Sparkles

Shape

Sets the sparkle type to output from the position indicator in the Viewer:

• Rays - produces rays fading away from the origin.

• Sparkles - produces intermittent rays fading at either end of each ray.

• Fireworks - produces rays fading toward the origin.

When enabled, a triangle shape it used to create the rays increasing the thickness.

Sets the center of origin for the rays on the x and y axes.

Sets the size of the rays, in pixels, and adjusts the ray bounding box accordingly.

NOTE:  When Sparkle type is set to Sparkles, this control determines the size of the longest ray.

Sets the anamorphic ratio of the bounding box. Negative values decrease width and vice versa.

Sets the amount of rotation applied to the rays. Negative values produce clockwise rotation and vice versa.

When enabled, 0 degrees always points to the center of the image and rotation is relative to that value.

Sets the number of rays emitted.

Sets the thickness of the emitted rays in pixels.

When enabled, ray thickness is randomized within the range [1,thickness].

When Sparkel type is set to Sparkles, determines whether or not rays are connected to the position indicator. Higher values decrease the distance from the sparkle to the position indicator and vice versa.

Sets how quickly rays falloff as distance from the position indicator increases.

NOTE:  This control behaves differently depending on the Sparkle type selected. For example, Fireworks falloff towards the position indicator.

Sets the random seed that controls ray characteristics. If you’re using multiple Sparkle nodes, you can use the same seed to produce similar random results on both nodes.

Color

Sets ray brightness - higher values increase brightness.

Sets the ray color.

Sets the amount of chroma shift applied to the rays. Positive values split red clockwise and blue counter-clockwise and vice versa.

Sets the spread of chroma values from the position indicator. Positive values extend the spread of the red channel while reducing the blue channel and vice versa.

Mask

Enables the associated mask channel to the right. Disabling this checkbox is the same as setting the channel to none.

The channel to use as a mask. By default, the sparkles are limited to the non-black areas of this channel.

Sets the size of the mask when mask is set to anything other than none.

Sparkle crawl - These controls do not affect Rays.

When enabled, use the Sparkle crawl controls to cause Sparkles or Fireworks to move, or crawl.

Sets the amount of motion to apply. Animating this control causes Sparkles or Fireworks to crawl.

Sets the direction of crawl in degrees. Animate this control to produce more crawl.

Controls the amount of fade to apply to Sparkles only.

Broken rays

When enabled, use the Broken rays controls affect the rays emitted from the position indicator.

Sets the percentage of rays to affect with breaks.

Sets where the first break occurs as a percentage of the total length. For example, 0.5 is equal to 50% of the length.

When enabled, the break start control is randomized.

Sets the number of breaks per ray after the break start.

When enabled, the breaks control is randomized.

Sparks

When enabled, use the Sparks controls to clip the emission angle and direction.

Sets the ray’s emission direction in degrees.