Particles - Sprites Tutorial

Man! So cool of you, you've been busy.......Thanks

Great tutorial, but I need to know how to start and stop particle emissions. Do I need to end the life of my particle emitter?

To stop particle emissions, set the Rate of Emission to "0" in the Choreography or Action.
See the image below.

Just what I was searching for!

i found this tutorial very useful. i was a little intimidated by particle effects but this simplified the process and more importantly i found it very useful to have all of the properties of the particles defined so i know what they do and now maybe i can actually manipulate them the way i want to. the TAOAM book walked me through the process of how to get a particle effect running but left out what everything actually does lol. so thanks for this.

here is a starter particle effect i made based on what i learned. the axe is from a game project i'm working on and when i'm done i plan to have sparkly stars falling off of it instead of green skulls. the green skulls is just a png i had laying around lol.