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fix vertical line in battle sprites

DramaticShape · 2026-07-29 · parent 0f303e7975

fix vertical line in battle sprites

Changed files

data/voxel_heights.lua      |  79 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 lib/BattleBillboard.lua     |  17 ++++++
 lib/BattleScene.lua         |   6 ++
 lib/Structures.lua          | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/TileShape.lua           |  74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/Voxel3D.lua             |  25 +++++++++
 tests/monline_probe.lua     |  50 +++++++++++++++++
 tests/voxel_figure_test.lua | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 8 files changed, 570 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Diff

diff --git a/data/voxel_heights.lua b/data/voxel_heights.lua
index 574e3e2..e1aed77 100644
--- a/data/voxel_heights.lua
+++ b/data/voxel_heights.lua
@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@
 -- pinned prop, overriding the flat-neighbour vote -- the cuttable bush
 -- stands on the grass Cut leaves behind, whatever borders it.
 --
+-- And it may carry `figures` (not a class either): hand-drawn pixel masks
+-- that lift a FIGURE PAINTED INTO furniture off it and stand it up as a
+-- standee, leaving the furniture its own geometry.  A pin resolves a
+-- whole 8x8 tile, so it can never separate two things that share one --
+-- and nothing automatic can either when the figure has no background
+-- margin to flood from and wears the same shades as what it sits on.
+-- The Pokemon Center's seated man is the case; see POKECENTER below for
+-- the format.
+--
 -- Whole BUILDINGS are not tile pins -- one drawing packs a roof seen from
 -- above, a facade seen face-on and sloped ends as diagonal silhouettes,
 -- and no single class covers that.  They live in the `buildings` list at
@@ -694,22 +703,17 @@ return {
       -- bodies so they stand ON them) and the PC (66/70/82/86), which
       -- stands on its pinned desk
       billboard = { 58, 59, 66, 70, 74, 75, 82, 86 },
-      -- Why the man on the couch rides the top face instead of standing
-      -- up.  He is drawn across two tile rows (skin pixels appear in
-      -- rows 8 and 9 and stop dead at the row 9/10 seam), and folding
-      -- two rows upright requires both to share a class, which makes the
-      -- box two tiles deep -- and a fully folded box repeats its north
-      -- row across its whole top face.  So every upright arrangement
-      -- puts his head on screen two or three times: as a 16px seat-back
-      -- his head lands on the front AND twice on the top; as a 32px
-      -- bookcase he becomes a cabinet taller than the room's walls.
-      -- Dropping the seat to floor level to clear his face does not help
-      -- either, it only moves which copy you see.  He also cannot be a
-      -- standee: the drawing has no floor margin, so all three non-black
-      -- shades touch the cluster rim and the mask drains 307 of its 420
-      -- interior pixels -- 46% of him even segmented alone, because his
-      -- skin is the same light shade as the couch behind him.  Riding
-      -- the top face is the one arrangement that draws him exactly once.
+      -- The man on the couch, cut out by hand and stood up (see `figures`
+      -- below).  Nothing automatic reaches him.  A class pin resolves a
+      -- whole 8x8 tile and he SHARES his tiles with the couch, so pinning
+      -- them stands the furniture up with him; riding the couch's top
+      -- face (what this did before) draws him lying flat on the cushion;
+      -- and he cannot be segmented into a standee either, because the
+      -- drawing has no background margin for a flood to enter by and his
+      -- skin is the same light shade as the couch -- the mask drained 307
+      -- of his 420 interior pixels, 46% of him, even segmented alone.
+      -- An authored mask is the only thing that can tell a man from the
+      -- sofa he is painted into, so that is what `figures` carries.
       -- the PC's desk body, which the PC stands on
       table = { 9, 88 },
       -- the potted plants: bush (32/33/48/49) over pot (34/35/50/51,
@@ -721,6 +725,49 @@ return {
       -- them; the standee reads darker than the flat art, which is the
       -- accepted trade for a real plant silhouette
       prop = { 32, 33, 34, 35, 48, 49, 50, 51 },
+      -- THE MAN ON THE COUCH.  He is drawn INTO the lounge furniture --
+      -- tiles 37 (head) and 53 (face and body) are his, and his hair and
+      -- his foot spill one tile east onto the floor (57 and 60 are the
+      -- plain floor tiles 1 and 26 with those pixels painted over him).
+      -- `pixels` is the hand-drawn line between the man and the couch;
+      -- `under` is what each tile wears once he is lifted off it: the
+      -- couch's own cushion (39) where he sat, and 1 / 26, the clean
+      -- floor the artist had already drawn.  So the couch keeps its
+      -- polygonal box and he stands on top of it, at NPC scale.
+      --
+      -- The mask keeps the couch's east rule (column 7) wherever it is
+      -- drawn dark, because that is where his hair crosses the tile seam
+      -- -- without it the overhang would float free of his head.  The
+      -- cushion wedge under his legs and the two floor pixels above his
+      -- head are the only interior pixels it gives back.
+      figures = {
+        {
+          class = "billboard",
+          w = 2,
+          tiles = { 37, 57,
+                    53, 60 },
+          under = { 39,  1,
+                    39, 26 },
+          pixels = {
+            "..XXXXX.........",
+            "XXXXXXXX........",
+            "XXXXXXXXX.......",
+            "XXXXXXXXXX......",
+            "XXXXXXXXXX......",
+            "XXXXXXX.X.......",
+            "XXXXXXX.X.......",
+            "XXXXXXX.X.......",
+            "XXXXXXX.X.......",
+            "XXXXXXXX........",
+            "XXXXXXXX........",
+            "XXXXXXXX........",
+            "XXXXXXXXX.......",
+            ".XXXXXXXXX......",
+            "...XXXXXX.......",
+            "......XX........",
+          },
+        },
+      },
     },
 
     -- The Poke Marts (one 4x4 layout serves every city; the tileset
diff --git a/lib/BattleBillboard.lua b/lib/BattleBillboard.lua
index 306a2de..88693cd 100644
--- a/lib/BattleBillboard.lua
+++ b/lib/BattleBillboard.lua
@@ -42,6 +42,20 @@ local quad = nil                  -- nil = untried, false = unavailable
 -- The unit card: x in -0.5..0.5, y in 0..1, z = 0, UV over the whole
 -- texture. Feet on the model origin, so the model matrix only has to say
 -- where the mon is standing and how big it is.
+--
+-- Which puts this card OFF the voxel grid, alone among the meshes in this
+-- mode: the rest are built one unit per voxel in their own model space --
+-- terrain in world pixels, a character's card in the sprite's own pixels --
+-- and the wireframe is the integer planes of that space (see VoxelGrid).
+-- One unit here is the whole card, so the only integer plane inside it is
+-- x = 0, which is the pic's centre column: a single stray line straight
+-- down the middle of every Pokemon and no seams anywhere else.
+--
+-- The card stays a unit card, because a mon's size on screen is decided by
+-- the artwork's own dimensions and the distance it is standing at, and a
+-- unit card is what lets one matrix say both. Whoever draws it turns the
+-- wireframe off instead (Voxel3D.seams) -- a mesh that is not on the voxel
+-- grid does not get a voxel grid drawn on it.
 local function unitQuad()
   if quad ~= nil then return quad or nil end
   local verts = {
@@ -93,8 +107,11 @@ function BattleBillboard.draw(tex, x, y, z, grow)
   if grow then w, h = w * grow, h * grow end
   if w <= 0 or h <= 0 then return false end
   local yaw = BattleBillboard.yawToward(x, z, Voxel3D.eye)
+  -- off the voxel grid, so no wireframe on it (see unitQuad)
+  Voxel3D.seams(false)
   Voxel3D.draw(mesh, tex, BattleBillboard.matrix(x, y, z, w, h, yaw),
                BattleBillboard.PULL)
+  Voxel3D.seams(true)
   return true
 end
 
diff --git a/lib/BattleScene.lua b/lib/BattleScene.lua
index 43c6003..50d8f3e 100644
--- a/lib/BattleScene.lua
+++ b/lib/BattleScene.lua
@@ -378,10 +378,16 @@ function BattleScene.render(state, arena, textures, token)
     if flashing then
       Voxel3D.flatten(BattleScene.FLASH_COLOR, BattleScene.FLASH_STRENGTH)
     end
+    -- and no voxel wireframe on the pair. Everything else in this frame is
+    -- built a unit per voxel and wears the seams that fall out of that; a
+    -- mon's card is one quad wearing the battle screen (see
+    -- BattleBillboard), so it is off the grid and has no seams to draw.
+    Voxel3D.seams(false)
     for _, card in ipairs(monCards(arena, groundY, textures)) do
       Voxel3D.draw(BattleBillboard.mesh(), card.tex, card.model,
                    BattleBillboard.PULL)
     end
+    Voxel3D.seams(true)
     if flashing then Voxel3D.flatten(nil) end
     -- grass and flowers ride the same camera-ward pull the free-roam pass
     -- gives them, measured against THIS camera's pitch rather than the
diff --git a/lib/Structures.lua b/lib/Structures.lua
index 84c1ce4..5045e77 100644
--- a/lib/Structures.lua
+++ b/lib/Structures.lua
@@ -268,6 +268,14 @@ function Structures.forMap(map)
   -- ---- bookcases: pinned shelves collapsed to one cell of depth ----
   Structures.buildBookcases(S, map, x0, x1, y0, y1)
 
+  -- ---- figures: a person drawn INTO furniture, lifted off it ----
+  -- Before the region flood and the volume pass, so everything after this
+  -- reads the tiles the profile says are there once the figure is gone.
+  -- (Its own tiles are authored furniture or walkable floor either way, so
+  -- no pass below would have claimed them -- but the repaint is what those
+  -- passes should see, and this needs no pixel access to do it.)
+  Structures.buildFigures(S, map, x0, x1, y0, y1)
+
   -- ---- flood-fill regions of structural tiles ----
   local seen = {}
   local regions = {}
@@ -2116,6 +2124,141 @@ function Structures.buildObject(S, map, region, cluster,
   return true
 end
 
+-- ---- figures: a person drawn INTO furniture, cut out and stood up ----
+
+-- One authored figure at one matched position.
+--
+-- The mask IS the classification: no flood, no shade segmentation, no
+-- validation gate.  Every automatic route in this file asks the art where
+-- the object ends, and a figure painted into its own furniture has no
+-- answer to give -- so the profile answers instead, and this only has to
+-- believe it.  Which also means figures build HEADLESS: unlike every
+-- other standee here, nothing below reads a pixel.
+local function buildFigure(S, map, fig, tx, ty, perRow)
+  local bw, bh = fig.w * 8, fig.h * 8
+
+  local function at(lx, ly)
+    if lx < 0 or lx >= bw or ly < 0 or ly >= bh then return false end
+    return fig.mask[ly * bw + lx] or false
+  end
+
+  -- his feet: the lowest drawn row, which is what lands on the support
+  local lowY = 0
+  for ly = bh - 1, 0, -1 do
+    local any = false
+    for lx = 0, bw - 1 do
+      if at(lx, ly) then any = true break end
+    end
+    if any then lowY = ly break end
+  end
+
+  -- He stands ON the furniture he was drawn into -- the same lift a pinned
+  -- prop above a pinned box takes (see buildObject), and gated the same
+  -- way: a thing set down on furniture occupies a BLOCKED cell, while a
+  -- seat you merely walk up to is in a walkable one.
+  local baseY, support = 0, nil
+  local bs = S.shapeAt[keyOf(tx, ty + fig.h)]
+  local blocked = not map:isWalkableCell(math.floor(tx / 2),
+                                         math.floor((ty + fig.h - 1) / 2))
+  if blocked and bs and bs.authored and bs.art == "upright"
+     and (bs.h or 0) > 0 then
+    baseY, support = bs.h, bs
+  end
+
+  local depth = PINNED_DEPTH[fig.class] or PINNED_DEPTH.billboard
+  local z0 = ty * 8 + math.floor(lowY / 8) * 8
+             + (support and 8 or 0) + (8 - depth) / 2
+  local z1 = z0 + depth
+
+  -- ONE object by construction: the figure keeps its drawn proportions
+  -- whatever the mask's connectivity, so an overhang (his hair crossing
+  -- the tile seam) stays at its drawn height instead of being dropped to
+  -- the floor as a component of its own.
+  local atlasW = map.tileset.imageWidth or 128
+  local atlasH = map.tileset.imageHeight or 48
+  local quads = S.objectQuads
+  local wx0 = tx * 8
+  for ly = 0, bh - 1 do
+    Budget.tick()
+    for lx = 0, bw - 1 do
+      if at(lx, ly) then
+        local tile = fig.tiles[math.floor(ly / 8) * fig.w
+                               + math.floor(lx / 8) + 1]
+        local u = ((tile % perRow) * 8 + lx % 8 + 0.5) / atlasW
+        local v = (math.floor(tile / perRow) * 8 + ly % 8 + 0.5) / atlasH
+        local x, y = wx0 + lx, baseY + lowY - ly
+        local function quad(c1, c2, c3, c4, shade)
+          quads[#quads + 1] = { c1, c2, c3, c4, u = u, v = v, shade = shade }
+        end
+        quad({ x, y, z1 }, { x + 1, y, z1 }, { x + 1, y + 1, z1 },
+             { x, y + 1, z1 }, OBJ_SHADE.front)
+        quad({ x + 1, y, z0 }, { x, y, z0 }, { x, y + 1, z0 },
+             { x + 1, y + 1, z0 }, OBJ_SHADE.back)
+        if not at(lx, ly - 1) then
+          quad({ x, y + 1, z0 }, { x + 1, y + 1, z0 }, { x + 1, y + 1, z1 },
+               { x, y + 1, z1 }, OBJ_SHADE.top)
+        end
+        if y > baseY and not at(lx, ly + 1) then
+          quad({ x, y, z1 }, { x + 1, y, z1 }, { x + 1, y, z0 },
+               { x, y, z0 }, OBJ_SHADE.bottom)
+        end
+        if not at(lx - 1, ly) then
+          quad({ x, y, z0 }, { x, y, z1 }, { x, y + 1, z1 },
+               { x, y + 1, z0 }, OBJ_SHADE.side)
+        end
+        if not at(lx + 1, ly) then
+          quad({ x + 1, y, z1 }, { x + 1, y, z0 }, { x + 1, y + 1, z0 },
+               { x + 1, y + 1, z1 }, OBJ_SHADE.side)
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  -- What each covered tile wears now that he is off it.  Only the ART
+  -- changes: the couch tiles keep their `counter` box (they ARE the
+  -- couch) and the floor tiles he overhung stay flat floor -- the
+  -- profile just names the version of each drawing without him in it,
+  -- so nothing has to be synthesized or repainted from a neighbour vote.
+  for i = 1, #fig.tiles do
+    local dx, dy = (i - 1) % fig.w, math.floor((i - 1) / fig.w)
+    S.tileAt[keyOf(tx + dx, ty + dy)] = fig.under[i]
+  end
+end
+
+-- Every authored figure, wherever the map draws it.
+--
+-- Matched by TILE PATTERN rather than by coordinates: one blockset entry
+-- places this couch once in each of the eleven Pokemon Centers (and the
+-- Celadon Hotel), so the pattern finds all of them without the profile
+-- naming a single map or cell.  The repaint above replaces the pattern's
+-- own tiles, so a match can never fire twice on the same drawing.
+function Structures.buildFigures(S, map, x0, x1, y0, y1)
+  local figures = TileShape.figures(map.tileset.id)
+  print("[fig] map", map.id, "tileset", map.tileset.id, "figures",
+        figures and #figures or "nil")
+  if not figures then return end
+  local perRow = map.tileset.tilesPerRow or 16
+  for _, fig in ipairs(figures) do
+    for ty = y0, y1 - fig.h + 1 do
+      for tx = x0, x1 - fig.w + 1 do
+        Budget.tick()
+        local hit = true
+        for i = 1, #fig.tiles do
+          local dx, dy = (i - 1) % fig.w, math.floor((i - 1) / fig.w)
+          if S.tileAt[keyOf(tx + dx, ty + dy)] ~= fig.tiles[i] then
+            hit = false
+            break
+          end
+        end
+        if hit then
+          print("[fig] MATCH at", tx, ty)
+          buildFigure(S, map, fig, tx, ty, perRow)
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
+
 -- ---- tall grass ----
 
 -- A tall-grass CELL is four tufts: 2x2 tiles, and each 8x8 tile is one
diff --git a/lib/TileShape.lua b/lib/TileShape.lua
index 4f0e9d5..6e65a14 100644
--- a/lib/TileShape.lua
+++ b/lib/TileShape.lua
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ local ART = {
 
 local spec = nil          -- the loaded data file, or false when absent
 local cache = {}          -- tileset id -> resolved shape list
+local figCache = {}       -- tileset id -> parsed figure masks, or false
 
 -- The shape profile ships with the mod (data/voxel_heights.lua) and is read
 -- through the mod's own file loader rather than package.path: a mod's
@@ -369,11 +370,84 @@ function TileShape.at(map, shapes, tile, tx, ty)
   return s
 end
 
+-- Hand-authored FIGURES for one tileset: a drawing painted INTO furniture,
+-- cut out by an explicit pixel mask and stood up on top of it.
+--
+-- Every other route in this file resolves a whole 8x8 TILE, which is
+-- exactly why none of them can reach a figure that shares its tiles with
+-- the thing it sits on -- and the detector's segmentation cannot either
+-- when the drawing has no background margin to flood from and wears the
+-- same shades as its furniture.  So the profile authors the silhouette
+-- pixel by pixel (see data/voxel_heights.lua):
+--
+--   figures = { { class  = <standee pool, for its depth>,
+--                 w      = <tiles across>,
+--                 tiles  = { ...w*h tile ids, row-major... },
+--                 under  = { ...w*h ids: what each tile wears once the
+--                            figure is lifted off it... },
+--                 pixels = { ...h*8 strings of w*8 chars, "." = not the
+--                            figure... } } }
+--
+-- Returned normalized: `mask` as a set keyed by ly * (w * 8) + lx, so
+-- Structures can read it as a bitmap without re-parsing per position.
+-- A malformed entry is dropped rather than half-applied -- a typo in a
+-- mask should leave the couch alone, not carve a hole in it.
+function TileShape.figures(tilesetId)
+  local hit = figCache[tilesetId]
+  if hit ~= nil then return hit or nil end
+
+  local s = load()
+  local entry = s and s.tilesets and s.tilesets[tilesetId]
+  local list = entry and entry.figures
+  local out = {}
+  if type(list) == "table" then
+    for _, f in ipairs(list) do
+      local ok = type(f) == "table" and type(f.w) == "number"
+                 and type(f.tiles) == "table" and type(f.under) == "table"
+                 and type(f.pixels) == "table"
+      local w = ok and math.floor(f.w) or 0
+      local h = (w >= 1) and (#f.tiles / w) or 0
+      ok = ok and w >= 1 and h >= 1 and h == math.floor(h)
+           and #f.under == #f.tiles and #f.pixels == h * 8
+      if ok then
+        for i = 1, h * 8 do
+          local row = f.pixels[i]
+          if type(row) ~= "string" or #row ~= w * 8 then
+            ok = false
+            break
+          end
+        end
+      end
+      if ok then
+        local mask, n = {}, 0
+        for ly = 0, h * 8 - 1 do
+          local row = f.pixels[ly + 1]
+          for lx = 0, w * 8 - 1 do
+            if row:sub(lx + 1, lx + 1) ~= "." then
+              mask[ly * (w * 8) + lx] = true
+              n = n + 1
+            end
+          end
+        end
+        if n > 0 then
+          out[#out + 1] = { class = f.class or "billboard",
+                            w = w, h = h, n = n, mask = mask,
+                            tiles = f.tiles, under = f.under }
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  figCache[tilesetId] = (#out > 0) and out or false
+  return figCache[tilesetId] or nil
+end
+
 -- Drop the cache: a mod that shadows data/voxel_heights.lua or a tileset
 -- record needs the next lookup to re-resolve (hot reload, mod toggle).
 function TileShape.invalidate()
   spec = nil
   cache = {}
+  figCache = {}
 end
 
 return TileShape
diff --git a/lib/Voxel3D.lua b/lib/Voxel3D.lua
index 78679b7..aa41aff 100644
--- a/lib/Voxel3D.lua
+++ b/lib/Voxel3D.lua
@@ -558,6 +558,31 @@ function Voxel3D.flatten(color, amount)
   end
 end
 
+-- Whether what is drawn next carries the voxel wireframe. false for the
+-- length of a draw, true to put it back.
+--
+-- The wireframe reads a mesh's OWN model space and darkens its integer
+-- planes (see VoxelGrid), which is only a wireframe because every mesh in
+-- this mode is built ONE UNIT PER VOXEL: terrain in world pixels, a
+-- character card in the sprite's own pixels. A mesh whose model space does
+-- not mean that gets no wireframe out of the same shader -- it gets
+-- whichever of its integer planes happen to fall inside it, which is a
+-- stray line rather than a seam.
+--
+-- So this is not a style switch. It is how a mesh that is not on the voxel
+-- grid says so, and the alternative -- rescaling such a mesh until its
+-- units happen to be voxels -- would change what it IS to satisfy a
+-- shading pass.
+--
+-- Sent rather than branched because the plain scene shader has no such
+-- uniform, and the send simply does not take there -- which is right: with
+-- no wireframe compiled in there is nothing to suppress.
+function Voxel3D.seams(on)
+  if not (active and activeShader) then return end
+  pcall(activeShader.send, activeShader, "gridDark",
+        on and VoxelGrid.DARK or 0)
+end
+
 function Voxel3D.endGhost()
   if not active then return end
   pcall(love.graphics.setDepthMode, "lequal", true)
diff --git a/tests/monline_probe.lua b/tests/monline_probe.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a642202
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/monline_probe.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+-- Probe: one overworld battle, held on the menu beat, shot large.
+--
+--   SHOT_DIR=... POKEPORT_DRIVER=mods/DramaticShapeVoxelMod/tests/monline_probe.lua love .
+return function(game)
+  local U = dofile("tests/drivers/util.lua")
+  local DIR = os.getenv("SHOT_DIR") or ".scratchpad"
+  local Pokemon = require("src.pokemon.Pokemon")
+  local BattleState = require("src.battle.BattleState")
+
+  love.math.setRandomSeed(20260727)
+
+  game.save.party = {
+    Pokemon.new(game.data, "CHARIZARD", 45),
+    Pokemon.new(game.data, "PIKACHU", 40),
+  }
+  game.save.player.name = "RED"
+
+  local exports = game.mods and game.mods.exports
+  local lib = exports and exports.DRAMATIC_SHAPE and exports.DRAMATIC_SHAPE.lib
+  U.log("DRAMATIC_SHAPE lib:", tostring(lib))
+  local Battles = lib and lib.require("OverworldBattle")
+  U.log("OverworldBattle:", tostring(Battles))
+
+  U.teleport(game, "ROUTE_1", 5, 8, "down")
+  U.wait(120)
+
+  local classes = {}
+  for id, rec in pairs(game.data.trainers) do
+    if type(id) == "string" and id:sub(1, 1) ~= "_"
+       and type(rec) == "table" and rec.parties and rec.parties[1] then
+      classes[#classes + 1] = id
+    end
+  end
+  table.sort(classes)
+  U.log("class:", classes[1])
+  local battle = BattleState.newTrainer(game, classes[1], 1)
+  battle.onFinish = function() end
+  game.overworld:pushBattle(battle)
+
+  U.wait(70)
+  for _ = 1, 14 do U.tap(game, "a"); U.wait(8) end
+  local arena = Battles and Battles.arena()
+  U.log("arena:", arena and arena.shape or "none")
+  U.shot(game, DIR .. "/probe_menu.png")
+  for _ = 1, 20 do U.tap(game, "a"); U.wait(8) end
+  U.wait(90)
+  U.shot(game, DIR .. "/probe_menu2.png")
+  U.log("done -- " .. DIR)
+  love.event.quit()
+end
diff --git a/tests/voxel_figure_test.lua b/tests/voxel_figure_test.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c60f052
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/voxel_figure_test.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+-- Figures: a person drawn INTO furniture, cut out by an authored pixel
+-- mask and stood up on top of it (TileShape.figures / Structures.
+-- buildFigures).  The Pokemon Center's seated man is the case the feature
+-- exists for, so this drives the real profile entry over a hand-built
+-- copy of the couch block he is drawn in -- POKECENTER blockset entry $08,
+-- as every Center places it:
+--
+--     y=8   36 37 57 11        36/52 west wall strip, 37/53 the MAN,
+--     y=9   52 53 60 27        57/60 floor he overhangs east onto,
+--     y=10  38 39 54 11        38/39 cushion, 42/43 the couch's base
+--     y=11  42 43 26 27
+--
+-- No love, no GPU and no pixel access: a figure is authored rather than
+-- detected, which is exactly what lets it build headless.
+--
+--   luajit mods/DramaticShapeVoxelMod/tests/voxel_figure_test.lua
+
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local T = require("tests.harness")
+
+-- ------- the mod namespace (mirrors main.lua's V, minus the mod loader)
+
+local ROOT = os.getenv("DS_MOD_PATH") or "mods/DramaticShapeVoxelMod"
+local V = { path = ROOT }
+
+local function chunkFor(rel)
+  local f = assert(io.open(ROOT .. "/" .. rel, "rb"), rel .. " is missing")
+  local src = f:read("*a")
+  f:close()
+  return assert(load(src, "@" .. ROOT .. "/" .. rel))
+end
+
+local modules, dataFiles = {}, {}
+function V.require(name)
+  if modules[name] == nil then
+    modules[name] = chunkFor("lib/" .. name .. ".lua")(V)
+  end
+  return modules[name]
+end
+function V.data(name)
+  if dataFiles[name] == nil then
+    dataFiles[name] = chunkFor("data/" .. name .. ".lua")(V)
+  end
+  return dataFiles[name]
+end
+
+local TileShape = V.require("TileShape")
+local Structures = V.require("Structures")
+
+-- ------- the authored mask parses
+
+local figs = TileShape.figures("POKECENTER")
+T.check(type(figs) == "table" and #figs == 1,
+  "POKECENTER carries exactly one figure")
+
+local fig = figs[1]
+T.eq(fig.w, 2, "the figure is two tiles across")
+T.eq(fig.h, 2, "the figure is two tiles tall")
+T.eq(fig.n, 124, "the mask claims 124 pixels of the 256 it spans")
+T.eq(fig.tiles[1], 37, "it starts at the tile his head is drawn in")
+T.eq(fig.under[1], 39, "which wears the couch's own cushion once he is off")
+T.eq(fig.under[2], 1, "and the floor tiles wear the clean art (57 -> 1)")
+T.eq(fig.under[4], 26, "and (60 -> 26)")
+
+-- the mask is one connected figure: an overhang that floats free of him
+-- is the failure this feature exists to avoid
+local W = fig.w * 8
+local seen, first = {}, nil
+for i in pairs(fig.mask) do first = first or i end
+local stack, n = { first }, 0
+seen[first] = true
+while #stack > 0 do
+  local i = table.remove(stack)
+  n = n + 1
+  local x, y = i % W, math.floor(i / W)
+  for dy = -1, 1 do
+    for dx = -1, 1 do
+      local nx, ny = x + dx, y + dy
+      local ni = ny * W + nx
+      if (dx ~= 0 or dy ~= 0) and nx >= 0 and nx < W
+         and fig.mask[ni] and not seen[ni] then
+        seen[ni] = true
+        stack[#stack + 1] = ni
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
+T.eq(n, fig.n, "the mask is a single connected figure")
+
+-- ------- the couch block, as the Centers place it
+
+local function keyOf(tx, ty) return (ty + 64) * 4096 + (tx + 64) end
+
+local COUNTER = { class = "counter", h = 8, art = "upright",
+                  flat = false, authored = true }
+local GROUND = { class = "ground", h = 0, art = "flat",
+                 flat = true, authored = false }
+
+local BLOCK = { 36, 37, 57, 11,
+                52, 53, 60, 27,
+                38, 39, 54, 11,
+                42, 43, 26, 27 }
+local COUCH = { [36] = true, [37] = true, [38] = true, [39] = true,
+                [42] = true, [43] = true, [52] = true, [53] = true }
+
+local function scene()
+  local S = { shapeAt = {}, tileAt = {}, objectQuads = {}, skip = {},
+              ground = {}, runs = {} }
+  for i = 1, 16 do
+    local tx, ty = (i - 1) % 4, 8 + math.floor((i - 1) / 4)
+    local tile = BLOCK[i]
+    S.tileAt[keyOf(tx, ty)] = tile
+    S.shapeAt[keyOf(tx, ty)] = COUCH[tile] and COUNTER or GROUND
+  end
+  return S
+end
+
+-- collision is per 16x16 cell: the couch's cell is blocked (he is drawn
+-- sitting on it), the floor cell east of it is walkable
+local map = {
+  tileset = { id = "POKECENTER", tilesPerRow = 16,
+              imageWidth = 128, imageHeight = 48 },
+  isWalkableCell = function(_, cx) return cx >= 1 end,
+}
+
+-- ------- he comes off the couch
+
+local S = scene()
+Structures.buildFigures(S, map, 0, 3, 8, 11)
+
+T.check(#S.objectQuads > 0, "the figure built geometry")
+
+T.eq(S.tileAt[keyOf(1, 8)], 39, "his head tile now wears the cushion")
+T.eq(S.tileAt[keyOf(1, 9)], 39, "his body tile too")
+T.eq(S.tileAt[keyOf(2, 8)], 1, "the floor he overhung is clean floor again")
+T.eq(S.tileAt[keyOf(2, 9)], 26, "both rows of it")
+T.eq(S.tileAt[keyOf(0, 8)], 36, "the west wall strip beside him is untouched")
+T.eq(S.tileAt[keyOf(1, 10)], 39, "and the couch's own cushion row is too")
+
+-- the couch keeps its box: a figure changes ART, never class
+T.eq(S.shapeAt[keyOf(1, 8)].class, "counter",
+  "his tiles are still the couch's half-cell box")
+T.check(S.skip[keyOf(1, 8)] ~= true,
+  "and are not skipped -- the couch still renders there")
+
+-- ------- where he stands
+
+local minX, maxX, minY, maxY, minZ, maxZ
+for _, q in ipairs(S.objectQuads) do
+  for c = 1, 4 do
+    local p = q[c]
+    minX = math.min(minX or p[1], p[1]); maxX = math.max(maxX or p[1], p[1])
+    minY = math.min(minY or p[2], p[2]); maxY = math.max(maxY or p[2], p[2])
+    minZ = math.min(minZ or p[3], p[3]); maxZ = math.max(maxZ or p[3], p[3])
+  end
+end
+
+T.eq(minY, 8, "his feet are on the couch's top face, not the floor")
+T.eq(maxY, 24, "and he stands his drawn 16px tall from there")
+T.eq(minX, 8, "he starts at the tile column he is drawn in")
+T.eq(maxX, 18, "and reaches his hair's overhang, two pixels east of it")
+T.eq(maxZ - minZ, 10, "a billboard-pool standee, ten voxels of body")
+
+-- the cushion wedge under his legs stayed with the couch: his lowest row
+-- is his foot alone, not the whole tile width
+local footMinX
+for _, q in ipairs(S.objectQuads) do
+  for c = 1, 4 do
+    if q[c][2] == 8 then footMinX = math.min(footMinX or q[c][1], q[c][1]) end
+  end
+end
+T.eq(footMinX, 14, "the couch cushion beside his foot was left behind")
+
+-- ------- a map that does not draw him builds nothing
+
+local other = scene()
+other.tileAt[keyOf(1, 8)] = 40
+Structures.buildFigures(other, map, 0, 3, 8, 11)
+T.eq(#other.objectQuads, 0, "no match, no figure")
+T.eq(other.tileAt[keyOf(2, 8)], 57, "and nothing repainted")
+
+-- ------- and it never fires twice on the same drawing
+
+local twice = scene()
+Structures.buildFigures(twice, map, 0, 3, 8, 11)
+local once = #twice.objectQuads
+Structures.buildFigures(twice, map, 0, 3, 8, 11)
+T.eq(#twice.objectQuads, once,
+  "the repaint replaces the pattern, so a rescan cannot match it again")
+
+T.finish("DRAMATIC_SHAPE figures")