Clicking (or marquee-selecting) keyframes in the Timeline selected only
the keys. Their property and layer stayed unselected, so the Graph
Editor, which shows the selected properties or else the animated
properties of the selected layers, came up empty until the property
was selected separately. As in After Effects, the Timeline's key
selection now selects the keys' properties and layers too (Shift adds
to them). keys.select takes this as `selectProperties`; the Graph
Editor's own key clicks leave what it shows alone.
Test: a_key_clicked_in_the_timeline_shows_in_the_graph_editor
(ui_keyframes).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A user suggested py-aep (MIT, Python), which reads and writes .aep
files. G4 now records it for the clean-room decision, with the two
ways it could be used: as an external converter, or ported, which
means reading another implementation of the format.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On some older Intel integrated GPUs (UHD 600, UHD with 2020 drivers)
the graphics driver crashes EffectCraft as its window's DirectX 12 or
Vulkan device is created (exit code 0xC0000005): the process
disappears with no message, and only WGPU_BACKEND=gl helped. A driver
crash can't be caught, so each launch now leaves a marker in the
settings folder until its window draws. A launch that finds the
previous one's marker switches the new Settings ▸ Startup & Repair ▸
Window Graphics (Automatic / OpenGL) to OpenGL and says so in the
status bar. A window that fails to open says the next launch will try
OpenGL. WGPU_BACKEND still wins; macOS has no OpenGL backend, so it
never switches there.
Tests: a_launch_that_never_drew_switches_the_next_to_opengl (app),
window_graphics_is_validated (engine). Checked end to end with a
leftover marker: the app opened on OpenGL with the notice and cleared
the marker.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On OpenGL the compositor translated its compute kernels for tens of
seconds (22 s on an RTX 4090) before one failed validation and it fell
back to CPU compositing, all before the window's first frame. It now
declines GL adapters up front, as it declines adapters without compute
shaders. OpenGL is what Window Graphics falls back to for drivers that
crash with DirectX 12 or Vulkan.
Test: opengl_adapters_get_cpu_compositing_at_once (gpu tests_init;
skips without an OpenGL adapter).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On macOS 27.2 (rustc 1.98) one of the 404 pinned simulation hashes,
CC Mr. Mercury at non-default settings, 32 bpc, t = 2.2 s, came out
different. The reporter rendered every case at the commit that pinned
the hashes and at current main on that machine, and the frames were
byte-identical. So the code didn't change: the platform's libm did
(the hashes are exact f32 bits through sin, cos and powf). The test
now also accepts listed per-case libm variants, with that hash as the
first, and every other case stays exact. Its docs say how to tell a
libm difference from a code change.
Test: libm_variants_are_accepted_for_their_case_only (sim_golden; runs
on every platform).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The logger kept warnings in memory and wrote to a file only after Help
▸ Enable Logging, and it ignored RUST_LOG. An app that never opens its
window (macOS 27 on Apple Silicon, #234) therefore left no trace. Now
RUST_LOG (a level, or env_logger-style `target=level` directives)
also prints what it lets through to stderr, including eframe, winit
and wgpu. The desktop app logs its start-up milestones: opening the
window, the graphics adapter, the app created, the first frame drawn,
the window being asked to close, and the window closed.
Test: rust_log_filters_by_level_and_target (engine logging). Checked
by running the app with RUST_LOG=info and quitting it over the control
channel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The reports of 8 October (#225-#227, #229-#231), their fixes (#235,
#237-#241), what remains of #227 (multi-monitor support, the Project
panel's empty-area menu, effect points on shape and text layers) and
the regression tests for each.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Tools bar had Fill and Stroke swatches and a Stroke Width, kept in
the interface only, so agents couldn't set them and new shapes could
only be a solid fill with a solid stroke. As in After Effects:
- With a shape layer selected and a shape tool or the Pen active, Tool
Creates Shape / Tool Creates Mask choose whether drawing adds shapes
to the layer or masks on it (Fill and Stroke hide while drawing
masks).
- Clicking the word "Fill" or "Stroke" opens Fill Options / Stroke
Options: None, Solid Color, Linear Gradient or Radial Gradient, the
blend mode and the opacity. The swatches show the kind; Alt-click
steps through the kinds.
- New shapes and Pen paths are painted with them: a Gradient Fill or
Gradient Stroke across the shape for the gradient kinds.
The options are engine state (EditorState.shape_tool) set with the new
shape.toolOptions command; shape.newShape and shape.newPath use them
unless given paint parameters (which now include fillType, fillBlend,
fillOpacity and their stroke twins; layer.newShape takes them too). A
Pen path without paint parameters now takes the Tools bar's stroke
(none by default) instead of a fixed 2 px white one. layer.addMask also
draws rounded rectangle, polygon and star masks, so every shape tool
makes a mask on a selected footage or solid layer (rounded rectangles,
polygons and stars made a new shape layer).
Test: shape_tool_options_paint_new_shapes,
masks_of_every_shape_tool_kind,
tool_creates_mask_draws_a_mask_on_the_selected_shape_layer,
fill_options_paint_the_next_shape.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Edit > Duplicate (Ctrl+D) with a shape group or other shape item
selected in the Timeline duplicated the whole shape layer. As in After
Effects it now duplicates the selected items inside their group, each
copy above its original and numbered on ("Rectangle 1" gives
"Rectangle 2"), and selects the copies. With only layers selected the
layers are duplicated as before.
Test: duplicate_with_shape_items_selected_duplicates_them_in_place,
ctrl_d_duplicates_the_selected_shape_group_in_its_layer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Edit > Copy with a shape group (or a path, fill, stroke or path
operation) selected in a shape layer's Contents copied the whole layer,
and Paste made a new layer. As in After Effects, Copy now copies the
selected items, Paste puts them into each selected shape layer's
Contents (above its selected item, in that item's group, else on top,
with names kept unique there: "Rectangle 2"), and Cut removes them, so
Cut + Paste moves them. Pasting with no shape layer selected is an
error rather than a new layer. Copying anything else clears the shape
item clipboard, as it does the other clipboards.
Test: shape_contents_copy_cut_and_paste_between_shape_layers,
ctrl_c_and_ctrl_v_copy_a_shape_group_into_another_shape_layer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With a shape layer selected, the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse,
Polygon and Star tools made a new shape layer for every shape. After
Effects draws into the selected shape layer instead: the shape becomes a
new group on top of its Contents ("Rectangle 2", ...), placed by the
group's Transform. The new shape.newShape command does that (in the
layer's space, so a moved or scaled layer still gets the shape where it
was drawn), and makes a new shape layer only when no unlocked shape
layer is selected. The viewer's shape tools use it; masks on other
selected layers are unchanged. layer.newShape and the Pen's
shape.newPath share its layer and Contents helpers.
Test: shape_tools_draw_into_the_selected_shape_layer,
shape_tool_draws_into_the_selected_shape_layer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each layer switch toggled on its own click only, so hiding or locking
many layers took a click per layer. As in After Effects, pressing a
switch in the A/V Features or Switches column now sets it at once, and
dragging up or down gives the same switch of every layer the pointer
passes the state the first one got, whatever their own state was
(rows passed in a quick drag included). The whole drag is one undo
step: layer.setSwitch takes a `merge` key like other gesture edits.
A single click still changes only that layer, so clicking the eye of
one selected layer doesn't change the others (Layer > Switches still
sets all selected layers).
Test: dragging_over_layer_switches_sets_them_all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dragging Project items onto the Create a new Composition button at the
bottom of the Project panel did nothing. As in After Effects, the
button now takes the drop and runs File > New Comp from Selection with
the dragged items (the selection when the dragged item is in it): one
item becomes a comp of its size, frame rate and duration holding it,
and several open the New Composition from Selection dialog. The button
is outlined while items are dragged over it.
Test: project_items_dropped_on_new_comp_make_a_composition.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Right-clicking the Effect Controls panel did nothing outside an
effect's header. As in After Effects, a right-click anywhere a control
has no menu of its own (the empty area, property names, buttons such
as Reset) now opens the Effect menu: Effect Controls, Last Effect,
Remove All, Manage Effects and every effect category, applying the
chosen effect to the selected layers. It is the menu bar's own Effect
menu tree and drawing code; an effect header keeps its own menu.
Test: right_click_in_effect_controls_shows_the_effect_menu.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Spacebar started or stopped the preview on its press, so holding it to
pan the Composition panel (Space+drag already panned there) also
toggled playback. As in After Effects, plain Spacebar now runs its
shortcut when it is released, and only if no mouse button went down
while it was held and the press didn't go to a text field; key
auto-repeat toggles nothing more. Shift+Spacebar and the numpad
preview shortcuts still run on the press.
Holding Spacebar over the Timeline's ruler and time graph is the Hand
tool there too: dragging scrolls the time graph (when zoomed in, never
before the comp's start or past its end) instead of moving bars, keys
or markers.
Test: spacebar_taps_preview_and_held_spacebar_pans_the_viewer,
spacebar_drag_scrolls_the_time_graph.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The interface language was English unless Japanese was chosen in
Settings ▸ General ▸ Language. Language now has a Match System choice
(`general.language` = `system`), the new default: the operating
system's interface language where EffectCraft has a translation
(Japanese), else English, as After Effects installs in the system's
language. English and Japanese can still be chosen; a language chosen
before stays. The browser build stays in English with Match System,
since it has no Japanese font of its own.
The system language comes from sys-locale (MIT OR Apache-2.0, no
dependencies on the desktop platforms), on desktop builds only.
Tests: match_system_uses_the_system_language_where_there_is_a_catalog
(i18n), interface_language_is_validated_persisted_and_backward_compatible
(engine).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A press in the Composition panel always acted on the topmost layer
under the pointer, so a selected layer could not be dragged where
another layer covered it: the press selected the layer in front. As in
After Effects, a selected layer under the pointer now comes first: it
stays selected and a drag moves it. With no selected layer there the
topmost layer is picked as before, and Shift still toggles the topmost
one. The context menu's list of layers under the pointer shares the
same hit test.
Test: viewer_press_prefers_a_selected_layer_under_the_pointer
(ui_viewer).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When the page's WebGPU device was lost, the canvas kept showing its
last frame: edits still went through and rendered frames were right,
but the editor never showed them and nothing said why (the status
message about it is drawn in the canvas that can't present any more).
The page now covers the canvas with a notice that offers Save Project
(a download) and Reload. Reload first writes pending changes to
browser storage, so the session snapshot brings the project and its
unsaved changes back; if that write fails it says so and offers
Reload Anyway. Without a kept session (?empty, memory storage) the
notice says to save first.
Test: apps/effectcraft-web/tests/page.mjs (Node, fake DOM).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add Files... and Upload Folder... read every picked file in one go and
rejected on the first file the browser couldn't read; the Media
Browser dropped that rejection, so nothing was added and nothing said
why. Each file is now read on its own: the readable ones are added and
the status bar names the unreadable ones with the browser's reason and
suggests picking them again. Cancelling the picker is not reported.
Test: apps/effectcraft-web/tests/page.mjs (Node, fake DOM).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Project panel's vertical scroll bar clamped its thumb between 16
points and the track's height. When the track was shorter than 16
points (an empty project in a 1280 x 800 browser window at device pixel
ratio 2, or any short panel), that clamp panicked on the first frame:
the browser canvas went blank and the app stopped responding. The
thumb is now at most the track's length, and both scroll bars share
the calculation.
Test: a_short_project_panel_draws (ui_project_rows).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Edge pinning (Turbulent Displace's default Pin All, Wave Warp's
Pinning, Bulge's Pin All Edges) holds the layer bounds still: a
comp-sized rectangle for shape and text layers. That rectangle started
at the layer's origin, but a shape layer's content surrounds its origin
(anchor 0,0), so everything left of or above the origin counted as
outside the layer and was pinned: only the bottom-right quadrant of a
centred shape moved.
The renderer now passes the bounds' top-left in layer coordinates
(EffectEnv::bounds_origin): (-w/2, -h/2) for layers without a source
rectangle, (0, 0) otherwise. util::pin_rect places the bounds there and
the three effects use it on the CPU and the GPU. Effect point
parameters keep their current layer coordinates.
Test: edge_pinning_displaces_all_of_a_centred_shape_layer,
edge_pinning_on_a_shape_layer (GPU vs CPU).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Custom macOS larger runners in a runner group do not pick up jobs; the
built-in M2 Pro label does. Only release.yml uses it, and the
actions_macos_xl budget caps the monthly spend.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The standard macOS runners are shared with all CI and queue for an hour or
more. The macos-release runner (GitHub-hosted M2 Pro) is in a runner group
usable only by release.yml on the release branch, with a monthly spend cap
on the actions_macos_xl SKU.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* About: contributors compiled in from contributors.json (grab bag + table, sortable, name toggle)
About EffectCraft now has tabs About · Contributors · Models, following the craftrules standard
(standards/contributors.md): contributors/contributors.json is generated by
craftrules/scripts/contributors.py and baked into the binary by crates/ui-egui/build.rs as static
tables. Each contributor line: @username, opt-in display/real name, PRs, commits, lines +/−/Δ,
binary assets +/−, first/last commit. Sortable by every column; alphabetical ignores case and
the leading @. Every control registers an automation id (about.tab.*, about.credits.*).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Contributors: self-submitted names in contributors/people.toml; AGENTS.md credit-yourself section
build.rs reads contributors/people.toml next to the generated contributors.json and shows a name only
for entries the generator verified as written by that person (craftrules standards/contributors.md).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Contributors: regenerate (verified people.toml entries)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A write to browser storage that failed (quota exceeded) was dropped:
effectcraft.flush() resolved anyway, nothing retried it, and a reload
restored the project from before the change. The failed key now stays
pending and is written again after 2 s (doubling to a minute while it
keeps failing; a newer change of the key goes with it), and flush()
rejects with the error.
Test: failed_writes_retry (store). The flush itself runs only in the
browser.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018gnTnH3Jmk5zr4tMq1Mc9f
worker.js left a rejected start (its async init) unhandled, which a
page's Worker error event doesn't see: the page waited for "ready"
forever and the render stayed pending until cancelled. The failed start
is now re-raised where the page's onerror sees it, like the other
worker failures; the job fails with the error and the worker is
terminated.
Test: apps/effectcraft-web/tests/workers.mjs (worker.js with a stub
module whose init rejects; host.js with a worker whose start fails).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018gnTnH3Jmk5zr4tMq1Mc9f
Job workers remembered the files they were sent by path and byte
length, so footage replaced by different bytes of the same length at
the same path was never resent: a Render Queue export through a reused
worker rendered the old image while the page showed the new one.
Frame workers remembered paths only, so they never got a replacement
at all.
Every write of a stored file now gets a version, and both kinds of
worker remember the version they were sent.
Tests: versions_change_with_every_write (store) and
apps/effectcraft-web/tests/workers.mjs (Node, fake Worker: the
replacement is sent once, an unchanged file not again).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018gnTnH3Jmk5zr4tMq1Mc9f
Every pin move re-rendered the Puppet's input (source, masks and the
effects before it) at full size on the UI thread and deep-copied it
for the mesh overlay: the cache key of a layer's input hashed all of
its effects, so moving a pin of the Puppet changed the key of its own
input. The input key now covers only the effects that run before the
Puppet, and the overlay shares the cached buffer.
Test: input_keys_ignore_later_effects.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018gnTnH3Jmk5zr4tMq1Mc9f
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