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Motion docs

Everything you need to use Motion and make wallpapers with Studio, in the order to read it. If something here is wrong or missing, write to [email protected].

Where do you want to start?

Set up a wallpaper: Get Motion, install it and put a scene on every screen. Then Install Motion, Pick a wallpaper and Screens.
Make your first scene: Open Studio, add layers, make them move and put the scene on the Hub. Then Layers and folders, The inspector, Keyframes and the timeline, Effects and masks and Publishing.
Script a scene: Logic as code or as a graph, with the sound, the pointer and your sensors. Then Logic as a graph, Sound, The pointer, clicks and time and Sensors and the watch.

Browse by part

46 pages in 6 parts, all in the menu

Start

Get Motion, put it on your computer and pick a wallpaper for each screen.

Motion Player

The app that plays your wallpapers: the library, your screens, playlists, its settings, sensors and the Hub.

Studio

Where scenes are made: layers and their settings, keyframes, effects, logic, materials, particles, 3D, and putting a scene on the Hub.

Sound, sensors and files

What a scene can hear and react to, and how scenes travel as files.

Motion Hub

Where scenes are shared: following makers, collections, working with others, versions, challenges, your page, supporting makers, Learn, and keeping the Hub a good place.

Longer battery life, what to do when something goes wrong, and the reports Motion can send.

Look things up

The reference: Every layer, effect and node, and everything a script can use.
Example scenes: Finished scenes that come with Studio, one for each part of Motion. Open them and take them apart.