Bullet particles queue free as soon as bullet queues free

fragafm

I believe I posted a discussion instead on the question forums. I need help, my bullet particles queues free as soon as bullet does, any work around this?

here is a video showing https://streamable.com/gw5whw

and here is my bullet code

extends RigidBody2D


var life_time = 2
var damage = global.player.damage
var lifesteal = (damage * 0.15)

export var bullet_speed = 1000
onready var lightanime = $AnimationPlayer

func _ready():
	apply_impulse(Vector2(), Vector2(bullet_speed,0).rotated(rotation))
	lightanime.play("Light")
	poof()

func _process(delta):
	pass

func poof():
	yield(get_tree().create_timer(life_time), "timeout")
	queue_free()

func _on_Bullet_body_entered(body):
	get_node("CollisionShape2D").set_deferred("disabled", true)
	if body.is_in_group("Enemies"):
		body.OnHit(damage)
	self.hide()

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Megalomaniak

That is because your particles are a child of the bullet. You might want to maybe create code to spawn the particles/particle emitter as a separate node that isn't a child of the bullet so the bullet can queue_free() separately and the particles continue to simulate independently.

fragafm

when I do this, my bullets just stay in 1 place and not follow the bullet

Megalomaniak

You'd have to give the particles emitter also similar movement vector/logic but with the difference that it wouldn't be freed immediately on impact.

Another thing you could try is keeping the bullet as the emitter but changing the bullets own material/alpha to transparent and only freeing it once the particle sim/animation is done.