Dragon Fire Cone: Dragon breath effect for 2D games: a cone of roaring fire pours down and across the screen, churning into flame tongues and smoke, then dies away.

Dragon Fire Cone

Dragon breath effect for 2D games: a cone of roaring fire pours down and across the screen, churning into flame tongues and smoke, then dies away. Aim it from any mouth.

Dragon Fire Cone is an HD effect that plays once over 3 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 384 canvas. It is built from 1 simulated smoke and fire layer and 2 particle emitters. Most layers blend additively, so it glows on dark backgrounds.

Colour

Recolours the preview and the free downloads.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 90 frames at 30 fps. Use it in commercial games, no credit needed.

Roblox: the download is a flipbook for a ParticleEmitter. Set FlipbookLayout to Grid8x8, FlipbookMode to OneShot and Lifetime to 3, 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.

FRAME BY FRAME

8 evenly spaced moments across the 3 s clip.

Dragon Fire Cone at 8 moments, from 0.19 s to 2.81 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Dragon Fire Cone is built around a fluid simulation of fire and smoke on a grid, with 2 particle emitters on top. Techniques worth a look: particles feeding the fluid, turbulence, particles stretched along their motion, keyframed parameters and post filters (bloom).

It plays once over 3 s: everything goes off at the start and then dies away. To change the flame colour, select "Breath" and edit Fire colours; Smoke colour sets the smoke. The colour swatches by the downloads recolour every layer at once.

Layers, in draw order

  1. BreathfluidSimulated fire and smoke from a cone-shaped jet. "Fire breath" feed it.
  2. Fire breathparticles / additiveA steady stream of soft glows. They feed smoke and heat into the fluid, float upward, wander on turbulence and grow as they age. Colours range between orange and gold.
  3. Sparksparticles / additiveA steady stream of streaks. They wander on turbulence and slow down with drag. Colours range between pale gold and orange.

DETAILS

Length
3 seconds, plays once
Canvas
512 x 384, HD
Layers
2 emitters
Blend
Mostly additive (glows)
Colours
orangepale goldgold
Sprites
Built-in shapes only
Tags
dragon, breath, fire, cone, attack, boss, fluid

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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