Access to ParticleSystem internals (Shuriken) from script

[noio]

There are many questions out there on how to access the ParticleSystem from script. For some reason, the modules inside the Shuriken ParticleSystem are completely hidden at runtime.

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As mentioned in that last topic by Idioismist

If your intention is to access a ParticleSystem during run-time to dynamically change effects, unfortunately, you still only have access to those handful of properties publicly exposed by the ParticleSystem component.
Hopefully this will change in Unity5, but this has been a persistent limitation since Unity3. Those of us who rely more heavily on scripting than on the editor still have to use the legacy particle system to gain more–though still not total–control of our particle systems.

First question—Is this going to change? And when? Unity 5?

Second question—Are there workarounds?
Using SerializedObject I have found out that the property I need is e.g. ForceModule.x.maxCurve.m_Curve.Array.data[1].value. However, setting this through SerializedObject is impossible at run time. My second attempt was to use Reflection, but the following code only returns getters and setters for the same public variables, the modules are left out for some reason.

foreach (PropertyInfo pi in particleSystem.GetType().GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance))
{
    Debug.Log( pi);
}

Where are the modules?!

[Dantus]

What we got with Shuriken doesn’t deserve to be called API unfortunately. There was an official thread about what needs to be improved in Shuriken and a complete API popped up a lot. If I remember correctly, we can’t expect it to be in the initial release of Unity 5.