How do you display a Libgdx particle effect on a white background?

Currently in my `render()` the background colour is set to white but when I change it to white I cannot see my effect at all. I was wondering whether there was an option I need to enable or a line of code I might have missed? ``` public void render(float delta) { Gdx.gl.glClearColor(0, 0, 0, 1); Gdx.gl.glClear(GL20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); batch.begin(); effect.update(delta); effect.draw(batch); batch.end(); } ``` //here is the .p file ``` Untitled - Delay - active: false - Duration - lowMin: 3000.0 lowMax: 3000.0 - Count - min: 0 max: 200 - Emission - lowMin: 0.0 lowMax: 0.0 highMin: 250.0 highMax: 250.0 relative: false scalingCount: 1 scaling0: 1.0 timelineCount: 1 timeline0: 0.0 - Life - lowMin: 0.0 lowMax: 0.0 highMin: 500.0 highMax: 1000.0 relative: false scalingCount: 3 scaling0: 1.0 scaling1: 1.0 scaling2: 0.3 timelineCount: 3 timeline0: 0.0 timeline1: 0.66 timeline2: 1.0 - Life Offset - active: false - X Offset - active: false - Y Offset - active: false - Spawn Shape - shape: point - Spawn Width - lowMin: 0.0 lowMax: 0.0 highMin: 0.0 highMax: 0.0 relative: false scalingCount: 1 scaling0: 1.0 timelineCount: 1 timeline0: 0.0 - Spawn Height - lowMin: 0.0 lowMax: 0.0 highMin: 0.0 highMax: 0.0 relative: false scalingCount: 1 scaling0: 1.0 timelineCount: 1 timeline0: 0.0 - Scale - lowMin: 0.0 lowMax: 0.0 highMin: 32.0 highMax: 32.0 relative: false scalingCount: 1 scaling0: 1.0 timelineCount: 1 timeline0: 0.0 - Velocity - active: true lowMin: 0.0 lowMax: 0.0 highMin: 30.0 highMax: 300.0 relative: false scalingCount: 1 scaling0: 1.0 timelineCount: 1 timeline0: 0.0 - Angle - active: true lowMin: 90.0 lowMax: 90.0 highMin: 45.0 highMax: 135.0 relative: false scalingCount: 3 scaling0: 1.0 scaling1: 0.0 scaling2: 0.0 timelineCount: 3 timeline0: 0.0 timeline1: 0.5 timeline2: 1.0 - Rotation - active: false - Wind - active: false - Gravity - active: false - Tint - colorsCount: 3 colors0: 1.0 colors1: 0.12156863 colors2: 0.047058824 timelineCount: 1 timeline0: 0.0 - Transparency - lowMin: 0.0 lowMax: 0.0 highMin: 1.0 highMax: 1.0 relative: false scalingCount: 4 scaling0: 0.0 scaling1: 1.0 scaling2: 0.75 scaling3: 0.0 timelineCount: 4 timeline0: 0.0 timeline1: 0.2 timeline2: 0.8 timeline3: 1.0 - Options - attached: false continuous: false aligned: false additive: true behind: false - Image Path - particle.png ``` don't know how to make the .pfile look code like apologies :(