FINALE Fireworks User Guide

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Star tail
FINALE Fireworks User Guide
A star’s tail is the trail of glowing particles that it leaves behind after it’s emerged from its shell, and lasting
until it dies. You make the tail visible by setting the Tail effect, below, to something other than No tail. You can
then set the tail’s other attributes through the rest of the controls. Additional attributes are set through the
Star tail, cont. tab.
Name
Effect
Attribute
Menu
Lets you choose the type of tail you want the shell to display:
No tail. Use this effect to turn off the tail.
Thin. The particles are equally-spaced along the trajectory, and are of the same brightness and duration
(although with some randomness thrown in). The particles stay fairly close to the path of the trajectory.
Thick. This is the same as Thin but there are more particles, and they trace a wider path.
Glitter. The glitter tail is like the Thick tail, but with the randomness turned up. The increased variation in
particle and brightness gives the tail a glittery or twinkling effect.
Color
Color picker
Sets the tail’s color.
Begin
End
Slider (Fraction)
Slider (Fraction)
These two sliders determine the length of the star’s tail measured along the star’s trajectory. Settings of 0.0
and 1.0, respectively, mean that the tail begins as soon as the star emerges from the shell, and it disappears
when the star dies. Settings of 0.25 and 0.75 (for example) would cause the tail to appear a quarter of the way
along the trajectory and die out a quarter of the way from the end of the trajectory.
The End value must be greater than the Begin value; if it isn’t, the tail won’t appear.
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