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Star trails
Long-exposure star trails: every star drawn as an arc around the celestial pole, as long as the hours of rotation you set.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hours (Can change over time) | number | 3 | 0 to 10 h | how long the exposure is: the trails are 15 degrees of arc for every hourCan change over time |
| density | number | 1 | 0.2 to 2 | how many stars leave a trail: 1 is a rich sky, below 0.5 a sparse one |
| brightness (Can change over time) | number | 1 | 0 to 100 | how bright the trails are; 1 reads on a night sky, a daylight sky needs 40 to 100Can change over time |
| fade | number | 0.3 | 0 to 1 | how much a trail fades toward its older end: 0 even, 1 a comet tail |
| colour | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how strongly the trails show their stars' colours: 0 all white, 1 full |
| seed | integer | 4 | 0 to 999 | which stars: another seed is another sky |
Use it in a film
film.js
elements: { 'star-trails': { hours: 3, density: 1 } }Use it from your agent
Ask your agent to put it in a film. It finds the element by name.