Dress Up reports · ^du_report(10) · 2026-10-18 · about Messed Up Dress Up, a game made with M and N · after ^du_report(9)

Pose by pose

How is the friend drawn in each pose, and how did each pose come to look as it does now? Fifteen poses (crawling from three sides), each drawn by seven versions of the game, from 0.0.30 to 0.0.303, each version through its own 🧍 Body tab, as a player's tap does. The game at 0.0.305: 26 script parts, 22,830 lines.

Short answers.
  1. One skeleton, posed by angles, moved by moments, turned by facing. No pose is a picture of its own: every one is the same joints (shoulders, elbows, hands, hips, knees, feet) with angles set (a pose), plus a turn of each joint for this moment of a stride or a stroke (an animation, in time with the music), drawn toward us, in profile, away, or three-quarters.
  2. At 0.0.30 the friend could only stand, toward us; by 0.0.60 they turned to the side; by 0.0.90 there were animations (walking, running, crawling, swimming, climbing, crouching) and poses (sitting, cross-legged, dancing, a hug).
  3. Crawling changed most, toward us and away: from the side the friend crawled on all fours from the first; toward us or away only since 0.0.256 (ticket 286): the face low and the hands flat on the floor, or the back seen short with the soles up. Lying down and walking on stairs are new since 0.0.250.
  4. The picture archive never showed three poses: sitting, cross-legged and dancing were archived standing at every run, because it set the pose alone and a pose's limbs come with the Body tab's tap. Fixed tonight, from the next run.
  5. What turns with the body, and what keeps the world's up: a tank on the back turns with the back (it was on the belly crawling toward us); a diving hose keeps rising when the body lies or swims flat.

Each picture is the game of that version drawing the default friend in the dressing room, the pose set as its 🧍 Body tab sets it. "Not yet": that version drew the friend standing for it, having no such pose. Tap a picture to see it alone.

pose0.0.300.0.600.0.900.0.1500.0.1970.0.2500.0.303
Standing, toward usStanding, toward us at 0.0.30Standing, toward us at 0.0.60Standing, toward us at 0.0.90Standing, toward us at 0.0.150Standing, toward us at 0.0.197Standing, toward us at 0.0.250Standing, toward us at 0.0.303
Away from usnot yetnot yetAway from us at 0.0.90Away from us at 0.0.150Away from us at 0.0.197Away from us at 0.0.250Away from us at 0.0.303
In profilenot yetIn profile at 0.0.60In profile at 0.0.90In profile at 0.0.150In profile at 0.0.197In profile at 0.0.250In profile at 0.0.303
Walkingnot yetnot yetWalking at 0.0.90Walking at 0.0.150Walking at 0.0.197Walking at 0.0.250Walking at 0.0.303
Runningnot yetnot yetRunning at 0.0.90Running at 0.0.150Running at 0.0.197Running at 0.0.250Running at 0.0.303
On stairsnot yetnot yetnot yetnot yetnot yetnot yetOn stairs at 0.0.303
Crawling, in profilenot yetnot yetCrawling, in profile at 0.0.90Crawling, in profile at 0.0.150Crawling, in profile at 0.0.197Crawling, in profile at 0.0.250Crawling, in profile at 0.0.303
Crawling, toward usnot yetnot yetCrawling, toward us at 0.0.90Crawling, toward us at 0.0.150Crawling, toward us at 0.0.197Crawling, toward us at 0.0.250Crawling, toward us at 0.0.303
Crawling, awaynot yetnot yetCrawling, away at 0.0.90Crawling, away at 0.0.150Crawling, away at 0.0.197Crawling, away at 0.0.250Crawling, away at 0.0.303
Crouchingnot yetnot yetCrouching at 0.0.90Crouching at 0.0.150Crouching at 0.0.197Crouching at 0.0.250Crouching at 0.0.303
Swimmingnot yetnot yetSwimming at 0.0.90Swimming at 0.0.150Swimming at 0.0.197Swimming at 0.0.250Swimming at 0.0.303
Climbingnot yetnot yetClimbing at 0.0.90Climbing at 0.0.150Climbing at 0.0.197Climbing at 0.0.250Climbing at 0.0.303
Sittingnot yetnot yetSitting at 0.0.90Sitting at 0.0.150Sitting at 0.0.197Sitting at 0.0.250Sitting at 0.0.303
Cross-leggednot yetnot yetCross-legged at 0.0.90Cross-legged at 0.0.150Cross-legged at 0.0.197Cross-legged at 0.0.250Cross-legged at 0.0.303
Dancingnot yetnot yetDancing at 0.0.90Dancing at 0.0.150Dancing at 0.0.197Dancing at 0.0.250Dancing at 0.0.303
Jumping up into a hugnot yetnot yetJumping up into a hug at 0.0.90Jumping up into a hug at 0.0.150Jumping up into a hug at 0.0.197Jumping up into a hug at 0.0.250Jumping up into a hug at 0.0.303
Lying downnot yetnot yetnot drawnnot drawnnot drawnnot drawnLying down at 0.0.303

How each is drawn now

Found on the way

What next

  1. 1. A sheet of every pose in the picture archive: each run's poses side by side, as this report's gallery, so a change to a pose shows the next morning.
  2. 2. Every pose facing each way: the gallery here is toward us or to the side; away and three-quarter views of each pose, for the audit ticket ^ticket(371) began.
  3. 3. A pose check from the archive: a check that each pose's picture differs from standing, so a pose that silently draws standing (as the archive's did) fails at once.

How this was put together

Written on 2026-10-18 by Claude, for Matthew, from ticket 356: Matthew, ticket ^ticket(356): "let's do a report about how to draw each pose. Let's include lots of examples of past approaches compared to now." Each version's game was taken from its release tag [2] and served on the laptop; in the app's browser each drew the default friend in each pose, the pose set through its own set() (the Body tab's way), and the picture was kept as its SVG (moving parts left out). 0.0.140 was skipped: it shipped unable to load; 0.0.150 stands in. The two rows of crawling toward us and away, and the 0.0.303 column of each, came from 0.0.305, whose drawing of the friend is unchanged since 0.0.303. The archive's own pose pictures [1] could not serve: they drew three poses standing. How each is drawn comes from the game's code and agent-instructions.md [3]. The data is in data/report.json; the page is built by drivers/build.py.

  1. The picture archive's runs (dress-up-pictures), with the tool fixed tonight
  2. Each version's game, from its release tag (dress-up-0.0.30 to 0.0.303)
  3. agent-instructions.md: the friend's joints, the Body tab, facing and sitting