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Build and debug SceneKit scenes where one 3D object (a product, badge, coin, wheel) performs on a transparent stage inside a SwiftUI app - studio lighting, real shadows, baked keyframe choreography, hand-rolled physics, gestures and haptics, multi-scene sequencing. Use when worki
Build and debug SceneKit scenes where one 3D object (a product, badge, coin, wheel) performs on a transparent stage inside a SwiftUI app - studio lighting, real shadows, baked keyframe choreography, hand-rolled physics, gestures and haptics, multi-scene sequencing. Use when working with SCNView or SceneView in SwiftUI, UIViewRepresentable 3D scenes, product or hero-object animation, roll or spin entrances, a first-frame hitch when a scene appears, shadows missing or wrong, metal rendering black, choreographed 3D motion that must stay interruptible, a continuous vapor stream (vent air, steam, mist) drawn as a shader-driven sheet, a liquid-metal or jelly blob (noise-deformed surface with mirror reflections and tap ripples), chrome or gold that looks cartoon-flat instead of real, HDRI image-based lighting, free trackball rotation of an actor, deterministic screenshot testing of shader-driven scenes, cutting an actor in two with a finger swipe (runtime mesh slicing with sealed cross-sectio
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Make one 3D object perform in your SwiftUI app. Production patterns for a specific, common job: a polished product actor on a transparent SceneKit stage - entrances, exits, throws, shadows, haptics, and the silent traps that cost days.
Be honest about the framework's position:
SCNView composites over any SwiftUI layout, geometry
shader modifiers are a single MSL string, CoreAnimation interop is mature,
and everything here runs on plain UIKit views with no session setup.A stage is: transparent SCNView, a @MainActor coordinator that owns the
scene graph, a camera at standing eye height, a three-light rig plus a
dedicated shadow light, a contact blob, and a shadow catcher. The actor
performs via baked keyframe animations.
struct ProductStage: UIViewRepresentable {
let item: Item
// The key must change ONLY when the scene must visibly change.
private var stateKey: String { "\(item.id)" }
func makeCoordinator() -> Coordinator { Coordinator() }
func makeUIView(context: Context) -> SCNView {
let view = SCNView()
view.backgroundColor = .clear // the stage composites over SwiftUI
view.isOpaque = false
view.antialiasingMode = .multisampling4X
view.scene = context.coordinator.buildScene()
view.pointOfView = context.coordinator.cameraNode
context.coordinator.install(item)
context.coordinator.markState(stateKey)
// First-frame warm-up, two-key ignition: compile shaders off
// the critical path, park the actor offstage, and gate the first
// entrance on BOTH a minimum delay and prepare's completion.
context.coordinator.parkOffstage()
if let scene = view.scene {
view.prepare([scene]) { _ in
DispatchQueue.main.async { context.coordinator.markPipelinesWarm() }
}
}
context.coordinator.scheduleFirstEntrance()
return view
}
func updateUIView(_ view: SCNView, context: Context) {
// State-key diffing: SwiftUI re-renders must never replay entrances.
guard context.coordinator.stateKey != stateKey else { return }
context.coordinator.markState(stateKey)
context.coordinator.transition(to: item)
}
}
The pieces, in build order:
backgroundColor = .clear, isOpaque = false),
MSAA 4x. The host screen provides the backdrop; the scene has no box.projectionDirection = .horizontal so the actor's size follows
stage width; raised position with a slight downward pitch reads like a
standing observer. Keep it static; a moving camera reads synthetic..shadowOnly catcher plane for the real shadow.CAKeyframeAnimation, guarded by generation
tokens so any new beat supersedes pending work.Full detail with code: references/stage-recipe.md
| Trap | Fix |
|---|---|
| Deferred shadows never render when MSAA is on, with zero console errors | Use shadowMode = .forward plus a .shadowOnly catcher. Debug any missing shadow by first giving the scene a visible gray lambert floor. |
The first frame of a fresh SCNView compiles Metal pipelines in the middle of your entrance animation | prepare([scene]) in the background, park the actor offstage, delay the first entrance. Never start an animation on frame one. |
fillMode = .forwards + isRemovedOnCompletion = false pins the presentation, and removal is per object | One central clearAnimations that sweeps the node, every child geometry, the lights, and running actions, called from every entry point. |
| Face-on real metal renders as a gray or black hole | A mirror viewed head-on reflects the environment zone behind the camera. Keep the approved painted base and add a thin additive layer with its own reflection map. |
Toggling castsShadow pops a blurred penumbra in one frame; shadowBias and the light's categoryBitMask are ignored for forward directional shadows | Keep castsShadow on permanently and animate shadowColor alpha, synchronized with the motion. |
| A fixed warm-up delay still hitches on cold devices and the Simulator; a particle effect's first frame compiles its own pipeline and drops exactly when it fires | Two-key ignition: gate the entrance on the minimum delay AND prepare's completion handler. Warm particle pipelines with a zero-opacity burst matching the real effect's flags. |
The default UIGraphicsImageRenderer format inherits screen scale, inflating every generated texture 9x in pixels - deadly for textures re-rendered live (per-keystroke engraving) | Pin the renderer format's scale to 1 and size the canvas to the actor's on-screen projection; coalesce multi-input retargets to one render per update pass. |
| Reproducing a real object's motion from photos yields confident rigs that fail sideways - each fix reveals a new wrong | Stills carry poses, not paths or mechanisms; end-pose fits do not determine the trajectory. Model the path: a calibration rig with direct pose controls, the owner authoring keyframes against the physical object. |
| A keyframed motion stutters rhythmically at its keyframes and survives every rendering and timing fix |
name: scenekit-product-stages description: Build and debug SceneKit scenes where one 3D object (a product, badge, coin, wheel) performs on a transparent stage inside a SwiftUI app - studio lighting, real shadows, baked keyframe choreography, hand-rolled physics, gestures and haptics, multi-scene sequencing. Use when working with SCNView or SceneView in SwiftUI, UIViewRepresentable 3D scenes, product or hero-object animation, roll or spin entrances, a first-frame hitch when a scene appears, shadows missing or wrong, metal rendering black, choreographed 3D motion that must stay interruptible, a continuous vapor stream (vent air, steam, mist) drawn as a shader-driven sheet, a liquid-metal or jelly blob (noise-deformed surface with mirror reflections and tap ripples), chrome or gold that looks cartoon-flat instead of real, HDRI image-based lighting, free trackball rotation of an actor, deterministic screenshot testing of shader-driven scenes, cutting an actor in two with a finger swipe (runtime mesh slicing with sealed cross-sections and a falling piece), a die-struck relief object (badge, coin, medallion) built from a heightfield with multiple finishes on one mesh, an actor crumbling into debris that falls and rests on the floor, reproducing a real object's motion from photos or video, or keyframed motion that stutters at its own keyframes. Not for RealityKit, ARKit, visionOS, or full game worlds. license: MIT metadata: author: Mateusz Dembek version: 1.9.0
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name: scenekit-product-stages
description: Build and debug SceneKit scenes where one 3D object (a product, badge, coin, wheel) performs on a transparent stage inside a SwiftUI app - studio lighting, real shadows, baked keyframe choreography, hand-rolled physics, gestures and haptics, multi-scene sequencing. Use when working with SCNView or SceneView in SwiftUI, UIViewRepresentable 3D scenes, product or hero-object animation, roll or spin entrances, a first-frame hitch when a scene appears, shadows missing or wrong, metal rendering black, choreographed 3D motion that must stay interruptible, a continuous vapor stream (vent air, steam, mist) drawn as a shader-driven sheet, a liquid-metal or jelly blob (noise-deformed surface with mirror reflections and tap ripples), chrome or gold that looks cartoon-flat instead of real, HDRI image-based lighting, free trackball rotation of an actor, deterministic screenshot testing of shader-driven scenes, cutting an actor in two with a finger swipe (runtime mesh slicing with sealed cross-sections and a falling piece), a die-struck relief object (badge, coin, medallion) built from a heightfield with multiple finishes on one mesh, an actor crumbling into debris that falls and rests on the floor, reproducing a real object's motion from photos or video, or keyframed motion that stutters at its own keyframes. Not for RealityKit, ARKit, visionOS, or full game worlds.
license: MIT
metadata:
author: Mateusz Dembek
version: 1.9.0
---
# PropMotion
Make one 3D object perform in your SwiftUI app. Production patterns for a
specific, common job: a polished product actor on a transparent SceneKit
stage - entrances, exits, throws, shadows, haptics, and the silent traps
that cost days.
## When to use SceneKit at all
Be honest about the framework's position:
- SceneKit is in maintenance mode. For new apps with heavy 3D needs (asset
pipelines, USD/USDZ, AR, large worlds) prefer RealityKit.
- SceneKit is still the fastest path to a decorative 3D actor inside a SwiftUI
app: a transparent `SCNView` composites over any SwiftUI layout, geometry
shader modifiers are a single MSL string, CoreAnimation interop is mature,
and everything here runs on plain UIKit views with no session setup.
- If the 3D element is one hero object with choreographed motion, this skill's
recipes apply directly. If it is a full interactive world, stop and consider
RealityKit first.
## The core stage recipe
A stage is: transparent `SCNView`, a `@MainActor` coordinator that owns the
scene graph, a camera at standing eye height, a three-light rig plus a
dedicated shadow light, a contact blob, and a shadow catcher. The actor
performs via baked keyframe animations.
```swift
struct ProductStage: UIViewRepresentable {
let item: Item
// The key must change ONLY when the scene must visibly change.
private var stateKey: String { "\(item.id)" }
func makeCoordinator() -> Coordinator { Coordinator() }
func makeUIView(context: Context) -> SCNView {
let view = SCNView()
view.backgroundColor = .clear // the stage composites over SwiftUI
view.isOpaque = false
view.antialiasingMode = .multisampling4X
view.scene = context.coordinator.buildScene()
view.pointOfView = context.coordinator.cameraNode
context.coordinator.install(item)
context.coordinator.markState(stateKey)
// First-frame warm-up, two-key ignition: compile shaders off
// the critical path, park the actor offstage, and gate the first
// entrance on BOTH a minimum delay and prepare's completion.
context.coordinator.parkOffstage()
if let scene = view.scene {
view.prepare([scene]) { _ in
DispatchQueue.main.async { context.coordinator.markPipelinesWarm() }
}
}
context.coordinator.scheduleFirstEntrance()
return view
}
func updateUIView(_ view: SCNView, context: Context) {
// State-key diffing: SwiftUI re-renders must never replay entrances.
guard context.coordinator.stateKey != stateKey else { return }
context.coordinator.markState(stateKey)
context.coordinator.transition(to: item)
}
}
```
The pieces, in build order:
1. Transparent view flags (`backgroundColor = .clear`, `isOpaque = false`),
MSAA 4x. The host screen provides the backdrop; the scene has no box.
2. Coordinator owns the node hierarchy, decomposed one node per motion
concern (travel, lift, yaw, spin), so independent animations never fight
over a single transform.
3. Camera: `projectionDirection = .horizontal` so the actor's size follows
stage width; raised position with a slight downward pitch reads like a
standing observer. Keep it static; a moving camera reads synthetic.
4. Lights: warm key, cool low fill, hard rim, ambient only as a floor value,
plus a separate shadow-casting directional light aimed from behind-above
the actor so it never disturbs the visible sculpt.
5. Ground contact: a soft dark gradient plane (the contact blob) under the
actor plus an invisible `.shadowOnly` catcher plane for the real shadow.
6. Reflective materials sample a small programmatic environment map, not a
photo. Keep the zone behind the camera dark.
7. All choreography is baked `CAKeyframeAnimation`, guarded by generation
tokens so any new beat supersedes pending work.
Full detail with code: [references/stage-recipe.md](references/stage-recipe.md)
## The traps that cost the most time
| Trap | Fix |
| --- | --- |
| Deferred shadows never render when MSAA is on, with zero console errors | Use `shadowMode = .forward` plus a `.shadowOnly` catcher. Debug any missing shadow by first giving the scene a visible gray lambert floor. |
| The first frame of a fresh `SCNView` compiles Metal pipelines in the middle of your entrance animation | `prepare([scene])` in the background, park the actor offstage, delay the first entrance. Never start an animation on frame one. |
| `fillMode = .forwards` + `isRemovedOnCompletion = false` pins the presentation, and removal is per object | One central `clearAnimations` that sweeps the node, every child geometry, the lights, and running actions, called from every entry point. |
| Face-on real metal renders as a gray or black hole | A mirror viewed head-on reflects the environment zone behind the camera. Keep the approved painted base and add a thin additive layer with its own reflection map. |
| Toggling `castsShadow` pops a blurred penumbra in one frame; `shadowBias` and the light's `categoryBitMask` are ignored for forward directional shadows | Keep `castsShadow` on permanently and animate `shadowColor` alpha, synchronized with the motion. |
| A fixed warm-up delay still hitches on cold devices and the Simulator; a particle effect's first frame compiles its own pipeline and drops exactly when it fires | Two-key ignition: gate the entrance on the minimum delay AND `prepare`'s completion handler. Warm particle pipelines with a zero-opacity burst matching the real effect's flags. |
| The default `UIGraphicsImageRenderer` format inherits screen scale, inflating every generated texture 9x in pixels - deadly for textures re-rendered live (per-keystroke engraving) | Pin the renderer format's scale to 1 and size the canvas to the actor's on-screen projection; coalesce multi-input retargets to one render per update pass. |
| Reproducing a real object's motion from photos yields confident rigs that fail sideways - each fix reveals a new wrong | Stills carry poses, not paths or mechanisms; end-pose fits do not determine the trajectory. Model the path: a calibration rig with direct pose controls, the owner authoring keyframes against the physical object. |
| A keyframed motion stutters rhythmically at its keyframes and survives every rendering and timing fix | The jerks are baked into the curve: the uniform Catmull-Rom basis on unevenly spaced keyframes steps velocity at every knot. Interpolate with span-weighted Hermite tangents (or a natural cubic) over distance-based phases, and gate on a numeric continuity check. |
| A sub-mesh cut from a larger model measures as if it were the whole object, with no error anywhere | The cut trimmed only the index buffer; the vertex buffer still holds every vertex of the original. Measure only vertices referenced by the submesh indices. |
| A square image assigned to `scene.lightingEnvironment` is silently ignored - zero reflections, every mirror material renders black, no console output | Paint the environment map in a recognized cube-map layout, easiest a 2:1 spherical canvas (1024x512). Only `material.reflective` accepts a square sphere map. |
| A scene animated only by the shader clock draws one frame and freezes; two screenshots seconds apart are pixel-identical | The on-demand render loop cannot see shader time: set `rendersContinuously = true`, and verify motion with a pixel-diff, never by eye. |
| A speed dial on a shader-time pattern teleports the pattern when snapped - and tweening the dial makes the stream visibly race, or flow BACKWARD when slowing | Phase must be the integral of speed, never `speed * absoluteTime`: accumulate a clock in the renderer delegate, ease the speed toward its target, and let the clock only advance. |
| A translucent sheet waved by a geometry modifier prints a bright hairline along every fold silhouette; banded grazing fades either keep the razor or paint straight dark stripes | Modifiers move vertices, not normals: tilt the normal by the wave's analytic slope, then scale alpha by thickness compensation `(1+k)*facing/(facing+k)` - smooth, zero at tangency, face-on fog untouched. |
| Chrome lit by a hand-painted environment renders as cartoon metal: one flat paper-white highlight with a hard edge, reflections posterized into gray bands | The painted map's ceiling is 1.0 - there is no dynamic range to roll off. Use a photographic `.hdr` HDRI passed as a FILE URL (a `UIImage` re-encode silently clamps it back to LDR) plus `wantsHDR` on the camera. |
| `lightingEnvironment` has no orientation control, and the panorama's frontal lamp prints one big blob dead ahead in the reflection | Rotate the CAMERA RIG instead: with a symmetric actor and radial floor the framing is identical, only the reflection layout moves. Build screen-space gestures rig-aware (lift axes through `pointOfView`). |
| A full `clearCoat` on a white dielectric turns pearl into chrome with a white core; two finishes collapse into one look | `clearCoat` is a mirror layer. Pearl wants ~0.3-0.4 with roughness ~0.2 - gloss over cream, not silver. |
| A tap on a shader-deformed actor misses exactly on the bulges - `hitTest` sees only the undisplaced mesh | Give the actor an oversized invisible collider (`colorBufferWriteMask = []`), hit-test with `.all`, filter by node name. |
| Frozen-clock snapshots that should be identical diff nonzero with no visible difference | Adaptive exposure renders the same instant differently depending on scene history: `wantsExposureAdaptation = false`, fix exposure by hand. |
| Particle debris slides forever or never comes to rest, and every friction tweak makes it worse | `particleFriction` is INVERTED from physical intuition: 1.0 slides freely, 0.0 sticks. A low value (~0.25) is what parks a grain after its last hop. |
| A surface a mechanic creates at runtime (a cut face, a toppled underside) renders near-black while the rest of the actor looks fine | Faces standing nearly parallel to the view axis graze off the key and the shadow sun. Give the scene a real ambient floor and judge lighting in EVERY orientation the mechanic can produce, not just the authored pose. |
| A stage is silently empty - no errors, no scene, nothing to debug | A narrowing init (`Int32(...)`) after 64-bit hash arithmetic traps at runtime, and inside an async task the crash is invisible. Do hash math in the target width via `truncatingIfNeeded`, and check thSkill source recorded
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