Add a way to stop and start an emitter, hiding all current visibility and removing any emitting particles

[johnnyrainbow]

Pause does not quite do what I want as it suspends the current particles in air and doesn't hide the emitter. Setting the visibility of the emitter didn't seem to quite work either, as the particles remained

[Alchemist0823]

Have you tried restart() function on particleSystem

[johnnyrainbow]

Correct me if I'm wrong but restarting will reset the time, and if the particle system is set as looping:true it will begin emitting again.

At the moment it seems that restarting, and then pausing may work but I seem to have a performance degradation even though its now not emitting (the degradation seems to not be draw call or triangle related but cpu related - will try and debug more though). At this time, completely deleting the emitter and creating a new one seems like the way to go

[Alchemist0823]

stop() function hides all current visibility and removes any emitting particles, I don't know if that works for you.

Do you know the performance degradation happens at which stage?