Particle Emitter

Unreal 1 Particle Emitter

Currently it supports 5 different types of emitters; normal emitter, sprite emitter (with rotation support), mesh emitter, beam emitter, weather emitter.
And combining multiple emitters together into 1 effect is possible since 227f version.

Full variables explanation and a short description:

Emitter

EmGeneral:
bDisabled - Emitter is disable, no more spawning new particles.
bRespawnParticles - Respawn particles that have died.
bAutoDestroy - Auto-destroy emitter actor after all particles have died (can be used for temp effects).
bAutoReset - Auto-reset emitter after all particles have died and AutoResetTime has passed.
bSpawnInitParticles - Spawn initial particles, or else wait for possible auto-reset (only when bRespawnParticles is false).
MaxParticles - Maximum amount of particles.
ParticlesPerSec - Amount of particles to spawn per second (0 = auto assign the value).
LifetimeRange - How long time particles should live.
EmVisibility:
bStasisEmitter - Smilar to Actor bStasis, but stop hide particles once player isnt seeing the emitter's zone.
bBoxVisibility - If enabled, visibility box will be used.
VisibilityBox - Only update when any parts of this box radius is within player camera sight.
bDistanceCulling - If enabled, use distance culling.
CullDistance - If player camera is beyond this distance, dont render.
bNoUpdateOnInvis - When not rendering emitter actor, do not update the particles eighter.
EmCorona:
CoronaColor - Corona color range.
CoronaTexture - Corona texture.
bCheckLineOfSight - Should coronas disappear when behind some wall?
bParticleCoronaEnabled - Whatever if particle coronas are enabled.
CoronaFadeTimeScale - The time it will take for coronas to fade in/out when falling out of sight or back in sight.
CoronaMaxScale - Maximum corona scaling.
CoronaScaling - The scale of the coronas.
MaxCoronaDistance - Maximum distance coronas should appear in.
CoronaOffset - Offset of the coronas in the particles.
bCOffsetRelativeToRot - Whatever if corona offset should be relative to particle rotation.
EmRevolution:
bRevolutionEnabled - Particle revolving should be enabled.
RevolutionOffset - Revolving offset for the particles.
RevolutionsPerSec - Revolving speed.
EmVisuals:
ParticleTextures - Random/Animation sprite frames for particles.
bUseRandomTex - Should use random frame or else animate the textures.
ParticleStyle - The style of the particles.
StartingScale - Starting scale of the particles.
TimeScale - Time scaling of the particles (timescale 0-1).
PartSpriteForwardZ - The particles render forward Z (render trick).
ParticleColor - The color of the particles.
ParticleColorScale - Color time scaling.
EmFade:
FadeInTime - Fade in time scale (0-1).
FadeOutTime - Fade out start time (0-1).
FadeInMaxAmount - Max scale glow when fully faded in (0-2).
EmPosition:
SpawnPosType - Should use Box/Sphere/Cylinder spawn offset?
BoxLocation - Box spawning offset for particles.
SphereCylinderRange - Sphere/Cylinder offset range.
bRelativeToRotation - Spawning offset should be in relative to actor rotation.
bUseRelativeLocation - All particles location/rotation/velocity should be relative to actor?
EmTrigger:
TriggerAction - Emitter actor triggering action.
SpawnParts - If spawn particles, then how many?
EmSpeed:
SpeedScale - Particles speed scale in relative time (0-1).
ParticleAcceleration - Particles acceleration range.
SpawnVelType - Whatever it should use Box/Sphere/Clinder velocity for the particle.
BoxVelocity - Box velocity for particles.
SphereCylVelocity - Sphere/Clinder range.
bVelRelativeToRotation - Velocity should be relative to actor rotation?
bCylRangeBasedOnPos - Sphere/Cylinder velocity range should be relative to particle spawn offset?
EmCollision:
ParticleCollision - Collision type: Nothing/Walls/All Actors/Projectile target actors.
ParticleExtent - Particle collision size.
ParticleBounchyness - Bounchyness of the particles (when hitting wall/actor).
EmLight (not present in 227f anymore):
bLightParticles - Particles should have lighting.
PartLightBrightness - Particle light brightness.
PartHue - Light hue.
PartSaturation - Light saturation.
PartLightRadius - Light radius.
EmSound:
ImpactSound - Particle impact sound (when hitting wall/actor).
SpawnSound - Particle spawn sound.
DestroySound - Particle destroy sound.
EmMeshPos:
UseActorCoords - Use this mesh actor's vertex points positions.
VertexLimitBBox - Box limitation of which vertexes it should only emit in.
SingleIVert - Single vertex number it should emit on.
bUseMeshAnim - Whatever if it should use animated frame rather than first static frame (slower option).
EmCombiner:
ParticleSpawnTag - Combiner emitter which should spawn an own particle at newly spawned particles position.
ParticleKillTag - Combiner emitter which should spawn an own particle at a newly destructed particle position.
ParticleWallHitTag - Same as above except spawn at the point where particles hit a wall.
ParticleLifeTimeTag - Same as above except spawn particles constantly at the living particles.
ParticleLifeTimeSDelay - The time delay how often lifespan particles should be spawned.
CombinedParticleCount - When this emitter actor is being used as combiner emitter, spawn this many particles on my combining emitter actor.
EmForces:
ForcesTags - The tags of the emitter force actors that should be applied on our particles.

This is simpliest form of particle emitter with the best preformace in game which can be used for most effects.

Sprite Emitter

EmRotation:
RotationsPerSec - How fast the particles should rotate.
InitialRot - The initial rotation of the particles.
RotNormal - For specific particle direction.
ParticleRotation - Type of direction the particles should have (i.e: face the direction they are flying or face normal direction).

Basicly alike Emitter but supports rotating particles.

Mesh Emitter

EmMesh:
ParticleMesh - Display mesh of the particle.
bRenderParticles - Should render mesh in "bParticles".
bParticlesRandFrame - Should particles mesh use random texture animation frame.
EmRotation:
ParticleRotation - Particles rotation type.
bRelativeToMoveDir - Particles should have rotation relative to movement direction.
RotationsPerSec - Rotation rate of particles.
InitialRot - Initial rotation of the particles.
EmAnim:
bAnimateParticles - Particles should animate.
ParticleAnim - Particle anim sequence.
PartAnimRate - Particle anim rate.
bPartAnimLoop - Particle should loop animation.

This supports emitting mesh particles (with animations), nothing special.

Weather Emitter

PartTextures - Random texture for the particles.
Position - Spawning offset around player camera.
AppearArea - Appearance area around actor location (when AppearAreaType is Area).
Lifetime - Particle lifetime.
Speed - Particle speed.
Size - Particle size.
WeatherType - Whatever the weather type is Rain/Snow/Dust (falling type).
ParticleCount - Maximum number of particles.
PartStyle - Style of particles.

Easy way of adding nice weather effect to your map (such as rain, snow or dust), notice that particles fly in actor direction.

Particle Forces

These forces can be applied for in level Emitter actors to have some special reactions at specific parts of the map (such as a vent that sucks up smoke).

KillParticleForce - Kills any nearby particles.
ParticleConcentrateForce - Concentrate all particles to fly toward this actor.
VelocityForce - Force particles to fly toward some specific direction.

Misc features

CollisionMeshActor - Possibility to give mesh actors a 3D collision shape.
ActorAttachActorRI - Render iterator type, attach actor on some other actor.
ActorAttachMeshActorRI - Render iterator type, attach actor on some other mesh actor's mesh surface.
ActorFaceCameraRI - Render iterator type, force actor to face camera at alltime.
DistantLightActor - Normal light actor with an extended lighting distance option.
SpecialTextObj - Can render text with color tags and EMO-icons in a fast method.
EmitterAPIMisc - Misc UnrealScript features.