After Effects feathers both edges of the wiped wedge (the start ray too) with
a Gaussian whose width is constant in pixels: Completion 40, Start Angle 30,
Counterclockwise, Feather 20 (AE 2026, case 904 E12) fits sigma = 0.4 x
Feather = 8.0 px at every radius (mean alpha error 0.0002 over the frame).
EffectCraft ramped only the moving edge, linearly over Feather degrees, so
the edge was 14 px wide near the centre and 140 px wide at 400 px out, and
the start edge was hard: 378 of 5184 grid points off (max 111/255, 6.6 % of
pixels > 8), now 1 (max 3), 0.009 % of pixels > 8 (near the centre). CPU and
GPU (the kernel now measures distances to the two rays). 0 % and 100 % are
unchanged, so the three Transitions presets keep their end frames; their
Feather (6 / 10) now means pixels.
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After Effects measures the blinds' phase from the layer's centre and softens
both edges of the transparent band with a Gaussian of sigma = Feather / 2; the
band runs from the origin's phase to Completion x Width. EffectCraft measured
from the buffer corner and ramped only one edge linearly over Feather (a hard
edge on the other side). Fitted to AE 2026 renders of Completion 40,
Direction 30, Width 50, Feather 5 on a 960 x 540 and a 480 x 270 layer (the
origin is the centre + 0.6 px): case 715 was 499 of 5184 grid points off
(max 91/255, 7.1 % of pixels > 8), now 28 (0.056 %), all within ~6 px of the
layer edge where AE differs (up to 48/255, not modelled); away from it within
6/255 (test: one AE row of the 480 x 270 render). CPU and GPU (new erf-based
kernel, same term count). Completion 0 / 100 are unchanged, so the
Transitions presets keep their start and end frames.
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After Effects' Radial Blur keeps a layer's edges: Zoom 20 on a flat grey 960x540
solid over red (case 713) stays flat and opaque to its edge, and a zoomed
full-frame ramp (case 829) keeps the frame opaque (2/255 at x = 2, 253/255 at
x = 1917 on row 540). EffectCraft sampled transparency outside the layer, so its
edges faded and the red below showed through (713: 3.9 % of the frame off, max
64/255). Now 713 is identical to AE (max 0/255), CPU and GPU. CC Radial Blur
(already matching AE) is unchanged.
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With Glow Colors = Original Colors, After Effects thresholds each channel of
the straight colour separately and the glow is 8 x (value - threshold +
0.061) per channel (times Intensity), nothing below: fitted to AE 2026
renders of grey 0.65 / 0.8 / 0.9 / 1, orange (1, 0.5, 0) and (0.2, 0.6, 1)
solids at Threshold 40 / 60 / 80 % and Radius 10 / 30 (36 channel values,
exact to the 8-bit capture; an orange solid glows red only). EffectCraft
scaled the colour by a luminance threshold (k = (L - thr) / (1 - thr)), about
3.7 x too dim on white. Cases 806 / 810 / 811 (32 bpc): outside the layer
now within 3/255 of AE (806 white at Intensity 1: 119 = AE, was 32); grid
0 points off for 806-810. The glow's alpha (the blurred layer alpha) and the
Arbitrary Map / A & B colours and alpha-based glows are unchanged.
Stacked on fix-glow-halo (same lines). Not changed: Composite Original's
semantics are swapped against AE's names (EffectCraft's "On Top" adds the
glow over the original, which AE calls "Behind"; AE's "On Top" keeps the
original over the glow), so imported AE Glows at the default Behind show
no glow inside the layer (811 interior 204 vs AE 255).
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With Glow Based On Color Channels, After Effects gives the glow the layer's whole
alpha (blurred), not the thresholded part, and Intensity scales only its colour:
a layer below the threshold darkens what lies under its edge. Fitted to AE 2026
renders of a grey solid over red (cases 524, 807-809): the halo is the same at
Intensity 1 and 3 and with Composite Original Behind or On Top, and its edge is
an erfc step of sigma = 0.384 x Glow Radius at radius 10 and 30 (was radius / 2).
524 (Glow defaults on a 50 % grey solid): EffectCraft had no halo (max 116/255
off at the edge); now red 248/234/208/165/140 at 7.5/5.5/3.5/1.5/0.5 px outside
vs AE 249/235/206/164/140, max 2/255 over the frame, CPU and GPU. The blur
width applies to every glow; alpha-based glows keep their coverage rule
(thresholded alpha, scaled by Intensity). Not matched yet: the brightness of glows above the
threshold (AE about 3.7 x brighter for a white solid, cases 806, 810, 811).
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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.
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