turning on and off emitters

[aadrunk]

using the same emitter, can you turn it on and off through out an animation? if so how do you do that?

[supertom44]

Not having maya open infront of me I cant say for sure, but you could animate the rate of the emitter, rate 0 is off and anything else is on depending on the rate you want.

Just keyframe it over time, place a key at the starting time and rate, then when you want it to turn off, place another key the frame before, then place a key with a rate of 0 at the next frame.