How to Access particleSystemRenderer

Questions & Answers
1

Hi!
I want to change material properties of my particle. How can i access the material property? In the docs there is :

http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/ParticleSystemRenderer.html

tried:

particleSystem.renderer.material.Color

but that doesnt work, it changes the gameObject’s renderer material, not the particles. And no, I cant change it with the color varialbe of the particleSystem, due to many other varialbes in the material that I want to access.

But i cannot access that. It says inherit from renderer, but cant go that way, unity gives me an error.

Is there a way? If this not accessible then why add it to the docs?

3

The other answer has long been depreciated.

the ParticleSystemRenderer is simply an invisible component attached to the gameobject.

Just use gameObject.GetComponent<ParticleSystemRenderer>() (where gameObject has a particleSystem component).

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This is an old question but I was looking for the same answer and I finally figured it out. This worked for me, I hope it still helps or helps someone else!

ParticleSystemRenderer pr = (ParticleSystemRenderer)someGameObject.particleSystem.renderer;
pr.renderMode = ParticleSystemRenderMode.VerticalBillboard;
pr.material.Color = Color.Blue;
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ParticelSystem have no renderer parameter anymore.