Devlog · Sprite Manager

Stop asking, start drawing (v0.33.0–v0.33.1)

  • The entrance doors need a blank sign plate at an exact size, because the game writes the shop's name onto it. Four rounds of prompting came back at 99x26, 73x25, 59x16 and 64x23 against a spec of 82x48. The generator draws a sign-sized tag whatever the prompt says.
  • So the fitter draws it. The prompt now asks for that area to be left as plain door, and the plate is composited at exactly the spec rect after fitting. Every facing matches to the pixel, and the check that catches a bad plate still runs.
  • The Art Director called the alternative "a losing loop" and backed compositing. The general lesson: when four rounds miss the same target, the prompt isn't the thing to fix.
  • Prompts also gained an exclusion list of named nouns rather than categories. "No other objects" had been ignored by the round that returned a table with chairs pushed into it; "No chairs, stools, benches…" was not.
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