How to let a ParticleSystem only send collision messages, without performing the actual collision physics?

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I want to build a weapon that shoots poisonous smoke. To do this I use Unity’s particle system. In the particle system we can enable “collision”. These are my settings;

  • Collision Mode: World Collision, 3D
  • Collides with: the layer all enemies and players are in
  • Send Collision Messages: true

This allows me to use “OnParticleCollision” from other scripts.

The problem is that I don’t want my smoke to bounce of objects: I want it to just pass through enemies, and activate the code I have in my OnParticleCollision function. The feature I want is sort-of like having a Collider component and setting “is trigger” to true.

Is this a missing feature in Unity? Did anyone else encounter this problem? What would be a good solution?

Thanks,
Max

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sorry about two years later, lol. But there is actually a Triggers settings in the particle systems now…