Trying to emit multiple particles at once

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#21

nevermind that, does firstHit and finalHit parts have particles?

#22

they do, the particles are inside some attachments

also, in the first hit my original code isnt a problem because there arent that many particles, but for the finalHit there are a lot so it ruins the effect

#23

but have you tried enabling them outside the script? do the particles even work?

#24

yes, i’ve tried enabling them in and out of the script (they do work) i also searched to see if there was a way to detect if a particle was emitted but not really sure how that would help

#25

Then that’s why my loop doesn’t work. Because index is bigger than found.
You could try just brute-forcing it and moving the first if statement from my method to second if statement, like this. Please excuse any mispells, I write this without autocomplete right in this devforum, I assume you’re smart enough to correct any.

local found = 0
for i,child in finalHit:GetDescendants() do
    found +=1
    

   if found == i then
        if child:IsA("ParticleEmitter") then
        child:Emit()
    end
   end
end
#26

you wrote everything right, i dont see any mispells but it still doesnt show the particles, also, i made sure that the part IS in the right position AND in the workspance

#27

Could you show us a screenshot of finalHit’s hierarchy?

#28

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the name isnt the problem so dont worry about that

#29

Oh my god. How long does that Attachment chain go for? Could you show us the entire hierarchy of one attachment?

#30

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umm… here you go

#31

i said that it had A LOT more particles i think

#32

why don’t you remove the task.wait()?

wouldn’t that then emit all of the particles?

#33

oh i think i know what you’re trying to do.

you can put a task.spawn()

task.spawn(function()
       for i,v in attachment:GetDescendants()
              task.wait()
               v:Emit(v.Rate)
       end
end)
#34

ill try this tomorrow as its getting pretty late

#35

I would try doing this instead:
While @TheJustTinOne was correct to use task.spawn, that would only spawn the loop, and it will still have the task.wait in-between.

for _, child in finalHit:GetDescendants() do
    task.spawn(function()
       if child:IsA('ParticleEmitter') then
          child:Emit(child:GetAttribute('EmitCount')
       end
    end)
end
#36

thx for that, i found the solution