Combat Wallpapers v03

This pass is superseded by Combat Wallpapers v04. It improved composition, but still kept too much gritty/dotted surface texture in the ground, armor weathering, smoke, and ruin fields.

Why v03

The earlier wallpaper pass still let Scourge material become the subject. In close-up, parasite tendrils, bone, chitin, and green organs collapse into a busy brown-black texture mass. That is useful for creature design studies, but bad for wallpaper.

Combat wallpapers should feel closer to official game key art:

• big foreground heroes;
• clean triangular or poster composition;
• mid-distance enemies, not macro Scourge material;
• readable weapons, helmets, shields, and boss cores;
• broad red skies, smoke, ruins, and rim light;
• no stipple, dotted texture, halftone, pixel noise, or tangled close-up gore.

Pyre Cover Art

Use this for Pyre promotional read: heavy operator mass, readable cleaver and rifle, Scourge threats kept as midground silhouettes.

Pact Boss Standoff

Use this as the cleaner wallpaper anchor: human team foreground, huge Scourge boss as a distant silhouette, red breach sky and one toxic core as the threat read.

Asset Custody

• Master path: packages/assets/masters/art/wallpapers/combat-v03/
• Generated source mirror: packages/assets/sources/generated/2026-06-17/lore/wallpapers/combat-v03/
• Raw generator cache: packages/assets/_archive/raw-generator-cache/codex-generated-images/2026-06-17/raw/019ed273-1c2a-7320-9b42-92655439fad6/

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