Event special effects, previewed in the room.

• ▸Flame Thrower: a column of flame at the height you set.
• ▸Cold Sparks: the fountain a cold spark machine throws, with its height and spread.
• ▸Fog Machine: a fog machine's plume, low fog that hugs the floor, or a CO2 jet.
• ▸Confetti Cannon: a burst thrown the distance you set, in paper or metallic.
• ▸Confetti Drop: confetti falling from overhead across an area you size.
• ▸Streamers: ribbons thrown the distance you set, in paper or metallic.
• ▸Balloon Drop: balloons waiting in a net, then released over the area below.
• ▸Fireworks: shells bursting at height, as peony, ring, willow or a mix.
• ▸Drone Show: a swarm that flies between up to four formations, including a word you type.

• ▸Size in the room's terms: height, throw distance, drop height, burst height or altitude, plus spread, aim and amount.
• ▸Timing: an effect runs the whole time or fires on a timer, with the time between shots and the length of each burst.
• ▸Autofire or Manual: on Autofire it fires by itself. On Manual it sits loaded until you press Fire Now, and Reset clears what it has thrown and loads it again.
• ▸Colors: up to four per effect.
• ▸Air movement carries fog, confetti and streamers sideways, in the direction you set.
• ▸A Look remembers which effects are on Autofire, so a finale Look can fire the cannons when you switch to it.

Effects take light from the design. Fog standing in a blue wash reads blue, and confetti, streamers and balloons pick up the lights around them. Flame, cold sparks and fireworks give light back: with Lights the Room on, their glow lands on the drape, the walls and the venue, flickering in step with the effect.

They also know the room. Confetti thrown over a stage lands on the deck, pieces that reach a wall slide down it, a ceiling stops what is thrown too high, and a sloped venue floor is followed. Fireworks and drone shows play in the open sky.

• ▸Effects play in the live 3D design, including on a Share Mode viewer link, so the client sees the moment in the room it will happen in.
• ▸A Capture takes the effect as it stands at that instant, for a still of the finale.
• ▸Phones, tablets and lighter laptops draw fewer pieces automatically, so the design still runs on the device the client opens.
• ▸In the Budget, effects have their own category with one line per kind. There is no default rate: enter your effects vendor's price per unit, per show.
• ▸Special Effects is on every plan, Free included.

Particles react to floors, stages, walls and ceilings. They do not yet react to props, drape or truss, so confetti passes through a truss line instead of catching on it.

Nothing here is engineering. Clearances, fallout zones, flame and pyrotechnic permits, venue and fire marshal approval, and drone flight planning and airspace belong to your licensed effects vendor and the authorities who sign off on them.