I’m specifically interested in the “Color over lifetime” property in the particle system interacting with the shader. If you assign a default Unity particle shader to the renderer, it all works fine, but when I’m using my own shaders, the particles completely ignore the “Color over lifetime” property. This leads me to believe that all the color combinations are done in the shader. What could I do to write my own particle shaders, and take into account all the particle system properties at the same time?
Color over lifetime manipulates the vertex colors of the particles. If you consider those in your shader, it should work as expected.