Action FX

Pick environmental action effects (multi-pick, up to 5) from a 72-entry catalog. Emits a scene-event prompt fragment.

Overview

The Action FX parameter node describes environmental events that happen WITHIN a scene — earthquake, lightning strike, explosion, falling objects, smoke billowing, etc. Distinct from Character FX (which affects the subject directly): Action FX would make sense in an empty room. Multi-pick lets you compound up to 5 simultaneous effects. Injected into the consumer’s prompt via the cinematography handle.

Configuration

Field	Type	Default	Description
actionFx	multi-select	`auto`	Catalog entry id(s) — up to 5 entries for compound effects.
Pre Text	text	empty	Free-form text prepended to the composed hint.
Post Text	text	empty	Free-form text appended to the composed hint.

Catalog (72 entries)

Examples: earthquake-tremor, earthquake-violent, lightning-strike, lightning-cluster, thunder-crack, explosion-fire, explosion-shockwave, falling-objects, falling-debris, glass-shatter, wall-collapse, tree-fall, wave-crash, flood-rising, volcano-eruption, tornado, dust-storm, meteor-impact, fire-engulfing, smoke-billow, mist-roll, …

Inputs & Outputs

Inputs: in — optional upstream parameter input. Outputs: out — composed prompt-hint clause, consumed by downstream AI video nodes via their cinematography handle.

Notes

Action FX is automatically suppressed for still-image consumers (Generate Image, Edit Image, Image-to-Image, Location) — environmental events are inherently temporal.
For 6+ compound effects, wire two Action FX nodes in parallel into the consumer’s cinematography handle.

Common Use Cases

Disaster sequences (earthquake + glass-shatter + dust-storm).
Action-movie beats (explosion-fire + flying-debris + shockwave).
Atmospheric world-building (smoke-billow + mist-roll).

Distinction from Character FX

Action FX — environmental: “lightning strikes the building”, “an earthquake hits the scene”.
Character FX — subject-focused: “the subject transforms into a werewolf”, “the subject breathes fire”.

Both can be wired into the same consumer in parallel.