Not able to create a tight ring out of particles

[Fort80]

Godot Version

4.2

Question

Hey folks, can anyone help me with the particles? I am trying to create a ring out of particles (like here in ‘Explosiveness’ - 2D particle systems — Godot Engine (stable) documentation in English).

I turn off gravity, setting initial velocity (both min and max) to 30, spread to 180, explosiveness to 1 but instead of ring, I’m getting something like that:

I’m sure I’m missing something, but I checked all other values - they have zeros. Is there any random parameter I’m missing?

Thanks a lot in advance.

[GorevAndrew]

HI. You need this channel:

Particle Systems in Godot - Part 1: Getting started in 2D

It’s ULTIMATE.

[Fort80]

Yea, I saw this video, it’s definitely useful, but it doesn’t answer my question, I still can’t understand. The mask (sprite) is not the case here, since I need an explosion, as in the documentation I linked. Theoretically it should work with my settings, but something is still wrong.

[gertkeno]

Could you paste the particle scene .tscn file? That would help to understand exactly what all the settings are, as what you described works for me.

[Fort80]

I’m not sure how can I share .tscn file here, it says I can only upload pictures. I dropped it at GDrive, hope it is not forbidden: spell_ring_explosion.tscn - Google Drive

[gertkeno]

The scale provided is strange, but it works for me again. maybe a texture will help or upgrading to 4.3? Does it look better as a CPU particle?

[Fort80]

So I found a video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgQTysO3AO8

The settings in this video are exactly the same as mine, but output is extremely different.

[Fort80]

Yeah, probably I have to move my project to 4.3…

[GorevAndrew]

Take this and be happy:

Nice explosion with ring

[gertkeno]

Lots of good things with 4.3!

[Fort80]

Thanks @gertkeno and @GorevAndrew

It seems that my settings were okay, but the problem was in version. Just found a GitHub bag report that exposiveness is working incorrectly in 4.2. Moving project to 4.3 helped.

Thanks! Solved!