# Liquid Chrome — component for shaders (react)

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Mercury-like chrome surface rippling in black and white, sharp highlights sliding across the folds

- **Install:** `npx shadcn@latest add @react-bits/LiquidChrome-JS-CSS`
- **Registry:** react-bits · **Framework:** react · **License:** MIT + Commons Clause
- **Docs and preview:** https://reactbits.dev/backgrounds/liquid-chrome
- **Source:** https://github.com/DavidHDev/react-bits/blob/main/src/content/Backgrounds/LiquidChrome/LiquidChrome.jsx
- **Example:** https://skills.varg.ai/previews/lib-react-bits-liquid-chrome.mp4?v=136105 (Captured from the library’s own demo page (React Bits))
- **Time:** Drive from the frame. Runs on its own clock (requestAnimationFrame, timers, springs or CSS). Drive it from frame / fps before rendering, or the render drifts.
- **Runs:** local render, free
- **Aspect:** any

## Prompt that renders it frame-exact

Use Liquid Chrome from React Bits (https://reactbits.dev/backgrounds/liquid-chrome, MIT + Commons Clause: OK in videos, don't resell the component). Install with `npx shadcn@latest add @react-bits/LiquidChrome-JS-CSS` and run it full-frame under a bold logo or product name. It reads best in monochrome or with one tinted color. Tune color, speed 0.15–0.3, amplitude, frequencyX/frequencyY and roughness. The component starts its clock at a random value, advances it on requestAnimationFrame and sways the camera with it. Fix the start value, compute time = start + frame / fps * speed, and set interactive={false} and intro={false}.

## Used in

- [Lyric video](https://skills.varg.ai/video/lyric-video.md)
- [Audio visualizer](https://skills.varg.ai/video/visualizer.md)
- [Logo sting](https://skills.varg.ai/video/logo-sting.md)
- [Brand intro & bumper](https://skills.varg.ai/video/brand-intro.md)
- [Stream overlay package](https://skills.varg.ai/video/stream-overlay.md)
- [News broadcast package](https://skills.varg.ai/video/news-package.md)
- [Countdown & launch timer](https://skills.varg.ai/video/countdown.md)
- [Shader loop](https://skills.varg.ai/video/shader-loop.md)

## More shaders

- [Blob](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.blob.md) — `npx hyperframes add blob`
- [Chrome Orb](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.chrome-orb.md) — `npx hyperframes add chrome-orb`
- [Color Wheel](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.color-wheel.md) — `npx hyperframes add color-wheel`
- [Falling Lines](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.falling-lines.md) — `npx hyperframes add falling-lines`
- [Frost](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.frost.md) — `npx hyperframes add frost`
- [Godrays](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.godrays.md) — `npx hyperframes add godrays`