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What is this dark spot in my particle system?

Discussion in 'General Graphics' started by nicmarxp, Sep 16, 2019.

  1. nicmarxp

    nicmarxp

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    I have a very simple particle system. Cone emitter, color over lifetime. Size over lifetime, nothing special. Why is there a dark particle coming in a loop every half second?
    The gradient on color over lifetime looks like this.

    Thanks! :)



     
    nicmarxp, Sep 16, 2019
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  2. richardkettlewell

    richardkettlewell

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    Could it be a gap in the emission showing a small amount of the background color?

    Eg maybe you overflowed the max particle count and some emission was skipped.
     
    richardkettlewell, Sep 16, 2019
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  3. nicmarxp

    nicmarxp

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    Thank you! Interesting suggestions, I tried adding more max particles, but it didn't change. I also laborated with the Emission count and max particles, but didn't quite get rid of it.

    Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it's not a good idea to have a particle system like this with 40 particles per engine, in a scene with multiple ships. So maybe i'll make some sprites instead.

    But thank you for your help. :)
     
    nicmarxp, Sep 16, 2019
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