[Allen joaquin] "But i just can't figure out how to randomly make them appear and fade in and out."
Ok, now I understand.
Use a sphere or box emitter instead of a point emitter, and make it nice and large. This will allow your particles to appear across the screen instead of emitting from a single point in space.
For the particles themselves, adjust the Opacity over Life setting, and choose the graph that smoothly ramps up then back down (or draw your own).
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