Swirling Wind Lines: Stylised cartoon wind lines: soft white streaks draw on, roll up into curls and wipe away across the view, with drifting leaves and motes.

Swirling Wind Lines

Stylised cartoon wind lines: soft white streaks draw on, roll up into curls and wipe away across the view, with drifting leaves and motes. Loops perfectly.

Swirling Wind Lines is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 3 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 512 canvas. It is built from 2 particle emitters and 10 glowing strokes.

Colour

Recolours the preview and the free downloads.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 90 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 3, 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 3 s loop.

Swirling Wind Lines at 8 moments, from 0 s to 2.63 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Swirling Wind Lines is drawn with 10 glowing strokes, lines with a hot core and a soft glow traced along their shapes, plus 2 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: keyframed parameters and post filters (bloom).

Every layer emits continuously and the 3 s loop closes seamlessly, so it can run for as long as you need. To recolour the line, select "Wind Line 1" and change Core and Glow; Start and End set how much of it is drawn. The colour swatches by the downloads recolour every layer at once.

Layers, in draw order

  1. Wind Line 1, Wind Line 2, Wind Line 3 +7stroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a path. Its start and end are keyframed, so it writes itself on and off.
  2. Drifting Motesparticles / additiveA steady stream of soft glows across a box. They sway from side to side. Colours range between white and pale blue.
  3. Drifting LeavesparticlesA steady stream of leaves and petals along a line. They sway from side to side and spin. Colours range between green and gold.

DETAILS

Length
3 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
512 x 512, HD
Layers
2 emitters and 10 glowing strokes
Blend
Mostly normal
Colours
pale bluewhitegreengold
Sprites
ParticleFX Originals by ParticleFX Studio (CC0)
Tags
wind lines, wind, swirl, cartoon, toon, breeze, ambient, loop

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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