Codex integrates reviewed vehicle-art variants

Lao Liu uses Codex to organise and finish vehicle art for a bottom-of-screen idle driving game. The pipeline begins with a design-confirmation image, then separates wheels, completes wheel wells and creates lighting layers after he approves the design.

The agent opens a purpose-built positioning tool showing the actual driving background and a reference vehicle. Liu adjusts body and wheel placement, light areas and shadows by eye. Approved positions feed the repeatable stage: sixteen day-and-night colour variants, UI icons and engine integration. The reported outcome is a new car appearing in the game without him manually performing every editing and import step.

Wheel geometry exposes an important constraint. Generated wheels can look acceptable while still wobbling during rotation. Liu changes that part of the pipeline to Blender-based circular geometry; a normal map and Godot lighting provide a moving shadow. Generative images and deterministic tools therefore serve different parts of the same production process.

The author retains visual direction and approval, and acknowledges that agent inspection can be wrong. The account shows an actual project workflow, not a benchmark proving every asset passes review or that the new game has shipped. Its useful detail is turning subjective placement into an interactive human checkpoint, then letting the agent resume the stable variant-generation and integration work.

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Source: Blog · Lao Liu