How do I keep particles from following the parent?

Question

I have a sprite and a Particle2D. I would like to prevent the particles emitted by the Particle2D node from following the parent. That way, it'll create this trailing effect when the sprite moves around. Is there a way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Yes, on the Particles2D inspector go under the Drawing and uncheck Local Coords, this will prevent the Particles from following the local coordinates of the Parent, and start emmiting as a Global Coordinates.

Hope it makes sense..

Answer 2

Try detaching the particle from the parent and attaching it to the main scene. Something like this:

var root = get_tree().root
var main_scene = root.get_child(root.get_child_count() - 1)
get_parent().remove_child(self)
main_scene.add_child(self)
self.set_owner(main_scene)

self in this case is a particle node.