Inherit Attribute From Parent Particle

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)

This article needs more  links to other articles to help  integrate it into the encyclopedia. Please help improve this article by adding links  that are relevant to the context within the existing text.
January 2024

This article is an orphan, meaning that few or no articles link to it.
You can help by  adding links to this article from other relevant articles.
January 2024

Generic Operator Options

Inherit Attribute From Parent Particle

For a child particle system, inherits attributes from those of the parent particles. This is useful for having children locked explicitly in space to the parents or matching their radius/alpha/color. Generally some multiple of child/parent particles must be used here or the they will not remain "aligned". So if the parent has 50 particles, the child also having 50 will work fine, as they'll all match up every frame. The child could also have 25 and have a Particle Increment Amount set to 2. It is often useful to combine this with the Inherit Initial Attribute Initializer for setting things like Life Duration, so parent and child particles, even if random in the parent, match and particles die simultaneously, thus keeping the correct pairing.

Inherited Field

The attribute to copy from the parent particle.

Scale

A multiplier on the parent value. So for example, the child particle could have 2x the radius or 1/2 the alpha of the parent particle.

Random Parent Particle Distribution

If set, rather than linearly matching particles, a random parent particle will be selected.

Particle Increment Amount

The number of parent particles to count each time for inheriting. Useful if the child system has 1/2 or 1/4 the number of particles, for example.