Capture¶

Purpose¶

Owns animation-specific capture execution workflows used during animation export operations.

This territory is responsible for coordinating animation sampling and frame-by-frame preview capture while delegating low-level image generation and rendering implementation to capture/rendering systems.

Owns¶

• Animation frame capture workflows
• Animation sampling coordination during capture
• Frame iteration logic
• Animation-specific style application routing
• Animation capture execution flow

Does NOT Own¶

• Low-level rendering implementation
• Texture compositing
• File encoding/saving
• Preview scene lifecycle ownership
• Export orchestration ownership
• GIF/spritesheet assembly
• Panel UI

Allowed Dependencies¶

Capture may depend on:

• Preview capture contexts
• Animation request models
• Styling systems
• Capture abstractions
• Animation sampling helpers

Capture should avoid depending on:

• Panel orchestration
• Rendering implementation systems
• Window lifecycle systems

Notes¶

This folder exists to isolate animation-specific frame capture workflows from both: - generic capture implementation - higher-level export orchestration

Animation.Capture owns: - how animation frames are sampled and captured - how frame capture progresses through a clip - animation-specific capture coordination

Rendering/Capture systems own: - how pixels are generated - how textures are encoded/composited

Animation.Export owns: - broader export workflows - folder planning - directional export coordination - post-processing orchestration

This separation helps keep animation capture behaviour understandable without collapsing the entire export pipeline into one class.

Future Candidates¶

• Continue separating animation-specific capture behaviour from generic capture implementation.
• Avoid allowing export orchestration logic to drift into Animation.Capture.
• Maintain lightweight and focused frame-capture responsibilities.