Particle Engine
 

is it possible to have images start outside of the graal control ( < 0 x and y) with the particle effect engine? I was trying to make some basic weather effects and it looks pretty ****ty to have things appear all at once on the left/top side of the screen.

yes

how does one go about doing that since setting x < 0 doesn't seem to work?

On what image layer?

On layers < 4 you can just move it outside the screen, but what I found out just now while trying this is that this is not true for layer 4.

I don't know how it works but increasing clippingbox to
seems to have fixed it.

I tried some other methods for moving the particles outside the screen but none of them worked.

layer 4 was the layer I had been using, will try changing it once I can get back on Testbed.

Weather effects should probably be on the light layer (3) which is for the level since otherwise it will look very strange that they don't move as the player moves.