How to know when a Particle System is finished?

anonymous_user_a36a29c6 · September 18, 2014, 3:13am

I have this particle system with a duration, I want to know when its done. But I have an issue, there doesn’t appear to be a way to grab the current particles duration so i can use a delay node, or an event to bind to. Any advice?

Lovecraft_K · September 19, 2014, 9:06pm

Hey -

The most expedient way of dealing with this is go into your particle system’s Required module and look at the emitter duration, then in your blueprints set a timer to that duration and call a custom event from that timer. I will investigate pulling duration itself into blueprints, but I do not believe that is currently possible.

Thank You

Eric Ketchum

anonymous_user_a36a29c6 · September 19, 2014, 9:43pm

Thanks for the reply Eric. The issue is the particles are attack animations at run time any of them can spawn with different durations. I need to know when they are complete to show the damage result. If you can add access to the duration in blueprints that would be great!

HuntaKiller · April 6, 2015, 10:03pm

has there been any update on this Eric? I am in the same position as

Lovecraft_K · April 7, 2015, 7:43pm

Hi All -

So we can do this in the engine and this is what you would want to look at,

(For reference I am using a simple Burst Emitter that lasts 2.5 Seconds (P_Test) and calling a Print String when the system registers as finished.)

Thank You -

Eric Ketchum