# Making custom effects in HyperX Ngenuity (colour palette, rain effect)

- **Platform:** YouTube (video)
- **Original post:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsSlk0tuv48
- **Posted:** 2022-10-23
- **Length:** 337 s
- **Stats at archive time:** 9494 views, 71 likes, 14 comments
- **Video file:** https://clips.linus.gripe/media/Youtube_VsSlk0tuv48.mp4
- **Original caption:** Hyperx, Ngenuity, RGB, FPS, Alloy, Profiles, Gamer, Edition, Core, Keyboard

## Summary
A screen-recorded tutorial on building custom keyboard lighting presets in HyperX Ngenuity: picking a colour palette, creating a new preset, and layering wave and trigger effects, with a raindrop-style design as the example.

## What happens
- 0:00: The Ngenuity window floating over a purple-pink Windows wallpaper.
- ~0:40: A Google image search for "color palette" showing grids of palettes; a Halloween-like palette (dark purple, magenta, red, orange, yellow) is chosen and displayed beside the app.
- ~1:10-2:30: In Ngenuity, creating a new preset and using a Solid effect with the colour wheel to match palette colours, saving them with the plus button; a photo of the physical keyboard lit white to compare colours.
- ~2:30-4:50: Selecting key groups, adding wave effects heading downward, making black-heavy gradients for a rain/drop look, adjusting speed; the keyboard preview shows animated streaks.
- ~5:00-5:30: A trigger effect (an explosive reaction on key press) in dark blue, with white and purple bursts on typed keys.

## Spoken content
English, casual. He says to make a new preset, delete the stock wave, find a palette on Google, check on the real keyboard that colours look right (darker if needed), use a solid effect to store colours, then select keys and use wave effects at different speeds to make a "rain" look, finishing with an explosive trigger effect. He jokes it's easy "if you have more than five IQ", notes it's his second time filming, and ends with "if you like it, like it, if you dislike it, dislike it".

## Audio / music
Voiceover only.

## Topics & keywords
HyperX Ngenuity, custom RGB effects, presets, colour palette, wave effect, trigger effect, tutorial, keyboard lighting, Alloy Origins Core, raindrops

## Context
English-language tutorial, uploaded 2022-10-23, 337 s; follow-up to the "how to install Ngenuity" video. 9,494 views, 71 likes, 14 comments.