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A warp effect that creates different types of ripples.
Main Controls
These controls govern the type of ripple and the quality of optional ripple shine that you want.
— Ripple Shape: Lets you choose from Circular, Square, Horizontal, Vertical, Exponential, Star, and Radial ripples.
— Wave Shape: Lets you choose from Sinusoidal, Triangular, Fresnel In, Fresnel Out, and Natural waves.
A set of Shine parameters lets you overlay a simulated shine on top of these ripples.
— Shine: A checkbox lets you turn this shine on and off.
— Shine Direction: Lets you add a light shine to the peaks of the ripples. Works best at low shine strength.
— Vertical Shine Height: Lets you adjust the thickness of the highlights running along the ripples.
— Shine Size: Lets you adjust the length of the highlights running along the ripples.
— Shine Strength: Lets you adjust the overall appearance of the shine.
— Animate: This checkbox, if checked, reveals a Speed slider that lets you set how quickly the ripple effect auto-animates the phase of the currently configured ripple effect, without the need to use keyframes.
Ripple Controls
A separate set of Ripple parameters lets you enable up to five overlapping ripples.
— Enable Ripple: A keyframable checkbox that will turn a particular ripple on or off.
— X and Y Position: Lets you change the center position of each set of ripples.
— Amplitude: Lets you adjust the “height” of each ripple caused by this effect.
— Frequency: Lets you choose how many ripples are being created.
— Decay: Lets you adjust the falloff of the ripple effect, where ripples gradually diminish as they reach the point of decay.
— Phase: Lets you adjust the phase of the ripple effect relative to the center origination point. If you want to animate a ripple simply, you can also choose to keyframe the Phase parameter to create the same effect created by the Animate checkbox above.
Vortex
Vortex begins as an S shaped warp effect, but you can adjust the parameters to create many types of warping effects.
— X and Y position: Two sliders let you offset the center of the warp.
— Size: Adjusts the diameter of the warp.