Anime Sword Rain: A sword rain for anime battlegrounds ultimates: glowing gold blades fall point first from a summon glow, stick in the ground and fade, each landing with a flash, ring, sparks and dust.

Anime Sword Rain

A sword rain for anime battlegrounds ultimates: glowing gold blades fall point first from a summon glow, stick in the ground and fade, each landing with a flash, ring, sparks and dust. Seamless loop.

Anime Sword Rain is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 2 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 512 canvas. It is built from 7 particle emitters. Most layers blend additively, so it glows on dark backgrounds.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 60 frames at 30 fps. Use it in commercial games, no credit needed.

Licence: use it in any project, including paid commercial games such as a game sold on Steam. There is no per-project licence to buy and no credit needed. Terms.

Roblox: the download is a flipbook for a ParticleEmitter. Set FlipbookLayout to Grid8x8, FlipbookMode to OneShot and Lifetime to 2, then emit one particle per cycle. Roblox setup.

REMIX WITH AI

Try:

Left empty, it just opens in the agent, free. Each change is one AI build, and you start with free builds.

Engine data for Unity, Godot, GameMaker and Aseprite comes with a plan: open it in the studio.

OPEN IN THE STUDIO

Change the colours, timing or size, or export for Unity, Godot 4, GameMaker, Phaser, PixiJS and Aseprite.

Try variations: new colours, motion and shapes of this effect, free in the studio.

FRAME BY FRAME

8 evenly spaced moments across the 2 s loop.

Anime Sword Rain at 8 moments, from 0 s to 1.75 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Anime Sword Rain stacks 7 particle emitters, each with its own job. Techniques worth a look: sub-emitters set off by other particles, collisions, particles stretched along their motion and post filters (bloom).

Every layer emits continuously and the 2 s loop closes seamlessly, so it can run for as long as you need. To change its colour, select "Summon Glow" in the studio and edit Colour A and Colour B. Size on the same layer sets how big its particles are.

Layers, in draw order

  1. Summon Glowparticles / additiveA steady stream of soft glows across a box. Colours range between orange and gold.
  2. Falling Bladesparticles / additiveA steady stream of image sprites across a box. They set off "Landing Flash" on impact, set off "Landing Ring" on impact, set off "Landing Sparks" on impact and set off "Landing Dust" on impact. Colours range between white and pale gold.
  3. Blade Streakparticles / additiveStreaks set off by "Falling Blades". Colours range between gold and orange.
  4. Landing Flashparticles / additiveSoft glows set off by "Falling Blades". They grow as they age. Colours range between white and pale gold.
  5. Landing Ringparticles / additiveImage sprites set off by "Falling Blades". They grow as they age. Colour runs from white to gold over each life.
  6. Landing Sparksparticles / additiveStreaks set off by "Falling Blades". They fall under gravity and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to gold over each life.
  7. Landing DustparticlesSmoke puffs set off by "Falling Blades". They grow as they age, spin and slow down with drag. Colour: grey.

DETAILS

Length
2 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
512 x 512, HD
Layers
7 emitters
Blend
Mostly additive (glows)
Colours
whitegoldorangepale gold
Sprites
Kenney Smoke Particles by Kenney (CC0)
Tags
sword rain, swords, blades, anime, battlegrounds, ultimate, gold, loop

USING IT IN YOUR GAME

Phaser, PixiJS
The PNG sheet is a plain grid of frames that both can slice. A TexturePacker JSON atlas comes with a plan, from the studio.
Unity
Import the PNG sheet as a Sprite with Mode set to Multiple and slice it, or open the effect in the studio for a ready-made grid.
Godot 4, GameMaker, Aseprite
Open it in the studio and pick your engine in Export: with a plan, it writes the files that engine imports.
Web and chat
The GIF plays anywhere; the APNG keeps soft edges on any background.
Blend mode
This effect is made of light. For the same glow in your game, draw the sprite with additive blending, or export it on black from the studio for additive shaders.

Step by step: Unity, Godot 4, Roblox, GameMaker, Phaser and PixiJS, Aseprite, Web games (live runtime). Drawn with additive blending: see glow effects without a black box.

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