characters/rig-work — disposable AccuRig rig carriers
Decimated FBX copies of the unrigged Tripo bodies whose only job is to carry a skeleton out of AccuRig and back. AccuRig refuses the raw ~1.9M-tri FBX outright (confirmed 2026-08-04), so the bait exists purely to be small enough to rig.
Never ship a file from this folder. The graft takes geometry and materials from
the pristine GLB and only the skeleton from the bait — see
.agents/plans/rig-graft-lane-2026-08-04.md for the lane.
"Disposable" now has one exception, and it is about reproducibility, not shipping.
A bait that fed a nearest-surface graft is a required input to that graft forever: it
is the only thing index-exact with the AccuRig return that is also in the pristine GLB's
space, so it is what recovers AccuRig's offset in closed form. Such a bait gets copied
(not moved) into the ship folder alongside the AccuRig output. It is still never shipped
to the game, and the copy here stays disposable. First case:
lena_leafbikini_base_v01 — see that folder's README, "the bait is the bridge".
Per ../REGISTRY.md rule 11 this folder is exempt from the filename grammar and gets
no Derived-artifacts rows; the grafted body's notes column names the bait its skeleton
came from. The tool-era names are kept on purpose so these stay recognisable as
throwaway.
Current contents (built 2026-08-04, moved here from ariki-game 2026-08-06)
| file | tris | notes |
|---|---|---|
lena_tripo_rigbait.fbx |
77,999 | from originals/female/female_lena_tripo.glb |
lena_leafbikini_tripo_rigbait.fbx |
77,999 | from originals/female/female_lena_leafbikini_tripo.glb (2026-08-13); leaf-bikini garment sculpted on — fine for AccuRig (silhouette only), fingers distinct. Rigged and shipped 2026-08-13 as lena_leafbikini_base_v01; copy preserved in that ship folder |
mako_tripo_rigbait.fbx |
78,000 | from originals/male/male_base_bald_tripo_v1.glb |
*_qa_front.png, *_qa_hand.png |
— | QA renders; fingers fully distinct, no webbing |
Built with tools/rigbait_decimate.py: region budgets body 24k / head 14k /
hands 40k, no scale and no recenter (native ~0.98 m, feet at Z=0).
These two have hands. The lane is being rebuilt with the hands cut and a GLB sibling emitted from the same decimation; when that lands, these are superseded.
Traps
- Baits are geometry-only (~3.5 MB), so AccuRig shows a grey model. That's fine for
rigging, but it means the July "Dummy001 export" check can't use textures: verify
AccuRig's output by mesh name + tri count instead.
Correction 2026-08-13: the parenthetical used to read "a GLB's packed textures don't
survive the FBX embed". They do —
rigbait_decimate.pyexports withembed_textures=True, andlena_leafbikini_tripo_rigbait.fbxcarries 4K basecolor and normal in its.fbm/. What is actually true is the reverse direction: AccuRig strips them, and its return has no images at all. Verify by mesh name + tri count either way. - AccuRig exports come back to this folder as
<character>_tripo_rigged.fbx(plus a settings.jsonand an often-empty.fbm/). The older_tripo_accurig.fbxspelling in the lane plan was never what the tool actually wrote. - These files used to live in
ariki-game/assets/models/characters/rig-work/and needed a.gdignoreto stop Godot importing them. Nothing here is a game asset; that is precisely why the folder moved.