Reliquary Hit Effects
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12 stylised impact and effect sprites for dark interfaces — deep indigo with
pale silver accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Reliquary Hit Effects is a set of 12 impact and effect sprites drawn in the
stylised style, where the frame is carved, with finials pushing out past the
corners and a gem set into each one. 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.

The ornament is part of the silhouette rather than drawn on top of it, so the
frame is recognisable at thumbnail size. The face carries a three-stop
vertical gradient — the closest a flat kit gets to a painted bevel.

Inside that style this is the Reliquary reading of it: a dark interface on a
deep indigo palette with pale silver accents, built around a header band
across the top of the frame, chamfered buttons at 128x56, hollow-cored bars
divided into 12 segments, and two-tone icons on a 24px 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 Reliquary family,
which means this kit and the Reliquary panel kit line up without either being
resized. A good fit for fantasy and RPG 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: CC-BY-4.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/vfx/reliquary-hit-effects
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