VFX generate

Ask the column first. One plate, one job. Visual timing stays in juice-vfx; gameplay event timing stays with the move or world system.

Combat

Motion

Status / space

Provider capability and output contract

1. Isolated plate or N-frame strip. Flat chroma or transparent. No scene, no logo, no text.
2. No full character unless afterimage — then silhouette only.
3. Name force direction and weight. Style lock from art-bible.
4. One column per job. Recolor may use a reproducible local transform; do not require another paid generation call.
5. Inspect the available tool and its supported transparency, formats and edit inputs. Do not guess model IDs or API parameters. For an edit, first locate the actual source image. No usable image means generation from a brief or a request for the missing input, never a fabricated edit.
6. A prompt is not proof of exact frame count, real alpha or loop continuity. Measure the output; hand slicing/packing to sprite-atlas. Record provider/version if known, source rights, dimensions and unverified properties.

Template:

Game-ready {column} VFX plate, {light|heavy},
force traveling {dir}, {style},
{N}-frame flipbook in one row,
flat #{hex} or transparent,
no character, no UI, no text, no watermark.

Prompts: bundled prompt examples

Rules

1. juice_hook after query_hits. A spark is not a hurtbox.
2. Speed-line / afterimage off at walk speed. Charge-gather only during published startup.
3. Heal, aura, teleport do not change HP or i-frames by existing.
4. Ground-crack is paint unless hazard-volume published it.
5. Flash-off still leaves pose + audio (a11y-controls).

Accept: the plate composites on a dummy pose without moving sockets. Juice-off still reads the tell.

Legacy aliases from vfx-prompt are translated there; all generation and acceptance rules remain here. Validate real alpha over contrasting backgrounds, measured frame rectangles and loop closure before calling a plate game-ready.