Particle System Cutting Out

Lord_RequiemLord_Requiem Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9481Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Shortly after map starts.</div> I have a rain particle system in helios and it works great... for about 4 minutes, then it stops. System lifetime is -1 (infinite)

Other important stats are:

Gen rate: 500
Max particles: 1000
Particle lifetime: 6.0

I realize 1000 max parts may be a bit high, I honestly have nothing to base my comparison or anything on I just started messing with settings till I got the effect I wanted. I dialed the particles back to half (gen rate 250, max 500) and it still cuts out.

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  • Lord_RequiemLord_Requiem Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9481Members
    Oh btw, this is a large area (temple courtyard) which is why I need quite a few particles active.
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  • ravagerravager Join Date: 2003-02-09 Member: 13340Members
    edited February 2003
    that's odd. the max amount of particles that you can set it to with the in-game editor is 250 (100 man gen rate). Have you tried lowering it to that?

    the only other thing I can think of is making sure that the collide flag is checked.

    I've never had one cut out on me before, but I haven't paid that much attention to be honest.
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  • Lord_RequiemLord_Requiem Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9481Members
    Oh it can be set to more I've had the gen rate as high as 4000 and the max particles at 10000 for a large area rainstorm... pretty laggy tho at those numbers. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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