How can I play an particle effect once?

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#1

I just want to play it once and have it fade away. Not sure how to do that.

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#2

You would use a built in function called :Emit.

For example

local Particle = PutParticleHere

task.Wait(3)

Particle:Emit(1) -- emits one time
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#3

But this barely shows for a milisecond and doesn’t even show the entire animation. I have a key sequence where it starts small and gets bigger in size. I also want to play on loop for x duration and then be able to fade out essentially.

#4

Can you show an example of the particle?

:Emit() only has one parameter (number of particles). Since you only want one particle, it’s up to you to tweak the properties to make it render how you want to.

#5

Then you don’t want it to play once but for a short duration.

Particle.Enabled = true
task.wait(3)
Particle.Enabled = false

If you want it to fade you could either tween the rate or create your own loop that calls :Emit() with a decreasing amount to “fade”.

#6

When I tried tweening the transparency it said it takes a numbersequence idk how to write that in code?

#7

Do you want the particle emitter to fizzle out or have all the particles fade out? If you want it to fizzle out you have to tween the rate like I said, however if you want all the particles to fade you will have to

changes the transparency. Because you cannot tween sequences as far as I am aware.

#8

I’m trying to change the transparency, but it requires a sequence.

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