I have a particle system but I can't access it's particle emitter

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I have a particle system object that I’m accessing with:

GameObject thrusterfire = GameObject.Find("thrusterfire");

I then try to activate it with:

thrusterfire.particleEmitter.emit = true;

but I get:

MissingComponentException: There is no ‘ParticleEmitter’ attached to the “thrusterfire” game object, but a script is trying to access it. You probably need to add a particleEmitter to the game object “thrusterfire”. Or your script needs to check if the component is attached before using it. Move.Update () (at Assets/Move.cs:27)

Any advice?

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Unity has two particle classes, ParticleEmitter (a legacy class), and ParticleSystem. If you look up the reference for GameObject you will see there is a variable for each. So if you added a ParticleSystem, then you want ‘thusterfire.particleSystem’, in addition, I don’t think a ParticleSystem has an emit. What I think you want is:

thrusterfire.particleSystem.Play();