Rain Cloud: A small rain cloud churns overhead and rains thin streaks that hit the ground with tiny splashes and ripples in a puddle.

Rain Cloud

A small rain cloud churns overhead and rains thin streaks that hit the ground with tiny splashes and ripples in a puddle. Seamless loop for soaked debuffs, weather spells and watering crops.

Rain Cloud is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 2 seconds, drawn on a 320 by 320 canvas. It is built from 6 particle emitters.

Colour

Recolours the preview and the free downloads.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 60 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, 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 s loop.

Rain Cloud at 8 moments, from 0 s to 1.75 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Rain Cloud stacks 6 particle emitters, each with its own job. Techniques worth a look: sub-emitters set off by other particles, collisions, particles stretched along their motion and post filters (bloom and vignette). 3 scene layers (ground and props) show in the studio for context and stay out of every export.

Every layer emits continuously and the 2 s loop closes seamlessly, so it can run for as long as you need. To change its colour, select "Cloud Body" 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. RainparticlesA steady stream of streaks along a line. They set off "Drop Ripples" on impact, set off "Splash" on impact and vanish when they hit something. Colour: pale blue.
  2. Drop RipplesparticlesRings set off by "Rain". They grow as they age. Colour: white.
  3. SplashparticlesStreaks set off by "Rain". They fall under gravity and vanish when they hit something. Colours range between white and pale cyan.
  4. Cloud BellyparticlesA steady stream of smoke puffs from a disc. Colour: deep blue.
  5. Cloud Body, Cloud TopparticlesA steady stream of smoke puffs from a disc. Colour: blue.

DETAILS

Length
2 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
320 x 320, HD
Layers
6 emitters
Blend
Mostly normal
Colours
bluewhitepale bluedeep blue
Sprites
ParticleFX Realism by ParticleFX Studio (CC0), Kenney Smoke Particles by Kenney (CC0)
Tags
rain, cloud, weather, water, debuff, soaked, storm

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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