Make particles converge at a point

[silver goblet]

How can i make it so a sphere of particles spawn aroound the player and move to converge at the player

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[candid goblet]

Do you have a particular preference on the particle type?

[silver goblet]

not really at the moment but flame works fine

[candid goblet]

That sounds like a preference 😅

The technically easiest way is to use (reverse?) portal particles. If you give them speed correctly then they automatically visually spawn a little distance away and moving towards the coordinate they're spawned at, which is quite useful

If you want to use a different particle, then you need to use caret notation for the delta. Let me see if I can find a resource on that

Not thoroughly vetted but this video has it in the description so I assume they explain it well too
https://youtu.be/0pzEXx5fnrk?si=ANZicpZzQed98G6b

[silver goblet]

do you know any source where i could generate the starting coordinates for thesee particles

[candid goblet]

I do not, but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist

[ruby bluff]

Cloudwolf has something but it’s useless in this scenario

You would probably be better off manually doing each one

Or making something to do it for you

[dusk haven]

This is not needed if you know what direction the particle should fly in - it was used to shoot particles in relative/facing direction before macros were a thing

You can just use the 3 values after the coordinates as a vector where the particles should fly in

So 1 0 0 would make it fly towards X while 0 -1 -2 would make it fly down towards negative z

Writing a generator for this is quite doable

Here (https://github.com/ps-dps/MobCaptains/blob/main/src/data/ps-mob/modules/particles.bolt) I have python code that can generate a circle that moves outwards or inwards, maybe this can give you a headstart

[candid goblet]

Idk I find this easier even knowing where they're going

[silver goblet]

ive used a program to generate the particle commands but the particles just spawn in a sphere and dont get smaller, instead they move as a sphere in the direction the player is facing

heres an example command

execute at @s run particle flame ~-3.1395907022505387 ~1.070479620851254 ~2.235406809438525 ^ ^ ^1000000 0.0000005 0

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[kind imp]

try replacing ^ ^ ^1000000 with just ^ ^ ^ or ~ ~ ~

as i understand it you may need to use a different method though, just worth trying

[dusk haven]

you are mixing up 2 things, if you use the ^ ^ ^1000000 then you need to do the direction using facing or rotated

you can also hardcode that though, like you did with the coordinates