[Suggestion] Small improvement for Particles

Is it possible to implement new action to particles - "Load image from URL" as in sprite object ?

Would be helpful.

Ashley , Hey, why not ?

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We get more feature requests than we can deal with, so if you're making a suggestion you should describe a really good use case that shows how it's important and why it should be prioritised over other things.

Ashley I will make animation in particle object with this feature (I already can animate tiled object and this very helpful)

like here

Ooh, that's a really good point. It might murder performance, but if handled delicately, having the ability to change particle sprites on-the-fly is a nice workaround to the limits of the particle object for those people who want them.

Of course, the question is: would this affect all particles currently in the system, or only those as they're generated (to make a random particle generator, for example).

currently you can use ONE tiled object but different instanses can use different graphic )))

like here

I wonder that peoples didn't know about this

And this NOT kill the performance. I test a lot this feature with lot of sprite objects

Having a lot of tiled background instances slows down a lot of systems.

What's with the tiled backgrounds? I thought this was about particle effects.

If you want to animate particles, just use sprites instead.

What if I don't want to animate my particle, but still want the ability to load it's single image from URL?

You wanted a use case:

Say you have a platformer where you can have a floating companion, which emits particles when it floats around. You can unlock new particles for that companion, without having to regenerate the game's spritesheet - super useful for when you want a special "christmas edition" or similar.

Ashley - why don't all objects that display an image have a "load image from URL"? Sounds like a nice case for standardizing, as that same use case could be applied to everything.