Your Godot 4 GPUParticles2D is in the scene but nothing shows up. Here are the 5 real causes — missing process material, culled visibility rect, one_shot traps, lifetime too short, and emitting left false — each with the exact fix.
You added a GPUParticles2D, pressed Play, and the node is there in the tree — but
zero particles appear. No error. Just silence. This is one of Godot 4's quietest
failure modes because the engine never warns you when a particle system can't show
anything. Work through these five causes in order; one of them is almost certainly it.
1. No process material assigned
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