FINALE Fireworks User Guide

Palm
Star tip
FINALE Fireworks User Guide
The tip of a star is its leading edge as it burst from a shell. The tip can begin “glowing” as soon as the star
emerges and can continue through the star’s duration. You make the tip visible by setting the Star > Tip effect
to something other than No tip.
Name
Color
Attribute
Color picker
Sets the tip’s color.
Second color
Color picker
If you set the star’s second color, half of the stars will be painted with the main color (the Color setting) and
the other half will be painted with the second color. The colors are randomly distributed amongst the stars.
Not all palms have a Second color control.
Size
Slider (Scaler)
Sets the magnitude of the tip’s glow. Unlike a shell tip, a star tip doesn’t have a “natural” size that’s based
on the Fireworks > Caliber setting. As you select larger or smaller caliber settings, you’ may want to increase
or decrease the value of this attribute.
Begin
End
Slider (Fraction)
Slider (Fraction)
These two sliders determine the points, along the star’s trajectory, at which the tip starts and stops glowing.
The default settings mean that the tip starts glowing 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 start the glow a quarter of the
way along the trajectory 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.
Not all palms have Begin and End controls.
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