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fix: give vertex-weight-limit's arm its armor pass#83

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Round four on the vertex-weight-limit hero. Previous round made the hinge mechanical; this round fixes the remaining sloppiness: shells read as lathe pottery, the hinge cap was a flat button, the pedestal was a lampshade, proportions spindly.

Armor pass:

  • Hex bolt heads replace the round caps (6-segment cones) on the elbow hinge — and 8 hex bolts ring the new pedestal flange
  • Panel-seam grooves cut into the upper arm (1) and forearm (2) — the orange shells now read as armor plates, not vases
  • Shells thickened ~15% across the arm (upper arm, forearm, cuffs, knuckle, palm, fingers)
  • Wide bolted flange under the shoulder fairing — the pedestal reads as bolted-down machinery
  • Hinge mechanics unchanged: pin + caps stay with the clevis (Shoulder), knuckle rotates around the pin

Evidence: pre_max=5 holds; measured values identical on .scratch/blender-5.1.2-windows-x64/blender.exe (Blender 5.1.2) and .scratch/blender-4.5.11-windows-x64/blender.exe (Blender 4.5.11 LTS): verts=1768 pre=5 post=4 limited=160 sum_err=2.98e-08 pose_dev=2.83e-03 lbs_err=2.67e-07 root_move=0. Re-falsified: probe A exit 4, probe B exit 6 (sums 1.616e-02), probe C exit 8 (LBS dev 1.782). Claw margin verified at 100 px via posed-vertex NDC projection. 4.5 render path green. Full-size crops of the hex bolt and seams inspected.

Group contact sheet refreshed (luminance 111.8, in set range). README intro and top-level alt text updated; gallery rebuilt, detail HTML re-read.

Test plan

  • Validate, manifest, counts
  • Blender 5.1 + 4.5 smoke (vertex-weight-limit step)

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Round four: the shells still read as lathe pottery, the hinge cap as a
flat button, the pedestal as a lampshade. Thickened every shell ~15%,
swapped the round caps for hex bolt heads (6-segment cones — fasteners,
not buttons, flange bolts included), cut panel-seam grooves into the
upper arm and forearm so the armor reads as plates, and set the pedestal
on a wide bolted flange. The hinge mechanics from the previous round are
untouched: pin and caps stay with the clevis (Shoulder), knuckle rotates.

pre_max=5 holds; measured values identical on 5.1.2 and 4.5.11
(verts=1768, limited=160, sum 2.98e-08, pose 2.83e-03, lbs 2.67e-07).
Re-falsified: exits 4/6/8 (sums 1.616e-02, LBS dev 1.782). Claw margin
verified at 100 px by posed-vertex NDC projection.

Signed-off-by: fOuttaMyPaint <TMhospitalitystrategies@gmail.com>
@github-actions github-actions Bot added the documentation Improvements or additions to documentation label Jul 20, 2026
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