Layers and art

Any screen can carry image and text layers above the template: a badge, a logo, a review quote, or a character standing in front of the phone.

Add and placeCopy Anchor Link

In the inspector's Layers tab, Add Image picks art from store/assets by name, and Add Text adds a line of your own. Pick a layer in the list or on the canvas, then:

• drag it to move it, and use its handles to rotate and resize it (see The canvas);
• set Across, Down, Width, Rotation and Opacity exactly;
• for text, its Weight, Alignment, and Font (body or headline).

Delete removes the picked layer; Command-Z brings it back.

Per deviceCopy Anchor Link

A layer shows on Every device by default. Turn that off to choose the devices it draws on: a wide iPhone canvas and a squarer iPad canvas want different positions, so the usual way is one layer per device family, each placed for its canvas.

Art from codeCopy Anchor Link

Rallo's players are rendered in Blender from the game's own rigged model and animations, and the scripts that make them live in the app, in store/scenes/. scenes in the config lists them as steps:

"scenes": {
  "steps": [
    { "id": "characters", "blender": "store/scenes/characters.py", "args": ["{work}/chars"],
      "inputs": ["public/models/nole.glb"] },
    { "id": "post", "python": "store/scenes/post.py", "needs": ["characters"],
      "outputs": ["store/assets/characters/serve.png"] }
  ]
}

store-shots scenes list
store-shots scenes render              # the steps whose scripts or inputs changed
store-shots scenes render characters   # one step
store-shots scenes render --quick      # a quarter-size draft

Blender runs headless, then any post-processing. A step runs again only when its script or its inputs change, so updating the model re-renders the art and leaves the rest alone.

In the filesCopy Anchor Link

Layers are part of the screen in store/manifest.json:

"layers": [
  { "id": "serve-1", "type": "image", "asset": "characters/serve.png",
    "x": 0.72, "y": 0.64, "width": 0.5, "targets": ["iphone-6.9-2868x1320"] }
]