# Project Foxglow v0.25 Action Strip Source Pack

v0.25 creates the first per-mode action-strip source sheets for Mini Nel.

## Purpose

v0.24 proved the live rig can use real cropped Mini Nel sprite-sheet frames, but it still flicks between borrowed poses and has missing/rough crops. v0.25 is the source-art step intended to reduce that problem: each mode gets a dedicated action-strip sheet with repeated in-between frames for the same actions.

## Modes

- Den Nel
- Sysadmin Nel
- Queen Nel
- Guild Muse Nel
- Private Flirty Nel

## Intended action rows

Each generated sheet was prompted as 10 horizontal action strips with 8 frames per strip:

1. idle breathing
2. blink
3. talking mouth shapes
4. walk cycle
5. jump arc
6. happy success bounce
7. warning/alert wobble
8. foxfire/glow cast
9. playful wink/tail swish
10. checking/thinking

## Output files

- `modes/nel-den-action-strips-v0.25.png`
- `modes/nel-sysadmin-action-strips-v0.25.png`
- `modes/nel-queen-action-strips-v0.25.png`
- `modes/nel-guild-muse-action-strips-v0.25.png`
- `modes/nel-private-flirty-action-strips-v0.25.png`
- `nel-action-strips-contact-v0.25.jpg`
- `manifest.json`

## Current status

These are source sheets, not yet the live rig. The next step is to crop the best sheet(s) into production transparent frames and replace/extend `assets/avatar-2p5d-v0.24/frames/` or create `assets/avatar-2p5d-v0.26/frames/`.

## Known limitations

- AI did not keep a perfectly uniform atlas size for every mode.
- Some rows may not map exactly to the requested actions.
- Frame identity is much better than the cursed vector placeholder, but still needs visual review before automated cropping.
- Next crop pass should prefer the cleanest rows per mode and reject any cells with missing tails/feet/hands or drifting eyes.