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The Generation parameter category is available for the Lightning, Ripple, and Sparkler effects. For more information, see Lightning, Ripple, and Sparkler.

Amount

Lightning

Sets the proportion of the lightning to be displayed. A value of 0 is no lightning. 100 is the complete lightning bolt. Typical keyframing is 0 at the first keyframe to 100 at the last keyframe.

Anti-alias

Ripple

Sets whether or not transformed areas are smoothed.

Birth Rate

Sparkler

Sets the number of sparks generated every frame.

Branch Probability

Lightning

Sets the likelihood that the lightning will have few or many branches. A value of 0 displays no branches. The higher the value, the more branches are likely.

Length

Ripple

Sets the distance between the wave peaks.

Length

Sparkler

Sets the cumulative exposure of the sparks. For example, a value of 3 produces an image that looks as though you left a virtual camera shutter open for the last three frames.

Lifetime

Sparkler

Sets (in frames) how long each spark lives.

Link Speed

Sparkler

If you keyframe the center of the effect, Link Speed causes the movement of the center to be added to the movement of the sparks.

Number of Ripples

Ripple

Sets the number of ripples.

Random Seed

Lightning, Ripple

Sets the base number upon which all random values are calculated. Each value will result in a different random effect.

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Lightning

Sets the quality of the rendered lightning:

Speed Bias X, SpeedáBias Y

Sparkler

Sets the bias to the direction of the sparks. The system adds these values to the initial random directions.

Strength

Ripple

Sets the height of the waves.

X, Y

Sparkler

Sets the center of the effect. The X and Y values range from –999 to +999, where 0, 0 is the center of the screen.