Add nerd glasses and the ...because he was bored... subtitle to the loading screen

docs/BRANDING.md

@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ The stock Godot boot splash (logo plus "GODOT Game engine") is replaced by the
 
 ## Asset
 
-`assets/branding/boot_splash.png`, 1024x1185, palette PNG with alpha
-(256 colors, 95 alpha levels), about 159 KB. Subject: cartoon zombie head and bust,
-bald scalp with a sparse hair fringe on the sides, unsettling grin, thumbs up, with
-"MatGames" below (one word, no space) in a phosphor-terminal typeface.
+`assets/branding/boot_splash.png`, 1024x1315, palette PNG with alpha
+(256 colors, 95 alpha levels), about 171 KB. Subject: cartoon zombie head and bust,
+bald scalp with a sparse hair fringe on the sides, thick nerd glasses, unsettling grin,
+thumbs up, with "MatGames" (one word, no space) in a phosphor-terminal typeface and
+the subtitle `"...because he was bored..."` beneath it.
 
 Provenance is recorded in `tools/branding/manifest.json`:
 
@@ -20,8 +21,10 @@ Provenance is recorded in `tools/branding/manifest.json`:
   `gemini-3.1-flash-image`) on 2026-10-11 from no third-party source material; the
   provider terms do not claim ownership of the output. A second AI pass (`agy_edit`)
   kept the face, grin, thumbs-up hand, shirt, pose and flat background and changed
-  only the hair to a bald scalp with a side fringe; both files and their SHA256 are
-  kept in `tools/branding/raw/` and the edit is recorded under `mascot_derived_from`.
+  only the hair to a bald scalp with a side fringe, then a third pass added thick nerd
+  glasses while keeping the face, grin, hand, shirt, pose and flat background. All
+  files and their SHA256 are kept in `tools/branding/raw/` and the chain is recorded
+  under `mascot_provenance`.
   Note that an image generator does not emit real alpha, so the flat magenta
   background is keyed out locally;
 - lettering: drawn by script, not by the generator, because generated text is
@@ -45,8 +48,11 @@ packed into the export (`tools/*` is already excluded by the export preset).
    pink tongue or the blue shirt because their red and blue are not both above green;
 4. crops to the subject, applies a 50 px fade at the bottom to soften the frame cut
    of the generated bust, and scales to 1024 px wide with 40 px side padding;
-5. draws the title with VT323 in amber over a blurred glow layer. The title defaults
-   to the one-word form `MatGames`; pass `--title` to change it;
+5. draws the title with VT323 in amber over a blurred glow layer, plus an optional
+   second line. Defaults are the one-word `MatGames` and the subtitle
+   `"...because he was bored..."`; `--title`, `--subtitle` (empty to omit) and
+   `--subtitle-height` change them. A 30 px `--bottom-padding` band is left under the
+   text so the shell progress bar does not cross the lettering;
 6. quantizes to 256 colors (no dither) and writes the PNG plus the manifest.
 
 ```sh
@@ -71,11 +77,11 @@ ratio; the exported shell confirms the result with the classes
 
 ## Verification
 
-- Exported `index.png` has the same 1024x1185 dimensions as the master. It is
-  re-encoded by the exporter to 32-bit RGBA (about 496 KB), so the bytes are not
-  identical; composited on black the two images differ by at most 6.4/255 on
-  0.13% of pixels, all with alpha below 20, i.e. invisible. The release keeps the
-  159 KB master in the repository and ships a gzip sidecar.
+- Exported `index.png` has the same 1024x1315 dimensions as the master. It is
+  re-encoded by the exporter to 32-bit RGBA (about 528 KB), so the bytes are not
+  identical; composited on black the two images differ by at most 5.8/255 on
+  0.11% of pixels, all with alpha below 20, i.e. invisible. The release keeps the
+  171 KB master in the repository and ships a gzip sidecar.
 - The exported shell contains no "Game engine" text and the splash image has an
   empty `alt`.
 - `html/export_icon=false`, so no favicon is exported: the browser tab still shows

docs/WEB-DEPLOY.md

@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 # Web build and compressed deployment
 
+## Nerd glasses and subtitle release: f77b7ba7b89364dd
+
+The mascot now wears thick nerd glasses (third AI edit pass) and carries the subtitle
+`"...because he was bored..."` under the title, see `docs/BRANDING.md`. A 30 px band
+was left under the lettering because the shell progress bar crossed the subtitle in the
+first attempt, deployed minutes earlier as cd86c85387c1c9f3 and superseded by this one.
+PCK 4,373,568 bytes; gzip payload total 12,821,256 bytes. Backup
+`index-before-nerd-bar.html` (the earlier `index-before-nerd.html` holds the
+cd86c85387c1c9f3 shell).
+
+Obsolete releases after this deploy: 097e6c64b42640ad and 1194f239fcbd91d6, both
+deletable under the retention policy once approved.
+
+
 ## Bald mascot release: 1194f239fcbd91d6
 
 Title is now the one-word `MatGames` and the mascot has a bald scalp with a side

tools/branding/manifest.json

@@ -3,43 +3,52 @@
     "file": "assets/branding/boot_splash.png",
     "size": [
       1024,
-      1185
+      1315
     ],
     "mode": "P",
     "palette_colors": 256,
-    "sha256": "4b4bab87b5038915d5a7493c6ee134cd654293036d093e71d210cbad6359bdb2"
+    "sha256": "715bd5f1dd3a651b1b5f6ee0560db232ddfdad676091f07ea34696787e27fbee"
   },
   "mascot_source": {
-    "file": "tools/branding/raw/agy_edit_20261010235510_0.jpg",
-    "sha256": "913184c2e2e3dd5357f7729988859c8e038e4561ba18af7cb60f12644f7f6994"
+    "file": "tools/branding/raw/agy_edit_20261011000309_0.jpg",
+    "sha256": "57bc1e46eb0876c02008038981c9b01a6bf4e02da78418de7b44f4fcbd93895e"
   },
   "generator": {
     "tool": "agy_generate (Antigravity direct API)",
     "model": "gemini-3.1-flash-image",
     "date": "2026-10-11",
-    "prompt": "single cartoon zombie head-and-bust mascot, unsettling wide grin, thumbs up, 2D cartoon style with bold outlines, flat magenta chroma-key background, no text and no logo; then edited to a bald scalp with a sparse hair fringe on the sides only",
+    "prompt": "single cartoon zombie head-and-bust mascot, unsettling wide grin, thumbs up, 2D cartoon style with bold outlines, flat magenta chroma-key background, no text and no logo; then edited to a bald scalp with a sparse hair fringe on the sides only, then edited again to wear thick nerd glasses",
     "terms_note": "generated from no third-party source material; the provider terms do not claim ownership of the output. The generator emits no real alpha channel, so the background is keyed out locally by this script."
   },
   "chroma_key": {
     "background_rgb": [
-      246,
-      1,
-      237
+      244,
+      0,
+      233
     ],
     "transparent_below": 55,
     "opaque_above": 130
   },
   "title": {
     "text": "MatGames",
+    "subtitle": "\"...because he was bored...\"",
     "font": "tools/branding/fonts/VT323-Regular.ttf",
     "license": "SIL Open Font License 1.1 (tools/branding/fonts/OFL.txt)"
   },
   "bottom_fade_px": 50,
-  "mascot_derived_from": [
+  "mascot_provenance": [
     {
       "file": "tools/branding/raw/agy_generate_20261010234423_0.jpg",
-      "sha256": "5929495ff606fbcdd74f52a37304f3b569315bcd1fc0fef812b5fd7689dc1396",
-      "edit": "AI edit (agy_edit): keep face, grin, thumbs up, shirt, pose and flat background; change the hair to a bald scalp with a sparse fringe on the sides only"
+      "sha256": "5929495ff606fbcdd74f52a37304f3b569315bcd1fc0fef812b5fd7689dc1396"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "tools/branding/raw/agy_edit_20261010235510_0.jpg",
+      "sha256": "913184c2e2e3dd5357f7729988859c8e038e4561ba18af7cb60f12644f7f6994"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "tools/branding/raw/agy_edit_20261011000309_0.jpg",
+      "sha256": "57bc1e46eb0876c02008038981c9b01a6bf4e02da78418de7b44f4fcbd93895e"
     }
-  ]
+  ],
+  "bottom_padding_px": 30
 }

tools/branding/raw/agy_edit_20261011000309_0.jpg.import

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+[remap]
+
+importer="texture"
+type="CompressedTexture2D"
+uid="uid://b5pj4ipovpbo"
+path="res://.godot/imported/agy_edit_20261011000309_0.jpg-c4ed4776ca2aca40794a7d66a2e8befc.ctex"
+metadata={
+"vram_texture": false
+}
+
+[deps]
+
+source_file="res://tools/branding/raw/agy_edit_20261011000309_0.jpg"
+dest_files=["res://.godot/imported/agy_edit_20261011000309_0.jpg-c4ed4776ca2aca40794a7d66a2e8befc.ctex"]
+
+[params]
+
+compress/mode=0
+compress/high_quality=false
+compress/lossy_quality=0.7
+compress/uastc_level=0
+compress/rdo_quality_loss=0.0
+compress/hdr_compression=1
+compress/normal_map=0
+compress/channel_pack=0
+mipmaps/generate=false
+mipmaps/limit=-1
+roughness/mode=0
+roughness/src_normal=""
+process/channel_remap/red=0
+process/channel_remap/green=1
+process/channel_remap/blue=2
+process/channel_remap/alpha=3
+process/fix_alpha_border=true
+process/premult_alpha=false
+process/normal_map_invert_y=false
+process/hdr_as_srgb=false
+process/hdr_clamp_exposure=false
+process/size_limit=0
+detect_3d/compress_to=1

tools/make_boot_splash.py

@@ -14,14 +14,19 @@ from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFilter, ImageFont
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
 parser.add_argument('raw', type=pathlib.Path, help='raw generated image (magenta background)')
 parser.add_argument('--title', default='MatGames')
+parser.add_argument('--subtitle', default='"...because he was bored..."',
+                    help='second line under the title; empty string for none')
+parser.add_argument('--subtitle-height', type=int, default=100)
+parser.add_argument('--bottom-padding', type=int, default=30,
+                    help='empty band under the text: the shell progress bar sits there')
 parser.add_argument('--canvas', type=int, default=1024)
 parser.add_argument('--title-height', type=int, default=190)
 parser.add_argument('--bottom-fade', type=int, default=50,
                     help='soften the generator frame cut at the bottom of the bust')
 parser.add_argument('--colors', type=int, default=256,
                     help='palette colors for the shipped PNG; 0 keeps 32-bit RGBA')
-parser.add_argument('--generated-from', type=pathlib.Path, default=None,
-                    help='pre-edit generation this file was derived from, for provenance')
+parser.add_argument('--provenance', action='append', type=pathlib.Path, default=[],
+                    help='earlier files of the generation/edit chain, in order; repeatable')
 args = parser.parse_args()
 args.raw = args.raw.resolve()
 root = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
@@ -70,27 +75,34 @@ if args.bottom_fade > 0:
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------- composition
 canvas_width = args.canvas
-title_area = args.title_height
+title_area = args.title_height + (args.subtitle_height if args.subtitle else 0)
 scale = (canvas_width - 2 * 40) / mascot.width
 mascot = mascot.resize((round(mascot.width * scale), round(mascot.height * scale)), Image.LANCZOS)
-height = mascot.height + title_area
+height = mascot.height + title_area + args.bottom_padding
 canvas = Image.new('RGBA', (canvas_width, height), (0, 0, 0, 0))
 canvas.alpha_composite(mascot, ((canvas_width - mascot.width) // 2, 0))
 
-font_size = int(title_area * 0.95)
-font = ImageFont.truetype(str(font_path), font_size)
-text = args.title
-while font.getbbox(text)[2] - font.getbbox(text)[0] > canvas_width - 60 and font_size > 8:
-    font_size -= 2
-    font = ImageFont.truetype(str(font_path), font_size)
-box = font.getbbox(text)
-text_width = box[2] - box[0]
-position = ((canvas_width - text_width) // 2 - box[0], mascot.height + (title_area - box[3]) // 2 - box[1])
-glow = Image.new('RGBA', canvas.size, (0, 0, 0, 0))
-ImageDraw.Draw(glow).text(position, text, font=font, fill=(255, 150, 20, 190))
-glow = glow.filter(ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(9))
-canvas.alpha_composite(glow)
-ImageDraw.Draw(canvas).text(position, text, font=font, fill=(255, 196, 64, 255))
+
+def _draw_line(text: str, block_top: int, block_height: int, size: int,
+               glow_color: tuple, text_color: tuple, blur: int) -> None:
+    font = ImageFont.truetype(str(font_path), size)
+    while font.getbbox(text)[2] - font.getbbox(text)[0] > canvas_width - 60 and size > 8:
+        size -= 2
+        font = ImageFont.truetype(str(font_path), size)
+    box = font.getbbox(text)
+    position = ((canvas_width - (box[2] - box[0])) // 2 - box[0],
+                block_top + (block_height - box[3]) // 2 - box[1])
+    glow = Image.new('RGBA', canvas.size, (0, 0, 0, 0))
+    ImageDraw.Draw(glow).text(position, text, font=font, fill=glow_color)
+    canvas.alpha_composite(glow.filter(ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(blur)))
+    ImageDraw.Draw(canvas).text(position, text, font=font, fill=text_color)
+
+
+_draw_line(args.title, mascot.height, args.title_height, int(args.title_height * 0.95),
+           (255, 150, 20, 190), (255, 196, 64, 255), 9)
+if args.subtitle:
+    _draw_line(args.subtitle, mascot.height + args.title_height, args.subtitle_height,
+               int(args.subtitle_height * 0.8), (255, 150, 20, 150), (255, 176, 58, 240), 6)
 
 out = branding / 'boot_splash.png'
 if args.colors > 0:
@@ -111,23 +123,22 @@ manifest.update({
         'prompt': ('single cartoon zombie head-and-bust mascot, unsettling wide grin, thumbs up, '
                    '2D cartoon style with bold outlines, flat magenta chroma-key background, '
                    'no text and no logo; then edited to a bald scalp with a sparse hair fringe '
-                   'on the sides only'),
+                   'on the sides only, then edited again to wear thick nerd glasses'),
         'terms_note': ('generated from no third-party source material; the provider terms do not claim '
                        'ownership of the output. The generator emits no real alpha channel, so the '
                        'background is keyed out locally by this script.'),
     },
     'chroma_key': {'background_rgb': list(background), 'transparent_below': T0, 'opaque_above': T1},
-    'title': {'text': args.title, 'font': 'tools/branding/fonts/VT323-Regular.ttf',
+    'title': {'text': args.title, 'subtitle': args.subtitle,
+              'font': 'tools/branding/fonts/VT323-Regular.ttf',
               'license': 'SIL Open Font License 1.1 (tools/branding/fonts/OFL.txt)'},
     'bottom_fade_px': args.bottom_fade,
+    'bottom_padding_px': args.bottom_padding,
 })
-if args.generated_from is not None:
-    chain = manifest.get('mascot_derived_from', [])
-    manifest['mascot_derived_from'] = chain + [{
-        'file': str(args.generated_from.resolve().relative_to(root)),
-        'sha256': hashlib.sha256(args.generated_from.read_bytes()).hexdigest(),
-        'edit': 'AI edit (agy_edit): keep face, grin, thumbs up, shirt, pose and flat background; '
-                'change the hair to a bald scalp with a sparse fringe on the sides only',
-    }]
+chain = list(args.provenance) + [args.raw]
+manifest['mascot_provenance'] = [
+    {'file': str(path.resolve().relative_to(root)),
+     'sha256': hashlib.sha256(path.read_bytes()).hexdigest()} for path in chain]
+manifest.pop('mascot_derived_from', None)
 (source_tools / 'manifest.json').write_text(json.dumps(manifest, indent=2) + '\n')
 print(out, canvas.size, canvas.mode, 'mascot', mascot.size)