#PARTICLE ILLUSION ALTERNATIVE HOW TO#

Spawning particles between frames When you make an emitter on a moving object it only emits particles at the node's current position given the current frame. When random lifetime is selected many particles will pop out of existence without finishing their scale-out. This can be seen by setting a curve to scale so particles scale-out. Ideally the curve should match the lifetime of each particle.

Random Lifetimes is technically supported but values driven by curves will cut off when a randomly selected short lifetime runs out. Some of this has already been said but here are my issues with the 3.2 particle system. It one of the most counter intuitive UX Godot has.

#PARTICLE ILLUSION ALTERNATIVE HOW TO#

It took me forever to figure out how to use it. At least 90% of my particles use animations. I would also really appreciate if the all the animation setting could be moved from the CanvasItemMaterial to the Particle node or the ParticleMaterial. I guess what I am asking for is a emit() method, in addition to the emitting property. But that pretty much defeats the purpose of unloading the task of spawning the particles to the GPU. The only workaround is to use either $Particle2D.restart(), but that removes the existing particle that has not finished it's lifetime, or save the Particle node as scene that queue_free() after the lifetime ended, and spawn a new instance of that scene every time. If I click twice I would want the particle to emit twice. However these events never care about the lifetime of the particle. In 99% of all my usecases for particles I want to emit them at a particular event. My biggest gripe with the currently existing Particle system is that I can't emit new particles from the same node whenever I want, without killing all existing particles, or spawning a new particle node.

Attractors would be really great as well. It would be great if it would use the existing collision layers system. The currently not existing feature I miss the most from the current particle system is build in collision detection. Maybe I don't have a good idea for the name actually, hm. I'd use something like Burst or even Pause Rate or something. One other possibility is to just have a different node: AnimatedParticles2D/3D, but I find that a little cumbersome as well, given there are already two slightly-confusing particles nodes per perspective (CPU and non-CPU).ДЇor Emission Shapes -> Points/Directed Points, it would be nice to be able to draw polygons/lines/whatevers directly in the editor when setting the values for those, though I'm not sure how easy that would be to pull off.ДЄs others have mentioned, particle attractors are very useful.ДЄ simple one: Explosiveness feels incorrectly named. If possible/sensible, I'd like to see those values moved into the Animation node in the editor. With the current system, adding a CanvasItemMaterial to your Material and then clicking Particles Animation on then giving you H and V frames/looping options is extremely hidden, and having those values apply to the texture that's in Drawing.well, it's a bit rough around the edges. Generally speaking, I think if it were easier/more intuitive for how to use animated particles, people would use them a lot more.

Particle illusion alternative