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Scroll scene: columns

A wall of pictures in columns that travel at different speeds as the page scrolls, alternate columns the other way, so the wall seems to breathe. Two columns on a phone, four on a wide screen. Needs the EtchPress Runtime; without it it is a plain even grid.

ComponentInteractiveShowpiecesNeeds the runtime: plugin or Etch Studio

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The work

Twelve gardens from this year.

  • A paver terrace with trimmed hedges, planters and a lawn beyond
  • A forest lake between wooded cliffs under a pink sunset sky
  • A finished paver patio with an outdoor kitchen
  • Sprinklers watering a wide lawn at dusk
  • Gloved hands planting seedlings in a raised bed
  • A turquoise river through a grassy alpine valley under snow-capped peaks
  • Gloved hands planting flowers in a bed
  • A lawn mower in sunlit grass
  • Gloved hands drawing a landscaping plan in pencil on paper
  • A modern patio under a pergola with a living green wall and white chairs (after)
  • Misty green mountain ridges under a dark sky at dusk
  • A forest lake between wooded cliffs under a pink sunset sky
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Scroll scene: columns

Before you copy

This is a showpiece. It pastes into Etch like any other item and it is complete without anything else, but its motion comes from the EtchPress runtime: a small script that loads only on the pages that use a showpiece.

Etch for WordPress: download the EtchPress Runtime plugin from Downloads in your account, install it and activate it. Paste your licence key under Settings, EtchPress Runtime, and it updates from the Plugins screen like any other plugin.

Etch Studio: download the EtchPress runtime files from Downloads in your account, unzip them and drop them into your project's Asset Manager, then paste the item. Studio ships the files it needs with your site.

What you can build with it

A portfolio wall. Photos from an event or a place. A product range shown at a glance. Press or social proof as pictures.

Props

eyebrow (text, optional); title (text, optional); images (repeater: image, alt)

States shown

Scrolling past: each column drifts against its neighbours; the wall's edges hide the travel. The same on touch. Reduced motion and no runtime: an even grid.

How to change it

Content and options are 3 props in the component's settings panel. Colour, type, spacing and radius follow your Automatic.css settings, so a change to the site's palette or scale changes this too. For anything else, edit the classes in the Style Manager, starting with .scene-columns. Its behaviour is a small script that travels with the component; no plugin and nothing to install.

ACSS tokens used

space-xs, space-s, space-m, radius, text-s, primary-dark.

ACSS requirements

ACSS 4 defaults. Needs the EtchPress Runtime, 0.5.0 or later: the EtchPress Runtime plugin on WordPress, or the runtime's files dropped into the project's Asset Manager in Etch Studio. Without it you get the still version.

Version history

Version 1.0.0, October 1, 2026: First release, with the EtchPress Runtime 0.5.0.

Tested with

Etch 1.6.7 and ACSS 4.0.1. Version 1.0.0.

Needs the EtchPress runtime

The plugin on WordPress, or the runtime's files in Etch Studio. Without it you get the still version.

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