# roblox-vfx

A skill for building and optimizing Roblox particles, beams, trails and highlights. Useful when an effect chokes on low-end phones.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 637 installs · ★ 23
- Author: nonlooped
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/nonlooped/roblox-suite/tree/HEAD/roblox-vfx/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/roblox-vfx

## What it does

The skill walks an agent through `ParticleEmitter` properties: texture, `ColorSequence`, `NumberSequence` for size and transparency, lifetime, `Rate`. Emitter shapes get their own section — Box, Sphere, Cylinder, Disc — with `ShapeStyle`, `ShapeInOut` and `ShapePartial`. Flipbooks are covered too: grid sheets, `FlipbookMode`, `FlipbookBlendFrames`.

Performance is the main thread. Cost comes from overlapping transparent layers, and the doc is blunt about the order of fixes: shrink total opaque pixel area first, lower `Rate` after. Profiling goes through `View → Stats → GPU → Fill Rate` and `Render → Overdraw`. For distant effects it suggests disabling emitters at 100–300 studs and halving `Rate` at half that distance.

One trap worth knowing: Sphere and Cylinder shapes do not display correctly when the emitter is parented to an Attachment. Use a BasePart parent instead — the part can be tiny and invisible. `EmissionDirection` is ignored entirely under an Attachment parent, so you rotate the Attachment itself. For one-shot bursts the doc favors client-authoritative emission: the server fires an event and each client spawns the burst locally.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add nonlooped/roblox-suite --skill roblox-vfx -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/roblox-vfx/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/roblox-vfx/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add nonlooped/roblox-suite --skill roblox-vfx -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/roblox-vfx/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add nonlooped/roblox-suite --skill roblox-vfx -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/roblox-vfx/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install nonlooped/roblox-suite roblox-vfx
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/roblox-vfx/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add nonlooped/roblox-suite --skill roblox-vfx -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/nonlooped/roblox-suite --path roblox-vfx
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/roblox-vfx/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add nonlooped/roblox-suite --skill roblox-vfx -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/nonlooped/roblox-suite/tree/HEAD/roblox-vfx/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- aim particle emission with the right shape and direction
- build an animated flipbook texture for an explosion
- cut overdraw from transparent effects on low-end devices
- disable costly emitters when the camera moves away
- fire a one-shot burst from an animation marker

## Example prompts
- Build a spark hit effect: Attachment on the weapon, one-shot Emit from an animation marker
- This ParticleEmitter has too much overdraw on mobile — what should I reduce first?
- Set up a 4x4 flipbook for an explosion in OneShot mode

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name: roblox-vfx
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last_reviewed: 2026-06-17
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# roblox-vfx

**Main source:** https://create.roblox.com/docs/en-us/effects/particle-emitters + the Effects section of the docs and the ParticleEmitter class reference.

Tune particle lifetime, size, transparency, and rate together. Profile overlapping transparent effects on the lowest target device.

For marker-triggered bursts, read [roblox-animation](../roblox-animation/SKILL.md). For UI particles, read [roblox-user-interfaces](../roblox-user-interfaces/SKILL.md); ParticleEmitters do not render inside ViewportFrame.

## Core creation and parenting

- Parent ParticleEmitter to a BasePart (emission fills bounds or chosen EmissionDirection face) **or** (strongly preferred for control) to an Attachment.
- Rotate the parent or the attachment to steer emission. EmissionDirection is ignored when parented to an Attachment; rotate the Attachment itself to aim particles.
- EmissionDirection only matters when parented to a part.

## Tune particle appearance

1. Texture (prefer .png with alpha; grayscale + LightEmission=1 to hide dark areas).
2. Color (ColorSequence; even a single Color3 in Studio is stored as a one-keypoint ColorSequence; use it for gradients over lifetime).
3. Size (NumberSequence, often with envelope for natural variation). **Warning:** Large sizes = high GPU fill-rate cost.
4. Transparency (NumberSequence). Fade particles in or out to avoid popping.
5. Lifetime (or NumberRange for per-particle random).
6. Rate (particles per second; hard caps ~400 desktop / 100 mobile per emitter; keep low and achieve density with other properties).

Then motion (Speed at birth, SpreadAngle, Acceleration for gravity/wind, Drag + WindAffectsDrag when global wind is enabled, VelocityInheritance, LockedToPart, TimeScale).

## Emitter shapes

Shape = Box / Sphere / Cylinder / Disc.
- ShapeStyle = Volume (everywhere inside) or Surface (only the skin).
- ShapeInOut = Inward / Outward / InAndOut.
- ShapePartial further modulates the shape. Cylinder: radius on the emission side. Disc: inner-radius proportion (`0` = fully closed disc, `1` = emission only on the outer rim). Sphere: hemispherical angle (`1` = full sphere, `0.5` = half-dome, `0` = point).

Sphere/Cylinder shapes do **not** display correctly when the emitter is parented to an Attachment. Only use them with a BasePart parent (the part can be tiny and invisible).
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