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What and why

Extrude & Bevel, Extrude & Bevel (Classic) and Inflate build a solid for the fill and one for each stroke. Under a stroke that leaves part of the fill's edge uncovered (dashed, with a width profile or a brush, on an open subpath, or in a paint that may show through), the fill's walls and the stroke's faces were sorted by the depth of each face's center. On a turned shape with a concave corner, a fill wall could paint over a nearer dash, and the end of a dash could paint over the fill wall in front of it. Two such strokes on one shape drew over each other the same way, and Inflate treated a plain stroke as hiding the fill's edge, although an inflated fill can rise in front of it. The Create 3D objects help page describes extrusion as adding depth to a 2D object along its z-axis, and the Apply stroke on an object help page describes a dashed stroke as set by dash lengths and gap lengths. The pages do not say how the faces are ordered; drawing the nearer surface on top at each point, and leaving the fill wall visible in a gap, is VectorCraft's own rule.

This changes the draw order of those faces; plain strokes that cover the fill's edge under the two extrudes keep their current order.

• Facet (crates/three-d/src/solid.rs) carries a DepthPlane, set in Builder::face for a flat face, so Facet::depth_at gives the face's view-space depth at any point of the drawing, with and without perspective. Revolve's faces and pieces of a twisted wall whose corners lie off one plane have none.
• cut_stroke_faces (crates/effects/src/solids.rs) cuts each face of such a stroke where it passes through the plane of a face it overlaps: the same shape's fill, a covering stroke, or an earlier stroke that leaves gaps. The cut runs along the line where their depths meet, and each piece keeps its part of the curved outline. The added faces stay within the object's face limit and the paint-copy allowance.
• local_order then draws overlapping faces of one shape's fill and strokes in the order of their depths at the middle of their overlap, caps on or off. A fill wall and its covering stroke keep their order, and other faces keep their depth order, so a fill wall in a gap between dashes stays visible. A cycle is broken at the first face in depth order. The cutting and the ordering each stop after 4,000,000 pair checks, counted separately from draw_order's limit.
• holds_edge: under Inflate no stroke counts as hiding the fill's edge, so its faces are ordered like those of a dashed stroke.
• The faces go in one order when the fill and strokes are at full opacity with Normal blending. A member of a 3D group with an opacity mask or a blending mode of its own now orders its faces inside that mask when its own paints qualify. A gradient with transparent stops keeps the one order when a graphic is on its cap (the graphic carries the gradient's mask and goes after the last face of that surface's cap), and so does Inflate in gradients under a colored light. A translucent or blended fill or stroke, and a solid color under a colored light (drawn as one composite per surface), still draw each surface whole.
• A brushed stroke's solid is still built from its line outline, as before, and this change orders that outline's faces. Inflate's curved surfaces follow the rule as closely as their flat facets do.
• docs/three-d.md and docs/target-app-parity.md describe the order.

How it was tested

New tests, each failing without the change:

• solids::tests::fill_walls_and_strokes_that_leave_gaps_draw_in_the_order_of_their_depths_where_they_overlap: a turned C with depth 60 and a dashed, profiled or brushed stroke, or a dashed stroke with a second, profiled one, in four views with and without perspective, checked on a 1 pt grid against the depth of each face along the view ray. The check skips points within 0.3 pt of a face edge, points where the two depths differ by 0.5 pt or less, and top faces without a plane. Under those limits, Extrude & Bevel and the Classic one must have no point where a farther face is on top; Inflate is allowed up to 5 next to curved crossings. The points where a farther face is on top, in the test's views, with the new ordering and cutting taken out and with them:

  Case	Without	With
  Extrude & Bevel or Classic, dashed	up to 1,369	0
  Extrude & Bevel or Classic, dashed, perspective	up to 933	0
  Extrude & Bevel or Classic, profiled	up to 266	0
  Extrude & Bevel, Classic or Inflate, two strokes	33	0
  Inflate, dashed	up to 1,375	0
  Inflate, plain stroke, perspective	12	0

  A brushed stroke had no such point under the two extrudes without the change either. In a wider sweep of 20 views with and without perspective, 2 points remain, for Inflate with two strokes in one perspective view, next to curved crossings.

• solids::tests::a_stroke_face_through_a_fill_wall_is_cut_where_their_depths_meet: the pieces lie on either side of the wall's plane and keep a curved outline; a face of a second stroke is cut against the first and against a covering stroke; a face on one side, another shape's stroke, a covering stroke and a cut with no room left stay whole.

• solids::tests::local_order_puts_overlapping_fill_walls_and_stroke_faces_in_depth_order: a nearer stroke face goes after the fill wall and a farther one before it, with caps on or off, and the same for faces of two strokes; a stroke face elsewhere, another shape's stroke, a face at the same depth and a covering stroke keep their places, and a moved face does not pass a nearer face of another shape.

• solids::tests::a_masked_members_fill_and_stroke_faces_go_in_one_order: a group member with an opacity mask, or with Multiply, draws its faces in the order it draws them without; a translucent stroke stays one group.

• solids::tests::a_colored_inflate_in_gradients_draws_its_faces_in_one_order.

• solids::graphics::tests::a_transparent_gradient_with_a_graphic_keeps_the_shared_face_order: under a colored light, a fill in a gradient with transparent stops, a dashed stroke and a graphic draw their faces in the order they have without the graphic; the fill's graphic carries the fill's mask and goes after the fill's cap, so a dash on the cap's edge is drawn over it.

• solids::tests::cutting_stays_within_the_face_limit_and_the_paint_allowance.

• solids::tests::a_small_polygon_far_away_has_a_centroid.

• solid::tests::a_flat_facet_measures_its_depth_on_its_plane (vectorcraft-three-d): each corner's depth from the plane matches its view-space depth, orthographic and perspective; a twisted wall has pieces with no plane.

Times for a 240-point star with this change (release build, median of three runs, without and with a 40° perspective). They were taken on a shared build host under heavy load, so single figures can move by tens of milliseconds between runs, and they were not compared with main under the same load:

Case	No perspective	Perspective
Extrude & Bevel, dashed	158 ms	145 ms
Extrude & Bevel, plain	5.1 ms	5.3 ms
Extrude & Bevel, two strokes	202 ms	202 ms
Inflate, dashed	206 ms	205 ms
Inflate, plain	1.91 s	1.93 s
Inflate, two strokes	1.48 s	1.41 s

Focused checks on the final tree, on Linux, run on main at 1dbdbce91f. The branch is one commit on main at e8c7421a3d and merges cleanly with it; the commits between change only two workflow files.

• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-effects -p vectorcraft-three-d --all-targets -- -D warnings
• cargo check --workspace --tests
• cargo test -p vectorcraft-effects --lib -- solids: 123 passed
• cargo test -p vectorcraft-three-d --lib -- solid::tests: 59 passed
• cargo xtask brands, cargo xtask layers (30 crates) and cargo xtask assets (337 files)
• cargo xtask ci runs in this pull request's CI.

It conflicts with open #6980 in crates/effects/src/solids.rs, with open #7021 in crates/effects/src/solids.rs and crates/three-d/src/lib.rs, and with open #7032 in crates/three-d/src/solid/tests.rs and docs/target-app-parity.md.

Checklist

• cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, tests, assets, brands, layers, wasm).
• No panics in shipped code: no unwrap(), expect(), panic!, unreachable!, todo! or
  unimplemented! outside tests, and no unchecked indexing on data from files, parameters or
  messages. Errors are returned as Result and shown to the user
  (why and how).
• Clean-room: nothing copied from Adobe products or GPL/AGPL code (AGENTS.md).
• Every new asset has a row in ASSETS.md.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Extruded and inflated shapes now layer overlapping fill and stroke faces according to their depth, improving how nearer strokes appear over fills.
  • Where supported, intersecting stroke faces are trimmed at depth crossings, helping preserve visible fill walls in stroke gaps and around dashed lines. Masks, gradients, and graphics continue to affect the rendered surfaces.
• Documentation
  • Updated guidance on fill and stroke overlap, depth-based ordering, masks, and graphics in 3D shapes.

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Walkthrough

The change adds facet depth planes and uses face outlines and depth comparisons to cut and order overlapping solid fill and stroke faces. Surface grouping and graphic placement now account for member scopes and masks. Tests and documentation cover the updated rendering behavior.

Changes: Solid face ordering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Facet depth planes crates/three-d/src/solid.rs, crates/three-d/src/solid/build.rs, crates/three-d/src/solid/tests.rs, crates/three-d/src/lib.rs	Facets can store a DepthPlane and return depth at a point. The builder assigns planes to planar faces, and tests cover flat and twisted facets. Revolve facets have no plane.
Eligible face geometry and cutting crates/effects/src/solids.rs, crates/effects/src/revolve.rs, crates/effects/src/solids/tests.rs	Eligible convex faces retain outlines and planes. Stroke faces can be cut at depth crossings, subject to face and paint-copy limits. Tests cover cut behavior, limits, and stroke eligibility.
Local depth ordering crates/effects/src/solids.rs, crates/effects/src/solids/tests.rs	Overlapping faces receive local depth-order constraints after stable depth sorting. Tests cover paint and depth order across solid effects and overlap cases.
Surface grouping and graphics crates/effects/src/solids.rs, crates/effects/src/solids/tests.rs, crates/effects/src/solids/tests_graphics.rs, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/three-d.md	Surface ordering is applied by member scope when eligible. Graphics are inserted after their last ordered face and inherit applicable masks. Tests and documentation cover masks, blending, gradients, and graphics.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SolidBuilder
  participant Facet
  participant surfaces_for
  participant draw_order
  participant local_order
  participant in_one_order
  SolidBuilder->>Facet: Store optional DepthPlane for planar face
  surfaces_for->>draw_order: Prepare eligible solid faces
  draw_order->>local_order: Apply local ordering to depth-sorted faces
  surfaces_for->>in_one_order: Place graphics with ordered faces

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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 57d37

Overlapping faces under Extrude & Bevel and Inflate can be misordered in two edge cases: a depth cycle among side faces can let them paint over the cap, and wide outward bevels at wide perspective angles can produce wrong depth readings. The documentation also has a contradictory masked-member rule and a broken test reference. Fix the cap-ordering problem before merging; the other items are small follow-ups.

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The title names the main change: fill walls and dashed or profiled strokes are now drawn in depth order where they overlap. The raw summary confirms the face ordering, stroke-face cutting, and depth-plane work in the Extrude & Bevel and Inflate solids. The title is specific and matches the changeset.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/effects/src/solids.rs:
- Around line 1072-1074: Update the ordering loop around ready.pop so cycle
fallback preserves the cap-last contract: resolve cycles before emitting past
cap ordering barriers, or retain explicit constraints that place caps after side
faces. Add a regression covering a depth cycle alongside a cap and verify the
cap remains last.

Review comments at @crates/three-d/src/solid/build.rs:
- Line 136: Update the depth-plane eligibility logic near `DepthPlane`
construction so faces with any vertex at or beyond `Camera::project`’s
perspective clamp limit cannot receive a plane. Check the face vertices against
the same limit when perspective eye data is present, and require that no vertex
is clamped before creating the `DepthPlane`; preserve the existing `None`
fallback for ineligible faces.

Review comments at @docs/target-app-parity.md:
- Line 1179: Update the test references in the parity assessment to replace the
unresolved
`solids::tests::a_colored_inflate_in_gradients_cuts_its_dashes_as_a_white_one_does`
with the declared test
`solids::tests::a_colored_inflate_in_gradients_draws_its_faces_in_one_order`;
leave the surrounding evidence unchanged.

Review comments at @docs/three-d.md:
- Around line 129-131: Align the opacity-mask rule in the Groups section with
the surface-building behavior: when a member’s fills and strokes are opaque and
use Normal blending, state that their faces are drawn together in order inside
the mask; retain the separate-solid rule for other cases.

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