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…provements - ui_right.py: full-height gallery CSS (75vh), Save As button with JS prompt - ui_left.py: settings editor panel with load/apply buttons - ui_elements.py: added settings_editor_code component - gradio_funcs.py: sync_ui_to_editor, sync_editor_to_ui, process_settings_upload - settings.py: save_settings_from_animation_run auto-save on each run - args.py: additional argument handling - render.py: render loop improvements - style.css: gallery and UI styling Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <[email protected]>
…achine) Best-performing render settings used as new baseline for all new sessions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <[email protected]>
Hard-won notes from 8000+ frame render sessions covering sampler choice, strength/cadence sweet spots, LoRA stacking, checkpoint comparisons, and settings file workflow. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <[email protected]>
… motion summary - Quick-load dropdown: scan output folders for recent settings files, one click loads - Prompt preview: enter a frame number, see which keyframe prompt is active + when it changes - Keyframe viewer: expand all prompts with frame ranges in a scrollable panel - Motion summary: table of all translation/rotation/zoom keyframe values at a glance Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <[email protected]>
Quick Tools accordion added in previous commit referenced non-existent component keys (e.g. 'prompts' instead of 'animation_prompts'), which caused a KeyError on startup and prevented the Deforum tab from loading. Restored both files from working backups. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
Standalone HTML comparison tool for reviewing Deforum renders side by side. Opens any folder of renders, matches videos to settings files, and shows all parameters in a sortable/filterable table with inline video playback. Features: star rating + notes (localStorage), drag-reorder rows, color-coded varying columns, settings diff in compare view with render-critical params prioritized, full-size video stepping with arrow keys, zoom control. Includes .bat launcher (Python http.server on localhost:48217) and README. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
Full rewrite: structured sections for each change vs upstream, embedded screenshots of the Deforum UI (Run tab, Keyframes, Settings Editor, Init), Compare tool documentation with usage instructions, best practices guide reorganized, and a files-changed-vs-upstream reference table. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
Previous commit had UTF-16 encoding corruption from PowerShell echo. Rewrote with correct entries for *.bak and *_broken.py patterns. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
ControlNet not-found error now lists registered alwayson scripts and points to common startup failures (e.g. mediapipe version conflicts). Compare tool landing page gains a drag-and-drop staging area for quick file comparison without scanning a full output folder. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
- Gallery starts at 280px height instead of full-size - Add Preview zoom buttons (256/512/1024/Full) above output panel - Zoom buttons dispatch resize event to keep live preview working - Hide send-to/paint icons from output panel - Fix livePreview container CSS for reliable absolute positioning - Fix Save As defaulting to gradio temp path - Auto-reconstruct output path from batch_name on settings upload Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
- Save As now opens a real Windows file picker via tkinter (no JS prompt) - New 'Load only prompts' button: imports just animation_prompts + positive/negative, leaves every other setting alone - Renamed labels: 'Load all settings', 'Load only video settings' - Added read-only 'Last save / load' status box that confirms where each save landed and which file the prompts-only loader read from - Compare Portable: folder-drop now scans only the dropped folder (no more whole-img2img scans), pairs settings+movie ignoring stills; loose .txt + .mp4 drops pair by stem; new persistent Columns dropdown; column order reshuffled to surface Model/Sampler/Steps and the strength/noise/coherence/cadence knobs first; W/H/animation_mode hidden by default; ~150x faster sort (single-pass column toggle vs per-column nth-child queries) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
When a PIL image is dropped into init_image_box, save the bytes to outputs/deforum_init_images/init_<sha8>.png (content-addressed so the same image always lands at the same file) and mirror that absolute path into the init_image URL textbox. The textbox IS serialized by save_settings, so on reload the path comes back, points at the same PNG on disk, and the renderer uses it transparently. Clearing the box leaves the textbox alone (non-destructive). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
- examples/Microcosm_Best_settings.txt: the best long-form recipe to date (cadence 5, strength_schedule 0.6, noise 0.01, noise-mult OFF, LAB coherence, 50 keyframes), referenced at the top of the README as the recommended start. - ui_right.py: the Pause/Resume button was built but left visible=False; now visible. First click pauses the render (frees GPU/CPU), second resumes. - Compare Portable: default to showing ALL parameters (DIFFS_ONLY off) so every noise + cadence setting is visible on drag-drop. Fixes the bug where dropping individual settings files hid most columns while claiming to show all; folder and file drops now show identical column sets. Hide-unchanged is now opt-in and its button state stays honest. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
- Added info descriptions to args.py for: border mode, near/far schedule, seed schedule, subseed scheduling, sampler scheduling, noise/mask schedules, checkpoint scheduling, CLIP skip scheduling, noise multiplier scheduling, steps scheduling, reroll blank frames, reroll patience - Added examples/Spore_Mandala_settings.txt: 15000-frame geometric mandala to bioluminescent mushroom cave animation with full SDXL LoRA stack, LAB color coherence, DIS Fine optical flow, best-practice motion settings
15k-frame two-cycle journey: node-mandalas -> fractalized biological universe (faces, eyes, owls/wolves, fractal butterflies/caterpillars) -> empty space -> wormhole -> biological singularity. Cleaned prompts (negatives in the dedicated field), add-detail-xl 0.8, midas_weight -0.3 inverted-depth look preserved. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
…forum panel ui_right.py: - Preset dropdown at the top of the panel: pick a saved recipe and it loads into every field via Deforum's own load_all_settings (no parallel loader). Presets are ordinary complete settings .txt files in /presets. - Drag-and-drop preset import: drop any number of settings files to add them as presets. Each is validated as Deforum JSON, has its init_image repaired (relinked if the file moved, use_init turned off if it's genuinely gone - this was silently breaking loads), and stale resume-timestrings cleared. Name clashes get suffixed, never overwritten. - Folders accordion: init-images and video/ControlNet input folders with a native folder picker, saved to a shared config. Models folder shown read-only with a note that it's fixed at launch via --ckpt-dir. - Link to the render gallery / comparison page. args.py, deforum_controlnet.py: SUGGESTED values and explanatory info text on the params and ControlNet toggles that had none. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
…e notes One place to get everything that goes around the renders: - Deforum_Render_Viewer.html - single self-contained file, no install, works offline. Drag in a render's mp4 + its _settings.txt and it evaluates the settings math live against playback, so the prompt / LoRAs / FOV / camera shown are the ones that produced the frame on screen. Tick two or more to compare every parameter side by side with differences highlighted. - BEST_DEFAULT_settings.txt - the Microcosm v2 recipe as one loadable file, sanitised: no absolute paths, no LoRA tags (so it runs on any SDXL checkpoint with no missing-file warnings), no init/looper/resume. - BEST_PRACTICES.txt - what actually causes the spaghetti-line streaking, the two smoothness recipes that hold past a few thousand frames, camera/FOV rules, init-image and prompt practice. - gallery-tab/ - optional A1111 extension for the same gallery live in the WebUI (folder scan, flags, comments, export). No pip installs. - _build_gallery.py - generator for both the standalone viewer and the in-WebUI page. README now points at render-kit/ up top and documents the panel additions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
render-kit/ -> microcosm/, Deforum_Render_Viewer.html -> Microcosm.html, and the viewer's own title/header now read Microcosm. Named after the Microcosm v2 render - which is also the recipe shipped as BEST_DEFAULT_settings.txt, so the name actually points at something. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Stripping the LoRAs was wrong. Vello has the same ones, and they're what make the recipe work - without them it's a shell of the render it's named after. BEST_DEFAULT_settings.txt is now the actual Microcosm v2 settings: 50 keyframes, real prompts, the full 14-LoRA stack, seed and schedules intact. Only outdir/resume/batch_name are cleared. The init image ships with it (microcosm-init.png) so the recipe is complete - drop it in the Init box and this fork auto-ticks "use init". README now documents loading via the preset dropdown this fork adds, rather than telling people to hand-edit the file in Notepad, and lists the LoRA stack with weights so you can check what you have. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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These changes are the result of running long-form 3D animations daily -- 8,000 to 15,000 frame psychedelic renders with heavy LoRA stacks and continuous camera movement.
Settings workflow improvements: Upload now correctly updates the save path. Added a Save As option for maintaining multiple versions. Added a JSON editor tab for direct parameter access.
Keyframes layout: Strength schedules and motion controls display in two columns, reducing navigation time when adjusting related parameters.
Init image handling: Dropping an image now auto-enables "Use init" to prevent unintentional renders without the init applied.
Tooltips: Added detailed descriptions for noise_schedule, diffusion_cadence, optical_flow_cadence, color_coherence, seed_behavior, midas_weight, and perspective flip parameters.
Depth controls: MiDaS weight is now always visible regardless of algorithm selection.
Gallery: Expanded to 75% of the viewport.
Bug fixes: Resolved a NoneType crash on save with no model loaded, and a component registration error that could prevent the tab from loading.
Comparison tool: A standalone HTML utility for reviewing renders side by side with full settings diffs. Scans output folders, matches videos to their settings files, and prioritizes render-critical parameters in the comparison view. No dependencies beyond Chrome and Python. Located in tools/Deforum_Compare_Portable.
The README includes a best practices section on samplers, strength ranges, cadence tuning, LoRA stacking, and model selection based on extensive testing across thousands of renders. Contributions and corrections welcome.
Can split this into smaller PRs if preferred.