# How to increase speed of a particle system?

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**Category:** FX\
**Tags:** particle-systems, unreal-engine, Blueprint, question\
**Created:** [February 25, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-increase-speed-of-a-particle-system/308059 "2015-02-25T13:56:37Z")\
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If you want to increase the playback speed of a particle system, edit Time Dilation on your placed emitter actor. Making the value less than 1 will speed it up.

You can edit other attributes via instanceParameters if you set them up.

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