The Particiliary

The Particiliary describes every kind of emitter, row by row. It is for looking things up. To learn the plugin, work through the exercises first. Each exercise names the pages here that go with it.

The kinds of emitter

An emitter is made by transforming an ordinary Roblox instance. What it is made from decides its kind.

Emitter	Made from	One particle is	First met in
Part	A Part, a MeshPart, or a Part with a SpecialMesh	One duplicate of the Part	Exercise 1
Attachment	An Attachment	One duplicate of the Attachment, with what it holds
Model	A Model	One duplicate of the whole Model
Beam	A Beam	One beam between two Attachments	Exercise 8
Trail emitter	A Trail	One trail
Light	A PointLight, SpotLight or SurfaceLight	One light
Highlight	A Highlight	One highlight
Sound	A Sound	One play of the sound	Exercise 16
Blur	A BlurEffect	One blur of the screen
Bloom	A BloomEffect	One bloom of the screen
ColorCorrection	A ColorCorrectionEffect	One colour change of the screen	Exercise 11
Atmosphere	An Atmosphere	One change of the atmosphere
ImageLabel	An ImageLabel	One picture on the screen

Every new emitter starts with an Emit count of 1. One press of the Emit button makes one particle.

Five more kinds are made from an ordinary Part with Transform as, the list behind the ▾ button beside Transform.

Emitter	One particle is	First met in
Camera Shake	One shake of the camera	Exercise 11
Lightning	One bolt with its forks	Exercise 12
Rocks	One burst of chunks	Exercise 13
Rope	One rope	Exercise 14
Distortion	One bend of the picture	Exercise 15

A stock ParticleEmitter, Trail or Beam can also be edited as it is, with no Transform. See Editing stock ParticleEmitters, Trails and Beams.

The sections they share

Most emitters have the same sections in the Properties panel, and a section works the same way wherever it appears. Each shared section has one page. The page for an emitter gives the rows of its own sections and points here for the rest.

Section	Page	Found on
Emission, and the HUD	Emission and the HUD	Every emitter
Spawn	Spawn	Part, Attachment, Model. Lightning, Rocks and Rope have their own form of it.
Motion	Motion	Part, Attachment, Model. Lightning, Rocks and Rope have their own form of it.
Link	Link	Part, Attachment, Model
Decals and Flipbook	Decals and flipbooks	Part
Mesh Frames	Mesh Frames	Part
Blender	The Blender	Beam, Trail emitter
Events	Events	Every emitter
Advanced	Advanced	Every emitter

Reading a page

Every emitter page has the same parts, in the same order.

Part	What it gives
What it makes possible	Effects the emitter is suited to, each with the values that produce it.
At a glance	What it is made from, what one particle is, where the Emit count starts, and which sections it has.
One part for each section	A table of every row: its kind, the value it starts at, its unit, and what it does.
With the tools	What Size and Time do to this emitter.
Limits	What the emitter cannot do, and what to watch for.

In the tables, Starts at is the value a row holds straight after Transform. Where Transform takes the value from the instance it was given, the table says so.