Particle Effect Texture Essentials

NEW: v2.0 Mega Upgrade

This is the v2.0 Mega Upgrade — a full procedural remake of the original hand-painted pack: roughly four times the texture count, four times the resolution, with the original pack included alongside it, remastered. 

Also a basic functional Godot example is also included!

About

A complete particle texture library for game developers and VFX artists. 699 textures, 512x512, greyscale, in three ready-to-use formats.

What you get

• 534 new procedural textures across 20 categories
• 165 remastered originals from the hand-painted Essentials pack
• 3 formats of every texture — 2,097 files in total
• 20 catalog sheets for browsing by eye
• A working Godot 4 example project
• A full usage guide — blend modes, tiling, tile systems, engine setup

Categories

Fire · Explosions · Smoke · Clouds · Mist · Fog · Gas · Glows & flares · Beams · Lightning · Swirls & vortices · Rings · Shockwaves · Bubbles · Cellular & cracked · Shards & crystal · Sparks & scatter · 2D primitives · 3D wireframes · Seamless tiling

Purpose

Particle textures are the part of an effect nobody wants to draw and everybody needs. This pack covers the whole range in one purchase, at a consistent resolution and a consistent style, so you're not stitching together five free packs with mismatched conventions.

Everything is greyscale so it takes colour cleanly in-engine. Everything is 512x512 so it holds up on large effects — the most common request from customers of the original pack.

The three formats

Every texture ships three times, because engines blend particles in different ways:

1. Grey on Black — opaque RGB, no alpha. Maximum compatibility; works even in shaders and tools that ignore alpha entirely.
2. Grey on Transparent — RGB and alpha both carry the shape. For luminance-driven pipelines and alpha-blended smoke/shadow work.
3. White on Transparent — pure white RGB, shape in alpha. The modern default: tint to any colour in-engine without muddying it.

Pick one folder for your project and stay in it.

Highlights

Modular junction tiles. The lightning and beam sets include a full wang-tile system — straights, elbows, tees, crosses, forks, diagonals and corner curves, in two anchor families with adapter tiles bridging them. Snap them together on a grid to build branching bolts, energy conduits and circuit traces at any size.

Genuinely seamless tiling. 50 textures built to repeat edge-to-edge with no visible seam — fog, rain, snow, scanlines, haze, cloud layers and energy grids, each in light and heavy densities. Verified seamless, not just "probably fine."

3D wireframes. Cubes, pyramids, cylinders, octahedra and spheres as wireframe outlines, in orthographic and perspective projections, at multiple turntable angles, with low-poly faceted tiers and a thick-line variant.

Consistent by construction. These are procedurally generated, so resolution, framing, falloff and naming are uniform across all 699 — no odd-one-out texture that's 256px or off-centre.

Requirements

None. They're standard PNGs.

Works with Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, GameMaker, Defold, Cocos2d, LÖVE, MonoGame, libGDX, Phaser, PixiJS, three.js, Bevy and raylib — and any other engine, framework or compositing tool that accepts a PNG, including After Effects and Blender.

The included example project needs Godot 4 (verified on 4.7.1).

License

CC-BY 4.0 Reactorcore https://reactorcoregames.github.io/

This work © 2026 by Reactorcore is licensed under CC BY 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

(It means you can use them anywhere, even commercially. You only need to mention me (Reactorcore) and my website in the credits.)

Contact

Have feedback, ideas, or found a problem? Contact me here: Email: mailto:reactorcoregames@gmail.com

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Enjoy!
-Reactorcore