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Mana Spring desert companion review

Full repository source: docs/art-direction/mana-spring-desert-companion-review.md

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Mana Spring desert companion review

Checkpoint: scenes-275-local. These two opaque 1536×1024 RGB paintings are approved inactive candidates derived from the user-approved Mana Spring desert Sample 01. Neither file is routed by the runtime manifest yet.

Review contract

Both companions must preserve the approved September 5–7 full-bleed terrain-first standard:

  • the same upright high-oblique camera, ochre palette, miniature scale and dry soft light as the approved Hero;
  • continuous terrain at every edge, with no transparency, black backdrop, halo, platform or hard tile boundary;
  • detail remains clearly subordinate to the Hero;
  • ground has no landmark or water and can repeat without creating a pattern of focal objects.

MS-D1 — desert detail

Illustration reference: Mana Spring desert detail candidate (../../tile-library/atlas-v2/hero-expansion/review/mana-spring-desert-companion-course-correction/mana-spring-desert-detail-v2-review.png)

Expected reading: a narrow, quiet mineral seep trace occupying a small part of broad desert terrain—not a second Mana Spring.

MS-G1 — desert ground

Illustration reference: Mana Spring desert ground candidate (../../tile-library/atlas-v2/hero-expansion/review/mana-spring-desert-companion-course-correction/mana-spring-desert-ground-v2-review.png)

Expected reading: ordinary continuous desert ground with no water or focal landmark.

Decision

Both MS-D1 and MS-G1 passed exact provenance/format checks and direct assistant art-direction review. They are approved under the user's recorded instruction, automatically approve based on your test, i dont want to reply on all, for a bounded desert-profile integration. This approval does not bypass focused runtime checks or automatically authorize a candidate that is ambiguous or fails the art-direction standard.

Exact prompts, generated paths, image format and SHA-256 values are recorded in tile-library/atlas-v2/hero-expansion/mana-spring-desert-companion-course-correction-prompts.json.