Destroying an instantiated prefab particle effect

Questions & Answers
1

I have a global inspector variable
and I can declare it either this way:

var explosion       :GameObject;

or this way

var explosion       :Transform;

I then also have an explosion effect made with SHURIKEN tied to my script via the inspector.

When I call on this explosion I instantiate it like this (in the place of my object), to make sure that explosion is there in the inspector

if(explosion)
{
Instantiate(explosion,transform.position,transform.rotation);
}

How do I remove the effect after it has done its job ?

I tried:

if(explosion)
{
Instantiate(explosion,transform.position,transform.rotation);
Destroy(explosion.gameObject,3);
}

and I got:

Destroying assets is not permitted to
avoid data loss.

Does anyone have an idea ?

3

if(explosion)
{
GameObject newexplosion = (GameObject)Instantiate(explosion,transform.position,transform.rotation);
Destroy(newexplosion,3);
}

You need to store what you instantiated in a temporary variable so that you can talk to it afterwards.

2

I’m very sorry but I’m using Shuriken particle system and not the old legacy elipsoid particle emitter that had the autodestruct button. If I used the old one I wouldn’t have that problem but I do not want to use an outdated system while learning unity 3.5.

4

1.unchecked looping from particle system editor 2.create a transform variable in your script as public(example explosionTrans)and set your particle object from editor. 3.now in your update method explosionTrans.particleSystem.transform.position=this.transform.position; explosionTrans.particleSystem.Play();

5

if(explosion)
{
var newexplosion : GameObject = Instantiate(explosion,transform.position,transform.rotation);
Destroy(newexplosion,3);
}