How to know the position of a particle when it stops moving

Unity Engine
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Hi, I’m trying to make a persistant particle system using meshes. The point is that animating particles through code is not easy for me, so I would like to use the particle system from unity, but that’s not quite performant in my project due to the amount of particles being draw. I hardly never work with the particle system so I’m not familiar with it.

What I would like to know is if there is some way to get the position and rotation of every particle when it stops moving. Knowing that, I can “add it to a mesh” and then destroy the particle system.

Any suggestion or advice is appreciated, thanks!

2

Particles do, in fact, have a collider system with the sub emitters. You can add a sub emitter and place your colliders to capture the particles as they hit and obtain that data.

3

You’re right, I don’t know why it doesn’t come to mind. I think it would do the trick, Thanks.

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honestly I work with particles through SetActive

that`s small example from my simple game which I create and teach

//particle effect ornage morkovka
    public GameObject fruitboxpe;

    //particle effect red morkovka
    public GameObject fruitpe2;

    //gribs particle effects
    public GameObject gribseffectactivate;

    //gribs deactivate particle effects
    public GameObject gribsdeactivateeffect;

    public AudioSource fruitground;
    public AudioSource pointscore;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start()
    {
        theGM = FindObjectOfType<GameManager>();
        //theGMscore = FindObjectOfType<GameManager>();

        //partical effects
        fruitboxpe.SetActive(false);
        fruitpe2.SetActive (false);

        gribseffectactivate.SetActive(false);
        gribsdeactivateeffect.SetActive(false);
    }

I know what my tips not powerful like MisterSkitz , but maybe this tips help you in your projects