BlastFX

BlastFX is a particle effect editor for creating pre-rendered 2D visual effects, which can then be exported as image sequences, sprite sheets, GIFs, or uncompressed AVI video.

Design layered particle emitters, preview the final processed result in real time, and export pre-rendered effects for games, animation, UI, trailers, and pixel art workflows.

Note: BlastFX 2.0 cannot load old 1.x project files

BlastFX documentation can be found here

Features

- GPU accelerated particle simulation

- Multiple emitters per effect

- Assignable render layers, each with their own effects chain

- Master effects chain for adding post-processing to the final composition

- Editable particle size, colour, velocity, rotation, turbulence, trails, and shape controls

- Point, circle, box, line, and multi-segment line emission shapes

- Draggable emitter controls directly in the preview

- Emitter scaling and rotation tools

- Texture-based particles

- Flipbook sprite sheet particle animation

- Editable colour gradients with alpha channel

- Particle trails with independent colour and size curves

- Timeline scrubbing and playback controls

- Seamless looping support for loopable effects

- Adjustable export area

Post-Process Effects

BlastFX includes a variety of post-process effects to help shape the final result

Included effects:

- Palette Map

- Gradient Map

- Glow

- Outline

- Pixelate

- Blur

- Levels

- Hue, Saturation, Lightness (HSV) adjustment

- X/Y Symmetry

- Seamless Tile

Export

Export your effect as:

- Sprite sheet

- PNG image sequence

- Animated GIF

- Uncompressed AVI video

Effects are rendered from the selected export area, making it easy to crop long, narrow, wide, or off-centre effects without changing the simulation itself. The amount of frames rendered can also be selected, allowing you to accommodate the effect to the frame rate of your game.

Project Files

BlastFX projects can be saved with the option of embedded textures so effects can be shared more easily.

BlastFX is ideal for:

- Pixel art effects

- Explosions

- Fire and smoke

- Magic spells

- UI effects

- Hits, flashes, bursts, and impacts

- Animated effect textures

Demo Version

A demo version is available for testing the editor workflow, please try this before purchasing the full version. Saving & loading of projects is enabled and the projects saved in the demo are compatible with the full version. Export features are disabled in the demo.

System Requirements

- Windows or Linux (Mac coming soon, hopefully)

- GPU with at least OpenGL 3.3 support