--- title: "3D Party Effects" package: "@phaser-ae/vfx3d-party" tier: Pro version: 3.0.0-1 released: 2026-10-19 updated: 2026-10-19 description: "Twelve 3D celebration effects for the reward moments of a game: confetti, fireworks, streamers, balloons, coins, gems, stars, hearts, bubbles and a party popper." url: https://phaser.io/packs/vfx3d-party site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # 3D Party Effects Twelve celebrations for the reward moments of a 3D game: a level clear, a goal, a chest opening, a race finish. They are bright and unlit, so a win reads the same in a sunny stadium as under a night sky. ## What it does The pack registers twelve named effects with the 3D particle system. Spawn one with `game.particles3d.effect(name, { x, y, z })` on the ground or on the thing being celebrated, and it plays and ends by itself; `bubbles` is the one loop. Each is layered: a flash, a body, tails and glitter, with colours that cool from white-hot. Shapes made of several particles, a balloon with its shine and string, a heart of small diamonds, a streamer that is a chain of discs, hold together because their launches are stepped rather than random. They come in sizes for the moment: `starBurst` and `coins` for small rewards, `confetti`, `streamers` and `partyPopper` for the win, the fireworks for the finale, `balloons` and `hearts` for gentle moments and `gemShower` for the jackpot. ## Features - **Confetti** — `confetti`, a cannon burst of 140 paper squares and strips in six colours, and `partyPopper`, a cone of confetti and streamers aimed with `pitch` and `yaw`. - **Fireworks** — `fireworks`, a pink peony; `fireworkRing`, a ring of blue comets; and `fireworkWillow`, gold stars drooping into falling streaks, each after a rocket climbs six units. - **Streamers and balloons** — eight `streamers` that unroll and curl down, and nine `balloons` rising in a slow twist. - **Treasure** — `coins` springing up and turning, `gemShower` raining cut gems, and `starBurst`, twenty spinning gold stars. - **Softer moments** — `hearts`, five glowing mosaic hearts rising one after another, and `bubbles`. - **One size control** — at `scale: 3` a firework climbs eighteen units and bursts about twenty-five across. ## Good for - **Racing and sports games** — confetti over the finish line, fireworks when a goal goes in. - **Casual and puzzle games in 3D** — a star burst or coins on every level clear. - **Loot moments** — a gem shower when a chest opens. - **Gentle and social games** — hearts and balloons for a like, a gift or a birthday. ## Make it yours Each effect takes a position or an object to follow, `scale`, and `yaw`, `pitch` and `roll` for the aimed ones. A small `starBurst` at `scale: 0.7` over the player marks every pickup; a show over a far hill fires one of the three shells every 0.7 seconds at three times the size. Every effect is a plain `Vfx3dDef`, so you can copy one from `game.particles3d.defs`, retune it (a peony in your team's colour) and register it with `registerVfx3d`. ## A quick look A win at the finish line, and a party popper tilted and turned: ```ts game.particles3d.effect('confetti', { x: 0, y: 0, z: 0 }); game.particles3d.effect('streamers', { x: 0, y: 0, z: 0 }); game.particles3d.effect('starBurst', { x: player.x, y: player.y + 1, z: player.z, scale: 0.7 }); game.particles3d.effect('partyPopper', { x: 2, y: 0, z: -3, pitch: 35, yaw: 200 }); ``` ## Works with - `particles-3d` and `particle-textures` — required: the runtime and the particle frames; `core-3d` includes both. - `lighting-3d` — a point light for a firework's glow on the scene. - `vfx-party` — the same twelve names in 2D. ## Good to know - A firework's colour is fixed per effect and it always climbs straight up; one that follows a moving object bursts above the object rather than at the top of its trail. - Hearts face a camera looking along +z; turn them with `yaw` for another view. - The fireworks and glints are additive, so they glow at night and wash out over a bright sky; the paper, coins, gems and balloons read anywhere. - Balloons, hearts and streamers lay out the same way every time, and adding randomness to them in a copy breaks their shapes. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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