Voxel VFX 3D: 244 pixel-art VFX as real 3D voxels for Blender

All 244 effects

Pick a category, watch them loop.

Every tile is the real asset, rendered in Blender from the isometric angle with its name under it. Hover a tile for what the effect does.

Drag. Drop. Done.

Straight from the Asset Browser.

Add the Voxel VFX 3D folder once in Preferences > File Paths > Asset Libraries.
Open an Asset Browser, pick a category or search by name.
Drag an effect into the viewport. It lands on the surface under the cursor. Press play.

No add-on to install or enable: the library is a .blend file. Every effect is a mesh object with one Geometry Nodes modifier.

Real 3D

Not sprites on cards. Voxels, from any side.

Orbs are balls, rings lie on the ground or stand as hoops, shields are domes
Water rises and falls, a whirlpool is a funnel, a tornado a hollow spinning one
Sparks, shards, leaves and smoke fly every way, not just left and right
Damage numbers and UI letters are solid blocks you can orbit round
Timing, colours and motion are the originals': the voxels are baked from each effect's own code, frame by frame

One modifier

The same few inputs on every effect.

Start Frame	the scene frame it starts on
Speed	faster or slower
Loop	on by default; off plays a one-shot once
Voxel Size	cube size: bigger is coarser and lighter, same overall size
Viewport Simplify	coarser in the viewport only
LOD Distance	coarser with distance from the camera
Glow / Light	how much it shines, and how its glow tints the voxels

Read the documentation →

An effect selected in Blender with the Voxel VFX 3D modifier open

Voxel Size

Same size, less detail, far fewer cubes.

A bigger Voxel Size keeps the effect exactly as big and just uses chunkier cubes. In the fountain on the right, twice the voxel size has about a quarter of the cubes and four times has about a fourteenth.

With LOD Distance effects far from the camera get coarser by themselves, and Viewport Simplify keeps the viewport light while renders stay sharp, so you can fill a whole scene.

The fountain at voxel size x1, x2 and x4 with its cube counts

Getting started

Up and running in a minute.

Unzip VoxelVFX3D_Library anywhere, for example in your Documents.
Edit > Preferences > File Paths > Asset Libraries, press + and pick that folder.
Open an Asset Browser, choose Voxel VFX 3D and drag an effect into your scene.

Requires Blender 5.2 or newer. Works in EEVEE and Cycles. Documentation

Questions

Is it an add-on?

No. It is an asset library: one .blend file with 244 effect objects in 21 catalogs. Nothing to install or enable, and the files you share open anywhere with Blender 5.2+.

EEVEE or Cycles?

Both. In EEVEE, add a Glare node set to Bloom in the compositor for the glow. In Cycles the glowing voxels light the scene around them.

Can an explosion play just once?

Yes. Every effect loops by default; turn Loop off and it plays once from its Start Frame.

Will many effects slow Blender down?

Use Viewport Simplify 2 or 3 while you work and LOD Distance around 10 m for big scenes. A bigger Voxel Size cuts the cube count a lot.

Can I use them in commercial work?

Yes: in your renders, animations and games.

Credits

Based on pixelfx by Patch and Hugo Duprez (MIT License). The fire, smoke and particle recipes adapt Sprite Fusion's pixel art VFX (MIT, Hugo Duprez); the moves adapt Hollow Crown (MIT, rehan-remade). Every effect was rebuilt in 3D for this library; the full license text ships with it.