Cascade maximum particle count

JasperHope

I'm trying to create a basic snow particle effect for an environment I'm making, but I'm having some troubles with the cascade system.

I've created a nice looking particle effect but I can't seem so work out how to increase the maximum particle count. It stops emitting at 485 particles.

Is there a way to increase this limit? Thanks.

Santewi

There is a "max particle count" setting (in the emitter properties I think) that is set to 500 by default. If changing it doesn't work, there is a "skip spawn count check" in the particle system's properties which will disable all particle amount limitations.

JasperHope

Santewi wrote: »

There is a "max particle count" setting (in the emitter properties I think) that is set to 500 by default. If changing it doesn't work, there is a "skip spawn count check" in the particle system's properties which will disable all particle amount limitations.

Thank you for the reply. I feel stupid, I can't find the setting anywhere in Cascade. I'm sure it's right in front of me, I just can't see it anywhere

Santewi

Click on emitter -> Required -> Rendering

Or click on the particle system in content browser -> skip spawn count check under "Particle System".

imbueFX

You may be hitting the max buffer size in the engine rather than hitting the default limit of 500 particles as Santewi is mentioning. See the link below for a fix.

http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/761446-Max-Particle-emission-515?p=27905409&viewfull=1#post27905409

Santewi

imbueFX wrote: »

You may be hitting the max buffer size in the engine rather than hitting the default limit of 500 particles as Santewi is mentioning. See the link below for a fix.

http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/761446-Max-Particle-emission-515?p=27905409&viewfull=1#post27905409

Oh cool, I didn't know about that, thanks for sharing.

imbueFX

No problem! It was something the troubled me for a long time as well.