Mint Hit Effects
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12 flat impact and effect sprites for dark interfaces — blue-grey with mint
green accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Mint Hit Effects is a set of 12 impact and effect sprites drawn in the flat
style, where there are no outlines and no shading at all. It contains a hit
spark and a critical burst, an impact ring and a ground shockwave, a slash
arc, a glow orb and a sparkle, a heal mark and a shield bubble and a dust
puff, a lightning bolt and rising embers.

Every other kit in this catalogue draws the interface. None of them draw the
moment one thing hits another, which is the first thing a combat system needs
and the last thing a solo developer gets to. An effect sprite also has no
outline to hide behind: it lives on top of the game for a few frames and then
it is gone.

Depth comes only from a layered soft shadow — three stacked passes rather than
a blur filter, because some SVG rasterisers scale a blur wrongly and the 4x
PNG comes out as a smear. Everything else is one solid colour.

Inside that style this is the Mint reading of it: a dark interface on a
blue-grey palette with mint green accents, built around a header band across
the top of the frame, square-cornered buttons at 120x36, tick-marked bars
divided into 12 segments, and two-tone icons on a 16px grid. Those
measurements are why two families can share an art style without being
interchangeable: the style decides how an edge is drawn, the numbers decide
what the interface is for.

Every sprite is centred in a square canvas and symmetric about that centre, so
the engine only has to scale and fade — an effect anchored off-centre drifts
sideways as it grows, and that reads as a bug rather than a burst. The bodies
are single-colour with no outline, because an outlined spark reads as a piece
of interface rather than as light. The glow orb is built from stacked discs at
falling opacity rather than a blur filter: a filter is rasterised differently
across engines and turns to mush at 4x.

Every sprite ships as an editable SVG and as transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x,
so you can drop the PNGs straight into an engine or open the vector and change
a colour. Built to the same measurements as the rest of the Mint family, which
means this kit and the Mint panel kit line up without either being resized. A
good fit for minimal and mobile interfaces.

HOW TO USE

  - Anchor every effect at the centre of its sprite and scale from there;
    these are drawn symmetric so that scale and fade is the whole animation.
  - Play the hit spark for two or three frames at most. An impact that lingers
    stops reading as an impact.
  - Tint by multiplying rather than replacing the colour — the sprites carry
    their own light-to-dark falloff, and a flat colour replace throws it away.
  - Use additive blending for the spark, burst, glow and sparkle, and normal
    blending for the dust puff and embers, which are matter rather than light.

License: CC0-1.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/vfx/mint-hit-effects
More free assets: https://www.colorosse.com
