{
 "slug": "one-way-state",
 "name": "State that only moves one way",
 "category": "motion",
 "group": "Physics",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Continuity across cuts: wet stays wet, a bitten apple never grows back.",
 "use_when": "Any change that builds over a scene.",
 "phrase": "the rain only soaks her jacket further from shot to shot, it never dries between cuts",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "State the direction of the change once as a rule; the model then holds it across shots.",
   "evidence": "vendor",
   "source": "Higgsfield Seedance 2.5 prompting guide, read 28 Sep 2026"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "repeated-action-rule",
  "environment-event-track"
 ],
 "rights": "vendor-summary",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": "https://higgsfield.ai/blog/seedance-2-5-prompting-guide",
  "note": "Own words from the Higgsfield guide summary"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/motion/one-way-state",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/motion/one-way-state.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): the rain only soaks her jacket further from shot to shot, it never dries between cuts",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: the rain only soaks her jacket further from shot to shot, it never dries between cuts",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The rain only soaks her jacket further from shot to shot, it never dries between cuts. The scene is [your setting].",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The rain only soaks her jacket further from shot to shot, it never dries between cuts. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}