I currently have a particle system that emits 8 particles straight downwards, in bursts. What I’d like it to do, though, is to emit these particles in a continuous stream, so that it looks like a “tractor beam” or a scanner, that will emit the beam every few seconds. I haven’t found a way to make the particles a constant stream, though - they always appear as separate dots. Any suggestions?
You could set the emission to appear in bursts by going down to the “Emission” tab, setting the value over time to 0, and then pressing the plus button to add a burst at 0 seconds. Then, set the duration of the particle system to however often you want the particles to fire, and set it to looping. After sending out the burst at the start, the program will wait for however long you specified, and then loop back to the start, causing the burst to happen again.