Systems with a pulse.

From authored seeds to a readable landscape.

The Frontier pass combines procedural terrain, biome dressing, climate and creature systems into an Unreal world. The recorded verification says the ordinary game continued beyond map loading with 40 AI and regular autosave.

Built/tested: local Unreal capture and verification artifacts. Planned: production multiplayer release, public server operations, and final art polish.

Simulation that can be reasoned about.

Weather and ecology are seeded and advanced through bounded data models. Headless tests cover creature, ecology, registry, and world math paths so a visual pass does not become the only source of truth.

// same seed → same world inputs
FAoEWeatherSystem Weather;
Weather.Bind(Config, WorldSeed);
Weather.Advance(DeltaHours);
const auto& State = Weather.Current();

The fluke was tearing itself in half.

Two bones, left and right, pointing opposite directions on a long lever arm. Every bend of the tail ripped the plate down its own midline. A sirenian fluke is a single stiff plate with no independent left and right articulation, so both bones came out and the chain now runs straight through it. Damaged edges fell from 16,829 to 84.

The flipper had a quieter version of the same fault. The first transition field measured only how far out along the limb a vertex sat — but the belly also sits below the shoulder, so the belly was being dragged along with it. Ten thousand of seventeen thousand damaged edges were nowhere near the flipper.

Built and tested: 25 static stress poses and 23 clips, every frame measured against rest, five camera angles. Planned: engine import, animation blueprint and playable wiring.

It never had teeth.

The reference notes listed continuous tooth replacement and tusks. That describes manatees and dugongs. Hydrodamalis gigas was completely toothless and ground kelp between rough keratinous plates — which is what Georg Steller wrote down in 1741, watching them off Bering Island. Five hundred and fifty-eight sculpted tooth vertices were relaxed back into the gum line and the plates were built in their place.

The mouth had no interior either — open the jaw and you saw straight through the skull. It now has an oral cavity, a tongue on three segments off the jaw, and an eye seated at the socket the skull actually has. The original placement sat forty centimetres too low, which is the entire reason it read as a crease.

Honest limitation: the blink is switched off. Five approaches to an eyelid each failed differently, and all for one reason — there is no socket recess and no lid edge loop for a lid to fold along. That is modelling work, and it is not finished.

The attack is the whole animal.

Several tonnes of animal does not attack by opening its mouth. The weapon is mass. The ram coils, charges, lands chest-first, takes the shock through the whole body and settles slowly across 132 frames — and the contact frame is written to a notify map, so the damage window lands on the frame you can see rather than on a guessed delay.

At impact, the worst-scoring frame in the clip, 0.128% of edges are strained. Nothing tears.

Measured, not eyeballed.

Every pose is measured against rest — edge stretch, triangle collapse, inverted faces, vertices flying away from their own neighbourhood — and rendered from five angles. A rig that reads clean in profile can be torn open from underneath, and the ventral view is where flipper-root failure shows.

Distance-based weighting has no concept of a midline, so a left shoulder will happily take hold of right-side skin through the chest. A smooth lateral gate, reading the rig’s own convention off the data rather than assuming it, removed 174,008 cross-midline influences on one animal and 179,856 on the other. Both now sit at zero.

Where it stands: the sea cow is asset-ready and not yet in engine. Twenty-eight models are separated, named and filed; most are rigged and waiting on weights.