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Produces a deliberate on/off alarm cadence at a frame-rate-aware rate, with duty and phase controls instead of a breathing-style sine.

Use cases — An alarm or siren indicator running its deliberate on-off cadence during an alert.

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The rear caution colour. Builds a sequential arrow across the back of the vehicle telling following traffic which side to pass, then clears and repeats. Comes on when the vehicle slows, parks or blocks a lane. Drive every segment from this one template, each with its own index.

Use cases — The rear caution lights of an ambulance, sweeping as an arrow to push traffic around the vehicle.

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The command colour, a single beacon on one roof corner marking the vehicle as the incident command post. Blinks slowly so it reads as a fixed marker rather than a warning, while the red heads keep flashing around it. Can be held permanently lit instead.

Use cases — The single green command light marking the incident commander's vehicle on scene.

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The primary warning colour, seen from every side of the vehicle. Fires a burst of hard-edged LED flashes then holds dark. Stays lit at the scene, usually slowed down.

Use cases — The primary warning colour on an ambulance, visible from every side. The one to apply first.

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The clearing colour, mounted forward and to the sides. A short hard flash offset from the red head, bright enough to cut through daylight. Switched off once the vehicle parks, where it would dazzle approaching drivers.

Use cases — Forward and side clearing lights on an ambulance - the hard flash that cuts through at a distance.

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Alternates evenly between Minimum and Maximum, with a phase control for paired indicators, hazards, and convoys.

Use cases — A vehicle indicator or turn signal, with the phase control for offsetting the opposite side.

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Wanders organically between Minimum and Maximum with an uneven candle-like flicker.

Use cases — A candle, oil lamp, or tealight - the smallest and least predictable flame in the set.

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Clusters rapid deterministic activity into broader busy and idle periods, the cue that makes a status light read as data transfer rather than random blinking.

Use cases — A network, drive, or bus activity LED - busy in clusters, idle in between, never evenly spaced.

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Fires two quick hits up to Maximum with the chosen number of dark frames between them.

Use cases — A two-hit strobe pattern - European hazard beacons, emergency lighting, warning markers.

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Deterministic held contact failures create readable dark and lit blocks instead of frame noise.

Use cases — A failing bulb with a bad connection, cutting out in readable blocks rather than flickering evenly.

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Starter dropouts establish the tube before a restrained, frame-readable buzz remains; the visible rate is an animation proxy for mains-frequency modulation.

Use cases — A fluorescent tube striking - the stutter as the starter catches, then the steady buzz.

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Fast chaotic jitter whose authored rate remains visible instead of aliasing into unrelated frame-to-frame noise.

Use cases — Fast chaotic jitter, for broken electronics, interference, and damaged signals.

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A brightness wave that travels through a rig, using each lamp's own position along an axis as its place in the wave. Apply the same template to every lamp at once - no offsets to set up, and moving a lamp moves it within the wave.

Use cases — A brightness wave crossing a rig by each lamp's real position, so the wave follows the layout rather than the list order.

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A beam sweeping around a circle, using each lamp's own angle within the ring. Apply to every lamp at once - the sweep direction and spacing come from where the lamps actually sit, so an uneven ring still reads correctly. The ring's centre Empty carries it: move it and the ring follows, rotate it and the ring tilts with the sweep still running true.

Use cases — A beam sweeping around a ring of lights - radar displays, rotating beacons, circular installations.

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Rings of light spreading outward from a chosen object, using each lamp's true distance to it. Pick the centre as the Espresso input, then apply to every lamp. Because it measures real distance, the rings stay circular in any layout - and follow the centre if you animate it.

Use cases — Rings of light spreading out from a chosen object, for impacts, pulses, and shockwave lighting.

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Fires a sudden bright strike toward Maximum, then decays back toward Minimum with a choppy electrical tail.

Use cases — A single lightning flash lighting a scene, decaying back to the ambient level.

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Drives the first half of an alternating emergency-light rhythm, strobing between Minimum and Maximum.

Use cases — The red half of a police light bar. Apply Police Lights: Blue to the other side so the pair alternates.

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Drives the second half of an alternating emergency-light rhythm, trading off against the paired light.

Use cases — The blue half of a police light bar, alternating against the red. Both halves are needed for the rhythm.

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Phase-modulated brightness variation that reaches the declared Minimum and Maximum while remaining readable at 24 FPS.

Use cases — The light a TV, monitor, or phone throws onto a room, varying with what is on screen.

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Switches between Minimum and Maximum every cycle, with Duty controlling how long it stays high.

Use cases — The plain on-off blink for indicator lamps, and the one to reach for when nothing fancier is needed.

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Shows a steady boot glow, then switches to a repeating ready-state blink pattern.

Use cases — A device powering up: a steady boot glow that switches to a ready-state blink once it has started.

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Produces very short, sharp bursts to Maximum with a clean return to Minimum.

Use cases — A hard, short strobe: club lighting, camera flashes, or a warning beacon.

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Builds a sequential arrow across a row of light heads, then clears and repeats. Drive every head from this one template, each with its own index.

Use cases — A directional arrow bar on a police, recovery, or works vehicle telling traffic which way to pass.

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The amber aspect of a signal head, including the UK/EU red+amber phase before green. Timed in frames.

Use cases — The amber aspect of a signal head, including the red-and-amber phase used in the UK and EU.

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The green aspect of a signal head. Runs green, then dark while amber and red take their turns. Timed in frames so it lands straight on the timeline.

Use cases — The green aspect of a signal head, dark while red and amber take their turns.

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The red aspect of a signal head. Lit while green and amber take their turns. Timed in frames.

Use cases — The red aspect of a traffic signal head. Apply the amber and green aspects to the other two lamps.

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Pops from Minimum to Maximum three times with the chosen dark gap between hits, then pauses before repeating.

Use cases — A three-hit strobe pattern for emergency and warning lights that need a busier signature.

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An analogue clock hand - second, minute, or hour - in either movement: Stepped snaps between tick positions like a quartz watch, Smooth sweep glides continuously. Both keep exactly the same time.

Use cases — One template for every analogue hand - use the Second/Minute/Hour Hand buttons above the parameters to set Marks on dial and Seconds per revolution together in one click. Switch Movement to Smooth sweep for a sweeping second hand or a continuously creeping hour hand. Set Start hour/minute/second to the time the clock should read at frame 1 - the same three fields Digital Clock uses, so both read the same time. Apply once per hand object.

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Moves a ticking hand by an exact amount of clock time over a chosen frame span, then holds the final position.

Use cases — A clock, stopwatch, or dial that jumps forward by a set amount of time and then stops - a time-skip beat.

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Moves a ticking hand by an exact amount of clock time, then restarts after the chosen frame span.

Use cases — The same time advance, repeating - a clock face for a montage or a looping background element.

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Ticks a property down to zero in visible chosen increments over an exact frame duration, then holds at zero. The starting number is whatever the property means - seconds on a timer, percent on a loading bar, points on a scoreboard.

Use cases — Drive a timer readout, a depleting progress or health bar, a fuel gauge, or a score ticking to zero. Set Countdown start to the number the property begins at and Animation duration to how many frames it should take to reach zero.

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A dial that jumps between 24 evenly spaced positions rather than sweeping smoothly, one step at a time.

Use cases — Use for 24-hour selectors, indexed knobs, and day-cycle indicators.

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A digital time readout - hours, minutes, or seconds - from one shared clock start time, for driving a custom property or any numeric target.

Use cases — One template covering all three digit groups. Set Start hour/minute/second to the time the clock should read at frame 1, pick Value (Hours, Minutes, or Seconds), and apply. Repeat with a different Value for each remaining digit group. There is no built-in on-screen digit display in this release; drive a custom property and read it from your own text/geometry-nodes setup.

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Swings a metronome arm from side to side at the chosen musical tempo; each extreme marks one beat.

Use cases — Drive the rotation of a metronome arm or another alternating tempo indicator. Use Beat Pulse (BPM) when the target should flash or pulse instead.

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Switches a small multi-axis compressor vibration on for a controllable portion of each appliance cycle.

Use cases — A fridge, freezer, or dehumidifier whose compressor kicks in for part of the hour and then goes quiet - the vibration is the tell, not the motion.

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Runs a repeatable open-hold-close attempt, then reopens at the chosen obstruction frame. It does not sense geometry, collisions, or a live safety input.

Use cases — An automatic door that starts to close, senses something in the way, and reopens - the beat for a character catching a lift or a box in the threshold.

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Moves the left leaf through a deterministic open, hold, and close cycle; use the paired right-leaf role for a two-panel doorway.

Use cases — The left leaf of an automatic shop, lift, or station door. Apply the Right Leaf template to its partner so the pair opens together.

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Moves the right leaf opposite the paired left leaf through the same deterministic open, hold, and close cycle.

Use cases — The right leaf of an automatic sliding pair, mirroring the left. Both leaves must share the same timing to read as one door.

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Accelerates a fan from rest towards its running RPM with a first-order response (the response time constant), then holds that speed.

Use cases — A ceiling or extractor fan starting from rest, where the blades take real time to come up to speed before settling into a steady spin.

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Closes smoothly, then adds a small damped latch contact instead of stopping dead.

Use cases — A door closing normally, where the latch bumping into the strike plate is the detail that sells it. Reach for this over Soft Close when the door is not on a hydraulic hinge.

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Opens a door through an eased, endpoint-safe arc and holds it open.

Use cases — A door, gate, or hatch that swings open and stays open. The safe default when the shot just needs the door out of the way without drawing attention to itself.

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Drives the door hard into the frame and lets it spring back, decaying into place instead of stopping dead.

Use cases — A door thrown shut in anger or by wind, where it hits the frame hard enough to spring back off the stop before settling.

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Closes on a hydraulic soft-close hinge: quick at first, then easing to a crawl so it never slams or bounces.

Use cases — A hydraulic or damped hinge - fire doors, high-end cabinetry, appliance lids - where the door crawls the last few degrees and never bangs.

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Pulls a door that failed to catch back open, then drives it home so the latch bites, ringing briefly on impact.

Use cases — The second attempt, after a door failed to catch: pulled back open and pushed home properly. Use it when the story beat is the door not closing the first time.

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Swings the left leaf outward and returns it to centre on a deterministic double-action spring-hinge curve.

Use cases — The left leaf of a saloon, kitchen, or hospital door that swings both ways and settles back to centre. Pair with the Right Leaf.

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Swings the right leaf opposite the paired left leaf and returns it to centre on the same deterministic spring-hinge curve.

Use cases — The right leaf of a double-action pair, swinging opposite the left. Use both so the doors part and return together.

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Closes most of the travel quickly, then crawls through the final approach like a hydraulic drawer damper.

Use cases — A soft-close drawer, fridge tray, or sliding shelf pushed in - fast for most of the travel, then crawling the last inch.

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Moves a cabin between floors with eased acceleration while motor vibration fades in and out during travel.

Use cases — A lift cabin travelling between floors, where the passenger feels the start and the stop. Also fits platform lifts and stage elevators.

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Makes a pendant lamp trace a subtle elliptical sway rather than moving on one perfectly flat axis.

Use cases — A pendant lamp, caged bulb, or hanging light disturbed by a draught or a passing character - it traces an ellipse rather than swinging flat.

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Wind-driven sign swing with a smaller hinge-creak harmonic and suspension travel.

Use cases — A pub, shop, or motel sign hanging from a bracket, swinging and creaking in wind. Also fits hanging lanterns and inn signs.

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Fast motor vibration plus slower load-driven body rock for a countertop mixer.

Use cases — A countertop blender, food processor, or stand mixer walking slightly on the worktop while it runs.

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Opens from zero to the chosen angle, accelerating after the over-centre threshold. The snap curve is deterministic and does not model hysteresis or remember direction.

Use cases — A lid, hood, tailgate, or flight case that resists at first and then falls open once it passes the hinge's over-centre point.

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Machine-body vibration and restrained table rock at the rhythm of the needle mechanism, with slower variation as fabric feeds through.

Use cases — A sewing machine running a seam, with the table picking up the needle's rhythm.

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Raises and rotates one rigid, one-piece garage-door panel with a soft start and stop; it does not imitate a sectional roll-up door.

Use cases — A one-piece, rigid garage or hangar door that lifts and tilts as a single panel. Not for sectional doors that fold into segments.

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Uneven drum load drives correlated cabinet travel and rocking during a spin cycle.

Use cases — A washing machine on a spin cycle with an unbalanced load, rocking and creeping across the floor.

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Fast glazing and frame rattle whose size rises and falls with a slower wind-gust envelope.

Use cases — Loose glazing or a badly fitted frame buzzing during a storm - the rattle rides on the gust, so it comes and goes.

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Creates a tempo-synced bass or filter wobble whose Wub shape blends from rounded motion into a descending sawtooth sweep.

Use cases — A dubstep or electronic bass wobble driving a filter, a mesh, or a light.

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Creates a frame-rate-aware pulse on every beat at the requested musical tempo.

Use cases — Anything that should move on the beat of a track at a known BPM - the starting point for music-driven animation.

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Emphasizes the first beat of every four-beat bar while retaining smaller pulses on the other beats.

Use cases — Emphasising the first beat of each bar, so a looping motion reads in bars instead of beats.

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Produces short evenly subdivided ticks for hi-hat, sequencer, or rapid indicator timing.

Use cases — Fast subdivisions on the hats - the busy layer above the kick and snare.

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Produces a strong fast-decaying kick envelope once per beat.

Use cases — A hit on the kick drum: speaker cones, camera punches, or a light stabbing on the low end.

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Creates a primary snare hit followed by a controllable smaller second hit while keeping their combined envelope within Hit amount.

Use cases — A snare with a ghost note behind it, for backbeats that need more than a single hit.

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Creates a predictable BPM-synchronised pumping curve without pretending to analyse audio. Use Sidechain Duck when a real envelope property is available.

Use cases — The pumping, ducking feel of sidechain compression when there is no audio envelope to read.

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Modulates a value around its center at a tempo-synchronized tremolo rate.

Use cases — A tempo-synced tremolo on volume, brightness, or any value that should waver around its centre.

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Stays at Minimum until the exact trigger frame, then switches instantly to Maximum.

Use cases — A switch that flips once on an exact frame and stays flipped - visibility, states, and hard cuts.

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Jumps to Maximum only inside the exact chosen frame window and stays at Minimum outside it.

Use cases — Something on only between two frames and off outside them, for timed reveals and gated effects.

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Ignore small source values around zero, then scale the remaining signal.

Use cases — Use for joystick-style controls, noisy custom properties, facial controls, or soft switches.

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Use only the portion of a source value below a threshold.

Use cases — Use when only negative movement should drive a target, such as compressing, closing, or dimming.

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Use only the portion of a source value above a threshold.

Use cases — Use when only positive movement should drive a target, such as opening, stretching, or brightening.

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Switch between two values when a source property crosses a threshold.

Use cases — Use for visibility, light on/off, constraint gates, material switching values, or triggered effects.

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Holds at Minimum through the delay frame, then advances once to Maximum by the scene end.

Use cases — Holding still until a chosen frame, then moving once. The simplest way to stagger a single object.

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Starts at Minimum, then rises in a straight line to Maximum over the ramp length and holds there.

Use cases — Bringing something up from nothing: a light, an opacity, an influence value.

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Rises from Minimum to Maximum, holds briefly, then falls back toward Minimum.

Use cases — A one-shot appearance: up, hold, and away again. Titles, pop-ups, and passing effects.

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Starts near Maximum and fades back down toward Minimum after the chosen start frame.

Use cases — Taking something down to nothing, for exits, dissolves, and powering off.

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Repeats a pulse that pops up to Maximum for the chosen duration, then returns to Minimum each cycle.

Use cases — A repeating on-off pulse, for warning lamps, heartbeats, and cyclic triggers.

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Turns to the requested final angle while a chosen number of damped rebounds cross the destination and settle exactly on it.

Use cases — A turn that overshoots and rebounds before it settles - dials, levers, and stylised hero turns.

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Climbs at a steady rate for as long as the scene runs, never resetting.

Use cases — Anything that turns or climbs forever without resetting - fans, drills, turntables, running counters.

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Holds still before the scene, spins up from a standstill over the chosen frames, then maintains full speed. Cruises at the same rate as Constant Speed for the same Speed value.

Use cases — A wheel, fan, or turntable that has to start from a genuine standstill rather than snapping into motion.

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Complete a rotation over a custom frame period.

Use cases — One full rotation over a frame count you choose, when the loop has to match a cut or a beat rather than the scene.

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Ramps through one full rotation in radians, then snaps back to zero and repeats.

Use cases — A ramp that snaps back to zero - use it where the reset is invisible, such as a texture offset or a wrapped angle.

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One or more rotations across the scene frame range.

Use cases — A rotation that comes out exactly even across the scene range, for turntables and looping renders.

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Climbs from Minimum to Maximum in discrete jumps, then holds without exceeding the selected range.

Use cases — Climbing in discrete jumps, for stepped meters, gear selectors, and quantised readouts.

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Swells smoothly from Minimum up to Maximum and eases back down like a breathing glow.

Use cases — A slow swell used as an ambient pulse - standby lights, magic, UI glow, anything that should feel alive but calm.

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Bounded loop that starts at the low value.

Use cases — A bounded loop starting at the low end, for values that should begin off and swell up.

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Oscillation that starts at the maximum value.

Use cases — The same oscillation, but starting at the top - use it when the motion must already be at full swing on frame one.

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Multiple bounded cosine pulses.

Use cases — Several bounded pulses starting at the low value, for repeated swells that must begin at rest.

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Repeats a generic value wave inside explicit Minimum and Maximum bounds rather than around zero.

Use cases — Several complete waves inside explicit limits, when the count of cycles matters more than the rate.

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Shift where the wave begins using a familiar degree control.

Use cases — Staggering copies of the same wave across several objects, so a row does not move in lockstep.

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Instant high value that ramps down.

Use cases — The opposite ramp: full immediately, then draining away. Depleting bars, cooldowns, discharges.

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Ramps from zero to an arbitrary Peak value, then resets instantly; unlike Repeating Rotation Ramp it carries no angular meaning.

Use cases — A value that builds and drops instantly - reloading meters, sweeping scanners, wrapping offsets.

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Generic value loop that starts at center.

Use cases — A value loop that starts at its midpoint, for fades and modulations that should begin neutral.

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Repeats an angular swing equally to either side of zero, controlled by a familiar degree amplitude.

Use cases — Several swings either side of a centre, for wagging, scanning, and repeated angular motion measured in degrees.

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Smooth back-and-forth oscillation.

Use cases — The default back-and-forth: pendulums, breathing, hovering, and any gentle repeating motion.

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Alternates between high and low.

Use cases — Hard on-off switching with no in-between - visibility, boolean toggles, stepped states.

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Linear up/down triangle wave.

Use cases — Even travel up and back with no easing, for mechanical scanning and linear shuttles.

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Holds the subject's size on screen while the camera moves: focal length follows the live distance to the Subject. Move the camera by hand, with Dolly Move or along a Route.

Use cases — Holds the subject's size on screen while the camera moves: focal length follows the live distance to the Subject. Move the camera by hand, with Dolly Move or along a Route.

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Exposure impulse with physically legible recovery timing for flashes and practical lights.

Use cases — Exposure impulse with physically legible recovery timing for flashes and practical lights.

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Rack focus between two distances with a smooth pull (cosine) or a minimum-jerk pull (quintic), plus operator focus drift (hunting). Set Near and Far equal for a held focus that hunts.

Use cases — Rack focus between two distances with a smooth pull (cosine) or a minimum-jerk pull (quintic), plus operator focus drift (hunting). Set Near and Far equal for a held focus that hunts.

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Rack focus between two objects that may keep moving: focus travels from Rack From to Rack To over the Duration, following them live.

Use cases — Rack focus between two objects that may keep moving: focus travels from Rack From to Rack To over the Duration, following them live.

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Hero Orbit with editable endpoints and an authored arrival settle. Smooth travel is a cosine ease; Minimum jerk is the quintic trajectory with zero velocity and acceleration at both ends.

Use cases — Hero Orbit with editable endpoints and an authored arrival settle. Smooth travel is a cosine ease; Minimum jerk is the quintic trajectory with zero velocity and acceleration at both ends.

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Animates optical shift for architectural correction and controlled reframing without rotating the camera.

Use cases — Animates optical shift for architectural correction and controlled reframing without rotating the camera.

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Bounded projector shutter, film-density and splice character with deterministic playback.

Use cases — Bounded projector shutter, film-density and splice character with deterministic playback.

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A shaped optical zoom with controllable ramp and subtle mechanical lens character.

Use cases — A shaped optical zoom with controllable ramp and subtle mechanical lens character.

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Fork vibration, handlebar flex, and larger gravel jolts sharing one surface rhythm.

Use cases — Bicycle handlebars, helmet rigs, motorcycles, carts, and compact cameras on rough paths.

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Long vessel swell, quicker chop, and coherent deck rotation for mounted cameras.

Use cases — Boats, ferries, floating docks, marine platforms, and cameras on moving decks.

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Chest-mounted gait with torso asymmetry and a slower breathing layer.

Use cases — Body cameras, chest rigs, first-person patrol footage, and torso-mounted devices.

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Slow boom flex and remote-head sway with a single coherent structural response.

Use cases — Camera cranes, jibs, telescopic arms, suspended heads, and long flexible mounts.

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Stabilized drift with delayed, small motor catch-up corrections instead of perfect locking.

Use cases — Gimbals, remote heads, stabilized drones, robotic cameras, and imperfect motorized rigs.

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Weighted six-channel response with slower direction changes and small delayed follow-through.

Use cases — Cinema shoulder rigs, large lenses, matte-box builds, steadicam sleds, and heavy handheld packages.

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Slow six-channel operator drift for documentary, observational, and lightly handheld shots.

Use cases — Documentary and observational coverage, where the operator is watching rather than chasing.

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Dolly Move with editable endpoints and an authored arrival settle. Smooth travel is a cosine ease; Minimum jerk is the quintic trajectory with zero velocity and acceleration at both ends.

Use cases — Dolly Move with editable endpoints and an authored arrival settle. Smooth travel is a cosine ease; Minimum jerk is the quintic trajectory with zero velocity and acceleration at both ends.

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Layers three flame rhythms into a warm, bounded campfire brightness pattern.

Use cases — A campfire, fireplace, or brazier - the warm, steady, unhurried flame.

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Creates a finite, repeatable sequence of irregular electrical sparks, dark before and after the event.

Use cases — A shorting cable, failing junction box, or damaged panel throwing irregular sparks.

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Breathes slowly like a cooling coal with a smaller uneven surface shimmer.

Use cases — Coals, embers, or cooling slag breathing slowly after the flame has gone out.

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Raises power smoothly to one strong midpoint peak, then returns exactly to normal.

Use cases — A one-off surge through a light, console, or power line that rises to a peak and returns.

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Creates a smooth periodic reactor-energy pulse with an adjustable focused peak.

Use cases — A reactor, core, or power source pulsing steadily - the ambient throb of something running hot.

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Keeps a torch mostly bright while adding quick upward flutter and occasional fuel dips.

Use cases — A handheld torch or wall sconce, brighter and quicker than a campfire, with the odd flutter.

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Produces deterministic irregular arc hits inside a repeating work-and-pause welding cycle.

Use cases — A welder working: harsh irregular arc light during the weld, then dark while they reposition.

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X channel for a circular orbit with an adjustable starting point.

Use cases — The X half of a circular orbit. Apply Circle Orbit: Y to the same object's Y channel.

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Y channel for a circular orbit with an adjustable starting point.

Use cases — The Y half of a circular orbit, paired with the X channel on the same object.

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X channel for figure-8 motion.

Use cases — The X half of a figure-eight path, for patrolling drones and looping flight. Pair with the Y channel.

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Y channel for figure-8 motion.

Use cases — The Y half of a figure-eight path, paired with the X channel on the same object.

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X channel for an outward or inward spiral.

Use cases — The X half of a spiral path, winding in or out. Pair with the Y channel.

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Y channel for an outward or inward spiral.

Use cases — The Y half of a spiral path, paired with the X channel on the same object.

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Convert a live degrees property into the radians a rotation channel expects.

Use cases — Use when driving rotation values with artist-friendly degree controls.

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Convert a 0 to 1 control into a centered -1 to 1 style output.

Use cases — Use for left/right, up/down, forward/back controls from a normalized slider.

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Convert a centered input range into a clamped bipolar output.

Use cases — Use with custom properties where center is neutral and both sides drive opposite motion.

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Apply a power curve to a mapped control.

Use cases — Use to make controls slow at first and stronger near the end, or use power below 1 for a fast start.

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Apply a simple multiplier and offset to a source property.

Use cases — Use for direct one-property-controls-another setups where only scale and offset are needed.

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Map a source property range into a target output range.

Use cases — Use when Property B from 1 to 2 should drive Property A from 0.2 to 0.8, 0.4 to 1.8, or any other range.

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Convert any source property range into a normalized 0 to 1 control signal.

Use cases — Use before feeding a property into another expression, shader control, constraint influence, or shape key value.

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Map a source range into an output range and clamp overshoot.

Use cases — Use for sliders, custom properties, color channels, influence values, and materials where output must stay inside limits.

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Convert a normalized 0 to 1 controller into any output range.

Use cases — Use with custom property sliders, shape keys, geometry node values, material strengths, and influence channels.

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Map a source range to the opposite output direction.

Use cases — Use when a controller rising should make the target fall, such as closing a lid, dimming a light, or reducing influence.

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Invert a normalized 0 to 1 controller.

Use cases — Use when one control should drive an opposite influence, inverse fade, or complementary shape key.

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Change control sensitivity while preserving the sign of the input.

Use cases — Use to make small values gentler while keeping large control motion expressive.

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Ease a mapped control with a smoother S-curve.

Use cases — Use where smoothstep still feels too abrupt at the start or end.

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Ease a mapped control with a smooth S-curve.

Use cases — Use for soft mechanical controls, shape-key blends, constraint influence, and material transitions.

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Compress large source values into a soft output limit.

Use cases — Use when you want a target to approach a limit smoothly instead of hard clipping.

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Seamless crossfade over a custom frame range.

Use cases — The same seamless crossfade over a frame range you choose, for loops that must match a cut.

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Seamless non-integer cycle loop for scene range.

Use cases — Looping a wave seamlessly across the whole scene range when the cycle count is not a whole number.

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Moves linearly between two explicit bounds, making it the ping-pong choice for a range that does not begin at zero.

Use cases — Travel between two explicit limits and back, when the exact endpoints are what matter.

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Moves linearly from zero to one Target value and back, with one endpoint control instead of a Minimum/Maximum range.

Use cases — Travel from zero out to a target and back, when only the far end needs setting.

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Remap with hard output limits.

Use cases — The same remap with hard limits, for anything that must never exceed its bounds.

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Map a frame window into an output range.

Use cases — Turning a chosen span of frames into an output range, when the motion must fill exactly that window.

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Produces a normalized value that runs from Maximum at the scene start to Minimum at the scene end.

Use cases — Running a normalized value backwards through the scene, for rewinds and reversed effects.

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Fade output down as the source value moves away from a center.

Use cases — Use for proximity-like effects from a single controller channel, focus falloff, or influence zones.

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Ripples one eased move through an array, each object starting a fixed number of frames after the one before it.

Use cases — Rippling one move through an array so each copy starts a fixed number of frames after the last.

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Runs a self-contained indexing demonstration when no shared conveyor controller is needed.

Use cases — A stop-start indexing conveyor for a demo or layout pass, where no shared controller has been set up yet.

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Speed signal: a normalized speed that ramps up, cruises, and ramps down each cycle. Rotor motion: the angle a rotor turns under that speed, integrated exactly, so it keeps turning through the cruise and never unwinds.

Use cases — An extractor, cooling, or industrial fan that starts, runs, and spins down within the shot.

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Maps a live instrument value into discrete needle positions between the chosen empty and full angles.

Use cases — Use for fuel, pressure, battery, temperature, and other stepped instrument needles driven by a real property.

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Turns the driven gear from the driving gear's real rotation and the two tooth counts. Right-click the driving gear's rotation and Use as Espresso Input first - whatever moves that gear then moves this one, at the ratio the teeth dictate.

Use cases — A driven gear that must stay meshed with a driving gear - it reads the other gear's real rotation, so the teeth never slip.

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Combines a primary motor vibration with one mechanical harmonic while preserving the amplitude bound.

Use cases — Any running machine that should buzz where it stands - pumps, generators, compressors, workshop tools.

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A self-running demonstration cycle for previewing reciprocating travel when no crank object is available. It is intentionally time driven; use Piston from Crank for a real linkage.

Use cases — Previewing reciprocating travel when there is no crank to read yet - a self-running stand-in for look development.

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Simulates a rotating-beam brightness cycle without requiring a physical rotor or receiver.

Use cases — The brightness cycle of a rotating beacon when nothing actually spins - cheaper, and fine when the housing is never seen turning.

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Sweeps from the resting angle to the far edge and back once per chosen cycle.

Use cases — Wipers on a car, train, or boat, sweeping and returning at a set rate.

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Spring-like oscillation that remains at rest before the scene begins, reaches the chosen first crest, then settles over time.

Use cases — Anything that should wobble to a stop after being disturbed - the general-purpose settle.

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Ease-in A to B transition that holds before and after the scene range.

Use cases — A move that starts gently and arrives at speed, for something being released or falling away.

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Ease-out A to B transition that holds before and after the scene range.

Use cases — A move that starts fast and settles, the most natural choice for a thing coming to rest.

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A to B transition that crosses the destination by the chosen fraction of the travel before settling exactly on it.

Use cases — A transition that overshoots past its destination before settling, for UI pops and stylised arrivals.

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Linear A to B transition that holds before and after the scene range.

Use cases — A move from A to B at constant speed, for mechanical travel and readouts that must not ease.

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Ultra-smooth A to B transition that holds before and after the scene range.

Use cases — The same move with even softer ends, for slow beauty shots where smoothstep still shows its start.

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Smooth A to B transition that holds before and after the scene range.

Use cases — The standard eased A-to-B move, gentle at both ends. The safe default for reveals and fades.

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Slow wandering drift.

Use cases — Slow aimless wandering, for drifting particles, lazy searchlights, and unsteady movement.

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Three coordinated expressions for a seamless noise loop: W Offset 1, W Offset 2, and Mix Factor.

Use cases — Loop a noise texture seamlessly using two identical noise textures and a Mix node. Apply W Offset 1 to the first noise W, W Offset 2 to the second noise W, and Mix Factor to the Mix node Fac.

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Layered slow drift that stays organic without turning into frame-to-frame jitter.

Use cases — Ambient drift for hovering craft, floating props, and magic - alive without ever twitching.

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Holds pseudo-random values for N frames.

Use cases — Values that hold for a few frames then jump - stop-motion looks, digital readouts, glitch cuts.

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Places an exact event-centred ear pulse inside a longer autonomous idle interval; use it as a repeatable demo when no external trigger drives the rig.

Use cases — An animal's ear flicking once in a while during an idle - the small autonomous beat that makes a creature look alive.

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Flicks the gaze between resting points on an uneven beat, with the small tremor that keeps a real eye from ever holding perfectly still. For rigs where you turn the eyeball bone itself.

Use cases — Eyeballs rotated directly, with no aim target in the rig - the same darting, for rigs that turn the eye itself.

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Three-axis fine tremor for hands, fingers, held props, or creature extremities.

Use cases — Hands, fingers, or a held prop that should shake - from cold, age, fear, strain, or a creature's fine muscle activity.

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Layers small mismatched rotations to keep an otherwise static head naturally alive.

Use cases — A head that has to hold still on camera - during dialogue, a portrait, or a listening beat - without going statue-stiff.

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Generates two quick pulses per cycle, rising toward Maximum and settling back to Minimum between beats.

Use cases — Drive a shape key, material emission strength, custom property, light energy, or any scalar response with a recognizable heartbeat. Also suits beacons, warning lights, and other lighting pulses.

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Creates a recognizable two-hit pulse across coordinated body scale channels.

Use cases — A visible heartbeat: a creature's chest under strain, a character in fear, or a stylised pulse on a body or prop.

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Adds a slow vertical breath and gentle chest expansion while preserving a stable idle base.

Use cases — Any standing character who must not look frozen between beats - the baseline idle you put on before anything else.

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Produces a compact smooth blink on an uneven, human-looking interval without hand-keying eyelids.

Use cases — A character's eyelids during dialogue or a hold, blinking on a human-looking interval so nobody has to key them.

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Creates a faster, stronger running cadence with coordinated three-axis body travel and rotation.

Use cases — A character running or sprinting, with harder vertical impacts than a walk and more of the body committed to it.

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Combines a main wag with a smaller harmonic so the tail changes direction less mechanically.

Use cases — A tail on a dog, cat, dragon, or creature, changing direction unevenly so it never reads as a metronome.

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Builds a frame-rate-aware walking cadence with side sway, vertical steps, pitch, and body roll.

Use cases — A character walking, where the body should rise, sway, and turn with each step without hand-keying the cadence.

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Part 3 of 3 — apply to the chest control. Tips the shoulders against the pelvis so the head stays over the feet, arriving a beat behind the transfer. The chest parks with one shared strength, the average of Hold Left, Hold Center and Hold Right; it does not hold each side separately as the hips and torso do.

Use cases — Part 3 of 3, on the chest. Counter-rotates the shoulders against the hips so the pose stays balanced.

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Part 2 of 3 — apply to the hips control. Tips the pelvis so the standing hip rises and the free hip drops. This is the part that reads as weight changing legs, and it deliberately rolls against the torso sway.

Use cases — Part 2 of 3, on the hips. Drops the pelvis onto the standing leg. Needs the torso and chest parts to read.

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Part 1 of 3 — apply to the torso control. The sideways sway of the whole mass and the rise onto each planted foot. Translation only; the pelvis roll rides on the Hips part.

Use cases — Part 1 of 3, on the torso. A standing character shifting their weight during a long hold. Apply all three parts for the full idle.

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Coordinates flap, fold, and a smaller feathering twist across all three Euler channels.

Use cases — A bird, bat, insect, or winged creature in flight, with fold and feathering handled alongside the flap.

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Separates a readable charge ramp, a stronger firing peak, and a finite recovery to rest.

Use cases — A sci-fi weapon that visibly charges before it fires: plasma casters, rail guns, boss weapons.

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Creates one damped half-sine recoil kick that returns exactly to rest after its duration.

Use cases — The weapon itself kicking back on a shot and returning exactly to its rest pose.

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Jumps to a bright impact peak, decays exponentially, then returns exactly to rest.

Use cases — The moment a round or projectile hits something - a bright pop that decays back to nothing.

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Fires once per rate slot while a bounded deterministic timing variation keeps the cadence from reading as mechanically perfect.

Use cases — Sustained automatic fire, where the timing varies slightly shot to shot instead of stuttering mechanically.

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Fires a user-selected number of tightly spaced shots, then waits before the next burst.

Use cases — A burst-fire weapon - a controlled group of shots, then a pause before the next group.

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Hits full brightness on one exact fire frame, decays rapidly, then stays at rest.

Use cases — A single shot: pistol, rifle, or any weapon fired once on an exact frame.

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Starts displaced after a shot, then settles exponentially with an optional mechanical wobble.

Use cases — The wobble after the kick - the weapon or the shooter's arms settling back down.

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Throws a casing into a fast tumble at the ejection frame, then lets air drag bleed the spin away.

Use cases — A spent casing thrown clear and tumbling in the air after ejection.

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Creates a short repeating visibility pulse that can be offset across multiple tracer objects.

Use cases — Tracer rounds or repeating projectile flashes, offset across several objects so they read as a stream.

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Layers mismatched vibration rates across location and rotation for a believable idling vehicle body.

Use cases — A vehicle parked with the engine running - a stakeout, a pickup waiting, anything idling in shot.

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Raises vibration strength and frequency together over a controllable engine-rev window.

Use cases — An engine being revved, where the vibration should get both stronger and faster as it climbs.

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Blends slow carriage sway with faster rail-joint rattle across four coordinated channels.

Use cases — A train carriage, tram, or subway car - the slow body sway plus the rattle of rail joints underneath it.

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Integrates a smooth acceleration from rest, then continues at an exact frame-rate-aware target RPM.

Use cases — A helicopter, drone, or turbine coming up to speed from rest and holding an exact running RPM.

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Converts a distance driver variable into physically matched wheel rotation using the wheel radius.

Use cases — A wheel, tyre, or roller that must match the distance the vehicle actually travels, so it never spins or skids.

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Compresses one axis while widening the other two, then damps the impact deformation away.

Use cases — The frame of contact itself: a character landing, a fruit hitting a table, a cartoon prop taking a hit and deforming under it.

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Uses phase-shifted scale waves to create a soft volume-aware jelly motion.

Use cases — Jelly, custard, slime, tofu, or a stylised blob - a soft body wobbling on its own without needing a physics sim.

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Combines a short vertical landing response with volume-aware squash and damped recovery.

Use cases — A character or creature touching down from a jump, where the legs compress and push back up.

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A single hit excites a fast loose-panel rattle that returns exactly to rest.

Use cases — An unsecured hatch, vent cover, hubcap, or ceiling tile buzzing after a nearby impact and going quiet again.

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Moves toward a target with controlled overshoot, then holds it as the oscillation dies away.

Use cases — Any control that should arrive by going slightly too far first - a UI panel sliding in, a robot arm reaching a pose, a lid flipping up.

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Adds a damped wobble after a chosen frame and settles precisely toward the rest value.

Use cases — A cushion, mattress, water balloon, or gel prop wobbling to a stop after something lands on it.

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A heavy, rigid ball that gives its energy to the floor rather than storing it. Lane give controls how much the surface swallows, so the rebound dies quickly and the ball never deforms.

Use cases — A bowling ball, cannonball, boulder, or anything heavy enough that it thuds and stops rather than bouncing away.

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A dense, near-rigid ball whose dimples earn it lift. Backspin extends the hang and pushes the apex later, so the arc flattens out rather than falling symmetrically.

Use cases — A golf ball landing on a fairway or hard ground - dense, lively, and running on for a long time after the first hit.

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Almost no mass behind a large frontal area, so air drag strongly reshapes and damps the flight even though the rigid shell retains substantial impact speed on a standard hard surface.

Use cases — A ping-pong ball, hollow plastic toy, or polystyrene prop - so light that the air stops it before the floor does.

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The liveliest ball, and the only one that punishes a hard landing. Speed sensitivity lowers the effective bounciness as the release height rises, so a big drop settles sooner than the raw bounciness suggests.

Use cases — A superball, bouncy ball, or rubber toy - the ball that comes back highest and keeps going the longest.

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The reference flexible ball. Felt nap adds drag, and a long contact dwell keeps it squashed against the floor for a readable beat before it leaves. Stays round near the apex, stretches into contact, and snaps out again on the rebound.

Use cases — A tennis ball on court, and the sensible middle choice when you want a bouncing ball and do not want to think about materials.

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Holds coherent bright states with occasional short dark dropouts like a failing fluorescent or neon tube.

Use cases — A neon sign that is already lit but failing, dropping out briefly and coming back.

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Ramps from an off glow while rapid start-up dropouts fade into stable neon output.

Use cases — A neon or cold-cathode sign warming up from cold into a stable glow.

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Holds one colour, then swaps hard to another and back - the Christmas-string look. Two colour swatches, no fade between them. Offsetting alternate lamps by one swap puts neighbours on opposite colours.

Use cases — Two colours swapping hard with no blend - Christmas lights, hazard markers, retro signage.

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Cycles hard through three chosen colours, holding each in turn with no fade between them. Three colour swatches; offsetting consecutive lamps by one hold puts each on a different colour of the three.

Use cases — Three colours cycling in turn, for signage and light rigs that need more than a two-colour swap.

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Fades one chosen colour smoothly up and back down without ever changing its hue.

Use cases — One chosen colour fading in and out without shifting hue - standby indicators and calm accent lighting.

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A hard-edged block of light marching along a row of lamps and wrapping at the end - the fairground marquee look. Apply to every lamp with Apply as Sequence, stepping by the step duration.

Use cases — A block of light marching along a row of lamps - marquee signs, arcade cabinets, runway markers.

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Sweeps the full colour spectrum at an even pace, every hue at full saturation.

Use cases — A light or emissive material sweeping the full spectrum - party lighting, RGB hardware, idle sci-fi glow.

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A bright head with a linear fading tail, travelling along a row and wrapping. Apply to every lamp with Apply as Sequence, stepping by the step duration.

Use cases — A bright head with a fading tail running along a strip, for LED strips and sci-fi conduits.

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Flickers warm reds and oranges unevenly, the way a flame or a bed of embers does. Give each light its own seed so no two flicker together.

Use cases — A strip or cluster of lamps standing in for fire - warm colours flickering unevenly across the group.

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Steps through the Colour Ramp configured in Parameters, holding each colour before moving on. Apply it to a colour socket and Driver Espresso copies that exact ramp into the material, then animates its Factor. Add as many colour stops as you like; the expression automatically follows the ramp's actual stop count.

Use cases — Stepping through a Colour Ramp you have authored, so the palette is exactly the one you picked.

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Each lamp holds a deterministic random on/off state and re-rolls on a beat - a starfield or fairy-light sparkle. Give every lamp a different seed rather than an offset, so they twinkle independently instead of in a marching pattern.

Use cases — Fairy lights, star fields, or city windows switching on and off independently.

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Combines a slow trunk bend with a smaller secondary sway while remaining centered.

Use cases — A tree, mast, pole, or antenna bending as a whole from its base.

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Layers three non-matching waves into organic, deterministic wind turbulence.

Use cases — Ongoing unsettled wind as an ambient condition, with no single gust to point at.

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Layered, correlated swing for suspended chimes, ornaments, and light hanging pieces.

Use cases — Wind chimes, mobiles, dreamcatchers, or strings of small hanging ornaments moving together on the same air.

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Rises smoothly from the base wind to one shaped gust, then returns and holds at the base value.

Use cases — One named gust in a shot - the moment wind picks up and drops again, rather than a constant breeze.

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Snaps a puppet head round to look, holds it there with the faint tremor of servos under load, then returns.

Use cases — A theme-park figure, a shop-window puppet, or a robot that turns to notice you and holds the look. The tremor on the hold is what reads as a servo under load rather than a keyframe.

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Swings a joint from pick to place and back on a repeating cycle, holding at each end long enough to grip and let go.

Use cases — A factory arm working a line, a printer gantry, or any joint that shuttles between two stations and pauses at each end to grip and let go. Apply it per joint and offset the phase for a whole arm.

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Sweeps a dish steadily across its arc and flies back to start, tilting through elevation as it goes.

Use cases — A radar or satellite dish, an airport scanner, or a searchlight quartering the sky. The flyback is the tell: it sweeps its arc slowly and snaps back to start.

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Throws a drive head to a new track, over and over, arriving fast and settling before the next seek.

Use cases — A hard-drive actuator, a tape-library picker, or a plotter head - anything that throws itself at a new position, arrives fast and rings down before the next move.

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Bidirectional carriage travel with a small rail and belt vibration layer.

Use cases — The carriage of an inkjet, plotter, or label printer tracking back and forth across the page.

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Sweeps a robot sensor side to side while a smaller faster tilt checks different elevations.

Use cases — A sensor head, turret, or security camera sweeping an area while checking up and down.

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A cooling fan idling and spinning up as the machine warms, on a heat cycle it generates itself. Rotor motion turns the blades; Speed signal is the RPM envelope on its own, for a readout or a gauge. Use Cooling Fan Thermal Cycle instead when a real temperature or load property is available to read.

Use cases — The same thermal fan behaviour when there is no temperature property to read - it invents the heat cycle.

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Holds still, turns the product forward off the end of the spiral, and holds still again.

Use cases — A vending spiral pushing a product off its end, an auger feeding a hopper, or a screw drive indexing parts forward. One turn delivers one item, with dead time either side.