Hey Steve, welcome to the Finale 3D forum!   Here's a video for you: https://finale3d.com/video/how-to-create-a-ground-salute/  

I have been trying to create a simulation for a ground Salute (bomb). The editor always puts in a minimum height of 4M. it launches the salute, and it goes off after it travels 4M before exploding. PFT is set to 0.0, but it still does not go off instantly which is what I am after. Does anyone have any Ideas?   Steve M

Is there a way to sort our catalog of effects? For example, put them in alphabetical order, or by most frequently used? While I am super stoked that there are more and more catalogs coming online, it is starting to get messy and difficult to find things sometimes while scripting. I even tried removing them all and adding back in and that still didn't put them in alphabetical order. It appears random.

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Ok. I'll install the latest beta release and try again :)

Hi Jakob Hatteland Kjemi AS, I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with 3D Google Maps. I just did a quick test, and it's working normally for me. I'm running the latest beta release.

Hi, DrewFinale   Once again the 3D maps doesn't work...   I'm running the 6.14 version.

Excellent!   I will have to try this out. This might be the way to go to automate converting some of the consumer effects from Glow over. If I can figure out a direct conversion between their structure and a "node library" of sorts I should be able to automate it to a degree.   I like making effects, but I like scripting shows better. lol   Thanks for the help,   If anyone else has any feedback feel free to chime in.

  effreek wrote: There isn’t a way to paste from outside the editor is there? (Lets say I modify what I see in notepad and try to paste it back in)   There is a way! You can absolutely copy and paste nodes from outside Finale 3D back into the effect editor. The node data is just text. Finale 3D power users create "node libraries" in text files or spreadsheets to quickly reference and build custom effects.

https://fireworks.com/products/aerial/200-gram-repeaters/suspended-animation-25-shot Click on 3D preview and you get the Glow player with the effect. Also has the video.   You can see the value of decoding the effect from glow over trying to create it from the video.