| name | create-gameplay-trailer |
| description | Produce or update the GAMEPLAY trailer — HUD-on, dungeon-only, honest footage; bot-played takes per beat (frozen-orb opener, class beats, boss trio, chakram storm, couch split, death beat), scan-derived trims, tools/cut_gameplay.sh as the EDL. Trigger for "Gameplay-Trailer", "gameplay trailer neu", "Gameplay-Take". |
Create / update the GAMEPLAY trailer
Load the create-trailer skill first — it owns the shared pipeline (shoot → encode →
cards → cut → QC → deliver) and the standing hard rules (never drive input into the game,
artifacts to /home/aaron/game_takes/, run from repo root, kill by PID). This skill is the
gameplay-specific layer on top.
What makes a take a GAMEPLAY take
- HUD ON (no
--hidehud, no --camera — the player camera IS the shot). Damage numbers,
boss bars, the skill bar and the minimap are the point: this trailer answers "what does
playing it actually look like".
- DUNGEON-ONLY (Aaron's standing call): floors, forced styles (
--vhall, --fourstory,
--lava), --source, --chakram-room, couch. No overworld/zone clips here — those belong
to the cinematic.
- Honest: bot-played runs (
--autoplay), real drops, real deaths. The death beat is a
feature, not an accident.
- Tutorial hints (Attack/Skill, Block, Dodge Roll) auto-suppress while
--record is armed —
every dev-door hero is fresh, and the bot may never do the action that dismisses a hint.
The beat structure (v8 EDL, tools/cut_gameplay.sh)
NO text cards mid-stream (v7) and the cut walks the EQUIPMENT spectrum (v8, Aaron:
"fast nur melee — ich brauche die volle Equipment variety" / "mehr skills"): staff → bow →
revolver → launcher → meteor wand → drones → turrets → paladin hammer → flask → hitscan →
sword duel → discs, and every class beat is a SKILL showcase with its cast window pinned by
log_time.py. Orb opener → ranger-over-lava (Volley/Barrage) → gw weapon beats → meteor storm
→ tinkerer/engineer/paladin → flask → descent → six-boss reel → chakram storm → couch →
death → OUT NOW. ~50 s. A new beat that reads as one more melee swing is the wrong beat.
Per-beat recipes (each earned by a measured failure)
- Frozen-orb opener: FRESH sorcerer + staged FULL legendary kit incl.
equip Frost Staff
(grants frozen_orb → the bot's granted-skill spam IS orb spam), on --floor 12 --vhall for
density. --endgame is WRONG twice over: the bag holds a better wand so auto-equip swaps
the staff back out mid-take (measured), and optimal gear melts rooms before a cast shows.
Stage: game_takes/stages/eq_orb2.txt. Find the trim with scan_take.py --blue (frost is
pale TEAL, g≈b — a b>g test finds nothing).
- Class beats (tinkerer/engineer):
--new <class> --floor 15 --endgame --autoplay. The
build-cell re-pick in engine_launch.cpp keeps casters off swords — if a class carries the
wrong weapon family, that fix regressed. Find tesla casts etc. with
log_time.py <log> "Tesla Coil hit" — the frame-line interleave is a framegenaue sim clock.
- Boss beats: milestone floors (
--floor N --difficulty 2 --endgame --autoplay,
class marksman survives where wanderer died on 45). The bot + endgame gear melts a boss in
seconds: find the kill via the NEXT floor's "Floor N+1 exit portal" build line in the log,
then contact-sheet the seconds before it — pick the moment nameplate + body + numbers
coincide. Never the Dungeon Engine (Aaron: show OTHER bosses, e.g. the teleporter Nyx).
TWO measured boundaries: an EARLY boss (the Butcher, floor 5) dies OFFSCREEN in ~4 s to
endgame gear — shoot him as a DUEL instead (--new warrior --floor 5 --autoplay --stage stages/eq_armor.txt: armor-only kit + starter sword keeps the DPS low, so he stays alive
and on camera ~10 s). And Inferno floor 50 (Grim Reaper) is UNREACHABLE — the marksman died
three times and the boss never entered the frame; Azhar (35) is the deep-end substitute.
- Class-skill showcases (Aaron: turret squad / drone army / Divine Judgment / frozen
orbs):
log_time.py finds every cast ("Turret requested", "Divine Judgment: ... pillars",
"Swarm ..."). Paladin needs floor 30+ so Divine Judgment (unlock {1,10,20,30}) is the
biggest slot the dump picks — measured 3 casts in 3.5 s at floor 31. The tinkerer's swarm
tag reaches x28 by ~19 s on floor 15; floor 15 is a BOSS floor, so the drone army fights
Sethrak for free. Grep the CLASS's REAL kit (class_defs.cpp) before hunting casts: the
ranger's kit is Volley/Piercing Shot/Barrage/Mark Prey — a log_time on "Multi Shot|Rain of
Arrows" (legacy skill names) returns silence and reads as "the ranger never casts".
- Ranger over the lava sea:
--new ranger --floor 33 --lava --autoplay --stage stages/eq3_bow.txt — staged Void Bow + armor kit, NO --endgame: the endgame roll handed
the ranger a WAND (the ranged column holds guns and bows, but the roll can score a caster
weapon higher), and no bow grants a legendary skill, so the class kit gets the whole
energy pool: Volley (80 arrows), Piercing Shot and Barrage land back to back.
Trims and QC
tools/scan_take.py <take.mp4> for clean/busy windows (adaptive threshold),
tools/log_time.py to pin log events to sim seconds, contact sheets
(ffmpeg -ss A -to B -vf "fps=1,scale=480:270,tile=4x3") for window hunting, then READ the
frames — a boss fight's chosen 3 s must show the boss, not the trash beside it. Render via
tools/cut_gameplay.sh (trims are literals in the EDL), sheet the FINISHED master once
(fps=1,tile=7x7) before delivering.
