Screen Effect
SineVFX turns a Screen Effect into a first-class, view-wide effect: shake, FOV punch, blur, colour grading, bloom and full-screen impact frames, all graphed and previewable exactly like any particle effect. A Distance falloff can fade the whole thing based on how close the camera is.
Formerly the "Camera Effect"
This used to transform workspace.Camera directly, but Roblox never serializes the Camera, so the effect vanished on save/reopen. It now lives on a Configuration instead, which persists cleanly. The URL stays /camera.
Transforming a Screen Effect
Insert a Configuration, select it, and run Transform. SineVFX tags it and adds a Properties folder in place, just like transforming a Beam or Trail. It acts on the view, so there's no particle count.
It's not a singleton: transform as many Screen Effects as you like and the runtime sums their contributions. Each sub-effect has its own on/off toggle, and its settings only show once that toggle is on.
Put it where the action is
A Screen Effect can sit anywhere, including inside a 3D particle or a model. Emitting the container from the Emit window fires it too, and with Distance on, the effect can fade based on how far the camera is from its parent.
Emission
| Property | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Enabled | Run the effect continuously while on (same as the Enable button). |
| Rate | While enabled, replays per second. 0 = ramp in and hold steady while enabled. |
| Lifetime | Length of one play, in seconds. Set Min < Max for a random length each play. |
| TimeScale | Playback speed. 1 normal, 2 twice as fast, 0.5 slow motion, 0 frozen. |
The sub-effects
Shake
A self-contained noise-based camera shake. Every channel is a graph sampled over each play.
| Channel | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Strength | Overall shake amount. |
| Frequency | How fast the shake moves. |
| Position | Positional sway, in studs. |
| Rotation | Rotational sway, in degrees. |
| Smoothness | 0 = raw, choppy shake · 1 = heavily smoothed. |
FOV
A field-of-view punch, driven by the Offset graph. Negative zooms in. SineVFX can push FOV beyond Roblox's hard 120° cap by spilling the excess into a camera distortion trick, so you get dramatic fisheye punches that Roblox alone won't allow.
Blur
A BlurEffect with its Size driven by a graph. It ramps in and clears itself when the effect ends.
ColorGrade
Grades the whole screen over the play: hit flashes, red damage tints, washed-out slow-mo. It adds onto your game's own ColorCorrectionEffect if there is one (and puts it back exactly as it was afterwards), otherwise it uses its own.
| Channel | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Tint | Screen tint over the effect (colour graph). White = no tint. |
| Brightness | -1 black, 1 white. A quick 0.6 -> 0 graph is a white hit flash. |
| Contrast | Above 0 = harsher darks and lights, below 0 = flatter. |
| Saturation | -1 = black and white, above 0 = more vivid. |
Bloom
Makes bright things glow harder over the play, on top of your game's own bloom.
| Channel | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Intensity | Glow strength (graph). Try 0.5-2. |
| Size | How far the glow spreads, in pixels (graph). |
| Threshold | How bright something must be to glow. 1 = only pure white, 0 = everything. |
ImpactFrames
Flashes a sequence of images over the whole screen, the anime impact-frame look. Frames are the numbered Decals in Properties/ImpactFrames/Frames. The quick way: select the Screen Effect, pick a flipbook (or one of your own Impact Frame uploads) in the Asset Library and apply it.
| Channel | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Mode | OneShot = every frame once, spread over Lifetime. Loop / PingPong = cycle at Framerate. Random = a new random frame each tick (impact flicker). |
| Framerate | Frames per second (not used by OneShot). Try 12-30. |
| Speed | Playback speed of the frames and their graphs. 2 finishes halfway through Lifetime. |
| Delay | Seconds after the effect starts before the frames appear. Not affected by Speed. The effect keeps running until the frames finish, so they never get cut off. |
| Color | Image tint over the effect (colour graph). |
| Transparency | Image transparency over the effect (graph). |
| Zoom | Image size, 1 = fills the screen (graph). A quick 1.2 -> 1 is a punch-in. |
| Rotation | Image rotation in degrees (graph). |
| Scale | Crop fills the screen keeping the image's shape, Fit shows the whole image, Stretch fills and squashes. |
| Layer | DisplayOrder of the overlay. Higher draws over more of your game's UI. |
Frames are preloaded, so they don't blink on the first play.
Distance
Scales every sub-effect above by how close the camera is to the effect's source: full strength within Near, fading along the Falloff graph to nothing at Far.
| Channel | Meaning |
|---|---|
| From | Parent = the part or attachment the effect sits in. Position = a world point. Object = any part, model or attachment you pick. |
| Point | World position (Position mode). |
| Object | The instance to measure from (Object mode). Set it via the ObjectValue's Value. |
| Near | Full strength while the camera is within this many studs. Try 5-30. |
| Far | No effect once the camera is this far away. Try 50-300. |
| Falloff | Strength from Near (left) to Far (right). Default fades evenly to nothing. |
Great for explosions that only shake the players standing near them.
Play model
Same emit / enable / disable verbs as everything else:
- Emit - one play, over Lifetime.
- Enable with Rate 0 - ramps to the graph's end and holds until you disable (short release fade on disable).
- Enable with Rate > 0 - pulses a play every
1 / Rateseconds.
Rate is read live, so changing it while enabled switches instantly between hold and pulse.
Previewing
Transformed Screen Effects show up in the Emit window. Emit and Enable drive every sub-effect live in edit mode. The camera writes ride your normal navigation and zoom, so you can keep flying the viewport while it shakes.
Tools
The batch tools understand Screen Effects: Retimer scales Lifetime, Rate, Frequency and the impact frame timing, Resizer scales shake Position and the Distance range, and Shifter / Copier list the shake, FOV, blur, ColorGrade, Bloom, ImpactFrames and Distance settings (Copier copies the impact frames too).
Shipping it
The Screen Effect ships in the runtime module like everything else. Re-plant the module after editing so the generated code includes the latest driver. At runtime it acts on the local player's CurrentCamera, so drive it from the client.
TIP
Shape the Strength curve for a sharp initial jolt that settles, keep Smoothness up for a cinematic feel, and layer a short ColorGrade Brightness flash with a couple of impact frames for a punchy hit.