maxParticles seems to have no effect above 40

[fyyyyy]

• A bug in the API:

  • Phaser version(s): 2.6.1. to 2.8.4

  • Live example: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/jLpWeY?editors=0010

  • What should happen:
    maxParticles should have an effect on how many particles are shown on screen.
    Any value above 40 seems to have no effect. I would expect thousands of particles to show up.
    Values below 40 will gradually decrease particles on screen as it should.

  • What happens instead:
    Only about 30 particles are rendered on screen
    No matter which settings i try for maxParticles or emitter.start, i never get to render more than 30 particles on screen

[samme]

See https://codepen.io/samme/pen/MvBOzb?editors=0010.

start(explode=false) always releases 1 particle per emit, so its maximum flow rate is ~60 particles per second.

Use Emitter#flow instead, which is simpler and also allows quantity > 1.

[fyyyyy]

Thanks, thats good news. I guess this is a documentation request then :D
https://phaser.io/docs/2.6.2/Phaser.Particles.Arcade.Emitter.html#start

[samme]

phaser-ce/Phaser.Particles.Arcade.Emitter.html#start is a little better.

[fyyyyy]

Hmm i see. However, frequency cannot be a float value. As in my example rain.start(false, 200, 0.01, 0); i try to lower the frequency to 10 us. However 1 seems to be the lowest value accepted (other than 0) ?

[samme]

You can even use frequency=0, but the release rate is never greater than the game update rate (60 updates per second, 16.66ms).

You need to use flow, e.g.,

rain.flow(500, (1000/60), 33);