# State that only moves one way

Motion / Subject motion and speed / Physics. Checked 2026-10-13.

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
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/motion/one-way-state
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/motion/one-way-state.json

## Watch out

- State the direction of the change once as a rule; the model then holds it across shots. (vendor; Higgsfield Seedance 2.5 prompting guide, read 28 Sep 2026)

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 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].
Shot 1: the rain only soaks her jacket further from shot to shot, it never dries between cuts
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[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.
```

## Goes well with

- Repeated action as a rule: https://directorchair.ai/motion/repeated-action-rule
- Environment as events: https://directorchair.ai/setting/environment-event-track

## Source

Own words from the Higgsfield guide summary https://higgsfield.ai/blog/seedance-2-5-prompting-guide

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