Skid Stop Dust

Skid stop dust for a hard brake: dust and grit spray forward from the sliding feet, skid marks stay on the floor, and a dust wall billows out at the stop. Plays once per loop.

Skid Stop Dust is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 1.5 seconds, drawn on a 384 by 384 canvas. It is built from 7 particle emitters.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 45 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 1.5, then emit one particle per cycle. Roblox setup.

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 1.5 s loop.

Skid Stop Dust at 8 moments, from 0 s to 1.31 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Skid Stop Dust stacks 7 particle emitters, each with its own job. Techniques worth a look: collisions and keyframed parameters. 2 scene layers (ground and props) show in the studio for context and stay out of every export.

It loops seamlessly every 1.5 s, and 3 of its layers fire in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. To change its colour, select "Trail Dust" in the studio and edit the Colour over Life gradient. Size on the same layer sets how big its particles are.

Layers, in draw order

Skid MarksparticlesA stream of soft glows, its rate keyframed over the loop. Colour: black.
Trail Dust, Forward SprayparticlesA stream of smoke puffs, its rate keyframed over the loop. They grow as they age, spin and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to pale orange over each life.
Dust WallparticlesOne burst of 16 smoke puffs along a line at 0.46 s. They grow as they age, spin and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to pale orange over each life.
Wall RollparticlesOne burst of 9 smoke puffs at 0.46 s. They grow as they age, spin and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to pale orange over each life.
GrainsparticlesA stream of debris, its rate keyframed over the loop. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something and spin. Colour: orange.
GrainsparticlesOne burst of 16 debris at 0.46 s. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something and spin. Colour: orange.

DETAILS

Length: 1.5 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas: 384 x 384, HD
Layers: 7 emitters
Blend: Mostly normal
Colours: orangepale orangewhite
Sprites: Kenney Smoke Particles by Kenney (CC0)
Tags: skid, brake, stop, dust, turn, movement, runner, ground

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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