Quick Combat Feedback Pro - Hit Stop, Screen Shake & Damage Numbers

Combat feel is tuned by feel, and every tweak costs you a Play-mode round trip. Change the punch, press Play, wait for the domain reload, walk to the enemy, swing, squint, decide it was wrong, go back. Twenty times an hour.

Quick Combat Feedback Pro puts the whole thing inside an editor window. Damage numbers fly, the game freezes on the hit, the camera kicks and the target flashes — all animating in the window while you drag the sliders. No Play mode. No domain reload between two tweaks. Drag Punch while numbers are still in the air and they change under your hand.

The preview is not an approximation of the runtime. It calls the exact same FeelMath functions your build calls, so what you tune is what ships. Even the scale-and-opacity curve drawn in the panel is sampled from that same code rather than redrawn by hand.

WHAT YOU GET

Live in-editor preview — numbers, hit stop, screen shake, target flash and the stacking rules, all animating off EditorApplication.update. Play mode is optional, not the workflow.

Damage numbers that read — four motion paths (rise, arc, burst, drift), a punch-then-settle scale curve, outline, per-hit-kind colour and size, prefixes and words like MISS or BLOCKED.

Hit stop — the freeze that makes a hit land. It scales with damage, so a chip hit taps and a finisher stops the world, and it is capped at your full-strength damage so a 9999 crit cannot lock the game up. Runs on unscaled time and restores your previous timeScale rather than stomping it to 1, and if your game sets its own timeScale during the freeze — a slow-motion finisher — yours is kept.

Screen shake with trauma — squared falloff, positional and roll, composed on top of your own camera-follow code: the offset goes on just before the camera renders and comes off straight after, so your follow code never sees it, whatever order your scripts run in. Per-hit-kind multipliers, so a heal never shakes.

Target flash — sprites through their own colour (what the sprite shader tints by), meshes through a MaterialPropertyBlock and uGUI graphics directly, with the colours they had when the hit landed put back afterwards. No material instances or property blocks left behind. A tint can only multiply, so for art whose colour comes from its texture, pick a flash colour that is not white.

Smart stacking and merging — rapid hits on the same target fan out instead of overlapping, and hits inside the merge window add into the number already on screen. A 12-hit combo reads as one growing total instead of twelve labels fighting for the same pixels.

Five genre presets — Arcade, Souls, Fighting, Idle RPG and Minimal. Each one starts from the same baseline and overrides what makes it different, so switching between them can never leave a stale slider behind.

Pooled and allocation-free — labels are reused, nothing is instantiated per hit, and the overlay canvas is created for you on first use if you have not made one.

Pure-C# core — FeelMath is static, deterministic and MonoBehaviour-free. Call it from your own VFX, your own UI, your own tools.

No prefabs, no textures — every sprite is generated at runtime. Nothing to re-link, nothing to break when you upgrade.

INTEGRATION IS ONE LINE

using Krykftn.QuickCombatFeedbackPro;

CombatFeedback.Damage(enemy.position, 240f);

CombatFeedback.Critical(enemy.position, 932f, follow: enemy);

CombatFeedback.Heal(player.position, 45f);

CombatFeedback.Miss(enemy.position);

Or drive the pieces yourself:

director.Show(worldPosition, amount, CombatHitKind.Blocked, follow: enemy);

director.AddTrauma(0.6f);

director.Freeze(0.08f);

No prefab to place, no canvas to build, no manager to wire.

TRY IT IN 30 SECONDS

1. Import the package.

2. Tools > Quick Combat Feedback Pro > Setup Window, then Create Sample Profiles.

3. The Feel Preview opens on Arcade. Press CRIT — the number pops, the stage freezes for a beat and the camera kicks, right there in the window.

4. Press COMBO x8 and watch seven quick hits fold into one growing number and the crit land beside it — the merge window doing in the preview exactly what it does in your game.

5. Switch the preset to Souls and press CRIT again. Same call, completely different game.

REQUIREMENTS

Unity 2022.3 LTS or newer. uGUI and TextMeshPro, both of which ship with Unity and are in every standard template. If either is missing the package switches itself off instead of throwing compile errors, and a one-click setup window installs them along with TMP's essential resources. No third-party packages, ever. Built-in, URP and HDRP.

Namespace: Krykftn.QuickCombatFeedbackPro

Full C# source included. No DLLs.