FEATURES (from a 5-lens audit: UX friction, feature gaps, bug hunt, visual
quality, discoverability):
- ACES filmic tone mapping + per-preset exposure. grammar.js runs physical sun
intensities of 1.2-3.4; with NoToneMapping every lit face clipped to white and
a warm key rendered neutral. Single biggest look win in the app.
- Real shadows: PCFSoft, a shadow box fitted to the scene's bounds, and plates
that no longer double as the shadow catcher (dedicated ShadowMaterial).
- A Render button in the scene bar. finalRender had ZERO callers - the app's
deliverable was console-only.
- Save actually saves the stage you built (gizmo moves, inspector edits), and
Save/Load stop lying about what happened.
- 2x supersample + lanczos downscale; correct bt709 tagging and faststart.
- Frame guide, camera-from-view, dock counts, delete confirmations.
DEFECTS FOUND BY ADVERSARIAL REVIEW AND FIXED (all reproduced first):
- BLOCKER: save wrote the playhead pose over the authored rest transform of
keyed entities, so every save produced a different file.
- renders were converted with the bt601 matrix while tagged bt709.
- deleting an unkeyed camera stranded its cut -> scene 422s forever.
- corner plates showed one photo at two exposures across the fold.
- exposure was advertised as keyable but nothing keyed it, so a second lighting
preset permanently poisoned the first.
- the audio pre-flight could never fire (FastAPI does not route HEAD -> 405).
- the two render buttons were not mutually exclusive.
- frame guide letterboxed a narrow viewport that the render does not crop.
ORCHESTRATOR (round 3): dangling camera cuts are pruned in Timeline.toJSON and
skipped by cutCameraAt, rather than trying to keep every undo history clean -
deleting a camera spans Stage (no undo) and Timeline (undo), so any older entry
can resurrect a cut for a dead camera. Verified against the real validator.
Also replaced a VACUOUS test that drained a stack whose only entry was a seeded
no-op; timeline_test.mjs now replays both real histories and discriminates.
Verified: 4 JS suites + 23 server groups + render client green; blocker repro
now preserves the authored rest at every playhead position; save round-trips
200 with zero dangling cuts; zero console errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MOVES grammar + solveMove(): push in/pull out (one rung along the shot ladder,
along the aim ray), truck L/R (lateral, parallel, no re-aim), crane up/down
(vertical then re-aim, floor-clamped), orbit L/R (constant distance, +/-25deg),
zoom in/out (focal only - pos and rot returned identical). Amounts are
frame-relative so a move reads the same on a CU as a WS. Emits a new 'move' op
on scenegod:direct with explicit from/to states, pre-clamped duration and ease;
the START is applied to the live camera immediately.
'+ angle' creates a NEW camera from the current shot settings instead of
reframing the active one - the friction hit while building a 4-camera scene by
hand. 🎥 frame now prefers the live camera so it adjusts what you just made
rather than silently editing camera 1. fitAnchor exposed in the backdrop
inspector (it was inert from the UI).
Verified live: push_in 1.975->1.588m fov fixed; zoom_in travel 0.000 with
pos/rot identical, fov 37.85->26.99; orbit_L constant distance; truck_R
parallel. 4 suites green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
