# How can I change a particle's colour at runtime? **URL:** \ **Category:** FX\ **Tags:** particle-systems, gpu-particles, unreal-engine, question\ **Created:** [July 15, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-can-i-change-a-particles-colour-at-runtime/325293 "2015-07-15T03:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
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If you are wanting to use a Particle Parameter, You will need to use Particle Color in your material and then setup an Initial Color Module to use a Vector Parameter (drop the ColorOverLife module). The setup would be the essentially the same in Blueprints without the need to make a MID for the Particle System. There is a great series by one of Epic’s Senior VFX Artist Tim Elek on our Wiki, I would highly recommend reading through them: > **[A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/a-new-community-hosted-unreal-engine-wiki/141494)** > > After over a year in maintenance mode, the official Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline. These resources now live on a new community-run Unreal Engine Community Wiki — ue4community.wiki! You will be able to find content from the official... Thank You Eric Ketchum --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-can-i-change-a-particles-colour-at-runtime/325293)._