How to create a tornado with particle emmtior?

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How can I set additional acceleration orthogonal to velocity?

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I’ve researched it myself.



  • You should not touch ParticleInfluencer since it is responsible only for initial particle parameters, not lifecycle updates

      • You may extend ParticleEmitter and override its updateparticleState method to set gravity vector in desired way

      You may use the hack: setInWorldSpace for false and make tornado spatial spin and place gravity vector to look for axis



P.S. I've decided to look into wiki documentation only if source code is unclear
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Hi Ayvango



Could you possibly go into a little more detail about how you overrode the updateParticleState method? I wish to override some behavior in the updateParticle method but I’m finding it difficult to extend the ParticleEmitter class without breaking a whole lot of things. Specifically, I’m looking to allow a particle to have 3 color states, with a midlife value, to allow fade-in and fade-out effects. This makes smoke in particular look more convincing.