This guide covers using the advanced menu to change a Pulse to display a custom image
 
 

Requirements

[Guide written using Keysight version 1.5.0]
 
 
You will need a square image file, preferably a nice .png with transparency. Non-square images will be stretched back into a square shape, and images with more than 2x their height will be imported as sprite animations.
 
 
Please note that pulses do support using GIFs as custom images. That guide can be found [here], but relies on knowledge from this guide you’re reading now.
 
 
 

Walkthrough

• Ensure the menu is in Advanced mode in the top left
• Head into Effects > Pulses
• Add a new pulse template that you would like to display an image using

• Navigate to the Appearance tab
• Click the folder icon. This opens the custom texture location that the pulses pull images from

• Copy your desired image from the source folder into this new folder that opened up

• Select your image from the dropdown. The pulse is now using your custom image! However, it’s in the wrong place, incredibly faint, and coloured

• In the Appearance tab, enable “offset pulse origin” if you would like to see the whole image above the keyboard. This stops the pulse spawning with the centre at the keyboard dividing line, and instead puts the pulse fully above the dividing line

• Next, head into the Colour big tab at the top and change to one slot of static white. This will change the colour of the pulse to only show your selected image’s colour. You can also do this back in the Appearance tab too with the “use only stencil colour for pulses” toggle, but I prefer using the colour method since it means we can shift colours and add a tint if desired

• [OPTIONAL STEP] From here, it’s a case of tweaking the pulse settings as desired. I want the pulse to be less transparent, so under Opacity I have set the main opacity to a flat value of 1.00 and the opacity over lifetime to a linear drop over time. Depending on starting template used, you may need to alter Rotation settings to stop the image appearing at random angles and spinning

Things to be aware of

If you see unexpected lines at the edges of your image, these can be fixed by giving your pulse stencil a one pixel border before importing it. This only occurs on images which have pixels reaching all the way to one edge, but not the opposite edge (so, the image used in this guide has pixels along the bottom edge but not the top, and so can cause these lines to appear at the top edge of each particle)
 
 

 
 
Here is an example of the edit needed to fix the above issue:
 

 

 
 
 

TL;DR

– Head into Advanced Effects > Pulses, add desired template, go into Shape and open the folder next to the dropdown
 
– Place your square, preferably .PNG with transparency, image here
 
– Select image from dropdown
 
– Enable “offset pulse origin”
 
– Enable “use only stencil colour” or set colour to white to see only image’s colour
 
– Modify other pulse parameters as needed, such as Opacity or Rotation
 
 

 
 
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