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Hi glad you like the software 🙂
For the effects that spawn a lot of particles in one frame, these effects are using an area, ellipse or line effect, and the number shown under emission settings on the effects tab dictates exactly how many are spawned. So you could have a particle set up to be single and one shot, but if the effect is an ellipse with 200 set to spawn, then it will spawn 200 one shot particles and that will be that.
Generally speaking the main killer of performance is fill rate. So if you have a lot of large particles moving about then the graphics card is going to struggle to draw them all. Are you using blitzmax? You’re generally at the mercy of how Blitzmax renders things if so, which is generally ok but doesn’t take advantage of some advanced things available in opengl/directx.
I’m not aware of any 3rd party tutorials, only the ones I’ve done here, but if there’s something specific you’re trying to achieve I can try and help out here 🙂