Pixel Lighting

This section covers all of the Pixel lighting effects in Vixen and details the features and how to use them.

Balls

Creates an effect that animates Ball looking shapes.

Bars

Creates an effect that animates bars on the display elements.

Border

Creates an effect that outlines a display element with a border.

Butterfly

Creates a pulsing effect reminiscent of the flapping wings of a butterfly.

Circles

Creates an effect that animates concentric circles.

Colorwash

Creates an effect that washes colors over the display element.

Count Down

Creates an effect that displays a count down on a display element.

Curtain

Creates an effect that imitates a curtain opening or closing across your display element.

Fire

Creates an effect that simulates burning fire.

Fireworks

Creates an effect that simulates fireworks bursting in the sky.

Garlands

Creates an effect that simulates filling the grid by wrapping it with garland. This effect is best suited on megatree type props.

Glediator

Creates an effect that is used to import effects created with the Glediator application.

Life

Life effect is a random particle growth type effect. It is designed to imitate colonies of microbes as they replicate and grow.

Liquid

Creates an effect that leverages the Google Liquid Fun library to simulate fluid movement.

Meteors

Creates an effect that simulates falling meteors. Can also be used to create an explosion, or a swarm of flies.

Morph

Create an effect morphs shapes (polygons/ellipses/lines) on the display element(s).

Picture

Creates an effect that imports a picture file to be displayed on a grid type prop.

Pinwheel

Creates an effect that makes a spiral that resembles a Pinwheel.

Plasma

Creates an effect that resembles plasma.

Shapes

Creates an effect that animates shapes on the display element.

Shockwave

Creates an effect that simulates the shockwave from an explosion, or the ripples of an object thrown into water.

Snowflakes

Creates an effect that simulates falling snowflakes.

Snowstorm

Creates an effect that mimics an intense snowstorm with snow falling sideways.

Spiral

Creates a spiraled effect when applied to a mega-tree.

Spirograph

Creates an effect simulating the geometric patterns created by a children’’s spirograph geometric drawing toy.

Text

Creates an effect that displays text on the display element.

Tree

Creates an effect that simulates wrapping garland around a tree.

Vertical Meter

Creates an effect that simulates Simulates a vertical audio meter.

Video

Creates an effect that allows you to embed a video file to be played on your grid.

VU Meter

Create an effect that simulates a VU meter indicator light.

Wave

Creates an effect that produces waves on the display element.

Waveform

Creates an effect that fills a display element with color based on the audio.

Weave

Creates an effect that draw a basket weave pattern and animates it.


Last modified February 15, 2023: Ordering Effect Types (12f731e)