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troupe

The whole of "Standing Ovation"'s figure slice, on one entity. Put it on the scene's `Figures` anchor and it owns everything under it:

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What it does

figures.troupe

The whole of "Standing Ovation"'s figure slice, on one entity. Put it on the scene's Figures anchor and it owns everything under it:

entity.find("Figures").component.add(asset.resolve("figures.troupe", "component"))

It builds two things and drives both off the film clock (ovation.film):

The performer is an articulated hierarchy — pelvis, torso, neck, head, two arms, two legs, and two eyes that move independently of each other. He walks on from the wings at shot 5, holds still for shot 6's 18-degree macro while his two eyes blink on two different clocks and one of them tracks the lens, bows at shot 7 with his head staying up through it, and walks downstage during shot 8 until he is standing exactly where shot 12's camera stands — at which point he stops being a figure in the film and becomes the one watching it.

The audience is 1,412 of him, drawn as four hardware-instanced populations (torso, head, left hand, right hand). Their world matrices and shader lanes are written every frame by crowd_pose.computeShader from a static seed block, so the values never touch the CPU: this component sets fourteen params and dispatches, and 5,648 transforms come out the other side.

Four waves cross the house and the film is the order they arrive in — occupancy back to front (t 41→52), attention front to back (53→62), rising front to back (67→73) and applause from t 60, converging as the unison param collapses the rate spread and the offset spread onto one clock across shot 12. Every wave carries a per-member delay and a per-member rate off the seed block, so it arrives as a gradient rather than a switch thrown on the whole room at once.

:rebuild() tears the slice down and builds it again from source — every mesh, the generated greasepaint, the performer and the audience's buffers. audience turns the population off, which is what Acts I and II look like.

Interface

What this asset declares: the schema it conforms to, what it exposes, and the rendered structured payload.

conforms to

zero/source-extract/v2

figures.troupe — the whole of slice B, on one entity. It puts two things in the Odeon Marisol and drives both off the film clock: THE PERFORMER, an articulated hierarchy under `Figures/Performer` — pelvis, torso, neck, head, two arms, two legs, and two eyes that move independently of each other. He walks on at shot 5, holds still for the 18-degree macro of shot 6, bows at shot 7, and walks downstage during shot 8 until he is standing where the camera stands in shot 12, at which point he stops being a figure in the film and becomes the one watching it. THE AUDIENCE, 1,412 of him, drawn as four hardware-instanced populations — torso, head, left hand, right hand — whose world matrices and shader lanes are written every frame by `crowd_pose.computeShader` from a static seed block. The values never touch the CPU: this component sets fourteen params and dispatches, and 5,648 transforms come out the other side. Four waves cross the house, and the film is the order they arrive in: OCCUPANCY t 41 -> 52, BACK TO FRONT. The seats fill from the rear wall forward, each figure rising into its seat from below the back of it, so shot 7's near foreground grows a head and shot 8's followspot finds every row it crosses already occupied. ATTENTION t 53 -> 62, FRONT TO BACK. Heads turn to hold the lens as it tracks up the centre aisle, twenty-six rows each a beat behind the last. Off again by 64: they go back to watching the stage. RISING t 67 -> 73, FRONT TO BACK. The house comes to its feet. APPLAUSE from t 60, and the `unison` param collapses the rate spread and the offset spread onto one clock across shot 12. Every one of them carries a per-member delay and a per-member rate, because the horror of this film is that 1,412 identical men get BETTER at doing the same thing together — which only reads if they start apart.

Model

head( ) → void

headHero( ) → void

torso( ) → void

torsoHero( ) → void

hand( ) → void

ruff( ) → void

nose( ) → void

hairL( ) → void

hairR( ) → void

shoe( ) → void

upperArm( ) → void

foreArm( ) → void

thigh( ) → void

shin( ) → void

eye( ) → void

pupil( ) → void

lid( ) → void

ear( ) → void

greasepaint( ) → void

suit( ) → void

glove( ) → void

hair( ) → void

noseRed( ) → void

shoe( ) → void

eyeWhite( ) → void

eyeDark( ) → void

dropCrowd( ) → void

Drop every instanced draw this slice owns. It sweeps by BUFFER NAME rather than only releasing the handles it is holding, because a hot reload replaces the module's locals while the registrations the previous copy made are still live in the renderer — and an orphaned registration can be neither enumerated back into a handle nor dropped, so the population would silently double on every reload.

quat(ax: number, ay: number, az: number, angle: number) → void

`Transform.quatFromAxisAngle` answers four numbers; a transform field takes one table, so every rotation in here goes through this.

argtypedescription
axnumber
aynumber
aznumber
anglenumber

quatMul(a: ?, b: ?) → void

argtypedescription
a?
b?

authorMeshes( ) → number

Author every mesh as a committed asset under `/source/figures/`. This runs at AUTHORING time, never from `awake()`. `asset.create` files into `/zero/source` from an execute and into `/zero/runtime/assets` from other callers, ignoring `folder` when it does — so a component that authored its own meshes on every load would mint a second `clown_head` under a different root, and `asset.resolve` would then refuse the ambiguous leaf and take the whole slice down with it (#10451). The meshes are content: they are made once, committed, and only RESOLVED at load.

authorPaint( ) → void

The greasepaint is generated at load and bound onto the material as three LIVE textures. Freezing it into `.texture` assets and referencing those from `mat.yaml` is the obvious way to do this and it does not work: the generated pixels are correct — sampled straight out of the buffer the generator filled, the face is pale greasepaint at 230/213/193, the lozenges are 9/9/9 and the mouth is 155/12/12 — and every head drawn through the asset comes out a flat tan 107/79/68 with no lozenges and no mouth at all, on an entity draw and on the instanced population alike. That value is the AVERAGE of the whole sheet, which is what a texture served at its coarsest level looks like; the live texture carries one level and is sampled at it. So the paint is regenerated on every load (1.5 s) rather than stored. The cost of that choice is that anything re-registering the material off disk — a shader edit, a material hot-reload — puts the declared placeholder colours back and blanks every face in the film until this runs again, which is why it is also exposed as `:authorMeshes()`.

rnd(i: number, k: number) → number

A deterministic 0..1 from an integer and a channel. The film has to produce the same 2,160 frames twice, so no member's jitter may come from `math.random`.

argtypedescription
inumber
knumber

seedCrowd( ) → void

place(x: number, y: number, z: number, tier: number) → void

argtypedescription
xnumber
ynumber
znumber
tiernumber

writeSeeds(duck: boolean) → void

argtypedescription
duckboolean

buildCrowd( ) → void

buf(name: string, elem: string, len: number) → void

Every one of these is readable back to the CPU on purpose. A wave that crosses 1,412 figures is a claim about a gradient of angles, and the only way to check a gradient is to read the matrices the GPU actually wrote — a screenshot shows that SOMETHING turned, not that the twelfth row is behind the eleventh.

argtypedescription
namestring
elemstring
lennumber

drawPart(mesh: ?, material: ?, bufName: string) → void

argtypedescription
mesh?
material?
bufNamestring

crowdIsDrawing( ) → boolean

Whether the renderer is actually DRAWING this slice's four populations. Neither of the two obvious checks answers this. `renderer.mesh.isResident` returns true for a mesh uploaded on the current frame, which `drawInstanced` then refuses as "not resident in the renderer's GPU mesh store" — two different stores, one predicate. And `instanceInfo` returns a record for a draw the renderer refused, so a registration that never produced a draw call reads exactly like one that did. What does not lie is the material identity table: a population that is being drawn has a row in it, and one that is not has none.

stepCrowdBuild( ) → void

restartCrowdBuild( ) → void

part(parent: ?, name: string, mesh: ?, material: ?, pos: ?) → void

Every part of the performer is marked TEMPORARY. He is rebuilt from this file on every load, so his twenty-odd entities belong to the live session and not to the scene: left ordinary, each one is a pending scene edit, and the whole set of them refuses every other slice's `world.commit` until somebody bakes a performer into `scene.json` that the next load would only spawn again.

argtypedescription
parent?
namestring
mesh?
material?
pos?

buildPerformer( ) → void

setPerformerVisible(on: boolean) → void

argtypedescription
onboolean

poseArm(a: ?, swing: number, elbow: number, out: number) → void

argtypedescription
a?
swingnumber
elbownumber
outnumber

poseLeg(l: ?, swing: number, knee: number) → void

argtypedescription
l?
swingnumber
kneenumber

restPose( ) → void

animatePerformer(t: number) → void

argtypedescription
tnumber

poseCrowd(t: number) → void

argtypedescription
tnumber

tick(t: number, _dt: number, _shot: any) → void

argtypedescription
tnumber
_dtnumber
_shotany

buildFrame( ) → void

Standing the population up is the one thing in this slice that does NOT run on the film clock. It takes several frames whatever the clock is doing, and a film parked on one frame for authoring dispatches its subscribers once — so a build driven off the clock would stall halfway and leave the house empty until somebody happened to scrub the timeline.

reset( ) → void

waves( ) → void

Where the film's four waves have got to on the frame the clock last dispatched — the occupancy, attention and rising fronts in metres of house depth, how much of the house is attending, how hard they are clapping, and how tightly the applause has converged.

examples

entity.find("Figures").component.get("figures.troupe"):waves().unison

readPose(which: string, first: number, count: number) → boolean

Start a GPU readback of one of the population's live pose buffers, so a wave can be checked as NUMBERS rather than looked at. `which` is "body", "head", "handL", "handR" or "lanes"; the read lands a frame or two later, so call :sample() to drain it.

argtypedescription
whichstringWhich buffer to read: body, head, handL, handR or lanes.
firstnumberIndex of the first member to read, 0-based.
countnumberHow many members to read.

examples

local c = entity.find("Figures").component.get("figures.troupe"); c:readPose("head", 0, 46)

sample( ) → void

Drain the readback :readPose started, as a flat array of floats. Nil until the GPU has answered, which is a frame or two after the call.

seedOf(i: number) → void

The seat foot point, facing and per-member delays this member was seeded with — the static half of what poses them, for checking a wave against the room.

argtypedescription
inumberMember index, 0-based; 0..1195 are the stalls, 1196..1411 the balcony.

authorMeshes( ) → number

Re-author every one of the slice's meshes under /source/figures from the geometry code, then rebuild. Call it from an `execute` after changing `figures.clown` or `figures.geom` — `asset.create` files an asset somewhere else entirely when it is not an execute that calls it (#10451).

examples

entity.find("Figures").component.get("figures.troupe"):authorMeshes()

rebuild( ) → void

Tear the slice's contribution down and build it again from the committed meshes — the greasepaint, the performer's hierarchy and the audience's buffers.

awake( ) → void

update(_dt: number) → void

argtypedescription
_dtnumber

editorUpdate(_dt: number) → void

argtypedescription
_dtnumber

onDestroy( ) → void

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# Mesh Mesh asset. `data.zmsh` is the engine-native geometry payload (`renderer.mesh.encode`); consumers reference the asset's guid.
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# Mesh Mesh asset. `data.zmsh` is the engine-native geometry payload (`renderer.mesh.encode`); consumers reference the asset's guid.
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# Mesh Mesh asset. `data.zmsh` is the engine-native geometry payload (`renderer.mesh.encode`); consumers reference the asset's guid.
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crowd_pose.computeShader
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# crowd_pose Poses the Odeon Marisol's 1,412-strong audience on the GPU, one thread per member. It reads a static per-member seed block — seat foot point, facing, four randoms and three wave delays — plus the film's global wave fronts as params, and writes the four world matrices each member is drawn with (torso, head, left hand, right hand) together with the four `vec4` shader lanes their material reads. Four waves cross the room and each carries a per-member delay and rate, so every one of them arrives as a gradient rather than a switch: **occupancy** (the seats fill, resolving row by row), **attention** (heads turn to hold the lens), **rising** (the house comes to its feet from the front row backward) and **applause** (hands out of phase, drifting into unison as `unison` collapses both the rate spread and the offset spread onto one clock). Dispatched once per rendered frame by the `figures` component off the film clock; the transform buffers it writes are the ones `renderer.mesh.drawInstanced` draws the population from, so the values never touch the CPU.
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# Mesh Mesh asset. `data.zmsh` is the engine-native geometry payload (`renderer.mesh.encode`); consumers reference the asset's guid.
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clown
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# figures.clown The one figure design in "Standing Ovation" — his proportions, his parts, and his paint. There is exactly one design because the whole horror of the film is that there is exactly one: the performer on the stage and every member of the audience are the same man. Two consumers share it. The performer is an entity hierarchy of separate parts, so a component can walk him on, bow him, and blink him out of sync with himself. The audience is those same parts merged into three meshes drawn hardware-instanced, because one draw call per moving piece is what makes 1,412 of him affordable at all. `paintTextures()` generates the greasepaint: a base colour, a normal map and a roughness map, all three out of one pass. The face is drawn into it in METRES — a smile painted 15 cm wide across a 21 cm head, two black lozenges thumbed over the sockets, brows far too high — and the head's texture carries a band of five flat swatches under the face so a red nose, a white eye, a black pupil, an ear and a tuft of hair can be merged into the painted head and still come out the right colour.
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clown_thigh
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film
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# ovation.film The shared spine of **Standing Ovation** — a 90-second cinematic demo set in a rotting 1,412-seat theatre. Two things live here and nothing else. ## The constants The Odeon Marisol's geometry (`Film.GEO`, `Film.rakeY`, `Film.stallSeat`, `Film.balconySeat`), its palette (`Film.PALETTE`), its four light sources (`Film.LIGHTS`), its acts (`Film.ACTS`) and its shot list (`Film.SHOTS`). Every slice of the demo reads its colours and dimensions from here rather than restating them, because two slices disagreeing about where row A stands breaks the film in a way no screenshot explains. ## The film clock One deterministic timeline the whole demo runs on. It advances a **fixed 1/24 s per rendered frame** — it reads no wall time and no real frame delta, so the same build produces the same 2,160 frames on any machine, under a recorder or without one. ```lua local Film = require("ovation.film") Film.rewind() -- every reset hook fires, every cue re-arms, t = 0 Film.play() -- the Director advances it from the next rendered frame Film.on("mine", function(t, dt, shot) end) -- called every frame Film.at(47.0, "cue", function() end) -- once, as the clock crosses 47 s Film.reset("mine", function() end) -- back to the t = 0 state ``` `Film.stop()` freezes it with the frame still composed. `Film.seek(t)` lands on a moment for authoring and does not fire the cues in between. `Film.ramp`, `Film.smooth` and `Film.wave` are the shared shaping helpers: this film is made of waves crossing 1,412 identical figures. Only `ovation.director` calls `Film.tick`.
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nose_red
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# nose_red <!-- zero:scaffolded-readme --> <!-- Replace the line below with what this material provides and who consumes it, then delete both comment lines. --> TODO: describe this material.
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clown_head
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clown_lid
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clown_torso
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# eye_dark <!-- zero:scaffolded-readme --> <!-- Replace the line below with what this material provides and who consumes it, then delete both comment lines. --> TODO: describe this material.
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shoe
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geom
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# figures.geom The small procedural geometry kit the cast of "Standing Ovation" is built out of. Everything in the film that is a person is a surface of revolution or a box — a head, a baggy sleeve, a gloved mitt, a shoe, a ruff — so the kit is one good lathe, one box, one pleated disc, and the ability to stamp any of them into a growing vertex buffer under a transform. That last part is what makes a 1,412-strong instanced population possible: the performer is an articulated hierarchy of separate meshes, and the audience is the same parts MERGED down into three meshes, because one draw call per moving piece is what makes 1,412 of him affordable. A geometry value is the table `renderer.mesh.create` and `asset.create("mesh", …)` both take: `{ positions, normals, uvs, indices }`. The lathe takes a profile running bottom to top, pins a normal where a corner should stay sharp, and lays `v` out by arc length — or linearly up the profile with `vFromY`, for a surface whose texture is placed by height. `stampFlat` collapses a stamped part onto one texture coordinate, which is how a red nose and a white eye survive being merged into a painted head that draws with a single material.
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