Facade detail, per-solid materials and ground-contact occlusion #138

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sermuns merged 2 commits from tier-a-visuals into main

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Tier A of the visual pass: bake more surface detail into the scene at build time, so nothing is added per frame.

What

Per-solid roughness/metallic. Static solids were hardcoded to roughness = 0.9, metallic = 0.0; they now carry their own values, plumbed through ObjectU.mat_params and SolidKey. Window glass takes its roughness from the new Palette::window_roughness.
Ground-contact occlusion. A new apply_ground_contact_ao multiplies a height-based contact term into Soup.ao for vertical faces, sampling the terrain under each vertex. Walls, barriers and props sit on the ground instead of floating on flat ambient.
Facade and roof detail textures, generated at startup like the ground tiles, with a new facade_uvs projection that unwraps each triangle by its face normal.
Building color variation for buildings that fall back to the placeholder slate. Measured colors are untouched.
Windows are more opaque and duller.

assets/baked/valla.bin is unchanged, so no rebake is needed.

Cost

No new passes, draw states or vertex attributes: ao, uv and the object-uniform slots already existed. Startup adds two generated 256² textures and one terrain sample per building/decor vertex.

Version

Backwards compatible — no wire or bake-layout change. Merged under the batch's single major bump to 2.0.0; this branch's own bump commit was dropped on rebase.

Checks

just check passes.

Merged

Merged into main as part of the batch (order: #136, #142, #137, #138, #141, #139, #140, #143). The batch carries a single major bump, 1.1.2 → 2.0.0, so this branch's own bump commit was dropped when it was rebased; PROTOCOL_VERSION stays 2. assets/baked/valla.bin was rebaked once at the end of the batch.

Tier A of the visual pass: bake more surface detail into the scene at build time, so nothing is added per frame. ## What - **Per-solid roughness/metallic.** Static solids were hardcoded to `roughness = 0.9, metallic = 0.0`; they now carry their own values, plumbed through `ObjectU.mat_params` and `SolidKey`. Window glass takes its roughness from the new `Palette::window_roughness`. - **Ground-contact occlusion.** A new `apply_ground_contact_ao` multiplies a height-based contact term into `Soup.ao` for vertical faces, sampling the terrain under each vertex. Walls, barriers and props sit on the ground instead of floating on flat ambient. - **Facade and roof detail textures**, generated at startup like the ground tiles, with a new `facade_uvs` projection that unwraps each triangle by its face normal. - **Building color variation** for buildings that fall back to the placeholder slate. Measured colors are untouched. - **Windows** are more opaque and duller. `assets/baked/valla.bin` is unchanged, so no rebake is needed. ## Cost No new passes, draw states or vertex attributes: `ao`, `uv` and the object-uniform slots already existed. Startup adds two generated 256² textures and one terrain sample per building/decor vertex. ## Version Backwards compatible — no wire or bake-layout change. Merged under the batch's single major bump to 2.0.0; this branch's own bump commit was dropped on rebase. ## Checks `just check` passes. ## Merged Merged into `main` as part of the batch (order: #136, #142, #137, #138, #141, #139, #140, #143). The batch carries a single major bump, `1.1.2` → `2.0.0`, so this branch's own bump commit was dropped when it was rebased; `PROTOCOL_VERSION` stays 2. `assets/baked/valla.bin` was rebaked once at the end of the batch.

sermuns added 3 commits

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(slop) bake facade detail, per-solid materials and ground-contact occlusion 0708db2566

(slop) make window glass more opaque and duller cc30d63331

(slop) bump version to 1.2.0 0008f10b2f

sermuns force-pushed tier-a-visuals from 0008f10b2f to 8c74af6c66

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