FINALE Fireworks User Guide

Candle
Shell tip
FINALE Fireworks User Guide
The tip of a shell is its leading edge. Depending on the values you set in this tab, the tip can begin “glowing”
as soon as the shell is launched and can continue through the shell’s duration, ending at the burst point. You
make the tip visible by checking the Shell > Has tip checkbox. You then set the tip’s attributes through the
controls in this tab.
Name
Color
Attribute
Color picker
Sets the tip’s color.
Size
Slider (Scaler; 1.0 = natural size)
Sets the size of the tip’s glow. A value of 1.0 is the natural size, based on the Firework > Caliber setting. Other
values act as scalers on the natural size: 0.5 makes the tip half as large; 2.0 makes it twice as large.
Begin
End
Slider (Fraction)
Slider (Fraction)
These two sliders determine the points, along the shell’s trajectory, at which the tip starts and stops glowing.
If you set the sliders to 0.0 and 1.0, respectively, the tip will start glowing as soon as the shell is launched,
and disappears when the shell bursts. Settings of 0.25 and 0.75 would start the glow a quarter of the way
from the launch and extinguish it a quarter of the way from the burst.
The End value must be greater than the Begin value; if it isn’t, the tip won’t appear.
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