Allow ParticleEmitters to be parented to Attachments

[Davidii]

Pretty simple, it would be nice if we cold parent ParticleEmitters to attachments so that we can easily change the position offset and direction of ParticleEmitters very precisely without needing to create another part.

This may also warrant some kind of property like EmissionVolumeSize which allows us to control the shape of the area in which particles are generated.

I don’t have this idea fully thought out. Let’s discuss.

[Davidii]

I don’t remember writing this topic. But hey, now it exists.

[colbert2677 (ImagineerColbert)]

Additional Uses for Attachments

Something I’ve been workin’ on. Coming soon™. Essentially, the following objects would only work when parented to Part objects: ParticleEmitter objects Smoke, Fire, and Sparkles objects All Light objects BillboardGui objects Now, they work when parented to Attachment objects, allowing developers to have more arbitrary control over how these objects interact.

;>

[Oseday]

Or better,

ParticleEmitter EmitOn() or EmitAt()

If we’re going to emit some particles, it has to be parented to a part like instance currently. But if I wanted to emit some particles randomly on arbitrary positions, nearly every frame for example, I’d have to set the CFrame of the said parts all the time and it would have a huge impact performance wise on the game. Instead, I could do, workspace.ParticleEmitter:EmitOn(Instance Part, int particleCount = 16) or workspace.ParticleEmitter:EmitAt(CFrame cframe, int particleCount = 16, Vector3 …