Spell FX - 22 Spell VFX in 7 Elements

22 animated spells in 7 elements as PNG sprite sheets, for any engine. Each element has its own texture, silhouette and particles: fractured ice bolts and pillars, branching lightning, turbulent fire, bubbling venom and torn shadow. Impacts break into filaments, shards, sparks or droplets; beams carry layered moving strands. That's 154 sheets, each in three sets: 256 px and 128 px HD, and pixel art made at 64 px, not shrunk.

Every one plays in the preview video.

What's inside

7 elements: fire, ice, storm, arcane, holy, shadow, poison

22 spells in each:

• bolt: a projectile to fly at the target (loops)
• beam: a channelled ray from the hand into the target, splashing where it lands (loops)
• breath: a cone gushing out of a mouth, churning, then thinning away
• missiles: a volley of five small missiles curving from the hand into the target, each bursting where it lands
• drain: two strands twisting from the target into the hand, carrying bits of it along (loops)
• eruption: a crack racing along the ground from the caster's feet, the element bursting up out of it in six spouts
• impact: where it hits
• meteor: a ball streaking down from the sky, a crash, a patch left burning out
• rain: the element falling on an area, each bit splashing where it lands (loops)
• cast: power gathering into an orb, then a release
• nova: a ring bursting outward
• pillar: an eruption from the ground, or a strike from the sky
• area: a pool on the ground, seen at an angle (loops)
• wall: a wall of the element standing along the ground, shards for ice, bolts for storm (loops)
• vortex: a whirlwind on the spot, swaying, carrying bits round and up (loops)
• aura: wrapped around a character's feet and body (loops)
• ward: a dome over a character, bright toward its edge like glass (loops)
• orbit: four orbs circling a character on a tilted ring (loops)
• charge: the element made in to a growing, throbbing orb, to hold while charging (loops)
• rune: a magic circle seen from above (loops)
• portal: an upright oval swirling round a deep middle (loops)
• teleport: a column closing on a character to a line, a flash, gone
• 16 to 32 frames each, made for their fps, and the loops loop seamlessly.
• Transparent PNG sheets, 8 frames a row, plus an effects.json with every frame size, frame count, fps and anchor, and a GIF preview of each.
• Import steps for Unity and GameMaker in the README.

In 3D: Magic Circles 3D puts magic circles, portals, auras, rings of runes, pillars of light and wards in a 3D scene, in eight elements (16 free).

What the spells leave on their target: Status FX has 16 statuses that sit on a character, burning, poisoned, frozen or chained among them, each with a start, a loop and an end, in the same format (3 free).

When a fireball lands: Explosion FX has explosions, fire and smoke in 6 colours in the same format (6 free).

Compatibility

• Any engine that plays sprite sheets: Unity, GameMaker, Defold, Construct, Phaser, LÖVE, MonoGame.

Unity: download spell-fx-1.3.0.unitypackage, import it through Assets > Import Package > Custom Package, and open Assets/SpellFX/Demo/L_SpellFXDemo.unity.

Want to try it first? Spell FX Free has the fire, ice and arcane bolts and impacts.