Orb

Orb is a ball of living energy: a boiling, sun-like core inside layers of shimmering plasma, wrapped in a soft outer glow and circled by a tilted ring of light. Use it around an object or on its own, as a power source, a spell or a small star.

How it works

The core surface churns like the sun's, with bright cells separated by cooler lanes and sharp spikes where the activity peaks; the hottest cells burn white. Around it, up to five translucent shells glow at their edges in colours that change with the viewing angle, and streamers of brighter plasma flicker across them. An outer haze slowly cycles its hue. The corona ring is tilted and turns slowly, with colour flowing around it and its brightness pulsing. Every layer breathes, so the orb never looks static.

Settings

• Core Size: the size of the bright centre.
• Glow Layers: how many plasma shells, from one to five.
• Noise Amount: how much the surface boils.
• Pulse Speed: the rate of the breathing.
• Corona Enabled: the tilted ring, on or off.
• Inner Color (the core), Outer Color (the outer glow) and Corona Color.
• Intensity: the overall brightness.

Use it for

Energy balls and power-ups in game scenes, magic spells, plasma and power sources, glowing tech cores. Compare Aura for a glow around an object, and the Energy Orb cursor for one that follows the pointer.