Burrow Trail: Burrow trail: a creature tunnels just under the ground, heaving up clods and dust ahead of it and leaving a settling ridge of loose dirt behind.

Burrow Trail

Burrow trail: a creature tunnels just under the ground, heaving up clods and dust ahead of it and leaving a settling ridge of loose dirt behind. Loops perfectly.

Burrow Trail is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 2 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 512 canvas. It is built from 5 particle emitters.

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.

Burrow Trail at 8 moments, from 0 s to 1.75 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Burrow Trail is a compact effect made from 5 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: collisions and keyframed parameters. 2 scene layers (ground and props) show in the studio for context and stay out of every export.

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 "Burrow Dust" in the studio and edit the Colour over Life gradient. Size on the same layer sets how big its particles are.

Layers, in draw order

  1. Loose RidgeparticlesA steady stream of soft glows along a line. Colour: orange.
  2. Burrow Dust, Low HazeparticlesA steady stream of smoke puffs along a line. They grow as they age, spin and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to pale orange over each life.
  3. Dirt ClodsparticlesA steady stream of debris along a line. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something and spin. Colour: orange.
  4. Heaving GroundparticlesA steady stream of debris along a line. They fall under gravity, vanish when they hit something and spin. Colour: orange.

DETAILS

Length
2 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
512 x 512, HD
Layers
5 emitters
Blend
Mostly normal
Colours
orangewhitepale orange
Sprites
ParticleFX Originals by ParticleFX Studio (CC0), Kenney Smoke Particles by Kenney (CC0)
Tags
burrow, underground, sandworm, mole, dirt, trail, ambush, 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.

Step by step: Unity, Godot 4, Roblox, GameMaker, Phaser and PixiJS, Aseprite, Web games (live runtime).

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