Creating rising effect shells

[Halestorm]

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was wondering if there was a suitable way to create an effect with rising shells. i cannot figure out the command, and i cant cue them into a single chain.

the shells are weird i have included their descriptions and links below. any help would be appreciated.

5” Union Display Shells with 2 rising effects per shell (2 of each) Four color peony, red & white rising flowers; Silver glittering willow with blue pistil, silver & blue rising; Multi-salute, salute & salute rising; Gold bowtie in red & silver double rings, gold & red rising; Side color ring, crackle reports rising; Coco & thousands of thunder lightning, silver & gold rising; Dancing dragons, silver & blue rising; Ring with bowtie with crackling pistil, gold & gold rising; Tri-ti salute, salute & salute rising; Wave to lemon with blue pistil, lemon & blue rising; Silver spider strobe, silvers rising; Red flowers with green leaves, red & green rising

 

6” Union Display Shells with Three Rising Effects per shell (1 of each) 3 Rising brocades to brocade rising; 3 salutes to 5 times Salute; Rising flower red, white, blue to red gamboge to blue to silver; Silver, gold, blue rising flowers to silver Dragon w/blue; 3 rising silver brocades to silver Thundering Dragon; 3 dragon eggs rising flowers to green willow flower time rain; White, blue, gold rising flowers to blue & golden w/reports; 3 Rising brocades thousands brocade crown w/blue tail; Red, white, blue rising flowers to Thousands Flashing Salute; Red, white, blue rising flowers to Silver Brocade

[DrewFinale]

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Hi Halestorm, welcome to the Finale 3D community!

 

The best VDL phrase for add rising (bursting) effects to a shell is ” w/ Rising Flowers”. For example, a decent starting VDL for your first shell would be 5″ Multi-Color Peony w/ Red & White Rising Flowers

 

Admittedly, it’s not perfect. One shortcoming is that ‘Rising Flowers’ currently always implies three rising effects. This works well for your 6″ shells but not great for your 5″ shells. Another shortcoming is that you can’t really get good control of the individual rising effects using VDL. We’ll certainly be making more and more VDL improvements over time. But in the meantime, if you want ultimate control, use VDL as a starting point, and use the effect editor (right click on effect and select ‘edit in effect editor…). In the effect editor, you’ll be able to precisely control pretty much all aspects of the rising effect including, size, quantity, type of stars, etc. Just keep in mind, once you edit an effect in the effect editor, it becomes a custom simulation which is no longer represented by VDL. To make changes to a custom sim, you have to go back into the editor. So, it’s a bit of a trade off. VDL is quick but doesn’t quite hit the mark with rising effects. On the other hand, the effect editor will give you incredible control over all aspects of the simulation, but typically at the expense of a bit more time.

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