Permanently change particle color

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#1

Hi, I’m wondering if there is an action to change permanently the color of the particles emitted by a particle emitter.

  • :x: I tried with an action that changes a parameter of the effect Color Replace. The action works, but there are too much particles and the frame rate drops.

  • :neutral_face: There’s the action Change particles start color of [ ], which is evaluated each frame. It seems to have no impact on frame rate, and I’m using it.
    But:

  • :dart: At the moment this is the only “color this” action I have that needs to be run each frame. I cannot put it in the group of the others “color this” actions (they are run just at the beginning of the scene), therefore my question.

#2

Color changes are already permanent? See: game.json

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#3

Thank you. Indeed this action does a permanent change on the instances already spawned.
I didn’t get it because there were no instances of the particle emitter when the action was true.

I now realize I got a different behavior because I wanted a permanent change on the object itself, so that when I spawn that object the new instance has the color I want.

The right question is probably: Can an action change the particle emitter object property Particles Color so that every future instance of it has the wanted color?

(Use case: when the player reaches a bonus a trail appears behind his character. A single particle emitter attached to its sprite was my original idea, but spawning a particle emitter each frame behind the character looks better.)