Particle Emitter

General

In the flag "Emitter" the settings for the emitter ("source of particle") are choosen, which concern the formation of the particles: The primary color, speed, direction, etc.

Number of particles

(The change of this setting will restart the system!)

This is the maximum number of particles which can "live" at the same time but it is not necessarily the number of existent particles at any time. This is dependend on to the created particles BY TIME and their endurance. The setting number of particle is a upper limit, the ressouces are only "reserved".

If the upper limit is reached, the emitter stops the creation of new particles until particles "die" and resources run clear. So an emitter can be configured, that it creates particles batch-wise.

New per time

New particles per time-unit. A time-unit takes 15ms, so there are 66 of them per second. If you fill in a 1 in this field, 66 particles per second will be created. If an endurance of 66 time-units is configured, you get a particle-system with 66 particles at any time.

Type of emitter

There are two types of emitters: Point- and space-emitter.

Left figure: Point-emitter, Right figure: Space-emitter

• Point-emitter: All particles will be created inside this point. From there they will be sent into the opening-volume of the set direction.
• Space-emitter: The particle is created at a random point inside the space. The opening-volume and the direction start at this point.