Moving particles with an animated mesh

Unity Engine
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I’ve been struggling with an effect I want to achieve in Unity.

This is the case: I’ve got a plane with particles falling on it (Local Space, 3D), colliding with it and staying stationary for a given amount of time. I want to push the particles that are on the plane away with an animated mesh (moving to front and back, kinda like a shovel) but the particles don’t interact with it.

I’ve been searching on Google and I’ve seen a lot of topics regarding this and it seems to be a limitation of the Unity particle system but is there really no solution to this? I know that you can interact with particles in 2D, so why not in 3D?

Any help is appreciated!

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Have you got collisions turned on for your particles? Otherwise maybe check the Asset Store for help I use a system from the store that allows my cars to move leaves in my game just as the author shows in his example video, so you could so something similar on a smaller scale, replace the car with your shovel.