Lightning
 
 
 

The Lightning clip effect creates a bolt of lightning between two or more objects or locators.

The lightning bolt is made up of soft body curves with extruded surfaces, which are rendered. The motion of the lightning is derived from an expression on the particles that make up the soft body curve.

Shatter

Shatter duplicates an object and breaks the duplicate into multiple pieces called shards. Depending on the type of shard you choose to create, you can move the shards with dynamic forces or keyframe their movement.

Shatter provides three methods of breaking the object: