How to Add a Particle Text Visual to Power BI Using Ataytis Vega Studio

What is the Particle Text Visual?

The Particle Text Visual is an animated visual for Power BI, built with Ataytis Vega Studio and Vega. It displays any text you choose as thousands of floating particles — each one drifting, dispersing, and snapping back into the shape of your phrase in a continuous looping animation.

You can cycle through multiple phrases automatically, trigger transitions on a timer, enable mouse repulsion so particles scatter when hovered, and adjust every visual property — colour, size, shape, glow, density — from the product page live before touching the Vega Studio editor.

• Any text — set one phrase or cycle through multiple automatically
• Smooth transitions between phrases with configurable easing and duration
• Mouse repulsion — hover to scatter particles away from your cursor
• Fully customisable particle size, shape, colour scheme, and opacity
• Optional glow effect for a neon or lit-up appearance
• No data modelling required — drop any field into the visual to switch it on, and the spec handles the rest
• Works in Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service

What You'll Need

You only need two things — both free before the visual itself:

Installing Ataytis Vega Studio in Power BI Desktop

Ataytis Vega Studio is a free custom visual that lets you run Vega specs inside any Power BI report. You only install it once and it becomes permanently available across all your reports.

1. 1Open Power BI Desktop and open any report.
2. 2In the Visualisations pane, click the three dots ··· and choose Get more visuals.
3. 3Search for Ataytis Vega Studio in Microsoft Marketplace.
4. 4Click Add — the Ataytis Vega Studio icon now appears in your Visualisations pane permanently.

Watch: Customise & Paste

The video below walks through the full process — setting your phrases and visual style on the product page, copying the spec, and pasting it into Ataytis Vega Studio. The visual is live in your report in under a minute.

Customising the Particle Text Visual and pasting the spec into Ataytis Vega Studio

Adding the Visual to Your Report

Once you have the spec from the product page, the whole process takes about a minute:

1. 1Click the Ataytis Vega Studio icon in the Visualisations pane to add a Vega Studio visual to your canvas.
2. 2Resize it to match the dimensions you set in the Visual Dimensions controls on the product page — particle positions are calculated based on the canvas size, so this keeps everything aligned.
3. 3Click Edit in the visual toolbar to open the Vega Studio editor.
4. 4In the editor, select the Vega tab and delete the placeholder spec that appears by default.
5. 5Copy the JSON spec from the Particle Text Visual product page and paste it in.
6. 6Click Apply — the animation starts immediately.

Customising the Visual

The product page gives you a live preview of every setting — no code required. Adjust your phrases, colours, particle behaviour, and canvas size, then copy the spec once it looks right.

Customisation panel — product page

Mouse repulsion works inside Power BI too — not just in the preview. Once the visual is in your report, viewers can hover over it to scatter particles away from the cursor. If you're using the visual on a display screen where no one will interact with it, you can leave repulsion off and rely on the automatic phrase cycling instead.

Using the Visual in Power BI Service

Publish your report as normal and the Particle Text Visual runs for any viewer in Power BI Service — no gateway, no refresh schedule, no extra configuration. Phrase transitions, mouse repulsion, and the glow effect all work in the browser exactly as they do in Power BI Desktop.