Energy Strands Beam: Seamless energy strands beam texture: thin cyan strands braid and cross over a soft glow, the classic anime beam look.

Energy Strands Beam

Seamless energy strands beam texture: thin cyan strands braid and cross over a soft glow, the classic anime beam look. A square that runs bottom to top and repeats along a Roblox Beam (Export, Roblox, Beam) for energy waves, tethers and charged rays.

Energy Strands Beam is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 2 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 512 canvas. It is built from 2 particle emitters and 4 glowing strokes. 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, 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 square, seamless texture for a Beam that runs bottom to top, its bottom edge at Attachment0. Set TextureMode to Wrap and TextureLength to the Width; TextureSpeed scrolls it from Attachment0 to Attachment1. 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.

Energy Strands Beam at 8 moments, from 0 s to 1.75 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Energy Strands Beam is drawn with 4 glowing strokes, lines with a hot core and a soft glow traced along their shapes, plus 2 particle emitters. One technique stands out: 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 recolour the line, select "Strand A" and change Core and Glow; Start and End set how much of it is drawn. The colour swatches by the downloads recolour every layer at once.

Layers, in draw order

  1. Soft Glowparticles / additiveA steady stream of soft glows across a box. Colours range between deep cyan and cyan.
  2. Strand A, Strand B, Strand C +1stroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a path.
  3. Motesparticles / additiveA steady stream of soft glows across a box. Colours range between white and cyan.

DETAILS

Length
2 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
512 x 512, HD
Layers
2 emitters and 4 glowing strokes
Blend
Mostly additive (glows)
Colours
cyanwhitedeep cyanpale cyan
Sprites
Built-in shapes only
Tags
energy, strands, wisps, anime, aura, cyan, beam, roblox beam, beam texture, square, seamless, tileable, 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.

How to set these up on a Roblox Beam, with the Luau: Roblox beam textures.

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