properly apply opacity transitions in segment blending - #5729
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change still has concrete transition and platform-accounting issues: opacity updates may ignore the selected transition, rapid retriggers may complete incorrectly, and non-ESP32 builds may corrupt digital-bus counting. These bounded correctness risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Possibly related PRs
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participant handleTransitions
participant SegmentState
participant blendSegment
participant LEDOutput
handleTransitions->>SegmentState: update brightness and transition state
SegmentState->>blendSegment: provide current and old opacity state
blendSegment->>LEDOutput: render blended pixels and on/off blacking
LEDOutput-->>handleTransitions: complete transition frame
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In `@wled00/FX_fcn.cpp`:
- Around line 329-332: Update the transition retrigger handling around the
blendingStyle and _t->_oldSegment condition to reset _t->_start, _t->_dur, and
_t->_bri for rapid on/off toggles, including when _t->_oldSegment exists and
blendingStyle is not TRANSITION_FADE. Ensure the _progress == 0 path also
refreshes these values, while preserving the existing no-restart behavior for
changes that should allow an ongoing effect or non-FADE transition to finish.
- Line 575: Update the forced-FADE handling around startTransition and the
_oldSegment/blendingStyle logic so an existing no-copy opacity or CCT transition
does not bypass global non-FADE on/off blacking. Preserve the selected non-FADE
mode for global power transitions, or execute the blacking path before the !segO
override, while retaining normal FADE behavior for other transitions.
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| // restart transition timer only if a pure FADE transition or a transition without segment copy (opacity/CCT change), | ||
| // otherwise let the FX change or non-FADE transition finish | ||
| // this avoids a re-start of the transition if color or brightness is changed during an ongoing FX or non-FADE transition | ||
| if (blendingStyle == TRANSITION_FADE) { | ||
| if (blendingStyle == TRANSITION_FADE || _t->_oldSegment == nullptr) { |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Reset transition timing for rapid on/off retriggers.
When _t->_oldSegment exists and blendingStyle != TRANSITION_FADE, this condition is false. A retrigger can update _t->_bri but leave _t->_start and _t->_dur from the first transition. If the elapsed time already exceeds _dur, the next service tick completes the transition immediately instead of rendering the new transition. The _progress == 0 path skips the refresh entirely.
Reset _t->_start, _t->_dur, and the current visible brightness for on/off retriggers. Preserve the no-restart behavior only for changes that must let an existing effect transition finish.
Based on learnings: “when isInTransition() is true and _oldSegment already exists, reset _t->_start, _t->_dur, and _t->_bri for rapid successive toggles.”
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In `@wled00/FX_fcn.cpp` around lines 329 - 332, Update the transition retrigger
handling around the blendingStyle and _t->_oldSegment condition to reset
_t->_start, _t->_dur, and _t->_bri for rapid on/off toggles, including when
_t->_oldSegment exists and blendingStyle is not TRANSITION_FADE. Ensure the
_progress == 0 path also refreshes these values, while preserving the existing
no-restart behavior for changes that should allow an ongoing effect or non-FADE
transition to finish.
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in what exact scenario would this pose an issue, what are the consequences and how would I test that?
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@DedeHai, the exact case is a segment on/off transition with a non-FADE transition mode.
- Select a non-FADE mode, such as Wipe or Push.
- Set a long transition duration.
- Turn a segment off.
- Before that transition ends, turn the same segment on again.
The second change updates the target state, but it does not restart the copied non-FADE transition timer. Therefore, the second transition uses only the remaining time from the first transition. If the first timer has effectively expired before the next render, the segment can change to the new state on that render without a visible full-duration transition.
You can test the pre-existing behavior with a 5-second Wipe or Push transition. Turn a segment off, wait about 4 seconds, then turn it on. The return transition should complete in about 1 second instead of taking 5 seconds.
However, this behavior is not caused by this diff. Copied non-FADE transitions have _t->_oldSegment != nullptr, so the new condition remains false for them. This change only restarts transitions without an old segment, which covers opacity and CCT transitions. The original finding incorrectly treated the existing copied-transition policy as a regression from this change.
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what fix do you propose?
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@DedeHai, I do not propose a code change for this PR.
A timer-only reset is not safe. During a copied non-FADE transition, _oldSegment and the current segment represent the original transition endpoints. Resetting _t->_start and _t->_dur would restart clipping against those endpoints. It would not use the partially rendered output as the new source state. This can cause a visible jump.
A correct change would require separate transition semantics for rapid on/off retriggers. It must capture the current composited segment output, then create a new transition from that output. The existing Segment copy does not contain this composited state for Wipe, Push, and similar modes.
The behavior is pre-existing and is outside this PR’s opacity-transition change. The original finding should be withdrawn.
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Repo: wled/WLED PR: 5601
File: wled00/FX_fcn.cpp:301-323
Timestamp: 2026-05-14T17:13:17.872Z
Learning: In `wled00/FX_fcn.cpp`, inside `Segment::startTransition()`, the `segmentCopy && !_t->_oldSegment` branch intentionally does NOT refresh `_t->_colors`, `_t->_bri`, or `_t->_cct` to the current blended values before restarting the transition timer and creating `_t->_oldSegment`. The `_oldSegment`-based path handles visual continuity differently from the pure FADE path, and this asymmetry is deliberate. Do not flag this as a bug or suggest syncing those fields in that branch.
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| if (opacity != o) { | ||
| //DEBUG_PRINTF_P(PSTR("- Starting opacity transition: %d\n"), o); | ||
| startTransition(strip.getTransition(), blendingStyle != TRANSITION_FADE); // start transition prior to change | ||
| startTransition(strip.getTransition(), false); // opacity change always fades (no segment copy needed) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Keep global non-FADE on/off rendering out of the forced-FADE path.
When a segment is already in a no-copy opacity or CCT transition, Line 1833 leaves _oldSegment null. Line 1528 then changes blendingStyle to TRANSITION_FADE. The on/off blacking code at Lines 1653 and 1726 runs only for non-FADE styles, so it cannot run for this segment. wled00/led.cpp holds briT at the old or target value in this case. The segment remains visible until applyFinalBri() instead of rendering the selected on/off transition.
Preserve the selected non-FADE mode for the global on/off condition, or add the blacking path before the !segO override. Test an opacity or CCT change followed immediately by a global power transition.
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- if (width*height == 1 || !segO) blendingStyle = TRANSITION_FADE;
+ if (width*height == 1 ||
+ (!segO && !(transitionActive && (briOld == 0 || bri == 0)))) {
+ blendingStyle = TRANSITION_FADE;
+ }Also applies to: 1528-1528, 1831-1835
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In `@wled00/FX_fcn.cpp` at line 575, Update the forced-FADE handling around
startTransition and the _oldSegment/blendingStyle logic so an existing no-copy
opacity or CCT transition does not bypass global non-FADE on/off blacking.
Preserve the selected non-FADE mode for global power transitions, or execute the
blacking path before the !segO override, while retaining normal FADE behavior
for other transitions.
…ge (or other fade transitions in progress)
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1200-1206: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winKeep
digitalCountaccounting under one platform guard.The new block increments
digitalCountonly for ESP32 builds with parallel I2S. Line 1262 still decrements it unconditionally. A placeholder digital bus on a non-ESP32 build decrements zero and wraps the unsigned counter toUINT_MAX. Guard the decrement with the same condition, or count digital buses on all supported targets.As per path instructions, platform guards must use the correct architecture macros.
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563-563: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftApply the selected transition mode to opacity changes.
setOpacity()starts a transition without an old-segment copy. In that path,opacityOldremains equal to the current opacity, and Line 1516 forcesblendingStyletoTRANSITION_FADE. Therefore, opacity changes never use the selected non-FADE mode. Preserve the selected mode and obtain the old opacity from transition state, such as the transition-start brightness, without creating a segment copy.This conflicts with the stated PR objective that opacity changes use the selected transition mode.
Also applies to: 1445-1452, 1516-1516
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In `@wled00/FX_fcn.cpp`:
- Around line 1200-1206: Keep digitalCount accounting under a consistent
platform guard: update the decrement near the existing bus-validation logic to
use the same ESP32 and WLED_HAS_PARALLEL_I2S condition as the increment,
preventing unsigned underflow on other architectures. Use the correct
architecture macros and leave unrelated bus handling unchanged.
Apply the same fix in `@wled00/FX_fcn.cpp` around lines 1242 - 1254.
- Line 563: The opacity transition path in setOpacity and its related transition
setup must preserve and apply the selected blendingStyle instead of forcing
TRANSITION_FADE. Without creating a segment copy, initialize opacityOld from the
transition-start brightness/state so the transition logic can distinguish the
old and new opacity values, and update the blendingStyle handling around
startTransition and the referenced transition processing accordingly.
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Current behaviour:
when changing opacity in any transition mode other than "fade" brightness/opacity gets set immediatly, no transition
New behaviour:
changing opacity will apply the selected transition.
Global brightness change always uses "fade" for transition, opacity change uses the selected mode. This is a bit of a "discrepancy" but comes from the used architecture and can currently not be easily made the same, plus some might want this behaviour and others not, its also a design choice and not a bad one IMHO.
edit:
this is an alternative approach to #5524
maybe some things from that PR can be brought into this one for a more unified solution.
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