Damage VFX using Animated Sprites in Unity

Now the game will display an animation each time the player is touched by an enemy

• Create an engine animation
• Rename the sprite in hierarchy to LeftEngineDamage
• Duplicate and rename to RightEngineDamage
• Place both as children in Player gameobject

• Place the Left and Right Engine damage gameobjects in a good place in player. Set their scale as desired.

• In the player script, create a reference for both gameobjects
• Deactivate them in Start ( )
• Activate LeftEngineDamage if lives == 2 and RightEngineDamage if lives == 1

Result: