Meteors

Overview

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

String Setup

• Orientation - Controls the orientation of the display area (matrix).

Configuration

• Motion - Controls the type of meteor between (Falling, Random, and Explode).

• Direction - The direction of movement of the meteors.

• Speed - The speed at which all meteors move (available when Random motion is not selected)

• Speed Variation - Allows you to add a bit of dynamic variation to the meteors. This value combines with the Speed setting to allow each meteor to use a random speed. The random speed will only deviate from the base speed by the amount of variation set here.

• Count - The number of meteors.

• Tail Length - The length of the meteor tail.

• Tail Taper - Controls the brightness taper of the meteor tails.

• Start Position - Determines where the meteors will start from (Random, Random the Zero Position, Zero Position)

• Meteor Effects - Applies special motion effects to the movement of the Meteors

• Movement - Adjusts the type of movement (None, Bounce, Wrap, Speed, Wobble, Wobble Both Directions).

• Ground Level - Adds a ground level for the meteors to hit.

• GroundLevel - A curve that establishes the ground level over the duration of the effect.

• Flip Direction - Flips the directions the meteors will move.

• Count Per String - Generates meteors for each string.

Color

• Color Type - Selects how colors are applied to the effect.

  • Rainbow - Uses random colors on all meteors and their tails
  • Range - Uses one solid color for each meteor. The colors are chosen from a range between the colors/gradients in the gradient list.
  • Palette - Uses one solid color for each meteor. The colors are chosen from the specific colors/gradients in the gradient list.  If the colors in the list are gradients, only the starting color is used.
  • Gradient - Uses one gradient for each meteor. The gradients are chosen from the specific colors/gradients in the gradient list.

• Gradients: The colors/gradient list used by the effect.  See the color type above for how the colors/gradients are applied.

• Ground Color - Determines the color of the ground. Only visible if the Ground Level curve is non-zero.

Brightness

• Intensity - his is an overall brightness intensity curve over the duration of the effect.  This is a legacy parameter, consider using intensity overlay layers instead.

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