Nebula

Clouds of colour slowly folding through each other.

Kind: Layer · Backgrounds
Script name: nebula
Cost to draw: Heavy
Blend: Light costs no extra pass

The Nebula layer with its default settings.

Notes

A nebula looks best with something in front of it: Stars above it, or a second, smaller nebula set to Screen under Layer, so it only ever lightens what's below. Nebula Drift does both.

Nebula

Setting	Kind	Starts at	Range and notes
First colour`colour1`	colour	`#0b2a3a`	–
Second colour`colour2`	colour	`#7ce695`	–
Third colour`colour3`	colour	`#a98bff`	–
Cloud cover`coverage`	number	60%	0% to 100%
Size`size`	number	1×	0.3 to 4×
Swirl`swirl`	number	0.8×	0 to 2×
Speed`speed`	number	0.5×	0 to 3×
Depth`depth`	number	1.4×	0.5 to 3×
Brightness`brightness`	number	90%	0% to 200%
Detail`detail`	number	5	2 to 7More is finer, and heavier

From a script

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

scene.set("Nebula", "colour1", "#ff8a5c");scene.animate("Nebula", "opacity", 0.5, 2);

import { scene } from "motion";scene.set("Nebula", "colour1", "#ff8a5c");scene.animate("Nebula", "opacity", 0.5, 2);

Used in

The example scenes with a Nebula 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.

Nebula

Notes

Nebula

From a script

Used in

Notes from the community