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Old 09-23-2011, 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by pig132 View Post
I always thought that if you didn't specify how many max particles, it just didn't have a max. Also, I set it to 100, and immediately it started skipping.
Because your delay is set to 0.05 and your particle lifetime is 6 seconds.

You would need at least a maximum of 120 (6/0.05) particles to keep a steady stream.

How to calc it:
emitter.maxparticles = (particle.lifetime / particle.delaymin) * emitter.nrofparticles
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