Portfolio/assets/blender/evolution/README.md

Grand Tourer — Evolution

Open nightdrive-evolution.blend directly to edit the final source. The Portfolio Evolution scene contains individually editable bodywork, louvers, wheel vanes, wing and marker housings. The original source in the parent folder was not overwritten. No external assets or paid services were used.

export-grand-tourer.py exports the loaded Portfolio Evolution scene into eight joined material groups, without lights, cameras, textures or animation. Execute it inside Blender with __file__ set to the script path. The web renderer sanitizes Blender's duplicate-name suffixes before assigning its runtime lighting behavior.

Design history:

1. The original source scene was appended from ../nightdrive-grand-tourer.blend and named Portfolio Evolution.
2. refine-grand-tourer.py applied the first paint, hub, louver and deck-lip pass. This first pass is historical and should not be reapplied to the finished source.
3. add-personality.py added the swept wing, mounted cyan guides and turbine wheel faces. This second pass replaces its own signature- objects on repeat runs.

To reproduce from the original, follow that order in a separate scene. For ordinary editing, use the finished .blend and export script. Asset counts and provenance are recorded in nightdrive-evolution.asset.json.