This PR exposes skeletal joint entities to the frontend hierarchy,
allowing the user to pose rigged models by selecting the joints and
transforming them.
Additionally, entity-type information (e.g., Mesh, Skeleton, Bone,
Light, etc.) has been added to the data structure passed to the
frontend, which is rendered with icons in the tree view.
This PR updates the UI/UX of the Image Generator Demo.
* Hierarchy moved to the left of the editor view instead of overlaying
it
* Hierarchy can now be resized
* Bevy canvas resizes trigger a screen-capture update
* Transform Toolbar now centered over the editor view instead of the
entire viewport
* Added Prompt and Seed text fields, with a refresh button for the Seed
This PR Adds the ability to set the color of the skybox using the URL
parameters.
- Now you can pass a color's hexadecimal number (without the #) in the
skybox parameter, and that will set the skybox to that color.
This PR heavily refactors the entry-point functions in
`studio/src/lib.rs` to simplify and consolidate. Additionally, the
frontend application should now be configurable as expected with any
valid combination of the following URL parameters:
* `objectId` : A pre-bundled library object to load (e.g., "couch.gltf")
* `bvh` : Any resolvable path to a BVH animation with a MocapNET
skeleton (e.g., "mocap/shuffle.bvh")
* `mixamo` : Any resolvable path to a glTF animation with the Mixamo
skeleton (e.g., "mocap/hip-hop-dancing.gltf")
* `sceneImport` : Any resolvable path to an arbitrary glTF scene
(untested, but should theoretically work)
* `scene` : Any resolvable path to a previously saved Storyteller Studio
scene in `*.scn.ron` format
* `skybox` : The ID of a pre-bundled skybox asset. Valid options are:
- "gum_trees_4k"
- "kloofenfal_28d_misty_4k"
- "meadow_4k"
- "promenade_de_vidy_4k"
- "scythian_tombs_4k"
- "test_scene" (this is the default if not specified)
* `mode` : One of "studio" or "viewer" (the default if not specified)
"Validity" rules are as follows:
* `objectId`, `bvh`, `mixamo`, `sceneImport` and `scene` are mutually
exclusive
* `skybox` is not supported for `scene` (the skybox should be saved and
loaded as part of the scene description, though this is not currently
working)
* Both `mode` options are valid for all other parameters
This PR begins scaffolding the Stable Diffusion Turbo application (title
TBD), which is a separate frontend for Storyteller Engine which focuses
on image generation.
### Design Overview
* The application renders a "split-screen" view, with Storyteller Studio
on the left, and the Stable Diffusion Turbo output on the right
* When changes are made in the Studio editor:
- A screenshot is taken from the Bevy application
- Screenshot is piped into Stable Diffusion Turbo model
- Model output is rendered to the screen
* This all happens in as close to real-time as possible
### Work completed in this PR
* The `studio-frontend` project has been (somewhat crudely) refactored
to split most of its components into reusable libraries
- `studio-ui` is a use-case-agnostic design system library for core UI
components. These are "dumb" components which are controlled
via `@property` inputs and send `CustomEvent`s in response to user
input.
- `studio-frontend` is a collection of reusable Storyteller Studio
widgets. These are "smart" components which depend on
`@storyteller/studio` directly, manage their own state, and require very
little configuration or styling. They are designed to be drop-in
building blocks that can be reused between various frontends.
* The new application has been bootstrapped as `image-generator-demo`
- Currently, this simply grabs screenshots from the Bevy application and
renders those screenshots on the right side of the split-screen view. A
future PR will wire up to the Storyteller.ai backend to pipe these
screenshots through Stable Diffusion Turbo, and render that model's
output instead.
### Testing
* Install dependencies as described in the repo's README
* Run `npx nx serve image-generator-demo`
* Open [localhost:4200](http://localhost:4200) in your browser
- Use the camera controller in the left side of the view to manipulate
the Bevy scene
- Verify the right side of the view updates with a fresh screenshot at a
rate of ~5 fps
* Toggle the "Realtime Capture" checkbox
- Verify the right side view no longer updates while the user is
actively manipulating the editor
- This should allow the app to run smoother on lower-spec hardware
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Co-authored-by: Danny McGee <dannymcgee@gmail.com>
This PR adds Storyteller.ai API integration for saving and loading
Storyteller Studio scenes to/from the backend.
### Known issues
* The skybox is not currently stored in the serialized scene format
This PR integrates asset retrieval from the Storyteller.ai back-end API,
and begins implementing long-term scene saving and storage.
### Media retrieval
Instead of fetching raw asset URLs, going forward, media files from
remote sources (e.g., in URL parameters) should be specified with a path
like the following:
```
remote://<token>.<filetype>
```
where
* `token` is a media token (e.g., "m_70b77neq9jsgmy5v31mekzchcbd223")
* `filetype` is a file extension appropriate for the type of file being
fetched (e.g., "gltf")
The `remote` protocol will be recognized by a [custom asset
reader](https://github.com/storytold/storyteller-bevy/blob/70726db111f6ccafd47feb055c5546540fef1786/studio/src/remote/reader.rs)
which will retrieve the file by calling a Storyteller API endpoint.
### Scene storage
Additionally, this PR begins laying the groundwork for
storing/retrieving Bevy scenes to/from the backend instead of solely
in-memory. This work is still incomplete -- as of this PR, a button has
been added to the web UI allowing the user to download the scene
file locally for testing/debugging purposes.
### Test URL
Media retrieval from the backend can be tested by [visiting this
URL](https://deploy-preview-49--storyteller-studio.netlify.app/?mode=viewer&mixamo=remote://m_70b77neq9jsgmy5v31mekzchcbd223.gltf)
in Chrome with the `--disable-web-security` flag (to bypass CORS errors)
This PR adds the ability to render out mixamo animations from the
headless mode. In addition to that, there were some bugs that have been
managed and some readability changes. Let me know if you have any
questions!
This PR adds a WIP timeline UI for animating elements in the scene.
### Implemented Features
* The timeline can be panned with MMB and zoomed with Ctrl + Mouse Wheel
* The timeline can be "scrubbed" by dragging the red "play-head" with
LMB
* The timeline sidebar (displaying the list of tracks) can be resized by
dragging on the edge of the sidebar
* Keyframes can be added by pressing the "Add Keyframe" CTA in the UI
* Keyframes can be selected for editing by clicking the diamond-shaped
markers in the timeline
* Selected entities (including but not limited to keyframes) can be
deleted by pressing the "Delete" key
* Keyframes can be moved temporally by dragging the diamond-shaped
markers in the timeline
### Known issues
* Zooming the timeline in too far results in a soft-lock
* When zooming the timeline, the "transform origin" is currently
centered on the `00:00` timestamp. For ease of use, it should center on
the mouse cursor position instead.
* The timeline track-list is currently hard-coded to list the Camera and
Camera Target. Clicking on these entries currently serves no useful
purpose and may result in a crash.
* Keyframe markers in the timeline are not currently associated with
entries in the track-list and simply appear vertically centered in the
timeline view.
* Added keyframes currently record the position and orientation of the
scene camera when added, and are rendered in the world with debug
visualizations, but serve no useful purpose. Some design work is needed
(both user-experience and architectural) to decide on a workflow for
actually animating scene elements.
* Entity deletion cannot currently be undone/redone
This PR Removes the gridlines from headless renders and Removes useless
frames from the end of headless renders. Really small PR. Let me know
what you think!
This is a small feature push that adds a simple Shader for the Gizmo.
This shader only takes one value: the color of the object. Very simple
and fast to compile.
This PR is missing:
- Shader Pre Compiling. This is something that I am looking into now,
however I thought it out of scope for this feature.
Just thought I would drop this real fast. Let me know what y'all think!
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Co-authored-by: Danny McGee <dannymcgee@gmail.com>
This PR adds the capaibility to run Stroyteller studio from the command
line, rendering the result to images. This is the basic functionality,
and there are somethings that I am saving for later when we make this a
more fully fledged feature.
Limitations:
- Right now, you cannot do image output resolutions that aren't 2^n.
This is a bug I plan on tackling later.
If you have questions on how the command line works, use the --help
argument.
Let me know what you think!
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Co-authored-by: Danny McGee <dannymcgee@gmail.com>
This PR adds `cargo fmt -- --check`, `nx lint ...` and `nx test ...` as
GitHub Actions. This will cause future PRs to automatically fail when
formatting issues, Clippy warnings, or test failures are present in the
changed code.
This PR adds support for Mixamo FBX imports (via backend conversion to
glTF/glB) and some miscellaneous improvements to the animation systems.
### User-facing improvements
* Retargeting math has been fixed to eliminate jittering issues
* Retargeter can now handle animated bone translations when present
(generally this is only used for root motion)
### Housekeeping / Code improvements
* Animation-related components and system logic have been moved to a
dedicated `anim` module and `AnimPlugin`
* Retargeting stuff has been moved from the `bvh` module to
`anim::retargeting`
* Component-based solution for marking an entity as an animation
retargeting source makes it easy to extend the retargeting functionality
to new types of source animations
### Limitations
Currently the code assumes that there will be at most one animation
source at a time. That single animation (if present) will be retargeted
to all other skeletons in the scene. A component-based solution for
directing a specific target skeleton to use a specific source animation
is possible, but will require some additional consideration around the
implementation design for the read-only "viewer" modes.
### Test animations:
* Hip-Hop Dancing (Mixamo): ?mode=viewer&mixamo=mocap/hip-hop-dancing.gltf
* Shuffle (MocapNET): ?mode=viewer&bvh=mocap/shuffle.bvh
* Scott (MocapNET): ?mode=viewer&bvh=mocap/scott.bvh
* Scott 1 (MocapNET): ?mode=viewer&bvh=mocap/scott1.bvh
This PR replaces the hard-coded BVH animation with a URL parameter, and
adds a specialized BVH viewer web component and entry-point function for
previewing the specified animation on our generic mannequin.
The initial BVH retargeting solution produced very jittery results. Much
of that jitter was eliminated by using linear interpolation between
frames instead of immediate stepped transitions, but some jittering
still remained, particularly noticeable in the finger motions.
This PR largely fixes remaining jitter issues by making a few changes:
#### Frame-time quantization
Previously, we had been using the `BvhAnim::timer` field incorrectly, by
manually resetting it after `Timer::just_finished` returned `true`, and
returning `0.0` as the interpolation parameter for that frame. This
resulted in a herky-jerky animation due to misalignment between the BVH
animation's frame time and the actual application refresh rate, meaning
we would lose fractions of a frame every time the timer elapsed and the
frame was incremented. This PR addresses that by never calling
`Timer::reset` and always using `Timer::percent` for the interpolation
parameter.
#### Matrix instability
This PR refactors the retargeting system to operate on `Affine3A`
matrices instead of `Mat4`s. `Affine3A` represents a SIMD-optimized 3x3
matrix + a translation vector, so using it provides a small performance
boost in addition to being slightly more numerically stable.
Additionally, we now periodically re-orthonormalize the 3x3 matrices
in-between operations to mitigate drifting due to the accumulation of
floating-point errors.
Just adding the mannequin from Scott into the main branch so that it can
be used.
- added the mannequin.gltf
- also now requiring the file extention when selecting file to load.
This is to add flexability with file selection. Let me know if this is a
bad idea.
This PR adds support for BVH animation files, with a custom animation
player and retargeting solution for our Blender Rigify-based skeletal
meshes.
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Co-authored-by: Brooks Palin <brookspalin710@gmail.com>
This PR refactors the `studio` project's entry-point functions for
better maintainability and ease of use for local development.
### Overview
* `start_internal` refactored to return a `bevy::app::App` instead of
calling `App::run`, allowing for finer-grained configuration of unique
use cases
* Temporary `start` function added for WASM
* `init` function removed
* `main` standalone entry-point refactored to call `start_internal`
### Fixes
* Crash on non-WASM builds due to missing `StudioMode` resource
* Warning on non-WASM builds due to an unused variable
This PR adds a `StudioMode` resource to toggle editing capabilities, and
configures the frontend application to read the desired mode from a URL
parameter.
For now, setting the app to `StudioMode::Viewer` with
`<app-url>?mode=viewer` hides the Transform Toolbar and disables most of
the interactive features of the app, but otherwise exhibits the same
behavior as `StudioMode::Editor` / `<app-url>?mode=studio`.
In the future, the "Viewer" and "Editor" modes will receive different
initialization inputs to better serve the needs of their use cases. In
particular:
* The "Viewer" mode will accept a BVH animation handle, which should be
played in a loop on a simple mannequin asset, allowing a user to preview
a given animation before using it within the full studio workflow.
* The "Editor" mode will accept a full Bevy scene handle which can be
edited and saved to the user's account. These scenes will serve as the
basis for the generative-AI workflows Storyteller Studio is ultimately
seeking to facilitate.
* It will likely be useful for "Editor" mode to alternatively accept
only a BVH animation handle, which would be used to initialize a new
scene for editing similar to "Viewer" mode, but with editing
capabilities enabled.
This PR does some rudimentary cleanup / reorganizing to the
`studio-frontend` project.
### Changes
* Refactored `studio-frontend` to use the `<sts-canvas-provider/>` and
`<sts-viewer/>` components from `studio-web`
* Added some CSS layout utilities for positioning overlayed UI elements
* Extracted `<sts-toolbar/>` and `<sts-toolbar-group/>` to their own
components
* Extracted `<sts-transform-toolbar/>` to its own component
* Add plugins for `wasm` and `top-level-await` to Vite config
* Avoid bundling dependencies
* Add external dependencies to project-level `package.json` manifests
This PR adds a `CanvasProviderElement` to `@storyteller/studio-web` to manage
the complexity of maintaining a single concrete `HTMLCanvasElement` for
`@storyteller/studio`, while still being able to treat components like the
`ViewerElement` as self-contained "views" that behave as expected with regards
to CSS styling, DOM placement, etc.
Consuming applications should wrap the new `<sts-canvas-provider />` element
around some common ancestor of all views into the `@storyteller/studio` app,
similar to a React context provider.
The `react-frontend` application has been updated to take advantage of the new
`CanvasProviderElement` by demonstrating a more realistic use case for the
`ViewerElement`. The new demo presents a grid of "thumbnails," one for each
object in our hard-coded "object library." Clicking on one of these thumbnails
will render a `ViewerElement` for that object in a modal dialog.
This commit implements a Sketchfab-style single-object viewer as a minimal
proof-of-concept.
### `@storyteller/studio-web`
This is a new package to house web components for interfacing with the
`@storyteller/studio` WASM library. It currently includes a single component,
`<sts-viewer />`, which is exported from `@storyteller/studio-web/viewer`.
### `react-frontend`
This is a new application intended as a proof-of-concept and testbed for React
interop with `@storyteller/studio-web`.
Web components are currently a little bit fiddly to use in a React application.
`react-frontend/src/app/studio-viewer.tsx` demonstrates how a React-idiomatic
component can be written as a thin wrapper around a web component, and
`react-frontend/src/app/app.tsx` demonstrates that wrapper component in use.
Brandon Thomas