--- title: "Water Effects" package: "@phaser-ae/vfx-water" tier: Pro version: 3.0.0-1 released: 2026-10-19 updated: 2026-10-20 description: "Twelve ready-made 2D water effects, from splashes, drips and sprays to a sprinkler, a fountain, a geyser, waterfall mist, ripples, rising bubbles and a wake." url: https://phaser.io/packs/vfx-water site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Water Effects Twelve effects for the moment something meets water, from a footstep in a puddle to an erupting geyser. They draw the splashes and the spray; your game draws the water. ## What it does Each effect layers several emitters coloured from white through pale blue. Droplets are thrown up, stretch along their flight, arc under gravity and die where they fall back through the surface; rings spread flat across it; mist and foam soften the edges. Most are drawn from the side, so the point you spawn a splash at is the waterline, while `ripples` and `wake` are drawn from above. Spawn one with `game.particles.effect(name, opts)`. One-shots such as `splash` and `geyser` remove themselves; loops such as `fountain` and `spray` play until killed. `wake` lays foam per unit travelled behind whatever it follows. `scale` sizes everything and `angle` turns the whole effect, which is how `spray` is aimed. The effects replay identically from the game's seed. ## Features - **Splashes** — a big `splash` about 150 units tall, smaller `droplets`, and a `footSplash` for a puddle. - **Drips** — a bead that swells, falls and lands every 1.4 seconds, with `scale` setting the height of the fall. - **Jets** — an aimed `spray`, an oscillating `sprinkler`, and a park `fountain` about 130 units tall. - **Big water** — a `geyser` erupting about 200 units high, and the churning base of a waterfall. - **Seen from above** — `ripples` spreading from a point and a `wake` behind a boat or a swimmer. - **Underwater** — `airBubbles` rising in wobbling clusters. ## Good for - **Platformers** — splashes as the player falls in, footsteps in puddles, drips in caves. - **Fishing and boating games** — ripples round a float, a wake behind a boat. - **Underwater and diving games** — bubbles from a diver or a sunken wreck. - **Towns, parks and adventure levels** — fountains, sprinklers, geysers and waterfalls. ## Make it yours Every effect takes `scale`, and the spray takes `angle`. A side-on platformer fires `splash` at the waterline whenever something falls in and scales `drips` to the height of each ledge; a top-down fishing game spreads `ripples` round the float and lets `wake` follow the boat. A swamp or a toxic level recolours copies of the splashes into mud or slime. ## A quick look A splash at the waterline, an aimed hose, a boat's wake and drips scaled to a ledge 160 units up: ```ts game.particles.effect('splash', { x: player.x, y: waterY, layer: 'fx' }); const hose = game.particles.effect('spray', { x: nozzle.x, y: nozzle.y, angle: -30 }); game.particles.effect('wake', { follow: boat }); game.particles.effect('drips', { x: ledge.x, y: floorY, scale: 160 / 100 }); ``` ## Works with - `particles-2d` and `particle-textures` — required; `core-2d` includes both. - `vfx3d-water` — water effects in 3D. - `water-3d` and `watermax` — a 3D water surface. - `underwater-3d` — an underwater look in 3D. ## Good to know - It draws no water surface, and droplets do not land on platforms or the shore: there is no collision. - White foam and mist vanish on a white background; recolour a copy for a bright scene. - Sizes are on the same scale as the other 2D effect packs, tuned for a world of about 640 by 360 units; use `scale` to fit, 2 for 1280 by 720. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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