Is it possible to change texture of a wall to a particle?

Unity Engine
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I have checked many sources online and have played around with particles and meshes but have not managed to fulfil this task

So for example I have a fire particle effect and I want to apply this to the wall so the wall looks like it’s made of a fire particle

I tried possible solutions like creating a particle then changing the ‘shape’ to the ‘mesh renderer’ I want then dragging and dropping a cube or sphere but I don’t get what I want and the particle seems to be emitting, etc so I play around with the renderer within the particle inspector properties like emission, graity, etc and by changing renderer mode to mesh but still no luck

Do you know why?

How can I actually get a particle effect to replace the mesh

I wish it was simple as dragging and dropping a partcile I designed or a pre-made one to the object but all that does is attach it :frowning:

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It sounds like maybe you want to render your particle system to an offscreen texture, and then apply the resulting render-texture to the wall. See Unity - Manual: Render Texture

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Hey thanks so much

So I tested it and the concept works, however the background is black, how can I make the background of the render camera transparent so that way the flame looks realistic and part of the environment

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Check the render texture is set to a format that has an alpha channel.

Someone kindly made an asset to do this https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/46208

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