Particle systems drawn immediately instead of building up

[Ian]

So if you used unity before it has a 'Pre warm' feature which returns a Boolean. (Example uses a PS that loops) False means the particle system builds up and then starts to loop like default; True means it starts looping when instantiated, no build up time.

Whats the equivalent on GM Particles or any workarounds?

 

[Phil Strahl]

So if I understood your question correctly, you want to run a particle simulation for a bit before the first time it gets draw. For that in GML, you first have to turn off part_system_automatic_update() and invoke part_system_update() repeatedly manually before drawing it the first time. E.g.

// usually in the create-event:
part_system_automatic_update(snow_system, false);
repeat(room_speed * 2)
{
   part_system_update(snow_system);
}

This code would update your particle system "snow_system" for two seconds worth of steps before you draw it the first time. Just don't forget to either switch part_system_automatic_update() back on or manually update the system once each step.

 

[FredFredrickson]

So if I understood your question correctly, you want to run a particle simulation for a bit before the first time it gets draw. For that in GML, you first have to turn off part_system_automatic_update() and invoke part_system_update() repeatedly manually before drawing it the first time. E.g.

// usually in the create-event:
part_system_automatic_update(snow_system, false);
repeat(room_speed * 2)
{
   part_system_update(snow_system);
}

This code would update your particle system "snow_system" for two seconds worth of steps before you draw it the first time. Just don't forget to either switch part_system_automatic_update() back on or manually update the system once each step.

That's a neat trick that I didn't know you could do - nice!

 

[Ian]

So if I understood your question correctly, you want to run a particle simulation for a bit before the first time it gets draw. For that in GML, you first have to turn off part_system_automatic_update() and invoke part_system_update() repeatedly manually before drawing it the first time. E.g.

// usually in the create-event:
part_system_automatic_update(snow_system, false);
repeat(room_speed * 2)
{
   part_system_update(snow_system);
}

This code would update your particle system "snow_system" for two seconds worth of steps before you draw it the first time. Just don't forget to either switch part_system_automatic_update() back on or manually update the system once each step.

Thanks for the neat trick