how to start and stop the emitters for particle effect

Ananditha Roy · Post by **Ananditha Roy** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:22 am

Hello ,

I am working on the Particle effect , I can able to successfully run the smoke effect . Now i want to start and stop the the emmitters , i.e., When i click on the start button , emmiters need to emit , and is shows the smoke effect and when i click on the stop button , smoke effect need to stop . For this i using this ,
creating the particle system

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Ogre::SceneNode* headNode = mPivotNode->createChildSceneNode(Ogre::Vector3(100, 0, 0));
    smokeParticle= OgreFramework::getSingletonPtr()->m_pSceneMgr->createParticleSystem("Smoke", "Examples/Smoke");
    headNode->attachObject(smokeParticle);

In the stop button Action :
smokeParticle->removeAllEmitters() ;
In the start action
smokeParticle->addEmitter("Point");
.. It is not working , How can i do that .. Plz
Thanks&Regards