40 posts tagged with "Architecture"

The question: Phase 0 of the Animation Engine's motion roadmap is "make scrolling feel effortless everywhere, and give every scroll-driven effect one shared clock." That raised two forks. (1) Where should the new inertia smooth-scroll live — a new engine module, or an extension of the theme's existing anchor-link "Smooth Scroll"? (2) How do we unify the scroll-reactive modules so they stay in lockstep — port them all to GSAP's ScrollTrigger, or reuse the engine's own shared animation loop?

The question: UnysonPlus had grown a scatter of sibling upload folders in the WordPress uploads root — unysonplus-icon-packs, unysonplus-asset-optimizer, unysonplus-lottie, unysonplus-rive, unysonplus-templates, unysonplus-designs, unysonplus-shortcodes, unysonplus-presets, plus a plain unysonplus/ for generated CSS. Should each keep its own top-level folder, or move under a single uploads/unysonplus/ parent?

The question: the Animated Icons extension has per-technology toggles (Lottie, Rive, Animated SVG, Animated raster). Should they live on the extension's own Settings page, or move into Theme Settings → Icons — perhaps as a new tab?

The question: Can the header/footer columns' addable-popups drag-and-drop between each other (not just reorder within one column)? Is that a big refactor of the option type, or do we need a new post type for it?

The question: on a cinematic reference site the footer isn't a band below the page — its closing tagline sits on the bottom of the last full-height scene, overlaid. That also removes the blank gap a pinned last section leaves after it fades out. Should this be a one-off per-site hack, or a first-class Footer option — and if an option, how do we make it generic and safe?

The question: a reference site's scroll section plays as a sequence of batches — each batch is a set of photos that scatters onto the surface, holds around a centered line of text, then scatters away as the next batch (with different photos and a different line) arrives. How do we build that so each batch has its own images, its own text, and its own entrance/exit — and stays editable in the builder?

The question: a reference site's hero underline is a hand-drawn scribble that draws itself on when the hero appears and then idly waves. How is that built, and how do we reproduce it — an animated SVG path (stroke-dashoffset draw-on) or something else?

The question: The Animation Engine → Text Effects module already ships rotating_words and typewriter (among ~40 effects) that can be applied to any text element. Does the standalone animated_heading shortcode still earn its place, or should it be deprecated in favor of "special_heading + a text effect"?

The question: a reference site's scene sections look like a film camera slowly glides across the scene as you scroll — a genuinely cinematic touch. Is that a real 3D camera move (rendered footage), and if not, how do we reproduce it in UnysonPlus without baking a video?

The question: to make a demo's animation flow match a heavily scroll-animated reference site, do we bake the continuous "camera ride" into one pre-rendered video / frame sequence that scrubs with scroll (the way the reference site itself does it), or do we keep every card, device screen, image and line of copy as a live page-builder element and drive the camera moves with scroll animation over an optional decorative backdrop?