/iCloneCC_Base_*FBX (60fps; TempMotion guard)mixamo_retarget.py— Mixamo FBX (prefix auto-detect)kevin_retarget.py— Kevin Iglesias Unity FBX (B-*rig; hardcoded target path — non-portable)mocap_retarget.py— MediaPipe pose JSON → GLB (rotation solving, no source armature)bake_run_punch.mjs— composite upper/lower clip baking reference
AGENTS.md/.agents/— agent context (identity, wiki, plans, rules); seeAGENTS.mdfor the knowledge map
Canonical target rig
All retargeters default to ariki-game's
assets/quaternius/base-characters/.../Godot - UE/Superhero_Male_FullBody.gltf
via a repo-relative path — when running from this repo, pass --target with an
explicit path to that GLTF (or a local copy). Output GLBs are consumed by
ariki-game's ClipCatalog from assets/quaternius/{kevin,mixamo,dancegen}/ as
<pack>/<ClipName>.
Provenance
Copied (not yet removed) from ariki-game tools/ + .claude/skills/ +
.agents/plans/, and ~/.claude/skills/pose-estimation. The ariki-game
originals are still in place; the Windows-side iClone FBX conversion handoff
(ariki-game/.agents/handoff/iclone-fbx-conversion.md) depends on them.