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Waves crashing
Big waves breaking on a shore: each builds and crests into a low boom and a bright wash of foam, coming faster and heavier toward the limit, like storm surf.
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- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| waveInterval | number | 7 | 5 to 11 s | seconds between waves at the start (the film shortens it) |
| sets | choice | sets | even, sets | waves come evenly, or in sets of three or four with a lull between |
| heaviness | number | 0.7 | 0.1 to 1 | how big and heavy the waves break at their heaviest |
| build | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how much faster the waves come as the counter climbs (0 none) |
| foam | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how bright the wash of foam is |
| fizz | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how much the foam fizzes and pops after a wave breaks |
| width | number | 0.8 | 0.25 to 1 | how widely the waves spread left and right |
| where | choice | all | all, ladder | from home on, or only from the first stretch of the ladder to the coda |
| hush | bool | true | – | it stops before a quiet threshold and comes back on its hit |
| quietLead | number | 2.5 | 1 to 6 s | how long before a quiet threshold it stops |
| key | choice | C | C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, Ab, A, Bb, B | the key the breaking boom sits in (its root and fifth); the channel's when unset |
Use it in a film
film.js
elements: { 'wave-crash': { waveInterval: 7, sets: 'sets' } }Use it from your agent
Ask your agent to put it in a film. It finds the element by name.