Particle FX BakerPixel Art Particle Effect Maker
The Particle FX Baker turns a particle system into frames a pixel-art game can use. Start from a preset (fire, smoke, magic, sparkles, explosions, rain, snow, dust, hits, heals, coins), watch it move, and change it with sliders.
Stack emitters of different shapes, use pixel shapes or your own stamp, and lock the palette so the effect stays in your game's colours. The bake makes the loop seamless: the last frame runs straight into the first.
It runs in the browser with no other program behind it, and exports a sheet with a JSON map of the frames that any engine can read.
A first session
- 1Pick a preset close to what you need.
- 2Change the emitters, shapes and colours with the sliders, watching the loop.
- 3Set the canvas size, frame rate and length.
- 4Bake it and save the sprite sheet with its JSON.
- It exports
- PNG sheet + JSON
- ZIP of frames (full edition)
- GIF (full edition)
- Godot SpriteFrames (full edition)
- Demo edition and full edition
- Demo edition: 2 emitters, 15 presets, a canvas up to 64x64, PNG sheet. Full edition: unlimited emitters, all presets, a canvas up to 256, our pack palettes, dither, GIF and Godot export, preset files.
- Version 1.0. Runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari; nothing to install.
- Can I use what I make in a commercial game?
- Yes. What you make with the tools is yours to use in your games, commercial ones too, under the Gridwright licence.
Packs that work with it
Guides for this tool
- Spell Effects in Pixel Art: Projectiles Beams and ImpactsHow to make pixel art spell effects read at small sizes: casts, projectiles, beams of any length, impacts and strikes, with the Godot 4 nodes for each.11 Nov 2026
- Seamless Weather in 2D Games: Rain Snow and Fog That Don't RepeatWhy looping rain, snow and fog show their seam and their repeat, and how to hide both with layers, particles, wind and slow fog in Godot 4.8 Nov 2026
- Pixel Art Particle Effects: Make Them or Buy Them?Four ways to get particle effects for a pixel art game: engine particles, baking tools, drawing by hand and ready packs, and how to choose between them.5 Nov 2026
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