Indefinite particles using particle shader

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Godot Version

4.3

Question

In this example in the docs, the particles have an indefinite lifetime. I believe this is because of the use of a particle shader. Can someone please explain why they are indefinite. Thank you.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/performance/vertex_animation/controlling_thousands_of_fish.html

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They don’t state the fish have an indefinite lifetime, in the comments this is clarified further.

There is currently no support for particles with infinite lifetime, but you could use a high lifetime and an equivalent Preprocess value so that fishes aren’t replaced often

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Thank you for the reply. Does this mean if we set the lifetime to 1 that the fish will respawn from the start every second?