Layers

Every kind of layer a scene can be made of: 59 of them. Each page lists the layer's settings as Studio's inspector shows them, with the key a script uses.

Backgrounds

• GradientStraight, round, or a slow aurora
• NebulaClouds of colour slowly folding through each other
• Picture or videoA picture, an animated GIF or a looping video
• SceneOne of your scenes, or one that comes with Motion, as a layer
• SlideshowA folder's pictures, one after another
• WebpageA web page, or one of your own, live on the desktop
• Mesh gradientColour points blended smoothly, drifting a little
• Real skyThe real sky where you are, with sun, moon and stars
• Depth parallaxA picture with a depth map, moving in 3D
• Puppet warpPins or bones that bend a picture as they move
• Sprite sheetA sprite sheet played as an animation
• FractalA slow dive into the Mandelbrot or a Julia set, coloured by a gradient

Light and particles

• Particle systemYour own particles, built from emitters and modules
• Glow orbsLarge soft lights that wander and breathe
• Light raysShafts of light falling from a point, shimmering
• StarsA sky of twinkling stars drifting by, or flying past at warp
• Lens flareA bright light caught in the lens

Elements

• FireFlames and rising embers
• LightningBolts from the sky, an arc, or a plasma globe
• Water surfaceWater that ripples under the pointer and the rain
• Fog and cloudsRolling fog, drifting clouds or thin mist

Lines and shapes

• PathsLines you draw, with pulses running along them
• WavesMoving lines: contours, a stack of waves, or rings spreading out
• GridA scrolling floor, grid, dots or hexagons
• ShapeRectangles, circles, rings, stars and more
• Falling codeColumns of characters raining down
• BlobsSoft metaballs that merge and split like a lava lamp
• RibbonsSilk ribbons curving slowly across
• PlexusPoints drifting in space, joined by lines when they come close
• TunnelFlying down an endless tunnel
• Lottie animationA Lottie animation, sharp at any size (not on every system)

Simulations

• Reaction-diffusionCoral, spots and stripes that grow on their own
• Cellular automataThe Game of Life and its relatives
• FluidInk in water, stirred by the pointer and the sound
• FlockBirds or fish moving as a flock
• PhysicsShapes that fall, stack and bounce

Sound and time

• Sound visualizerWhat's playing, drawn as bars, a ring, a line or the waveform
• SoundA sound, played from the start, on click or by script
• Clock faceHands and ticks, or rings filling with the time

Words

• Text and clockWords, or the time and date

Finish

• VignetteDarkens the edges to draw the eye in
• AdjustmentIts effects apply to every layer beneath it
• GlassA frosted or clear glass panel over the layers below
• LensA magnifying lens over what's below, following the pointer or drifting

3D

• 3D sceneShapes and models in real 3D, with lights and shadows

Your own

• ShaderYour own GLSL, written or built from nodes
• WebpageA web page, or one of your own, live on the desktop

Other

• FolderKeeps layers together, to fold, hide or lock at once
• VideoA looping video
• MotesSpecks of light drifting up in three depths
• RainSlanting rain, with mist if you like
• Pointer lightA light with a trail that follows the pointer
• FireworksRockets bursting into falling sparks
• Web projectYour own page in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, made here
• 3D particlesSnow, embers, fireflies or sparks in real depth
• EchoWhat moves below leaves fading trails
• Now playingThe song that's playing, from the desktop's media player
• System monitorProcessor, memory, network, temperature and battery as rings, bars or small graphs
• CalendarThis month or week, and the next events from the desktop's calendar
• WeatherNow and the days ahead, for the place picked in Motion's settings or one of its own

What every layer has

These settings are on every layer, under its own.

Layer

Placement

Motion

Interaction

Effects

Mask

Bloom

Finish

Interaction