Particle Effects

Particle effects add moving sprites or procedural particles over the Scene. They can cover the full Scene, stay inside a Region, display below tokens or tiles, activate only at selected darkness levels, and use supported background or token-interaction options.

Add and customize particle effects

Select Particle Effects from FXMaster Controls to open Particle Effects Management. This is the recommended way to add particle effects because it provides the complete FXMaster parameter set, layer placement, multiple effect rows, backgrounds, token interactions, Sound FX controls when available, and other effect-specific options.

Configure a particle effect

Expand an active effect to configure its parameters. The available controls depend on the selected effect and its current mode; conditionally visible controls appear only when they are relevant.

Foundry Scene weather effects

FXMaster also registers its particle effects in Foundry’s standard Weather Effects field. In the Scenes directory, right-click a Scene, select Edit, and choose an FXMaster particle effect through Weather Effect. FXMaster entries are labeled with the effect name followed by (FXMaster).

Usually not the recommended workflow

Foundry’s Weather Effect field is available if needed, but most users should avoid it for normal FXMaster setup. It uses Foundry’s basic weather-effect implementation and applies the selected effect without FXMaster customization and does not expose the full FXMaster control set. In most scenarios, use Particle Effects instead so the effect can be configured properly.

Use the Foundry Scene field only when a quick default effect is sufficient and no FXMaster-specific customization is needed.

Hide Particle Effects

Open the overflow menu in Particle Effects Management and select Hide Particle Effects to declutter the management list. This window is per-user and only changes whether an effect is shown in the Particle Effects manager. It does not delete the effect, and it does not prevent macros, presets, or the API from enabling that effect.

Use the row toggle to hide or show each effect in the management list. Hidden effects can be re-enabled from the same window later.

Particle catalog

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Showing 26 effects

✦FXMasterParticle

Autumn Leaves

Layered falling leaves with variant selection, wind motion, spin, shadows, and persistent ground accumulation.

Ambient46 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Bats

Animated bat swarms with orbit, directional movement, lateral drift, and optional shadows.

Animals26 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Birds

Flocks of birds with selectable flight animations, orbiting, directional movement, and shadows.

Animals27 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Bubbles

Rising or top-down bubbles with orbiting, synchronized direction, and token trail interactions.

Ambient24 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Clouds

Moving cloud particles with orbit mode, direction synchronization, and shadows.

Weather24 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Crows

Dark bird flocks suited to ominous skies, battlefields, and haunted landscapes.

Animals26 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Eagles

Large soaring birds with configurable movement, orbiting, and shadow projection.

Animals27 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Embers

Drifting embers for fires, volcanic scenes, ash, or magical atmospheres.

Ambient20 parameters

✦FXMaster+Particle

Fire

Animated fire sprites with manual placement, optional light sources, glow, and token-burning visuals.

Weather35 parameters

✦FXMaster+Particle

Fireflies

Glowing fireflies with ambient movement, light-like bloom, and configurable density.

Animals24 parameters

✦FXMaster+Particle

Fish

Animated koi, betta, manta ray, and spirit variants with orbit, directional movement, glow, trails, and token avoidance.

Animals30 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Fog

Directional particle fog with synchronized direction, tint, scale, speed, density, and alpha controls.

Weather16 parameters

✦FXMaster+Particle

Ghosts

Cute or creepy ghosts with manual placement, directional drift, and configurable visual variants.

Ambient30 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Hail

Directional hail particles with top-down mode, synchronized direction, and configurable scale, speed, density, and alpha.

Weather17 parameters

✦FXMaster+Particle

Magic Crystals

Floating magical crystals with orbiting, rainbow tinting, glow, bloom, and spin.

Ambient20 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Rain

Procedural rain with side-view or top-down rendering, splashes, wet ground backgrounds, and token trails.

Weather37 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Rats

Ground-level rat swarms with token avoidance and directional movement controls.

Animals25 parameters

✦FXMaster+Particle

Sakura Bloom

Sakura bloom particles with top-down and orbit modes, rotation, synchronized direction, and persistent background accumulation.

Ambient36 parameters

✦FXMaster+Particle

Sakura Blossoms

Sakura blossom particles with standard movement controls and persistent background accumulation.

Ambient30 parameters

✦FXMaster+Particle

Sandstorm

Directional sand particles with top-down support, synchronized wind direction, wobble, and background buildup.

Weather35 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Snow

Falling snow with configurable movement and persistent snow-cover background support.

Weather30 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Snowstorm

Dense procedural snowstorm with side-view or top-down presentation and sweeping background snow.

Weather36 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Spiders

Crawling spider swarms with token avoidance and configurable movement behavior.

Animals25 parameters

✦FXMasterParticle

Stars

Slow ambient star particles for astral scenes, dreamlike spaces, or void backgrounds.

Ambient16 parameters

✦FXMaster+Particle

Summer Leaves

Summer leaf particles with selectable variants, top-down and orbit modes, synchronized direction, advanced motion controls, and persistent ground coverage.

Ambient47 parameters

✦FXMaster+Particle

Wind Wisps

Wind-streak particles with synchronized direction, turbulence, gustiness, and distortion controls.

Weather21 parameters