Particle effect on more than one object

Hi,

I’ve tried to add a particle effect to another object other than my spaceship however they seem to share a connection of some sort as when the particle effect for the other object starts, both with start.

Spaceship Particle:

fireEmitter = mSpaceship.engineNode->CreateComponent<ParticleEmitter>();
fireEmitter->SetEffect(cache->GetResource<ParticleEffect>("Particle/torch_fire.xml"));
fireEffect = fireEmitter->GetEffect();
fireEffect->SetMinTimeToLive(0.2);
fireEffect->SetMaxTimeToLive(0.4);
fireEffect->SetEmitterSize(Vector3(0.0f, 0.0f, mSpaceship.engineNode->WorldToLocal(mSpaceship.rb->GetLinearVelocity()).z_));

smokeEmitter = mSpaceship.engineNode->CreateComponent<ParticleEmitter>();
smokeEmitter->SetEffect(cache->GetResource<ParticleEffect>("Particle/torch_smoke.xml"));
smokeEffect = smokeEmitter->GetEffect();
smokeEffect->SetMinEmissionRate(50);
smokeEffect->SetMaxEmissionRate(100);

Missile Particle:

missileFireEmitter = node->CreateComponent<ParticleEmitter>();
missileFireEmitter->SetEffect(cache->GetResource<ParticleEffect>("Particle/torch_fire.xml"));
missileFireEffect = missileFireEmitter->GetEffect();
missileFireEffect->SetMinTimeToLive(0.2);
missileFireEffect->SetMaxTimeToLive(0.4);
missileFireEffect->SetEmitterSize(Vector3(0.0f, 0.0f, node->WorldToLocal(rb->GetLinearVelocity()).z_));

missileSmokeEmitter = node->CreateComponent<ParticleEmitter>();
missileSmokeEmitter->SetEffect(cache->GetResource<ParticleEffect>("Particle/torch_smoke.xml"));
missileSmokeEffect = missileSmokeEmitter->GetEffect();
missileSmokeEffect->SetMinEmissionRate(50);
missileSmokeEffect->SetMaxEmissionRate(100);

Thanks,

It seems that by changing the

missileFireEmitter->SetEffect(cache->GetResource<ParticleEffect>("Particle/torch_fire.xml"));
missileSmokeEmitter->SetEffect(cache->GetResource<ParticleEffect>("Particle/torch_smoke.xml"));

to

missileFireEmitter->SetEffect(cache->GetResource<ParticleEffect>("Particle/Fire.xml"));
missileSmokeEmitter->SetEffect(cache->GetResource<ParticleEffect>("Particle/Smoke.xml"));

Has separated them, but why? and does this mean I can no longer use torch_fire.xml on any other particle effects?

Resources should be cloned if you want to create variations, otherwise they will be reused since your are moving pointers around. Simply add ->Clone() before the last closing bracket to separate the effect from its original.

Thank you mate, this solved the problem