I am triggering a particle system from notifiers and after animation is played to a point, i want that particle system to stop.
i added a custom new notifier at that point. But i don’t know what to do next.
i somehow managed to turn it off by keeping looping to 1 and keeping duration to match the duration of animation in cascade. this works but i don’t think it is proper way of doing so if anyone know how to achieve it please help. Thanks in advance.
Hey devilhiyan -
The Particle Systems in Notifiers are meant to be burst effects and not systems which must be shut off. There is currently no way to turn off any particle systems within the Anim Notifier system. Your solution above is the correct way of handling the particle system for your Notifier.
Thank You
Eric Ketchum
Surely having the ability to turn a particle system on an off would be one of the most basic and obvious functions to implement? I find it hard to believe that with all the crazily awesome stuff you can do with a blueprint that you can’t turn a simple particle system off.
Not sure if this is a new feature or if you guys just didn’t know about it either but you can in fact turn a particle emitter on and off via a blueprint using “Activate” and “Deactivate”.
I knew you hadn’t failed me Epic <3
EDIT: I just noticed you are talking about notifiers and not blueprints. Sorry, it’s very late here and googling blueprint particle activation lead me here.
Thanks 
that helped
Particle systems spawned from Notifies are cleaned up automatically once the emitter duration has expired, for non-looping emitters. Essentially, if you are spawning FX from a notify event I suggest spawning emitters with a set number of emitter loops and a duration.
For instance, if your emitter duration is set to 1, and your emitter loops are set to 1, then your effect will spawn when called via the notify. After 1 second the emitter will stop spawning sprites (assuming you are not burst spawning) and then the system will wait for all active particles to finish their lifespan and the component will be cleaned up.
You can spawn looping systems, but you will need to manage deactivation.
Activating and Deactivating particleSystems as show in the above images is a totally valid way to manage FX spawning as well.
Other flags to keep in mind…
Kill on Completed: When the system is done kill the emitter immediately, I use this rarely but in some circumstances it is useful.
Kill on Deactivate: Kill the system the moment it is deactivated, this will result in a visual pop…(unless you fade out your particles using an instance parameter or material parameter first) used for particles with a 0.00 lifepsan
Hey great work homeRye! I was just wondering how I could attach a particle system to a socket? Specifically the skeletal mesh on the ThirdPerson template. I need the particle effect to stay on the character’s foot while sprinting and I feel you know how to accomplish this.
hey there,
do u want it to play for particular animation like when characters foot touches the ground while running if so u can attach it through anime notifiers
u can learn more about it here -https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Animation/Sequences/Notifies/index.html
If u want to attach through blueprints at run time or so, then u can use spawn emitter attached node
here’s more on it - https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/BlueprintAPI/Effects/Components/ParticleSystem/SpawnEmitterAttached/index.html
for this note to work -
set the particle system u want to attach in Emitter Template,
plug mesh in attach to component, u can get mesh by right clicking in blueprint and typing “get mesh” in the popup menu that appears,
give socket name in attach point name,
leave location to 0,
u can rotate as per ur need,
in location type u can use snap to target.
if u want to destroy after it’s done playing check auto destroy else leave it if u want it for longer period.
I hope this helps u, :).
Srry, This Doesnt Exist Any More, How Do I Activat e OR Wht Ever, How Do I Play A Basic Animation From BluePrints?!