Mystery Item Reveal

HOW IT'S MADE

Mystery Item Reveal is a compact effect made from 5 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: glowing strokes traced along shapes, magnets, sprite modules, particles stretched along their motion and post filters (bloom).

It loops seamlessly every 2 s, and 3 of its layers fire in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. Start times are staggered from 0 s to 0.87 s, so the layers arrive one after another. To change its colour, select "Reveal Flash" in the studio and edit Colour A and Colour B. Size on the same layer sets how big its particles are. The colour swatches by the downloads recolour every layer at once.

Layers, in draw order

1. Halosprite / additiveA placed glow. Extras: keyframed motion.
2. Raysparticles / additiveOne burst of 12 streaks at 0.85 s. They swell and then shrink away. Colours range between gold and orange.
3. Sucked Motesparticles / additiveA stream of streaks from a ring, its rate keyframed over the loop. They are swallowed by a magnet at its centre. Colours range between white and pale blue.
4. SilhouettespriteA placed image. Extras: shake, outline, glow, hit flash and keyframed motion.
5. ItemspriteA placed image. Extras: bounce, shine sweep, glow, hit flash and keyframed motion.
6. Reveal Flashparticles / additiveA single particle at 0.85 s. It grows as it ages. Colours range between white and pale gold.
7. Reveal Ringstroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a circle.
8. Sparklesparticles / additiveOne burst of 20 stars from a disc at 0.87 s. They swell and then shrink away and slow down with drag. Colours range between white and gold.
9. Glintsparticles / additiveA stream of stars across a box, its rate keyframed over the loop. They swell and then shrink away. Colours range between white and pale gold.