band_mid

# houses A wall of timber-framed plague-city houses, painted in the fragment shader and therefore infinite. One quad per parallax band, locked to the camera; the district scrolls past inside it at `scroll_x` / `scroll_y`. Nothing recycles because nothing ends. Structure, outward from the plaster: a BAY (one house width by one storey, irregular in both, with its own plaster, lean and vertical phase), quartered by a mid-rail and a king post into PANELS with a brace across some of them, a shuttered OPENING in one quarter of some bays with light escaping between the slats of the lit ones, and a slate COURSE every few storeys. Two things then decide how the band READS rather than what is in it. A brush pass pushes value around in strokes so the plate looks painted. `haze` mixes the whole band toward `fog`, which is what makes it a distance rather than a texture — a far band is nearly all fog, a near band nearly none. `gap_chance` turns a fraction of bays into ALLEYS: the band opens, the alley fills with lit fog, and the band behind shows through. That property is the difference between a district with depth and a stack of walls. `key_light` grades the band by how high in the FRAME a pixel is (a cold sky above the rooftops); `underlight` is the firelight coming back up out of the street. Neither is a scene light: the sprites in this game are unlit. Worn by `art.backdrops.band_mid` (z -18, parallax 0.42) and `art.backdrops.band_near` (z -7, parallax 0.72).