Rightfield I need help with a particle emitter

I thank you for the help on the other particle emitter now I need to know how to make one like this i apologize for the quality of the image

almost same as the first one a gave you. just give it a bit smaller particle size and set alpha for start to 0, mid to 255 and end to 0. This should make it not appearing at start, forming a circle like effect. Oh and activate line emiter too

thanks rightfield I will try it out

that should help me too :D

and.....wrong forum

-MOVED- (just next door)

Funny, I was *just* thinking about using a 0...255...0 particle for exactly that reason.

Now that I think about it some more, an even sneakier way to do that, would be to use an animated texture (take a look at clouds8x8.blp in textures if you've never seen this before). An advantage to doing this would be the ability to have as abrupt a fade as you'd like (or even multiple fades)

I am not familiar with animated textures but I have expiremented are they supported by art tools?