Lightning

Bolts from the sky, an arc, or a plasma globe.

Setting	Kind	Starts at	Range and notes
Style`style`	choice	Storm	Storm, Arc, Plasma globe
Bolt`colour`	colour	`#caecff`	–
Glow`colour2`	colour	`#a98bff`	–
Strikes a minute`rate`	number	14	1 to 120In a storm
Thickness`thickness`	number	1×	0.3 to 3×
Jaggedness`jag`	number	1×	0 to 2×
Branches`branches`	number	50%	0% to 100%
Sky flash`flash`	number	35%	0% to 100%
Brightness`brightness`	number	100%	0% to 200%
Arc from, left and right`fromX`	number	20%	0% to 100%
Arc from, up and down`fromY`	number	50%	0% to 100%
Arc to, left and right`toX`	number	80%	0% to 100%
Arc to, up and down`toY`	number	50%	0% to 100%
Reaches for the pointer`reach`	on or off	on	–
Strikes on the beat`sound`	number	0%	0% to 100%

From a script

Every setting above can be changed by the scene's logic, by its key. Say the layer is called Lightning:

scene.set("Lightning", "colour", "#ff8a5c");scene.animate("Lightning", "opacity", 0.5, 2);

import { scene } from "motion";scene.set("Lightning", "colour", "#ff8a5c");scene.animate("Lightning", "opacity", 0.5, 2);

The example scenes with a Lightning layer in them. Each picture is the whole scene, not the layer alone: open one to see what the layer does in it.

What every layer has

Besides its own settings, every layer has its opacity, blend, placement, quick effects and an effects stack. They're listed once, on the layers page.