Sets the letter in the tile's top-left corner with the value staying bottom
right — the in-game tile layout — instead of centring it. The glyph is placed
by its ink box rather than the text origin, so every letter lands on the same
corner whatever its side bearings and ascent.
Adds day-spot: the same crop and camera as night-spot on a light ground, so the
chosen composition exists as a light/dark pair.
Adds VK's own cover template (1920x768) and a self-contained generator that
renders an Эрудит board in perspective with ГРАМОТНОСТЬ / СОПЕРНИК /
ЭРУДИЦИЯ / УМ already played, in six art-direction variants for review.
The position is checked, not asserted: assertLegal re-reads the finished grid
and fails the build unless the centre is covered, every declared word is on the
board, and no maximal run of two or more letters is a word nobody played. All
four words are in the Эрудит dictionary and tile values come from
scrabble-solver rules.Erudit().
The camera has pitch only, so the perspective warp reduces to an exact
per-scanline remap of a flat texture; tile thickness is filled as 3D quads
between the board plane and the tile plane. skia-canvas is borrowed from the
render sidecar rather than installed a second time for a one-off asset build.
Composition respects the two VK keep-outs measured off the template: the top
130 px some clients crop, and the mobile avatar circle over the bottom-left —
which is why the default word arrangement keeps that corner empty.
A 96x96 transparent Lottie for the VK app loading screen: the «Э» tile
(score 8) drops in under gravity, lands with a soft cushion squash
(left/right edges bulge convex, corners follow via a chordal spline),
springs back and loops (~1.1s). A warm glint is caught on the bounce.
Pure 2D shapes (ddd:0) for player compatibility; ~11KB (<24KB limit).
Glyphs are real LiberationSans outlines (Arial-metric, matching the
game's font stack). Includes a reproducible, dependency-light build
pipeline (build/generate.js + extract.js + glyphs.json) and a README.
The preview GIF's green-baize background is preview-only; the asset
itself is transparent.
Ilia Denisov