ReferenceLayersLines and shapes
Waves
Moving lines: contours, a stack of waves, or rings spreading out.
- Kind
- Layer · Lines and shapes
- Script name
waves- Cost to draw
- Heavy
- Blend
- Light costs no extra pass

Waves
| Setting | Kind | Starts at | Range and notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Stylestyle | choice | Contours | Contours, Waves, Rings |
Colourcolour | colour | #3fd0c9 | – |
Pulse colourcolour2 | colour | #f4f6f8 | – |
How manycount | number | 12 | 2 to 40 |
Thicknessthickness | number | 1.2× | 0.3 to 4× |
Heightamplitude | number | 50% | 0% to 100% |
Speedspeed | number | 0.6× | 0 to 3× |
Pulsespulses | number | 50% | 0% to 100% |
Rings' centre left and rightoriginX | number | 50% | 0% to 100% |
Rings' centre up and downoriginY | number | 50% | 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 Waves:
scene.set("Waves", "colour", "#ff8a5c");scene.animate("Waves", "opacity", 0.5, 2);import { scene } from "motion";scene.set("Waves", "colour", "#ff8a5c");scene.animate("Waves", "opacity", 0.5, 2);◆On Scene Start
ƒSet Layer SettingTarget is Layer
TargetWaves
Parameter Namecolour
Parameter Value
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.
Notes from the community
Written by creators and checked by the docs' editors. Not part of Motion's official reference.