Merge pull request #294 from pat-the-wizard/docs/261-environment-light

3D: layer.newLight lists the Environment light and how to set its source; parity notes reflections (#261)

docs/parity.md

@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ the disk cache in the formats wave; the 3D Camera Tracker in M12.6.)
 | Animation | 70% | 9.0 | puppet depth beyond pins, recording, rigging and follow-through (G2: an angle's revolutions scrub and take typing in Effect Controls, the Timeline and Properties, #93; puppet pin recording with Record Options landed in M13.1; pin selection, rotate/scale handles, nulls for pins and Follow-Through in M13.14–M13.16), Wiggler/Smoother/Motion Sketch (motion-path handles and the graph editor transform box landed in M5.8; keyframe colour labels and Select Keyframe Label Group, Graph Editor snapping to markers / layer ends in M13.5) |
 | Text | ≈ 96% | 0.3 | no extruded strokes (G2: the font menus list every installed family with its own styles — before, only a project asking for a font read the system fonts — and `text.fonts` / MCP `list_fonts` list them for agents; M13.12: the Variable Font Axes animator re-spaces the text — advances follow the animated axes; M13.6: variable font axes in the character style — `layer.setText variations`, the Character panel's Variable Font Axes fields — shape with HVAR / gvar advances and draw at that design-space position; OpenType features — stylistic sets, discretionary ligatures, contextual / stylistic alternates, swash, titling, ordinals, fractions, figure styles, true small caps / all small caps and superior / inferior glyphs with faux fallback — per character with the Character panel's OpenType popup and `text.fontFeatures` landed in M13.2; vertical Roman / Tate-Chu-Yoko, forced LTR paragraphs, caret on animated and path text, Variable Font Axes and Lottie style runs landed in M13.5; extruded, bevelled text in M7.6; per-character styles, paragraph settings, on-canvas editing and the `sourceText` style API in M9.9–M9.10) |
 | Web | 98% | 0.1 | No shared-memory threads inside one engine instance (the decided design is one engine instance per worker; a threaded build needs nightly `build-std`) (M13.30: Render Queue, analyses and Content-Aware Fill render on each job worker's own WebGPU device in passes, particles and Advanced 3D read back under keys, layer buffers in the browser's disk cache; browser storage, Web Audio, Web Worker renders/analyses, WebGPU viewer and offline install landed in M15.2; viewer frames in frame workers fed by project diffs, Roto Brush propagation in a worker, non-blocking `wait: true` jobs and a browser Media Browser (File System Access folders, browser storage) in M13.10; WEB-1 in M13.24: GPU effects and the GPU compositor in the frame workers on their own WebGPU devices with deferred readbacks (frames render in passes; Backend Auto per comp), the disk cache in the Origin Private File System (written by the workers with sync access handles, LRU under the settings' limit, served after a reload), the storage manager (Settings ▸ Disk ▸ Browser Storage, `storage.info` / `storage.persist` / `storage.clear`), and a WGSL constant Chrome rejected (it disabled every GPU kernel in Chrome) fixed) |
-| 3D | 88% | 5.5 | multi-view layouts, the Extended Viewer for Advanced 3D comps (Classic 3D Extended Viewer landed in M13.5 UI completion); collapsed precomps of another size seen through the parent's camera render (fixed in M13.2); stereo rigs, orbit nulls, lights controlled by the camera, cameras/lights from glTF models, environment backgrounds, Advanced 3D motion blur, blend modes and track mattes landed in M7.7; Classic 3D iris-shaped bokeh with highlights, progressive depth of field on tilted layers and the focus-link commands landed in M13.5; Advanced 3D depth of field with the iris and highlight options, collapsed precomps as real Advanced 3D geometry and extruded text/shape strokes landed in M13.8; Advanced 3D (glTF/OBJ models, primitives, extruded text and shapes, PBR, image-based light, shadow maps, GPU rasteriser) in M7.4–M7.6; Advanced 3D end to end on the GPU (motion blur, iris depth of field, compositing) in M13.11 |
+| 3D | 88% | 5.5 | reflections of other layers (Advanced 3D surfaces reflect only the Environment light; Material Options ▸ Appears in Reflections is stored but has no visible effect yet, #261), multi-view layouts, the Extended Viewer for Advanced 3D comps (Classic 3D Extended Viewer landed in M13.5 UI completion); collapsed precomps of another size seen through the parent's camera render (fixed in M13.2); stereo rigs, orbit nulls, lights controlled by the camera, cameras/lights from glTF models, environment backgrounds, Advanced 3D motion blur, blend modes and track mattes landed in M7.7; Classic 3D iris-shaped bokeh with highlights, progressive depth of field on tilted layers and the focus-link commands landed in M13.5; Advanced 3D depth of field with the iris and highlight options, collapsed precomps as real Advanced 3D geometry and extruded text/shape strokes landed in M13.8; Advanced 3D (glTF/OBJ models, primitives, extruded text and shapes, PBR, image-based light, shadow maps, GPU rasteriser) in M7.4–M7.6; Advanced 3D end to end on the GPU (motion blur, iris depth of field, compositing) in M13.11 |
 | Effects | ≈ 85% | 3.0 | GPU versions of the remaining effects (280 run on the GPU since M13.29, EFF-5: M13.28 added the remaining pixel effects and the geometry and audio generators (Lightning, Advanced Lightning, Beam, Lens Flare, Radio Waves, Vegas, Stroke, Scribble, Write-on, Paint Bucket, Eyedropper Fill, CC Glue Gun, CC Threads, Audio Spectrum / Waveform, Basic / Path Text); M13.29 added the particle effects (CC Particle World / Systems II, Particle Playground, CC Ball Action, CC Pixel Polly, CC Scatterize, Curl Noise) and removed the fallbacks of Shatter's wireframe views, Foam's extras, Timewarp's Matte Layer, strong Warp Fisheye / Twist bends and custom `.ocio` configs; M13.23 added the 3D Channel and Immersive Video families, Apply Color LUT, the OCIO effects, Color Profile Converter and the simulations' render passes (Card Wipe included); M13.22 added the CC light family, the CC transitions, Block Dissolve, Radial Shadow, CC Bender / Blobbylize / Cylinder / Sphere / Spotlight / Environment, 3D Glasses, Numbers, Timecode and the time effects joined the 166 of M13.13; Fractal and the analysis / tool effects still render on the CPU) and the missing controls listed as partial in [effects.md](effects.md) (every After Effects effect exists since M9.11, M12.5 and M12.6; parameter names, order, twirl-downs, popups, units and defaults were aligned in M9.12) |
 | Interface | 75% | 5.0 | more Learn tutorials and pixel-level fidelity of dialogs (G2 on 7 October: Project items, files and effects dropped on the Composition viewer, Project items dropped in the Timeline between layers and at a time, #85, #88, #89; popup menus moved to fit the window take clicks, so Render Queue templates apply, #117; View ▸ New Viewer landed in M13.32; an automation id on every control of Composition and Solid Settings, Group / Ungroup Shapes in the Layer menu, Window ▸ Learn, the flowchart shortcuts and Reveal in Explorer landed in M3.10 and M3.13; the Home ▸ Templates gallery (eight original built-in templates, user templates from File ▸ Save as Template…) and View ▸ Simulate Output ▸ My Custom RGB… landed in M13.25; Timeline layer reordering by drag, a non-snapping viewer pan, a working rename field and twirl arrows, and the full set of property reveal shortcuts — double presses, Alt+Shift keyframes, Ctrl+` — landed in M13.17–M13.20; the Home ▸ Learn tab with interactive tutorials and a UI fidelity pass landed in M13.5 UI completion; visual editors for Lumetri RGB / hue-saturation curves, Colorama's output cycle wheel, Glow's colour map and Reshape's correspondence points (viewer handles), a scrolling Preview panel and AE-style Composition / Timeline tabs (close, label swatch, viewer lock) landed in M13.10; Timeline outline and Project panel columns scroll horizontally, the Layer Style dialog, ROI resize handles, Pan Behind snapping and 3D Reference Axes landed in M13.5; native macOS menu bar, Timeline columns/search/reveal-add, Home screen with recent projects and all AE workspaces landed; viewer rulers/snapping/channels/snapshots landed in M0.13) |
 | Project | ≈ 68% | 5.5 | OCIO displays beyond the built-in tone map; relative footage paths and relinking when a project moves (unsaved-changes prompts, a modified mark that follows undo and project files that name their version and always reopen landed in M3.9 and M3.14; auto-save and crash recovery in M3.7; Color Engine with OCIO/ACES working spaces, HDR compand/tone mapping, Rec. 2100 PQ/HLG output, Feet + Frames, display colour management, Simulate Output and the locked viewer landed in M7.7; proxies and Interpret Footage fields / pixel aspect / alpha guess landed: PRJ-8, PRJ-3) |