How do I make particles not die as soon as the emitter dies?

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I have a projectile that is leaving a particle trail behind. When the projectile hits the target it dies, which instantly kills all the particles in the trail. How can I tell the particles to live out their normal lives even if the emitter is dead?

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My suggestion is that you take the projectile and move the trail to a child object of the projectile. Then edit your blow projectile up on hit script and add this line before the projectile is destroyed

transform.GetComponentInChildren(ParticleEmitter).emit = false;
transform.DetachChildren();

This stop the particle system from creating new particles, while still keeping the old ones.
Hope this works for you. :slight_smile:

~ExplodingCookie

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Don’t kill the emitter on impact. Disconnect it from the projectile and let the particle system live out its life.