Particles with animated frames, can they play independantly?

BingBong

I have a Particles2D emmitting essentially a swarm of flies, and a 4 frame animation for the wings flapping, but the particles/flies all flap their wings at the same time!

Is there a way to offset the animation for each particle on a random (or set) point, that way they would all flap their wings seemingly independantly.

I cant see anything like this in the docs, is this beyond what Godot can do with particles at the moment?

Calinou

Is there a way to offset the animation for each particle on a random (or set) point, that way they would all flap their wings seemingly independantly.

Yes, particle flipbook animation can do this by specifying a random offset property in the process material (for GPU particles) or in the CPUParticles properties. See the 2D particles demo's blue hearts and sparkles for an example of this.

BingBong

Yeah, I had got that far already! The particles do all spawn with a different frame, but theres no animation on them...

I have either got them animated and all flapping at the same time, or as above, each particle different but not animated.

I realise the obvious workaround is 2 or more Particle2D nodes all starting on a different frame, but I can see how this would be useful later in my project, and potentially reduce the number of Particle nodes on screen at the same time!

Im suspecting this is a wee bit beyond Godots particles control just now, but if it IS possible, great....

xyz

This is doable without any problems. Set both; Offset and Offset Random properties to 1 (under Animation section of process material) If you already got them spawning on different frames, there's no reason why wouldn't they want to flip further.

BingBong

Gah! got it thanks! Offset and offset random had been set to 1 all the time, if anything was going to do it I thought that would be it....

With single frames in the texture, I had set the animation speed from the texture, seems I had overlooked the speed setting in the animation section when using a spritesheet. <d'oh>