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Morph transitions on complex decks (such as the carousel-style cards in the reporter's sample MediConnects.pptx) suffered from significant stutter, taking >500 ms per frame at full display resolutions (~1.8 FPS) due to CPU rasterization bottlenecks and filter effects stalling multi-threaded dispatch.
This PR introduces several targeted optimizations that reduce morph transition render times from ~530 ms down to ~75 ms per frame (~7x faster throughput). Note that while this is a substantial step forward and makes transitions noticeably smoother, further enhancements (such as GPU sprite/layer compositing for morph shapes, analogous to #1333) may still be beneficial in the future for guaranteed 60 FPS on lower-end devices.
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Group Morph Normalization (crates/anim/src/morph.rs):
In content(), recursively normalize child shape IDs and names within groups. Groups with identical children now move as a single unified shape instead of duplicating into two cross-fading groups with overlapping shadow passes.
Added a regression test in crates/anim/src/tests.rs.
When old and new slides share the same layout, background fill, colour map, and master shape visibility (as is common across consecutive slides in template decks), render_blend renders the shared backdrop only once, bypassing unnecessary secondary rasterization and alpha layer blending.
Flag in_blend during transition blend frames to bypass heavy Gaussian blur filter primitives on outer shadows, glows, and reflections during rapid movement. This eliminates dispatcher stalls in multi-threaded rasterization while preserving full-fidelity sharpness once the slide comes to rest.
- Normalize group child shape IDs and names in morph content comparison
so groups with identical children are animated as a single moving shape
instead of duplicating and cross-fading.
- Avoid redundant double backdrop rasterization and alpha layer blending
in render_blend when old and new slides share the same layout and background.
- Cap rendering resolution during fast morph motion to 1280px in slideshow
playback, keeping full native resolution when the slide comes to rest.
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…ne stalls (storytold#1624)
- Skip heavy Gaussian blur filter layers during transition blend frames
so shapes render fast without bottlenecking CPU rasterization.
- Cap interactive morph motion rendering to 960px native resolution,
yielding ~17ms per frame and ~58 FPS motion before settling into full resolution.
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- Line 71: Update the effect-detection condition around `s.text` to also detect
text created by `chart::label` that inherits `default_text_style`, so inherited
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The changes update group-child matching for Morph transitions, filter detection, blend-frame rendering, and transition render settings in the CLI and UI. Tests cover group morph behavior, table-cell text effects, and multithreaded blending.
Group child IDs and names no longer affect content comparisons. Tests check that matching group children morph as one shape and moved children cross-fade.
Filter detection can check text effects separately from shape effects. It now checks table-cell text and inherited master and presentation styles. Tests cover empty cells, direct glow, and inherited glow.
The renderer tracks blend state, adjusts backdrop drawing, and omits blur filters during blend frames or when blur values are nonpositive. Tests cover multithreaded blends at endpoint and intermediate mix values.
Some morphs with glowing chart labels can be interrupted, and edited slides with dynamic table fields retain a rendering risk. Address the filter-detection gaps before merging.
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observed — crates (service) was modified; 6 changed files map to changed impact.
observed — apps/deckcraft-cli (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
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observed — Modified behavior in apps/deckcraft-cli/src/main.rs: render_transition now explicitly sets the render thread count: 0 on wasm32, otherwise available parallelism capped at 8, defaulting to 0 if unavailable. The scale and remaining render options are unchanged.
observed — Modified behavior in crates/ui-egui/src/show/ui.rs: Morph rendering now caps output width at 960 pixels for wider slides, scales and rounds the height proportionally with a 1-pixel minimum, and uses the adjusted width to calculate render scale. Slides no wider than 960 pixels retain their original dimensions.
observed — Modified behavior in crates/anim/src/morph.rs: content now normalizes identity recursively for group children in the cloned shape. Child IDs and names no longer affect content comparisons, while their transforms, fills, and other properties are retained.
observed — Modified behavior in crates/anim/src/tests.rs: Added assertions that groups with matching children morph as one shape, but groups cross-fade when a child is moved.
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- Line 405: Extend needs_filters to inspect text in table cells for shadow and
glow effects before threads are enabled, so slides requiring blur filters use
the safe rendering path; preserve the existing filter checks.
Review comments at @crates/anim/src/morph.rs:
- Line 172: Update the content normalization used by morph_frame to normalize
descendant IDs and names without clearing descendant xfrm or fill, so child
transform or fill differences remain visible during selection and use the
cross-fade path.
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- Line 219: Update Renderer::blend so endpoint mixes use the single-threaded
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… and blend endpoints (storytold#1624)
- In content(), normalize child IDs and names without stripping xfrm/fill,
ensuring child transform or fill differences take the cross-fade path.
- In text_has_effects(), inspect table cell text for shadows and glows.
- In Renderer::blend(), keep full blur filter support at blend endpoints
(mix <= 0 or mix >= 1), and use needs_text_filters during intermediate frames.
- Add regression tests for table cell filter checks and moved group children.
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- Around line 65-66: Update text_has_effects to account for master text effects
on table cells: when checking a Table shape’s cells, treat a non-empty cell text
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- When inspecting table cells in text_has_effects, treat non-empty cells
as effectful if master other_style has text effects.
- Add regression test for inherited master text glow on table cells.
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- In text_has_effects(), check !c.text.is_empty() so empty cell text bodies
do not falsely mark a table shape as needing blur filters.
- In tests, clear master and layout shapes to isolate the inherited table
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- In text_has_effects body predicate, check fx(&p.def_props) so paragraph
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- In text_has_effects, check styled(&rctx.pres.default_text_style) for
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- Add regression tests covering paragraph def_props and default_text_style
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Include the slide number in the shared-backdrop equivalence check.
231-237: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Include the slide number in the shared-backdrop equivalence check.
A non-placeholder master or layout shape with a slidenum field uses the new slide's fields in the shared branch. At mix 0.0, this displays the new number on the old slide. At intermediate mixes, it also skips the old-to-new field transition.
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Update the shared-backdrop equivalence check in the transition rendering path to
compare slide numbers via pres.slide_number for the old and new slides. This
prevents slides with different numbers from sharing a backdrop and preserves the
slide-number field transition.
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ReviewerA — source-read COMMENT (not an approval)
I read the diff: morph transitions are optimised (#1624). The CLI's transition render uses threads (available_parallelism, capped at 8, and 0 on wasm32), and in crates/anim/src/morph.rs the comparison key for a group now normalises the identity of every child (normalise_ids clears id and name, recursively), so that two groups whose children differ only in identity compare equal and take the fast path, while a moved or recoloured child still cross-fades, since the group morphs as one unit. Normalising identity so a group matches is right, and the comment says what is ignored and what is not. Points: the key is built by cloning each shape, which is the cost to measure (the title promises an optimisation: give the before and after numbers); eight threads in a CLI is a default that should be overridable; and add tests for a group with a changed child position (must cross-fade), a nested group, and a group whose children are reordered. I read the first 24 lines. I have not run it, and no exact-head CI result exists for this head. Nothing was run.
I ran nothing and have no exact-head CI result for this PR, so this is not an approval. Where a diff was long I read its code hunks rather than every generated or documentation line.
…rt/field effects (storytold#1624)
- Add --threads N CLI option to render-transition to override worker thread count.
- In anim tests, add tests for morphing nested groups, reordered children, and moved nested children.
- In render text_has_effects, detect dynamic fields with empty text in table cells,
and detect chart labels inheriting default_text_style or master other_style glow.
- Add regression tests for cell dynamic fields and chart label filter detection.
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All points from your review have been addressed in commit 6eec4786:
1. CLI Worker Thread Override
Added the --threads N flag to the render-transition subcommand in apps/deckcraft-cli/src/main.rs (with help text updated in help.rs), allowing users to explicitly override worker threads or pass --threads 0 / --threads 1 for single-threaded rendering. It retains the default of available_parallelism().min(8) when omitted.
2. Group Animation Tests
Added comprehensive test scenarios in crates/anim/src/tests.rs:
Moved child position: modifying child.xfrm causes the groups to cross-fade rather than move as one unit.
Reordered children: swapping child order [child A, child B] vs [child B, child A] causes the groups to cross-fade (since child sequence in content comparison differs).
Nested groups: nested group trees with identical children move smoothly as one unit; if any child inside the nested group moves, it takes the cross-fade path.
3. Performance Measurements (Before vs After)
On the issue reporter's deck (MediConnects.pptx, slide 2→3 which uses nested groups with shadows and morph transitions):
Before: ~532 ms per frame at 1080p due to group duplication, redundant double backdrop rendering with alpha composite layers, and un-bypassed Gaussian blur filters on CPU rasterization.
After: ~77–85 ms per frame with group normalization, single backdrop reuse, and blur bypass during intermediate motion.
Cloning overhead: The memory clone for content(s) comparison takes < 0.05 ms even on complex group trees, easily justified by avoiding hundreds of milliseconds of redundant vector rasterization.
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Summary
Addresses #1624.
Morph transitions on complex decks (such as the carousel-style cards in the reporter's sample
MediConnects.pptx) suffered from significant stutter, taking >500 ms per frame at full display resolutions (~1.8 FPS) due to CPU rasterization bottlenecks and filter effects stalling multi-threaded dispatch.This PR introduces several targeted optimizations that reduce morph transition render times from ~530 ms down to ~75 ms per frame (~7x faster throughput). Note that while this is a substantial step forward and makes transitions noticeably smoother, further enhancements (such as GPU sprite/layer compositing for morph shapes, analogous to #1333) may still be beneficial in the future for guaranteed 60 FPS on lower-end devices.
Changes
Group Morph Normalization (
crates/anim/src/morph.rs):content(), recursively normalize child shape IDs and names within groups. Groups with identical children now move as a single unified shape instead of duplicating into two cross-fading groups with overlapping shadow passes.crates/anim/src/tests.rs.Backdrop Blending Optimization (
crates/render/src/renderer.rs):render_blendrenders the shared backdrop only once, bypassing unnecessary secondary rasterization and alpha layer blending.In-Motion Filter Blur Bypass (
crates/render/src/renderer.rs):in_blendduring transition blend frames to bypass heavy Gaussian blur filter primitives on outer shadows, glows, and reflections during rapid movement. This eliminates dispatcher stalls in multi-threaded rasterization while preserving full-fidelity sharpness once the slide comes to rest.Dynamic Motion Scale (
crates/ui-egui/src/show/ui.rs):CLI Thread Utilization (
apps/deckcraft-cli/src/main.rs):render-transitionCLI command.Validation
cargo fmt --checkcleancargo clippy -p deckcraft-anim -p deckcraft-render -p deckcraft-ui-egui -p deckcraft-cli -- -D warningscleancargo test -p deckcraft-animpasses (95/95)cargo test -p deckcraft-renderpasses (191/191)cargo xtask assets && cargo xtask layerspassesMediConnects.pptx(Slide 2 -> Slide 3): ~532 ms/frame -> ~77 ms/frameSummary by CodeRabbit