Access particles for custom DrawProceduralIndirect?

[SunnySunshine]

Is there any way to access the particles in a simulation?

In my case, I’m happy about the simulation of the particles, but I’m unhappy by the limited options in terms of rendering them, so I would like to draw them myself using a DrawProceduralIndirect. I haven’t found a way to access them though. Is there really no way?

[Qriva]

Particle access from custom compute shaders

Hi all! This is my first contact with VFX graph, it all works really well. However I immediately hit a roadblock: I want to control particle emission from a custom compute shader, and I cannot find any mention of this anywhere. I initially thought this would be trivial to do, since VFX graph uses compute shaders to perform the simulation so particle data must lie around in compute buffers somewhere. Exposing these to users seems natural. My current workaround for this is to roll my own compute…

[SunnySunshine]

Ah, that is a shame. So this was suggested more than 2 years ago and it still isn’t implemented or even in the works. It seems like such a trivial feature to add.

Oh well, guess I’ll have to resort to making my own particle system. Really wish I wouldn’t have to spend time on that.