luki-1 / ArkWeb

# ArkWeb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Mkm_NGCX8
Spider-Man's web swinging in Batman: Arkham Knight's Gotham.
## Set it up with Claude (no technical knowledge needed)
You don't build or configure anything yourself: Claude does it on your PC and explains each step. You need both
games on Steam, a controller, and a PC that can run both games at once.
1. Download the Claude desktop app from claude.ai/download, install it and sign in.
 (The part of Claude that can work on your PC, Claude Code, comes with Claude's paid plans.)
2. Make an empty folder for the mod, for example a folder called **ArkWeb** in your Downloads.
3. In the Claude app, open the **Code** tab, start a new session and choose that folder.
4. Copy this message, paste it into Claude and send it:
 [code] 
5. Claude asks before it does anything on your PC. Allow its requests, and do what it asks you to do when it
 asks. It will:
 - check that both games are installed and that Spider-Man is version 4.0630, the only version ArkWeb works with
 - install the free tools it needs to build the mod
 - build the mod, ask you to close both games, install it, and back up your Arkham Knight save
 - tell you which game settings to change
 - walk you through your first session: what to load, where to stand, when to start moving, and the controls
To play again later, open the Claude app, start a new session in the **Code** tab with the same **ArkWeb** folder,
and say **"Let's play ArkWeb"**. While you play, just tell Claude what's wrong, like "I'm stuck in a building",
"Spider-Man looks dark" or "I can see Batman". To remove the mod, say **"Uninstall ArkWeb"**.
**Spider-Man stuck inside a building?** Just tell your AI agent to teleport you 200 m into the air.
*For the agent:* write the line `hero tp 0 200 0` to `logs\sm_cmd.txt` (meters relative to Spider-Man; the second number is up). The guest DLL runs it within half a second and logs `teleport ... held` to `logs\sm_guest.log`.
Other AI agents that can work on your PC (Codex, Cursor and the like) can follow the same guide.
## What it is
ArkWeb runs **Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered** alongside **Batman: Arkham Knight**. You play Spider-Man's
own movement (swinging, wall running, wall crawling, point launches) with a controller while looking at
Arkham Knight. Gotham's collision is streamed into Spider-Man's physics world, so he swings off and runs on
Gotham's buildings. His own rendered frame is cut out and drawn into Arkham's view in Batman's place.
The architecture follows SkyCraft: a hidden guest game drives the
moveset, and the host game shows it.
**Status: experimental.** It works end to end but is a research project with rough edges. See the
known issues below.
## How it works
| Part | What it does |
|---|---|
| `src/sm_guest/` → `winmm.dll` in Spider-Man | Publishes the hero and camera, plays a virtual controller, fakes window focus, and builds Gotham's collision (Havok compressed meshes) about 2 km above New York so New York's own ledges a