Mirror Shatter: An ornate gold mirror takes a tap: a spider web of cracks spreads and holds, then the glass drops out of the frame piece by piece, glinting as it falls and settles.

Mirror Shatter

An ornate gold mirror takes a tap: a spider web of cracks spreads and holds, then the glass drops out of the frame piece by piece, glinting as it falls and settles. Mirror crack and shatter.

Mirror Shatter is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 2.8 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 512 canvas. It is built from 5 particle emitters. Most layers blend additively, so it glows on dark backgrounds.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 84 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 2.8, 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 2.8 s loop.

Mirror Shatter at 8 moments, from 0 s to 2.45 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Mirror Shatter is a compact effect made from 5 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: collisions and keyframed parameters. 3 scene layers (ground and props) show in the studio for context and stay out of every export.

It loops seamlessly every 2.8 s, and 3 of its layers fire in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. Start times are staggered from 0 s to 0.95 s, so the layers arrive one after another. It carries little colour of its own, so it takes a tint well: select "Tap flash" and set Colour A and Colour B. Size on the same layer sets how big its particles are.

Layers, in draw order

  1. Mirror glassparticlesOne burst of 64 shards at 0.95 s. They are flung outward, fall under gravity and bounce when they hit something.
  2. Tap flashparticles / additiveA single particle at 0.45 s. It grows as it ages. Colour: white.
  3. Crack glintsparticles / additiveA stream of stars from a disc, its rate keyframed over the loop. They swell and then shrink away. Colour: white.
  4. Glass dustparticlesOne burst of 30 shards from a disc at 0.95 s. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something, spin and slow down with drag. Colours range between white and blue.
  5. Floor glintsparticles / additiveA stream of stars along a line, its rate keyframed over the loop. They swell and then shrink away. Colour: white.

DETAILS

Length
2.8 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
512 x 512, HD
Layers
5 emitters
Blend
Mostly additive (glows)
Colours
whiteblue
Sprites
Built-in shapes only
Tags
mirror, glass, crack, shatter, break, cursed, spider web

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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