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>
Lane A: bone-alias layer so CC_Base_*/Unreal-HumanIK/Rigify/Rokoko/Biped rigs
fold onto the canonical mixamo names — lady.glb pairs 52/102 bones and
retargets (53 tracks) where she previously threw 'missing hips'; mixamo→mixamo
pairing asserted bit-identical. Backdrops gain frustum auto-fit, floor tint
sampled from the plate, and FogExp2 in the plate's colour via a keyable
param. Also caught: _buildLight ran _refreshDefaults before registration, so
scene lights never dimmed the built-in hemi (every preset was washed out).
Orchestrator SYNC-7 fixes (found only by rendering actual frames):
- editor chrome (gizmo/grid/helpers/cam proxies) was baked into output mp4s
- timeline's per-tick rest transform dragged fitted plates out of frame
- fit used the viewport aspect, output renders at its own → letterboxed plates
- plate offset put its top edge on the lens axis → void above centre-frame;
now params.fitAnchor (default 0.75) picks the row that sits at eye level
Verified: 5 suites green; 1280x720 render shows a CC character dancing a mixamo
clip against an edge-to-edge Flow plate with a horizon and matched ground.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- stage: detectVisemes() maps CC/ARKit/plain morph names -> canonical
A/E/I/O/U/MBP/FV/L at character load; visemeTargets(id) + setMorph(id,name,w)
for the timeline to drive lip sync; visemeSelfCheck() asserts the matcher
- dock: inspector 🗣 badge (greyed when a rig has no mouth morphs)
- stage: camera/light default source:{type:'none'} (PLAN §4.1); applyState
skips only upload mesh/backdrop bytes -> rig survives save/load (SYNC4)
Verified live at :8020: selfcheck ok=[A,FV,L,MBP,U]; save/load keeps cam+light.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- dock: /assets/tree {name,path,formats,thumb}; +camera/+key/+ambient toolbar;
clip apply dispatches scenegod:clipdrop when timeline present (else preview);
drag-from-dock places onto the viewport (screenToFloor / entityAt)
- stage: PiP overlay from active camera; renderActiveCamera hardened as M3 target
+ pause()/resume(); backdrop rebuild-on-param; fire onChange on add+remove
(fixes tlui empty-names + a gizmo mouseUp id-vs-entity bug); set-active-camera
- verified in the integrated app (:8020, Lane B timeline mounted), zero console
errors. Found + logged the entity-mirror integration gap (timeline model isn't
seeded from live stage adds) for the orchestrator.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
