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Invisible Particles

by Kevin James · in Torque Game Builder · 04/21/2010 (5:18 am) · 3 replies

Is there a way to keep particle effects running while invisible?

Particle.visible = false;//effects vanish immediately - nice!
Particle.visible = true;//existing effects are still visible as they trail off - nice!

[significant time passage]
particle.visible = true;//emitters start up again, which makes it obvious they were not running while invisible (not so nice).

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    Torque Owner Timothy Castagna
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    #1
    04/22/2010 (5:49 am)
    hmm you could push them all the way to the bottom layer so that your background is covering them?

    Torque Owner Kevin James
    #2
    04/22/2010 (8:27 am)
    Good idea but the particles show through all of the layers.

    Torque Owner Kevin James
    #3
    04/22/2010 (9:48 am)
    After further review... I added an opaque layer to make this work. In fact, this approach made my code more efficient in other ways.