--- title: "Weather" package: "@phaser-ae/vfx-weather" tier: Pro version: 3.0.0-4 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-20 description: "Twelve ready-made screen-wide 2D weathers, from rain, drizzle and a thunderstorm to snow, a blizzard, hail, leaves, blossom, ash, a sandstorm, fireflies and sunbeam dust." url: https://phaser.io/packs/vfx-weather site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Weather Twelve screen-wide weathers, each a single effect placed at the centre of the view, and each already falling when it appears. ## What it does One effect covers the view: what falls is born in a band above the screen, what the wind carries along its upwind edge too, and what hangs in the air fades in where it is. Each weather is prewarmed, so its first frame already shows a sky full of rain, and several emitters give it depth, such as far streaks behind near ones or haze behind the sand. Spawn one with `game.particles.effect(name, opts)` and it loops until killed; to change the weather, kill one and spawn the next. On a scrolling world, follow the camera's target or use a screen-space layer, and pass `scale` for a bigger view: 2 covers 1280 by 720. Every emitter is live by name, so you can thin a storm or switch off its lightning without copying it. ## Features - **Rain** — steady `rain` over a mist, fine `drizzle` under a grey murk, and a slanting `storm` with sheet lightning. - **Snow and ice** — gentle `snow` at three depths, a driving `blizzard`, and `hail` that bounces off the ground. - **Seasons** — tumbling autumn `leaves` and cherry blossom `petals`. - **Hostile air** — grey `ash` with live embers, and an ochre `sandstorm`. - **Atmosphere** — blinking `fireflies` and `dustMotes` in a shaft of light. - **Data you can copy** — a heavier downpour, or hail landing on higher ground, is a copied definition. ## Good for - **Platformers and adventures** — rain over a city, snow on a winter level, leaves in an autumn forest. - **Mountain, desert and volcano levels** — blizzards, sandstorms and ash. - **Story and mood scenes** — fireflies over a night meadow, dust in the light through a window. - **Weather that changes** — one effect swapped for the next as a level goes on. ## Make it yours Each weather is one effect with `scale`, `follow` and an `angle` that tilts the rain a few degrees. A side-scrolling platformer lets `snow` follow the player and swaps it for a `blizzard` on the mountain pass; a fixed-screen puzzle game drops `petals` in spring, `leaves` in autumn, and plays a `storm` with its lightning stopped in a sad scene. ## A quick look Rain at the centre of the view, snow that follows the player, and a storm for a bigger view with its lightning off: ```ts const rain = game.particles.effect('rain', { x: 320, y: 180, layer: 'fx' }); const snow = game.particles.effect('snow', { follow: player, offset: { y: -40 } }); const storm = game.particles.effect('storm', { x: 640, y: 360, scale: 2 }); storm.emitters['flash']!.emitter.stop(true); // a storm with no lightning rain.kill(); ``` ## Works with - `particles-2d` and `particle-textures` — required; `core-2d` includes both. - `audio` — for the rain and the wind. - `rig-follow` — the follow camera whose target the weather can follow. - `particles-gpu` — for weather that must fill a huge view densely, past about twenty thousand particles. - `vfx3d-weather` — weather as volumes round the player in 3D. ## Good to know - Tuned for a 640 by 360 view; `scale` covers bigger views in proportion, but a view of another shape needs a copy with wider zones. - The wind blows left to right, and `angle` does not turn wind or gravity; weather blowing left is a mirrored copy. - Nothing settles on your platforms: only hail lands, on a line 170 units below the centre. - The blizzard is the busiest at about 1,350 live particles, and spawning prewarms for up to about 60 ms, so start the weather with the scene. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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