Ore Mining Hit

HOW IT'S MADE

Ore Mining Hit stacks 7 particle emitters, each with its own job. Techniques worth a look: glowing strokes traced along shapes, sub-emitters set off by other particles, collisions, particles stretched along their motion and post filters (bloom). A scene layer (ground or a prop) shows in the studio for context and stays out of every export.

It loops seamlessly every 0.9 s, and 6 of its layers fire in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. Start times are staggered from 0 s to 0.06 s, so the layers arrive one after another. To change its colour, select "Impact Flash" 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. Impact Flashparticles / additiveA single particle at 0.05 s. It grows as it ages. Colour: pale gold.
2. Impact Starparticles / additiveA single particle at 0.05 s. It grows as it ages. Colour: white.
3. Impact Ringstroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a circle.
4. Sparksparticles / additiveOne burst of 34 streaks at 0.05 s. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to orange over each life.
5. Rock ChunksparticlesOne burst of 10 debris from a disc at 0.05 s. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something and spin. Colour: grey.
6. Gold NuggetsparticlesOne burst of 4 image sprites at 0.06 s. They leave "Nugget Glints" behind them, fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something and spin. Colour: white.
7. Nugget Glintsparticles / additiveStars set off by "Gold Nuggets". They swell and then shrink away. Colours range between white and pale gold.
8. Dust PuffparticlesOne burst of 8 smoke puffs from a disc at 0.06 s. They fall under gravity, grow as they age, spin and slow down with drag. Colour: grey.