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So far in my port of Roy-G-Blam to Unity, I only have a scrolling grid background and some static roads for testing. It’s time to add some of the animated city streets back to the background.

This is one of the city clusters animated in Photoshop frame/layer by frame/layer that I’ll be adding to the background.

Once the .gif is opened in Photoshop, select File, go to Export, and then select Layers to File.

Set the folder you want to export into and make sure to select the file format you want. As always, when I can, it’s .png. Hit Run and you’ll see Photoshop running the action on all the layers. Mine is 30 layers so it took a minute for it to finish. Time to make a sandwich.

Go to the export folder that you set in the last step (I’ll be moving these from the general art folder to something more contained shortly) and look for your individual files there.

Okay, now all the frames are in a separate folder in windows and I’m ready to add them to Unity.

I’ll run through that process in Part Two of Splitting GIFs in Photoshop into Unity Animations. I’m going to eat some homemade chicken and dumplings for now.

I need some new particle effects to make my ship movement a little more exciting so I’m going to add a simple, homemade Particle System to my Player.

First thing is to select GameObject, then Effects, then Particle System.

Immediately you’ll get particles emitting in the scene view. We’re going to make our own customs particles now from this default Particle System.

Click on the emitter and you’ll open up the Particle System’s properties. I set the Gravity to 33 first.

Next in the properties I selected Texture Sheet Animation and made sure the Mode was set to Sprites and then selected the old purple Player Sprite to give the ship a trailing effect.

I changed the Start Speed to -5 from 5 so the trail would just shoot out the back away from the Player.

Set my Start Size to .2 from .1 since my old ship Sprite was a little small.

Changed the Size Over Lifetime Curve to a pretty extreme drop off for the trailing effect.

Now the Player ship has a trailing Particle System attached to it.

I’m going to play around with it and dull it a bit for my purposes. Most likely this effect will only come into play during certain parts where the player is moving fast than usual.