Recon Hit Effects

Recon Hit Effects is a set of 12 impact and effect sprites drawn in the field kit style, where stencilled panels with squared corners, a bone trace and exactly one signal colour. It contains a hit spark and a critical burst, an impact ring and a ground shockwave, a slash arc, a glow orb and a sparkle, a heal mark and a shield bubble and a dust puff, a lightning bolt and rising embers.

Every other kit in this catalogue draws the interface. None of them draw the moment one thing hits another, which is the first thing a combat system needs and the last thing a solo developer gets to. An effect sprite also has no outline to hide behind: it lives on top of the game for a few frames and then it is gone.

No glow and no gradient anywhere: a painted crate does not glow, and the restraint is the whole look. The silhouettes stay close to the rectangle and earn their difference from stepped shoulders and edge rails rather than from cuts, which is how stencilled field markings actually behave.

Inside that style this is the Recon reading of it: a dark interface on a gunmetal palette with flare orange accents, built around a single bordered frame, chamfered buttons at 116x32, hollow-cored bars divided into 20 segments, and two-tone icons on a 16px grid. Those measurements are why two families can share an art style without being interchangeable: the style decides how an edge is drawn, the numbers decide what the interface is for.

Every sprite is centred in a square canvas and symmetric about that centre, so the engine only has to scale and fade — an effect anchored off-centre drifts sideways as it grows, and that reads as a bug rather than a burst. The bodies are single-colour with no outline, because an outlined spark reads as a piece of interface rather than as light. The glow orb is built from stacked discs at falling opacity rather than a blur filter: a filter is rasterised differently across engines and turns to mush at 4x.

Every sprite ships as an editable SVG and as transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x, so you can drop the PNGs straight into an engine or open the vector and change a colour. Built to the same measurements as the rest of the Recon family, which means this kit and the Recon panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for tactical, survival and military interfaces.

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