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Sparkles is actually just an older (and more primitive) version of the ParticleEmitter. Sparkles was released in 2008, while ParticleEmitters were released in 2015.

Sparkles were the og particle emitter, and roblox probably kept it in for backwards compatibility.

To make the default particle texture in ParticleEmitter look like the Sparkles texture you just need to change the LightEmission and LightInfluence properties. They will literally look the same.

You don't technically need your own texture for ParticleEmitters as you can just search up white effect, or light effect or something along those lines, but making your own textures can bring better results. I tend to just use images I find in the toolbox and I modify it like crazy (adding light emission and having a transparent numberscale tends to help it look glowy and actually like good instead of it just looking like a moving decal.) I agree Particle Emitter are just a more complex/customizable version of particles, fire, smoke; It's just better to use ParticleEmitters.

sparkles if youre going for that effect and dont need much else particle emitter if you want literally any other particle

Sparkles were just the original particles with less customization. You can completely remake them with all of the properties in particle emitter.

Ackshually, the Sparkles have a secondary emitter inside (above the other main one) that emits smaller, slower sparkles. You did not recreate nor notice this. (It also seems nearly impossible to replicate that with ONE ParticleEmitter)

I love this teaching style! It feels really personal and less passive than other tutorials.

The particle emitters are so powerful you can add gravity in any direction. I had no idea what I was doing and STILL managed to make a working water fountain with spraying wayer using the particles.

Also, you can put the shape of the particle emitter to something like cylinder or sphere and it will look even more like sparkles.

2:10 that ui is a kind of a gradient i suppose. It tweens the colors from one to another. I use it a lot with like fire and stuff, make it from red to yellow.

Sparkles are just old particles Roblox probably just forgot to deprecate them Same for smoke and fire, but people still use them because they’re a little harder to make with particle emitters

They could include classic particles as presets for particle emitter.

You can actually make the stock sparkles for the particle emitter look identical to the sparkle emitter, if you tweak the LightEmission and LightInfluence properties a bit

I just learned particles from a rant video, i guess you're just too informative lol

Been waiting for a ParticleEmitters tutorial for a while. Just one suggestion: Could you go more in-depth about NumberSequences? You showed it a bit when changing the Transparency, but you you can also do the same with the Size, letting you do some really cool stuff. And really just a larger overview of ParticleEmitters would be great. These are a very important tool in any developer’s belt.

I've been thinking about how sparkles are useless for years now, I'm shocked they aren't just flat out removed cause of how ancient and obsolete they are particles can do way more

i dont even dev on roblox anymore, havent in years but your videos are genuinely entertaining and keep me updated with the dev scene. thanks bro

I like how for part of this you have no idea what you're doing. But still have a valid point.

light emitter to 1 and it looks godly

Hello Byteblox, i am encountering an error which occasionally pops up in my output window in studio. Sometimes when playing my game in studio, if any random script runs or i equip a tool for example, an error shows up saying “Exception while signaling, must be a Lua source code container.” It doesn’t happen in the roblox app, only in studio.

i wonder if you can replicate the fire object with particle emitters aswell neat video!

sparkles are getting closer to deprecation, particle emitters were created to replace sparkles and smoke objects.

that was quite the yapping session but i feel you

the menu at 2:09 makes it so that the particles will change color over time

Sparkles are useful if you just want a quick effect that looks like that but particles still offer FAR more customization than particles

im pretty good at making good looking things with particles and this makes me so angry. ik that sparkles are older but why use them? literally no reason to not use the particle emitters

I use particle emitters a lot and they are good. Never used sparkles lol.

Yeah, huh, particles, but... how do you have that color wheel on the very start? 0:30 always HATED Studio's color picker.

not to mention the sparkles ONLY EMIT ON THE TOP SIDE AND U CAN ONLY GET THEM ON BOTH SIDE IF U CLONE IT AND ROTATE IT.

I had a mini panic attack when you said *motion detected at the front door*

you can make the particleemitter accurate to the sparkles by setting the lightemission to -0.25 or so

wait until he hears about fire

Sparkles look more like stars, I recognize them just from playing roblox for the past 11 years. Particle Emitters are a sh*t ton better though since they are the successor of Sparkles.

Sparkles are a legacy version of ParticleEmitter that they just keep in the enigne to not break games that still rely on them.

this particle has a special place in my heart

i actually went thru all this yapping. nice vid

u don't need to use a new texture to make it look like a sparkle just turn the light emission

they should make the sparkles just another template for the particleemitter

Honestly Sparkles could use an Updated for newer Versions... maybe it should be more of a Surface Effect instead of a Particle Emmiter.

i want to make a ""sparkles made me irrationally angry" made me irrationally angry" video cause of how you adjust the properties 😭

Sparkles, Fire, and Smoke were the OG particle emitters. Thank god for ParticleEmitter which makes those obsolete.

bro had beef with particle effects 💀

"Motion? Motion detected at your front door" lol

you can actually make sparkles be brighter by making RGB color higher than 255, for explame if you want red sparkles dont make it 255,0,0 , instead make it 1000,0,0

another roblox's deprecated feature which they cannot remove or else half of the games will break people complain about deprecated stuff and when it actually gets removed people complain even more (like with workspace filtering)

You can make very cool things with ParticleEmitters

Sparkles are extremely old, and when they wanted to give players more tools for visual effects, the only particle objects were named... "Sparkles", "Smoke" and "Fire", and you can technically count "Explosion" as well. So they kinda had to make ParticleEmitters their own new thing instead.

the default ending node for the transparency can be dragged

Wow you made the same thing and thought me stuff about the particle emitter

Im pretty sure sparkles existed before particle emitters and removing them would break stuff

how did you get the color wheel look like that? it looks awesome!

I am extremely good with making particles and beams, if you give me literally any asset I can put a lot of properties on it to make it unique and cool

tf?? you know you can drag that end node at the transparency menu instead of making a new one??

i think particles are for times when you want to just make sparkles fast

I love the video but particule are so lagy so i want to you to test it with one is more lagy

Sparkles were made in 2008, they kept it in studio so that old games kept working

you could've just set the emitter shape to 'Ball' you overcomplicated it lmao

that sparkles image is more squashed

Make a video about building and scripting vehicles please

Can you make a beginner scripting tutorial’s please 🙏

i had no idea sparkles existed

should've upped the LightEmission to make it glow like the Sparkles... cool vid regardless.

They keep old instances for backwards compatibility. There's lots of games on roblox, and some are outdated made by developers who will never return. In an effort to not break these classic games, roblox retains deprecated/legacy instances, even if they've been replaced with a much better alternative. They've redone the physics engine like 4x, all the old body movers still work as intended.

It’s so whimsical though

it's okay also i made fireworks using particleemitters

They keep Sparkles because deprecating and removing them would break millions of games, just like old BodyMovers compared to modern Constraints. They should probably make them creatable only from the Studio console though. Was this video really necessary?

I didn't even know it existed before watching this video but now that i do i hate sparkles

sparkles were released in 2008, if they were removes it would break old roblox games. if u dont like sparkles then just dont use them

or set the emitter shape to a sphere, either way

Brilliant video :)

Tbh, they should just add presets to particle emitters

Coroutine pls?

how does your colorpicker look like that?

its just easier if u wanna have smth like it

Sparkles are older, so instead of them removing Sparkles from the game engine and gets removed on all the old games, they just added particle emitter :)

sparkles make me irrationally angry too

bro just released a rant on roblox sparkles

We can all rest now that a big programmer talked about it 😌

Change the light emmision and it look 🥰🥰🥰

what are you talking about you dont need your own texture for particle emitters

didn't knew there was a difference

this channel HAS to grow

It sparkles like a child's imagination how could just insult roblox's min effort into it and choices to give away their freewill to money hungry shareholders.

Yea... using Sparkles nowdays is not efficient, but you know what is efficient? Metatables.

sparkles dont use soft particles, particle emitters do.

i like sparkles and you cannot convince me otherwise

Actually I just realised that the difference between a particle emitter and sparkles is that sparkles is pretty old and a bit cleaner, and spreads in all directions by default. Particle emitters are their predecessors and are more customisable, and overall more efficient. If you are complaining about sparkles having more features, it's pointless as we could just use particle emitters, thus making sparkles useless. The fire instance is a little different however. Another thing with sparkles is that they fade out and disappear, compared to particle emitters that just disappear instantly. So, the only use of sparkles is just for its colour and timescale, whilst particle emitters are just for more variety, and not just sparkles. However, this is still pretty useless as particle emitters can be altered to look like the sparkles instance, thus destroying sparkles' purpose. So, by default, they are of course different but particle emitters are just better, and I think that sparkles should be deleted. The instance or course. I would like to buy your course, but 40 dollars for me is way too expensive. In conclusion, particle emitters are the way to go.

no idea why they havent removed sparkles yet cause theyre so outdated and literally just worse particle emitters

i domt feel like wasting 10 minutes recreating sparkles when i can just use sparkles

why you hate it

You should make a video about CFrames, it sounds like an interesting subject to cover.

alternative title: byteblox rambles about sparkles and sometimes makes no sense whatsoever

Summary of video : sparkles are useless when you just use particle emitters, it like sparkles, but arguably a much better version

*proceeds to put sparkles in my game just to spite you*

2:09 color gradient

THIS MAN IS ANGRY ABOUT ANYTHING but yeah you have a point

if you remove it it'll lead to lack of support for old games, there's no good solution

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