Aurelian Frames II — Praetorian · Triumphal · Relic

Aurelian Frames II is four card-frame families, not one frame in four colours. Each family has its own silhouette, its own moulding profile, its own ornament rhythm, its own stat sockets, crest and nameplate, and its own material, so you can tell them apart at thumbnail size, and cut out at the alpha they are still four different shapes.

Every frame is rendered from real 3D geometry in Blender (Cycles), so the bevels, crevice shadows and highlights are physically consistent, then baked to flat PNG and WebP, so it drops into any engine with no shader required.

The art window is transparent. Put your illustration behind the frame and you have a finished card.

The four families

• Aurelian: gold, lapis and laurel. Rounded rim, a three-layer moulding, jeweller's beading, round enamel medallions, a keystone gem.
• Praetorian: forged iron under aged gold. A clipped octagon silhouette, riveted armour plate, hexagonal pauldron sockets, an escutcheon crest, and a hard crimson edge light when selected.
• Triumphal: veined marble and polished gold. A round-headed arch with filled spandrels and a keystone, a stepped cornice, dentils, octagonal coffer sockets, an inscription carried on corbels.
• Relic: cast bronze gone to verdigris. A soft plaque, one fat half-round bar, incised enamel channels and a Greek key fret, cusped quatrefoil sockets, a worn solar disc, and the engraving lights up when selected.

What you get

• 384 frames: 4 families x 4 card kinds (unit, spell, full art, back) x 4 states (normal, hover, selected, disabled), each at @2x / @1x / @0.5x in PNG and WebP
• 38 overlays: lit and unlit crest gems, the selected light that spills outside the card silhouette, rest and lift drop shadows, and Relic's engraving glow on its own layer for animation
• 24 metal masks: white where the metal is, so a sheen sweep touches the gold and nothing else
• Guides: frames.json with the art, name, type-line and rules boxes and the stat centres (with a field_radius, so you know how wide a numeral can be) for every family and kind; the same zones drawn as SVG; tokens.json with per-family colour and motion tokens
• Cinzel and EB Garamond, the two faces the tokens name, under the SIL Open Font License
• A browser reference renderer (web/demo.html) that draws finished cards from those guide files alone: about 150 lines of readable JavaScript, meant to be ported rather than shipped

Specs

Card master 750 x 1050 px (@2x is 1500 x 2100). Art windows differ per family and are documented per card kind. The additive light sprites are card + 160 px margin at @2x: centre them on the card and draw with additive or screen blending. Shadows are placed the same way with normal blending.

Licence

Use the assets in unlimited personal and commercial games, apps and videos; modify and recolour freely. You may not resell or redistribute the assets themselves, on their own or inside another asset pack. One purchase covers one person or studio. Full text is inside the download (LICENSE.md).

Try before you buy

The free demo is one complete Praetorian unit frame in all four states, plus the full guides, the fonts and the reference renderer: enough to wire the zone contract into your engine before you buy.

How this was made

The frames are rendered in Blender (Cycles) from procedural geometry driven by a small theme table: one dict per family choosing a silhouette, a rail profile, an ornament, corner, window, nameplate, socket, crest, footer and material recipe. No image-generation model produced any pixel in the pack. The build scripts, the reference renderer and this page were written with the help of an AI coding assistant.

Already own Aurelian v1?

The original Aurelian pack (Premium Card Frames & UI Kit) is a separate product with four rarities, a landscape layout and a matching UI kit. Frames II is the family expansion: three new families plus Aurelian re-expressed on the shared engine so the four grade identically side by side. Neither replaces the other.