A browser real-time strategy game about Napoleonic battles, rendered as a living storybook illustration: real 3D, but every frame looks painted. The same renderer will produce cinematic history videos.
Prototyping the look. Open prototypes/painted-cinematic.html in Chrome; no build step.
| Prototype | What it shows |
|---|---|
prototypes/painted-cinematic.html |
Current. Baked light map, painted water, valley mist, light shafts, golden backlight, cinematic grade, seasons, optional depth of field |
prototypes/staff-map.html |
Feel prototype of the far-zoom staff map and the zoom into the world |
prototypes/formation-map.html |
Formation test on a contour map: one battalion of 100 soldiers as circles, drill changes, wood, ford, casualties, 40 battalions benchmark |
prototypes/painted-hybrid.html |
Real sun shadows + SSAO under painterly shading (superseded) |
prototypes/painted-foliage.html |
Leaf-card trees from a stylized .blend pack (superseded) |
prototypes/painted-nature.html |
First painterly pass on the Quaternius pack (superseded) |
prototypes/painted-diorama.html |
The retired tin-soldier diorama direction |
Start at docs/INDEX.md: vision, art bible, architecture, decisions, system docs,
proposals, plans and research, one line each. Agents start at AGENTS.md.
Raw packs are not in git. To regenerate the model data:
- Quaternius Ultimate Nature (CC0): extract to
assets/nature-pack/(with itsOBJ/folder), thennode tools/obj-to-js.mjs. - Stylized foliage
.blendfiles (Trees.blend,FilesPlants.blend): place inassets/painted-foliage/, then runtools/blend-to-js.pywith Blender (see its header).
The generated prototypes/*.data.js files are committed, so the prototypes run without the packs.
- Nature models: Quaternius (CC0).
- Elevation data (later): AWS Terrain Tiles.
- Engine: Babylon.js 9.