Fading out a particle effect?

part12studios

Hi everyone,

i have a game where i need to make a partcile effect when something is destroyed.. but it seems like i only have two choices.. 1. let it go forever.. or 2. destroy it which instantly makes it vanish which looks really bad.

all i want to do is have it pleasantly fade out after say 1 second.. i've seen the effect in games like tiny balls so it seems it must be possible but i can't figure out how.

Thanks!
Caleb

Rob2

In your particle behaviour select the color properties and click on 'color does not change' and select 'color changes to' then select the color and opacity you require.

part12studios

Hi Rob,

Thanks for sharing, but its not the fade that i'm look at.. its the actual stopping of particle spawning.. what happens when i destroy it (because i don't know how to fade it out) all of particles vanish both faded and still visible ones.

what i would love is a timer that says.. "stop spawning after x seconds".. destroy completely removes the particles out.

SlickZero

You could constrain another actor that controls the particles and have a timer, and set it to destroy a little later than the actor.

JohnPapiomitis

Yeah just put your particle behavior in a timer and have for (however many seconds you want)

and if you still want to destroy it just put the destroy behavior in a timer after(however many seconds you want)

Just make sure you give it enough time to let all the particles fade out

Like this:

http://www.mediafire.com/?k66o7g0i7bfa2u6

cheers

part12studios

ah you guys rock my world! that's awesome.. i NEVER think to use "for" in a timer.. very cool!

tytyty!

Caleb