Why does the type of ribbon appear to be not subject to the “lifetime” module like other types of particles? And if there is no way to manage the “lifetime” module how to bypass to create an “infinite” ribbon otherwise ?
The only example that comes close to the desired effect that I know does not work for me, here’s the link: https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?6000-Light-Cycle-Particle-Trail
just set the lifetime to zero.
that will result in infinite life.
Put lifetime at zero for the basic particles it works to make them infinite, but not for the ribbon type, I had already tried
Oh wait, thats right.
Its a bug/limitation of ribbons since it allocated the amount of verts needed on spawn, with an infinite lifetime it only gets the max amount of the trail count which generally is 50 I think.
The problem is, if you increase this number to something really high it can crash or at least extremely slow down your computer.
So its not wise to use infinite ribbons, but just give them a long trail and quite a high max trail count. (watch out with values higher than a few 1000)
Edit: also doesnt work, so my best suggestion atm is to give them a rather long lifetime but do fade them out after that longer lifetime. performance and all.
I happen to have found another answerhub post which is somewhat related: Bug ribbons - AnswerHub - Unreal Engine Forums