deck3d-from-pptx

deck3d-from-pptx

Take a real .pptx and rebuild it as a deck3d presentation whose slides match the original when the camera stops and move through 3D space between slides. Every creative decision is the user's: you generate variants, show them, ask, and record the answer in style.json. The deck3d rules of the deck3d tune loop still apply: never edit deck.html, never edit derived IR fields (only overrides), no randomness, timers or network in local effects, and finish with deck3d check deck.html --style clean — or every remaining warning explained (a derived credits slide counts as explained).

Detail per step (what to read, how to author variants, which samples, the question): reference/steps.md.

0. Import and reference renders (always first)

deck3d pptx import talk.pptx -o talk [--ref exports/]

writes talk/pptx/layout.json (1920-unit slide space, items with stable ids sNN-iMMM), talk/pptx/media/, a baseline deck.md and deck.json whose overrides.assets pin the layout and every media file. Unsupported constructs (charts, SmartArt, tables, EMF/WMF, WordArt, gradient fills…) become visible fallback items — a crop of the reference render, else an outlined placeholder — each with one warning.

Reference renders come first. Ask the user (ask_user) for a PNG export of the deck (PowerPoint: File → Export → PNG, all slides; Keynote and Slide1.PNG names work) and pass the folder as --ref. Skip the question only when LibreOffice (soffice) and pdftoppm are on PATH. If the user declines, say so once, and from then on every step reports snapshot review (deck3d snapshot, eyeballing, check) instead of compare scores — never pretend a score exists.

Then build the baseline: cd talk && deck3d build deck.md -o deck.html (a native deck3d slide per pptx slide). Re-importing later keeps your tuning: deck3d pptx import talk.pptx -o talk --force matches slides by content, backs up deck.json.bak, and deck3d variants replay re-applies every recorded pick.

The nine steps (fixed order)

#	step id	question
1	fidelity	exact 2D layer · 3D panel · native deck3d
2	placement	glass panel · free-floating · frame in space
3	frame	master chrome and its transition animation
4	brand-art	logos, wordmarks, headline in 3D
5	icons	pictograms as 3D objects, optionally on cards
6	hero	hero illustrations rebuilt as 3D scenes
7	worlds	per-slide background worlds from slide text, plus haze
8	media	images replaced by video
9	transitions	transition and camera-path variety

Native path. If the user picks native at fidelity, skip steps 2, 3 and 5 (placement, frame, icons) — no slide-layer, frame-chrome or icon3d effect may appear in deck.json. Then: brand art goes beside the native title; hero scenes and worlds become slide backgrounds; media becomes a video screen; transitions are unchanged. The worlds step gives every slide a non-default background, so a native deck also clears check --style.

Every step: variants → sheet → ask → record → verify

1. Author the step into style.json (version: 1, ordered steps[]): id, title, question, slides (sample slide ids that cover the step's affected kinds), round, and 2–4 variants { name, label, overrides } built from the imported layout and the slide text. A fragment is in the overrides grammar and arrays replace, so each fragment must carry forward the effects of earlier steps on the same scope. deck3d validate deck.json checks it.
2. deck3d variants render --step <id> → variants/<id>/r<round>/contact.png (reference column, one labelled column per variant). deck.json is not touched.
3. Open contact.png on the canvas and put the live link in the question: deck3d serve deck.md then http://127.0.0.1:<port>/?variant=<step>:<name> (V cycles the step's variants; Save/Apply are disabled while a variant is shown).
4. Ask with ask_user — a single choice listing the variants by label, free text allowed. Do not pick for the user while the question tool is available.
5. Variant answer → deck3d variants pick <step> <name> (add --drop <id> / --replace-step <step> only when the user means to remove an effect; the ownership guard refuses silent drops). Free-text answer → deck3d variants note <step> --note "<their words>", then author a new round from the note and repeat from 1.
6. deck3d build deck.md -o deck.html, then deck3d compare deck.html and report the per-slide scores (or the snapshot review when there are no reference renders).

Headless mode is entered only when the run prompt says so explicitly (never inferred from a missing UI): pick the first variant in array order with deck3d variants pick <step> <first> --note auto.

Creative assets: scaffold, preview, never invent in core

For hero and worlds, scaffold per-deck local effects (deck3d fx scaffold <name> --for <slideId>) whose content comes from the slide's text and pictures — each variant a different take on the same content (a literal scene, a metaphor, a minimal motif). Preview each (deck3d fx preview local:<name>) before offering it. Traced art and icons: deck3d art trace|icon|cutout; pin the outputs as assets (overrides.assets).

Pitfalls — check after each step

• Floor z-fighting: objects resting on the floor are lifted above it (a lift / y offset), never left coplanar with it.
• Halos: text halos use normal blending on light themes (additive glows wash out).
• Chrome: master chrome uses the persistent frame-chrome effect at deck scope, not per-slide overlays.
• Wrap drift: font-metric differences wrap text differently. For every multi-line text box, compare against the reference and fix with widen (or a font-<name> asset); a closing line wrapping onto two lines while the reference has one → set widen for that item, re-run compare. compare lists font-fallback <name> for every missing font.
• Scores: the deck's output tone mapping dims pure white to about 221, so a faithful match scores about 0.9 (default threshold 0.85), not 0.99 — judge by the margin and by eye.
• In-place file replacement: after replacing a file in place that serve may miss, rebuild manually (deck3d build deck.md -o deck.html).
• Verification: verify at the user's actual viewport (--viewport WxH) and also capture mid-transition frames with compare --transition.

Delivery

Render the final deliverable with deck3d render deck.json -o deck.html --embed-video whenever any slide uses a video screen, so the single file plays offline. A file:// deck without embedding cannot play its clips (the browser refuses them as a texture source) — say so if the user wants to send the file.

Command cheat sheet

need	command
import	deck3d pptx import talk.pptx -o talk [--ref dir] [--force]
sheet	deck3d variants render --step <id> [--viewport WxH] [--ref dir]
decide	deck3d variants pick <step> <name> [--note t] [--drop id] [--replace-step s] · deck3d variants note <step> --note t
re-apply	deck3d variants replay
verify	deck3d compare deck.html [--strict] [--transition] [--viewport WxH]
art	deck3d art trace <img> --palette #a,#b · art icon <svg> · art cutout <img> --bg #hex --split
live	deck3d serve deck.md (?variant=<step>:<name>, V)