With per-character 3D on, After Effects turns each character by Rx * Ry * Rz
(Z first), as it turns a 3D layer's X / Y / Z Rotation (case 931, AE 2026:
"H" at 400 px with animator X / Y / Z Rotation 40 / 30 / 20). EffectCraft
composed Rz * Ry * Rx, so the glyph faced another way: 23 of 5184 grid
points off (max 255), now 3 at the anti-aliased edge (mean 0.015/255). The
same order fix-orientation uses for layers; texts with one rotation axis
are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A text animator's Tracking Amount is in pixels in After Effects 2026, not in
1/1000 em like the Character panel's tracking: Amount 30 on every character
adds 30 px between neighbours (half before, half after each) at 80 px and at
40 px. And a Subtract range selector over characters the first selector
leaves out keeps them at 0 instead of selecting them negatively. With both,
the EXPORTER's t8 layer D (Tracking 30 on characters 2-4 by index, Subtract
over the last 20 %) puts every glyph where AE does (it ended 88 px short,
1553 vs 1641; now 1641).
The "Tracking In" text preset animates 40 -> 0 px (was 400 -> 0 thousandths
of an em, about the same at 100 px text); Lottie export writes a style run's
tracking (1/1000 em) as pixels for its tracking animator, which Lottie
players add in pixels.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After Effects 2026 lays out right-to-left point text whose paragraph carries a
justified code (justify last left / centre / right, justify all) flush at
its start, the right, like right-aligned text (EXPORTER read-back t7: point
rows with codes 3-6 at -152..-8 from the anchor). EffectCraft placed it by
the last-line side (left / centre / left). Left-to-right point text and box
text are unchanged; AE's slightly wider right-to-left box wrapping (1-2 px
narrower word gaps) stays open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With Justify All After Effects stretches the paragraph's last line too, and
its every-line composer breaks the paragraph so that line is not a lone
word: a 400 px box that the other justifications break into 6 / 6 / 1 words
breaks 4 / 4 / 4 (AE 2026, EXPORTER read-back t6). EffectCraft's composer
left the last line's slack out of its cost, so "twelve" stood alone on a
stretched line; it now counts that slack for Justify All and every word
starts within 1 px of AE's (what remains in that box is the known box-text
baseline offset). Other justifications and the single-line composer are
unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A terminal already gets a live `[1/1] frame 16/180 ... ~14.2s left` line while
`effectcraft-cli render` runs. A program that starts the CLI (FilmCraft runs it to
render a composition for a clip) reads stderr through a pipe, so it saw nothing
until the render ended.
`--progress` prints one line per update instead, at most four a second:
progress <frames done> <frames total> <seconds elapsed> <seconds left, or - when unknown>
It has no effect on a terminal, which keeps its live line. Without the flag
nothing changes.
Documented in the usage text, the module header and docs/agents.md.
Tests: cargo fmt --check and cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings pass; the
effectcraft-cli tests pass except render_out_is_relative_to_the_working_directory,
which already fails on Windows (it compares a canonicalize()d `\?\` path with the
path the CLI prints) and is unrelated to this change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Runs every scenario N times (default 1, unchanged). Every run is still
appended to results.jsonl; with N > 1 one "kind": "summary" row per key
follows, whose metrics are the medians of the successful runs (user_s and
sys_s included, byte/instruction counts rounded) and whose summary holds
median, p90 (nearest rank, = max for N < 10), min and max. A failed run marks
the summary failed so the gate refuses it.
--compare uses the latest row per key; the table labels each side "median
of N" or "1 run" and warns when they differ, and --fail-over refuses such
keys. --repeat with --with is rejected. docs/testing.md documents the format.
`path.convertToBezier` only cleared `roto_bezier` on mask groups, so on a shape
layer it did nothing at all: a Rectangle, Ellipse or Polystar path stayed
parametric and its vertices could not be edited or animated. In After Effects
the command replaces such a path with an editable Path 1 of the same geometry.
The geometry is not re-derived. `parametric_path` calls the same
`effectcraft_path::{rect, ellipse, polystar}` functions `render::shapes::collect`
calls, with the same defaults for a property a group doesn't carry, so the path
that comes out is the shape that was on screen; `from_kurbo` and
`build::shape_path` then make an ordinary Path 1.
Masks are unchanged: shape items take precedence when selected, and with none
selected the command falls through to the old mask behaviour. Path Direction is
carried over rather than reset, since reversing a path is a separate command,
and the new path is left selected so its vertices can be edited straight away.
The parametric properties are read at the current time and the result is a
static path: a Size or Roundness animation cannot survive becoming a vertex
list, in After Effects either. Undo restores the parametric shape.
Add Layer Styles submenu to the Timeline and Composition viewer layer context menu, matching After Effects parity and the application Layer ▸ Layer Styles menu.
- Adds Layer Styles submenu between Blending Mode and Effects
- Exposes Layer Style Options..., Convert to Editable Styles, Show All, Remove All, and the 9 individual styles
- Translates Layer Styles across all 7 UI catalogs
- Adds regression test verifying submenu presence, position, and action invocation
The After Effects stagger idiom
id = thisProperty.propertyGroup(2).propertyIndex;
failed with "not a callable function": the expression object model had
no propertyGroup() and property groups had no propertyIndex.
- Property.propertyGroup(countUp = 1) and PropertyGroup.propertyGroup()
return the group countUp levels up; from a top-level group they reach
the layer. A count below 1, not a number, or above the layer is an
error naming propertyGroup, never a crash.
- PropertyGroup.propertyIndex: the group's 1-based index among its
siblings (Child requests now carry it).
- One new host request (Ancestor) walks up from the node's full uid
path, so it also works for the property being evaluated.
- Tests for the stagger expression, effect parameters, reaching the
layer, other layers' properties and groups and out-of-range counts;
the fuzzer seeds and tokens include the new members.
Load PDF document objects through the pinned craft-pdf parser and convert them into EffectCraft's existing drawing model with bounded traversal, recovery and retained data. Preserve generation numbers, stream limits, encrypted-document refusal and reported repairs.
Retain app-owned drawing, EPS, fonts and content/image decoding. Assert early excessive-nesting rejection without partial art, and cover tolerant arrays on native and WASM.
Validated with the22-stage local matrix and exact-head FreeBSD, Windows ARM64 and packaging checks.
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
The face's own style (Figtree's Light) is its default instance, so it
resolves without axis values and lays out as before, on the static path.
docs/agents.md says how named instances are selected.
In the browser editor a .jsx script couldn't open any file, even one the
page holds next to the project: File.open("r") returned false with "File
not found" and File.exists was false. The footage check after File > Open
also marked imported media as missing.
Both asked whether a file exists on the local disk (std::fs), which has no
files on wasm32:
- scripts read files through Session.services but checked existence with
std::fs (File.open's access check, File.exists, Folder.exists); they now
ask services.exists / services.is_dir, after the folder check;
- WebServices kept the default exists (std::fs); it now looks in the file
table.
Desktop and CLI are unchanged (FsServices keeps the std::fs defaults).
Tests: script tests_services (a host with in-memory files), web smoke
step hostFiles (a script reads a stored file, footage check finds stored
media).
Retry only explicitly read-only control queries after connection failures. Report ambiguous edit outcomes without resending mutations, reconnect on the next explicit call, and reject request-ID exhaustion without overflow.
Add loopback regressions for lost and malformed replies, read-only retries, playback queries versus edits, and unknown methods.
Fixes#1247
Problem: effect colour labels (26.5) were drawn only on the Effect Controls header; the Timeline's effect rows looked unlabelled.
Fix: an effect group row in the Timeline paints the label colour as a 4 px bar on its left edge (same look as the Effect Controls header) and registers `timeline.group.<uid>.label` with the label's name for agents. Docs: gaps.md row 21 and ui-parity.md updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow up on #1210: remove the fixed menu index from automation and click handling, and move the preset-folder documentation into the Effects & Presets section.
In After Effects solo is not time-dependent: while any AV layer is soloed,
non-soloed layers are excluded at every time. The renderer, nested/collapsed
3D paths, engine viewer helpers and viewer hit tests only counted solo layers
active at the current time, so outside the soloed layer's in-out range the
whole comp reappeared. Drop the time condition (audio already ignored it).
Update the #66 viewer regression test to the AE behaviour and add a render
test for it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
