Falling Ash Overlay: Falling ash overlay for burning cities, volcano levels and apocalypse scenes: dark and pale ash flutters down through drifting smoke over a breathing fire glow, embers still glow as they fall and cool, and big flakes tumble past the camera.

Falling Ash Overlay

Falling ash overlay for burning cities, volcano levels and apocalypse scenes: dark and pale ash flutters down through drifting smoke over a breathing fire glow, embers still glow as they fall and cool, and big flakes tumble past the camera. Tiles seamlessly and loops perfectly.

Falling Ash Overlay is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 6 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 512 canvas. It is built from 7 particle emitters.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 180 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 6, 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 6 s loop.

Falling Ash Overlay at 8 moments, from 0 s to 5.25 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Falling Ash Overlay stacks 7 particle emitters, each with its own job. Techniques worth a look: turbulence and post filters (bloom).

Every layer emits continuously and the 6 s loop closes seamlessly, so it can run for as long as you need. To change its colour, select "Fire 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. Fire Glowparticles / additiveA steady stream of image sprites across a box. Colour: orange.
  2. Smoke DriftparticlesA steady stream of smoke puffs across a box. Colours range between black and deep orange.
  3. Far AshparticlesA steady stream of dots across a box. They sway from side to side. Colour: grey.
  4. Falling Embersparticles / additiveA steady stream of image sprites across a box. They wander on turbulence. Colour: orange.
  5. Ash FlakesparticlesA steady stream of image sprites across a box. They sway from side to side and spin. Colours range between dark grey and grey.
  6. Big FlakesparticlesA steady stream of image sprites across a box. They sway from side to side and spin. Colour: dark grey.
  7. Near AshparticlesA steady stream of image sprites across a box. They sway from side to side. Colours range between deep orange and dark grey.

DETAILS

Length
6 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
512 x 512, HD
Layers
7 emitters
Blend
Mostly normal
Colours
dark greyorangegreydeep orange
Sprites
Kenney Particle Pack by Kenney (CC0)
Tags
ash, falling ash, embers, burning city, volcano, apocalypse, smoke, overlay, seamless, tileable, loop, background

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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