assets/_TEMPLATE_BEING.md
Status: AWAITING PICK. Board BRD_NNNN has not been picked, so nothing below is ratified.
The ratification write is a DIRECTOR-level apply and quotes the pick line verbatim
(REALM_DESIGN_PROGRAM.md §3.5, RATIFY). A subagent may create this file in AWAITING PICK and may
never flip it. Fields marked SET BY are waiting on the named panel or the named plate role.
This is the BEING form of the art bible — twelve fields against the place form's eleven
(_TEMPLATE.md). A being board is two panels, not three: Panel A is accurate, what the tradition or
the zoology says, and Panel B is enhanced (CONCEPT_ART_PROGRAM.md §2.2, lines 290-292). The plate
roles and authoring rules the fields below name are BOARDED, not yet landed, in
docs/pipeline_review/art_pipeline_reviews_2026-08-03/build_sufficiency_review.json, lane
character-creature, required_additions 0-9 — the closed plate_role vocabulary and the per-class
required-role sets are required_additions[17] and are NOT YET MINTED, so a SET BY line below names a
role that has no ratified vocabulary behind it yet. Columns are marked live or PROPOSED at the point
of use, and this file never reads a proposed column as a landed one.
SET BY Panel A's TURNAROUND SET — ortho_front, ortho_side, ortho_back, ortho_three_quarter, one
declared neutral pose, one camera height, flat even light, plain neutral background, identical
framing and subject occupancy. This is the design lock: the field that decides whether the being
reads as itself in pure black-on-white at encounter distance, and the artifact the modeller, the
rigger, the texture pass and the de-slop critic's relabel test all compare against.
The neutral pose is declared per morphology class and recorded — biped A-pose, quadruped standing
square, serpentine relaxed S, avian perched with wings half open, chimeric declares its own.
Behaviour, attack and phase poses are ADDITIONAL plates and are never the geometry driver, which is
exactly one plate per (canon_id, variant_key): three-quarter front, rig-legal, limbs clear of the
torso, no motion blur, no ambiguous ground contact, uniform background. The plate columns that make
that key checkable — geometry_driver, variant_axis, variant_value, identity_ref_plate_id,
view_conditioned_from, subject_pose_class — are PROPOSED, NOT YET MINTED (required_additions[16];
none of the six is in the live docs/art_boards/PLATES.csv header today), so the key is stated here
as doctrine and is not yet a query.
How the views are produced is RULED and is not this bible's to re-decide
(build/3d/characters/view_consistency/DIRECTOR_RULING_WQ0031_L1.json, THE_RULING_PER_CLASS): a
turnaround used as VERIFICATION is rendered from the mesh at declared angles and is never generated
as independent images; an authored multi-view set is same-framing front, back and side, full figure,
one framing class, conditioning the 3D engine's multi-image path; where only one plate exists, the
single rig-legal driver plate is the floor and the invented back is NAMED on the row rather than
synthesized. Independent sampling of a turnaround is a defect by construction.
SET BY the registry row, before any plate. SCALE IS A NUMBER FIRST, quoted from the rule this field
exists to carry: "height_m is written on the registry row BEFORE the scale_figure plate is rendered;
the plate is rendered against it; disagreement is a regeneration, not a note"
(build_sufficiency_review.json, lane character-creature, required_additions[11]). A serpentine or
quadruped form carries its optional length_axis token beside the number, from the closed set
{body_length, wingspan}, written ONLY when the number measures something other than standing height —
an axis token beside a standing-height number is a reading error waiting to happen. The scale_figure
plate then
shows the subject beside a 1.75 m human silhouette at the same camera and lens, and the metre value
lives on the ROW, never only inside the image.
Everything else in the field is the proportion call itself — head-to-body ratio, limb-to-torso, the
one proportion that carries the character. Consumed by the capsule and convex collision hull matched
to the skeleton, the Decimate target at steam_deck_minimum, arena framing and the encounter camera.
This mirrors the place bible's meters_per_vertex discipline, which exists precisely so the art call
and the geometry budget cannot diverge.
SET BY Panel A's material_closeup plate — hide, feather, scale, fabric, skin at macro. Material names
are mapped where possible to real material behaviour so the physics and cultural-authenticity critics
have something checkable, and they are the names field 5's costume pieces resolve into. Consumed by
the manual PBR derivation lane, which is where surface actually lands: no automated,
commercially-clean image-to-textured-PBR path exists today
(docs/translation/T99_Translation_AssetGen.md §3, lines 116-119), so this field is a work order for
a person and not a prompt.
SET BY Panel A's palette plate, refined by Panel B. Named colours with values AND the rule for where
each is allowed to appear — a palette without placement rules produces a roster that uses its
palettes the same way. Consumed by the texture pass and by mesh_tags.material at generation time.
Colour placement is this field's business and substance is field 3's; a register or care instruction
belongs in neither and goes to field 10. That split is live rather than tidy: the landed population
measured 215 being rows carrying register and care prose inside the material slot, where a prompt
composer reads a prohibition as a subject
(build/3d/characters/mesh_routing/MESH_ROUTING_DERIVATION_L2.json, finding F4).
SET BY the costume_callout plate — the outfit exploded into garment pieces, fastenings and wear
points, with material names that resolve into field 3. Not a costume drawing: a construction
breakdown, because a MetaHuman is sculpted against reference rather than prompted, and because the
character model is an undergarment base with equipment layered on top. Consumed by the MetaHuman
sculpt, the equipment and layered-garment lane, and the authenticity critic. Where a subject has more
than one outfit state, the states live in costume_set_ref against one mesh_id_ref, resolver-keyed
as decay_stage already is, and outfit_state is declared as a variant axis in field 9 — never as a
second bible. costume_set_ref is PROPOSED, NOT YET MINTED (required_additions[15]; it is not in the
live T0_Character_Index header today), so until it lands the states are enumerated here on this
face and nowhere else.
SET BY the expression_sheet plate — six cells for named cast and companions: neutral, the subject's
signature affect, and the four states the dialogue and persona system actually drives. Consumed by
the MetaHuman sculpt, the cinematic participant performance, and the ambient-crowd mood shift the
runtime layer keys on integrity band. A subject with no face declares which channel carries affect —
ear, crest, tail, posture — or declares the field NOT APPLICABLE with the reason on this face, so an
empty field is never read as an unanswered one.
SET BY Panel B's amplification, carried on the behaviour_pose plate. Weight, gait, and the idle tell —
the three things that make a being recognisable before it acts. The call answers to the subject's own
body plan and not to a style preference: a retarget chain whose target skeleton disagrees with the
target archetype's joint roster, segment count or per-joint range of motion is a FINDING, not a style
choice, and a humanoid-to-bird retarget that maps knee-to-knee produces a bird that walks like
nothing alive (docs/pipeline_review/tech_research/PIPE_ANIMATION_2026-07-29.md, lines 26-31).
Consumed by the animation lane's retarget profile and by the rig_notes overlay in field 12.
SET BY the telegraph_pose plates, one per phase — the windup at its most readable moment, rendered
ALSO as pure black-on-white so the shape channel is an artifact rather than an aspiration. The phase
count is sized from the boss row's own phase_trigger and escalation_vector and is never a fixed
four; phase_state is one plate per phase beyond the first; hitzone_breakable is one plate per
hitzone_parts entry, showing the part intact and broken with its break_effect visible. Consumed
by the combat readability floor, by the deterministic silhouette-contrast measure that turns that
floor into arithmetic, and by the ability and VFX lane. A phase whose telegraph derivative is
indistinguishable from the previous phase's has failed this field, and it fails as a number.
One line per declared axis and what that axis CHANGES — geometry, texture, costume, or nothing but
palette. The plate-side vocabulary is age_stage, integrity_band, path_lock, outfit_state, rare_morph
and hollow_surface, carried as variant_axis and variant_value on the plate row; a character row
declares its own set in appearance_variant_axes from age_stage, integrity_band, path_lock,
gender_presentation and appearance_base. Each axis states whether it is parametric or authored, and
each variant_key carries exactly one geometry_driver.
All of that machinery is PROPOSED, NOT YET MINTED: appearance_variant_axes is
required_additions[15] and is absent from the live T0_Character_Index header; variant_axis and
variant_value are required_additions[16] and are absent from the live docs/art_boards/PLATES.csv
header. So until those columns land, this field is where the axes are declared, and the plate budget
is an entry on this face rather than a query.
SET BY the board's NAMED VISUAL EXCLUSION block plus the de-slop critic's findings, written in the
may/ · may_not/ · must/ token grammar the live T0_Realm_Ruleset_Registry.care_duty_tokens
column already uses. Specific prohibitions, never a quality aspiration.
Two being-specific obligations land here rather than in a routing column. The BEING CARE ROUTE keys
Panel A's reference class on the subject's own care selectors — T0_Creature_Roster.combat_permission
PROTECTED, cultural_depiction_required TRUE, cultural_care_register, and the Familiar registry's
depiction_constraint prose — and it is calibrated BOTH ways, since a folklore being that is a canon
BOSS must not be routed to reverent-empty by a care flag. A subject canon rules referenced and never
rendered is stated here in those words rather than left to an empty cell. And the materialized-argument
class carries its own bound: a construct never wears a culture's sacred beings — the condemned-register
skin draws on judgment, ledger and mark imagery
(docs/translation/T99_Translation_AssetGen.md lines 87-96, D-MATARG-LOOK).
Every source with its rights value. PROMOTION IS RIGHTS-GATED: an image moves from board to bible only
if its rights value is in the promotable set, and previz_only never promotes. SITE-LEVEL RIGHTS ARE
SEPARATE FROM IMAGE-LEVEL RIGHTS, and for a being the second field is the depiction question rather
than the capture one — a tradition's own account of what a being looks like carries its own permission
question, and image-level clearance never answers it. Rights values per plate live in
docs/art_boards/PLATES.csv.
mesh_tags — the five sub-fields as they LANDED: morphology, region, style, material, era, one compact JSON object in that key order (docs/translation/T99_Translation_AssetGen.md
§4.1 lines 162-166; populated across 724 being rows by
build/3d/characters/mesh_routing/MESH_ROUTING_DERIVATION_L2.json). This bible's fields 1, 3, 4 and
10 are what a human reads when a sub-field is honestly empty; mesh_tags.style takes the four-value
T99:164 vocabulary and this file never coins a fifth.
mesh_pipeline_type — the landed CLOSED THREE-VALUE enum metahuman, image_to_3d, special_case_by_case, derived from T99 §2's routing table at lines 77-96 and narrowed there
because a value no field selects is a value nobody can audit. The routing is not this bible's to
re-decide; the bible supplies the look the route executes.
image_to_3d side, auto-rigging is UniRig (docs/pipeline_review/tech_research/PIPE_3D_2026-07-29.md line 110, the stack table's
auto-rigging row), and the rig_notes overlay on ortho_side marks joint intent (spine path on a
serpentine, limb segment count, whether the wings are arms). That the overlay is what stops UniRig
returning a rig nobody can retarget across the non-humanoid roster is the review's own assertion
(build_sufficiency_review.json, lane character-creature, required_additions[6]), not a claim the
stack table makes. On the metahuman side, T99 rules the ROUTE — NPCs are MetaHuman-first and
generative image-to-3D is the wrong tool for them
(docs/translation/T99_Translation_AssetGen.md lines 61-68 and 82) — while what the sculpt is OWED
is ruled elsewhere: a face reference at consistent lighting from at least front and profile, a
proportion and height call, skin, hair and eye values, and a costume construction breakdown, and
none of that is a portrait (build_sufficiency_review.json, lane character-creature,
what_build_needs, the HUMANS ARE NOT GENERATED entry; and
build/3d/characters/view_consistency/DIRECTOR_RULING_WQ0031_L1.json
THE_RULING_PER_CLASS.HUMAN_NPC_and_protagonist, "a same-framing FRONT + PROFILE reference set ...
never a portrait"). Fields 2 and 5 are where this bible pays that.
checked against, and the profile sits inside generation_prompt_hash alongside prompt text, seed,
checkpoint name and skeleton, so a profile change fires regeneration_required through the existing
trigger (docs/pipeline_review/tech_research/PIPE_ANIMATION_2026-07-29.md line 161).
against a reviewer's memory, and so the deterministic being measures (background uniformity on the
geometry_driver, subject occupancy band, silhouette contrast on every telegraph derivative,
cross-view collision inside an ortho set) read their expectations from a ratified surface.
This bible is ENROLLED in gate canon_derivation in the commit it is created, with a
<subject>.coverage.json sidecar generated from the subject board's own coverage rows and never
hand-typed. Every id the bible's canon scope names is either covered or pending, and a pending id
carries its reason and the lane that owes it, disclosed here on the face.