Particles

Add a particle emitter.

Particles

Editor

Emit rate

How often new particles will be spawned. 0 - 100

Minimum size

The minimum size of new particles.

Maximum size

The maximum size of new particles.

URL

The URL of a custom particle image; if none is provided then the default particle image (a grey square) will be used.

Color 1 and Color 2

The initial color of new particles depends on the value of these parameters - the color will be somewhere in the range between the two given colors.

Scripting Properties

Scripting Properties {.tabset}

url

String; Links must be https:// and must finish with an extension such as .jpg/.gif/.png.

info

If you set an URL, the custom colors color1 and color2 will be ignored.

get()

feature.get('url')
// returns: "https://..."

set()

feature.set({'url':"https://www.myurl.com/file.png"})

default

""

emitRate

Double; Must be a number between 0 and 100.

get()

feature.get('emitRate')
// returns: 50.0

set()

feature.set({'emitRate':52})

default

50

minSize

Double; Must be a number between 0 and 1.

get()

feature.get('minSize')
// returns: 0.5

set()

feature.set({'minSize':0.5})

default

0.5

maxSize

Double; Must be a number between 0 and 1.

get()

feature.get('maxSize')
// returns: 0.5

set()

feature.set({'maxSize':0.5})

default

0.5

color1

String- hexadecimal;

get()

feature.get('color1')
// returns: "#4cb844"

set()

feature.set({'color1':"#4cb844"})

default

#000000

color2

String- hexadecimal;

get()

feature.get('color2')
// returns: "#4cb888"

set()

feature.set({'color2':"#4cb844"})

default

"#000000"

type

String;

get()

feature.get('type')
/* or */
feature.type

// returns: 'particles'

Deprecations

for information on versioning click here

5.7.0

The particle feature can now be rotated in the X-axis instead of being hard-coded to 90 deegres. This means that the next time a particle system is edited, it will use the X-axis rotation set by the owner which most likey look weird, but can be easily corrected at that time.