Manga Focus Lines: Manga focus lines overlay: black ink needles close in on an oval clear centre and redraw every few frames like a hand-drawn boil, with heavy wedges among the fine lines.

Manga Focus Lines

Manga focus lines overlay: black ink needles close in on an oval clear centre and redraw every few frames like a hand-drawn boil, with heavy wedges among the fine lines. For reveals, shocks and dramatic beats. Seamless loop.

Manga Focus Lines is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 1 seconds, drawn on a 320 by 180 canvas. It is built from 2 particle emitters.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 30 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 1, 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 1 s loop.

Manga Focus Lines at 8 moments, from 0 s to 0.88 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Manga Focus Lines is a compact effect made from 2 particle emitters. One technique stands out: keyframed parameters.

It loops seamlessly every 1 s, and 2 of its layers fire in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. It carries little colour of its own, so it takes a tint well: select "Fine Lines" and set Colour A and Colour B. Size on the same layer sets how big its particles are.

Layers, in draw order

  1. Fine LinesparticlesBursts of 165 streaks from a ring every 0.07 s. Colour: black.
  2. Heavy WedgesparticlesBursts of 20 streaks from a ring every 0.07 s. Colour: black.

DETAILS

Length
1 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
320 x 180, HD
Layers
2 emitters
Blend
Mostly normal
Colours
Sprites
Built-in shapes only
Tags
focus lines, manga, anime, concentration lines, speed lines, overlay, dramatic, reveal

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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