Particle effects

[Castler]

After spending much of the evening fooling around with particle effects, I think I have most of the basics figured out.

I still don't understand the return values, though. It looks like particle effects a list containing the following:

• A generator or table - I understand this, more or less.
• An emitting function. DG describes this here.
• A number. I am completely stumped as to what this does.
• An optional filename to use in place of the standard particle appearance
• A mysterious optional boolean

Is this more or less correct?

What are the third and fifth parameters (the number and the boolean)?

[darkgod]

Yup!

Number is the max number of particles the system will handle.
Set it not too high as even if the partciles are not generate this has a small performance impact.
Boolean is for the system to not be deleted when there are no more live particles. Use with care.

[Castler]

Thanks!

I've started a wiki page. Hopefully I didn't make any mistakes:

http://te4.org/wiki/Particle_Effects

[darkgod]

Very nice !

[HousePet]

Hooray!