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roboco/motion
dd71eb381e feat(motion): panel-demo kit + reference composition (#365)
Reusable pk-* building blocks (motion/kit/) that recreate the control
panel's look for HyperFrames compositions: frame chrome, task card,
status pills with swap crossfade, chips, toast, typing reveal, cursor
sprite. Tokens lifted from the panel's dark theme and badge components.

Reference composition motion/compositions/panel-demo/ (12s, both cuts):
a task title types into intake, the card materializes, the cursor
clicks, the status pill flips to completed, a toast slides in.

Verified: motion vitest gate green (7/7); both cuts visually checked
in-browser at native resolution.

Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-09 06:44:55 +02:00
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motion

In-repo HyperFrames composition package. UX/UI devs author bespoke marketing-video compositions here on a normal delivery branch; once a composition merges, the orchestrator's render loop tars this directory and POSTs it to the video-renderer sidecar (T1 rewrote its render core to @hyperframes/producer), which renders the HTML to MP4 with Chromium. This package never renders itself — its own gate (pnpm test) is static: a vitest HTML-structure smoke against the authored files. The render-truth check happens on the sidecar, against the merged files.

Adding a composition

Compositions live under compositions/<composition_id>/. Each composition is one directory containing the HTML/CSS/JS for that clip; one HTML file per orientation (the sidecar points inputPath at a single HTML file, so per-orientation branching belongs in its own file, not inside one file).

  1. Create compositions/<your_clip>/vertical.html and square.html carrying the HyperFrames render params on <html>: data-width, data-height, data-duration (seconds), data-fps. Timed visible elements get class="clip" plus data-start, data-duration, and data-track-index.
  2. Add a shared theme.css with @font-face declarations (fonts are vendored under public/fonts/*.woff2 — never load from a CDN, the render is offline) and the color/type tokens for the clip.
  3. Ship a props.js with default window.__PROPS__ + window.__ORIENTATION__ values for local preview. The sidecar OVERWRITES this file at render time with the real per-release values — your HTML loads it via <script src="props.js"></script> before any inline script that reads the globals.
  4. Add <your_clip>.test.js (vitest) asserting the HTML-structure invariants — dimensions, props.js wiring, theme link, at least one class="clip" element, no CDN scripts. See release-announcement.test.js as a template.
  5. pnpm preview (alias for hyperframes preview <file>) opens the local preview server; pnpm lint runs hyperframes lint over both orientations; pnpm test runs the smoke gate that CI runs.

release-announcement — props shape

The composition reads window.__PROPS__ (written into props.js by the sidecar at render time):

{
  script: string,      // one or two sentences — the voiceover-style hook
  version: string,     // e.g. "0.19.0" — rendered as "v0.19.0"
  highlights: string[],// shipped-feature bullets; only the first 4 render
}

window.__ORIENTATION__ is also set by the sidecar, but each HTML file is for ONE orientation (the sidecar points inputPath directly at compositions/release-announcement/vertical.html or square.html), so the orientation is known at author time and there is no runtime branch. Vertical is 1080×1920 (TikTok + X mobile), square is 1080×1080 (X timeline). Width is always 1080; only the height (and so the available vertical canvas) changes. Square uses a tighter bottom pad (72) and scan-line top (72) than vertical (148 / 104) — those differences are baked into the respective HTML files.

Design bar for future compositions

This composition is the library's reference point — match its restraint, don't reinvent the palette per clip. Dials (see the org's design-bar doctrine): variance ~6, motion ~6, density ~4 — an energetic landing/marketing register, not a dense dashboard.

  • Colorcompositions/<id>/theme.css is the single source: a near-black ink field (never pure #000), warm off-white text (never pure #fff), and one accent color used with intent (a label, a rule, a marker — not washed across the frame). Reuse the theme tokens; don't hardcode new hex values per composition.
  • TypeShare Tech Mono (a single static weight, 400 Regular — no bold/italic exists for this family) for the one big headline moment, paired with Inter as the clean workhorse body face for everything else. Both are vendored under public/fonts/*.woff2 and loaded via @font-face in theme.css rather than fetched from a CDN — rendering never depends on network access or on whatever fonts happen to be installed on the render host. At least two weights of the body face, so hierarchy comes from more than just size.
  • Motion — entrances are CSS keyframe animations with a restrained easing (cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1) — smooth settle, no overshoot, approximating Remotion's spring({damping:17, mass:0.7, stiffness:140}) without the bounce), staggered across elements via animation-delay rather than all firing on frame 0. Keep one continuous ambient motion (here: the scanning accent line) so the frame is never fully static once entrances land. Every animation should earn its place — hierarchy, or a beat of pacing, not motion for its own sake.
  • Layout — anchor content asymmetrically (this clip sits in the lower two-thirds, left-aligned); avoid a perfectly centered card, which reads as a generic template rather than a designed frame.
  • AI tells to avoid — no default AI-purple gradient wash, no centered-everything, no emoji as design elements, no one-font-one-size, no em dash in on-screen copy (voiceover script, highlight bullets, kicker text) or filler verbs ("Elevate", "Seamless", "Unleash", "Next-Gen").

Panel-demo kit (kit/)

kit/ is a second register alongside the release-announcement's text-card style: reusable pk--namespaced CSS/HTML that recreates the control panel's look (dark chrome, task cards, status pills, toasts, a typing reveal, a cursor) so a composition can simulate the product actually being used, instead of announcing it over a headline. Use the text-card register (release-announcement's pattern) for version/feature announcements with no product visuals; use the demo register (kit/) whenever the story is "watch this happen in the app" — a task moving through the panel, a feature being triggered, an agent doing something visible.

compositions/panel-demo/ is the reference composition: a task title types into an intake field, a card materializes in a column, a cursor clicks it done, a toast confirms, out on "roboco.tech". Start a new demo-register composition from its structure and kit.css's classes rather than reinventing the panel's chrome per clip. See kit/README.md for the full piece-by-piece reference.