Stone Tablet Crumble: An ancient rune tablet cracks and crumbles from the top down into heavy stone chunks that drop, roll and raise dust where they land.

Stone Tablet Crumble

An ancient rune tablet cracks and crumbles from the top down into heavy stone chunks that drop, roll and raise dust where they land.

Stone Tablet Crumble is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 2.8 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 512 canvas. It is built from 4 particle emitters.

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.

Stone Tablet Crumble at 8 moments, from 0 s to 2.45 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Stone Tablet Crumble is a compact effect made from 4 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: sub-emitters set off by other particles, collisions and keyframed parameters. A scene layer (ground or a prop) shows in the studio for context and stays out of every export.

It loops seamlessly every 2.8 s, and one layer fires in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. It carries little colour of its own, so it takes a tint well: select "Crumble dust" and set Colour A and Colour B. Size on the same layer sets how big its particles are.

Layers, in draw order

  1. TabletparticlesOne burst of 40 shards at 0.75 s. They set off "Landing dust" on impact, are flung outward, fall under gravity and bounce when they hit something.
  2. Landing dustparticlesSmoke puffs set off by "Tablet". They grow as they age and slow down with drag. Colour: grey.
  3. Crumble dustparticlesA stream of smoke puffs across a box, its rate keyframed over the loop. They grow as they age and slow down with drag. Colours range between grey and dark grey.
  4. PebblesparticlesA stream of debris across a box, its rate keyframed over the loop. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something and spin. Colour: grey.

DETAILS

Length
2.8 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
512 x 512, HD
Layers
4 emitters
Blend
Mostly normal
Colours
greywhitedark grey
Sprites
ParticleFX Realism by ParticleFX Studio (CC0)
Tags
stone, rock, crumble, break, rubble, ruins, runes, dust

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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