PixiJS Particles — guide skill for backgrounds & shaders

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Render thousands of lightweight particles in PixiJS v8 with ParticleContainer and dynamic properties.

• Type: Guide · Backgrounds & shaders
• Slug: pixijs-particles
• Status: live
• Publisher: PixiJS (vendor, verified)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs-skills/tree/main/skills/pixijs-scene-particle-container
• Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
• Requires: PixiJS v8
• Cost: Free — open-source library (MIT)
• Adoption: 5,800 installs, 358 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

What it does

Uses PixiJS v8's ParticleContainer and Particle to draw thousands of lightweight sprites. It covers creating and pre-populating particles, dynamic versus static properties and update(), batch operations, texture and shader options, fading or tinting a whole system, and the container's limitations.

Use when

• Confetti, sparks, snow or dust effects
• Thousands of moving sprites at once

Install

• Claude Code: npx skills add https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs-skills --skill pixijs-scene-particle-container -a claude-code
• Codex: npx skills add https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs-skills --skill pixijs-scene-particle-container -a codex
• Cursor: npx skills add https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs-skills --skill pixijs-scene-particle-container -a cursor
• Gemini CLI: npx skills add https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs-skills --skill pixijs-scene-particle-container -a gemini-cli

Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/pixijs-particles.mp4 — Official ParticleContainer example preview: thousands of tinted sprites swarming in one container (converted from https://pixijs.com/examples/previews/particle-container_basic.webp, 320x180) (credit: PixiJS (pixijs.com examples), https://pixijs.com/8.x/examples?example=particle-container_basic)

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• PixiJS Custom Rendering: Write custom shaders, uniforms and batchers for PixiJS v8 that run on both WebGL and WebGPU.
• PixiJS Filters: Add blur, displacement, color-matrix and custom GLSL/WGSL filters to PixiJS v8 scenes without killing FPS.
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