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Claude 9b7f8cf005 Effects: Write-on draws a stroke along the animated brush, honouring Stroke Length and Brush Spacing (#536)
Cause: write_on_plan drew a single dab at the current Brush Position. Stroke
Length, Brush Spacing and the Paint/Brush Time Properties were declared but
unused, so an animated brush showed a moving dot that dropped every earlier
mark.

Fix: as After Effects describes Write-on, a dab is laid every Brush Spacing
seconds from the layer's start up to the current time, each lasting Stroke
Length seconds (0: for ever). Their positions come from the host's parameters
at their times (EffectHost::params_at, which the renderer implements). Paint
Time Properties > Opacity and Brush Time Properties > Size (or Size &
Hardness) keep each dab's own opacity / size; otherwise the current values
apply to all. One frame draws at most 4096 dabs (longer strokes space them
out and join them). Without a host the current dab draws, as before. Colour
and hardness stay one per stroke (the paint plan has one colour and hardness),
so Paint Time Properties > Color and per-dab hardness aren't modelled. The GPU
path uses the same plan.

Test: write_on_accumulates_a_stroke_along_the_animated_brush (the report's
fixture: start and midpoint marks stay at 0.5 s with the end still clear, all
marks at 1 s, Stroke Length 0.25 keeps only the recent trail, Brush Spacing
0.5 gives three separate marks, per-dab opacity).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QiAJeFttZp83Fh7YuzAR5f
(cherry picked from commit c82c9aeb685eab0cb36ca69c0b337781f4bad258)
2026-10-10 19:48:25 +00:00
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