Water Bucket Splash: A bucket of water thrown across the floor: a glossy sheet arcs in from the left, slaps down across a wide band with forward splashes and spreads into a sliding sheet that thins and dries.

Water Bucket Splash

A bucket of water thrown across the floor: a glossy sheet arcs in from the left, slaps down across a wide band with forward splashes and spreads into a sliding sheet that thins and dries. Plays once per loop.

Water Bucket Splash is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 2.2 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 512 canvas. It is built from 12 particle emitters.

Colour

Recolours the preview and the free downloads.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 66 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 2.2, 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 2.2 s loop.

Water Bucket Splash at 8 moments, from 0 s to 1.93 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Water Bucket Splash stacks 12 particle emitters, each with its own job. Techniques worth a look: sub-emitters set off by other particles, collisions, particles stretched along their motion, keyframed parameters and post filters (bloom and vignette). 2 scene layers (ground and props) show in the studio for context and stay out of every export.

It loops seamlessly every 2.2 s, and one layer fires in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. To change its colour, select "Water 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. Floor SheetparticlesSplats set off by "Thrown Water Rim". They bounce when they hit something, grow as they age and slow down with drag. Colour: blue.
  2. Floor SheenparticlesSoft glows set off by "Thrown Water Rim". They bounce when they hit something, grow as they age and slow down with drag. Colour: pale blue.
  3. Water BodyparticlesA stream of streaks along a line, its rate keyframed over the loop. They fall under gravity and vanish when they hit something. Colour: blue.
  4. Thrown Water Sourceparticles / additiveA stream of pixels along a line, its rate keyframed over the loop. They spawn "Thrown Water Rim" as they appear, spawn "Thrown Water Body" as they appear and spawn "Thrown Water Highlight" as they appear. Colours range between orange and gold.
  5. Thrown Water RimparticlesStreaks set off by "Thrown Water Source". They set off "Slap Splash Source" on impact, set off "Floor Sheet" on impact, set off "Floor Sheen" on impact and fall under gravity. Colour: blue.
  6. Thrown Water BodyparticlesStreaks set off by "Thrown Water Source". They fall under gravity and vanish when they hit something. Colour: blue.
  7. Thrown Water HighlightparticlesStreaks set off by "Thrown Water Source". They fall under gravity and vanish when they hit something. Colour: white.
  8. Slap Splash Sourceparticles / additivePixels set off by "Thrown Water Rim". They spawn "Slap Splash Rim" as they appear, spawn "Slap Splash Body" as they appear and spawn "Slap Splash Highlight" as they appear. Colours range between orange and gold.
  9. Slap Splash Rim, Slap Splash BodyparticlesStreaks set off by "Slap Splash Source". They fall under gravity, vanish when they hit something and slow down with drag. Colour: blue.
  10. Slap Splash HighlightparticlesStreaks set off by "Slap Splash Source". They fall under gravity, vanish when they hit something and slow down with drag. Colour: white.

One more layer is in the studio.

DETAILS

Length
2.2 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
512 x 512, HD
Layers
12 emitters
Blend
Mostly normal
Colours
bluewhiteorangepale blue
Sprites
Kenney Smoke Particles by Kenney (CC0), Kenney Splat Pack by Kenney (CC0)
Tags
water, bucket, splash, throw, floor, cleaning, slapstick

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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